HAPPENINGS

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... except neither girl has launched. They've turned their fantails to the destroyers, hauling away at thirty-five knots. Their radar headsets are working as advertised, keeping good tracks on the abyssals as they slowly close the range at thirty-eight, hurling star-shells over your fleeing cruisers with their forward guns.

You flick your eyes over the camera feeds again - Tenryuu has fallen behind Tatsuta in a two-ship line-astern formation as they pass a destroyer to their west, focusing their lighter guns on it. As you watch, Tatsuta suddenly veers hard to starboard, Tenryuu following suit till she's leading her sister, cutting steep Zs through the water towards the destroyer to dodge any torpedoes they might've launched. Ooi is not firing, her feed fixed on the muzzle flashes of two ships her radar says must be three thousand yards distant. The sky above is dark, the fading luminance from Tenryuu and Tatsuta's starshells the only thing revealing the presence of a dark hull close to shore.

“Ooi, what's wrong?”

“Kitakami!” she yells. “She's gone ahead!”

Kitakami's feed shows no shellfire either. From the slow oscillation of her go-pro she's steering gentle evasive S-curves through the water as the abyssal drops steel towards her, clearly firing ladder salvos to get her range.

“Kitakami, what are you doing?”

“Winning,” she says curtly, her dry statement underlined by the bright, baleful flash of flame in the distant night. “Got the magazine.”

“You launched torpedoes?”

“I have enough,” she says curtly, and speeds further ahead. You glance back to see how the Sendai's are doing, and -

- you see Sendai's go-pro is showing nothing but bubbles and dark, murky water.

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“Look!” Goto says, pointing at the screen with the laser-pointer-cum-mouse built into his remote. A small pop-up rises on the corner of the screen indicating known water quality - temperture, sea-state, and above all, depth.

“Twelve feet? How much does-”

“Sixteen,” Goto says grimly. “She draws sixteen feet.”

The feed vanishes in a flurry of bubbles that climaxes in a spray of glistening water as the lens breaks the surface. You get the briefest glimpse of an abyssal destroyer close-up, the wicked blue glow of its eye swelling - as if widening - a half-second before the end of a long-lance slams into it.

“YAAAAANSEN *MOTHER-FUCKERS!*” Sendai's voice bellows in your ear. The destroyer's companion heels hard to port, but it's too late - another Long Lance catches it by the stern, blowing chunks of chitinous carapace sky-high. It settles by the stern and sinks within seconds, only the strange blue glow of its eyes left, shining through the water as it slips from sight. Sendai was careful to ambush from the strait-side, ensuring her missed fish hit the beach instead of friendlies further out.

Goto's head slowly flops onto one shoulder as he stares.

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More red icons start blossoming on the track as the gunboat's radars begin picking out the engaged force. A massive blob of contacts to the west catches your eye, the returns jittering and jumping as the radars struggle to pick out individual hulls from the herd. Four more contacts show up to the south, stretched in what looks suspiciously like a battle-line. They're shadowed by the terrain behind them a bit, but the gun-director on the Katsuri can pick up the muted sparks of guns firing flashless powder somewhere ahead. Two more solid contacts are located directly behind the island - they seem to be firing in all directions as the sketchy returns of smaller contacts close on them.

“Sendai-class,” you instruct. “Come about and prepare to fire torpedoes - stand by for target information!” You read off the general headings, speeds and distances to the sketchy contacts trading fire with the duo smack-dab in the center of Sunda Strait.

“Those geometries aren't very good...” Jintsuu says warily. “Aren't those torpedo boats in the way?”

“Not really. Stand by to fire.”

>>45268426
>Sendai half-submerges for attack
I don't even what how YES BUT WHAT

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“Settle,” Naka breaks in, “we've only got one go at this, and then we've shot our wad. Those ship missiles aren't as effective with this much ground clutter, remember?”

“We brought a lot of them,” you point out, “and they're standing in a hallway. Fire!”

“What about us?” Tenryuu asks.

“Hold your fish. Lekir, get your boats out of the way to either side. Kitakami, Ooi, reset your fish for five feet - those must be the transports.”

“That's going to take a while,” Kitamaki says, the unheard “moron” drifting close after it.

Jintsuu looses her Long Lances, eight fish dropping into the water and tearing south, the hydrophones on the Katsuri easily tracking their screaming screws even as it was charging around at flank itself. Naka still hasn't launched.

“Naka? What are you doing?”

“It's not going to work!” Naka says. “I need a better angle!”

[ ] Fuck it. Fire the Exocets on the attack boats now.
[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

>>45268491
>[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
I'm split between this and
>
[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.
but leaaaning towards the former.

