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You take a note of it and turn your eyes back to the tac-plot, thinking like the abyssal. He's slipping under the escort screen as you speak; those old ships don't have towed arrays to peek below the layer and he knows it. Soon he'll be in their baffles, and he'll risk coming above the layer to get a good sonar bearing on the incoming task force. Then he'll come to periscope depth and find his target – the carriers – and get set up for a run on them when they charge into range. When the air attack up there abates they'll change course, either turning into the wind for flight ops or turning towards the hostile task-force to shorten their own aircraft's return leg, and he'll have to be watching when they change headings if he wants to catch them.

When he sticks his head above the layer, you'll be waiting there to fucking chop it off.

“Torpedoes?” your troublesome XO asks. He hasn't said anything since that little bon-mott about Abysasals Wanting To Kill; apparently out of glaringly fucking obvious facts for the day.

“Still running,” he says. “Bearing two-one-five, pretty faint, but a lot of them...”

“Let me know when they stop,” he says dourly.

“There's an air attack going on up th-”

“I read the fucking briefing too, *skipper,*” he snarls at you with so much heat you actually take a step back. His slate grey eyes cut into you, and with a start your realize they were never watery – just shifty.

He's afraid.

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“... explosion on the surface,” the sonarman says. “Bearing, uh, back there.” He waves in the general direction of the baffles.

“Fast screws?” the XO demands, and this time you don't interrupt.

“Fading... dropping out? End of their run.” He listens. “Three more...”

The XO leans in, a strange expression on his face.

“... two...”

His jaw quivers as he clenches it tight.

“One left.”

You check your watch and mark the second hand.

“... still there.”

“... still there.”

The sonarman's spine stiffens suddenly. “Torpedo accelerating, it's HERE!”

[ ] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS
[ ] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*

>[ ] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS
If you find yourself in hell, don't stop, KEEP MOVING.

Also how long has it been since Arizona can into smartphones? I bet Settle has a new ringtone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms831CTa2wo

>>41883443


[ ] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS

>>41883448

The last time I played CMANO I played a cold-war scenario with limited weapons-free on tac nukes (be vewwy vewwy quiet we're hunting boomers.) I got a good contact and launched a SUBROC (rocket with a tactical depth charge) from my sub at the distant contact, and was promptly informed that I had just killed a poor innocent whale.

So. Yeah.

>>41883443
>[ ] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*

>>41883443
>[x] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS
They know we're here, no point in staying quiet.

>>41883443
>[ ] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS

>>41883443
>[X] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*

"And now, for my first trick! DISAPPEAR."

>>41883443
[X] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*

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>>41883478

>>41883443
>[ ] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS

>>41883443
>[X] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS

I think it unlikely that they Abbies have actively guided torps.

>>41883443
>[X] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*

>>41883443
[ ] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS
Cheeky fucking cunt

>>41883443
[ ] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*

>>41883478
Just one whale? Really?

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>>41883517
>I think it unlikely that they Abbies have actively guided torps.

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Quick silly thing.
I'm sure planefag will shitpost with it sooner or later.

>Doughnut captcha will not go away

>>41883517
And if they do, we have got decoys and an absolutely DISGUSTING top speed to outrun them with if absolutely need be

>>41883493
Or they're trying to flush us out of hiding

>>41883443
>[ ] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS
>inb4 abbies have wire-guided torps

>>41883443
>[ ] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS

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>>41883443
>[ ] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*
we are a fucking magic sub

>>41883547
You're getting donuts? Lucky. It's given me "commercial lorries" about 5 times in a row now.

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>>41883537
SHUT UP CENTRAL!

>>41883443
>[ ] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS

>>41883555
Fuck I think that's exactly what they're doing.
This torpedo came from behind- the goblin we know is to our front, right?
YOU DON'T GET TO FUCKING CLEVER GIRL US
>>41883443
>[ ] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*

>>41883443
>[ ] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*

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>>41883478

Whale murder, ya say?

>>41883443
>[x] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*

>>41883569
I'm being given "find the beer".

It's just taking the piss now.

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>>41883537
lolu trole me

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It's not polite to draw attention to a ladie who's gained weight, but GAT DAM GURL.

>>41883382
>goblin
What?

>>41883478
>CMANO models whale movements

Okay this is new level of autism.

>>41883618
Standard designation given to submerged contacts. Like Bogey, but for submarines

>>41883443
>[ ] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS

>>41883618
That's bubblehead* for "(submerged) sonar contact, probably not a friendly".

* Submarine-driver.

>>41883606
More torpedo tarts?

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>>41883612
>114' wide

>>41883629

CMANO does that. Its is literally a fractal of autism. As you stare further and deeper into it, zooming in on new levels of autism, you begin to see even deeper levels of autism begin to apprear.

>>41883478
>CMANO has whales
This is fucking Dorf Fort levels of autism. Holy shit.

>>41883629
>>41883700
What's the big deal about modelling biologics? Any decent naval sim has those, and actual navies train for that.

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>>41883656
Unlikely unless I write an update saturday afternoon. I'll have one ready for next week.

>>41883739
Speaking of, does anyone know if the next BB-61 is going up this weekend?

Jesus Christ, can we just ping this motherfucker and then shove a mk. 48 up his ass?

>>41883629
You should read the manual (or the FAQ, which is slightly less terrifying), it has like 10 chapters devoted simply to storing munitions in bunkers. It goes something like:

>"So you want to store stuff in this bunker well what type is it you have to know if it's a concrete reinforced pit or a simple shack above ground which you can't determine just by looking at the map and the type and size of the munition matters because it limits how many can fit in the bunker and how many times you can stack them on top of each other and if the bunker has only one door but watch out for sunlight and the colour of the roof because the hotter the storage gets the less stable the contents will be and if-"

It goes on. Hell it could model the increased corrosion of corrugated steel roofing from accumulated bird shit for all I know. Would not surprise me.

>>41883443
>[ ] Make like David Copperfield and make this fucker *vanish.*

VOTES CALLED WRITING ETC.

>>41883443
>[X] MEEP MEEP MOTHERFUCKERS
MEEP MEEP

>>41883771
You're talking like that's a big deal. It really isn't, for that price point you expect at least that much simulation.

>>41883771
If you actually read the FAQ, you would have noticed that the section on munitions storage is talking about how it works in real life and then saying "But we can't reasonably model that ourselves, so you'll have to do the legwork yourself when designing scenarios"

>>41883739
Ah, good to see you're still plugging away at it!

>>41883758
I think it should be okay to go up tonight.

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>>41882577
>>41880282
>>41882714
Such poor sports, these girls would be better off without them

>>41883830
Yusssssss. I eagerly await more ofbhate and his waifu.

>>41883867
No, they're ours. Fuck off.

>>41883830
Sweet deal

>>41883867
Someone run a trace on that post so we can air-mail him a JDAM through the window.

>>41883906
I think he's below the ocean mate. We're gonna need a Nuclear depth charge.

>>41883906

JDAMs? No, we call a few gay strippers to visit him.

AND THEN WE FILM IT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMaWAk8FW_A

this seems suitably submarine

>>41883906
Too nice for him

A Tomahawk should do the trick

>>41883791
I know, but it's still crazy. In the same region as Aurora4X or Dwarf Fortress crazy.

>>41883798
Yeah those guys have some serious skills, they have to think of everything. And no matter how well crafted or thought out a scenario it's always amusing to see them break in dozens of unforseen ways. Like sinking a russian SSBN with a 7.62mm helicopter door gun.

>>41883964
I don't find it crazy, you're just inexperienced I guess. Unrealistic shit like that just honestly shows how much the simulation needs to improve, but at least it does model the interaction of all that crap relatively well.

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“HELM,” you shout, “MAKE THIS BITCH *MOVE!*”

And move she does. The Oregon seems to lurch beneath your feet as her variable-torque AC motors seize the water and SHOVE, accelerating with incredible speed. The helmsman turns your tail to the incoming torpedo as the Oregon runs for her life – and by god, can this boat *run.* The 688s were rated for 33 knots, safe – you could do 35 for hours, if you weren't afraid of shitting the CE's wrench set the next day, and 37 for minutes at a time... until the windings melted, that is.

Your brand-new Virginia can almost break 40 without a sweat – and right now she's doing her damndest to set the new record.

“Who's fucking shooting at us!?” you demand.

