Now, the salmon color match of the interiors of the hulls I can definitely get behind. Besides, real men wear pink!
It's only the axis skippers who are redshirts. Allies prefer blue, it's much better for UV and it means you usually survive the expedition.
Feh. Superstitions worthy of our effite, tea-sipping enemies. The blue-shirted one was always making excuses... Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a [insert random profession here]. If my choice is making excuses or dying gloriously, give me dying gloriously [note: sinking from pump failure with one of four guns working counts as gloriously] [lol] [2nd note: sinking because your radio glitched, jamming the throttle hard astern and the rudder hard over, so that you do backwards circles until you sink, counts as gloriously.] [3rd note: actually having everything work flawlessly and finally succumbing to enemy fire WOULD be glorious ]
you have to forgive Axis captains for wanting to wear red. Aside from the star trek references, if you're wearing read you're easier to be detected as a survivor after your ship is sunk. I think the Axis has that survival instinct kicking in there.
And here I thought that Axis captains wore red shirts so that their crew wouldn't notice when they were wounded and bleeding. Kind of like why Allied captains wear brown trousers
You may be on to something there. Maybe that's why the Axis fleet likes to hide in port too much: Changing your uniform pants to brown color in case Allied warships show up would simply cost too much money!
