This was supposed to be for last Friday but car trouble and school stuff made it a busy week and weekend, so here it is now. Still expect a new video this Friday!
@@sharkronical no one in their right mind would give France any colour than Blue, and Britain any colour than Red, same deal for the Russian Civil War one
For a moment, it seemed in more recent wars, whoever was red was on the opposing side of the United States. That seemed to be the only common trend until he pointed out the real reason.
Most people familiar with maps associate certain countries with a colour (USA and France blue, Spain yellow, Italy green). This has to do mostly with the flag's most defining colour that sets it apart or a mixed-colour (romania is purple for blue and red, germany is grey because of the old black-white, etc.)
You on know the paradox team are also form the same world as tigerstar. There are reasons for countries being associated with a certain colour and people who make maps chose those colours that a country is asociated with.
I just think of certain countries as a certain colour thanks to paradox games ottomans are light green, germany is grey, france is blue, russia is dark green etc.
I tend to think of Russia as yellowish, ottomans as blood red, Britain as red, Portugal as lime green, Spain as gold yellow, France as blue, Prussia/Germany as grey, Austria as White, Croatia as pink, Denmark as light pink, Sweden as light blue, Finland as greyish white, Norway as light magenta, Italy as dark green, Poland as pink, etc.
The ones set in stone for me are actually mostly bc of Civ4 and high school history books - but also Paradox Red: USSR, UK, Canada, Rome (sometimes Purple), Denmark, Poland (really pink but) Blue: USA, France, Scotland (Sorry PDX), Sweden Green: Italy, Ottomans, Ireland, Mexico, maaaybe Imperial Russia Yellow: Spain, China, Belgium White: Austria Grey: Germany Black: Nazi Germany Orange: Netherlands
It's kind of strange how most people, including me, always think of a specific colour for almost every country: Netherlands are orange UK is red US is dark blue Prussia is dark grey Soviets are red France is dark blue Spain/Castille is yellow Rome is purple or red Ireland is green China is yellow Modern Russia is dark green (for me at least) Third Reich is black/dark grey Belgium is yellow/orange etc.
During my mapping times, I went with the convention of Red = Agressor and Blue = Defender, and I experiment both with no distinct colors and using color schemes. Color Schemes are nice, but I've noticed they tend to become very hyper-specific over time.
I typically use red - attacker and blue - defender, and yellow, green, and pink as other colors, but I also like your coloring style and appreciate other styles. I use mine because of personal preference and I’m sure you do the same, keep doing what you’re doing now, this looks great and most likely has help a good amount of students in tests before
Some countries just... feel like certain colors. This is probably due in part to Paradox strategy games to be honest. England/UK - Red France - Blue Spain - Yellow Russia - Green Italy - Green Ottomans - Puke Sweden - Blue America - Light Blue Rome - Red or Purple It's just a fact.
I have not heard of _Paradox,_ but I understand your point: the UK uses red to represent itself a lot (like with the Queen's guards, or old maps of the British Empire), as does Sweden with it's blue (with the flag). In fact, as an American, I thought blue to be quite an American color, probably because of the "new constellation" that is the US flag's top-left corner.
@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions Yeah thats more historical reasoning. Paradox is a gaming company that primarily produces map-based real-time strategy. From their medieval Crusader Kings, to renaissance era Europa Universalis, to Victorian age Victoria, to WW2 era Hearts of Iron. In all these games, 90% of the countries have a standard color. And like I said in my original post, for example, England and the United Kingdom are always a red color. France is always blue, and so on. But the real life historical reasoning is also important. And your theory on blue being an American color, I can get behind.
I’ve been subscribed to you for so long I didn’t realize there are people who are here just for you history videos or ones that know understand color schemes on mapping videos
I personally prefer the Paradox Color Scheme. They've gotten the colors quite spot-on in their newer games. Vic2, EU4, HOI4, Imperator, and CK3 (/ck2).
Do you ever consider colorblind people when picking the colors? I only ask bc I've had a couple people in my comments bring that up when I fail to take them into account. Thank you for sharing!
People confusing winner vs loser with good guys vs bad guys is an indication of how results of war can change the way different sides are perceived or even whole value systems.
Thank you for the delightfully informative video! For my videos, I give the blue colour to whichever faction I personally feel is more associated with blue, and red to whichever faction I feel is more associated with red.
That's a video I was actually waiting for a very long time. To be honest, I'm one of those who thought that Red represents the aggressor and Blue represents the defender, I'm disappointed that this was a misconception in the end.
