Thats unfortunate and a little suprising.... will have to get my board out and cat proof it somehow...lol

Whenever you move to a territory, THE TERRITORY

ops....pressed tab and enter... bad idea

... The territory changes it colour to your colour. even if it is a SC and it is Spring (before you actually conquer it) it will have a square with your colour next to the unit... so it is easy to see where you are and what you have.

@Kelsmyth - I had the same issue when I started playing on this site. I found the map a little hard to get used to. My solution was to use a separate program (I use jDip) with a map I like better to record all the moves as they happen. Does it take a little more time? Sure. But it's cat proof.

Probably less time than a board would.

@troodonte, the question is not how to see the colours but how to change them...

I believe he wanted to change the colours of the armies and fleets... not the colours of the territories...
My point is that if you have the territories fully coloured why do you need coloured pieces?

i think it just goed about the colour from the whole country...

Unless he is color-blind that shouldn't be a problem...

But I still think that he meant the pieces: "Can you change the color of the pieces".

I imagine that as he has zero games played he didn't know that all territories change colour when you move into it... that doesn't happen i JDip...that's why the pieces are coloured.
To be honest, I don't think I have played in a easier board as here when it concerns to understand where you are and what you control...
Try stabbeurfou.org... it much more difficult imho

Each countries' pieces do have their own color. Armies are green and black surrounded by a square of the country's color while Fleets are gray and black surrounded by a square of the country's color. Of course the square of color is masked when the territory is the same color.

Once you get into a game it isn't difficult to keep track. Just look at the color around the unit and you know whose unit it is.

I'm partially color-blind, and it's only very rarely a problem...sometimes becomes dicey on World and definitely on some variants, especially telling between blues and greens and reds and oranges when there's a wide variety of them.

If you use FireFox, I believe there are add-ons that allow you to tweak specific colors. Try to search for "color blind" within the FireFox add-ons.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=color+blind&cat=all&x=0&y=0

thanx for the help downloaded jdip....and ur right havent played yet so didnt know bout the province changing color...jdip will let me visualize moves and strategies without tipping everyone off thru diplomacy....thanx again and no im not color blind...nearly blind but not color blind