“They want to kill,” the XO reminds you. “They'll take the closest shot they've got, and right now that's us!”

The shooter must've slipped past the ASW screen before his buddy, and he popped into the surface duct just in time to hear you go rushing past at flank. He waited till he was between you and the surface force before launching, counting on the sound concealing his torpedo – and it worked. It fucking worked. You got suckered, and good...

… but it's not over till its over – and the Virginia can run fast. “Take us into the layer!” The middle of the layer is a chaotic and heterogeneous zone; pockets of warm and cool water mixing ensure a varied and unreliable performance from any sonar. If you can get into it before the torpedo gets close, you stand a much better chance of shaking it. Everyone in the CIC grabs a handhold as your boat tilts alarmingly, thundering towards the depths at speed. You eject a bubble decoy as you enter the layer, hoping the torpedo will track for it, but it spurns it and begins a series of S-turns through the layer, hunting for you.

[ ] Defensive.
[ ] Offensive.

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>>41883960

A Tomahawk is not enough.

We're gonna need to summon.... THE UNDEFEATED OF THE EAST.

>>41883983
That bug was fixed a while ago, as hilarious as it is

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>>41883983
>Unrealistic shit like that just honestly shows how much the simulation needs to improve

seems pretty damn accurate to me bro

such as this scenario... which STANDS.

>>41883989
>[x] Defensive.

>>41883989
>[X] Offensive.
Gotta make thins easier for the carriers by taking them out as best we can.

>>41883989
>[ ] Defensive.
Bide our time and strike

>>41883992
Why is inazuna so adorable.
>>41883989
>[]offensive

>>41883989
>[ ] Defensive.
Live

>>41884008
what the fuck
then again, it is a battle of the obsolescent planes, its like retards fighting in a kindergarden

>>41883989
>[X] Offensive.

>>41883989
>it and begins a series of S-turns through the layer, hunting for you
EX-FUCKING-SCUSE YOU?
WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF BOAT IS THAT ABYSSAL CUNT.
>>41883989
>[ ] Defensive.
>[ ] Offensive.
Shit a couple of Mk 48s on the reverse bearing and keep running- remember, there's another one that probably heard us this entire time.
But there's another Virginia-class out there too

>>41883989
>[ ] Defensive.

We're not a tiny chibi manchild of a sub, we can't do the crazy shit he does.

WE GOTTA SUB

>>41883989
>[] Defensive

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>>41884046

dis nigga thinkin

listen to dis nigga

>>41883989
>[x]Offensive

We have got to kill this bastard, and we're the closest ones that can do it.

>>41884062
Fine

>>41884046
>>41883989
SUPPORTAN

>>41883989
See, this is a tactical decision I can actually fucking understand.
[X] Defensive.

>>41884046
Hell, our torpedo's own screws might mislead the incoming one- is anybody familiar with WW2 acoustic homing torpedoes?

>>41883989
>>41884046

>>[ ] Defensive.
>>[ ] Offensive.
As proposed by our educated fellow.

>>41884046
smart

>>41883989
this
>>41884046

>>41883992
And not Admiral Roah? For shame.

[ X ] Defensive.

>>41883989
>>41884046
>Defensive
Yeah, we do have another wingman(?) out there. The hostile sub just tipped his hand, our buddy should have heard him launch.
>Offensive
And a few torps back his way for good measure.

>>41884046

Backing

>>41883989
>[ ] Defensive.
>[ ] Offensive.

>>41883989
>>41884046
Supporting this guy.

>>41883989
>>41884027
Revoting for
>>41884046

>>41883989
>>41884046
Supportin

>>41884046
This.
Also, if I had to guess, I'd say it's a Cold War Russian sub- they lost a fair few to assorted technical failures.

>>41884046

We're not a tiny chibi manchild of a sub, we can't do the crazy shit he does.

WE GOTTA SUB...

But we also gotta kick some ass.

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>>41883992
Winds of the king.

>>41883989
Changing my vote to support
>>41884046

>>41884008
Wat, Starfighters only carry 725 rounds and... aw fuckit.

>>41884046
That torpedo is clearly wire guided or alive and seeing as the USN isn't missing any modern subs the fair bet is Russian.

It's the Hunt for the Red White and Blue October.

>>41884087
WW2 acoustics were very simple, they had a set of hydrophones mounted on the tip and fins at the back that steered towards the loudest noise. They were fire and sweet-jesus-I-hope-to-fucking-god-it-doesn't-circular-run forget weapons.

Modern torpedoes carry their own sonar and can be controlled by wire, which is clearly what the enemy is doing or the torpedo wouldn't be smart enough to do all of this on it's own.

>>41884147
Why are their hands backwards? As in, their ouside hands are in an impossible position. can't put y hand palm up like that and have the thumb face my head. physically impossible.

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>>41884087
>Hell, our torpedo's own screws might mislead the incoming one- is anybody familiar with WW2 acoustic homing torpedoes?

ahahaah votes called

>>41883989
Changing to >>41884046

>>41883989
>>41884046
this.

>>41884181
>Wat, Starfighters only carry 725 rounds and... aw fuckit.

It wasn't just that one Starfighter. They connected with exactly one Sidewinder, and only bugged out for fuel, or becuase they were out of cannon ammo. Taiwanese never lost a single Starfighter.

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>>41884200
Also just so we're all on the same page, this is roughly the situation we're in right now yeah?

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Tone and Chikuma, complete w/ Dat Tone Asssssssss

>>41883989
>[ ] Offensive.

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>>41884194
>Having this little flexibility

I'm sorry

>>41884218
Ah that makes more sense. Still if this was truly realistic, at least one of those Starfighters is going to crash back at base.

>>41884271
That's not flexibility, their thumbs are on the wrong sides.

>>41884277
THE F-104 LAWN DART

>>41884200
>>41884087
>In the 1990s, a Mod 6 variant of the ADCAP provided much improved noise isolation from the engine, which makes this torpedo more difficult to be detected by a potential target.

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>>41884280
No they aren't. Learn to use your wrists.

>>41884254
That matches my understanding at least.

>>41884312
I'm trying, but when my hand is above my head, and my palm is facing up, neither thumb can face my head, unless one is misplaced. either my thumbs are on the wrong sides, or theirs are.

On the small chance that anyone is paying attention, am I the only one who can't put my hand in this ridiculous position?

>>41884280
Kick you elbow back over your shoulder, and completely rotate your wrist, then point your fingertips towards the floor.

>>41884350

Turn your shoulders more.

>Inb4 goblin 2 is a chinese diesel boat taking advantage of the chaos

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>>41884369

>>41884358
>>41884359
Thanks for the advice, at least I know it might actually be me fucking up. Still can't for the life of me figure out how to implement this to get my thumb on the other side of my hand.

Shame there's not some kind of step-by step for this position.

>>41884359
no hes right if you look at their outside hand you have to twist your wrist 180 degrees to do it right. the move will literately break you wrist

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>>41883882
Oh but for how long will they be yours with the way things are going

>>41883906
>>41883938
>>41883960
You think a mere Tomahawk will be enough for me? But you are getting ahead of yourself, if you want me you have to get rid of my girls first. That's the way this world works now, the admirals hide themselves away and spare their lives from risk by having their girls kill mine and mine kills theirs, that's all you expected.

Well before you met my newest gal Iwo. Yes, precious Iwo, forgotten by all, it didn't take much to coax her to my side, and why stop there, how many places have your forgotten in your little "Island hopping" campaigns!

>>41883882
You, I like you, I kill you last

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>>41884369
OH GOLLY GEE, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE ABYSSALS HAD A DIESEL BOAT. THATS SOMETHING HUH.

>>41884398
>not rotating your shoulder and wrist together.

Do you even ball joint bro?

>>41884398
Oh good, thanks.
>>41884359
>>41884358
So on the other hand see what I did there It might actually not be something fucked with my anatomy.

>>41884412
I don't mean Abyssal, I mean literally a PLAN boat full of live chinamen

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>>41884398
No he isn't right. You are really bad at this. You can never join my jojo posing club.

>>41884436
>>41884414
FFS SOMEONE JUST POST A HOW-TO

or at least more images of the same so we can see how this whole displacing your shoulder-and-wrist thing works, preferably from different angles.

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>>41884455

>>41884455
I would but I'm at work and mobile.

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>>41884455

>>41884436
KONO AKAGI DA!!