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>>45268491
>[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

>>45268491
>[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

>>45268491
>[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
Call it in to support the two friendlies.

>>45268491
>[ ] Fuck it. Fire the Exocets on the attack boats now.

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Oh christ this escalated quickly

>>45268491
>[x] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
RIP Hawk pilots. You were boned from the start.

>>45268491
>[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

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>>45268491
>[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
Garuda Flight, Garuda Flight, this is Caster, egress 110 true and prepare to bring in the thunder, she's lit up for you.

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>>45268491
>[ ] Let her go -she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

She's a big girl she can take care of herself.

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>>45268166
>Erry and Terry convert Naka to abyssals
>Naka causes a whole bunch of damage, blah blah blah, eventually fucks off to go be Punished Light Cruiser Oni and be the Big Boss of a fleet

Okay, let's say the above worst case scenario happens. For planning purposes, because apparently we need to plan around the plans of Erry and Terry.

What is Erry and Terry's next move? Do they keep their current RFV operation going or seek to expand it by being CL Oni's recruiters and advisors? Who is most likely to be their next target?

And while I'm listing things: is Shigure likely to join Naka should she fall or has Shigure reached some sort of uneasy stability? Hell, is Shigure an abyssal that doesn't realize she's an abyssal yet?

>>45268491
>[x] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

Lets trust her on this, as we said we would in the closet, but we should whistle up air support anyway.

>>45268491
>[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.
I want to say keep her safe, considering everything, but she has a point.

>>45268491
>[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

Time to listen to the people on the ground.

>>45268491
>[X] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

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>>45268426
>It settles

GodDAMN fairies are cute

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>>45268491
>[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

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>>45268491
>[x] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.
Naka has turned off her targeting computer and is using the Force. Best trust her.

>>45268491
>[o] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.

>>45268610
Oh fuck me, if we have Garuda Team here, we've already won. We're sending dancing angels to sink demons from the deep.

>>45268491
>[o] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

>>45268491
>[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

>>45268653

The mech kill-markings painted on the nose are a nice touch.

>>45268447
>Jammer
EX-FUCKING-CUSE YOU?

Wait WHAT THE FUCK WHY ARE THERE NINE FRIENDLIES AHEAD OF US NOW WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?

>>45268491
>[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

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>"look ma, no bombsight"

>>45268633
Just give up and hope that whatever happens isn't too horrible.
But remember, nothing nice ever happens

>>45268491
[x] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

sendai a cute

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>>45268426
>“YAAAAANSEN *MOTHER-FUCKERS!*

>>45268678
Friendlies are our little allied gunboats, IIRC.

>>45268678
Well there are sunk ships all over this area... maybe a few woke up to fight?

>>45268491
[x] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

>>45268433
As >>45268468 says, 1/1800 wargaming minis.

However, these aren't resin or metal.
They're actually 3D-printed plastic, ordered straight from Shapeways.
There are tons of designs available over there, and for reasonable prices. These are in their cheapest material, which works just fine. Bit of a rough finish, but I like the bit of texture it gives.

>>45268491
>[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

>>45268665
I want to believe you, not least of which because I saw Episode VII today (god DAMN was it good), but...

It's too much of a risk. Naka herself is something of a doomseeker; we know this. I trust her, but I'm not entirely sure I trust her judgement right now.

>>45268667
I'm thinking from the Indonesian Air Force's perspective, though.

>>45268491
>[x] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

She has a better idea of the situation than we do, even with or tac-maps and the go-pros.

>>45268491

>[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.


We want those CAS on the battle line, the fast the better. ARe they carrying TV-guided, laser guided, or dumb bombs?

Get those fucking torps in the water on those cruisers NOW Naka! GOOD IS BETTER THAN PERFECT!

AND WHERE THE FUCK IS OUR COMMS WITH HOUSTON AND PERTH, HOW DO WE HAVE THIS MUCH C4ISR AND NOT A SINGLE OPEN LINE TO THEM!

>>45268719
>Shapeways
>Reasonably Priced

U wot m8

>>45268491
>[x] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

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>>45268731
>It's too much of a risk. Naka herself is something of a doomseeker; we know this. I trust her, but I'm not entirely sure I trust her judgement right now.
Naka isn't going to abandon her sisters.

>>45268491
>[X] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

Trust in the Naka.

So can anyone explain how Sendai turned into a submarine?

