>>40804352
>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.

>>40804352
>>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.

>>40804352
>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.
I'd rather no PTSD, but sharing it around is the best bet when we can't prevent it.

>>40804352
>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.

>>40804352
>Ring up whoever we were planning on being part of the strike force to take out the abyssals so they see things first hand.

>>40804352
>>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this
OPERATIONAL AWARENESS

>>40804352
>Get them out of here. This might not end well.

>>40804352
>>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.

Also, for when we aren't dealing with air attacks and whatnot;

ADMIRAL'S LOG, STARDATE WHATEVER THE FUCK

>Operation Petticoat isn't on netflix (American netflix, at least). Secure a copy for Naka's date if she hasn't acquired one already.
>If Harder is still hung up about 'backstabbing japs', remind him that the Kido Butai is on base and so far they've only attacked us face-to-face.
>Spar with Tenryuu once things have cooled down some.
>Don't think about the terrifying implications of what you just tested with Kongou and Arizona. Don't contemplate how it only took a few seconds for their crew to process the incoming data from those sets. Don't pay attention to Kongou's claim that she can fucking SEE THE BEAMS now. Do not.
>Come to terms with the fact that you are sending adorable children like desdiv6 to very possible death, BEFORE you're forced to. Commandeer some of Goto's stash if necessary.

That last one may become obsolete soon, hopefully not though

>>40804352
>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.

>>40804352
>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.

What about the 4 destroyer shipgrills that Goto sent with Tone and Chikuma?

>>40804352
>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.
Damn, is there no way we can help them?

>>40804352
>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.

>>40804352
>>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.

>>40804352
>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.

> USS Fitzgerald is about 30 nautical miles behind USS Mustin; and Mustin has Tone 30 miles north and Chikuma about 30 miles south.
Why are they so spread out? What happened to operating as a fleet?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5xvigddc7jhihk2/KCQ.zip?dl=0

Link to collected story posts, side stories, images, and soundtrack.

Also I've been thinking that if the deal with Harder training Fubuki works out we should see about expanding it to include the conventional forces. Maybe also have the carriers exercise against them for air defense drills and the battleships and cruisers for anti surface. Try to give as broad an experience in the tricks to dealing with different abyssal type enemies as possible and show our value as more than just another small task force.

>>40804352
>>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.

>>40804499
>Why are they so spread out? What happened to operating as a fleet?

Recon dispersion. Trying to cover as much ground as possible.

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>>40804352
>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.
Here we fucking go.

>>40804501
That's not a terrible idea

>>40804352
>call in the CVs and see what they think and how they would go about if they were attacking

>>40804352
And the four ships that Goto attached to them?
>inb4 they were fucking subs

>>40804499

What >>40804518 said. Mustin carries two choppers, so it's up ahead with the "scouting line," adding its choppers to Tone and Chikuma's floatplanes. Only two to Tone/Chikuma's ten, but the choppers have pretty good surface-search radars.

Fitzgerald doesn't have choppers, so it's hanging back, providing rear-guard.

As for providing air-defense... well, just you wait, because VOTES CALLED FOR CALLING THE PEANUT GALLERY IN.

>>40804352
>Get them out of here. This might not end well.

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Just gonna leave this here...

Don't we have F-18s in the area or something too?

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>>40804640
Japanese floatplane stronk

Still no work on Torepdofriends unfortuantely. ALS eats a lot of time.

Will strike witches quest ever return?

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>>40804666
...along with this.

>>40804352
>Get them out of here. This might not end well.

>>40804670
'In the area' only counts for so much when engagements like this are over in minutes

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>>40804686
Yes, when S3 airs.

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>>40804686
Never. You have to settle with mine and Ghost's shitty spinoffs.

>>40804666
>>40804687
Nice!

>>40804352

>Call Goto's CVs in too, if you can. They're gonna want to see this.


Also: Which gomer thought it would be a good idea to hunt carriers without another carrier or light carrier to counter the enemy airpower!? Are we really that terrible?

>>40804726
At least yours is ending soon, then I won't feel obligated to read it anymore

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Hey planefag, I saw this and thought of you.

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>>40804734
>Also: Which gomer thought it would be a good idea to hunt carriers without another carrier or light carrier to counter the enemy airpower!? Are we really that terrible?
We did vote to send a carrier and other ships with them.

>>40804734
Two dedicated AA missile destroyers, man. It may not have been the right choice, but it was not a bad choice.

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>>40804743
You think Merc's quest will end when he said it will?

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>>40804666

oh my god I love you

>>40804757
>a carrier
no
>other ships
yes

Is reading what planefag writes really this hard?
>“Exactly. Fitzgerald and Mustin are in good shape for deployment – I'll attach one to each of your... cruisers.” His mouth quirks as he visibly wrestles with the idea of them being... girls... but vanishes just as quickly. “That'll take care of your air defenses, right?”
>“I'll attach two of our girls to each cruiser,” Goto adds sotto-voice. “Just in case they get engaged in a surface action.”

