Once itnerfaces and options are really delimited, I'd expect more options in the faction screen. And hopefully better than the Dawn of War (1 or 2, especially 2) Army Painter, than although good, only allowed to see some units.

Aye Wintersong, of course better. What I had intended, was that upon the creation of a Unit you can choose a new custom paint-job.

It was my intent that each unit w/ equipment initially start out as "default colors" for the materials, and then as you are designing the unit, you can select the paint. Armor and Equipment would automatically revert to default coloration each time you decide to build a "new" unit ...

For units that you have already decided on the Paint (lets say you designed a Red Swordsman) ... when you train the unit, you can right-click on the Icon and select "change paint" (before its trained) and the unit design will store the last paint-job that was assigned to it. (Alternatively, you could simply design two identical units with different paint jobs, if you wanted to)

However, units on the field cannot be re-painted, unless you are re-training and re-equipping those soldiers with new armor and gear.

If you're impatient, you can currently go into the files and edit the textures yourself.

Anything that adds more customization (less load on the devs, more on the players) and more variability is good in my book.

I'd really like to be able to create a custom civ, custom sov, and custom units that stand out from those of other people's, just like GalCiv, but with swords.

Very cool idea... Not sure where one should put it in the list of priorities though, since it is purely cosmetic and therefore not a huge deal. It would indeed be very nice if we could do this though.

I've suggested something similar a long time ago. [It can be found on the Comprehensible Suggestion List as well] -> Armor Coloring https://forums.elementalgame.com/366022