11-12-2014, 08:37 PM | #1 |
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Army colors for an setting help
Hello there fellow forum dwellers, Steampeng here.
I'm just wondering, I'm making an greatwarish setting and could use some help in which colors work best. Here what I got so far CENTRAL Powers(Green) US:Tan/Blue Germany:Black, green Austria-Hungary: light grey, red Japan:yellow Ottoman:Khaki Entente(Blue) the 2nd Confederacy: Grey and black Great Britain: Dark brown, red and white Britain commonwealths: Blue and white Russia:White France:Blue and red How the choice of color? |
11-12-2014, 08:43 PM | #2 |
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Re: Army colors for an setting help
What are these colors going to be used for? Uniforms, flags, interior décor?
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11-12-2014, 08:59 PM | #3 |
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Re: Army colors for an setting help
Remember of the TL of the tactics include quick reloaded firearms, Uniform colors are designed NOT to stand out
but before that the designed to stand out so you can easily tell friend from foe in a grand mêlée |
11-12-2014, 11:25 PM | #4 |
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Re: Army colors for an setting help
During the mid-late 19th century (the end of the period of highly colored battlefield uniforms), most soldiers with the exception of the British wore blue uniforms of various shades. Individual regiments within any given army might wear drastically different uniforms, often to differentiate regional origin and/or elite status. Troops in the tropics were often the first to switch to khaki.
That said, in anything like the Great War, visibility is suicide. Grey, green, and tan will be (or quickly become) the standards. In some cases, the old colors continued (some to today) to be used for ceremonial uniforms, however.
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11-13-2014, 01:21 AM | #5 |
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Re: Army colors for an setting help
I thought certain shades of blue worked well enough as camo (compared to plain khaki or green-gray or whatever)?
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11-13-2014, 04:30 AM | #6 |
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Re: Army colors for an setting help
Blues work better as cammo at night than black does. Dark =/= black.
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11-13-2014, 04:56 AM | #7 | |
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Bleu horizon sorta-kinda worked as a camouflage colour — better than madder red pants and navy blue coat, anyway — but they replaced it with kaki (a slightly lighter and grey tint that the British khaki) in 1935.
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11-13-2014, 05:03 AM | #8 | |
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Historically the dye industry takes off about 1870 in Germany, so in a slightly different history you could be fighting something Greatwarish before there is much variety in cheap dye - the end of the American Civil War (1864-5) had quite a bit of the same kind of trench war after all.
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Re: Army colors for an setting help
Something to do with the Great War 1914–1919? I notice that you have the US and Japan on the side of the Central Powers, and a New Confederacy, so presumably this is an alternative history of some sort.
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Britain's national colours (like most countries') are red, white, and blue. The traditional colour of British army tunics was an extremely distinctive red. On their maps, their bits were coloured red. Red is very much the distinctive colour of the British, though the British cockade had for a long time been black. From about the time of the First Boer War onwards the British uniforms changed to khaki, and as a result of the notoriety of the Boer Wars "khaki" became a metonym for the Army and militarism in Britain and for British military adventurism outside it. May I suggest khaki and red for the British? Quote:
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11-13-2014, 10:28 AM | #10 |
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Re: Army colors for an setting help
The US Army blues would have been the dull well-worn blue you see in Westerns, not the splendiferous pomposity of a Marine at some national totem, don't forget. At that the Westerns might get it wrong as they don't allow for dust. I can't say for certain as a hard ride around Monument Valley might have the same affect on dozens of stunt doubles as spending several days out chasing Hostiles would in real life cavalry, especially if John Ford took the trouble to order them on a hard ride.
Likewise, red coat means brick red not the scarlet of palace guards swaggering their sartorial militarism at Buckingham Palace. Though in fact there were British officers who preferred red to khaki for colonial wars as psychological warfare.
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