FIRST POST

>>43526472
in after navy

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There fleet had support vessels present - Harder's debriefing report established that conclusively. And those SIGINT specialists have finally, finally isolated a reliable method of detecting abyssals.

You glance at Haruna for a second - scared, uncertain and tremulous - and feel your heart sink. One thing you've learned very well in your first week at Yokosuka is how the shipgirls are mysteries even to themselves - with the ocean swarming with enemies, they haven't had much time for self-reflection. You've heard more than once how Goto's been unable to support them on a personal level like he once did; and judging from what Haruna said about Kongou's... affections, they sorely miss it.

You sigh and rub your head - they never covered *this* at Annapolis.

[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

>>43526489
[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

>>43526489
>[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

>>43526489
>[X] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

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>>43526489
>[X] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

ITS TIME

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>>43526489
>[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.
BUT
>Ask Haruna to keep you in the loop about this sort of thing, and to bring it up with you if she feels any of the girls are in desperate need of help. DELEGATE THE DAIJOBOU

>>43526472
>[X] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

>>43526489
I really don"t want more combat anytime soon. That shit is much more confusing than talking to people.

>>43526573
>>43526489
Seconded!

>>43526573

Protip, that's exactly how that fucking conversation goes, too.

>>43526591
I would rather have combat we're prepared for than combat that we aren't expecting

>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

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>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?
We Shirou now.

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

>[X]There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

>>43526472

>[X] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

Maybe we can get around to that movie night we tossed around all those moons ago. You are now imagining Sammy's reaction to classic Godzilla flicks.

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?
Both seem kind of shitty, but it can't be help. Settle himself realize that he can't help them or fix them, it's beyond him but he's willing to try his best even if it kills him.

>>43526489
>other
Haruna seems to be the up-and-up on current shipgirl morale and seems to have a nose for gossip. Recruit her into helping us wrangle the worst cases before they crack.

>[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.
BUT
>Ask Haruna to keep you in the loop about this sort of thing, and to bring it up with you if she feels any of the girls are in desperate need of help. DELEGATE THE DAIJOBOU

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>>43526489
>[x] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

>>43526489
>[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive

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When will we build ourselves a Gouf Gunpla so we can truly become Ramba Ral?

>>43526616
OHGODYES.

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WE WILL SAVE EVERYONE AND YOU WILL LIKE IT

>>43526489
>[X] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

Though we're really going to need to form a support staff for this. In the end, Settle's still one man compared to over a hundred shipgirls.

>>43526489
[X] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

This is not a bad repeat of WW2 and all you fucking Kanmusu need to get that through your thick skulls.

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>>43526573
>>43526472
We just asked one Kongou to help keep Goto sane, why not ask another one to help keep the rest of the ships sane.
Battleships are a rock in a storm

>>43526489
>[x] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

Settle is the fleet uncle. You can trust him to look after the kids when dad isn't around.

>>43526628
This actually sounds good no matter what we do, add it to winning vote?

>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

For a lot of these girls, winning victories won't change whats bothering them. They need someone who pays attention to them among the masses

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

>>43526664
Sounds like a solid enough plan. Now how will it bite us in the ass?

>>43526628
>>43526573
These.

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>>43526664
This. Even if they really aren't battleships.

Kongou sisters will be our shipslut staff. In addition to Naka I mean, of course.

>>43526659

You just keep thinking that. I need the fucking entertainment.

>>43526489
>[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.
BUT
>Ask Haruna to keep you in the loop about this sort of thing, and to bring it up with you if she feels any of the girls are in desperate need of help. DELEGATE THE DAIJOBOU

Part of being an officer is delegating duties, get some of the other well adjusted shipgirls to help as well.

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>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?
Yay, we frolic in the sun now!

>>43526489
>[X] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

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[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

NO SHIP LEFT BEHIND

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>>43526645
We need to convince Goto to cosplay as Tetsuya Tsuyuki first.

first bad idea of the day! woohoo!

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>>43526684
>Now how will it bite us in the ass?
Well, Haruna might be so knowledgable because she's a gossip that nobody likes, even if I don't get that impression from what we've seen.
She might get overwhelmed by this responsibility on top of her own issues and crack like Naka did.
She might go full Burning Love.
She might have poor judgement as to what issues are important, leading to us scrabbling around after innocent hurt feelings like someone in a VN.
We might become overwhelmed even by the filtered version of events, and drink even more heavily as the full scope of 70+ young women struggling to be human while fighting a war descends upon us even indirectly.

I'm not saying these are all likely, but examining what can go wrong is important

and thus settle worked himself to death inside of two weeks. or ooi punched him and shattered his braincase.

The rank that Goto unofficial carries is equivalent to the US Navy rank of Admiral of the Navy.
With no lower Admirals than Settle which is Bullshit in the Extreme.

>>43526489
>[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

GET THEM TO FOCUS AND THEY GET OVER THEIR PROBLEMS.

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>>43526758
We're just warming up, child.

>>43526489
[x] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

Settle already has a hard time keeping up.

