>>39115179
Dis gonna be gud.

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>>39115179

You turn to look at her, the cold, prickling chill of dread racing up your spine as you comprehend just how woefully inadequate your doomsday prediction had been. Kaga wasn't close to injury – she was close to being a smoking oil-smear on the sand; her and every other poor damned Japanese shipgirl in attendance. The doom of fleets and death-knell of nations stands before you, her slate-grey eyes bright with childish enthusiasm. “YOU WERE LIKE-” she brackets her face with both hands, fingertips pointed at you - “LOOK AT ME. NOW-” her hands snap to the side, channeling her gaze askance - “LOOK AT THE CORGIS. NOW-” she leans in, her eyes boring you like a diamond-carbon drillbit - “BACK TO *ME.*” Her hands and terrifying intensity drop away, and suddenly she's a ten-year old redhead again, pigtailed, freckle-faced and absolutely adorable. She clutches at her cheeks, dancing from foot to foot. “OhmygodthatwasfukkinRADICAL!”

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>>39115223

Most of the time, you're good at walking on ice – Annapolis is four years of rigorous practice in the art. You can walk on ice all day; and with the quiet repressed traumas of Arizona and Hornet, you *do.* But Sammy? She's a roman candle of new crazy every minute, and you're always three steps behind trying to parse it, much less dodge. You shoot a glance at Hate, who looks up from clipping collars onto Corgis long enough to deny teaching Sammy 90s catchphrases with a listless shrug.

“And the boats, they were cold,” Sammy says with adoration. “Admiral! Have you ever heard the sound of thirty cigarette butts hitting the floor at the same time?”

You blink as your mental wheels squeal sans traction. “Ye- how do you-”

“It was like that,” she says, grabbing your shirt and shaking you back and forth; your head lolling about before the impossible strength in her skinny arms. “LIKE FORTY DOG-BUTTS HITTING THE SAND AT THE SAME TIME, IT WAS BITCHIN.”

She stops shaking you long enough to haul you in, her forehead clinking against yours; cold grey eyes spinning up with an almost audible whirr.

“I WANT ONE.”

>Okay.
>Are you asking for an escort?
>How'd you like to be a flotilla leader?

>>39115237
>Okay.
>How'd you like to be a flotilla leader?

>>39115237
>>How'd you like to be a flotilla leader?

Hate might actually like this.

>>39115179
Since last thread, I have read up somewhat on what's happened and what the living hell is up with this setting. I still know very little of the specifics, but at least I'm grounded enough to know this much:
>Y'all are nuts
>I want in

Let's see if we can shape up and redeem ourselves of our cosmic blunder that nearly got everyone killed or consigned to the baths for the next eight hours, by shaping this bunch of mis-ships into the finest navy to ever grace the ocean (short of the Royal Navy, but let's face it, you don't beat Britanian shipgirls).

Two points though? One: If the Yamato shows up, there had damn well better be a big show of it. If I know the Japanese military, the spirit of their greatest flagship, possibly the greatest and most powerful battleship ever known, returning to port would be met with applause, tears, music and possibly a parade in her honour.

Two: I wonder how tall ships come back? The HMS Victory would be a sight to see...

>>39115237
>>Okay.
>>How'd you like to be a flotilla leader?
Too many of the cheerful fuckers. Start palming them off the the shipsluts.

>>39115285
Everyone gets five Corgis.

Even Harder.

>>39115237
>How'd you like to be a flotilla leader?

"And tell Hate I appreciate his efforts."

>>39115279
>The HMS Victory would be a sight to see...
It would have to sink first.
And for the RN to let that happen, it would mean that Portsmouth must have been wiped off the map. Shit, I'm probably giving Planefag ideas again

>>39115237
>>Okay.
>>How'd you like to be a flotilla leader?

>>39115259

>>39115285
Ahaha, this.

>>39115318
There's nothing that says a ship has to be sunk to become a shipgirl.

>>39115237
>>How'd you like to be a flotilla leader?

>>39115237
>okay
>Only if you take responsibility and properly take care of it *List the things you need to do to take care of the dog*


Because I rather not have her think it's all fun and games or have all of the fun but none of the duties to take care of a dog.

>>39115237
>>Okay.
>>Are you asking for an escort?
>>How'd you like to be a flotilla leader?

>>39115318
They don't know how shipgirls are made and Planefag's implied that Iowa woke up somehow at least briefly or did something spooky and she's still in existence.

>>39115237

>Okay.

So Sammy, Willie, and a bunch of corgis in some sort of attack squadron? Either way, this girl has some serious spunk.

>>39115318
True. Haven't museum ships returned though?

And to be honest, Portsmouth being attacked would certainly cause upper lips to stiffen in Blighty. We're not a proud nation anymore, but if anything makes the British people straighten their backs and suddenly remember, "We built the biggest Empire the world has ever known," it's some asshole messing with us. I dread to think of and long to see the kind of reaction the Royal Navy and the nation would have to the spirits of the ships that ruled the waves returning would provoke.

Can you tell this setting has me a little hyped?

Also, the fairies are fuckin' radical and I want a village of them.

>>39115237
>Are you asking for an escort?
>Okay
I'm with >>39115408 on this one. I dare say that this is going to be absolutely savage. I christen this insanity 'Madcap Squadron'.

>>39115223
So...am I missing something with Sammy having USMC on her breast or was that some sort of honorary thing since she doesn't have any fucks to give?

>>39115376
>>39115405
>>39115448
Maybe not sunk then. but at least decomissioned.

>>39115462
Her namesake was a muhreen

>>39115462
Read up on the guy she's named after.

>>39115480
I hope so, because that would mean it would be possible for my shipfu to make an appearance.

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>>39115448
>And to be honest, Portsmouth being attacked would certainly cause upper lips to stiffen in Blighty. We're not a proud nation anymore, but if anything makes the British people straighten their backs and suddenly remember, "We built the biggest Empire the world has ever known," it's some asshole messing with us.

le falklands face

>>39115237
>How'd you like to be a flotilla leader?
>Are you asking to lead an escort?

>>39115462
Aren't there a couple of IJN shipsluts who were part of their Army? If the USMC had ships that went down, they could come back too.

Oh god, we thought regular, Naval shipsluts were bad; I dread to think what bullshit the leatherneck ships are going to pull, if/when they arrive.

>>39115480
Oh yeah, the HMS Victory is still technically ready to roll, isn't she? Wow...

>>39115489
>>39115494
Ah...now I remember. Thanks guys.

Callin it for FLOTILLA! Next update might be a little late; I'll be eating dinner soon.

>>39115462
It was in honor of all the Marines who rode in her

Shouldn't we teach Sammy that she needs to do the things like taking th corgi out, feeding it, taking it's poop, etc before giving her one?

>>39115546

Hate will teach her in due time.

With an M9 shoved in her mouth if she doesn't listen.

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>>39115538
As if you deserve to eat after being late.

>>39115546
Delegate that to Hate. It'll be good for him

>>39115563
I think Sammy wouldn't be scared of it and instead try to bite it.

Or ooh and awe and ask if she can have one.

>>39115538
planefag, we must find out why Musashi is brown.
Was she adopted?

>>39115573
Shut it whobucky

>>39115586
Because delicious chocolate.

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>>39115448

Museum ships? No. Planefag mentioned in an earlier thread that noone would even be sure how a shipslut would come to be if its original was still afloat--or rather, wouldn't want to know.= what would show up.

