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[Mystery]

So I decided I would make a listing of color schemes for some possible skins, these come from various sourcebooks and while I tried to keep it in the era some may have slipped through, not to say it wasn't around though.
"IF" there is enough interest I will do other houses and a mercs list.
We know there will be skins we do not know how they will do them so again this is just a list with possible ideas and maybe to give them feedback on what we the players would like to see.
Capellan Confederation

Red Lancers
The unit's colors are blood red and gold with black highlights.

Prefectorate Guard
The Prefectorate Guard employs a burgundy, gold and black paint scheme.

Holdfast Guard
For parade colors, the Holdfast Guard displays its war machines in brick red accented in gold and black.

Dynasty Guard
The regiment paints its equipment maroon, with greenish-gold and black accents.

House Imarra
House Imarra uses a color scheme of ivory trimmed in Liao green with gold accents for its 'Mechs.

House Kamata
Kamata BattleMechs and vehicles are painted tan with reddish-gold highlights.

House Dai Da Chi
The House favors gold-tinged green with green or black accents for machines and vehicles.

House Lu Sann
BattleMech paint schemes are beige with greenish-silver highlights

House Hiritsu
House Hiritsu's parade dress colors are green with black trim. 'Mechs are usually painted a greenish-tinted silver
with green or black trim.

House Fujita
Paint schemes for BattleMechs and troop transports combine a copper-gold base with tan or black highlights.

House Ma-Tsu Kai
The official 'Mech color scheme is Liao green with ivory and gold highlights.

House Ijori
The House BattleMech paint scheme is beige and brown with greenish-gold highlights

Death Commandos
Death Commando soldiers paint their BattleMechs black, occasionally trimming them with Liao Green.

2nd Confederation Reserve Cavalry
The Confederation Reserve Cavalry uses a camouflage pattern appropriate to the world on which a given unit is
stationed. The second trims all machines and equipment in brass, regardless of the camouflage scheme.

3rd Confederation Reserve Cavalry
Due to a lack of support from the Departments of Procurement and Training and Acquisition the unit has not changed
its paint scheme from a jungle camouflage even though its current post is a base in the middle of plains countr

5th Confederation Reserve Cavalry
The Confederation Reserve Cavalry uses a camouflage pattern appropriate to the world on which a given unit is
stationed. The 5th trims all equipment and machines in bronze.

6th Confederation Reserve Cavalry
The Confederation Reserve Cavalry uses a camouflage pattern appropriate to the world on which a given unit is
stationed. The 6th highlights its equipment and machines with copper trim.

7th Confederation Reserve Cavalry
The Confederation Reserve Cavalry uses a camouflage pattern appropriate to the world on which a given unit is
stationed. The 7th's BattleMechs and other equipment are highlighted with a steel-finish trim

1st Capellan Defense Force
The Capellan Defense Force has adopted a patchwork pattern of light summer colors. Common applications employ ivory,
light green and brown.

2nd Capellan Defense Force
The Capellan Defense Force has adopted a patchwork pattern of light summer colors. Common applications employ ivory,
light green and brown. The second uses a washed-out, sepia-tone version of the standard CDF color scheme.

3rd Capellan Defense Force
The Capellan Defense Force has adopted a patchwork pattern of light summer colors. Common applications employ ivory,
light green and brown.

Kingston's Rangers
The Rangers have yet to change their paint scheme from the jungle pattern used on Huntress. New recruits may not use
this color pattern. Instead they use the Ranger's two-color patchwork camouflage and always include red highlights.

Sung's Rangers
The Rangers currently paint their 'Mechs and armor in rust-red and gray-black camouflage.

Renshield's Dragoons
The regiment does not bother with camouflage paint schemes, preferring dark green with red highlights.

Vong's Grenadiers
The unit uses camouflage patterns appropriate to its assignment.

Syn's Hussars
Sonservatory Command 'Mechs and equipment are usually painted dark green. When appropriate, the unit sometimes
switches to three-color camouflage. The Hussars trim all their machines in jade green

1st McCarron's Armored Cavalry
The Nightriders paint their 'Mechs and vehicles ash gray with silver trim

2nd McCarron's Armored Cavalry
Angel's Regiment paints its 'Mechs and equipment a dark metallic blue, highlighted with a different color chosen by
each battalion. For every battlefield kill, a MechWarrior may paint a blood-colored teardrop on his machine.

3rd McCarron's Armored Cavalry
The Wild Ones paint their 'Mechs dark copper with burnished steel highlights.

4th McCarron's Armored Cavalry
The Cavaliers paint their vehicles dark green with white-stripes.

5th McCarron's Armored Cavalry
The Kommandos paint their 'Mechs and vehicles gray and blue with silver highlights.

4th Tau Ceti Rangers
The Rangers' paint scheme is bronze with dark gold trim.

15th Dracon
The 15th uses the same gray and green paint scheme as their original Star League forebears. The 15th paints "hash
marks" along 'Mech limbs or the main body of a fightercraft or vehicle for battlefield kills.