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>>40804726
Did somebody say Settle?!

>>40804670

adding that

>>40804743
>obligated

>>40804757
We also have 2 Arleigh Burke class destroyers. They have decent AA systems right?

>>40804734
>Also: Which gomer thought it would be a good idea to hunt carriers without another carrier or light carrier to counter the enemy airpower!? Are we really that terrible?

ahahahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

JUST WAIT

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>>40804776
I think Planefag should write from Shirley's perspective after she lands at the all-boys school.

>>40804791
We did vote for a carrier too.

>>40804807
When Ghost started heavily including events from merc's threads into SW89 yeah, I felt kinda obligated to keep up with it so that I could understand what was happening in the story I wanted to read

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>>40804792
Swiggidy Swooty, I'm coming for that Settle.

>>40804743
this. any sort of planned ending is better than dragging the pen for year after agonising year when you'd rather be playing im@s

>>40804428
>>Don't think about the terrifying implications of what you just tested with Kongou and Arizona. Don't contemplate how it only took a few seconds for their crew to process the incoming data from those sets. Don't pay attention to Kongou's claim that she can fucking SEE THE BEAMS now. Do not.


What's terrifying about this at all?

>>40804834
>We did vote for a carrier too.
Could you find planefag's post about it? Because I can't, unless it somehow happened after the date started

We arrive.

Ohh,, this should be good!

>>40804921
She was also high on sugar.

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>>40804804
!! Senpai noticed me!

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>>40804743
T-thanks...

>>40804921
The fact that they are able to adapt their systems so fucking quickly to incorporate new tech. Especially when said tech is from a fucking Hellfire missile.

Though it begs the question, what would happen if we replaced the hellfire scanners with the ones from a brimstone missile (British middle ground between a hellfire and a maverick)

>>40804921
We literally just plopped a radar set onto their heads.
That's all we did.
The girls then proceeded to tap into that radar set, make sense of it, control it, and straight-up start piping it into their human senses in a matter of seconds.
It's like dropping an engine block into a car and it just suddenly working
>>40804990
Kongou at least is probably the girl most experienced with adapting to new technology, unless Iowa or her sisters come by

>>40804970
I laughed way too hard at this. Both because I've watched the lion king AND I'm on an engineering course (a variation of that graph was taped to the supply box in the workshop)

>>40805011
>It's like dropping an engine block into a car and it just suddenly working
No, it's like dropping an engine in the back seat and it working.

Can we get rid of those shitty 25mm Hotchkiss that the IJN ship sloops use? I hate those Frenchie monstrosities with a passion.

>>40805031
Print that pic out and tap it up in your class when no one is looking.

>>40805050
You mount shipborn radars above the bridge, right? That's basically analogous to a headset

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>>40804931
Sorry, I don't remember where it is.

I do remember everyone voting, and then having a discussion after some knowledgeable anons told people why a carrier group would be best so we all shifted to that.

>>40805011
>>40805050
Those fairies inside them work quick it seems.

>>40805065
Not this year as the course is ending for summer break. But when we re-convene in autumn and the fresh batch of students arrive...

It will be epic.

>>40804921
Because if they can do that with radar -- fudge the details so that new equipment "just werks" -- they could potentially do that with other technology. Like, say, a D-D fusion reactor, which normally never reaches breakeven, being able to generate net thermal power, which, seeing as how deuterium can be refined from seawater in endless quantities, would give the shipgirls effectively unlimited operating range and duration.

Theoretically speaking.

>>40805079
It was discussed, I do see that, but that's not what bore out in the story posts

>>40805111
Eh, setting up a few cables and rigging up a few new consoles for a radar operator is a bit less intensive than completely replacing your fucking boiler

>>40805111
>Because if they can do that with radar -- fudge the details so that new equipment "just werks" -- they could potentially do that with other technology. Like, say, a D-D fusion reactor, which normally never reaches breakeven, being able to generate net thermal power, which, seeing as how deuterium can be refined from seawater in endless quantities, would give the shipgirls effectively unlimited operating range and duration.
>Theoretically speaking.
Uh, no. They're integration wizards, not "make useless crap do things" wizards.

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>>40805111
Old ships had radar sets retrofitted on them when the technology was invented. As far as I know, no navy has pulled out a conventional power plant out of a ship and put a nuclear reactor in its place.

The two situations are not in any way comparable. Calm the fuck down.

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MEANWHILE IN THE DEPTHS OF PEEARL HABA

>>40805079
We didn't 'shift' to it -- some people suggested sending out a single carrier, probably Hornet, either as bait or to provide woefully inadequate air cover to the scouting force.