So as cool as it would be to see the Iowa-class girls or the Texas or North Carolina back, I doubt we'll see it happen anytime soon.

Personally, I'd like to see Texas return. WWI-era dreadnought battleships are sex

>>39115608
He's also been teasing us with Iowa doing something and mentioned we'd hear about it sometime.

It just depends on how fast he runs this quest.

>>39115279
>Yamato.
>Greatest.

You realize that Yamato accomplished approximately squat, and that despite outmassing the Iowas by 20,000 tons, it's still a somewhat open question as to whether the Yamatos would have won a straight fight?

As I understand, if the Iowa knew exactly what it was facing, it could just stand off at long range, and use radar gunnery to murder Yamato's face off. Closer-in (as standard US doctrine stated), it's a more open question, but Yamato had her flaws, like the traditionally terrible Japanese damage control.

Also, did some counting. I haven't subtracted out museum ships from the totals (and the count may be off anyways, particularly with regards to ship classes which were completed post-war), but the Japanese should have about 430 shipgirl candidates, the Americans around 1700*. I've forgotten: in Planefag-verse, are ships which got sent to the breakers still shipgirl candidates?

*It's kind of impressive that America had more Fletchers than Japan had destroyers; Clemsons too, if you subtract the Matsus and Tachibanas from the Japanese total (they're kinda light and slow to be counted as true DDs).

>>39115237
>>Okay.
Dooooo eeeeeet.

>>39115683
>1700
That's one hell of a harem.
Is that just warships, or does it also include auxiliaries?

Is it a good idea to give so many Corgis to Sammy?

How many are in a flotili?

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>>39115726
For the USN:
24 CVs, 9 CVLs, 119 CVEs
26 BBs (10 of them fast battleships)
32 CAs (14 of those the post-treaty Baltimores)
1 CB (that crazy Alaska)
52 CLs
287 small, WW1-era DDs (everything up to the Farragut class)
394 other DDs
458 DDEs

I also forgot to add in 348 submarines. Whoops.

For the IJN
11 CVs, 9 CVLs, 10 CVEs
8 BBs (including the Ise class, which were converted to these crazy battleship-carrier hybrids later on)
4 "BBs" (you know who these are)
18 CAs, 20 CLs, 4 very-questionable CLs
137 DDs
32 "DDs" which I'd classify as DDEs
184 submarines (also forgotten in that count)

Again, this is a very rough count, based on less than an hour of Wikipedia searching. For example, I'm still not sure exactly how many Essexes made it in for WWII.

>>39115509
Oh shit oh fuck oh buggering hell
>MFW I mentioned a torpedo-ram harbour attack
>And now I've handed him the target on a platter

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>>39115780
This is the best one

>>39115726
Ooh, forgot my damn joke, and I'd planned it for hours.

It's enough shipsluts to man a battleship.

>>39115608
I thought the USS Iowa was that Abyssal girl from a few threads back? Or was that the Idaho or something?

>>39115683
The Yamato was cruelly denied her chance to shine by factors beyond her control. By all rights, her sheer armour and firepower should have raped the ever-living crap out of anything afloat, but her fuel consumption and Japan's unwillingness to put its flagship in danger stopped her from being used until Okinawa, which she didn't even get to. When the Musashi was sunk, the American admirals shit a collective cinder block with the words, "She took HOW MUCH damage before she went down?!" engraved on it, so you can imagine the psychological impact alone, that a Yamato-class would inflict just by coming into visual range, much less firing its battery.

I think it was mentioned a few threads back, that she'd probably feel tremendously pressured, if she returned, with everyone pinning their hopes on the single greatest expression of battleship naval dominance to ever grace the seven seas, all despite her utterly unproven track record. Frankly, I think it's that mix of the feeling of invincibility, outstanding potential and unproven nervousness that endears me to her. With the right fighter and destroyer/light cruiser cover, she has the potential to sweep any opposition aside.

And hey, we can totally modernise things like damage control, right?

Jeezus though, that's a lot of ships... Kind of highlights why Japan lost, outside of tactics that were a mix of overly-complicated and naively simplistic.

>>39115826
...I hope I haven't accidentally the Royal Navy with my big mouth...

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>>39115279
>>39115318
>>39115448
>>39115509

So its unanimous then for some good 'ol Rule Brittania

>>39115872
Aye, someone gets it. If they had somehow thrown the two Yamato-class units into the Guadalcanal battles, they would have caused a world of hurt.

>>39115872
Nah, Planefag already said the RN was summoning every shipgirl they could get their hands on.

You didn't add anything he hadn't thought of.

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>>39115890
Fucking Casual

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>>39115780
>the last one week


ive got a bad feeling about this...

>>39115872
There's two USS Iowas. The Abyssal girl was BB-4, if I remember right.

Also, "raped anything afloat" is still an open question. The Iowa's 16" guns, for example, had better long-range penetration than the Yamato's 18" guns, etc. As I understand, part of what went on with the Musashi was that she simply had huge reserves of buoyancy, and thus was able to keep afloat despite having had her combat capacity greatly diminished. The Yamato was attacked more deliberately, with most of the torpedoes hitting one side instead of both.

>>39115890
Some of the recent threads have made rather convincing cases for Brittania ruling the waves.

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>>39115872
That was A USS Iowa. There's been multiple ships of that name, Anon.

>>39115872
>shitty damage control
>shit fire control
>shit radar

Anon, I think you're overemphasizing the "muh nippon stronk!" factor, here.

>single greatest expression of battleship naval dominance to ever grace the seven seas

The Japanese went after the US battleships for a reason. Our carriers got real good, real fast, for a reason. The reason? Battleships had previously been considered the queens of the oceans, right? So the Japs went for ours, right? Right. And then we turned around and fucked their faces at Midway, and Coral Sea, and basically everything after Pearl.

See picture, Anon. The Padishah Emperor is disgusted that you've bought into the Nippon stronk bull.

>>39115872
It was the Iowa- but not BB-61, the Iowa that everybody thinks of when they hear the name.
Ships reuse names and it can get confusing

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The very idea of pairing Sammy – the incarnation of uninhibited battle-lust made manifest – with the hyperactive souls of insanely-aggressive PT boats; plywood pipsqueaks that hunted battleships – should terrify you...

… but Hate's barely better than Sammy, when you get right down to it. Mainly because Hate can be amused by women and open access to explosives test ranges; whereas Sammy is rather harder to keep occupied. When the corgis started showing up, they gravitated towards him, and that was enough to keep him busy – until they began arriving en-masse, and the hatred began bubbling up from the dark peat-bog of his soul. You really need to split that load; you really, REALLY need to keep Sammy occupied... and maybe they'll keep her too busy chasing THEM to cause much trouble.

Maybe.

“Sammy,” you say seriously. “How'd you like to be a flotilla leader?”

She blinks, and pulls away from you; pinning you with a dubious look lest you try and scurry away underneath your HQ rock. “What?”

“You know, flotilla. Light cruisers lead destroyer flotillas, so a destroyer escort ought to have...”

>>39115780
That hurt my heart rereading it. Augh.

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>>39115987

“.... torpedo boats,” she finishes – and then her face lights up as she realizes what you're saying. “You mean-”

“Five, at least,” you instruct.

Sammy shrieks with absolutely pure, wicked glee before sprinting off across the beach, kicking up sand in her wake as she rushes for Hate. The Corporal sees her coming in time to flinch, but instead of knocking him prone like she usually does, she just orders him to stand still with the forty-odd leashed corgis as she inspects each one for their suitability and qualifications.

