If one wants historical ensigns, one can always resort to modding. Some fairly recent Q&A with devs and WG staff about the Imperial German Flag, and it's inclusion learned us this: One can mod the flag that it shows the IGN flag on all ships. Sadly enough, the game is coded in such a way that ALL German ships use the same flag, and one can't make a distinction between Imperial Navy & Kriegsmarine. Many of the players here a avid fans of history, and strive for an "as historically correct as is possible experience", of which historical ensigns is a part that can't be overlooked.Ī quick scan in the gamefiles learns us that the IGN flag is modelled is the "flags.dds" file (deep in the gameplay files). At first I was thinking a reason against inclusion was that it would be confusing for ships in a single nation to have different ensigns, but since the Russian ships do fly their correct ensigns, this can't be the reason. Those ships should historically fly the ensign of the Imperial German Navy (IGN), yet for reasons unknown to us, they do not. This flag was only used between 1935 & 1945, a good while after the active career of the aforementioned ships (all were sunk/scuttled in WW1). They currently fly a censored Deutsche Kriegsmarine (DKM) flag, as is flown by the other ships in the German techtree. This made me think about the equivalently tiered German counterparts: the Dresden, Kolberg & Karlsruhe, together with the premium ship Emden. The Soviet ships/designs fly their historically accurate Soviet Navy (SN) ensign. On the sneak peak that's being offered, one can admire the new cruisers, and I noticed that the Novik, Bogatyr & Svetlana fly their historically correct ensign of the Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as do the premium ships Diana & Aurora. Many of those happenings had a strong link with the military, whether that's landbased, naval or aerial. The rise and fall of nations, the decline of empires, borders that got drawn, contested, and redrawn. The ships, or their plans, range from the early 1900's until the 1950's, an interesting interval in time during which much has happened in the history of mankind. As of yesterday, players can now gaze upon the soon to be introduced Russian cruiser branch, which starts at the Orlan, and ends at the Moskva.
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