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ORIGINAL: dlazov66 I have been playing board war games for 35+ years, and AH stopped using Pink in 1969ish. SPI started to use Brown, and the light Green (War in the East 1st edition) and then white on Dark Green in 1976 for War in Europe / War in the East 2nd edition. Traditionally the Soviets for board war games are Red, Brown, Tan, Green, or some shade of those colors, not traditionally beige or pink. I have about 700 board war game still (I still play quite a few of them, in fact I play more board war games then PC war games), and a large portion of those are on the Eastern Front. Only Stalingrad, D-Day, Blitzkreig, Battle of the Bulge and Afrika Korps from Avalon Hill had 'pink' counters. Stalingrad, Battle of the Bulge, Africa Corp by AH and Tactics II were the only board wargames I ever bought of that era. The units were pink (note this was around 1968 I didn't by anymore boardgames until Swords & Scorcery and Squad Leader came out around 1978. I got into board baseball and football simulations more in that 10 years than wargames.). Now as I recall other PC games just so you don't get confused also use Beige for Russian troops and equipment. I never got into SPI (except for Swords & Sorcery; great game btw) too expensive compared to what I paid for AH board games back then ($3.64) and PC games. Remember T.A.C. by AH? Pretty good PC game for its time. I go all the way back to the time of acsi (I think that's what it was) Midway and Bismark, Andromedia Conquest, Planet Miners....some really great games in their day with some decent ai. The graphics of course sucked. I just commented because all the traditional colors for russians I've ever seen were beige and pink. I had never seen green russian anything before. Of course Green traditionally was always the USA. Of course I didn't play every game in the world like SOME people I know. I also recently played a Battle of Academy game and now that I think about it the Allies colors were lite beige to off green beige (my eyes are going lol). I just know if I did get into east front games, board or PC I could never get into green russian units. It's like drinking cola, once you've tasted the good stuff it's hard to drink diet.
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