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?
It's not a planefag quest if we aren't helping FUCKING EVERYBODY

FUCKERS THINK THEY CAN JUST HAVE WRONG STUFF AND GET AWAY WITH IT
NOPE, SHITS GETTING FIXED WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

>>43526489
>[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

We haven't had all that good a run dealing with shipgirl issues. We're 2 for 2 in winning battles. Let's go kick some Abyssal ass on our terms, not theirs. Also, let's finally get some psychologists on-staff...

>>43526489
>[x ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

Didn't Haruna say last thread that the "decisive battle" thing is scaring the fucking hell out of them?

>>43526489
[X] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

Oh, I will enjoy the flailing around as Settle tries to save everyone.

Word to the wise, you can't.

>>43526684
Very, very hard.

>>43526709
Which is why I'm voting for it.

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Hey Planefag

Heard you like Stalkers

>>43526800
Going on the offensive doesn't have to mean decisive battle. In this case I think it means things like actively and aggressively following up on leads like abyssal capture, abyssal logistics, abyssal detection, etc.

We are fucked either way aren't we?

>>43526831
Yes.

Oh, probably.

Well if anyone has any better ideas, I'm all ears.

>>43526787

That's the same line of thought that leads to "beatings will improve morale"

anon can't into psychiatry?

>>43526831
We can get fucked in style.

We're saving every ship or going down with them.

Hope you guys can swim.

>>43526684
We get very attached to a ship-girl and planefag kills her off (or insane amounts of suffering).

>>43526855
Well, we have too many shipgirls. Scrap some of them for resources.

Could we try and comfort the shipgirls AND suggest that Goto take the lead in planning a counter-attack?

Man this is a shit situation no matter how you slice it.

We need more people goddamnit. More people like Parker or Hate that can at least give some attention to these girls.

>>43526489

>[X] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

>>43526855
How about actually trying to focus on our real job and stop trying to pretend we can save everyone because we are big strong admiral who all ships must love? We need to prove to these girls that this is NOT going to be like "last time".

>>43526873
You're not beating them hard enough.

>>43526881
2-4-11!

>Man, it must suck to be China in-verse
>Nobody respecting your underwater clay, economic tensions at a high
>Suddenly massive naval treat worldwide you can barely hope to contain
>And then over the course of a year and a half the Japs and Americans go from having one carrier in the region to having 8+ and literally doubling the size of their fleet
>They basically have no hope of shipgirls of their own

>>43526855
Fixing peoples issues selflessly is an easy way to guilt them into fixing ours. THIS IS WHY WE ARE BETTER THAN ANIMALS.

>>43526892

How would we even go about solving that, who would we even go to?

Or is this something we have to let resolve itself?

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>>43526489
>[x] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

WE ARE HEALING TYPE ADMIRAL

>>43526883
>AND suggest that Goto take the lead in planning a counter-attack?
I'd guess the intel guys are working 25/8 in figuring out the lines of the enemy from our newly collected intel. Or at least figuring out how to figure them out. Until then there's little attack to counter.

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

It's not like Goto and the intel weenies are just gonna sit on their asses if we're not getting them to do stuff.

A counter attack should be in the cards regardless. Right? Right?

>>43526904
Easy mate, I'm not voting for the option myself.

Plus certain people basically all but using popcorn gifs in their posts aren't helping much.

>>43526913
And by fixing ours we mean getting our torpedoes in their sterns. Or is that just Ushio?

>>43526855
Give them something to do. A job outside of being shot at and blown up by not!America.

>>43526909
If Zheng He's treasure fleet comes back I'll eat my hat.

>>43526948
God I hope so.

>>43526489
[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

We can go on the offensive when we actually have a concrete target.

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>>43526684
exposed to high concentrations of DESS since birth, there's no way these girls came out normal.

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>>43526952
>Plus certain people basically all but using popcorn gifs in their posts aren't helping much.

votes called, writing

>>43526929
>healing type
Wait until Arizona tries to manifest her Hull if you want Healing. That's going to go so well with her emotional state.

>>43526489
>[x] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

Oh god, please don't let that other vote win.

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>>43526957
Hoppo threw a party at Iwo Jima and nobody came except B-52s.

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>>43526983
We should still counter attack the Abyssals regardless.

>>43526489
>[X] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

"Haruna, let me show you how this time, it will be different."

>>43526948
At our last meeting with them, the consensus was to attempt to capture an abyssal to gain intel.
The plan to have a submarine trail a retreating abyssal was put aside (which I wholefuckingheartedly agree with).
Work was begun to get our listening arrays able to track abyssal signatures, which would allow less reactionary defense and analysis of logistics actually possible, theoretically

Also
>Everybody voting to let Goto handle things
>He has explicitly confided to us that he's giving us so much authority because he's on the damn edge of breaking

>>43526996
B-52 a shit

>>43526988
HA
HA
HA

WE UBW NOW

>>43526489
>[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

pls choose smart choice

>>43526973
>Go The Fuck to Sleep
Still haven't read that book. I need to get it soon.

>>43526873
"Beatings will continue until morale improves"

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>>43527015
We need to put Isokaze in a wedding dress and tie her up with magical rope first. Then it is UBW.