>>45268491
>[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

>>45268713
Yes, and there are seven of them total, except now the plot is showing nine, planefag might have goofed, a copy instead of a move, but still-
>>45268716
It might even be this, but probably not

Also just as a general note the fact that we're getting fucking JAMMED, it PROBABLY implies that the enemy force has some sort of ELINT capability, if not radar of their own. I think we did a good call on staying cold until contact.

>>45268767
ninja magic

>>45268756
Yeah, she won't try to get herself killed with them right there.

>>45268767
Her keel goes 16 feet deep, as I understood it. So being the ninja that she is, she can dip down up to that depth to conceal her approach.

That right?

>>45268731
Poe Dameron is Wedge's secret apprentice in the ways of the Ace. You know this to be true.

>>45268491
>[X] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

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>>45268767
Ninja powers.

>>45268767
She draws 16 feet of water when fully ship-sized. I think she just...occupied a different part of the footprint her full hull would have in the water for a bit?

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>>45268767
GUTS

>>45268767
Ducking low and hitting the swells just right? magic?

As a side note the fact that youtube has looping available by default now is doing wonders for my ability to stay hype via the thread music

>>45268742
>go-pros
Does anyone else feel its weird that the US military is using some camera that I have a copy of just sitting around in my room?

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>>45268808

>>45268805
Oh, so like how Tenryuu and Tatsuta were able to join arms despite being, you know, ships?
That actually makes enough sense.

>>45268767
It's the power of being best girl's best sister.

>>45268491
[x] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

Still, we need to get CAS moving NOW as is.

>[x] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

>>45268840
Sendai > Naka.

>>45268491
>[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

>>45268852
Well, everyone knows that

>>45268794
really wish Wedge had made a cameo in Force Awakens, as he's my favorite Star Wars character. But apparently the actor who played him turned down the offer since he felt like the role would've bored him...

Oh well, Poe was pretty fucking awesome himself

>>45268852
The Sendai we've seen in this quest (well, mostly in writeups) IS pretty great. No Yasen-Baka, all NINJA WARRIOR.

>>45268491
[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

That formation to the east is making me wonder, I don't like sending Naka alone into what could be a division of heavy hitters.

>>45268852
Anywhere but Kant-o-celle Quest, I'd agree. Planefag's Sendai is a cute and a half, but Naka ran away with Best Girl crown a long time ago.

>>45268491
[x] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

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>>45268874
She's Yasen-Baka when the situation warrants it.

>>45268491
[x] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

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>>45268678

HELPFUL GRAPHICAL AID

40,000 DOLLAR COLLEGE EDUCATION AT WORK HERE FOLKS, WHO ELSE CAN CRANK OUT A PUNCHY INFOGRAPHIC FOR THE FRONT PAGE ABOVE THE FOLD THAT FAST EH

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symmetrical docking

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Did someone call for CAS?

>>45268868
Well, Wedge was always a second... a tertiary character made utterly awesome by surviving flying alongside Luke Skywalker three times.

In the new movie, a cameo would have lasted about 15 seconds, I can see why he didn't bother.

>>45268491
>[ ] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

>>45268897
Oh shit, Perth and Houston are enemies?

>>45268897
I don't understand

>>45268920
It's fucking beautiful. Brings tears to my eyes.

>>45268491
[O] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

We should try to use the Sendai's radars to paint targets for the missile boats.

>>45268940
Nope... the Abyssals are shooting the shit out of them though.

>>45268940
Naw, lookit the color. They're ours.

>>45268816
Not really. They're cheap, they're high-quality, and they're reliable.

>>45268942
>>45268940
Perth and Houston are basically stuck together and firing at the abyssals in their own 'shared foxhole' of sorts, you guys.

>>45268897

Oh shit, that's Perth and Houston?

FUCK IT, >>45268744

CHANGING MY VOTE!

>[ ] Fuck it. Fire the Exocets on the attack boats now.

FUCK IT.

ALPHA STRIKE, ALPHA STRIKE, DUMP ALL CELLS NOW AT THE BATTLE LINE, WE HAVE SHIPS IN DISTRESS

GET THOSE FUCKING ZOOMIES IN TO POUND WHATEVERS LEFT BEFORE DEALING WITH THE LANDING CRAFT!

>>45268491
>[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

>>45268897
Just write, you can't infographic.

>>45268940
No, ya derp.
Thoguh I didn't realize those two were Perth and Houston either. DERP.

>>45268426
NINJAS ATTACK FRO EVERY ANGLE

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>>45268940
Oh my fucking God anon you need to stop.

>>45268897
>Perth and Houston appeared IN FRONT of us
...OH
OH, FUCK.
Well my vote stands then, ok

>>45268957
I just feel that the military should have some higher quality stuff.