I was hoping it would get into the shading of colours on your maps, especially the war maps. I know the darkest colour is controlled territory, but next darkest is ... de facto control? Then, recently conquered?
Yeah paradox has definitely influenced my view there too. The Ottomans are light green, Prussia is grey, America is a lighter blue than he uses (which is one I more associate with France), and Argentina is a lavender color.
I find it very funny that people tended to think that the winner in blue was always the "good" one and the loser in red was always the "bad" one, just goes to show history is written by the victor.
I, personally, use white land and war colors in my few videos, but I use THICC (the highly inclusive color code) for general maps for myself, but I also borrowed the unimportant country color from TOAST3R
Cool. I normally use various colours, when it calls for several different ones - just starting from a basic colour at Paint's palette and then clicking "edit colour" to create different shades of pinks, greens etc. for each nations. Two or three colours I normally use to represent competing alliances etc., mostly at the various *imaginary* maps I have always enjoyed creating (such as The Hittite Empire, Bavaria, Slovakia, Spain and Scotland, for example, allied against Russia, Hamburg, York, Burgundy and Poland-Estonia... 😉🙃).
@@seneca983 Right because of þat I write þ. I write ð when it's unvoiced. And I know it's not as in icelandic, but in old english þere never was a rule for it
😭 I like watching movies before one spoils it. And why would the *creator* of the movie spoil it?! I used to think it was red = aggressor blue = defender other colors = other parties (with the exception of the WWII videos, and a few others).
I usually uk-red spain-yellow/orange france/us-blue, prussia/germany-black, russia empire green, uSsr red, modern russia blue, Italy green. If I have two countries with the same color they would be different shades like the uk and ussr I would make the uk a darker red while the soviet that classic Soviet red.if they have puppet State the color would be a slightly lighter color of the original.
I really wanted to know how you decide how to set the front line and such. Exactly how much research do you do, how "accurate" do you try to make the front lines? How accurate can they even be in ancient and medieval history?
Have you ever considered color blindness in picking colors? Red a blue tend to be problematic for some forms of colorblindness but I know certain shades of red and blue can avoid that problem mostly.
The fact that there were people who actually thought you were coloring the civil war map Red and Blue based on Republican or Democrat political parties is actually pretty funny in a sad way. Even worse when some of them accused you of altering history or making propaganda, pretty bizarre reaction that I had not noticed.
I think I first heard the red = loser and blue = winner reasoning for colouring on a video about france losing I think, where france was red, which is weird since france is 99% of the time depicted as blue, the choice makes sense though and it is good to be consistent
What about blue and dark gray for the civil war? Although the CSA war kind of a bluish gray uniform while the union were a more darker blue. This would often cause confusion on the battlefield
You may also just use the historic colours of countries based on their pre-WW1 uniforms. France = Blue Britain = Red Germany = Prussian Blue or Grey Austria = White Netherlands = Orange Spain = Yellow Russia = Green etc.
For me: USA is blue Brazil is earth green Argentina is sky blue / fog UK is light pink / 'permission' France is steel blue Spain is CGA brown Portugal is mint green Italy is swamp green Netherlands is orange Germany is Grey USSR and China are Red
The Winner-Looser rule doesnt seem to apply to the Vietnam war or Napoleonic wars or the spanish civil war. Red being the worse side seems to be accurate more often. Good vs bad is also the association most people have with these colors. To me it seems like you chose colors without thinking about it, intuitively chose blue for good and red for bad and now you made up this to have an most of the time accurate explanation that doesnt have political bias. But thats just speculation.
This color rule that he uses also can be used to describe the U.S. Presidential elections in: 1856 1884 1892 1912 1916 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1960 1964 1976 1992 1996 2008 2012 2020
Napoleonic wars do use that scheme. France loses in the end. Also, the communists of the Russian civil war is red because it would be silly otherwise. Korea has no winner, so red = attack blue = defend. Communist Vietnam is red because read Russian civil war.
Colour scheme has been hell for mapping... I'm actually surprised you didn't explain it thoroughly before because this is BOUND to happen in the community.
I don't know why people would assume that in the American Civil war one the use of red would be you making a political statement, whereas if you flipped them it would just be wrong, You can't not have a blue USA really, its just weird, and Grey just doesn't stand out that well so its just easier to see a red. Plus the fact that is is just a map and most people wouldn't take the colours as anything beyond face value of just being colours that fit the countries good enough. Though seeing how the people that would be offended by that have been acting they would probably use various details to justify why you might do that and try to push a political statement.