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

>>43527013
It doesn't mean we won't do our part in the planning, but that's not really in our hands until there's decisions to make. Intel is not our hat.

We could do some work with training exercises and stuff though. And still fits in the "take care of the asylum" cathegory.

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

>>43526996
>Akagi waiting tables
>eats customers food
How can you not see the potential in this?

>>43526983

God help us all.

>>43527047
Oh I know, I was just bringing it all up as a minor recap of what the current plans on that level were

>>43527063
Faith in CNO
Trust in CNO

>>43526800
She said that the battleships and carriers are getting excited for a decisive battle, but the destroyers and cruisers are nervous and everyone in general is getting scared.

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Soon.

>>43526983
It's time.

>>43527101
She will make our cane go all doki doki.

>>43526855
Wasn't there an idea floating around of trying to summon a logistics or hospital shipgirl to help us fix all the mental problems?

>>43526973
>kongou is an awesome oneechan

FTFY

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>>43527124
Lewd!

>>43526916
Generally it's an NCO's job to make sure his people are in a good place, mentally. We could look into promoting the more stable shipgirls but we'll probably need more than three.

>>43526983
>>43526628
Don't forget this.

>>43527136
There was, though in the conversation where anon was considering the idea Goto was very bluntly telling us how fucked-up summoning is for the ships that experience it

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>>43527021
>>43526988

>>43527136
There was.

Then people started to realize that not many of those sunk in situations that won't cause them to go Abyssal the second they wake up.

Still, there's some chance. Not much, but some.

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>>43527136
admin ships are qt
but cast inflation is bad
so maybe after naka becomes an hero

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Unlimited Shipfu Works

>>43527170
I guess we wouldn't really want a mentally scarred shipgirl trying to fix other shipgirls, hopefully one comes back by themselves at some point.

>>43527213
Naka is going Abyssal, followed by Sendai when guilt piles up enough over not being able to save her sister.

>>43526489
[X] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

Although we may need to address the first option with Goto.

A successful sortie may boost spirits to lessen our load. Why not a small fleet of support tenders and the corgis? They need to burn off the energy, and they're meant to be a screen of sorts. With what we now have for an acoustic signature belonging to abyssals, we should be able to increase our reaction time to them appearing, and hopefully some assets nearby for a swift attack before they disappear.

>>43527223
Sendai class is shit anyway.

>captcha wants bodies of water
That's it, captcha is going abyssal.

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>>43527213
>Our face when the USN starts summoning ships and we're buried under dozens of new girls who we have literally no hope of managing let alone knowing while planefag fiddles and yokosuka burns

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>>43527247
I'll be 70 and still be laughing at this pic.

>>43527247
I hope we're able get some captains to ride herd on the girls by the time that happens

>>43527263
>>43527247
based bomber grape.

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>>43527263
>>43527278

Poor Admiral can never catch a break

So while we wait for our impending doom, does anyone wanna read about what is essentially the closest thing the USS Enterprise had to a nemesis?

>>43527311
Ah, the "Dead Man's Switch" leadership method.

I've never seen it last very long.

>>43527322
Is this Zuikaku, or someone else?

>>43526489
>[ ] There's only one of you and a lot of scared shipgirls - you can't possibly help them all. And they're not just girls - they're also warships to the core. If you want to put the brakes on the deteriorating morale, you need to stop chasing the abyssals all over the ocean and take the initiative back - you need to go on the offensive.

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>>43527322
GIB HISTORY PLOX

>>43527322
Sure, why not. Shoukaku?

>>43527348
It's too late

It's the future we chose

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>>43527240
you might think, shit that's a lot of drama to go through for three nothing-special light cruisers

but imagine the shitstorm of raising taxes to build those three light cruisers

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>>43527340
>>43527349
>>43527363

Well you aren't wrong.

http://www.cv6.org/company/accounts/arima/

Meet Lieutenant Keiichi Arima who was Val pilot who flew from the Shokaku. Flew in China and then fought at Eastern Solomons and the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

In both those battles, his plane hit the Enterprise (this is actually confirmed by a lot of historical books if anyone is skeptical), and both times he came away without a scratch.

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>>43527395
>That blush as he gropes her through the sheet

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Yandere Higgins when

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>>43527431
He led a charmed life.
Also,
>FUCK YOU GAIJIN PIGGU FLATTOP IMMA SINK YOU

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>>43527431

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>>43527555
>Higgins with a gnarly scar over one eye and an actual harpoon

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PF's eating
Post CHEEENNNNNNNNs

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>>43527684

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>>43527684
No, post Nui

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>>43527709
No post Fat Stacks

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>>43527684

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>>43527431
Here's a more detailed description of his attack at Eastern Solomons from Lundstrom's the First Team.

"From over the port quarter of the turning Enterprise, Arima weighed in immediately behind ill-fated Yasuda and Kitamura. He saw fighters intercept planes ahead, several of which blossomed bright red flames. Antiaircraft fire unlike anything he ever encountered in China seemd to envelope his aircraft.