>>45268794
Poe's fucking awesome. I don't even care if he's gay; he's a cool fag, like Freddie Mercury. Just hope it's not made into a big deal in the future.

I loved how everyone seemed to have a point too; Poe's the ace pilot, Rey's force-sensitive and Finn, despite being comedy relief, was a damn competent stormtrooper who had a purpose in the plot! Plus, I think he might be force-sensitive as well, if not as much as Rey. He held his own surprisingly well with a lightsaber, for someone with no force powers, to say nothing of his shooting.

Sooo good...

>>45268940
...I think planefag got it wrong. Son, your comprehension isn't even in the same THEATER as this battle.

Anyway, I'm off to bed. Try not to get anyone killed while I'm sleeping, please!

>>45268491
>[ ] Fuck it. Fire the Exocets on the attack boats now.

>>45268947
That's a pretty old pic, mate.
Like, three years old or something by now.

>>45268897
where's sendai?

>>45268929
meh, I'd call him secondary, but yeah, I understand what you're saying. Still would've loved to see him again. Guess I'll just reread Starfighters of Adumar instead

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>>45268979
>Thoguh I didn't realize those two were Perth and Houston either. DERP.

I was going to add something to this smug anime girl but I forgot what

>>45268997

Commercial
Off
The
Shelf


It covers a multitude of sins that even CAS can't!

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Guys how are we going to help Perth and Houston?

>>45269001
Look, all I saw was the red and I misjudged. I see that now and I'm sorry for it. Why must people continuously hate?

>>45269016
ANON IS SMART

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>>45269016
Here you go.

>>45269023
with a night battle

>>45268968
Really tempted to do the same, but the presence of that jammer-bitch makes me a bit nervous of doing so.

>>45269029

Because on 4chan nobody knows who you are, so it can't follow you forever. So we get our giggles in and move on.

Except for me. Never living down that 4th turret. Aaaaaaaaaaa

>>45269016
>The song of return is behind us
>Both of their wrecks are to the east, outside of the strait itself
Like it's all cool, we know now, but I guess looking back now there was some words that indicated they showed up in front of us. Fuck.

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>>45269023
Call in some air support.

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>>45269016
never forget

>>45268491
[ ] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

>>45269058
Personally speaking, I prefer to try to be cordial. Just because I'm anonymous doesn't mean I should be an ass. What you are in the dark and all that.

>>45269058
I even knew about that and I know next to nothing about the navy.

>>45269007
Brother! I still have all the X-Wing novels (Rogue and Wraith) downstairs.

>>45268897
that actually does help a lot
it's hard to concentrate
euros really suffer when following burgerquests

>>45269085
>>45269029
It's some friendly ribbing. I don't mean anything by it.

On the other hand, I'm an accursed namefag. And one that supposedly, theoretically writes shit for this thread. I do dumb crap, it'll follow me until the day I die...

>>45268491
>[ ] Fuck it. Fire the Exocets on the attack boats now.

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>>45268680
Big E took a few bombs as well, but walked it off in the end.

>>45269089
Man, now I need to track down my copies of the Allston X-Wing books, I only know where my copy of Starfighters is. Yub Yub Commander!

>>45269056

true.

She can be the CAS target, but we need those exocets out of the barn and on the battle line, if only to break up the enemy formation and allow Perth and Houston some room to breathe, once the torps are through the southeast corridor they can withdraw through it for DC and come about for gunfire support.


>>45269058

AND YOU, WHY AREN'T WE YELLING AT THE TWO OF THEM YET, SURELY IT ISN'T JUST US AND GOTO IN HERE WHO KNOW HOW TO WORK THE THINGS!

>>45269119
Big E was also a 35,000 ton carrier, not a 2,000 ton DD.

>>45269116
HMS Victory when?

>>45268968
With so much radar fuckery going on right now, we're just as likely to hit Perth or Houston.

>>45268491
>[ ] Fuck it. Fire the Exocets on the attack boats now.

>>45269056
>Really tempted to do the same, but the presence of that jammer-bitch makes me a bit nervous of doing so.

I'll tell you now - building on the experience from the Battle of LA, missiles like the Exocet have had an extra guidance mode added - "straight-running." It's similar to a bearing-only launch, except the missile never turns on its terminal seeker - it flies a pure path at a pre-set wave-skimming height on inertial guidance only. It's only really useful with older weapons like the Harpoon or Exocet; missiles that launch from angled tubes that are already pretty close to vertical; doesn't do much for VLS launched weapons. It improves the already good minimum range of the older-style "wingless" cruise weapons like Exocet and Harpoon just for situations like this.

