@jim010:
Agreed. My game Europe at War I decided to use the same stule of colouring for ease of use. The original is the most player friendly. (Battle of the Bulge - even though I like it - is the most player unfriendly map I have seen from them)
Bulge isn’t very aesthetical but I think that is due to more to the hex system, still it could use some colour but then again the battle was fought in the middle of winter…
But Spring 1942 1st Edition has the worst board of the games I own. Size, everything seems to be crammed into it (IPC chart) and the borders in Europe aren’t very clear.