>>41884414
>>41884436
Shiranui's left hand is fucked, the thumb should be on the close side of the hand, not the far one like it is.

>>41884436
Crix, your posting of non-reaction images completely unrelated to whatever you're talking about does nothing for the image limit.

>>41884497
Bruh someone was saying that the pose is impossible. I'm just saying it ain't. Idgaf if the art is right

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>>41884403
>>41883867
Guys, why are you so dark and edgy? Can't we and the humans and their girls all just get along? Surely the seven oceans are big enough for all of us.

Or we can just move to Europa. Prime real estate under all that ice.

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>>41884497
If it's palm up, it's messed up yeah.

>>41884504
They are extremely relevant

>>41884523
Oh, no. the pose with your hand up isn't impossible. I wasn't complaining about the pose itself. The issue was actually 100% with the fact that the thumbs on their back hands are on the wrong bloody side of their hands, i.e. physically impossible, or extremely unlikely. It's entirely possible and simple enough to put your hand behind your head palm up.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1fVrI2NFQ&list=PL2BF597D4E13BBA8A&index=9

With a homing torpedo snaking towards you the only option is to pour on the coal and keep your boat thundering through the layer at top speed. Unfortunately your hull is boring a nice hole through the water, mixing the warm and cold pockets in the layer uniformly enough to give the pursuing torpedo an even easier time hearing you.

“A knuckle!?” your XO asks.

“Not yet!”

“What the hell are you waiting for!?”

“NOT. YET!”

“Fish going active!” the sonarman says, the lethal little red icon on the tac-map starting to flash as it pings away.

“Knuckle, now!” you snap, and the helmsman complies, wrenching his wheel back and forth violently; slapping the rudder around to kick up a turbulent pocket of water that reflects active sonar well; almost like chaff for a submarine. “Fire tube 1 down the return bearing of that son-of-a-bitch!”

>>41884574
...is that dark side of the moon, I know its a Floyd album...

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“Aye,” the weapons officer replies with relief, and a second later the boat shudders as a Mark-48 torpedo comes charging out of the tube and executes a hard turn to swim back towards your attacker.

“Hard to starboard, launch a decoy, angle negative twenty on the planes,” you instruct. The Oregon heels sideways in the water as she dives down through the layer. You watch the depth gauge needle sink towards the bottom of the layer, then calmly say “all stop.”

The XO looks liable to jump out of his skin, but he holds his tongue.

Somewhere far, far too fucking close, the torpedo detonates, the sound ringing through the hull.

“Hit the decoy,” the sonarman whispers in terror. “Actually heard the clink-”

“Weaps, active on the fish and start a pattern, middle of the layer.”

The XO opens his mouth, then stops, a look almost approaching curiosity coming over his face. You both know the hostile sub is nowhere near this close – but you're not looking for the archer.

Just the arrow.

>>41884584
Master Asia's thumb isn't on the wrong side.

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“Hard returns on something small, a-”

“Detonate-”

“But sir-”

“DETONATE!”

The sound of your Mark 48s massive warhead detonating is close enough to make the hull ring faintly. You wait, almost bobbing on the balls of your feet until the sonarman picks up the second hostile fish.

“That snookered it,” he says. “I don't know what its chasing but it thinks we're about thirty degrees to port of where we are.”

A torpedo explosion makes one hell of a knuckle, it swamps out passive hydrophones, and – most importantly – it'll definitely get New Jersey's attention. And with a second abyssal boat out there, you need their attention urgently.

“Now what?” the XO asks. It's a good question – you've managed to get below the layer, using the torpedo detonation to conceal your heading change and exactly where you left the deep sound channel. Whoever shot at you is a smart motherfucker; you have no doubt he was down here before you, waiting for you to come charging through the layer at flank in an attempt to shake his fish, giving him a great opportunity to mark your location and close for another kill.

“He's not close,” you tell the XO. “That fish was still swimming a search pattern when it went active.”

“So?”

“So he reached the end of his wire and cut it, let it fly autonomous. I think his second shot tracked for our fish – isn't easy to tell one shrouded propulsor from another, not in the layer, if that cocksucker even knows what they are – he may even think he killed us.”

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“I wouldn't count on it,” the XO says darkly.

“Me, neither.”

“We know the attack bearing-”

“Maybe, if he was smart he launched it thirty degrees and five hundred yards to one side before vectoring it in-”

“Close enough for a Seahawk,” the XO points out. “Lets pop a message buoy, let Mustin know where these fuckers are so they can shit some Mark 46s on 'em.”

You grin at the XO. “Good idea, but we won't need it to find this asshole.”

He glares at you with those hard slate eyes. “Don't forget the Leveling Effect,” he reminds you sharply. “Just because it's old doesn't mean it's as noisy as it should be – or as deaf. As it just demonstrated.”

You smirk at him – somebody just shot at you, and that fucking pisses you off. But the angrier you get, the calmer you feel. Your ice-cold tone seems to slice the air when you reply. “Yeah, I know. We don't know how old that motherfucker out there is, or what he's packing – we don't know if we've gotta dodge a Cutie or a fucking ASROC – but it works both ways. He doesn't know what we can do. He fucked up.”

The XO raises his eyebrow.

“He's hiding against the background noise of the task force and the battle, right? Running quiet?”

“And?”

“We're in a Virginia.”

For the first time since you met the miserable motherfucker, the XO smiles.

>>41884595
>Back to Homeworld music
Aw ye
>Swarmer battle music
ohno

>Fish going active
EXCUSE
YOU

>>41884628
>Shooting a torpedo with another torpedo
GET FUCKED

>>41884627
It was mostly Shiranui's that was the issue. As long as you acknowledge that one of them has a broken wrist/elbow, which it seems you do, my issues are null and void.

>>41884642
Okay. Inform me why the fact they are in a Virginia is good for that? I know nothing about subs and am to tired to try and research it.

>>41884642
>“We're in a Virginia.”
And we have the processing power to individually sort EVERY SINGLE ONE of those noise sources, filter them out, and find him. In something like 5-6 seconds, right?

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>>41884643
>GET FUCKED

http://news.usni.org/2013/06/20/navy-develops-torpedo-killing-torpedo

BELIEVE IT, MOTHERFUCKER

of course the Mark 48 can't do that and it only worked because the hostile fish tracked for its own propulsor, moving slower on a fuel-saving search pattern and the blast/collapse of the void bubble actually parted the fish's wires after it had sailed clean past without a contact detonation, but the crew doesn't know that yet.

>>41884595
dammit planefag stop linking your music as playlists
>>41884692
Oh no I'm well aware of the anti-torpedo torps, don't Burkes have some? But using a Mk 48 for it is just wonderful, even if it was mostly luck

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>>41884684
>And we have the processing power to individually sort EVERY SINGLE ONE of those noise sources, filter them out, and find him. In something like 5-6 seconds, right?

If the Oregon was a shipgirl, she'd be laughing and saying "my sides" right now.

THAT'S IT FOR TONIGHT! JOIN ME TOMORROW FOR THE EXCITING CONCLUSION OF THE GLORIOUS BATTLE! Tomorrow we also have a NEW WRITEFAG to share with you all, covering an important event in the quest's history!

SEE YOU TOMORROW!

Wasn't Arizona ass the most amazing thing

>>41884682
Thank god; I'm not the only one.

>>41884721
>it'll definitely get New Jersey's attention.
Oh dear.
Also that spoiler
Yes it was.

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>>41884721
That it was, planefag.

That it was.

>>41884721
>Wasn't Arizona ass the most amazing thing
It really was planefag, it really was.

>>41884721
Yes, yes it was.

>>41884721
Cheers boss.
And yes.
Yes it was.

>>41884709
>dammit planefag stop linking your music as playlists

I hate that too and I literally had no fucking choice because that was the ONLY youtube copy of the damn song I could find.

>>41884709
>don't Burkes have some?

So far they're "only" destined for carriers, far as I know - but there's no reason they can't work on the Burkes after they get them working for carriers.

>>41884721
>that image

And you said shortstacks dont exist.
>captcha is pancakes
Wtf.

>>41884692
Am I stupid for having no idea how to parse wtf is going on? I have to google so many terms and need a notepad to keep track of all this. And am still not sure if we are even doing okay.

>>41884721
>that ass

sauce?

>>41884721
>that image
I thought that was a Project Harpoon shop for a moment.

>>41884721
See you then boss! And yes, Arizona has DAT STERN!