But a minimum range of 2 nm is about 4,000 yards, which is pretty decent surface torpedo range anyhow.

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>>45269145
>not HMS Victoria

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Ok, so analysis so far
Including current contacts, we have encountered 21 abyssal ships. This is in line with our original intel. Four of those have been sunk so far, leaving the 17 visible now. The block of nine ships is most likely the transports, the three vessels ahead of them likely an escort. Destroyers, cruisers, I don't know.
The four vessels to the southwest are hemming Perth and Houston in- they're in a dangerous crossfire right now, and we need to get them out of it. Fucked if I know what class they are.

And then, somewhere in the vicinity of the transports (REMINDER: THAT RED BOX MEANS WE AREN'T SURE WHERE IT IS EXACTLY) is a vessel capable of offensive radar jamming. That spooks me a bit, they might have more modern weapons of their own.

>>45269157
>straight-running
>Exocets
Oh God
I don't know if I should be laughing or feeling scared about all this.

>>45269066
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXz8925ZYVw

>>45269122
Yub Yub, you glorious maniacs!

But yeah, I'd class Wedge as a secondary character if he had more screen time/lines outside of a cockpit.

As it is, Lando is a secondary character, but not Wedge.

>>45269131
Following your lead, then.

>>45268491
Previously voted for
>[X] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

Changing vote to
>[X] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

Kill jammer bitch so we can launch missiles without EWAR bullshit

>>45269157
>Straight-running ASMs
Ahahahahahahahahaha oh god my dick.
God bless humanity.

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>>45269188

>>45269138
Yorktowns are closer to 20,000 tons.

>>45269181
Perth is a CL and Houston is a CA, unless you mean the abyssal units bearing down on them.

>>45269196
>>[X] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
Yup

>>45269181
>And then, somewhere in the vicinity of the transports (REMINDER: THAT RED BOX MEANS WE AREN'T SURE WHERE IT IS EXACTLY) is a vessel capable of offensive radar jamming.

I thought that was just representative of spoopy scary abyssal radar dickery that all abyssals have, not that there's specifically a radar jamming ship out there

>>45269219
Not when loaded.

>>45269138
When those bombs start to hit near where the munitions and fuel for the planes are, you start to get REAL worried about each one. One bomb in the right place and the whole carrier goes up.

>>45268491
[x] Let her go - she's right. Those two friendlies must be catching hell right now, you need to force the enemy to open the range to the south-east.

Immediately followed by

[x] When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.

As a side-note, before she DESS-troys me, KONGO IS 106 YEARS OLD!

>>45268893
I'd Night battle a Sendai

>>45269209

IT'S THAT KIND OF WAR

>>45269223
I did mean the abyssals they're engaged with, yes
>>45269235
It might, but there's not a really a need for planefag to show that be picking out a ship specifically capable of OECM and turning it on

>>45269148

Unless I'm mistaken, Exocets are inertial followed by terminal active radar. Now unless the ARH phase somehow allows for the missile to, I'm assuming, turn around and head for the Perth/Houston, we should only miss. But the point of this launch is as much to break their formation and force manuvering as it is damage, we need to break them up for CAS to hammer them AND we need to take the pressure off Houston and Perth.

>>45269157

Annnnd that just takes that into fun-run times.

Anyways, planefag, just to clarify.

Is there any ACTIVE abyssal jamming in the AO, or is it just standard spoopy spirit bullshit.

>>45269157
and through the mysteries of military purchasing, it's cheaper to dumbfire smart missiles than to develop a compatible dumb missile?

>>45269209
I don't understand

>>45269272
>Is there any ACTIVE abyssal jamming in the AO, or is it just standard spoopy spirit bullshit.

Standard spoopy spiritual bullshit. I just put it there to make CMANO display an uncertain track to drive home that you don't know exactly how many ships there are; it's a big.... spoopy mass of radar returns that are most certainly hostile.

Like it said in the update.

>>45269247
Its still less likely to die than a DD.

Also, shes an American CV.

You know, the ones that DON'T have a history of exploding with one bomb?

>>45269288
FUCK YOUR JAMMING, I'M NOT REALLY GUIDED ANYWAY! BANZAI!

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>>45269279
It must have been real great on the Cowpens that day....

>>45269242
Displacement:
19,800 long tons (20,100 t) standard
25,500 long tons (25,900 t)) full load
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorktown-class_aircraft_carrier

Last I checked, 25,000 is still closer to 20,000 than 35,000.

