well, regardin uniform colours, all we need to look at are real world armies over the years. napolenoic forces in particular and british Redcoats.
it all depends on the culture, i guess. 40k is a strange place. imagine the real world in the 18th century, where a spaceship lands and incorporates us into a distant space empire. well be left largely to govern ourselves and given all these super sci-fi modern equipment (lasguns, carapace armour, tanks!) but for all this tech our culture would remian 18th century (for a while). thats what i figure imperial guard armies with bright colours are like.
now, red weapons... thats just an unfortunate remnant of the GW rainbow era where all models had to have a mandatory 5% surface area covered in blood red. with mariens it was mostly weapons! :P |