>>41884721
>Past tense
She's still a most amazing thing, Pf!

But not as good as Willie Dee

>>41884739
THAT SKIRT IS BELOW REGULATIOM LENGTH

>>41884721
Yes. Yes, it was DAT STERN.

Thank you very much for the run, Boss!

>>41884531
We were having a moment here!

And enough with Europa, we already gave the girls that wouldn't fight to you.

>>41884721
Does feelthy have shit for us?

>>41884749
You're right, I was misremembering their ASW torpedoes as anti-torp ones
Also just strip all the playlist bullshit from the url, it's pretty simple to tell where the video ends and it begins

>>41884721
Thanks for the run.

>>41884782
I'm waiting for the go ahead/seeing if anyone else is going to post things.

>>41884761
Not stupid, it can be confusing if you're unfamiliar with the terms, but once you've got those nailed down and understand the physics of it all it shouldn't be too hard

>>41884749
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1fVrI2NFQ
Everything after the & in a youtube link is the superfluous bullshit like playlists that you can just cut off.

>tfw Willie Dee's 360 no-scope is forgotten thanks to Arizona ass.

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>>41884761
>Am I stupid
Yes.

>>41884761
>Am I stupid for having no idea how to parse wtf is going on?

No, not really. You *could* go look up everything about the Virginia-class between today and tomorrow, but tomorrow I'll end the suspense and reveal what the skipper is talking about.

>>41884829
I remember, anon
>>41884761
Using this for reference...
>>41884254
We are out in front of the carrier group. The anti-submarine destroyer group is out in front of us even farther. We dashed up ahead to reach that position, which made noise- not a lot, because we're sneaky, but noise. We then slipped under the layer, which is like a sonar-muffling curtain, and waited. We heard the whales off in front of us, and then realized there was a submarine out there with them. We kept listening as the anti-sub destroyer group got closer to him, trying to figure out where exactly he was.

That's when a torpedo came screaming for our ass from somebody behind us that we hadn't noticed before. We slammed on the gas to outrun it, going inside the layer to help degrade its ability to track and launching a decoy. Once the torpedo started actively looking for us we churned up the water, dropped another decoy, and dodged as well as a boat can dodge, which was well enough in this case.

We then shot back in the same direction, pinging with the torpedo to spot another incoming torpedo and detonating it to throw it off target/destroy it. We are currently at a dead stop which means we're basically invisible for the moment.

Any other questions?

>>41884787
>Also just strip all the playlist bullshit from the url, it's pretty simple to tell where the video ends and it begins

It is? Well it annoys me enough that I'm willing to make an effort for a change. Motherfucking god damned playlists.

>>41884809

PULL THE TRIGGER NEGRO

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>>41884781
Sorry, sorry! I'll go hang way back as far away from the action as I can to, I dunno, catch any of the girls who get sunk. Don't mind me...

>>41884829
I remembered her. She was so cool. I wish she was an Abyssal.

>>41884913
Alternately, click Share, then uncheck the 'include playlist' button

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>>41884913
Yaaay

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BB-61, Part 3
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The vending machine confuses Iowa.

It certainly wasn’t standard issue from when she first went to sail, yet somehow it survived her hull’s transition from its ‘floating museum’ state. There were a half dozen such machines all along her deck, near important entrances tourists would have passed through.

She remembers how people used the things. She remembers, only hours before ‘awakening’, a father lifting his daughter up so she could insert money into the coin slot. After an awkward pat-down of herself, she finds no convenient pockets on her dress containing money of any sort.

And so Iowa stares through her reflection on the glass standing between her and the food she and her Marine both need, her stomach still growling away.

Candy bars of all kinds are on display. Some of the names are familiar, most are not. She’s not sure what to think of Corn Nuts, Funyuns, and the dozen other snacks on display. Near the bottom of the machine she can see bottles of water, green bottles called MTN DEW, and something else that glows bright red and is labeled “G” with a lightning bolt struck through the sole letter.

There is a sweet smell coming from the machine, clashing with the scents of saltwater, oil, and fire in the air. Another gurgle issues from her stomach, and she finds herself licking her lips.

She still doesn’t understand why she has been born again in a woman’s body, but she gets the impression that she could probably survive without food for a lot longer than a normal person could, much less a person as injured as her crewman.

Bracing her hands on either side of the machine, she squats slightly, grunts, and lifts it off the deck effortlessly. The wooden planks at her feet groan in protest for a second before splintering. She begins to walk towards the nearest hatch, the lights in the machine dying out the moment it is unplugged, wood crunching under her feet with each step.

>>41884913
Alternatively press Share under the video and uncheck "share with playlist".

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>>41884945
>>41884913
Like so

>>41884952
She can’t see where she’s going, but she doesn’t really need to.

This doesn’t stop her from mashing her face into the glass of the vending machine when it fails to fit through the hatch, forcing a surprised yelp out of her.

Setting the machine down next to entryway, she frowns at the still out of reach snacks, hands pressing firmly against the glass.

“Well, it’s for my crew,” she says, balling her hands into fists and taking a step back.

After a short hiss of breath, Iowa’s first punch goes through the entire vending machine, almost folding it in half around her right arm. Glass, metal, and cheap junk food explode in almost every direction, bouncing off her clothes and skin harmlessly.

“Oops...” Iowa mutters under her breath.

She withdraws her arm from the destroyed machine, shaking bits of it from her hand as she assesses the damage. Her cheeks feel warm, but she doesn’t entirely understand why.

Surprisingly, much of the food and drink has survived Iowa’s strike. She decides to not tell the Marine exactly how she acquired sustenance; somehow it seems like he wouldn’t understand just how mean a right she was packing.

Using a bag that conveniently appeared next to the destroyed vendor, she gathers everything that looks remotely intact. She hopes this will last until help arrives.

She also hopes she can be gentler with the next vending machine.

-

The moment she pushes her way into the sick-bay with her haul, the Marine reaches quickly for a weapon that is nowhere near him by reflex. He sighs shakily when he identifies her.

“Old habits.”

“You moved to a different bed by yourself...” she purses her lips, concern welling up in her eyes. “You should have waited, I could have helped you—”

“Had to, it’s a little... wet.”

>>41884974
“I—” There’s a lump in her throat as she glances at the bed. The sheets are soaked almost completely through in a deep red stain, and she has to turn away from it. “I brought us something to eat...” She opens the bag to show off her ‘catch’.

“Thanks,” he mumbles, reaching into the bag and coming up with Snickers, a Glazed Sweet Roll, and one of the water bottles.

“I’m not sure this is any good for you right now—”

“Hey I’ll eat a fuckin’ ship right now, you’re a life saverrrrrbnrbremmmf—“ His voice becomes unintelligible as his teeth rip through the wrapper of the Snickers, stuffing the candy bar in his mouth with a huge grin on his face. “Ommmmmmmmmmfuuug im foh umgweee rai naoh!”

Iowa finds herself laughing as he tries to work through the candy bar, bits of chocolate on the corners of his lips. His chewing is loud, crumbs spill from his mouth, but she can’t find it in herself to blame him.

“Urghuhwagaha,” he grunts, pointing at her and motioning for the bag, all while clawing at the cap of his water bottle to unscrew it. He downs half of it in a single pull, still chewing at what remains of the Snickers. “Aaaaaaaaaaaaah... feels like ages since I had this stuff...” He points at Iowa again. “You. Eat something.”

With his orders given, the Marine finishes off the rest of the water, and then sets about mauling his way through the sweet roll’s wrapper, spitting out bits of plastic before cramming the roll into his mouth. He manages to grin sheepishly at her. Somehow, that is endlessly amusing to Iowa. She laughs until he tears off a part of the roll and offers it to her.

“Thowwy abow thif, ree uggiun umgwee,” the Marine vocalizes. “Uhm, you wamf fom off mai?”

“N-no, I couldn’t deprive you.”

“Fuu uhrfelf.” The Marine shrugs and proceeds to stuff the rest of the roll in his mouth.

>>41884920
You do that

>>41884781
Least he didn't teach the subs show tunes.

Goddammit, Hate. You're living down to every Marine stereotype there is, then inventing new ones to plumb!

>>41884990
Iowa reaches into the bag to find her own sweet roll, and tries to read the contents on the wrapper; other than ‘honey’ and ‘flour’, the listed ingredients only confuse her to the point where she decides that she doesn’t care.