>>45269305
>Complains about other people getting ghost targets
>Gives them to the OpFor

>>45269288
These are advanced ship-killing missiles, designed to use radar to home in on their targets with inescapable accuracy.
We've reduced them to dumb torpedoes, basically.
Imagine using a JDAM in freefall mode.
>>45269305
Oh, ok. My concern is replaced with other concern

>>45269282
>and through the mysteries of military purchasing, it's cheaper to dumbfire smart missiles than to develop a compatible dumb missile?

The missile fire control system already accepts a straight-line bearing for things like bearing-only launch or off-axis attacks (flying out to some other point before turning for the target.) All they added was some (very, very simple software) to calculate a fire-control solution for a moving enemy ship the same way they used to do for straight-running torpedoes.

Except an Exocet moves a HELL of a lot faster than a torpedo...

>>45269157
Thanks for the information, sir.
>(cue standard 'he looked right at me' stuff)

Considering swapping votes (again)... but nah.

Still think we should gank the jammer bitch first though before launching missiles. Just in case.

>>45269305
OR NOT

SWAPPING VOTE FROM AIR SUPPORT (though we should probably do that anyway) TO
[X] Fuck it. Fire the Exocets on the attack boats now.

>>45269282
No, but it's *quicker* to fast-push a software update to missiles that already exist rather than set up a production line to create new dumb missile versions of it.

>>45269337

Oh. Oh, you got ghost targets nigga. Trust me.

>>45269323
I'm not buying that weight.

Yorktowns carry 6,000 tons of oil alone, something tells me that a full load is more than just the weight of the fuel itself.

>>45269369
fuck where's spengler when you need him

CALLIN VOTES NOW

>>45268491
>[X] Fuck it. Fire the Exocets on the attack boats now.

KILL EVERYTHING

>>45269305

Ok, THERE ALL YOU DERPS GO, NO ACTIVE JAMMING.

ALL CAS ON THE ENEMY BATTLE LINE TO START, GET THOSE EXOCETS OUT OF THEIR LAUNCHERS AND INTO THEIR HULLS!

How are the FFGs harpoon tracks looking?

Do we have any kind of visual on Houston or Perth?

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>>45269209

>>45269392
WHICH WAY IS IT ANYWAYS
THOSE VOTES ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE

>>45269384
Given that standard displacement was a completely arbitrary figure defined in the Washington Treaty as the weight of the ship ready for combat, but without fuel or reserve feed water? YOU SHOULD BUY THAT WEIGHT BECAUSE THE OIL ALONE IS WHAT WAS EXCLUDED!

>>45269384

Well Enterprise at full load post Bremerton could get up to about 32'000. From this website:

http://www.cv6.org/ship/big_e.htm#dimensions

Man. If I had realized perth and houston were in front of us and not lobbing shells over our head, I would have gone for charging ahead to join them.
Oh well. You go to war with the votes and knowledge you have.

>>45269424
Unless I miss my guess, it should be... interesting.

>>45269471
Is it every *not* interesting?

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I HAD TO GET FOOD, DID ANYONE DIE YET?

HAS NAKA ACCEPTED THE VOICE BELOW INTO HER HEART?

DID THE VIKINGS WIN THE SUNDA BOWL?

>>45269484
>Is it every *not* interesting?
NOT INTERESTING is very much relative, especially considering the voters of this quest.

>>45269424
don't worry, you'll find out soon enough

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Yo dawg, I herd u wan sum AA for yo supah dreds.

>>45269484
Some times. When the choice lead to nothing but boredom.

I've seen it happen once. It was dreadful!

>>45269187
>>45269209
>not a navy-oriented person

Why is this funny?

>>45269507
SOME ABYSSALS
NO
THEY'RE CURRENTLY DRIVING FOR THE ENDZONE, BUT OUR LINEMEN HAVEN'T SCATTERED YET

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This one took a lot longer than I expected, but it's my first 'night' setting I've done. Sadly, resolving clarity for objects at a distance is pretty rough.

>>45269454
It was obvious to me, the whole hammer and anvil thing implied that they popped up behind the enemy

>>45269454
I'm not 100% sure they would even let us get close enough to rescue them, it's hard enough distinguishing targets in these conditions when everyone is communicating. For all we know, Houston and Perth think its just them against the world. Again.

>>45269526
Because the navy finds anything "straight" just hilarious.

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>>45269535
WATCH EM TOSS A HAIL BLOODY MARY

>>45269555
It's not gay if its on a boat.

>>45269526
You're taking a guided, long-range missile and turning it into a very, VERY fast unguided rocket packed to the gills with high explosives with the press of a button.