You turn your gaze back out to sea, past the pilings marking the edge of the vast torpedo practice range, and wonder what you should do while you wait.

>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.
>Call the hospital, see how Arizona is getting along – the girl's silence makes her hard to read, and sometimes you worry about what's swimming around under that stoic exterior.
>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.
>Enough fucking work for now – lets see what's hopping on the 'Chans.

>>39115448
>I dread to think of and long to see the kind of reaction the Royal Navy and the nation would have to the spirits of the ships that ruled the waves returning would provoke.
A sudden shipgirl influx is pretty much the only way that could happen now, due to the MoD's rigidly enforced "we can't have nice things" rule. The Type 45's are OK, but it's been 3 decades since the Aegis system went into action, so merely reach the level of About Bloody Time.
Then there's the whole clusterfuck over the QE-class. A 'supercarrier' running on gas fucking tubines, with no catapult (because we're too goddamn cheap to mount it) so we're stuck with the shittiest variant of the already over-expensive F-35 because we can't CATOBAR.And we can't even build them on time, so we have to rent space on the FUCKING FROGS' carriers to project airpower.

>>39116008
>>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.
then
>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.
Shoot straight.

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>>39116008
>Call the hospital, see how Arizona is getting along – the girl's silence makes her hard to read, and sometimes you worry about what's swimming around under that stoic exterior.
Must check on best BB

>>39116008
>>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.
then
>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

>>39116008
>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

And bring along Hornet, and apologize while on the way.

>>39116008
>>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

Rip off the bandaid.

>>39116008
>>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

>>39116008
>>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

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>>39115946
>Padishah Emperor
>not muad-dib

>>39116008
>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.
>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.

>>39116008
>sometimes you worry about what's swimming around under that stoic exterior

BLOOMIN' FAE!

I wonder. Are hornet's faerie crew little indians?

>>39116051
This

>>39116008
>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

We have to avoid telling Arizona anything if we want to see her throw the Kaga through a concrete pylon

>>39116008
>>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.

>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

>>39116008
>>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.


And if we can do two.

>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.

>>39116008
>>Enough fucking work for now -- let's see what's hopping on the 'Chans.

>>39116008

>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.
>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.

Ayup, we should say sorry.

>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

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>>39115918
My first drawfagging attempt (And apparent namefagging)

>>39115940
I read that Britain thread from two nights ago, it seems to be a nice idea to bring Britains along for the ride, however, I just wonder why (if they do) would be a good idea to send them to Japan.

And since its Planefag's great writing, I wonder if everyopne is going to pile into Japan or if we are going to start crusiing around.

But that's stuff for the future.

>>39116008
>>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

>>39116073
>Concrete Pylon

Not straight through the walls of a drydock.

>>39116008
>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.
Then
>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

>>39115940
There's also the fact that the steel used in Yamato's construction is still Jap steel. Inferior to Clapistan steel. Sure her armor was thicker, but it was only still about the equivalent of an Iowa's at twice the tonnage.

>>39116008
>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.

>>39116008
>Call Goto
If two possible
>Apologize to Hornet
Fuck copy pasting all that on my phone

>>39116008
>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

>>39116073
To b fair, I kind of want to se Arizonia going nuts.

But I like Kaga in other doujins but she is a bitch here, maybe for a good reason but a bitch nonetheless.

>>39116126
Source?

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>>39115780
Is it Feels Time now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGH5sfk1L_c

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>>39116067
>Supporting the Atreides' claim to the throne.

Paul is a traitor to the Empire with a thin veil of legitimacy from his marriage to the Emperor's daughter to masquerade the fact that he's an usurper and filthy. Get out, rebel scum.

>>39115780
You fucking bastard.

It's raining.

>>39116008
>Call the hospital, see how Arizona is getting along – the girl's silence makes her hard to read, and sometimes you worry about what's swimming around under that stoic exterior.
>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.

>>39116155
If I can find it. I was drinking and didn't bookmark the site.

>>39116008
>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

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>>39116198
He who controls the spice controls the universe. Your emperor lost because he was weak!`

>>39116008
>>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.
Yup, own up to your damn mistakes

>>39116008
>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.
>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.

>>39116008
>>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.
As much as I would like our admiral to shitpost...

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you know if theres anything that recent escapades have reinforced in my mind, its the fact that the co should not/can not be the 'enforcer', he needs someone else to do it.

that kind of 'division of labour' is crucial psychologically for leading groups of personnel most effectively. you need discipline for people to do their jobs, and you need them to listen to what their jobs are gona be. if they hate your guts, following orders to the best of their ability will be an issue. if they rack disciprin, 'the best of their ability' might not go so far.

this trap is neatly sidestepped however by having *two* people work different sides of the same coin. and that's how co's and nco's were born timmy

to that end, I think it would be very well to take hates advice and get ourselves a secretary ship first mate who can be the enforcer.

>>39115179
SETTLE DID NOTHING WRONG

KAGA A SHIT

>>39115946
The issue with all the naval shambles of the Pacific War, was that Japan failed to recognise a fundamental fact: Combined Arms trumps specialisation! If they were going to rely so heavily on their battleships, they should have rigged their carrier squadrons to be exclusively or at least heavily inclined towards air dominance. Once the US planes were too busy dodging Zeros to torpedo a goddamn thing, then the battleships could move in unmolested and do their thing. Keep in mind, the Japanese put more planes in the air at Midway; the US just had the drop on them, tore the airpower apart, re-armed for anti-ship and then took out the Jap carriers, prompting the rest of the fleet to withdraw. If Japan had got the stand-up fight it wanted... Well, given the fact that I don't believe the US had anything heavier than a Heavy Cruiser at Midway, outside of their carriers, it would have been a massacre.

You're right about the fire control, radar and damage control, but keep in mind that the Yamato was modernised at one point, to compensate for those deficiencies. Only issue was that by the time she could put those to the test, it was already too late and all the 74,000 ton, armour-plated doom in the world won't save you from the kind of odds she was facing.

>>39115940
>>39115946
>>39115956
See, this is what I mean: I'm so clueless, i didn't even know ships COULD share names... Derp.

>>39116008
>Call Hornet over and apologize for fucking that whole thing up, just now.
>Call Goto – best that he hear it from you, first, before his ships show up and give a skewed account. Besides, it's honor amongst Admirals.
In that order. We fucked up BIG, now we have to put things right, before we can move on.

>>39116033
Rule Britannia, huh? God, what a mess of a country I live in.

>>39116347
Our secretary ship should be USS Oklahoma. She's wonderful!

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>>39116347
>and that's how co's and nco's were born timmy

That's co's and xo's. We're Navy here.

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>>39115780
Damnit I didnt come to a Planefag thread for feels like this.

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>>39116303
Go hide your shame Rebel

>>39116355
Regardless, even though he did stop that fight from escalating into anything serious, he still participated in it.

>>39116394
Why can we not just call them noncoms?

>>39116126
Not this shit again.

Steel is steel, once it's refined! Yes, Japan's iron ore is absolute crap, next to European or American steel, but that just means it's more of a bitch to get to the same level. Once it is AT that level, it's just as acceptable as anything else!

>>39116370
> See, this is what I mean: I'm so clueless, i didn't even know ships COULD share names... Derp
No sweat, this is probably gonna be an extremely educational quest.
I wonder if that's why Hate's attached, fucker's got a lot of book learning

>>39116421
Because the Executive Officer is not a noncom. They are most definitely a commissioned officer.

