Field Marshal,
You can make the pieces any color you want, cause I’ll be painting mine (well my son’s) pieces anyway. Just kidding … I’d rather start with the base colors anyway. It takes a long time to paint them little guys.
As far as making marines and stuff, I would look at it another way. We already have a set (sets?) of AA pieces, so these new pieces can become the “elite” units and we can keep using the former units as the regulars if that suits you. My question, as I said before is no small matter, was posed because my Chinese pieces are just Red Russians and I don’t have but one UK soldier, and I think they could benefit from two, especially for Pacific.
The new Task Force markers could be smaller than the Pacific ones and could have little waves and wakes behind the ships instead of a shiny smooth blue plate. Then they look better when I paint them, too. It would be nice if they had a different ship pattern than the Pacific set too. Could they have different numbers than 1 thru 6? I know some folks will be confused by that, but those of us with Pacific will appreciate it.
For that matter, would it be too difficult to make up “Army markers” with a flat plate containing small vehicle shapes, a spot for a country marker and a Roman Numeral format? Then I could have Patton’s Third Army marching to Berlin. Another crazy idea would be to have a set of small flags for these markers instead of roundels.
I think I’ll shut up before this project costs $200 a set. Thanks for taking this up. I hope it works out great for you.