After pushing over into the dive, Arima called out the changing altitudes to his pilot, PO1c Furata Kiyoto, as the Aichi's broad dive brakes caught the thickening air. He was surprised by the forest of tracers easily visible in daylight. Shrapnel noisily rattled through wings and fuselage, but inflicted no fatal damage.

The highly experienced Furuta loosed his bomb and recovered low over the water. Arima saw it strike the carrier's flight deck for the first his ever scored on 'The Big E'. At 1644 his 250 kilogram ordinary (semi-AP) bomb penetrated the starboard corner of her number 3 elevator aft. It sliced through the third deck before detonating in the chief's quarters, causing extensive loss of life"

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>>43527726
No, summon Ghost with well tanned blondes

>>43527684
You got it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sIKYlxDxwE

>>43527740
>Hitting the Goat Locker
Welp

>>43527684
Better idea: begin the planefag summoning ritual

Post maids to summon planefag!

>>43527555

How you think she'll do against Arizona?

Not well is my guess.

>>43527782
It'll be another 2 hours minimum, just wait patiently.

>>43527555
Higgins is for daughter or sister, not yandere

>>43527753

Musashi a best.

>>43527789
Well, not in a fair, close-in fight, but she has stand off range with those missiles

>>43527789
Depends on range. Up close she's fucked but at long range she'd have a better chance.

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>>43527813
SUCCESS

>>43527837

MMMMmmmmmm, dem hard brown abs tho~

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>>43527740
>>43527431
oh, his BOMBS hit the enterprise.
that's a bit less impressive. you made it sound like he kamikaze'd big E twice and moonwalked away.

>>43527007
Definitely agreed. We owe it to these girls to, as I've said before, become their father, their brother, their husband and lover and also their commander.

It's an impossible task, but these times are impossible and call for men who can do the impossible. To break under such a call is no shame, but to do so jeopardizes all of mankind. We can only hope and do our best to make sure Settle is up to the task.

But for all that, for all we need to do everything we can to make these girls feel like Shipgirls, not mere warships, we also need to remember not to treat them completely as young women. They are warriors and warriors need a war and it is a war we have to win.

It's time to strike back, even as we temper our force. We do not wait until the iron is hot to strike, but make it hot by striking!

>>43527837

Why have you brought me here, to this place?

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>>43527901
The same reason wizards do anything, I imagine

It was another clear night over the Atlantic, not a bird in the sky, not a fellow plane, nor Abyssal, or even that crazy Lufftewaffle Red-head who gets pissy everytime I bounce one of hers. The radio traffic was just as clear and no wordless singing that was the most goddamn annoying thing ever.

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>>43527901
Give me your dankest memes. As recompense I offer super-heavy battleships.

>>43527940
No that's you you goddamn wanker, now shut up and pay attention to the skies.

>>43527927

WIZARDS: MUCH LIKE PLANEFAG, NO SENSE OF RIGHT AND WRONG.

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>>43527940
Stop.

>>43527940
>>43527960
It's only 'nnoying 'cause he doesn't know th' words.

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>>43527940
>Singing over the radio
I'm on to you.

>>43527782
how do you summon planefag anyways nullify his denbts or post his true waifu

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>>43527992
>>43527960
>>43527940

>>43526489
>>43526573
>>43526628

I like the idea of delegating. Getting personally involved won't let us get everything addressed.

>>43526616
Also, a movie night or some other R&R activity would go a long way.

>Select all images with waffles.
No, I'm not gonna waffle on this one.

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>>43527992
>>43527960
>>43527940
Aren't you three supposed to be retired by now

>>43528016

Stop feeding the idiots.

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>>43527740

And finally he's his attack on the Enterprise at Santa Cruz:

"Arima's chutai (division) attacked from astern of the rapidly turning Enterprise two minutes after Seki. He noticed no defending fighters, but AA fire seemed much more severe than on A24 August. Numerous aircraft, including the group commander's, burst into flame from the furious barrage. From his post in the sky control, Benny Mott (Enterprise Gunnery Officer) spotted the leader of the second group emerging from the cloud at 8000 feet and aiming for the starboard quarter. To his gunners he bellowed over the bullhorn: "Four o'clock- four o'clock, get him!'.

The formidable AA did not deter Arima's pilot, PO1c Furata Kiyoto, from going low and securing his hit. At 1017, his 250 kilogram "ordinary" bomb punched through the center of the flight deck only 20 feet from the forward edge. Leaving only a small hole, it dropped clear of the deck, sliced through the forecastle, and detonated in midair near the port bow. The concussion blew one VB-10 SBD off the bow, killing Sam D. Presley, AMM1C, who had bravely manned its rear twin 30s. Set afire, a VS-10 SBD leaked burning gasoline onto the flight deck, ut plane handlers quickly pushed it over the bow and put out small flires. The bomb blast also roughed up the 1.1 inch AA mount recently installed on the forecastle and wounded the battery officer, Ensign Marshall Field Jr. Otherswise bomb damage was remarkably minor."