Laurel's Legion
The Legion colors are red, black white and silver.

Ambermarle's Highlanders
The Highlanders use a camouflage of green and woad blue, which does little to disguise their 'Mechs but gives them

an interesting appearance.

Harloc Raiders
The Raiders' colors are green and red, with a single silver band commemorating their time as mercenaries.

Marshigama's Legionnaires
The regiment employs a black-and-white color scheme, in a less-than-effective camouflage pattern as parade colors.

Shin Legion
Legion 'Mechs and other vehicles are painted a flat dark green with yellow trim.

1st St. Ives Lancers
The Lancers paint their equipment a standard, gray-tinted green. The First Lancers formerly highlighted their 'Mechs
and vehicles in yellow but have since replaced it with ivory to avoid infringing on the use of gold as a mark of the
Chancellor's special favor.

2nd St. Ives Lancers
The Lancers paint their equipment a standard, gray-tinted green. The Second Lancers highlight their combat machines
in jade.

2nd St. Ives Janissaries
The Janissaries paint their 'Mechs and equipment blue and red, with green and yellow highlights.

Roman's Mounted Fusiliers
The Fusiliers paint their combat machines with red highlights around the lower limbs, hands and feet--a somber
reminder of the deadly game they play against other MechWarriors and the blood already on their hands.

Marcella's Armored Infantry
The St. Ives Sentinels parade colors are gray-green with silver and red highlights. The Armored Infantry highlight
their equipment in brown.

Black Wind Lancers
The Blackwind Lancers' colors were stricken after the second battalion's disgrace on Hustaing. The Lancers paint
their equipment tan and ivory with blue highlights.

Borodin's Vindicators
The Vindicators paint their combat equipment in tan and ivory with red highlights.

Free Republic Revolutionaries (3033 official start)
The Revolutionaries parade colors are brownish-red and tan.

[Modred189]

Yes, I selected all of them.

[Juodvarnis]

I voted "Wahts a colour list" and selected everything... Just because i could

[Mystery]

Please take the time to post some of your favorite color schemes.

[MHayden]

This is a list from the 3060s.

[Mystery]

MHayden, on 07 July 2012 - 11:53 AM, said:

This is a list from the 3060s.

Again some may have slipped through but most all those units have existed since before the fall of the star league.

Having the field manuals and the original fasa house books I crossed checked most.

[MHayden]

Mystery, on 07 July 2012 - 12:13 PM, said:

Again some may have slipped through but most all those units have existed since before the fall of the star league.

Having the field manuals and the original fasa house books I crossed checked most.

So, if you have all the field manuals and cross-checked most, why did you just copy directly from camospecs.com?

I mean, it's even in the same order! And some of these units weren't around... Houses White Tiger and Rakshasa were cooked up by Kali Liao decades later, a lot of these other units were mercs prior to 3030; this is years before the assimilation of McCarron's Armored Cavalry into the CCAF or the formation of Citizen's Honored.

I'm pretty old school, I've been waiting for an official product to touch upon the 3025 era for a long time and I'm not going to sit idly by while you ignore the pre-Xin Sheng CCAF.

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CCAF 3025 OOB (Excluding Mercenaries):

Capellan Hussars

Red Lancers (aka Red Heart Guard)
Insignia: A red heart sliced in two by a blade held in a mailed fist.*
Paint Scheme: Red with white trim.***

Prefectorate Guard
Insignia: Crossed lances with gold and green pennants held in mailed fists.*
Paint Scheme:

Blanford's Grenadiers (Later the Holdfast Guard)
Insignia: A planet quartered by two blades running north-south and east-west.*
Paint Scheme:

Northwind Highlanders
(That's right kids, they weren't always 'mercs!)

Marion's Highlanders
Unit Insignia: A planet topped by a tam-o'-shanter.*
Paint Scheme:

McCormack's Fusiliers (Later Stirling's Fusiliers)
Unit Insignia: two five pointed stars on a Katana Blade.*
Paint Scheme:

1st Kearny Highlanders
Unit Insignia: A stylized Highland piper against a green and gold inverted Capellan triangle.*
Paint Scheme:

2nd Kearny Highlanders
Unit Insignia: a stylized bagpipe impaled on two blades.*
Paint Scheme:

Chesterton Reserves

1st Ariana Fusiliers
Unit Insignia: A stylized black falcon against a green and gold inverted Capellan triangle.*
Paint Scheme:

2nd Ariana Fusiliers
Unit Insignia: Two stylized green and gold chess knights facing eachother, beneath which two lances are laid side by side.*
Paint Scheme:

Ariana Grenadiers
Unit Insignia: a stylized 18th Century genadier in a green miter cap, against a gold field with the regimental name inscribed below.*
Paint Scheme: Woodland.***

1st Chesterton Voltigeurs
Unit Insignia: crossed blades against a red field.*
Paint Scheme:

2nd Chesterton Voltigeurs
Unit Insignia: a mounted Kettle Drummer against a red field.*
Paint Scheme:

3rd Chesterton Voltigeurs
Unit Insignia: a leopard grappling with an eagle on a red field.*
Paint Scheme:

Hamilton's Highlanders
Unit Insignia: a female highlander dancing a jig over a torn federated suns flag.*
Paint Scheme:

Lothar's Fusiliers
Unit Insignia: a black raven in flight over a red field.*
Paint Scheme:

Sung's Cuirassiers (later Sung's Rangers)
Unit Insignia: An armored horseman on a white charger against a green and gold field.*
Paint Scheme:

Kingston's Legionnaires (later Kingston's Rangers)
Unit Insignia: a falcon impaled on a lance against a red field.*

Liao Reserves

Trimaldi's Secutors
Unit Insignia: a black spider holding a gold trident against a red field.*
Paint Scheme:

Vincent's Commandos
Unit Insignia: a white unicorn on a red field.*
Paint Scheme: white with mottled gray spots.***

Tikonov Reserves

Kincade's Rangers (later Renshield's Dragoons)
Unit Insignia: a gold scorpion against a green field.*
Paint Scheme:

Kerr's Intruders
Unit Insignia: a pair of crossed six-shooters on a red field.*
Paint Scheme:

St. ives Armored Calalry

1st St. Ives Lancers
Unit Insignia: a rearing white horse wearing a gold crown against a green field.*
Paint Scheme:

2nd St. Ives Lancers
Unit Insignia: Two rearing white horses, facing eachother, wearing gold crowns on a green field.*
Paint Scheme:

St. Ives Cheveau Legers
Unit Insignia: Crossed sabres surrounded by a gold wreath against a white field.*
Paint Scheme:

Devon's Armored Infantry (Later Marcella's Armored Infantry)
Unit Insignia: a stylized Vedette tank on a white field.*
Paint Scheme:

Stapleton's Iron Hand
Unit Insignia: three blue diamonds impaled on a blade against a white field.*
Paint Scheme:

Cochraine's Goliaths
Unit Insignia: a stylized castle on a white field.*
Paint Scheme:

Shepard's Mounted Fusiliers (Later Roman's Mounted Fusiliers)
Unit Insignia: a grizzly bear mounted atop an armored personnell carrier.*
Paint Scheme:

Capellan Reserves

Justine's Grenadiers
Unit Insignia: crossed laser rifles surrounded by a gold wreath.*
Paint Scheme:

Stapleton's Genadiers
Unit Insignia: A broken lance gripped by a mailed fist on a red and gold field.*
Paint Scheme:

Sian Reserves

Kamakura's Hussars
Unit Insignia: a stylized 18th century hussar against a blue field.*
Paint Scheme:

Ishara's Grenadiers
Unit Insignia: a stylized wasp with a grenade in hand on a blue field.*
Paint Scheme:

Sarn Reserves

Hurloc's Hussars
Unit Insignia: a triskelion of three red 'mech legs on a green circle.*
Paint Scheme:

Freemont's Cuirassiers
Unit Insignia: a stylized pirate on an armored horse.*
Paint Scheme:

Indipendent Units

McCrimmon's Light Cavalry
Unit Insignia: a horse head against a red and white field.*
Paint Scheme:

MacGregor's Armored Scouts
Unit Insignia: a stylized black and white shield in a yellow border.*
Paint Scheme: White with black and yellow trim. Two black squares arranged diagonally on the torso.***

Blackwind Lancers
Unit Insignia: a blue axe head set against a yellow field.*
Paint Scheme:

Preston's Lancers
Unit insignia: a white fleur-de-lis set on an orange circle with a black border.**
Paint Scheme:

ED: Forgot a few.

Warrior Houses

House Imarra
Unit Insignia:
Paint Scheme:

House Kamata
Unit Insignia:
Paint Scheme:

House Hiritsu
Unit Insignia:
Paint Scheme:

House LuSann
Unit Insignia:
Paint Scheme:

House Daiachi
Unit Insignia:
Paint Scheme:

House Fujita
Unit Insignia:
Paint Scheme:

House Matsukai
Unit Insignia:
Paint Scheme:

House Ijori
Unit Insignia:
Paint Scheme:

Death Commandos

Death Commandos
Unit Insignia:
Paint Scheme:

ED: I'll be adding in paint scheme info as I can find it. This list of units is from the House Liao Handbook (1988). All unit insignia were made by me, based off textual description or images.

*House Liao handbook (1988 FASA)
**Succession Wars board game (1987 FASA)
***Camospecs handbook (1987 FASA)

[Polarice]

Nice list!!!

[Mystery]

@MHayden yep took liberties from camospecs (they had the quickest list) and I still used both battletech 1717 Capellan Confederation and the old battletech 1624 House Liao book, I've slowly added in or taken out as needed.

All my books are in PDF format so copy paste works easy also. Next time I will put more time into it so not to have so many blatant errors and do it like I did the weapons list.

If you are wanting the Unit insignia for those warrior houses look in book 1717 page 60 to start

An I am sure there are more as I have so so so many novels and gaming books around (all my gaming books are finished converting though)