>>40805011
her class had surface and air radars, that's what those flappy paddle earmuffs are all about.
it was early days stuff and japan sucked ass at radar right up to the end, so i'd assume it was less direction finder and more dowsing rod

>>40805111
Not to mention that said reactors could power MANY things. Imagine all our battleships being fitted with cruise missiles, heavy rail-guns in the place of the standards cannons, GPS guided shells, laser AA weapons, CIWS systems.

This would enough of the enemy's shit in that we wouldn't have to worry about the Abyssals too much. As when ever they surface they suddenly eat multiple Railgun and laser shots.

>>40805185
>*Insert blank stare here*

>>40805185
How scandalous! Have they no respect for the dead?!

Their flicker lives are so disrespectful.

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>>40805185
Oh wow.

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Today's thread playlist brought to you just in time for a battle to break out, and in anticipation for the 0.4.0 update tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-NdIUgTGw&list=PLR3R_-LsCwyCezkdwNB5GmkX8JWE-tyir

>>40805185
And hello and welcome to sexualizing the MASS WARGRAVE OF OVER A 1000 MEN

>>40805185
Doesn't the memorial go across width-wise?

>>40805198
Fuck off

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>>40805198
>>40805111

>>40805255
>And hello and welcome to sexualizing the MASS WARGRAVE OF OVER A 1000 MEN

REMEMBER:
>Japan is to porn what Russia is to politics.

Speaking of invasive upgrades for Arizona, would it be possible to upgrade her fire control? All the raised Pearl Harbor BBs got it, and it exponentially increased their firepower at Leyte.

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>>40805185
Don't know if want.

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>>40805198
>>40805111
Anon, all Goto did was a refit. He gave the two obsolete battleships a radar set to increase their battle effectiveness. You can't give them shit that doesn't work. It has to make SOME sense.

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>>40805266

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>>40805111
>>40805198

>>40805311
>firepower up
That's like giving them a jacked-up FuMO radar then?

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>>40805185

>>40805311
She gets glasses to make herher detection ability ('vision') better.
Hng.

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>>40805314
>>40805185

So anyway, ignoring the railgun dipshit, let's mull over some implications

>Hand-off gear: Equipment made at a scale to be worn by humans, that remains at that scale
For example, the radar headset
Pros: Potentially cheaper to produce and replace, depending on the component. Extremely easy to install.
Cons: Limited to being wearable equipment that stays wearable- things like the short range of the radar headset.

>In-place refitting
Still hypothetical, but this would include things like improving the fire control of a turret, by removing it from the shipgirl, expanding it, applying manpower to it, then replacing it and shrinking it back down.

Pros: Much more fundamental and powerful upgrades possible- things like improved armor, improved optics, ship-scale radar sets, that sort of thing
Cons: A terrifying number of unknowns. We know that ammunition expands when removed from a shipgirl, but does it contract if replaced? Does removing parts from a shipgirl hurt or kill her? Is removing internal components like boilers even possible without,a gain, grevious injury or death? Will the upgrades 'stick'? Very, very risky.

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A wicked, vindictive smirk cuts across your face as you take in the disposition of forces - you can already see how this is gonna go down, and you can think of some people you want here to see it. First you call Hornet; and get a rather hesitant reply after several rings - she probably thinks you're mad at her, or something. You ring Shoukaku next and get a rather flirty reply before you tell her to haul ass to the command center with anyone nearby. She replies with crisp military professionalism and signs off the call without hitting the “end” button; so you can hear her rousting Kaga and Akagi and a third, younger voice with a kind of drawl to it. Old habits, etc.

You turn back to the screen, where Tone is turning her (rather impressive) stern to the oncoming planes, building steam as fast as possible. Two destroyer girls you can't recognize from the keyhole feed are already firing their main batteries at long range; the flak puffing up depressingly far from the sea-skimming abyssal torpedo bombers. They've got a good distance yet to go for a good launch; the 12-ship squadron is splitting into two groups of six, swinging north and south to catch Tone in a deadly pincer. The screen below it shows a visual side-by-side with computerized track; the Global Hawk's long-range recon camera trying to correct the jitter from uncertain radar returns emanating from the abyssal aircraft to the south; homing in on Chikuma. They seem to be dive-bombers, because they're keeping their altitude as they home in on Chikuma from about thirty miles out.

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>>40805485
It's time.

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The CVs must have been in the building, because they show up within a minute or two, bursting into the room in full battle-dress, but absent their bows. Akagi and Kaga trot in first, followed by Shoukaku and Zuikaku - with two girls you don't recognize. One of them you'll wager is Hiryuu, but the shorter one with what looks like a metallic ball-cap is unrecognizable.

“Are they launching interceptors?” Goto demands.

A technician turns away from his laptop in one corner. “They're scrambling F-18s from Kaneda and Guam and the USAF is mobilizing Strike Eagles from the mainland, but-”

“They're not going to get there in time,” you answer. “The airforce is like the cavalry - always showing up right after they're no longer needed.”