I dunno if you would. But would you do a redo of your WW2 in Europe video? Put more detail into that one like showing cities & stuff. See the difference between 2013 to 2020 or 2021
This was supposed to be for last Friday but car trouble and school stuff made it a busy week and weekend, so here it is now. Still expect a new video this Friday!
Did you get into a car accident
@@yellowam1730 Nope. I blew a tire and it took way too long to get a new one.
@@EmperorTigerstar ok
👍🏻
Hope your final papers are going well!
"Red = Loser, Blue = Winner"
So it's a spoiler.
I get it. ;)
That wasn't the rule in the history of Ancient Rome pre-395 AD
How about Napoleonic wars video?
@@sharkronical no one in their right mind would give France any colour than Blue, and Britain any colour than Red, same deal for the Russian Civil War one
For a moment, it seemed in more recent wars, whoever was red was on the opposing side of the United States. That seemed to be the only common trend until he pointed out the real reason.
I'm a simple man, I like my France blue, my Spain Yellow and my China in civil war.
The only colors ik are the ones paradox games have taught me...
honestly same
Hoi3 hungary's green is better than hoi4 hungary's... whatever it uses
Just don't start coloring prussia as yellow.
Problem arises when Portugal is fighting Brazil or Sweden is fighting America and France
@@piolit06 depends on dlc
Most people familiar with maps associate certain countries with a colour (USA and France blue, Spain yellow, Italy green). This has to do mostly with the flag's most defining colour that sets it apart or a mixed-colour (romania is purple for blue and red, germany is grey because of the old black-white, etc.)
I think grey for Germany is also because of the feldgrau colour of the German Army's uniforms during the 20th century
Also the UK and most of the commonwealth (especially Canada) are best as red/pink imo
@@wilyriley_ pink Canada???? no! Canada is 100% dark red.
@@zwiebelface185 _red/pink,_ though I do see your point.
@@wilyriley_ pink canada? What is this hoi4?
I never though too much about why use certain colors for different factions other than red = aggressor... interesting
yea same. however emperor does videomapping. what we do is regular mapping
@@lesscringeymapperdude true
I’ve never thought of that either
never had this idea, colors are bound to countries in my mind
same!
This is obvious propaganda for big computer monitor
🤣
I always thought Red = Aggressors, Blue = Defenders
same
That's the default for the mapping community
same
same
That’s basically the main template.
0:26
*YELLOW PRUSSIA*
*YELLOW PRUSSIA*
Prussia must be gray or dark blue.
*Dies in vic 2*
No DLC vic 2 is cursed
Victoria 2 moment
@@dimpf3819 Yellow Prussia best Prussia
EmperorTigerstar is an oldschool Red vs. Blue fan, don't @ me
@Togga Famai hi
@Togga Famai
@Togga Famai blue vs red stands out the most
@@lesscringeymapperdude I was talking about the Rooster Teeth series
Funnily enough, not at all lmao.
I mean, the universal rule is the paradox colors so this gives your channel your own theme
You on know the paradox team are also form the same world as tigerstar. There are reasons for countries being associated with a certain colour and people who make maps chose those colours that a country is asociated with.
I just think of certain countries as a certain colour thanks to paradox games ottomans are light green, germany is grey, france is blue, russia is dark green etc.
I tend to think of Russia as yellowish, ottomans as blood red, Britain as red, Portugal as lime green, Spain as gold yellow, France as blue, Prussia/Germany as grey, Austria as White, Croatia as pink, Denmark as light pink, Sweden as light blue, Finland as greyish white, Norway as light magenta, Italy as dark green, Poland as pink, etc.
The ones set in stone for me are actually mostly bc of Civ4 and high school history books - but also Paradox
Red: USSR, UK, Canada, Rome (sometimes Purple), Denmark, Poland (really pink but)
Blue: USA, France, Scotland (Sorry PDX), Sweden
Green: Italy, Ottomans, Ireland, Mexico, maaaybe Imperial Russia
Yellow: Spain, China, Belgium
White: Austria
Grey: Germany
Black: Nazi Germany
Orange: Netherlands
Civ V has yellow Russia, while Civ III and EUIV have green Russia.
@@alexanderthompson7164 maybe prussia is... PRUSSIAN BLUE! badum tish
Damn big blue blob!