>>43528002
>planefag's true waifu

I MUST KNOW

>>43528054
keine

>>43528069
Post Keine lewds

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>>43528002
It's quite involved

>>43526489
>[ ] For all intents and purposes Goto outranks the *hell* out of you, which is why most of the serious paperwork and big decisions are still landing on his desk - or Admiral Thomas's. You're a one-star Rear Admiral in command of a single division, and a lesser workload to match - getting out there and mingling with the troops is something you can actually do. They don't all need personal attention - just the ones who haven't found friends among their peers or outside interests. Ones that have fallen through the cracks, like Shigure. If you don't reach out, who will?

Although I think we should prioritize the girls, the ones who seem to be in the most need should be identified and we should concentrate our efforts on them. And for God's sake, first among those efforts should be to assure they are safe at the base by bringing in some Goddamned security and ejecting the yakuza with extreme prejudice.

>>43528069
I thought Halley was his waifu?

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>>43528054
Mio obviously

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>>43528086
No

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>>43528093

>>43528092
>(WRAPPED IN AN AMERICAN FLAG)
Wait, is this the star wrapped in a flag, or each of the five people wrapped in a flag, or everyone wrapped in the same flag?

Belt fed IJN 25mm when?

>>43528130
All five wrapped in different American flags. Planefag prefers the ones with 48 stars, from during the Second World War.

>>43528130
Each of the five people, I think
>Ghost has actually fired a nambu multiple times

>>43528092
>nambu that hasn't killed its user
that is fucking impossible.
that pistol killed more japs than the nukes we droped on them.

>>43528054
his sister

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>>43528093
>literally an hour late

>>43528092
>>43528130
I do remember someone actually did all of that. Not sure if it was Ghost however.

>>43528157

Ok, to be fair, I had no *idea* how dangerous it was.

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>>43528174
SHOTS FIRED

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After a long, awkward silence, you catch Haruna's gaze again.

“Thank you for filling me in,” you tell her. “I'll attend to these problems personally.”

She looks at you uncertainly. “W-what are you going to do?”

“Whatever I need to,” you tell her flatly. “Haruna-” you sigh, and rub your face for a moment. “Haruna, you're a really sweet girl, so I'm going to apologize to you up front.”

She clutches her teacup like a safety blanket, apprehensive. “For what?”

“For being a blunt old sea-salt sumbitch,” you reply. “Haruna, I've faced the abyssals - personally. I've stared into their eyes. I'm afraid of losing one of you girls - I'm afraid of letting civilians get hurt or killed because I fucked up - I'm afraid of a lot of things, Haruna, but I'm *not* afraid of those sons of bitches.” You squeeze your folded hands together in frustration till they tremble slightly. “I'm not a damn psychologist. I'm no great leader who knows just what to say to motivate the troops. If I was, maybe I'd have-” you bite off that train of thought. “But that doesn't matter. I commanded a warship - just one warship. Just like you, or Kongou, or any of the kanmusu. And if I could, I'd do it again, and go into battle next to you - just like Fitzgerald and Mustin did, in that last scrap. And if I died, another would step up to take my place - and another, and another, and another. You and yours will never fight alone, because we are *not* afraid of those beasts. Regardless of anything else, I'm pretty sure I can convince your comrades of *that.*”

>>43528153
That's a thing?

I recall a japanese Anti-tank gun that might have been something like that....

Also can anyone tell me the difference between the Bren, ZB vz.27, and the Type 96?

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Haruna is staring at you, mouth hanging open. She blinks, remembering herself, and puts her teacup down too quickly. “Ah... ah... the... refill... your...” you reach over and slide the silver tea service towards her blindly groping hand. She picks it up by the spigot and tries to top off your teacup with the handle. After reversing it, she passes you the scones. You manage to coax Willie close enough to get some tea and scones into her. With Kongou gone you manage to have a nice, tasty tea-time, and when Haruna cleans up and leaves she's beaming as bright as ever, a rosy flush of happiness on her cheeks.

Harder bids her a polite goodbye and watches her leave, the 'wikki-wikki' of the cart's unoiled wheels fading into the distance. As soon as she's out of earshot, he steps back, slams the two sagging halves of your office door as best he can and rounds on your desk, where you're busy hooking your desktop computer back up.

“Really, skipper?” he says hotly. “Really? We're just gonna keep patting little destroyer-girls on the back, maybe ruffle their hair, give 'em a lollipop? We need to get off our asses-”

“And do what, Harder?” you retort as you power on the machine again. “Attack what? We've got a tracking method, we've got an enemy forming fleets big enough to need logistics, but we still don't have an actual target yet. Getting everyone whipped up for a big take-it-to-'em scrap only to get told oopsies, bad intel, our mistake?” You shake your head as you tap your login into the computer. “That's even worse.”

>>43528208

His fucking form is goddamn awful and just begging for three to center mass. But, fucking no, do go the fuck on.

>>43528213
>ZB vz.27
Original Recipe

>Bren
English Breakfast

>Type 96
Extra Crispy

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“Fffffffffffffff*uck,* Harder exclaims, tilting his head back and spitting the consonant at the ceiling. “I'm going to go stark raving mad cooling my heels around this place anymore.”