“Why are they so far apart?” Akagi says, her voice torn. “Aren't those human ships the AA ships?” She turns to you, open panic in her eyes. Shoukaku is just watching the torpedo bombers close in on Tone, her hands clasped tightly over her mouth, eyes horrified. Kaga's face is drawn and pale; her hands trembling in fists pressed against her thighs.

“Goto gave them escorts,” she all but hisses. “If there's only one or two waves, they'll be fine. Repulse dodged more torpedoes than that, remember?”

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>>40805402

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>>40805435
could be worse. Could go out like ro-34 did

>>40805485
>We are calling in all the girls.
So which one is going to die? Tone or Chikuma?

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>>40805525
>Meanwhile, on the Burkes...

>>40805552
just gotta keep em painted. the missiles do the rest.

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"It was a pincer attack that got Repulse,” Naka chimes in softly. She's tapping a pencil against a notepad in her lap. With a sudden burst of energy, she picks up the pad and scribbles furiously in it, noting something down - before almost hurling it into her lap and turning her eyes back to the screen. You see her slight chest stop moving for a moment as she holds her breath, and turn your eyes back to the screen to see a second squadron of aircraft closing on Tone - they seem to be fighters, or perhaps dive-bombers; you can't see under their wings from the keyhole's feed. Even stalwart Arizona is reacting; you watch her body stiffen as the torpedo bombers slowly claw into position; unmolested by air attack or significant AA fire.

“... Goto?” you ask quietly.

“Mm?”

“How many joint ops have the girls done with the JSDF?”

“Almost none,” he replies. “Our first concern was asset preservation, and when we got a critical mass of kanmasu we regulated the JSDF to convoy escort and the Sea of Japan to keep it that way. Why?”

You grin.


>Comfort Naka - the girl's about to get a demonstration of the backup she'll be fighting future battles with.

>Comfort Shoukaku and Akagi - they're both sweet girls, and it hurts to see them getting worked up like this.

>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

>>40805567
>>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

This is probably pretty rough.

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>>40805552

>>40805567
>Other
>"Girls, calm down. Remember when I was ranting about hitting a sparrow with a Sparrow?"

>>40805567
>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

gotta keep our support in good mental health.

>>40805567
>>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

Imma bettin' man

'specially when I know the outcome already

>>40805567
>5 bucks
>Make jokes about how the new checkered paint will help.

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>>40805567
>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

Well, I know which option I'm going for.

>>40805567
>>Comfort Shoukaku and Akagi - they're both sweet girls, and it hurts to see them getting worked up like this.

"Ladies, behold the miracles of modern technology." *Burke MIssile spam*

>>40805567
>Stand there grinning like a madman.
This will be epic.

>>40805567
>>Comfort Naka - the girl's about to get a demonstration of the backup she'll be fighting future battles with.
>>Comfort Shoukaku and Akagi - they're both sweet girls, and it hurts to see them getting worked up like this.
>>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.
>>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

Do all the things, tell the girls that it isn't as bad as they think it is, but if you feel like pressing the point, Kaga, I totally have $5 that says things work out fine.

>>40805567
>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

We still gotta get something 'nice' for Hate, after all.

>>40805597

Making this a retroactive vote option:

>Girls, hold on to your butts.

>>40805567
>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

>>40805567
>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

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>>40805567
>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

>>40805567
>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

>>40805079
Is Sendai under the floor or sliding on it?

>>40805597
We only talked to Willie about that. Not to the other girls.

>>40805567
>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.
Hey, aren't you supposed to give more than one option?

>>>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

>>40805567

>>40805567
>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

>>40805624
>>Girls, hold on to your butts.
>>40805567
YES

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>>40805567
>Comfort Naka - the girl's about to get a demonstration of the backup she'll be fighting future battles with.
>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.
Secretary training begins nao.

We're still buying them all icecream when this is over though.

>>40805634
That's Souryuu, under the floor.

>>40805624
Oh, okay then
>Girls, hold on to your butts.

>>40805567
>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

>>40805567
>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.
Make bank
>>40805624
>>Girls, hold on to your butts.
Fucking sold.

>>40805567
>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>40805624
>>Girls, hold on to your butts.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

>>40805567
>>40805597
THIS

"Goto, pass the popcorn."

>>40805597
>>40805624
>Girls, hold on to your butts.
Votan for this

>>40805657
THANK YOU BASED A10
(I DON'T THINK ATTACKING NAVAL TARGETS IT WHAT YOU WERE BUILT FOR THOUGH)

>>40805624
Yessss.

Have your butt held by the girls.

>>40805624
>>40805567
>Girls, hold on to your butts.
k

>>40805624
>Girls, hold on to your butts.

>>40805567
>>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

>>40805567
>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

Both!

