It's a boring task.
I need a volunteer for this.. :-)

I can probably do it - I would need to be told where to put them in the coding though.

Also, I can only usually get onto my computer between 4ish and half 10ish GMT, so it may have to be tomorrow afternoon I do it.

I've send you a PM.

Thanks Oli!

Britain and Holland's colors look too similar.

Still too similar?
I thought they are very different...

well part of the problem is the unit colours for Holland are the British territory colours and the British unit colours and the dutch territory colours. Making for battles in the high seas to be confusing.

I would endorse more historically accurate colours:
Make England Pink, Holland Orange and France blue and Mexico red.

You realize I changed the colors 5 days ago?
The Holland unit icons should be really different to Britain.

The holland units are very different from the Britain ones now. They are Teal and Blue respectively. Thank you Oli for changing this! :D

How is pink a historically accurate or relevant color for England? I'd color them Red or White.

I do like the suggestion of Holland = orange and France = blue. I'd then color Mexico the tan color used on the CSA, and paint them gray. And I guess too differentiate between Turkey and the CSA, use light and dark gray respectively. I realize that doesnt really do Mexico's flag colors any justice, but neither does the orange color that they wear now. Maybe they go red if England goes white? No pink.... Please!

"How is pink a historically accurate or relevant color for England? I'd color them Red or White."
Its the colour used in classic, making it easily recongizable to diplomacy players

Thanks Captainmeme.
Well done.

On hindsight Hollannd does look quite different...

@RUFFHAUS 8, Pink is "the" color of the British Empire. Check the old maps. The British Empire is nearly always pink. Really, pink is the most accurate or relevant color for England. Not sure how it happened, but that just seems to be the way it worked out. I wonder what the reason behind it is...

Examples: http://www.victorianschool.co.uk/documents/British_Empire_1897%20PD.jpg
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/anglesofliteraryapproach/files/2011/11/britishempiremap19151.jpg
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/maps/Map%20of%20The%20British%20Empire%201906.htm

I guess that's a good reason enough. I guess I just generally think in terms of soccer uniforms before history.

If we're talking about England, we should have the decency to call football by it's proper name :D

I suspect if he was talking about football he would have.

problem with football uniforms is most countries where either red white blue or green as their dominant colour, which makes for a rather confusing looking map.

Well, Captain, it just so happens that "soccer" is an English word, not an American invention. It's used to differentiate the game from rugby (and Gaelic) football, but also serves to distinguish it from gridiron football. It's short for "association" football, and it makes perfect sense to refer to terms that describe the different kinds of football when you are discussing the game in or about places with mutiple variants of the game.

But why not change the names of the variants? Why does the original have to change it name to differentiate from its variants? Call rugby rugby, call gridiron gridiron, call australian australian football etc.

fasces made a good point. What, being not motherlanguage, I don't understand is why they call "football" a game they play the ball mostly with their hands, expecially when there's already an older game called that way in which you can play the ball only with your feet. Since the new one looks a variant of Rugby, wouldn't it be better "US Rugby"? :)

Rugby has been called Football in Britain as long as Soccer has. American football uses a similar ball and somewhat similar rules. As such, naming it football, after Rugby, does make sense.

X-Country and DOwnhill are both called skiing. Likewise, Greco Roman and Freesttyle are both wrestling. Different sports when similar share names. This makes sense. It also makes sense that soccer diversified to a new name, as the previous name "football" was confusing.

Association football is a variant just as rigby and gridiron are. All three sports evolved from games called football that date back over a thousand years. They do not call gridiron football "US Rugby" because rugby is played in the United States along with soccer. Thererfore fact that nations commonly refer to their preferred form of the game as "football" is not incorrect, simplic absent specific designation of which type. Likewsie using the specific designations such as accociation (soccer), gridiron, and rugby (or Gaelic/Austrian/etc.) is also not improper.