The Great War 1914-1918: Clash of Empires

The OOB French blue is a fairly decent match for the blue part of France’s Tricolore flag, or perhaps a bit lighter than the blue part of the flag.  The current version of the French flag (dating from Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s time) is supposedly itself a lighter version of a darker older one.  The current blue part is apparently something called Pantone Reflex Blue.

Personally, I like the OOB French blue from A&A 1940.  If I recall, it’s a bit lighter than the French blue from A&A 1914.  I wouldn’t recommend going for something much lighter.  I have some pale blue (or powder blue) combat units from a couple of sources, including Xeno, and I never liked them.  They’re too pastel for my taste and, to me at least, they just don’t look right in a wargame.  And I wouldn’t get too much darker either, because that starts getting into the violet range.

I prefer the middle one (Reply #319, 05:48:45 pm) – clearly blue, and with lots of character.  The first one is too pastel for my taste, and the third one looks…well, sort of dusty.  I’m not sure how to express it properly; the phrase that comes to mind is that the shade lacks definition, or has weak saturation, or something like that.  Anyway, my pick would be the middle one.

I kinda like #3 as it does look like a “dusty blue” and I would say it matches the uniform colors in your picture perfectly!!

I like the 3rd choice as well (dusty blue), it seems to match the helmets.

The third gray-blue color posted is what I think of for Austria-Hungary. Pike-gray or what they called hechtgrau. It offsets them a bit from the Germans. A deeper blue, I would associate with France.

Turkey I tend to associate more with a khaki color, but not sure what shades are available to avoid conflict with the British.

@Imperious:

Austrian color is here

Yes, that’s the color I had in mind. Probably my favorite uniform of the early war period.

Simply use the historical correct colours!

And please in this regard stay away from this red/brown nonsense for Russia WWI!
It’s beige!

(The RED revolution had yet to come up in 1917!)

France is on a good way! (and of course it’s colour #3!)

Hey IL,

Any update on this Gem??  Saving my Pennies!  Can’t wait!!

Where will this game be sold on release? Any online store with international shipping?

This game should be named “Chinese Democracy” …

Just kidding. I would do lots of things to play this finally    :roll:

Any news?

What about some reports ?
Since I am doing my own non-commercial ww1 game, I would like to be inspired by some of you rules… rules