>>40805645
Mm, I was looking for who it was said to, thanks
>>40805624
>>Girls, hold on to your butts.
>>40805567

>>40805624

Backing this.

>>40805567
>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

>>40805567
>Comfort Shoukaku and Akagi - they're both sweet girls, and it hurts to see them getting worked up like this.

>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

>>40805688
Shoukaku will do that anyway.

>>40805567
>>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

She totally deserves it, also we just found out that nobody will deny ship-girl requisitions, so it's not like she needed that five dollars anyway.

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>>40805567
>>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.
Image unrelated.

>>40805011
Sounds more like a plug-in-play technology to me.

We installed the hardware, their internal systems did the configuration and promptly put the new update to work.

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>>40805567
Naka will make a great tactical officer, I feel it.

>>40805567
>Girls, hold on to your butts

>>40805624
>Girls, hold on to your butts.

>>40805732
Haruna is daijobu.

>>40805567
>>40805624
>>40805597
This should be fun... ?

>>40805737
If by internal systems you mean faeries setting up new screens to look at, then yes

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>>40805624
Oh lookie what I found.

ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE WHEN?

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>>40805567
>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

Calling votes and counting!

God I wish I had a slave like decu had that counted votes and called votes for me. Lucky fucker. Cult of personality. Must be because of his good lifts omg

>>40805567
>>40805624
>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and hold onto her butt at the same time.

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Repulse you say?

>>40805567
>Comfort Arizona - she's the one with the greatest trauma related to air attack, after all, even if it wasn't when she was underway.

>>40805777
Oh look, it's the fucking Airfix kit, who fucking cares you massive fucking faggot.

>>40805567
>This is a great chance to win five bucks off Kaga, and make a point at the same time.

I shouldn't vote for this but I am.

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>>40805783
Get the Naka tripfag to do it, duh.

>>40805783
God dammit, I'm always late.

>>40805798
I care. And I wasn't talking about the picture, I was talking about the thread. I found the thread. Thank you for your input.

>>40805812

I counted it anyway because it showed up in the same update as my own post. Incidentally, winning votes are HEY KAGA, WANNA MAKE FIVE BUCKS and Y'ALL GIT READY FOR A SOUTHERN FAIRY TALE!

>>40805783
you're writing about japan
build a robot to do it for you

or chain a Chinaman to a desk

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>>40805834
>Y'ALL GIT READY FOR A SOUTHERN FAIRY TALE!

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>>40805782
>dat dodging
>dat belt armor

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Image semi-related. (JMSDF DDG-176 Chōkai (Kongō class) and DDG-177 Atago (Atago class)

>>40805783

Answer is obviously LIFT MOAR FAGET.

Lift until you get minions.

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>>40805834
>that option won
That's only because you sabotaged the vote by adding another option, Planefag.

Also, if the girls start to get all whiney about why we still need them, the fireworks show they're about to see costs about 1.4mil a boom, if I guess the SAM right

>>40805862
All the modern destroyers look the fucking same to me.

>>40805887
No, that's because Japanese destroyers are overtly modifications of the Burke design.

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>>40805862
Pankapan~

>>40805887
Type 45 motherfucker have you seen it?
In my opinion it looks sleeker than other modern destroyers

By the sands of Kharak! I keep missing the votes!

>>40805887
Can someone explain to me why we even have a modern navy? It's not like we need them to kill the terrorists' ships.

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>>40805777
Fuck that.
SHOWBOAT FUCKING WHEN YOU FAGGOT.

Planefag can you confirm or deny if you are using CMANO to help write the upcoming fireworks show

>>40805877
Nigga, every other vote was to comfort a chick who's getting in a tizzy because of an air attack.

Aint shit we can do that will me more comforting than seeing that air attack get fucked 6 ways from sunday.

>>40805938
Force Projection, standoff capability, shore bombardment (with tomahawks and what not)

>>40805938
Power projection and pirates are still a thing.

>>40805938
Three words:
Dirty
Yellow
Chinks

Also fucking space nazis.

>>40805938
... Because terrorists aren't our only enemies...

>>40805952
And if so, does your scenario still stand or not?

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>>40805938

>>40805938
Preventing China from getting too ambitious in the Pacific? Kicking in the doors of random third-world nations? Supporting a vast network of bases around the globe, and the transport capacity necessary to keep everything moving?

>>40805938
China, Russia, force projection, anti-piracy and because the USN has more funding than most militarise have IN GENERAL.

>>40805938
Their upkeep vs. how much artillery they can pack is pretty good, especially when compared to planes.

They can also hold a lot of data and data analysis equipment, which is also useful.

>>40805938
Sea Route Protection/deterrence from other foreign naval faggotry. Ya know, the whole reason to have a navy for a nation that has a lot of trade.

>>40805938
Because if you don't have one, people who do start fucking with your shit.