It's kind of strange how most people, including me, always think of a specific colour for almost every country:
Netherlands are orange
UK is red
US is dark blue
Prussia is dark grey
Soviets are red
France is dark blue
Spain/Castille is yellow
Rome is purple or red
Ireland is green
China is yellow
Modern Russia is dark green (for me at least)
Third Reich is black/dark grey
Belgium is yellow/orange
etc.
POV: you play top much paradox games
@@richmont9557 kind of
@@richmont9557 but I think paradox chooses the colours based of existing associations. (ireland green, netherlands orange, for example)
china's favorite color irl has always been red, yellow is just the color of the manchu qing
@@xXxSkyViperxXx I think every second (maybe even more) country on earth thinks of themselves as red or as blue
The only people who are getting political are the people who bring it up in the first place.
Keep up the great work dude. Love your videos
@The Vohzd he doesn't promote his political twitter here though
@The Vohzd not really political bias at all
@The Vohzd ok? Transgender people exist. I have friends who are trans. And what’s wrong with gays? Homophobia is not going to help you in life.
@The Vohzd What’s the problem with him supporting trans people?
@The Vohzd No it really isn't.
During my mapping times, I went with the convention of Red = Agressor and Blue = Defender, and I experiment both with no distinct colors and using color schemes. Color Schemes are nice, but I've noticed they tend to become very hyper-specific over time.
bruh you just spoiled all future civil war videos
I typically use red - attacker and blue - defender, and yellow, green, and pink as other colors, but I also like your coloring style and appreciate other styles. I use mine because of personal preference and I’m sure you do the same, keep doing what you’re doing now, this looks great and most likely has help a good amount of students in tests before
That’s y I rarely see a light blue for surrender
This video answered my questions more than my teachers do when i ask for instructions
I also thought that red was for agressors and blue for defenders
Red for both?
@@jaojao1768 The Sino-Soviet Split: Every Year
HAHAHAHA Sorry I wrote it wrong I'm correcting it
@@caenieve Hahaha it really made me laugh
Some countries just... feel like certain colors. This is probably due in part to Paradox strategy games to be honest.
England/UK - Red
France - Blue
Spain - Yellow
Russia - Green
Italy - Green
Ottomans - Puke
Sweden - Blue
America - Light Blue
Rome - Red or Purple
It's just a fact.
Canada-Red
Brazil-Green
China- Purple/Red
India-Yellow
Germany-Black
Egypt-Yellow
Saudi Arabia- Dark Green
I have not heard of _Paradox,_ but I understand your point: the UK uses red to represent itself a lot (like with the Queen's guards, or old maps of the British Empire), as does Sweden with it's blue (with the flag). In fact, as an American, I thought blue to be quite an American color, probably because of the "new constellation" that is the US flag's top-left corner.
@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions Yeah thats more historical reasoning. Paradox is a gaming company that primarily produces map-based real-time strategy. From their medieval Crusader Kings, to renaissance era Europa Universalis, to Victorian age Victoria, to WW2 era Hearts of Iron. In all these games, 90% of the countries have a standard color. And like I said in my original post, for example, England and the United Kingdom are always a red color. France is always blue, and so on.
But the real life historical reasoning is also important. And your theory on blue being an American color, I can get behind.
No it’s not just a fact
"Ottomans - Puke"
Really?
Very insightful. I usually colour based on how they 'feel' to me, but I had never even heard of things like TACOS.
Watching this and being colorblind is eye opening. (See what I did there, seriously tho i am colorblind)
He is speaking the language of gods
*language of videomappers
Yes
@@arolemaprarath6615 yeah
I’ve been subscribed to you for so long I didn’t realize there are people who are here just for you history videos or ones that know understand color schemes on mapping videos
Did you have a stroke halfway through writing this?
@@hockeyislife2 I only typed one word wrong what is your problem?
There is not RIDGEd!! Good one
I personally prefer the Paradox Color Scheme. They've gotten the colors quite spot-on in their newer games. Vic2, EU4, HOI4, Imperator, and CK3 (/ck2).
So long as you’re counting dlc Vic 2, not base. I have nightmares about yellow Prussia.
That's painful when to countrys of similar colors eventually have a border
@@waffleworshiper *Y E L L O W P R U S S I A*
victoria 2 is 9 years old
@@waffleworshiper we all have nightmares about yellow Prussia.
Do you ever consider colorblind people when picking the colors? I only ask bc I've had a couple people in my comments bring that up when I fail to take them into account. Thank you for sharing!
