Topic: What do the different attack colors mean?

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berlin-player Topic Opener Joined: 2025-06-28, 08:46 UTC+2.0 Posts: 2 OS: Windows 10 Version: 1.2 Release Just found this site Location: Berlin	Posted at: 2025-06-28, 09:03 UTC+2.0 When attacking enemy tribes, I can pick the soldiers I want to send into battle in the attack dialog. Each soldier is marked in the background with a color from the rainbow spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, or purple. What exactly do the colors mean? Why are there colors such as turquoise, blue, and purple in addition to red, orange, yellow, and green? Top Quote

Ron_of_Nord Joined: 2024-04-20, 23:43 UTC+2.0 Posts: 201 OS: Windows Version: 1.3 Widelands-Forum-Junkie Location: Land_down_under	Posted at: 2025-06-29, 02:03 UTC+2.0 Hi berlin-player, welcome to the widelands forum In answer to your question, the different colours represent the different military buildings in the area that the soldiers will come from I think it also based on distance but I haven't worked that bit out myself yet. Basically I think all the blue ones come from one group of military buildings while the other colours represent groups of other military buildings. Maybe Nordfriese or Hessenfarmer may know better, hopefully some of the more knowledgeable player can give better insight into this. The aussies are coming, ya ho! ya ho! Top Quote

OIPUN Joined: 2020-11-17, 09:34 UTC+1.0 Posts: 303 Tribe Member Location: Czech	Posted at: 2025-06-29, 09:42 UTC+2.0 The colouring was discussed also here. As I see it, it is a good feature, but most of the players doesn't not understand the meaning of these colours. Maybe it will be worth to make some changes to it to make more clear what the colours actually mean. I am not able to explain this sufficiently neither. Top Quote

berlin-player Topic Opener Joined: 2025-06-28, 08:46 UTC+2.0 Posts: 2 OS: Windows 10 Version: 1.2 Release Just found this site Location: Berlin	Posted at: 2025-06-29, 13:40 UTC+2.0 Quote: `Yes, the background tints indicate soldiers who are in the same building, or on the same warship.` Source code: `soldier_colors.emplace(serial, RGBAColor(RNG::static_rand(256), RNG::static_rand(256), RNG::static_rand(256), kAlpha));` Really? The color is just chosen at random? Well, I tried to think of so many different theories, and then it is just a dice roll! How crazy! Yes, that could actually be mentioned somewhere in a help dialog within the attack dialog. Top Quote

Ron_of_Nord Joined: 2024-04-20, 23:43 UTC+2.0 Posts: 201 OS: Windows Version: 1.3 Widelands-Forum-Junkie Location: Land_down_under	Posted at: 2025-06-30, 00:25 UTC+2.0 I agree that there should be an explanation somewhere, even a post in the playing section explaining this I didn't know myself that it was random, there goes my theory of the colours representing distance Maybe that's what they should do. I'll have a look at that post when I get the chance The aussies are coming, ya ho! ya ho! Top Quote

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