“Uhm, here I go, I guess...”

The wrapper is surprisingly slippery in her fingers. It takes several tries before she can sink her nails through the plastic and free the bread from its imprisonment. She studies the roll closely, inspecting the syrup-glazed golden brown surface. After giving it a sniff, she looks to her crewman in hopes of receiving advice.

None is given. He’s too busy with a bag of Gardetto’s.

She sighs, and measures up the roll once more. Her first bite is small, carefully measured.

She can’t even begin to describe the taste. There isn’t a point of reference for her to work from. She can’t liken it to taking on fuel oil or supplies; it’s nothing like setting sail from port. All she knows is that she can’t stop from grinning as she chews on the snack, and she understands why her Marine seems to enjoy the simple act of eating so much.

“Like it?” he asks.

Iowa nods her head, not wanting to speak for fear of the bread spilling out of her mouth.

“Wait’ll you try some *real* food.”

Iowa doesn’t know how to respond to that, so she doesn’t try. She spends the next ten minutes slowly picking away at the sweet roll, trying to savor the taste and the smell of every bite. At first she doesn’t notice the Marine watching her eat, or the smile his cracked lips slowly reveal.

When she does notice, just as she pops the last bit of the roll into her mouth, she smiles back.

“So.” The Marine says, quickly looking away and picking at his teeth with a dirtied fingernail. “Uh, let’s... let’s try this again. You’re Iowa.”

“Yes.”

“THE Iowa.”

“BB-61, USS Iowa.”

“Fuckin’ hell...”

>>41885022
Living doen.? No good sir he is living them up.

>>41885030
“You can just call me Iowa, if that’s easier.”

“You can call me Hate.”

“That’s a name?”

“’Swhat they call me on the Higgins.”

“Hmm...” She tilts her head to the side, running the name through her mind several times. “Lance Corporal Hate.”

“Iowa. Pleasure’s mine, ma’am.”

-

Their meal ends an hour later. Wrappers litter the floor of the sickbay, and something inside of Iowa insist that she really should police all the garbage for the sake of being properly sanitary, but she doesn’t want to move. She prefers sitting on the bed next to the Marine, oblivious to how he carefully positioned himself to be able to lie comfortably on the mattress while avoiding physical contact with her.

They hadn’t spoken much once they really got started with the food. He was too hungry to maintain any real conversation. For Iowa, everything was too new; it all distracted her in some way. The only thing in the bag that she tried and didn’t find overwhelmingly flavorful was the bottled water, and even that has some sort of quality to it that she liked.

Her gut no longer growls or hurts quite like it did before. She’s not sure how to describe that either, but she knows she doesn’t feel like eating any more.

Hate snores next to her, catching some badly needed rest. His contented expression as he sleeps makes her incapable of voicing any concerns. She’s afraid to disturb him.

She’s not afraid to lean over him in order to get a better look at his wounds. Her hair spills over her shoulders, brushing against the Marine’s body lightly before she pulls it away. Her eyes wander along his chest, wincing in sympathy for the Marine when she sees the shrapnel still stuck in place throughout his body. She knows enough that it’s all going to have to come out sooner rather than later, but doesn’t want to be the one to bring that up.

She wishes they talked more during... lunch, she decided it was.

>>41885052
Iowa still hears ‘reports’ from various stations about the disposition of the forces surrounding her, occasional visions of those destroyers loosening or tightening their perimeter around her. Jets continued to make their regular orbits overhead, as they had since her awakening. Voices shout for her attention on loudspeakers every now and then, but she still can’t bring herself to answer them.

“What should I do, Marine?”

Hate doesn’t respond. Her head hangs tiredly towards his, and she fights the urge to yawn.

She desperately needs rest, but she fights the very real urge to succumb to her growing weakness. It feels like she would somehow be abandoning her post, her Marine, and all the people she knows will need her if those monsters reappear.

Her mind and her heart are screaming for her to keep her eyes open, to not give in. It’s not enough. She can feel her strength failing, a sensation she finds almost terrifying.

“Can’t sleep,” she growls to herself, trying to summon the energy she’d first awakened with. “Not yet, not until I know he’s—“

“’Sup?” Hate’s eyes snap open as he tries to sit up again, and Iowa immediately retreats, startled by his sudden movement. She nearly falls off the bed as she scrambles back, yelping in surprise.

“You look like you wanna ask somethin’.”

“I just wanted to make sure you’re okay.” She grimaces at her own words. If not for the IVs and the drip feed of pain killers, he would be very far from okay. “R-relatively speaking...”

“Still tickin’, I don’t hurt any worse than I’ve hurt before.” He finally gets himself upright, resting his back against the bulkhead while crimson spreads across the bandages over his chest. “Dun worry about it, nurse, I’m—ow—good to go.”

“If you say so...” She sighs shakily. A yawn follows, and she almost collapses against the mattress.

>>41884761
A long time ago back in the middle of Valkyria Mercenaries Quests I suddenly realized I knew basically nothing about submarine warfare. So I loaded up youtube and started watching Silent Hunter let's plays. Have some videos of Shoukaku(?) and Kongou(?) getting BTFO. I like this guy's vids, right mix of humour and information. Start with the Silent Hunter III ones first.

Don't expect to learn everything at once, it takes a while for everything to sink in. And then you have to go and modernize your knowledge with all the advances made since WWII.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA6ZjStuCE?t=10m12s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3IR87y6ZgE?t=25m21s

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>>41884952
>The wooden planks at her feet groan in protest for a second before splintering. She begins to walk towards the nearest hatch, the lights in the machine dying out the moment it is unplugged, wood crunching under her feet with each step.
Fun fact! If you donate five bucks to the museum, you can take a piece of Iowa's old deck as a souvenir.

>>41885064
“You haven’t gotten any sleep,” he observes. “Not since you fought, huh?”

“I couldn’t... you were in such bad shape—” her voice catches. “It wasn’t going to happen.”

“How about this,” Hate proposes. “I take the next watch; you go rack out for a bit.”

“R-rack out—” Iowa shakes her head wildly. “No! You still need help, you need me to watch over you!” She points to a place beyond her bulkheads. “Your people have no idea what just hit them, they don’t even know about me! I have to be ready—“

“You’re not helping anyone if you fall asleep on ‘em.” Hate points to a nearby bed, one not covered with his blood. “Get some rest.”

“But you’ll be—“

“Right here the whole time. It’ll be fine, just fuckin’ go already!” He points to the bed again.

Reluctantly, Iowa drags herself to her new resting place, feeling utterly worthless. Sleep was never an issue when she was a warship. Now it is apparently more important than anything.

What is worse is knowing how right Hate is. She totters on her feet, struggles to even keep her head held high, trying to meet Hate’s eyes with her own.

“Okay...”

It takes two attempts to actually climb onto the bed. It’s too small for her, her feet hang over the side easily, but it is surprisingly soft. Minutes after lying down, with her head sinking into the pillow, it’s also incredibly warm.

It’s so nice, she almost forgets about the world just outside of her hull, about the people that may need her in a moment’s notice. Almost.

The bed feels as though it is swallowing her up. Darkness shrouds the edges of her vision even as she tries to look for Hate, tries to make sure that he’s still close by.

“Hate?” she calls out, shivering through another yawn.

“Mmm?”

“...Do you know if there are...others like me?”

“Would be nice, but I think yer one of a kind though.”

>>41885091
“Don’t go anywhere,” she says. “If...if you need me, just wake me up...”

“Sleep, Iowa.”

“Not...not for too long...”

Her voice fails her, and soon after her body grows impossibly heavy. Hate is little more than a dark mass sitting on the bed next to hers. The world falls out from underneath, and she sinks deeper into darkness unlike anything she can remember.

And then there is nothing.

-

Iowa stands on her own bow as she sinks.

Turret Two leaks smoke from every seam, its three guns all aimed at wrong angles, at nothing. Turret One is broken wide open, angry fires roaring deep beneath cavernous, jagged wounds in its armor. The bridge burns, the entire superstructure engulfed in smoke that billows into a stormy night sky. Rain boils off her deck, off the surging surface of the water. She lists badly to starboard, threatening to capsize as water floods through her mauled hull.

To port, the Higgins slides beneath the waves in two distinct halves, dragging the shattered remains of her crew to the bottom. Oil, blood, debris, and chunks of meat swirl to the surface, a marker to her passing.

Los Angeles burns. The harbor burns. Everything that can burn, does.

