Or any mentor, really. I'm flexible. I've played risk casually since I was a kid. I'd have played more, but until I stumbled across this site, it was a multi-hour commitment just to play a game. Who has the time? So I'm loving the casual games.

So anyway, I've completed a few games. Won one ...

Incidentally, for completeness, I'm what they call red-deficient. No problem discerning red vs green. But shades of red are a nightmare. Red vs purple, purple vs blue, orange vs yellow, brown vs red, etc. If you don't give me a big chunk of color to compare, I don't stand a chance.

I posted a new thread on the subject, mainly because I had a different suggested solution to the same problem. Check out "suggestion from colorblind guy" and feel free to discuss this thread there or vice versa.

One of the fundamental problems I have with discerning colors here is that it's the ...

I appreciate the color code feature and all, but frankly it's a lot of work to read a map - you can't just glance and see what's what.

So I have two suggestions to help with this:

1) we colorblind folks have a better shot at discerning colors if there's a bigger swatch to look at - the colored ...