>>39115683
>I've forgotten: in Planefag-verse, are ships which got sent to the breakers still shipgirl candidates?

Yeeesss, but Hate thinks and the evidence seems to suggest that ships that were scrapped rather than sunk in combat are more likely to come back as Abyssals.

Hate still needs to chew the Admiral out for being stupid enough to threaten a ship without the firepower to back it.

>>39116370
>all the 74,000 ton, armour-plated doom in the world won't save you from the kind of odds she was facing.
Learned very quickly in multiplayer gaming: doesn't matter how good you are, you can't win by soloing the entire enemy team.

>>39115448
>Also, the fairies are fuckin' radical and I want a village of them.

You've made me wonder what the little people in Sammy's head are telling her.

I keep hearing a lot of Britania stuff, was the British Royal Navy even that great?

From what I know, their carrier base at least was not that good. Their carrier aircraft too compared to the US which were heavily armored and in some models outgunned the British.

While the Japanese had a bit of an edge in speed.

>>39116422
Combine the Elevens over one-thousand folds technique with making steel and the quality American steel and we'd have battleship katanas.

>>39116432
Because ships that were scrapped were abandoned by their countries and men, and those who sank in combat were honored and respected.

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>>39116422
>Steel is steel, once it's refined!

That is utterly wrong. How the steel is made COMPLETELY affects how it holds up and how long it will last. German-made steel was of objectively better quality than Soviet-made steel in the 1970s, just as an example.

Don't make me go tell /sci/ on you.

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>>39116409
If I recall he was also predicted to be the perfect emperor by YOUR bene gesserits...

>>39116370
Nobody, coming into WWII, had any fucking clue about how dominant carriers would be. Prewar Japanese doctrine envisioned luring the Americans into a long-range battleship sortie to rescue the Philippines; this navy would be whittled down by the aircraft carriers, night-time torpedo strikes, and submarine attacks, until the much better rested, and closer-to-home Japanese battle line could engage and destroy the American navy.

That kinda got torpedoed at Pearl Harbor when America woke up to the smell of sunken battleships.

The Japanese, on the other hand, never quite got over the concept of the decisive battle, and continued to believe the battleships would be decisive, even after late 1943, when a huge wave of newly built Essex and Independence-class aircraft carriers took to the seas.

>>39116422
I doubt it has anything to do with the ore. What he is probably referring to is the grade of steel used; Americans used Krupp plate (probably Krupp cemented plate), with superior characteristics to earlier nickel steels and Harveyized steel.

>>39116460
Not super familiar with it; the RN kept mostly to the Atlantic and Mediterranean. I think maybe part of it was that the RN didn't have the best carrier-borne aircraft, and would have been mauled trying to fight the Japanese.

>>39116486
>German steel
German concrete was fucking indestructible too. When the Sun eventually goes nova, there will be nothing left but Nazi bunkers just floating in space.

>>39116460
I can't say from a historical perspective, as navies aren't really my forte.

But I do want stuffy british maid kanmusu.

righto vote called WRITIN

>Despite being chill when left alone Harder keeps overreacting to the slightest shit
>We call in a favor from some allies
>Little girl in a toque and an oversized Montreal Canadians jersey gets dropped of on base
>We make Harder her handler and tell her to stop him from doing anything mean to the other bigger sh-girls

>Mister admiral, is he a hoser? Only hosers do mean things
>Yes he is Swansea. In fact, just call him Hoser instead of Harder from now on.

>>39116486
But was the steel overengineered and needlessly difficult to maintain?

>>39116496
>>39116543
Neither did the the Americans but they made due. One of the made reasons of American air superiority in the Pacific was that we shot down most of their vetern pilots

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>>39116495
What my gesserits believed he would be the emperor for the people. He is, alas, human and it was expected of mistakes.

Do not flood my mind with senseless, negligible, thoughts! I have faith in him, and as long as I do, he will surpass, he will rise, and HE
WILL
CONQUER

filthy heretic

>>39116422
Actually, not in this case.

You don't just use "Steel" for warship armour. You use Specifically treated and cemented plates of steel that have gone through very specific processes to be both hard enough to stop shots and flexible enough to not shatter. The most common type on battleships was known generally as Krupp Cemented armour.

Now, *most* battleships had their armour belts composed of single, thick plates, which permitted the full strength of the armour. The Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s, however, were incapable of producing single plates of the thickness they desired for the Yamatos; the result being they had to use multiple thinner plates fixed together. This reduced the overall effectiveness of the Yamato-class's armour below that of what one would expect it to be simply going off sheer thickness. In practice, testing showed it had roughly 70-80% of the strength one would presume from it's total thickness.

>>39116600
That I'll believe.

>>39116460
Their carrier doctrine lagged because they never developed the concept of the carrier being the power of the fleet, despite being the navy that pulled off the attack on Taranto. For pretty much most of the war the RN's carriers supported their fleets, not the other way around. They were thus assigned a lower priority for development which is why they still had Sea Hurricanes as front-line carrier aircraft in 1941.

Their surface fleet was very good, however. It performed admirably in all theatres, and pretty much owned the Med despite the Italians having a local power superiority.

>>39116458
Worshipping Khorne

>>39116591
We made do because all our fucking battleships got sunk at Pearl. We were just as much in love with the big gun until Pearl, which showed us two things.

First, that aircraft carriers could sink battleships with near impunity
Second, that we had no choice but to rely on aircraft carriers, because we had no fucking battleships left.

Pearl was an enormous shock to the US. Overnight, almost the entire battleship fleet that we had relied on to keep US shores safe had been sunk at anchor: we were defenseless before the Japanese. In naval terms, we were completely screwed: the remaining Pacific Fleet could not have dealt with the Kido Butai and the Japanese battle line: the only thing keeping us safe was the fact that Japan's logistics were stretched to the outermost limit.

>>39116460
The Royal Navy during WWII was in a weird position during much of WWII.

It was, up till the time, rightly considered the strongest and more than likely best trained navy at the time. It is the longest permanent naval force of any country and had/has a reputation to match.

However it spent much of WWII with no proper enemy to fight, at least not how the pre-war theorists thought. Germany had litle to no proper surface fleet to speak of and much of that was actually sunk by the Norwegians.

They also had to contend with the Italian navy, but the Italians had been trained to fight the French and their tactics showed, the RN generally beat them.

The RN's greatest contribution to the war was keeping the U-boats from completely starving Britain.

Also, parts of this are probably wrong feel free to correct any parts that are.

>>39116600
I'm actually wondering about how battleships are constructed. My best guess is that you have a steel frame, and possibly a thin hull, to which big steel armor plates are attached. I find it very unlikely that the belt is made all of one piece: A, that would be a gigantic pain to cast, and B, it'd mean replacing the whole damn hull each time you got holed.

I'm assuming "multiple plates" in this case meant "Japan couldn't cast a single 16" thick plate, so they made do with 2 8" plates, or 4 4" plates, or something like that".

>>39116714
>Italians

Laughingplanefag.jpg

>>39116729
>"Japan couldn't cast a single 16" thick plate, so they made do with 2 8" plates, or 4 4" plates, or something like that".
Essentially this, yes, though the plates in terms of height and breadth tended to be quite large anyway.

>>39116714
>The RN's greatest contribution to the war was keeping the U-boats from completely starving Britain.
Meanwhile those hooligan Yanks were gallivanting about in the pacific fighting a proper war.