Black ships dominate the bay, the Ironclad, the Monitors, the torpedo destroyers. They are joined by dozens, hundreds of dark shapes steaming over the horizon. Most she doesn’t recognize, but there are those she does.

The silhouettes of New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin are all like hers.

Her sisters fire and fire and fire, and she cries for them to stop. When they finally relent, nothing on the coast remains. The air is filled with the screams of the dying, the banshee howls of the victors.

Iowa is the last ship that stands between the Abyss and whatever remains untouched by its wrath, and she is broken. She can do nothing. She has no crew. No Marine is there to rescue her.

>>41885117
The surrounding sea churns, a maelstrom rising around Iowa, black tendrils ripping apart the once proud battleship as they wash over and through it. She is pinned to deck as the bow points into the night, unable to move as two motes of azure flame *blink* down at her.

She feels something caress her face, feels something soft moving against her ears as she is dragged through her hull into the sea. Water fills her lungs. She tries to resist, tries to claw her way to the surface, but her body refuses to listen. She is surrounded by the Abyss.

The eyes in the sky blink once more.

“You...” a voice whispers, forcing her head to turn to the right.

The woman’s skin is pale, her expression lifeless save for her eyes. Two hot coals that burn brighter as Iowa is forced to look into them. She almost passes for human, save for the horns that twist outward from her forehead, her cat-like irises. Hands wander where they shouldn’t, claws slicing past her belly. Heat squeezes around Iowa’s body, squeezes until her spine issues a series of muffled pops. She falls limp, unable to resist, utterly transfixed by this woman’s eyes.

The Abyss opens her mouth, and it is nothing but teeth.

“YOU SHOULD HAVE REMAINED ASLEEP.”

The teeth fall upon Iowa’s neck, pressure builds around her head, claws digging into her skull.

Now, she is allowed to scream.

-

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>>41885133
>>41885117

>>41885133
Iowa sits up gasping for breath, fresh tears running hot down her cheeks.

Her body shakes with lingering terror, with anger, the bed creaking under her shifting weight. She pats herself down, checking to see if she still has arms and legs. Her hands move to her neck, her heart pounding harder even as she finds the skin unmarred.

No blood anywhere, nothing is missing, yet she still *feels* where her back had been shattered, where her neck had been slashed. Where the fingers tore through her hair, into her head. She still hears her own last, strangled screams, air exploding out of her lungs as water rushed to fill them. Everything about her body is the way she remembers it before—

“Hate?” She calls out to her Marine, wiping her face dry with her fists. “Hate, please tell me you’re still with me!”

He doesn’t reply, and she begins to climb out of the bed to start looking for him when a hand falls on her shoulder. It’s surprisingly firm, keeping her in place.

“I’m here, Iowa.”

He looks worse off than before, apparently completely drained by the short walk from his bed to hers. But he is on his feet, at her side, concerned for her.

“You didn’t—” She sniffles. “You shouldn’t have gotten up...”

“You were begging something to stop. Screamin’, really.”

“...How long was I gone?”

“Dunno. Ended up sleeping too, tried not to, really.”

“So...” Iowa collapses back onto her pillow. “So I woke you, didn’t I?”

Hate doesn’t immediately respond, as though he’s carefully considering his next choice of words. That’s enough for Iowa to roll to one side to avoid looking at him.

“Musta been pretty bad,” he says after the long silence. He gingerly takes a seat next to her, grunting painfully as he collapses onto the bed.

“I’m sorry,” she sniffles, curling up on the bed, her face buried in her knees as she tries to give Hate more space. “I’m really sorry.”

>>41885188
“Can’t always stop yer brain from cooking up some mean shit,” Hate says tiredly. “I know.”

“S-so this is normal for people?”

“More than you’d think.”

For a long while, there is only the sound of their breathing, the distant hum of Iowa's boilers reverberating through the hull. She tries to forget the teeth sinking into her flesh, tries to forget her sisters bombarding the city they should have defended. She knows those things didn’t happen. The knowledge brings no comfort.

She hugs her legs tighter to her chest, shivering in place on the bed. Her Marine stays at her side, never abandoning his post.

----

And that's it for the night. Thanks for reading everyone! You can find the rest of my entries on my pastebin: http://pastebin.com/u/HORRUU-NEEEETOOH

>>41885215
Cheers mate, nice read

>>41885215
Sweet work feelthy.

I wonder if anyone else is going to put up some other write-work?

>>41885091
>“...Do you know if there are...others like me?”
>“Would be nice, but I think yer one of a kind though.”

Hate says this, and then Iowa has a dream where all the ships of the sea come to get her.

You know, I'm beginning to suspect that it's all Hate's fault we don't have a Iowa with us in Japan.

>>41885215
I'm even more convinced of Iowa being the one for Hate.

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>>41885215
thanks hornet and now i sleep

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>>41885243
>You know, I'm beginning to suspect that it's all Hate's fault we don't have a Iowa with us in Japan.

>>41885215
Good job, Feelthy!

So does this mean that the rest of the Iowas might go abyssal?

>>41885215
Thanks Feelthy! Good as always!

Glad it was typed up quickly, I'm practically KO'd at my keyboard.

On that bombshell, good night to everyone else too.

>>41885215
Nice shit dudebro, thanks for writing as always

>>41885270
>giving planefag ideas

you motherfucker

>>41885270
No, they're asleep. Iowa was having a nightmare.

>>41885270
The impression I'm getting is that the Abyss is snatching up the hulls of sleeping ships- but Iowa ruined that by waking up. It would imply that the abyssal girls aren't truly the ships they were at all, like a husk a hermit crab is using... but this is just a bad dream.

>>41885320
>>like a husk a hermit crab is using...
REMOVE SKINWALKER. REMOVE.

I don't know why, but th last few threads are making me want to see Enterprise, Lexington and Wasp show up after having a drunken adventure across the Pacific and Atlantic for a couple months because Enterprise felt like challenging a full company of marines to a drinking contest and winning after waking up.

As an aside, so far the earliest wire-guided torpedo I've been able to find entered service in 1979. This is very early in the search though, historical torpedo listings are fucking atrocious on wikipedia

Anybody else going to post write-fag work or should I start?

>>41885369
Any bets the Germans prototyped one during the war?

>>41885369
>>41885436
Found what I think is the earliest- the Mark 39 torpedo, introduced in 1946.
So we might be dealing with a late/just post-war American sub

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since no one has drawn Admiral Goto yet...

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>>41885484
Nice!
>>41885460
Maybe a Balao-class... the annoying thing is that we'll probably never know for sure in-quest, though planefag may tell us after the fact

>>41885484

Great,

Are you doing Settle next?

Planefag, I have a question.

What kind of revolver does Arizona carry? Colt Peacemaker? Colt Navy?

>>41885535
Well, I'm kind of currently doing Hate and Hornet, and afterwards, ill do Settle.

Or atleast, thats the plan...

>>41885521
Thanks!

>>41885558
The art showed a Peacemaker.

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>>41885558
I believe pixel used a Colt Army for reference, though a Colt Navy would be rather appropriate. I'm not handheld /k/ enough to know the difference, presumably barrel length or something

>>41885558
Looks like a colt navy, seems appropriate.

I'M AWAKE!

... And it's over...

Okay, time to sleep then. Good Night to all.

>>41885435
Ok, after some re-reading, I need to re-do a few things so I'll post it tomorrow.

>>41885594
ITS BLOODY AFTERNOON FOR ME. HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL.

>>41885568
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>>41885582
Hmm... Colt Navy is more fitting, but SAA has modern cartridges and MUH STOPPING POWER...

Peacemaker it is!

And for the anon who long ago told me to "put your shitty writefagging on a pastebin, jesus christ":

http://pastebin.com/u/ShipBellsAnon

Enjoy Arizona's ship-bells. Totally non-canon.

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I HAVE FINISHED FUCKING UP SETTLE'S FACE.

>>41885754
Dat grin. So full of win.

>>41885754
He looks pissed.

>>41885780
This is how I imagine Settle with Goto, a shit eating grin.

>>41885784
Well, that was not intended, I guess I have to practice more

>>41885564

Be sure to get my good fucking side.

>>41886150
>implying

>>41884403
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>>41884531
>Abyssal Admirals all dislike each other while their ships never have problems in a complete inverse to how it is with us.

I'm okay with this.

