Royal Navy Red Ensign

[Meako]

Minor gripe - The Royal Navy Red Ensign was only used on merchant navy and civilian vessels.

I recommend removing it from the game or limiting it to unrated transports/merchants only. Royal Navy warships should only fly the White Ensign.

[mag8five]

What about the blue one?

[bikes02]

Originally posted by Meako:

Minor gripe - The Royal Navy Red Ensign was only used on merchant navy and civilian vessels.

I recommend removing it from the game or limiting it to unrated transports/merchants only. Royal Navy warships should only fly the White Ensign.

Oh dear oh dear...Please learn about Royal Navy history. Up until 1864 there was different squadron fleet colours and each squadron had an admiral of the (red) (blue) (white) and depending what squadron you was in decided what colour flag was flown. There was also seniority with Red being the most senior.

"The Red Ensign of the Red Squadron became the ensign of the British Merchant Navy, and the Blue Ensign of the Blue Squadron became the ensign of the Auxiliary Fleet"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured_squadrons_of_the_Royal_Navy

[Meako]

Originally posted by bikes02:

Originally posted by Meako:

Minor gripe - The Royal Navy Red Ensign was only used on merchant navy and civilian vessels.

I recommend removing it from the game or limiting it to unrated transports/merchants only. Royal Navy warships should only fly the White Ensign.

Oh dear oh dear...Please learn about Royal Navy history. Up until 1864 there was different squadron fleet colours and each squadron had an admiral of the (red) (blue) (white) and depending what squadron you was in decided what colour flag was flown. There was also seniority with Red being the most senior.

"The Red Ensign of the Red Squadron became the ensign of the British Merchant Navy, and the Blue Ensign of the Blue Squadron became the ensign of the Auxiliary Fleet"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured_squadrons_of_the_Royal_Navy

Always glad to learn something new.

Thing is, it currently appears to be at random. One battle, HMS Warspite is a ship of the white squadron, the next it is a ship of the red... and I'm yet to see blue.

Wouldn't a commodore commanding a Squadron of Frigates be a part of the same larger squadron?

I'd expect all my ships to fly the same ensign.

[redlar]

Yeah this confused me as well. On at least one naval mission I had ships raising either the red or white ensign and there didn't seem to be a reason for raising both since all my ships should be in the same squadron.

Originally posted by Meako:

Originally posted by bikes02:

Oh dear oh dear...Please learn about Royal Navy history. Up until 1864 there was different squadron fleet colours and each squadron had an admiral of the (red) (blue) (white) and depending what squadron you was in decided what colour flag was flown. There was also seniority with Red being the most senior.

"The Red Ensign of the Red Squadron became the ensign of the British Merchant Navy, and the Blue Ensign of the Blue Squadron became the ensign of the Auxiliary Fleet"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured_squadrons_of_the_Royal_Navy

Always glad to learn something new.

Thing is, it currently appears to be at random. One battle, HMS Warspite is a ship of the white squadron, the next it is a ship of the red... and I'm yet to see blue.

Wouldn't a commodore commanding a Squadron of Frigates be a part of the same larger squadron?

I'd expect all my ships to fly the same ensign.

From what little I know, historically your squadron is determined by the admiral you're serving under. A commodore, a temporary flag officer, would still be the junior of the admiral in charge of any given theater, and would fly the ensign of that admiral's squadron be it red, white, or blue.

[Ninjasquirrel]

They should just let you pick what flag you want.