>>45269526
Imagine a self-driving car. Lots of time and effort went into its ability to navigate roads, detect obstacles, drive safely, etc.
But the aliens make it swerve sometimes, so we installed an ALLAHU ACKBAR switch that just floors it and locks the steering

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>>45269537

>>45269537
Damn dude you're good at this, keep it up!

>>45269537

D A M N SON

>>45269537
That's... awesome.
Keep up the good work!

>>45269573
>>45269526
>MY CAR IS WIRED UP
>I BRAKE FOR NOTHING
>STEP ON THE GAS
>SORRY, NO TRACKING NUMBERS
GLA.webm

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>>45269537

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I wonder if Settle will ever have to deal with Michael Bay making a movie about Higgins.

Who would be the most hilariously unfitting casting choice for Settle and Hate?

>>45269604
nothing stops the mail

god, I wish someone would make a faction like that in this day and age. It'd be hilarious

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>>45269537
Looks great Artfag

>>45269622
Tom Cruise as Settle and Ben Affleck as Hate. Can also reverse them.

>>45269622
shia labouf
in both roles

>>45269622
Ben Stiller and Seth Rogan

>>45269622
An aged Tom Cruise, who meets shipgirl Higgins at the end of the movie, who has no memory of how she went down. CruiseSettle tearfully embraces her, and tells her with his usual amounts of Ham that he will remind her how she lived.

>>45269648

HA

>>45269622
Keanu Reeves and Jason Isaacs.

>>45269634
Good luck surviving against Abyssals. The best the GLA has would be undergunned PT boats.

>>45269537
I don't really like these. Everything is always muddled, details are barely visible, composition is all over the place, lighting and perspective is off.

t. /ic/

>>45269622
If that happens then production might be halted part way through as Higgins rises from the depths just to beat Michael Bay to death with the script.

planefag, are Perth and Houston steaming towards us? Away from us? Still building steam?

>>45269687

You don't have solid enough visuals yet. Next update.

>>45269693
Radar returns for them aren't cooperating either? Aight.

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>>45269648
If it's metamoderist Shia Labouf, then that's exactly who should play Settle. Right mix of batshit crazy.

>>45269622
Rob Schneider and Shia Labouf

>>45269683
Higgins rises from the depths in order to help write the script. She's the one who adds most of the romance scenes between herself and Settle. The movie launches on February 14th of that year.

>>45269572
>>45269573
Ah. Thanks for the clarification.

This was part of the reason why I was leery about launching missiles - for fear that the Abyssals would fuck around with their targeting and use them to sink our potential friends or something.

But knowing they can be dumbfired... well, that solves that problem.

(And, if we ever manage to spoopy-proof our guidance systems, we can easily switch back to guided mode without having to restock everything again... sounds legit.)

>>45269672
I meant in a video game.

>>45269720
I want to be contrary but yeah, that would not be too bad.

>>45269725
>Rob Schneider
Better yet:
>Rob Schneider...as a PT Corgi!

>>45269730
I think Higgins is trying to tell Settle something.

I just don't know what it is.

>>45269730
And Settle's mangled corpse is found later that day.

Nobody actually knows if he's dead though because something similar happened in the movie.

>>45269731
It's been put in terms of "we're an information age force fighting an industrial age enemy".
Refit-via-software is one of those strengths we have to leverage extra hard to survive.

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>>45269754
No.

Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock as the lead pair of them who banter back and forth all the time.

>>45269750
Impossible. Even if people make RTS games again, nothing can recreate the glorious Snackbar that is the GLA. Not even GENERALS FUCKING 2 (God bless its soul).

>>45269572
>>45269573
then why not go for railguns instead

>>45269622
Jeff Goldblum and Tobey Maguire.

>>45269797
cuz right now we have missiles and not railguns

>>45269797
Even if it's 2018/2020 in-quest, the tech to make railguns in numbers is still pretty new, so no.

>>45269783
>Straight Nigga Settle and Hate
Haw

>>45269797
We do those too. We do a lot of things.
We can't just throw away our old missiles for the new toys. We have to use what we have, so making what we have more effective is a great thing

>>45269648
>Actual Admiral Shia Labouf
>Also voicing the corgi PT boats

I never knew I needed something this much in my life.

>>45269797
Because the first rule of mobilization is "BUILD WHAT YOU'RE ALREADY BUILDING". Changing over slows you down. So just build a fuckton more of what you're already building.

>>45269622
Settle: Danny Glover
Hate: Samuel Jackson.

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>>45269797
railguns are imaginary

>>45269823

Can John Cho play Admiral Goto?