>>39116582
Harder? More like herded.

>>39116599
Even the youngest fremen child is worth more than your pathetic padishah emperor.

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>>39116347


I think choosing one of the local ships would be best, they would already know everyone and how to handle them, plus itd look less like a hamhanded powerplay.

personally I have a short list in mind...

>tatsuta
one of the most important qualities an enforcer can have, is if they ever get into a metaphorical game of chicken, they don't blink first. either of the tenryuu sisters would be good on this account, but I give tatsuta the edge since she has that extra streak of cunning brutality (or is it brutal cunning?)
+dom in more ways than one
-̧̪͈̱̹̳͖͙SH̵̰̤̰͕̖e̛ ͚͉̗̼̞w̶̩̥͉̮h̩̺̪̩͘ͅọ͎͉̟ ̜̩͔̦̘ͅW̪̫̩̣̲͔̳a͏͔̳͖i͖͜t͓̤̠͓͙s̘̰̩̥̙̝ͅ ̲̠̬̥Be̡̙̫̦h̰̩i̛̫͙͔̭̤̗̲n̳͞d̸ ͎̻͘T̛͇̝̲̹̠̗ͅh̫̦̝ͅe̩̫͟ ͓͖̼W͕̳͎͚̙̥ą̙l̘͚̺͔͞ͅl̳͍̙̤̤̮̳.̢


>shiranui
when choosing a first mate, it pays to ask oneself the important questions. questions like; 'if I ordered them to bomb an orphanage, would they do it?'.
of course the point isint that we want them to want to bomb orphanages, or that bombing orphanages helps the war effort. rather, *having the capability* of such, is itself a water mark for a range of other desirable qualities in a number two.
-technically a destroyer
+battle ship class presence

>nagato
an obvious choice for a first mate which would raise few eyebrows, which also means less hotheads thinking to test their luck. certainly being able to *finish* a fight is an important quality for the hnic, but the inwardness of the whole business is to stop them from happening in the first place.
+BEEEEEEEG SEBEN
-vulnerable to cute destroyers

>>39116747
Oh, if I in any way implied the Italians were competent I didn't mean to.

They just had the advantages of closer supply lines, air cover and the ability to sortie or hide in port when they felt like. Which was most of the time.

>>39116764
Yeah well someone had to do it. The bloody Brits were a bit busy trying not to starve and fighting in North Africa.

>>39116800
Do we even know if Nagato exists?

>>39116800
>+BEEEEEEEG SEBEN
Bah, get Colorado, West Virginia, or Maryland instead. American steel best steel in WW II.

Quick question.

Realistically, how bad would it have been if the USN lost at Midway?
I mean, as far as I know, the Japanese could never have invaded the mainland, so could the USN turtle up and wait for the Navy to be rebuilt?

Or would they have been right and proper fucked?

>>39116632
Were the sea hurricanes actually any good?

I know that the original Hurrican performed well during the battle of Britain but how did their carrier counterpart deal with something like Japanese airplanes or Americans?

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>>39116670
>We made do because all our fucking battleships got sunk at Pearl. We were just as much in love with the big gun until Pearl, which showed us two things.
>First, that aircraft carriers could sink battleships with near impunity
>Second, that we had no choice but to rely on aircraft carriers, because we had no fucking battleships left.

Not exactly. We had several battleships left; Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Maryland were all effectively undamaged while Colorado was finishing up a refit in Puget Sound, in addition to all of the battleships that had been transferred to the Atlantic Fleet (and would in time be transferred back to the Pacific during 1942). If we had wanted to rely on our battleships, we would have been able to have them returned to service by the beginning of 1943. They only took so long because they were assigned a low priority at the shipyards.

What we lacked were A) confidence in our battleships and B) the support structure for them. Simply put, Nimitz didn't trust the battleships under his command after Pearl Harbor. Despite most of their damage control systems performing well in the face of overkill, the destruction of the Arizona coupled with the sinking of the California shook his confidence in the ability of his battleships to withstand combat damage, so he simply didn't use them for a year. That's why they spent Midway puttering up and down the West Coast ineffectually.

However, that point was also moot because of the second problem: battleships are resource hogs. They take a lot of food, ammo, and fuel to project forward, and through most of 1942 we simply did not have the support structure to project battleships far beyond our ports in the way the Pacific War needed. By the time we did and battleships started getting used again (late 1942), the carrier had already supplanted them.

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>>39116783
You, i like you...Heretic

>>39116819
Once again, at the rate we're going she should appear sometime. Wether or not we do summoning is optional. But yes, she will appear.

Also If we were to go to Operation Crossroads, do you think we could use that place as a giant resurrection grounds?

>>39116842
>American steel best steel in WW II.
Too right.
Showboat when?

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>>39116878
>Also If we were to go to Operation Crossroads, do you think we could use that place as a giant resurrection grounds?

>>39116764
Lucky bastards.

Come to think of it, much as Britannia ruled the waves, when was the last time we REALLY had a full-on, stand-up, drag-out, beat-down line battle? Trafalgar?

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>>39116857
I was wrong; the FAA fighter of choice up to 1943 wasn't the Sea Hurricane (which was obsolete by the BoB to be honest), it was the Fairey Fulmar, which looked like this.

Despite its looks, it did have a commendable combat record. But it was still at least one step behind American and Japanese carrier aviation development.

>>39116906
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_South_Georgia

>>39116878
If I've learned one thing about planefag, it's that you can never predict what he's going to do, so Nagato showing up is something I'd not count on.

As for Operation Crossroads, HOLY HELL NO.

We fucking nuked them.

Let them rest unless they want to come back.

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>>39116906
>when was the last time we REALLY had a full-on, stand-up, drag-out, beat-down line battle? Trafalgar?

Your Lord Admiral is displeased in you, Briton.

>>39116859
I did exaggerate (and you probably know this in more detail than I do), but my impression is that the battleship fleet had been so badly reduced by Pearl Harbor that it never would've stood a chance against the Japanese battle line, which was probably a good thing in the end (gave the USN more time to gain confidence in carriers as a decisive arm, avoided any nasty IJN-induced battleship sinkings).

>>39116919
Why do you consider the Sea Hurri more obsolete than the Fulmar, which was basically a conversion of the odd neither-fish-nor-fowl Battle bomber?

>>39116919
I heard the Fulmar was awful though?

>>39116853
We would have turtled up to rebuild the Navy three times as big as the Jap's, and then we would have faced-fucked him ten ways to Sunday. We were outproducing them shipwise by a factor big enough to be an issue. Read this:

http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm

>>39116919
...
It looks like someone tried to make a limo out of a fighter.
I don't know if I hate it or love it.

>>39116906
Jutland, maybe. It wasn't fought to the end, but that's the last time I can think of that the Royal Navy had a straight brawl with their opponents. Maybe some battle with the Eye-talians as well, but I know approximately 0 about that theater.

>>39116853
I read that same website. Japan had no way to project naval power over long distances: they just didn't have the transports. In the meantime, America could've built an even bigger juggernaut than it did in basically no time flat. It was a really, really bad idea for Japan to invade and not have a good, solid backup plan for "What if the Americans don't immediately surrender/send their battleships into a suicidal long-range sortie?"

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Fishing your smartphone from your pocket, you flick your thumb over the screen till it scrolls to Goto's number. No point in putting it off – a good soldier sucks it up and takes his medicine, and you've spent your career being nothing but.