As someone with "strong deuteranopia" colourblindness, I can see all these colours fairly naturally and distinctly.
Very informative. Good video man. You do a great job creating this content.
How you use colors anyway just feels right like ottomans being green
People confusing winner vs loser with good guys vs bad guys is an indication of how results of war can change the way different sides are perceived or even whole value systems.
Thank you for the delightfully informative video! For my videos, I give the blue colour to whichever faction I personally feel is more associated with blue, and red to whichever faction I feel is more associated with red.
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That's a video I was actually waiting for a very long time. To be honest, I'm one of those who thought that Red represents the aggressor and Blue represents the defender, I'm disappointed that this was a misconception in the end.
I mean in _most_ of his videos, or at least the popular ones, it turns out that way.
Also in the mapping community thats a common practice.
I love that EmperorTigerstar made this video simply because I messaged him a similar question on discord a while back and he gave me this answer
5:16 I thought Red means losing side and blue means winning, with some exceptions
7:08 knew it
Lmao
"Red=loser Blue=winner"
The French: "Ah, a man of culture, I see"
you are a smart cat
I was hoping it would get into the shading of colours on your maps, especially the war maps. I know the darkest colour is controlled territory, but next darkest is ... de facto control? Then, recently conquered?
Honestly I just use the color hoi4 gives countries bc that’s what I’m used to
Yeah paradox has definitely influenced my view there too. The Ottomans are light green, Prussia is grey, America is a lighter blue than he uses (which is one I more associate with France), and Argentina is a lavender color.
@@waffleworshiper It wasnt just me?!?
@@waffleworshiper Prussia should really just always be Prussian blue.
@@waffleworshiper red more compatibleto ottoman empire
“Blue is the winner”
Poor Napoleon
I find it very funny that people tended to think that the winner in blue was always the "good" one and the loser in red was always the "bad" one, just goes to show history is written by the victor.
Red = Attacker
Blue = Defender
Purple = Fighting both sides
I, personally, use white land and war colors in my few videos, but I use THICC (the highly inclusive color code) for general maps for myself, but I also borrowed the unimportant country color from TOAST3R
Merry Christmas🎄👼
Cool. I normally use various colours, when it calls for several different ones - just starting from a basic colour at Paint's palette and then clicking "edit colour" to create different shades of pinks, greens etc. for each nations.
Two or three colours I normally use to represent competing alliances etc., mostly at the various *imaginary* maps I have always enjoyed creating (such as The Hittite Empire, Bavaria, Slovakia, Spain and Scotland, for example, allied against Russia, Hamburg, York, Burgundy and Poland-Estonia... 😉🙃).
Great to know! Because of you I schemed þe countries þat way in regular mapping in 2015, was a bit spoilering if you knew þe system
Is that a thorne hahaha. I'm presuming English is not your first language then. We just use "th" rather than thorne
@@freewyvern707 dude
@@limeliciousmapping4652 hmmm?
Maybe it should be "ðat" instead of "þat" because in that word the dental fricative is voiced?
@@seneca983 Right because of þat I write þ. I write ð when it's unvoiced. And I know it's not as in icelandic, but in old english þere never was a rule for it
😭 I like watching movies before one spoils it. And why would the *creator* of the movie spoil it?! I used to think it was red = aggressor blue = defender other colors = other parties (with the exception of the WWII videos, and a few others).
I guess from reading these comments I can conclude that I’m the only one that had never heard his voice...
I usually uk-red spain-yellow/orange france/us-blue, prussia/germany-black, russia empire green, uSsr red, modern russia blue, Italy green. If I have two countries with the same color they would be different shades like the uk and ussr I would make the uk a darker red while the soviet that classic Soviet red.if they have puppet State the color would be a slightly lighter color of the original.
I really wanted to know how you decide how to set the front line and such. Exactly how much research do you do, how "accurate" do you try to make the front lines? How accurate can they even be in ancient and medieval history?
Great Video!
The sacred texts!
gl in school!
Very interesting to learn about this.
Have you ever considered color blindness in picking colors? Red a blue tend to be problematic for some forms of colorblindness but I know certain shades of red and blue can avoid that problem mostly.
As someone with "strong deuteranopia" colourblindness, I can see all these colours fairly naturally and distinctly.
Yes... USSR is red, Spain yellow, France blue, UK red, Prussia is grey... I think I think like that because of Paradox games.