“I know,” you sigh. “Trust me, I *know.* But we just don't have anything to act on yet, and I can't just sit here answering e-mails till we do. Not when Goto's holding up most of the administrative bullshit on his own. If I can't even do the old 'management by walking around' then I may as well eat a fucking bullet now.”

Harder fixes you with an intense, focused look - and then it softens as he rolls his shoulders a bit, plopping back down on a box of books. “Well... you sure clobbered the bastards in that last one.”

You smirk at the unspoken apology. “So, how did it go with Naka, anyhow?”

Harder shrugs noncommittally. “Pretty well, I guess.”

>>43528208
>I'm no great leader who knows just what to say to motivate the troops.
>Haruna is staring at you, mouth hanging open.

Suuuuuuuuuuuuure.

>>43528100
>>43528096
>>43528069
Well, which is it???

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You nod, and wait as a poignant silence fills the room. After a minute the sound of your keyboard ceases. After two, you gently brush your monitor aside to gain an unrestricted view of the Gato-class, who's lazily studying something fascinating in the upper corner of your office.

“Harder?”

“Yeah, skip?”

“Talk.”

He flings his palms skyward. “About what?”

“Harder, if you think I won't come over this desk just because I've got a bum leg-”

“Okay, okay, okay,” he says, raising his hands in surrender. “She dragged me to some sing-along thing, we sung songs at each other. Turns out she's pretty smart. Still a stinkin smartass, but...” he shrugs. “Before I thought she was just a damn tart, you know? Backstabbing Jap with some Signapore Whore mixed in for good measure. But she just has a sharp sense of humor, you know? She was just ribbin me, in her way.” He shrugs nonchalantly and crosses his arms, extruding confidence. “Actually I'm kinda glad she isn't a square. Some of these dames, it's torpedoes this, torpedoes that, oh my god don't you just fucking love torpedoes and I'm like-” Harder flips his hand in the air with exasperation - “Hello? Hello? GATO CLASS TO NIPNONGCHINGCHONG, HELLO? Swear to God I've got more faith in my gun than they've got in their whole freaking broadside!”

>>43528284
Major Winters-tier stuff, man.

>>43528251
>“And do what, Harder?” you retort as you power on the machine again. “Attack what? We've got a tracking method, we've got an enemy forming fleets big enough to need logistics, but we still don't have an actual target yet. Getting everyone whipped up for a big take-it-to-'em scrap only to get told oopsies, bad intel, our mistake?” You shake your head as you tap your login into the computer. “That's even worse.”
I can accept this for now
>>43528277
>Talkin' with Harder about Naka
OH BOY

>>43528213
>Also can anyone tell me the difference between the Bren, ZB vz.27, and the Type 96?
First, I think you mean the vz.26.

Second, I think the clearest difference between the Bren and the vz.26 is the magazines: the vz.26 has a straight magazine (7.92x57mm), while the Bren uses a curved magazine (British 7.7mm/.303). The Type 96 is easy to tell from either: it's the one with the bayonet lugs.

>>43528256
More like three to the nads.

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>>43528277
> “Pretty well, I guess.”

>>43528054
Heather

>>43528054
It's you Anon, he's tsundere for you

>>43528297
Go home Giantdad

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Apparently this is a thing. (My apologies is this has been posted already.)

Needs more USN and Royal Navy...

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You smirk at that. “So you two are getting along, then?”

He humphs. “I understand her now. Didn't say we're getting along. She still thinks she's shit-hot, like she runs the place because she's got some quick quips.” He snorts. “We'll see about *that.*”

You raise an eyebrow. “Are you...”

“Yeah, she tried to duck me for a few days, but I caught up with her,” he confirms, cracking his knuckles. “Next time she tries to shoot the shit, she's bringing a shotgun to a punt-gun fight.”

You lean forward a bit. “You asked *her* out on a date?”

Harder turns the word over in his mouth for a moment, giving you a look of disgust mingled with disappointment. “Did you hear *anything* I just said?”

You lean back in your chair. “A rematch, then.”

“Exactly,” Harder retorts. “And I see that smirk.”

“Hmm?” you say innocently.

[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.
[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

>>43528303
>“Hello? Hello? GATO CLASS TO NIPNONGCHINGCHONG, HELLO?
Marry me Harder.

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

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>>43528297
It's mio

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we should probably give Harder a heads-up that Naka's been a bit on the edge lately

>>43528343
[X] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

All the Shipgirls need a helping hand, but Shigure needs it more than anyone else right now.

>>43528339
>still no rules for making ships

They might as well just admit its a wargame

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.
Once more unto the breach!
Also Sendai isn't wearing any panties...

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

Time to nip buds where we can.
>Did I make a pun?

>>43528316
Not sure on the Ballistics between the .303, and the 7.92. I do know the Japanese ammunition was not that great except during the brutal campaigns in the later stages of the Pacific.

and didn't they remove that part of the type-96 later on during the war?

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>>43528256

Y'know, Hate? You're really good at your job, and all, but sometimes you need to slow down and take in the context.

For instance, there are three intact destroyer girls in there, and the glass window in the door is only breaking right then. Which indicates he's breaching, but without putting a frag grenade into the room first.

