Excellent effort, Its great to finally see a balance to the billions of LAND units in all the mods!
one issue:
FRENCH SHIPS WEREN'T BLACK AND WHITE.
I'd love to be proved wrong on the matter, but ive done alot of research on the issue, and the most conclusive evidence i've found for a certain colour scheme is that the didn't have one! at least till after Napoleon. all those pictures you see of the sleek black and white ships of the line belong to Louis Napoleon's era - circa 1850.
If it were up to me i'd have the smaller French vessels a mix of the vanilla texture, rednblack, blacknwhite and yellownblack. for the larger ships of the line i'd make them yellow and black, but perhaps a duller scheme to that of the Royal Navy, who used the Nelson Checker during this period.
SPQR