Back in what was it, 1998 - when Don was trying to get me onto the project, he sent his camo mods file to me. (I had heard of it but had not got to loading it yet).
Until then you had an "electric" lime green, a mud brown, and a zany electric blue-grey used by the Germans. And that was about it. We had been used to that in SP1, SP2 and SP3.
I loaded the camo mod, and was totally gobsmacked! - needless to say, I got on board the project that evolved into SP2WW2!
Perhaps we should upload a few snapshots of a few units in the original "colour" schemes since maybe some folk never played the game back in 96 or so?.
Nothing against the original colour - when the demo for SP1 came out on a game mag CD I played it for a weekend solid (the demo allowed the WW2 LC, the only restriction I recall was no scenario editor, and that all elevations were ignored - you could shoot through hills
) and it was the nearest thing I had seen to 1/300 models on the PC screen. So I ordered the game from a mail-order firm (It was not available in the shops anywhere) on the Monday.
There is a 256 colour palette, and some of that is removed from play as it is for use as colour cycling items. What Don has managed to do with that restricted palette (and the work he has gone into in refining the set over the years), never fails to amaze me.
Cheers
Andy