Maybe. Just MABYE, he's not there to kill anyone! I know, it's a hard concept for you, but relax. Take your time. Get some tasty leaves to eat while your mate grooms your fur. Think it over a bit.

>>43528343
[X] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

ERE' WE GO

>>43528343
>starting at the source
>Settle completely ignores Arizona
Lel

>>43528343
>>[X] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

>>43528343
[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

>>43528174
Wait, is THAT why he has a toilet glock/shower knife?

>>43528343
[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

I don't think we can fix shigure, thats Gotos problem now

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.


Honestly I think Shigure is beyond our help. Any further intervention will make things worse for all parties involved.

>>43528339
Before I read 128 pages, why not just write an addon for Harpoon or something along those lines?

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

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>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.
Let's see if we can't find miss Poi. Maybe she can work Shigure better than us.

>>43528395

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU NOT LEAD WITH A FLASH AND A FRAG oh god you are making me so fucking mad holy shit.

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>>43528303
>Some of these dames, it's torpedoes this, torpedoes that, oh my god don't you just fucking love torpedoes

I see Harder's met Kitakami

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

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>>43528174

She's literally a yandere, though. There's nothing hot about that. The only people who think incest is hot are single children. Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you people.

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>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.
Cut down on the most recent cause of concern on-base eh? Count me in, Chief.

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

>>43528343
>[x] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

Procure daughteru.

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>>43528277
>>43528303
>>43528343
Harder...

>>43528421
I'm no good at building games mate. I'm just putting this out in case one of you fellas wanna do something with it.

>>43528395
Admiral, those are fae. They've just been biggified.

>>43528421
presumably, they want to keep it semi-simple, and in the vain of RNGesus, the game

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

>>43528343
>[x] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start a "I failed to kill a US president and after that my wartime experience was terrible" support group

Besides Willie D, who we all know launched a torpedo at FDR, Shigure attacked JFK, and the various next night she got her reputation for leading comrades to their doom when she lost a torpedo exchange with Maury.

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

And drag that fucker Hamp along with us while we're at it.

>>43528401
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

Even if nothing comes out of it, we should stop pretending nothing happened.

>Shigure tried to commit suicide
>Arizona's angry because we do things without her

Is this even real life?

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>>43528433
Thats rude onii-chan. You're just jealous I've got a significant other in my life!

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>>43528343
>[x] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

>>43528343
>[x] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

We are not a trained psych. the last thing we should be doing is messing with her. that's assuming they'll just let us have access to her in the first place.

I honestly can't see them just letting anyone in. It's almost certainly going to be medical personel only.

>>43528452
He said you don't like torpedoes, you know.

>People voting for Shigure
Your heart's in the right place, but I REALLY, REALLY THINK that Goto should be the one to talk to her.
He actually knows what summoning a shipgirl is like for them. He actually has experience with the weird-ass cultural shock and insecurity they're dealing with. He's actually her Admiral, and even if he hasn't been able to keep up with all of his girls I'd think that after a suicide attempt he could find the time for that, if nothing else

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

>>43528343
>[x] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

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>>43528483
You. I like you.

>>43528343
[x] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

>>43528472
>semi-simple
Mate this pdf is only 10 pages shorter than third-edition Harpoon

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>>43528054
>I MUST KNOW

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>>43528452
He's got it bad for you, dude!


>>43528401
What's more important, a girl who's just mad at you, or a girl who almost tried to kill herself on YOUR WATCH?

>>43528284
At this rate, half the goddamn base is going to be (very secretly and out of his sight) vying for a place in Settle's harem.

What's the right term for that? His flag fleet?

>>43528251
>>43528277
God, we DO need to fight them. We NEED to start hitting back and we need to do it as soon as possible... But just WHEN that is is about the thorniest subject I've ever seen. We wait too long and we won't have the strength left; we go too soon and we tip our hand and lose the chance to really deliver a telling blow.

>>43528343
>[x] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

Secure all bulkheads and load the guns. Action stations chaps! We're going right for the biggest damn problem (or at least the most obvious) right away.

We may not have the magic words to solve everything at once, but we can. Damn. Well. Try. And we are going to make enough headway to make her feel halfway to- Not 'human' but halfway to a real shipgirl.

This is our trial by fire gentlemen. We've had our shakedown cruise and now it's time to test ourselves for real.

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

>>43528484
Hamp is now promoted to babysitter.

>>43528521
Dat Freedom.

>[X] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

>>43528433
Okay... Been hearing allusions to this sister thing for this whole quest and the last few threads of SWQ that i aught. What the fuck is going on? Does planefags's sister want to rape him or something? SO he hides guns all around his house?

>>43528394
The .303 and the 7.92 were broadly comparable, I think - certainly the Poms and the Germans went toe-to-toe with them.

The Japanese 7.7mm was mostly comparable to the .303, I think, but as you say, the Japanese small-arms ammo situation was a clusterfuck no rational being would ever want to touch.

>>43528251

Haruna route when?

