So I am sure you all have noticed how the Italian units and Russian units are the same color. We are constantly finding russians in the italian box and vice-versa. It really got bad when Italians were on the east front and totally screwed up one of our battles by fighting for the russians. It was after this occurrence that we finally figured out that the french units are actually better as italians and the brown Italians are french units.
As brown, they go much better with the tan of UK, they also do not have many units on the board so it will be hard to get them confused with Russians, but the best part is if they do get confused it won’t matter as much because they are on the same side!
With Blue italians it makes the axis fronts much easier to see, we were also thinking of adding in the Red from A&AP for the russians but that copy comes without mech inf, crusiers or Tac bombers.
I wonder if WoTC will ever figure out that they can get a bit crazy with the plastic, instead of tan/orange/brown/dark brown they can try blue/red/yellow and other colors that don’t look similar.