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    Default Re: British uniforms are too dark. Please make lighter red uniforms

    Darker places make things darker.

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    Default Re: British uniforms are too dark. Please make lighter red uniforms

    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    Darker places make things appear darker.

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    Fixed.


    But yeah, the point stands.


    Also, the other point stands. Y'know, the one about this not being a high-priority issue. There's a lot of things about this game CA could do with putting right (AI, Map, AI, unit variation, AI, unlimited ammo, AI, shameless marketing ploys and did I mention AI?). Uniforms being slightly off colour is a long way down the list.

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    Default Re: British uniforms are too dark. Please make lighter red uniforms

    The one thing that always looks amiss to me in Empire is the fact that none of the artillery is painted as it was in actual use. I can live with the cannons used by the various factions being homogeneous in design, but the natural wood and pewter colored metal parts make them just look unfinished. By the 18th century and particularily during the Napoleonic period almost all armies painted the wood and metal parts of their artillery to help preserve the pieces in the field.

    All Iron work was usually painted black and the wood work was painted in fairly standard colors for each country. Of course bronze barrels were unpainted, but if the barrels were iron they were also painted black.

    For the major countries the woodwork was painted---

    Olive green for France
    Apple Green for Russia
    Mid-blue for Prussia
    Grayish blue for England
    Ochre for Austria
    Grey for Italy
    and so on

    In fact the only country that used oil stained natural wood was Wurttemberg.

    All they would have to do is approximate the right colors and I would be happy, but it is probably too
    much to ask for.
    Last edited by Forward Observer; 11-27-2009 at 23:16.
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