Of course, if they'd wanted a fucking tip-toeing babysitter, they COULD have sent some desk-jokey dildo, not a warship captain temporarily out of-

“Discipline,” you growl at yourself, and tap the call button. It rings twice before Goto picks up. “Hey, Settle. What's kicking on your end? I just broke up a fight in the dorm yard.”

You blink. “Wow, what a coincidence.”

You can hear Goto's misery dripping out of the speaker. “Oh god, who's gotten into it now? You need to borrow my air horn?”

You bite down on the fearful sigh building in your chest and just say it straight. “No, it's resolved, but- it was Hornet and Kaga.”

Goto's voice is suddenly all business again, tight and efficient. “They come to blows?”

“No, Kaga and Zuikaku did, but-” you rub your face. “They were mouthing off at Hornet and I- I stuck my foot in it,” you conclude miserably.
“They're at the torpedo range now, right?”

“Just were, at least. Hornet's with me; your girls are probably coming t-”

“I'll handle it,” he says crisply. “Find me when you can, we'll go over what happened.”

You swallow. “You don't want to see me now?”

A silence as Goto processes that. “No,” he says. “We've both got a job to do, and nobody's gonna do it for us. See me when you can, that's all.”

Then he hangs up.

You're slipping the smartphone away when Hornet comes up to you, eyes downcast and hands fidgety. You stand as she approaches, trading a salute with her before dropping into parade rest.

“Hornet-”
“Admiral-”

You both pause awkwardly.

>Let her go first.
>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.
>Other?

>>39116878

Well who would we find at the Atoll if we decide to go over there? Arkansas, Saratoga, and Prinz Eugen are still down there, aren't they?

And wouldn't the radiation still be a problem?

>>39117009
>>Let her go first.

>>39116945
Yes and no. The Japanese battleline was larger than the USN battleline before and after Pearl Harbor, but the US battleships had far FAR greater staying power. It was a difference in design philosophy; the Japanese ships had heavier guns and faster speed, the American ones had thicker armor and were much better at damage control.

Add in to that that the Japanese never deployed all of their ships in one location, not even at Midway or Leyte, and I think it's fair to say that the 4 battleships Nimitz had available to him on January 1st 1942 could have held their own against the Japanese if they had called on.

That's the thing about surprise attacks. They only work on the same guy once.

>>39116938

Several of the Crossroads ships are already canon Kancolle characters.

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How far back can a ship be for it to produce a shipslut? Is the Constitution going to pop up soon?

>>39116632
>>39116857
>>39116919
>Sea Hurricanes
>forgetting about the Hawker Typhoon
The later Seafire variants were pretty damn good too. Everyone was getting too much of a hardon over Whittle and his jets, so all our nice planes turned up post-war.

>>39117009
>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.

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>>39116800
Can we get Bismark to be our secretary ship?

>>39117009
>Let her go first.

>>39116919
Let's be fair, they finished up the war with some baller carrier planes - late-model Seafires and Sea Furies.

>>39117023
They are yes, but not Planefags.

I'm not counting them until I see them.

>>39117027
>Grandma Connie
Might be cool.

>>39117009
Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.

>>39116959
>>39116969
I never said that it wasn't obsolete, just that it was the FAA's primary fighter instead of the Sea Hurricane.

And it might have been; all I know is that it wasn't no Zero or Wildcat or Hellcat.

>>39117009
>>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.

>>39117009
>>Let her go first.
We get almost nothing out of her ever. Let her open up and then apologize after.

>>39117009
>Let her go first.
One can always seem wise by keeping his mouth shut.

>>39117021
I would add the caveat that sneak attacks only work on the same guy once if that guy is vaguely competent.

The Nazi intelligence service, for example, spent the whole war wondering where the hell those divisions earmarked for the invasion of the Pas-de-Calais were.

>>Let her go first.

>>39117009
>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.

>>39116714
>>39116764
The British had planned on joining in on the attack on Japan, they sent the Prince of Wales and the Repulse who arrived barely a week before Pearl Harbor...

Only for them to end up sunk 3 days after Pearl Harbor by Japanese aircraft leaving the British without any capital ships in the Indian Ocean and Pacific for the rest of 41.

And then just when it looked like they'd get a proper fight the Indian Ocean Raid in early 42 added insult to injury, sending two cruisers, two destroyers, two dozen merchant ships and a mostly obsolete British carrier to the bottom.

After that the British didn't do much but keep guard.

>>39117009
>Other
Thank her for saving our dumb ass

>Let her go first.

>>39117009
>Let her go first.

>>39117009
>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.

>>39116901
>>39116938
In terms of Nagato showing up, I mis-typed by suggestion she will. The chance is there that she may or may not show up. In the case that I'm thinking about, I'm assuming all Kancolle girls will be an option in making an appearance. If they do or don't is entirely up to OP.

Also, some of the other girls who are already with us have some trauma already, (like Arizona and being sunk so early)

Still we can help them with their trauma (if thats possible).

If all else fails, ADDING NUKED GIRLS TO OUR COLLECTION OF SLUTS WILL MAKE THINGS SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING AND RADIOACTIVE

>>39117011
>And wouldn't the radiation still be a problem?
Nope.

In fact, several of the wrecks are favourite spots for divers, and have been for decades.

>>39117009
>>Let her go first.

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>>39117072
>The Nazi intelligence service, for example, spent the whole war wondering where the hell those divisions earmarked for the invasion of the Pas-de-Calais were.

There's a reason for that.

>>39117009
>>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.
An admiral Must address his troops, and they must speak when spoken to. Gotta keep the discipline

>>39117009
>>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.
We don goofed.

>>39117009
>Let her go first.

>>39117009
>>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.

I feel we do owe Kaga an apology as well.

>>39117009
Just clean the dust, oil, and blood off her decks saying nothing. Gotta get our ship looking presentable for inspection.

>>39117009
>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.
A real man owns up when he fucked up, even when he's in command. These shipgirls are not like tradtional, human sailors, so we cannot treat them as such.

We must be in equal parts, their commander, their comrade and their friend. That starts with approaching them as such.

>>39117044
>Bismark shitposting on /pol/
>Everyone assumes she's just a wehraboo jap because of the flag

>>39117011
>>39117095
>radiation
FFS, nuclear weapons Do Not Work That Way. You get heavy fallout if you drop in in the dirt, lighter fallout if you airburst, but it's all short-halflife stuff. If you're device isn't using up it's fissile material and just shitting it about the landscape, you have a rubbish device.

That, and dilution in the fucking ocean will quite handily wash away any residual radionuclides..

>>39117095
Personally think that Nagato and any BB we come across will be too busy dealing with shit that we need killed.

Some of the CL's or or DD's would be better candidates.

>>39117009
>>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.

>>39117102
That's because of how water is a really good radiation shield. You can swim by them no problem, but I would advise against trying to enter the wreck of the Arkansas or Saratoga.

Which sucks because I don't think anyone has taken pictures of Sara's hangar deck yet and I'm sure they had planes set up as test models inside, and I would like to see their condition.

>>39117172
Your reasoning is better than mine, but the choice is the same. I forgot for a second our secondary goal this time around: Make them feel human.

>>39117009
>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.

We kinda did mess up. Also, I can't get this thing out of my head, so I'm sharing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC9Nwn0BgVc

>>39117029
I heard of the Sea Spitefire but not the Typhoon.

I thought the Typhoon was a death trap that got regulated to groundattack duty.

How effective were they compared to the others.