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I think it makes more sence to swap the colours around
0:40 damn, rome be conquering outside of Italy
7:45 Bro accidently went back to the 70's
What are you graduating in?
Also I think its kind of hilarious people are seriously getting angry about colouring
About the Endcard: Who ever claimed Naopleon was born in Cornwall?
paradox interactive must hire this guy
Geez, I was sure it was blue for good guys and red for bad guys, but I guess history is written by the victors so that makes sense.
Real map makers use light blue for all countries
Paradox games set the standards for map colors
Good video
Happy leafbare, Tigerstar.
The fact that there were people who actually thought you were coloring the civil war map Red and Blue based on Republican or Democrat political parties is actually pretty funny in a sad way. Even worse when some of them accused you of altering history or making propaganda, pretty bizarre reaction that I had not noticed.
And I mean, considering that most Republicans would want slavery back anyway, it's not really propaganda lol.
I always thought you just tended to use traditional colors that most maps use.
Haha red is my favorite XD
What do the different shades of a given colour represent? Recently occupied territory?
Hello
I thought it was based on the Paradox Colour scheme.
Interesting
Pov of most of videomappers explained by EmperorTigerstar
Great explanation! Incredibly frustrating to see people accusing you of political conspiracy because of some colors.
I think I first heard the red = loser and blue = winner reasoning for colouring on a video about france losing I think, where france was red, which is weird since france is 99% of the time depicted as blue, the choice makes sense though and it is good to be consistent
I subscribe for both maps and history content
How I color countries: Paradox map games. BOOM. We can all agree France is blue and Prussia/Germany is dark grey. Also, white Austria.
For some reason I think you're Mr. Beat!
3:23 You had me at the first half ngl
I always thought that red meant the bad guys and blue meant the good guys xd
People get mad at you because of color choice.......
Pokemon Red vs. Blue
What about blue and dark gray for the civil war? Although the CSA war kind of a bluish gray uniform while the union were a more darker blue. This would often cause confusion on the battlefield
You may also just use the historic colours of countries based on their pre-WW1 uniforms.
France = Blue
Britain = Red
Germany = Prussian Blue or Grey
Austria = White
Netherlands = Orange
Spain = Yellow
Russia = Green
etc.
For me:
USA is blue
Brazil is earth green
Argentina is sky blue / fog
UK is light pink / 'permission'
France is steel blue
Spain is CGA brown
Portugal is mint green
Italy is swamp green
Netherlands is orange
Germany is Grey
USSR and China are Red
The Winner-Looser rule doesnt seem to apply to the Vietnam war or Napoleonic wars or the spanish civil war. Red being the worse side seems to be accurate more often. Good vs bad is also the association most people have with these colors. To me it seems like you chose colors without thinking about it, intuitively chose blue for good and red for bad and now you made up this to have an most of the time accurate explanation that doesnt have political bias. But thats just speculation.
You forgot Hanukah
This color rule that he uses also can be used to describe the U.S. Presidential elections in:
1856
1884
1892
1912
1916
1932
1936
1940
1944
1948
1960
1964
1976
1992
1996
2008
2012
2020
That’s cool but where is your history of America video? You said you was going to release it September
Ah all the future war maps are spoiled since we know who wins
4:48 Vietnam, Korea, the Russian Civil War, and the Napoleonic wars don't use the winner/loser color scheme.
Napoleonic wars do use that scheme. France loses in the end. Also, the communists of the Russian civil war is red because it would be silly otherwise. Korea has no winner, so red = attack blue = defend. Communist Vietnam is red because read Russian civil war.
Colour scheme has been hell for mapping... I'm actually surprised you didn't explain it thoroughly before because this is BOUND to happen in the community.
I have been wondering.
nice
I thought Red = Attacker; Blue = Defender 😂
I don't know why people would assume that in the American Civil war one the use of red would be you making a political statement, whereas if you flipped them it would just be wrong, You can't not have a blue USA really, its just weird, and Grey just doesn't stand out that well so its just easier to see a red.
Plus the fact that is is just a map and most people wouldn't take the colours as anything beyond face value of just being colours that fit the countries good enough. Though seeing how the people that would be offended by that have been acting they would probably use various details to justify why you might do that and try to push a political statement.
So you're spoilering us? Damn!
I dunno if you would. But would you do a redo of your WW2 in Europe video? Put more detail into that one like showing cities & stuff.
See the difference between 2013 to 2020 or 2021
Lot of people nowadays don't know a thing about history they only go back maybe three to four year ago anything past that is unimportant to them