Color of the Pieces: what are the paint equivalents/codes/names??


  • Does anyone know the identity or name or designation of the colors of the different units?

    Isn’t there some “industrial” standard/name for the Italian “brown?” etc etc

    If someone could post the id’s/codes here that would be great!!

    Or perhaps it isn’t even that difficult; are there any commonly available modeling paints

    which are the equivalent to the UK tan or the Russian red; for each country? etc etc

    Can someone post this info?


  • The game manual says:

    USA: green
    Germany: gray
    UK: tan
    USSR : maroon  :|
    Italy: brown
    Japan: orange

    When I play with my pals, we say:

    USA: verde (green)
    Germany: ¿no puede ser más negro? (It cannot be even more black?)  :lol:
    UK: raro, tirando a blancusino (strange, seems limey  :-D)
    USSR: rojo (red)
    Italy: marrón (brown)
    Japan: naranja (orange)
    China: verde claro (light green)


  • That’s funny, I thought the colors were:

    USSR - brown
    UK - brown
    Italy - brown
    Japan - orangey-brown
    USA - green
    China - green

    :-D


  • @Constantinople:

    Or perhaps it isn’t even that difficult; are there any commonly available modeling paints

    I bought two boxes of AAR and the colours were different
    if you are thinking of painting, you can look at WWII uniform website and try to pick a colour from paint website

    http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uniforms/all-forces.htm

    for Krylon, someone suggusted
    1606 pewter grey gloss (Italy)
    1986 dark grey (Germany)


  • @Uberlager:

    That’s funny, I thought the colors were:

    USSR - brown
    UK - brown
    Italy - brown
    Japan - orangey-brown
    USA - green
    China - green

    :-D

    Haha. Too true. I think some painting is in order for most players who care about board readability!


  • I had some issues when italian and soviet units fought in Romania. It’s the only really confusion you can have whith this item.


  • if you think that pieces color are similar, try on playing with a friend who is color-blind, as I did… when he tried a multiple attack against my Russian units in China using both Japanese and Chinese units I know that there was something wrong with him…


  • i think that some of the color got messed up pretty bad

    Germany: they should be gray but look black as hell
    Soviets: I guess they over-looked the whole RED Army thing, huh?
    Italy: They should be blue, like in the TripleA map


  • @Uberlager:

    That’s funny, I thought the colors were:

    USSR - brown
    UK - brown
    Italy - brown
    Japan - orangey-brown
    USA - green
    China - green

    :-D

    ROFL + 1.

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