She might be actual competition for Glorious Shokaku

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

>>43528528
>But just WHEN that is is about the thorniest subject I've ever seen. We wait too long and we won't have the strength left
It's not even a matter of waiting, we literally haven't had the tools or ability to figure out a counterattack until recently. Wait for the Hyperwave SOSUS Decoder to do its work

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>>43528343
>[x] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.
I think it would be better to grease the wheels by talking to others, maybe Yuudachi, before talking to Shigure.

>>43528343
>[ x] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder

>>43528519
bulk of it is 1 page/ship for character sheets, and tables for noncombat cute girls doing cute things though.

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>>43528521
BEST TOUHOU

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Guys, we need to aggropease Shigure indirectly. We know she has at least one DD friend, so we can work with that. We can talk with her when she's back at 50% SAN.

Meanwhile, best make sure we don't end with more girls in the brig.

How many DDs do we have, by the way? I'm assuming DesDiv 6 and 7 at least?

>>43528343
>[X] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

>>43528552
rape is a strong word, but consider that planefag's sister was raised in the same conditions and by the same people that raised planefag himself, and that should answer your questions

>>43528575
>1 page/ship for character sheets
disgusting

>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder

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>>43528343
[X] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

Dunno what we are going to do, but when has that stopped us before?

>>43528528
Yaoi.

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

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>>43528096
>Halley is planefag's waifu

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

FRIENDSHIP AGGRESS

>[X] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.

>>43528556
Oh god yes. We need a kongou to match Goto's kongou.
Then we get Thomas a kongou.
And then the screaming begins when we find out that Kongou is the only one that loud in public. The others are loud at other times.

>>43528483
Perfect! Come on, Willie D! You've just pulled escort duty! You can bond over your shared POTUS-pedoing!

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>>43528556
>implying shokaku is competition for FREEDOM ships and yaoi route.

>>43528499
this guy has the right idea

>>43528552
Yeah that's about a good estimate

>>43528603
Indeed.

>>43528571
>Koishi got Kokoro pregnant
HOW EVEN

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>>43528497
Well, they don't agree with my digestion, that's for sure.

>>43528527
...yeah.

>>43528386
Japanese roleplaying mate. While the games we find translated tend towards what we are kinda familar with a lot of ones that don't are like Kancol in that you're playing something more akin to a pregen.

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>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.
Going directly to Shigure probably isn't the best plan currently. As much as I want to help her now, it just doesn't seem right at this time.

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start at the source - Shigure. No point in ducking it any longer.
Might want to bring along Poi- I mean Yuudachi

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>>43528639

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

>>43528416
>>43528495
I agree with these anons, trying to help Shigure right now is probably not a good idea. Our encounter with her is what pushed her over the edge after all.

>>43528556
Haruna is the brunette counterpart of Shoukaku and actually daijobu. We should be aiming for a two-ship night battle though.

With Ushio and Hamakaze as escorts.

>>43528552

His sister is an amazing young woman, and he just can't appreciate her for what she is.

also she's dangerous as hell.

>>43528594
... Honestly, I kinda figure that planefag is well adjusted, more or less. He just likes to have fun like this online and has put in the work to be a good writer. I figured she was just nuts, or acing nuts to troll pf. Or pf was trolling us. That last one was my predominate theory originally. Cause I could see him doing that.
Note this is all through my admittedly odd worldview, tempered by the even odder worldview of the people I live with.

>>43528499
Yes! I would like to second this.

>>43528343
[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

I agree with >>43528499
Let Goto handle Shigure.

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>mfw guys voting to go directly to Shigure
Seriously, what? We need to actually see how other people are dealing with her and maybe get some HELP before we go straight for the finisher.

We didn't have any success interacting with her last time. It's not like we have anything more we could say to her right now.

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>>43528452

Naka, hon - Harder's a chuuni. A chuuni who actually had the skills to walk the walk, no less. If someone sneaker-surfed down the bannister of the White House's grand staircase while killing terrorists with dual-wielded 1911s, jumped off the end while fireworks went off behind him and landed blasting out a metal rendition of the National Anthem while a flock of bald eagles cried around him, he'd opine that real men play acoustic and observe that the terrorists weren't even riding grizzly bears.

tl;dr wanting to associate with you more is praise, kiddo. What's the problem here?

>>43528624
> Implying Shokaku has competition
>Hasn't given Settle half as much shit as FREEDOM SHIP

kek

>>43528343
>[ ] Well, now that we've announced our Intention To Save Everyone, we best start mingling - time to hit up the destroyer practice. We can pretend we're monitoring Willie so it doesn't look like we're hovering over everyone's shoulder.

>>43528641
Oh you. Don't worry, they didn't break anything Sendai can't break too.

>>43528706
Ooi just doesn't understand.

>>43528616
Shigure first - and a fleet-wide meeting wherein we suggest to the other girls that ostracizing/bullying their comrades based on superstition is a very stupid thing to do.

>>43528720
>implying anons won't always go for the bloo hoo hoo Knight In Shining Armor Who Saves Yon Damsels options

It's inevitable, anon. Just accept it, shake your head, and move on.

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>>43528665
Templates like tha--
Nevermind.