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>>40805950
Listen, you can have whatever ship you want, but I'm just asking for mine. As long as Spee gets its well-deserved recognition by the kancolle community, I don't give a rat's ass about how many of your pretty boats get it too.

>>40805938
>Can someone explain to me why we even have a modern navy? It's not like we need them to kill the terrorists' ships.

clearly you haven't seen the Littoral Combat Ships wwwww

>>40805938
The same reason the athenians had a fucking navy when their enemy was the spartans. Not the only ones around, and also trade.

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>>40806018
>Litoral Combat Ships
Literally worse than scrap metal.

>>40805877
If AZ looks bad off I'm sure we'll give her a hug.

>>40806008
And if your navy isn't up to date then you WILL get fucked over. For instance, The Falklands war. Admiral Belgrano BTFO

>>40805972
>... Because terrorists aren't our only enemies...
The fuck is China going to do? Stop supplying walmart? Russians are too busy fucking each other over to deal with us. The EU isn't going to fuck with us.

>>40805783

>Decu
>good lifts

PICK ONE.

>>40806033
why?

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>>40805783
>make blatant demographic grab for fans of a game that practically plays itself
>waaah my players are lazy and don't do anything apart from vote and shiptoast

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>>40806016

>>40806016
>As long as Spee gets its well-deserved recognition

For what? Being an overgunned useless design? So it knocked a heavy cruiser out with gunfire, reeaaal great combat accolades there.

>>40806018
Do you even blue water navy?

>>40806045
Know why China can't do shit

HINT: It's because they don't have a navy

So, who else things that the only way the museum ships will get ship girls here is if the abyssals decide to sink them?

>>40806041
To be honest, the UK would have gotten a good beating if the argentinians knew shit about fusing their fucking bombs.

>Britbongs
>AA
>DC

>>40806051
Wait, are you implying that I actually play kancolle?

>>40806033
They aren't worthless. Sure, they're obscenely overprices SEAL buses, but they are perfectly serviceable mobile bases.

>>40806033
You tell funny joke.

>>40805938
Force projection. Same reason the owner of the most of transport aircraft in the world is the US Air Force.

>>40806051
I have no idea if that is a model of someone cosplaying.
>>40806066
For dying like a bitch

>>40805938
I'll just put it this way: It is not a coincidence that all superpowers were heavily maritime.

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>>40806033
>Littoral Combat Ships
>area of operations are literally in their name
>take them out of littoral waters and require them to do the same jobs

OH WOW JUST LOOK AT THE WORTHLESS SHIPS FAIL

>>40806071
And economic dependence.

>>40805938
If you want peace prepare for war.

>>40806033
Can scrap metal make for an effective Coast Guard cutter? I didn't think so.

>>40806045
Start shit in the Spratleys, etc.

We have these things called "allies" whom we are obligated to support. Some of them are rather close to China, and have distinctly smaller militaries. They strongly appreciate this whole "ally" thing.

>>40806051
Hey! Do you know how much effort goes into my shitposting? The hours of research, the lifetime of self hated? Do you know what its like to live with a penis that's literally 2 inches long?!

>>40806066
For doing its job rather well, and always giving its victims an option. For sparing its crew when she went down. And it had a rather good design for the limitations it was built with.

>>40806045
In the end, probably nothing will happen and there will be no WW III. But in matters such as the military, you prepare for the worst that could happen, not the best.

Hell, part of the reason no one fucks with the US is because we have such a fuck huge military.

>>40806098
It's a cosplay. You don't want to know any more than that.

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>>40806109
>Implying we want peace.

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>>40805783
>>40805811
So basically you're saying Planefag needs a secretary ship

>>40806127
Yes we do want peace. It gives us time to build up forces for the next go of it.

>>40806076
In fairness their missiles were provided by the French. Now I'm not saying that the British AA was as good as it should have been. I remain convinced that If the Argentinians had put their WHOLE navy in play rather than just sitting in port then the would have had a MUCH better chance of taking the Islands and holding them.

>>40806129
Last time someone suggested planefag get a meido/secretary, we learned about the shower knife, dishwasher brass, and handcuff keys.

>>40806129
... That's pretty much what he said, yes.

>>40806105
>A gorrillion dollars
>Literally rusting apart when new
>Less offensive capability than the cheaper and smaller frigates they 'replace'

>>40806126
I'll take your word for it then.
>>40806129
The question is: Who is the secretary ship going to be?

>>40806148
Kinda already have the biggest army ever.

>>40806150
Somebody needs to retell the stories of deme and his violently incestual sister.

>>40806076
They were tossing their bombs at such a low altitude that most fuses would have failed.

That and even the unexploded bombs did quite a bit of damage.

>>40806105
They don't need to be effective blue-water vessels, true.

However, on any warship displacing over 2,000 tons, a dinky little short-range SAM system, a 57mm deck gun, and a couple dozen anti-tank missiles is an incredibly embarrassing armament. It's absolutely pathetic for such a large vessel.