Iowa's tale just gets more and more interesting.

>>41885270
No this is one of the Abyssal mindfuck attacks most likely.

But I do know another Battleship which is certain abyssal, the first Battleship Texas.
>Builders did bad job with it things always going wrong.
>Ship considered Jinxed to the point that the crews called it "Old Hodoo"
>Crew hated serving on it because people kept dying.
>Ran aground despite supposedly parking in the best berth in a town.
>Was used as a target practice before world war 1, continued being used as a target practice between and during the wars and had her corpse blown up in the 50s because she was blocking traffic.

Yeah I can't see her being happy.

>>41886150
YES CORPORAL.

I WILL MAKE YOU LOOK ADORABLE, CORPORAL.

>>41886652
Y know what I'm waiting on, I'm waiting on whatever in the ever-loving fuck started resurrecting ships as shipsluts to rear its hideous, deformed head. I kinda wanna see why it thinks doing this is hilarious.

>>41885484
Breddy gud

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Meanwhile all the poor museum girls are sitting around wondering why people have stopped visiting them.

>>41887047

Funny you should mention it and use that exact image....

>>41887047
I kind of makes me wonder how things are going to be, after the initial shock is over... Japan already has fat, sweaty nerds drooling all over their moe ship-tans... What about more reasonable people? Will the fleet girls be able to be... Human?

>>41887308
Depends on their surroundings, and what they interact with

>>41888039
I was thinking of the other museum ship girls. Are they already awake, even when Abyssals haven't hit their berth yet? You think one day, little Timmy's going to step aboard the USS Intrepid or USS Kidd and just find a smiling, slightly confused girl there, waving to them, only to have daddy hurriedly pull them off the ship?

...I am now imagining the USS Constitution sailing out into the bay, a little perplexed at why she was in dock for so long, then being all starry-eyed at the city around her. She'd be so fascinated by even the little things. "The city's so bright, even at night-time! There's so many colors lighting up the sky! But isn't it a little sad to not see the stars?"

>>41887047
God, the North Carolina twins are gorgeous.

I'm kind of contemplating joining the writefaggotry by focusing on the fairies.

I can't help it! I really like the idea of a society of tiny people, living alongside full-sized humans. The Borrowers was good, but i don't like the idea of them stealing from humans... I prefer it if they have their own, tiny-sized, self-made tools, homes and societies.

I'm also looking forward to when Yamato actually has a chance to deploy. What a sight that'll be... Imagine her walking to the shore, dead silence all around as the entire base watches. No-one knows quite what to say, at the sight of the mightiest battleship of all time, who was sunk without ever having a chance to meet a worthy enemy, finally sailing to the war she deserves. Then, from the crowd, there's a sudden shout. "Banzai!" The call is taken up by thousands of Japanese voices. "Banzai! Banzai! Senkan Yamato banzai!" Whether it is a good or an evil omen remains to be seen, but with the return of the battleship that bears the most ancient and sacred name of their islands, it's as if all the pride of the Japanese people has returned at once. Yamato has to lower her head to hide the single tear of happiness that wells up from inside her... And the tremor of fear at how much hope rests on her slender shoulders, even as her fellow fleet girls, some of which once fought against her, welcome her to the ocean.

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>>41888628
sure why not
throw shit at the thread and see what sticks

>>41888398
That would be fucking cool though. Say after the abyssals are gone or even if the public just calms down enough that shipgirls aren't scary and the girls aren't doing anything.

Just chilling, looking around the ship and then the cute tour guide girl turns out to be the ship herself. Imagine what the Q and A sessions could be like.

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>>41888628
>implying she won't get rekt as soon as she enters the water

>>41889473
That'd be her role, silly. The Yamato class ships can take absolutely absurd amounts of damage without sinking and are giant intimidating battleships, so she's a perfect deco- er, tank. While she's getting the shit slapped out of her, everybody else is getting neither shit nor slapping.

>>41889975
If they bring out Yamato, it's probably because there are enough Abyssals that everyone is going to get some shit slapped out of them.

>>41890212
Yeah, but HOTERU is going to get slapped harder, and thus non-HOTERU assets will be less-slapped.


Alternatively, she'll be brought out because she defected to the USA and the USA uses their battleships.

>>41890247
Well yeah, she's a big imposing target and unless you have the assets to peel away escorts first and not need to be worried about her guns, which the abyssals might we don't know, she's going to draw lots of fire that's how it works.

As for her being brought out it will either be for last ditch defense or the might armada that hopes to end the abyssal threat once and for all.

Which would be cool to see, Iowa, Yamato, Kongou etc all lined up and sailing together.

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>>41890313
When Yamato sails, Abyssals are right to quake. She's not the kind of ship to be wasted on low or mid-priority targets; Yamato is only brought out when you either have the biggest damn threat ever and nothing can afford to be held back; or when you have a mission of such importance, it justifies sending the most destructive force to ever float to make sure it's deader than the dinosaurs. Yamato should not be held back for fear of her destruction, but because when she is deployed, she WILL win, if properly handled. In WW2, she could have turned the tide of battles, but fear of her destruction held her back until there was nothing even she could do to change her fate and that of the Empire. Now she's back, Japanese command fears losing her again, exactly as they did in WW2 and for exactly the same reasons.

It's understandable; if she sinks, it's a valuable asset wasted, but if she never sails, she's just as wasted as if she were at the bottom of the ocean. Yamato is needed and to waste her in port for a second time, for the same reasons, would be a CRIME. Don't waste her, but let her sail. In a fleet with support, good tactics and a purpose, she wins battles; the only fear she needs to have is not being used until it is far, far too late.

Can you tell I'm rather fond of her?

>>41890483
I though the most destructive force to ever float would be whatever had the most nukes onboard.

And HOTERU has no nukes, unless R&D has been very very naughty.

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>>41890483
I can tell fellow Yamato fan. As for what you said, it is what I meant though in much clearer language.

Though as a shipgirl, there are other issues that need to be addressed, like her own lack of confidence in herself. So if we get the chance an appropriate but perhaps slightly easier mission would be a good place to blood her and allow her to prove herself.

>>41890506
God, can you imagine modernised Yamato with nuclear artillery shells in a secure magazine? Only enough for a volley or two, but whatever is hit is never, EVER getting up again...

But no. Nukes haven't been used in this conflict yet for a reason and even besides that, Japan has a very strict 'No nuclear weapons' policy. I WONDER WHY.

>>41890531
Like maybe leading the counter-invasion of Iwo Jima? It's the first Abyssal surface base we've seen, so it's a priority target, but as it's freshly taken, it likely only has a comparatively small fleet protecting it, for now. And 16-inch shells wreak just as much havoc on land targets as ocean-going ones.

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>>41890602
>16-inch
I thought they were 18" guns?

>>41890602
Well, Yamato uses 18 inch shells, but yes the idea is similar. If we do need to pound the shit out of the island to "kill" it, then Yamato perhaps leaving in secret along with the other BB's and BC's would be a good way for her to get combat experience.

But first we need to get the rest of the fleet out of there or we're not going to have anybody who can help.

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>>41890634
>18-inch
I have shamed myself. 46cm guns, of course. I was fooled because they were officially designated 40cm, in an effort to hide their true size (good GOD, Yamato has some impressive... 'artillery')!

Heh, whenever she first sails, if she comes back victorious, there's going to be the MOTHER of all receptions waiting for her. I wonder if Planefag will go as far as the Chrysanthemum Throne..?

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>>41890669
Personally I would like to see Yamato and Musashi sail together along with all four Iowa sisters and whatever else we have and could scare up between now and then. I think the Emperor would come out for that.

Doubt it will happen though, planefag is keeping things small for the moment.

>>41890768
Japan has historically had very close ties with the UK. A visit from Task Force Z or similar ships would be interesting. Yamato meeting HMS Warspite, King George V, or Prince of Wales would be a royal sight...

But yeah, not until much later in the quest. First, I'mma advocate for fairy integration with our logistical and R&D forces.

>>41890873
Seeing as how fairies currently cause SAN loss to most people, I don't think that is going to happen, especially because the girls don't want to talk about it.

But a visit from the British would be cool, especially since its been confirmed large parts of there FUCKING ENORMOUS battle fleets have come back and are currently wrecking abyssal shit in the Atlantic.

>>41890483
>or when you have a mission of such importance, it justifies sending the most destructive force to ever float to make sure it's deader than the dinosaurs

Bitches never heard about W23 or 'Katie' shells, which are significantly more destructive then anything Yamato ever fit.

