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On browsing through the bloodbowl program directory, I discovered a tiny file named color.tga which is an image only 8x8 pixels used to determine the team colours choice. After a lot of trial and error in
Gimp, I came up with an expanded file that actually works and added another 56
colours to choose from. I was a bit miffed at the lack of a decent
orange, so now there's plenty to choose from! Original: 
Expanded: 
I had to expand the
colours image from 8x8 to 8 high x 16 wide, with the bottom row in that
pink colour all the way accross, although it's displayed in game as
11x10 with 2 extras (I left these black for aesthetic purposes) on the
bottom left (not sure why?????).
This is the only format i found
that retains the actual colours in the colour file. Any other size/shape
image displays even more colours, but made up of a combination of
colour values from combined pixels. This can cause problems if some of
your teams have custom skins set to a colour that's no longer displayed
in game.
The original colours also had to remain in the same
order, top left to right, in order to maintain the correct colours for
existing teams, as the game assigns each colour a number, starting with 0
in the top left. Because the game shows these in a different sized grid
though, they now appear a bit mixed up, instead of the usual gradients
of colour from top to bottom.
Finally, I'm not sure how the game
will display the new colours on an opponent's PC in online games where
the opponent has the regular colour palette... I'm guessing that bright
pink colour maybe?
EDIT:
I
RELOADED THE ORIGINAL COLOUR PALETTE AND ATTEMPTED TO USE THE TEAM
EDITOR ON A TEAM WITH ONE OF THE EXTRA COLOURS. A RUNTIME ERROR OCCURRED
AND THE GAME CRASHED AND SHUT DOWN.
However, loading a game did
not cause a crash. The team colours are displayed as light blue on the
roster, red in the viewer where you buy star players/mercs and
black/very dark grey when you finally get to the pitch... So as long as
somebody else isn't trying to use the team editor on one of your 'new
colour' teams on their 'old colour palette' game, there does't appear to
be any adverse side effects...
Extract the file to the
following location, making sure you backup the original first of
course...
C:\Program Files\Cyanide\Blood Bowl\Data\Manager\Colors
Well
hope this proves useful to some of you, any and all questions / advice
welcome as always...
http://www.bloodbowldigital.com/forum/index.php?id=297&rb_v=file
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