Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170829010745/@comment-95.215.44.97-20170910212700

Eboreg wrote:

Didn't the US Navy not allow "dark-skinned" people to man combatant ships during that era?

Can't say the same for the Royal Navy though. (－‸ლ) Doris Miller served on West Virginia, a battleship, and Liscome Bay, an escort carrier. He was black. Ernest Evans was Johnston's captain during the Battle off Samar. He was Native American. So yes, colored people were allowed to serve on combatant navy ships back then.

In any case, as numerous people have pointed out elsewhere, the game doesn't care that the war took place in the 40s, the game aparently takes place in modern times, so there isn't much of a reason to exclude non-white people based on that alone. Besides there are a hell of a lot more dark skined Americans than there are dark skinned Japanese people (looking at you Musashi).

Nixangelus wrote:

Right now, we got 1 loliDD, 2 sub and one BB, can we get a dark-skinned US shipgirl? :3

(Brooklyn from Warship girl is quite good for example). This. Besides Brooklyn, that game has 3 other Americans with dark skin and Native American themes (Oklahoma, Indianapolis, and South Dakota), 4 if you count the vaguely Native American themed but very much white North Carolina. Kancolle could do with some variety.