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>>41890927
But the abyssals have demonstrated the ability to bitchslap somebody straight in the SAN whenever they get a line of communication open, which in theory should be as simple as broadcasting on a civilian or international channel. We need people who can take a bit of SAN damage and brush it off, and the only way to confirm and/or train for that is to let it happen.

I'm half convinced that part of the reason Settle could handle talking with the Iwo Jima abyssal and Goto couldn't is that Settle's interacted with faeries before and is thus acclimated to shipslut weirdness.

>>41891052
That's an interesting idea. But it would cut down on the already limited number of people who can interact with the shipgirls even more, as there are going to be people who just can't handle the fairies.

As for the abyssals just using civilian channels, it seemed that they were focused on Goto and Settle straight over the phone. If they could do the SAN loss whammy all the time, they probably wouldn't let up.

>>41891052
>I'm half convinced that part of the reason Settle could handle talking with the Iwo Jima abyssal and Goto couldn't is that Settle's interacted with faeries before and is thus acclimated to shipslut weirdness.
But we all know the real reason for Settle's immunity. He's already insane.

>>41891115
Just because you're already insane doesn't mean you can't break even harder.

>>41890927
I think the SAN loss is just the first time they see them and are stunned by the tiny people. Even shipgirls, people can understand them as 'human'. A human the size of a squirrel is something people aren't really prepared for. Once they get used to them, it'll be fine. Besides, who can dislike something that cute?

Besides, talking about taking Iwo Jima... Fairy marines, anyone? That'd be the cutest thing in the world and Hate would be practically CACKLING with the idea of training/leading his own miniature corps of chaos-causers!

>>41891052
That is a point... Maybe a brief bit of exposure to fairies, or even prolonged exposure, can act as an inoculation?

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>>41891184
This is also a very real possibility. But you need to be a little bit eccentric to thrive.

Besides, this would mean the entire British military is immune to whatever head-fuckery the Abyssals can throw.

>>41891105
I still say we need to have some People look into those abyssal-sympathizers that got wiped out and double check that they're actually dead

>>41891052
Or maybe we died in LA and became a fairy ourselves

>>41891235
Seeing as how Settle has seen fairies on a few occasions and still gets hit with the effect, I don't think it's just shock. Sure, there are some things you could get over just like that, like them just being tiny, but there is something fundamentally different about them that would need to actually be studied and we can't do that right now since the limited number of ships and girls are all needed to fight, not to mention finding scientists, sane/insane enough to do them while being open minded enough to go with what they actually find.

As for Hate, I think he mostly just wants to go back to killing people and breaking things the old way. Or maybe to go back to Iowa.

>>41891262
The open ones probably are. If there are any remaining that's secret squirrel stuff.

>>41891235
>Besides, this would mean the entire British military is immune to whatever head-fuckery the Abyssals can throw.

That would help explain how the Royal Navy is holding out so well.

>>41891467
>That would help explain how the Royal Navy is holding out so well.
Not for long~

>>41891499
You got something planned?

>>41891505
Mhm. Can't promise it'll be up to the lofty standards set by Hornet et al but hopefully you'll enjoy it.

Aw fuck it, I'll do the drunken adventures of Big E and Wasp.

Which shipslut is the best rapper?

>>41891608
Bongo


I just had a thought.
Maybe the reason why Arizona doesn't speak isn't because she's unable.
Maybe her voice is just really obnoxious, or she's otherwise embarrassed by it.

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>>41891726
Either of those would be great.

>>41891726
I like the idea that she's just hasn't seen any reason to speak yet.

>yfw Ari's cute western twang

>>41891325
What really IS the effect of seeing a fairy? Questioning of reality? That seems entirely reasonable, to me. Settle has encountered fairies a grand total of twice. The first time was the only real 'interaction' with them we've had, which was simply issuing orders and learning they can communicate in pidgin Japanese and amongst themselves. The second time, we were a stage for a fairy flipping its shit, where we discovered they can also swear in Japanese. Quite eloquently, in fact!

At first, our reaction was shock, followed by laughter and the second time, we laughed our asses off, I gathered, primarily because we just saw a hard-boiled, circular-saw-wielding marine get cussed out of the room by something roughly 10-20cm tall. I defy you to NOT laugh at that!

>>41891467
Or it could be the fact that the Royal Navy that the shipgirls are coming from was the largest, most technologically developed, disciplined and drilled navy in the WORLD.

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>>41891538
Oh god, I can understand not EVERYTHING going their way (especially in the early days), but I'm hopeful they won't get their ass completely kicked.

...Wow, forget the USS Constitution, what about the HMS Victory?! I've been aboard that grand old girl! Having her awaken in Portsmouth would be... She may not be up to active combat, but as admiralty staff... She had NELSON die aboard her! The greatest naval mind ever to come from a nation that RULED THE WAVES-!

>tfw will never see the Wilhelm Bauer
IT'S RIGHT THERE AT BREMERHAVEN. SUMMON HER/HIM YOU LAZY KRAUTS.

>>41892227
>tfw no motherly USCGC Eagle/SSS Horst Wessel to guide shipgirls onto the proper path.

>>41892178
I'm curious on the Middle East and African navy?

>>41892698
You mean in the Royal Navy? I know we had a small contingent in India and the colonies, but our only battleship presence there was the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse of Task Force Z, both of which were sunk by Japanese planes. We later sent the HMS Warspite and four Revenge-class battleships out there, but they were withdrawn after seeing little action.

I can't find much of anything on Africa, I'm afraid...

>>41892889
Africa only had a few cruisers and the like going about normal patrols. Most of Africa was colonized at the time, so any naval power supporting them would be other European nations, so the Med or North Atlantic was a better place to force project. The same for the middle east.

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>>41891538
>HMS Warrior wakes up to find she has a fake engine, prosthetic masts and fiberglass cannons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78b67l_yxUc
>loots the Explosion! museum
>burns down Northwood base
>punches the First Sea Lord in the dick until he agrees to change his name to Oil Fuel Hulk C77

Do you think any British carriers will show up in Japan? Historically they had a small pacific fleet that helped with the final push on the home islands. But the war ended before the mainland was invaded.

They had a reputation for being unbreakable because they had armoured decks, unlike the US carriers. There were structural issues later in life because of this but they still had surprisingly low casualties.

>>41884974
>After a short hiss of breath, Iowa’s first punch goes through the entire vending machine, almost folding it in half around her right arm. Glass, metal, and cheap junk food explode in almost every direction, bouncing off her clothes and skin harmlessly.
Heh, boarding team's face when.

>>41893773
>Heh, boarding team's face when.
Also our face when we try to take Iwo Hime

>>41893773
Wouldn't put money on it

>>41893773
fun fact the British carriers were one of the inspirations the basis for the midway-class armored carriers. that were built at the end of the war

>>41893773
Iowa let the boarding team on and off without seeing her, can't remember where they said that though.

>>41894058
Fun fact: the above statement is completely incorrect.

Midway only had armored flight decks because their size required it.

>>41892178
I dunno, if I saw the fairy swearing at me I'd probably flip my shit.

>>41894231
Nothing said that they went straight to the medbay.

>What the fuck happened to this vending machine jesus christ

>Why faeries = san loss
Because what the FUCK are they?
At fucking BEST they're tiny independent spontaneously generated minds that operate from inside a shipgirl. At worst, it's goddamn necromancy. the souls of the fucking dead come back to life, dragged back from their graves in the abyss. Then there are nice little side notes, like potential hiveminds, or being absorbed bodily back into a shipgirl after they return.
If you actually start thinking about them, they're far more frightening than the shipgirls themselves.

>>41894473
It's going to happen eventually that some character is going to come along and just not give a shit about faeries.
Incredibly weird shit about our reality that we do not understand and previously thought not possible is actually stupid common.

>Dude what the fuck? This shit isn't making you trip balls?
>Nah, I read enough fiction that I could probably think of a hundred ways they could work and most of those a creepy but who the fuck cares? They're here and they're cool.
>BUT THEY DON'T MAKE SENSE FUCK
>Clearly they do and we just don't know how yet faget

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>>41894473
Idk, I'd say they're pretty low priority on the fear scale. Abyssals and all their bullshit are dozens of times more scary than anything regarding the fae, accepting ship grils in the first place.