>>40806173
>biggest army
HAH

No.

Best per capita maybe, biggest not by a long shot.

>>40806149
Deploying their Navy would have required the ships to be capable of moving under their own power.

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>>40806018
>>40806033
Littorio combat ships?

>>40806122
>giving its victims an option
Literally only one German surface raider acted any differently.

>For doing its job rather well
>And it had a rather good design for the limitations it was built with.

The Hell it did. It was completely and uselessly overgunned. It was a battleship being sent out to do a light cruiser's job. It was a waste of money and men to use it as a fucking surface raider.

>>40806173
You can never have enough dakka.

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>>40806186
You insulting America, boy?

>>40806192
All that displacement.

Somewhat related, do italian shipsluts lie about their weight too?

>>40806150
huh?

>>40806173
Do you even China?

Sure their army is farmers with AK47s but with ENOUGH bodies anything is possible. Just look at the soviet front in WW2.

>>40806183
its not meant to slug it out with destroyers though, its meant to replace minsweepers and insertion vessels and kill pirates in the littorals while being more expendable than a destroyer and able to keep up with a carrier group/ act as recon. it does this for less than the Radar on a Burke

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>>40806224
Depends.

>>40806178
Na, she just got engaged to a gigantic douchebag.

He's figuring out a plan to remove him from existence, but for now let's not salt the wound if we still want a thread.

>>40806215
It's rather solid fact that the Chinese army is bigger than ours. Better? That's a more open question which would require me to look shit up.

But it definitely has more warm bodies.

>>40806158
I remember watching a video on the freedom and Independence on their testing of different systems. On one the 2 30mm cannons broke so they just shot up the targets with a M2. On the other the mine sweeper broke. Terrible, terrible times indeed. I believe one had an fuel line rupture too... but hey what can you do about new systems right? Still neat ships.

>>40806231
How many malnourished fucks with half a rifle do you think one U.S. basic infinity is worth?

>>40806249
Do remember that those documentaries were shot on the first ship of their classes and designs. A few serious problems are expected here and there. Remember the first nuclear submarines.

>>40806051

Decu made a demographic grab for a fucking ANIME, which DOES entirely play itself. And he gets slaves! I can't do that. I can't match Decu. He's BETTER than me!

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On an unrelated note, I'd just like to mention that Goto is a fucking fascinating character, just in how far-gone he is in his coping mechanisms for how batshit this all is. I hope he doesn't break.

>>40806261
We're not talking about NK here. Chinks are pretty good compared to what they used to be. Still not up to western level, but underestimate them at your peril.

>>40806261
Not enough.

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>>40806261
>one U.S. basic infinity
So when did the Ain't Ready for Marines Yet begin deploying F-22 Raptor TSF?

>>40805525
>shorter one with what looks like a metallic ball-cap is unrecognizable

McD's workers, represent!

>>40806193
Give it a rest. Naziboo's only obsessed with painting the kriegsmarine as the valiant defenders of German freedom. Almost as valiant as those brave SS men shoving Jews into the gas chambers.

>>40806127
I know we like to fetishize the constant wars of medieval times, but constant warfare fucking sucks.

>>40806231
>Massed infantry.

High explosives say hello.

You gonna git droned bitch.

>>40806193
It was a reasonably clever response to a hilariously unique set of design limitations, and you have to consider that the ships' design needed to produce a political outcome as well - Mere cruisers, in the '20s and '30s, were not acceptable centrepieces of a modern country's navy, even one as hamstrung by treaties as Weimar Germany. So they had to fit a Battleship on a Heavy Cruiser's displacement.

In that respect, it was a great success.

>>40806281
I know, as with all new weapons there are bound to be malfunctions, its what testing them is for. Still I like them, nice hulls but its a shame they don't mount a 'few' more cannons on it as backup..

>>40806231
>Just look at the soviet front in WW2
If you think the Soviet military was only massed infantry charges and no strategy, you have another thing coming. And are probably underage.

>>40806287
now if only he would actually fucking run his quests.

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>>40806297
Remove Alternative V from the premises.

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>>40806249
Murphy's Combat Law #6: Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.

>>40806231
>Just look at the soviet front in WW2
Yeah, all that mechanized infantry and massed armor engagements, with the side that had air supremacy doing a bang-up job of kicking the shit out of the other.

>>40806297
>the Ain't Ready for Marines Yet
Explain.

>>40806327
Since it's modular, there's probably a pirate-hunting config on the cards that's just a hundred bushmasters on typhoon mounts lining the hull.

>>40806357
Look at the first letter of each word.

>>40806327
And that is how an arsenal ship is born. I really love the arsenal ship.

>>40806357
>Explain

Are you blind or can not into acronyms.

>>40806371
The arsenal ship is different, and pretty retarded.

>>40806287
No, he is not.