Did Russia have a sea arm, with planes?

>>39117210

I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS KEYMASTER

SEE IF I DON'T

>>39117190
>imfuckingplying

Independence was highly radioactive after the test, as were all of the other ships that survived. The San Francisco Navy Yard is a superfund site now because of that.

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>>39117217
>typhoon
>death trap
>russia
>sea arm

>>39117217
He's thinking of the Sea Fury.

>>39117230

How much Poi could a Poi Poi Poi if a Poi Poi could Poi Poi

>>39117009
>other?

Start apologizing at the same time talking over each other at how big of fuck-ups we are. Then bond over beating the shit out of Kaga.

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>>39117230
Just before i forget:
Threadly AWiY reminder...

>>39117230

You ain't never gonna get me, and you know it.

>>39117217
Russia barely had a fleet worth fucking mentioning. It was so bad, in fact, that they would take ship crews and use them as naval infantry, right beside Army and actual Naval Infantry units.

>>39117230
POI time? It's POI time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC9Nwn0BgVc

>>39117009
>>Go first – apologize for fucking up and putting her in that position.

>>39117251
Wasn't the Typhoon the plane that made the pilot unconcious due to carbon monoxide or something?

Didn't it require the pilot to carry an oxygen tank with him?

>>39117009
>Let her go first

>>39117027
It was said in the last thread that only WWII-era will appear as the earliest.

>>39117011
>>39117102
>>39117190

Basically like what the last two were saying. There is signs of radiation within the water, but its not concentrated enough for any real concern. However, if you stay near it for a long period of time, then it has a chance to collect.

>>39117197
BB'd. CL's, and DD's coming back won't mean much.

If a BB rises, then we add her to the fleet, same with a CL or DD or anything else. They all will be used to kill Abyssmals.

Also a candidate for what?

>>39117314
World War One era, fucking namefag.

>>39117210
I CAN'T STOP WATCHING
HELP

>>39117343
There is no escape from the POI! Embrace it.

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>>39117343
nope

>>39117343

The Poi Rises

>>39117314
As a candidate for secretary ship.

That's what I meant.

I'd focus BB's on fighting, training, and getting them psychologically stable.

DD's and CL's we have a few more of and a few could arguably be of more use organizing and helping the others than actually fighting.

>>39117200
Test Baker literally blew the entire carrier out of the water from the shockwave, everything that was on deck was tossed.

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>>39117279
The commies did do some amphibious stuff in August Storm though, didn't they?

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>>39117353
>>39117354
>>39117361
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnheOlgK5uo&

>>39117377
I will add to the POI with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l-HXDF5gRE

>>39117238
>after the test
Yes. So you sit on your ass for a week or two, then hose off the medium-half-life dust. As long as you aren't fucking eating the hull, you won;t be getting an appreciable dose.
>The San Francisco Navy Yard is a superfund site now because of that.
>because of that
According to the EPA, most of the cleanup at Hunter's Point is chemical (because 'just dump in in a hole' was the chemical cleanup MO for WWII).

>>39117392
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsoJnkvfsNo

>>39117210


>We kinda did mess up.

see that's the thing thing though, verbal contrition rarely helps fuck ups except in special circumstances/with certain personalities. infact it can sometimes actually make relations worse by creating a disdainful frame.

it seems like every quest on the internet I see is filled with social retard pcs who go through plots cringing and simpering through everything that involves interacting with people in some way, and it always shoots them in the foot and ultimately impairs their agency.

like, even player characters that don't start out that way so often get pidgeonholed as such over time, and having such characters as a pov slog through footinmouth disease makes quests a chore to read.

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>>39117394
[pic]

>>39117367
I guess secretary would depend on the girl regardless of her class...

>>39117367

We'll at least need a CL for secretary work. A DD is likely to muck things up, what with how young they are.

Unless we want to go into ships like Yura or Natori, I think we might be left with the Tatsuta class or Sendai classes. Jintsuu hates our guts, not sure about using an idol for paperwork and Sendai is all about the Yasen, Tenryuu is utterly unsuited for paperwork and that leaves us with Tatsuta...

...And oddly enough, shes surprisingly suited for it as long as we don't trigger her dangerous tendencies.

>>39117419
I am not done yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp8BRs2LFSg

>>39117433
I still think we should grab Houshou if possible.

>>39117433
>as long as we don't trigger her dangerous tendencies.
But muh yandere

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>>39117200
Actually people do dive for the Saratoga.

She's one of the few carrier wrecks where people can dive to.

>>39117413
Good thing you don't read SWQ as its MC has it 99% of the time.

>>39117433
That reminds me of the question I'll ask every thread: Souryuu when?

>>39117009
>Let her go first.

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>>39117419
I'm going to need you to stop posting

>>39117448

Mayhaps but every carrier is an important resource, even a training carrier. And she'd be of better use as the rangemaster to help train hornet and instruct in combined air operations with the other carriers and CAVs.

>>39117433
>>39117448
Houshou or Tatsuta would probably make good secretaries.

Admittedly I have a soft spot for the pair but they both would make good secretary ships.

>>39117305
At least the Oxygen actually worked. And it didn't shut down when flying across the international dateline...

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>>39117464
Anon requested a Soryuu?

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>>39117490

>>39117463
The damn shame is they found the Kaga back in 1999, but no one has been back there since.

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>>39117373
>>39117463
On deck, yes. But inside?

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>>39117490
This Souryuu

Guess what I found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPV0th3RH9k

>>39117481

you and me both

it is with great shame that i admit i did not lock Houshou. FFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>39117406
Hosing the ship down worked for the first test because it was an airburst, Baker though fucked the plan, all the radioactive sand in the lagoon got embedded in the ship's structure, the only thing that could get it off was sandblasting the ships down to the bare metal and while that was happening the 'clean' ships were slowly getting irradiated because people were tramping into them wearing partly radioactive clothes.

Not to mention they were scrubbing the radioactive sand into the water, which they would then try to hose the ship back down with the now radioactive water.

Is it weird that Kancolle has made me feel really sad and melancholy for the wrecks of all those ships at the bottom of the ocean, slowly crumbling to nothingness?

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>>39117509
>The damn shame is they found the Kaga back in 1999, but no one has been back there since.

No they didn't. They found a piece of her that probably got blown clear when she exploded. They haven't found any of the Japanese carrier wrecks yet.

>>39117521
Still fine. What, are you expecting glowing green gremlins to be hiding inside waiting to pounce? Radioactivity doesn't work like that. For one thing, the only parts of the ship irradiated would be the OUTSIDE facing the device. Plus the act of sinking would helpfully wash away and particulate matter (fallout dust).

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>>39117540
It's alright, she'll forgive you...probably.

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Dammit, I'm late to Kant-o-Celle Quest!


>>39117566
Nein anon.

>>39117573
>They haven't found any of the Japanese carrier wrecks yet.
Zombie carriers waiting to get us.

>>39117539
Poi is still the best one.

>>39117573
If they found a chunk of her, then the rest should be near by enough to find. They still haven't made the effort and that is a bit sad. But will be hope for it yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWBG-HnaJw

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>>39117598
We're glad to have you Anon, Now, we wait for the overlord to give us another chance to use our minds again.

>>39117615
Yamato, Musashi, and Nagato are best.

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>>39115780
That feeling when it turns out to be all an act for a movie or show at the end.
Reminds me of another series that's hinted to be the same way.

>>39117615
POI is good, but I can warm up to all of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1rs1AGEvs

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>>39117660
Revy pls.

