I can understand the need for blue lights. My only question is whether they had them then. I've seen no evidence one way or the other, and my only personal reference is my own service on a destroyer. She was built at the end of World War 2, and at my time (1970) we had only red lights. But of course that wasn't a submarine. I just never heard of blue lights until I saw
Das Boot.
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Originally Posted by the_belgian
OK...that's enough to scare me of from asking for mods.
only one remark;why is a "das boat crew"mod considdered as adding something to the game(see SHIII) and blue lights are a no go since "lack of realism"?  |
Excellent question, and one I ask myself. I use the Das Boot Officers mod, which changes the little icons at the lower left, just because I like them better than the stock ones.
Das Boot Clothes is a little trickier. I've seen photographs of u-boatmen wearing only part of their uniforms, but we did that when I was in the U.S. Navy. Civilian clothes? I don't know. I've been told they did, and of course they did it in the movie. I don't remember if it's mentioned in the book or not, and my copy is well out of my reach right now. I use the mod because it looks cool and I like it. Realistic? Again, I don't know.
And the same is true of the blue lights. They look cool, and sometimes arguing for realism is nice but you want a cool mod anyway. Using external views is totally unrealistic, but I do love to look at those ships in the harbors.