You are quite a good improvisation writer.

>>40806327
The hell with cannons, the complete lack of decent AShMs in the USN inventory is ridiculous. At least the Perrys could (originally) sling a few dozen Harpoons and had some fucking torpedoes.

>>40806371
Oh yeah that reminds me, a couple nights ago I filled the flight deck of the USS Nimitz with Harpoon launchers in CMANO.
It was hilarious.

>>40806333
Shut up, Slav weaboo. You're just jelly that Storm Vanguard picked the tsundere over you or the noble confidante.

>>40806357
US ARMY, a.k.a. Ain't Ready for Marines Yet.

Look, Corporal Hate can explain it better than I can.

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>>Using fusion
>not fission power

>>40805170
Enterprise and Nautilus were conventional bodies with reactors in the, its why Nautilus is so.. well noisy at speed, it was not meant to be a pure submarine.
Also, I hate everyone in this thread, I do this shit for a living oh my god I want to murder you all.

>>40806367
They aren't actually modular for shit.

>>40806287
Planefag, I cannot remember the last time Decu actually ran his quests.


You are actually running more frequently than Decu. God help us all.

>>40806400
Funny thing, they actually noticed this glaring gap, and starting this year are refitting Tomahawks for the AShW role until the new missile enters service.

>>40806406
384 launchers, was it?

>>40806406
bwahahahahaha

>>40806420
I love you too anon.

>>40806391
Meh, It's decent when you consider that at it's core it's just a hull filled with VLS tubes being manned by a skeleton crew or remote controlled by some guy a few dozen miles away. An it certainly isn't as bad as some OTHER ideas.

>>40806420
You know you love this place. You wouldn't be here posting other wise.

>>40806443
I prefer having my eggs in multiple baskets. Several destroyers will accomplish more than a single vessel who costs more to fully equip than the ship itself does.

>>40806149
The brits would have deployed subs and sank all their fleets, top kek, nuke subs > Argies

>>40806443
Zumwalt?...

>>40806406
That sounds both terrifying and hilarious.

Please indulge us as to what happened.

>>40806406
do you have a link to shenanigans?

>>40806463
Is really not that bad.

>>40806461
Except all the british loses were due to the air force. Try again.

Seriously, fuck the argies, but the UK was hilariously lucky on that war.

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>>40806430
Still not as good as best Tsundere Heavy Cruiser.

>>40806477
If they weren't, we could bitch even more about French Missiles killing NATO members.

>>40806472

I hope so cause they look nice with that iron clad hull thing they have a goin on

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Anyone seen this Mikasa pic yet on the other board?

>>40806477
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano


This is why the Argie's navy did jack shit. The subs would have raeped them

>>40806406
>CMANO
I really want to grab it, but it's more expensive than CK2 and all of it's xpacs while on sale.

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>>40806436
871 launchers

>>40806463
No. WW2 submarine aircraft carriers, hydrogen powered torpedos, project PLUTO.

>>40806513
Should have got it the two days of the Steam Sale when it was 50% off.

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>>40806287
iktf
every man has a gary oak he just couldn't beat

>>40806510
Don't they know they need a notarized contract to fuck them?

>>40806514
Ah, 3484 Harpoons total. I knew I was getting that number from somewhere.

>>40806463

Zumwalt looks like too much new technology crammed onto a ship, driving up price so much that other ships of the class would never be built, so you never see cost reduction.

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>>40806496
It's Carnival time!

>>40806514
So... how did it go?

>>40806465
>>40806470
It was very silly
>>40806513
>>40806527
Yeah, 40bux was what pushed it over the edge for me

>>40806536
>Tone's escort.webm

>>40806527
It was still outrageous. I'm patient enough to wait for a 66 or 75% sale.

>>40806536
Gotta say, I like Maya. I hate what they did to her in Arse Nova

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>>40806287
>He's BETTER than me!
No Planefag.

You're the flagship of my heart.

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>>40806546
>>40806544
Of course I forgot the image

>>40806546
Absolute Harpoon Field, I'd wager.

>>40806546
How silly are we talking? The fun kind or the "OH GOD IT'S DESTROYING EVERYTHING" kind?

>>40806557
Anon is right. USS Fap Angel, please be our secretary ship forever and ever.

>>40806553
>$40
>Outrageous

Kids these days...

>>40806555
Oh come on, it was hilarious.

Entire weeks making fun of Maya and Miss Hardcore and chatbots,
and then it actually goes that way.

The scene going through my head is that one in Zipang when the JSDF DD is being assaulted by a mixed squadron of Dive Bombers and Torpedo Bombers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9G-zfvlOQk

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>>40806549
Certainly.

>>40806555
Yeah, she's much better in the manga.

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so, some guy is drawing this over on /wowsg/

I don't really understand it

>>40806287
He panders to yuri, you give them massive middle fingers.