>>39117625
>If they found a chunk of her, then the rest should be near by enough to find.

No, not by a longshot. They don't know where Kaga actually slipped from the surface or how far she moved after that piece was blown clear. And then you have the massively expanding cone of where the wreck could be starting from the point of sinking.

Ships and debris don't go straight down. The search area is hundreds of square miles wide, and they don't even know where that area is.

>>39117615
Best what?

>>39117305
>Wasn't the Typhoon the plane that made the pilot unconcious due to carbon monoxide or something?
That was the Goddamn F-22

>>39117692
Well that guy who found the Musashi could still do it. He's got the gear and love of the ships to pull it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGsqvXPVsE4

Alright. Fess the fuck up. Which one of you sorry sacks of fuck were outside the gate this morning carrying on about Mutsu being your fucking waifu or what the fuck ever?

Bitch she ain't even fuckin here. jesus fucking christ, can you at least fuckin wait to show up before pissin us all off? fucking, Dammit. .

>>39117708
Of those youtube things.

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Bracing with a deep breath, you launch right into it. “First, thank you for coming to my aid.”

Hornet nods slightly, her dark eyes solemn and serious; hands twisting nervously on her bow.

“And second – I apologize for making that necessary. I... I screwed up, Hornet.”

She blinks, her hands freezing on the leather-wrapped grip of her weapon.

“I overheard everything,” you confess, “and when Zuikaku pitched in too-” you bite the inside of your cheek to resist the overpowering urge to evade contact with those dark, thoughtful eyes - “I lost my temper. I fucked up.”

Hornet's mouth tightens and curls, like she's trying to contain an outburst. She lowers her gaze to the fine-grained sand, tilting her face down to hide her eyes – but she can't hide the tears trickling down her dusky cheeks.

“... Hornet?”

“They were right,” she says softly. “I... have no pride. Please don't risk yourself for my sake.” She lifts her face to you again, her expression open and terribly vulnerable. “We built a lot of carriers, you know?” she says, her voice quavering on the edge of cracking. “I read about it, in the library. I'm... I'm expendable. I'm a *ship.* My crew... you... there's only one of you. Of each of you.”

She shifts her bow to one hand, laying it flat against her arm as she comes to proper attention – but she can no longer meet your gaze, her tears streaming from beneath closed eyes.

Over her shoulder you see Sammy racing down the beach with five leashed corgis bounding and tumbling through the surf ahead of her; their combined noise already reaching catastrophic levels from fifty yards distant. Hate his hiking behind her, awful sounds of bile and wrath drifting up the shoreline as he attempts to wrangle the remaining thirty-five PT vessels in a vaguely base-like direction.

>>39117761
Wasn't me, though I'd play in her ammo locker.

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>>39117761
I regret nothing.

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>>39117783

“Hornet, you are dismissed,” you say, your voice sounding hollow and gutted even to yourself. “Whatever's on your schedule for the rest of the day, cancel it.”

She nods, and salutes, and she's already out of earshot when you realize you probably made a mistake; leaving her alone with her thoughts when she's carrying that kind of mindset around. But you can't have her bumping into any more IJN ships, and... and you just didn't know what to say right then. You don't know what you're doing.

Nobody possibly could, in this situation.

“I GOT'EM!” Sammy says, showering you with sand as she skids to a halt and her newfound entourage begins dancing in circles around you. “Corporal Hate came and got me 'fore he came here cuz he said you wanted something,” she says. “Are we gonna do something?”

You look down at her piercing, demanding glare, still trying to get your thoughts together.

“Admiral,” she says dangerously, “if you don't gimme some real work to do, real soon, I'm gonna get *bored.*”

A vast, all-encompassing terror slips over your mind; blotting out the light of thought, reason and sanity. Sammy was named after a Marine; and in your heart of hearts, you fear she's more Marine than Navy. And with her characteristic lack of tact or compassion, she just uttered the horrific, terrifying word that you and Hate spent so much effort to talk around without directly invoking while eating lunch, earlier.

The dreaded B word.

BORED.

“Yeah, we're, lets, uh, yeah,” you say, your much-abused psyche flailing a thumb in the general direction of base. Sammy scalds you with a wicked, victorious grin – and then she's off, running down the path ahead of you as she yodels about TORPEDO ATTACK, her newfound pack howling like wild wolves a-hunting as they sweep the lane before her.

>>39117761
What?

>>39117761
Wasn't I.
I was the one carrying on about Willie D.

>>39117761
Hey Cpl. Hate, I heard some scuttlebutt that you and some ship girl was together. Is any of that true or is it bullshit?

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>>39117804
>The dreaded B word.

>BORED.

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>>39117814

lolicon

scum

>>39117761
Not me, though a Mutsu is fine too. I have better things to do than to stalk a base.

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>>39117828
>Hey Cpl. Hate, I heard some scuttlebutt that you and some ship girl was together. Is any of that true or is it bullshit?

>>39117838

I want to fuck Yayoi

>>39117828
No fucking comment. but if you're wise you won't fucking repeat that question.

>>39117814
Oh, yeah, that's fucking smart. Look, she's not a bad kid, but holy fuck. Your dick will get stuck in her prop shaft or some fucking shit, i garunfuckingtee that.

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>"I've been mostly reading history, it's fascinating to see the evolution of culture and technology. The mistakes repeated. The ever constants of war and political maneuvering.”

>“It's amazing to see the how much time and effort humans have put into devising new and exciting ways to kill each other.”

I like this girl, can we keep her?

Have Sammy go cheer up Hornet.

>>39117862
Hey, I never said I wanted to dick her.
I just want to adopt her as a little sister.

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>>39117804
>Sammy is BORED
>mfw

>>39117804
>The dreaded B word.
>BORED.

OH shit...
>>39117862
Hey now, Just giving you the heads up on what the gossip is going around and your name popped up as of late. Don't know where it's coming from, but I'll look into it if you want.

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>>39117877
Shiranui is pretty cool.

It keeps going!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZDvRU7Czqg

>>39117804
>>39117833
Bored Jarheads: the most terrifying force for chaos and disaster this side of a volcanoearthquaketornadostorm.

>>39117877
I don't recogise her... Identity please?

Also: God dammit, the thread's still young, but British timezone means I'm hitting the hay. No-one do anything stupid (again) while I'm sleeping!

>>39117956
>>39117927
Shiranui.

>>39117956
Shiranui.

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>>39117801
no regrets

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>>39117956
>No-one do anything stupid (again) while I'm sleeping!

>>39117956
>No-one do anything stupid (again) while I'm sleeping!
>It's a planefag quest
>laughingshipsluts.jpg
I don't keep a reaction image folder. Maybe some other kind anon will post that for me.

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>>39117877
nuinui is a good girl

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>>39117956

>>39117862
> fluff
> wise

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>>39117266
TOUHOU X KANCOLLE QUEST SOON FELLOW YOUKAI

>>39117999

I want her K2.

>>39117999
Yes, she can be. And she can be fucking terrifying too
>>39118004
More than you think anon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yRfXM-l05E

>>39117972
>>39117975
Looks cute and disgusted by humans and our incessant foolishness.

I'mma hug her.

>>39117978
You're doing good things. Wish I was in the beta.

>>39117987
>>39117991
>>39118001
...I said another dumb thing without realising, huh?

>>39118017
...This will either be amazeballs, or horrible.

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>>39118001
those exposed navels are WAY too lewd.