>>45269809
then we should start making some us navy testing them now bae testing them now sufficient velocity kinetics kill

>>45269783
Add Kevin Hart as whoever and that'll round out the trio.

>>45269797
shit's expensive yo

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>>45269834

>>45269834
Now... that is a Railgun I haven't seen in a long time.

Brings back fond memories of ages long past.

>>45269848
I'm pretty sure ords is Working On It As We Speak

>>45269622
*whistles quietly*

>>45269851
And requires a fuckload of electrical power to fire, while the barrels only last 3 shots IIRC

>>45269825
cant we do both in prv thread usa has stupid great logi capibilty why not do both

>>45269872
>action posting

no

fuck off

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>>45269847
You should get an actual Japanese actor instead.
Like Ken Watanabe or Hiroshi Abe.

>>45269870
But we're talking unfitting casting choices, no?

>>45269879
Yeah but ship girls recover over time for food and hot spring time. You could even load them with multiple barrels and don't have to fire full sped since they're only shooting right range extending the barrel life significantly.

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>>45269872
It's an image board.
You could just use an image.
Like so.

Then you wouldn't be cock-mongling faggot.

>>45269754
>events in this quest retold as an adam sandler scam comedy movie

LOOKS LIKE ROB SCHNEIDER IS IN THE DOGHOUSE AGAIN IN... "SURF DOGS"

STARRING

ROB SCHNEIDER AS A FUCKING DOG WHO WON'T LET A RESTRAINING ORDER OR A CRIPPLE DOG CATCHER GET IN HIS WAY OF HIS HUNT FOR MAGICAL JAP TEARS

SHIGURE AS AN ABYSSAL INFILTRATOR WHO IS OUT OF HER TREE

AND SHIA LABOUF AS A BATTLESHIP FAIRY WHO JUST CAN'T SEEM TO GET HIS HEAD ABOVE WATER

TOGETHER THEY TRY TO PROVE WHO IS TOP DOG IN THE HILARIOUS FAMILY COMEDY FOR SHIPGIRLS OF ALL AGES

"SURF DOGS"

COMING OUT IN JANUARY 20XX BECAUSE FUCK HOLLYWOOD THESE SCAMS MAKE MONEY.

>>45269928
exactly poi gave us full ship can we install one on poi

>>45269848
>>45269899
Because if it *was* possible to hump them out immediately, the US Would be.

The fact that they're not, just yet, clearly indicates you are vastly underestimating the resources needed to accomplish it.

>>45269537
Fuckin' brilliant.

>>45269961
Don't forget the mandatory Chinese tie-up, bro.

>>45269961
... I think I finally understand the meaning of screaming internally.

>>45269928
Well yes, but unless a Zumwalt was sunk and comes back, I don't think we'll be getting a railgun equipped ship anytime soon.

>>45269982

see

>>45269865

>>45269969
You know what would be awesome? Reactive rounds launched from pneumatic systems.

>>45269988
We should have let the Abyssals destroy LA. With Hollywood gone, maybe the movie industry can start over fresh.

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>>45270004
>Ship-size Bolters
PRAISE THE EMPRAH

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>>45269969
Wait, you're serious?

Do you even know how much power it takes to charge the railgun for a single shot worth shit?

It wouldn't be fun for Yuudachi, that's for sure.

>>45269899
Because you're always short of everything in wartime. So you don't waste time changing over to build something fancy and new when you can just mass-produce what you've already got, unless what you've already got just doesn't work.

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>>45269949
[mongles]

>>45270022
So... Yamato?

>>45270028
And even then, people tend to soldier on with it. I was about to cite the Mark XIII, but then I remembered that was less a choice on the lower levels part and more that command had its head up its ass.

>>45270022
then give her ship nuclear reactor too cold war usa had nuclear cruisers

>>45270022
Some Anon (or maybe two?) seems to not have their brain on worth a damn.

If you want to talk putting modern weapons on shipgirls, I'd probably talk about giving them appropriately-scaled EXCALIBUR rounds and the like. Plenty of room for improvement on the cannons, yo.

>>45270049
Unless you're talking about Space Battleship Yamato, no.
Steam-powered ships can't hope to even bring an eighth of the output needed for a railgun shot worth its weight in salt.

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>>45270053
>Retrofitting an IJN cruiser with a nuclear reactor

>>45270075
Ah, I see.

>>45270028
but what we got has chance not working limited shots with railgun more shots dumbfired less resources wasted that was problem last thread limited resources

>>45270053
You have no fucking clue what it takes to make a nuclear-powered ship, do you?

Here's a hint: It takes as much weight in reactor foundations and shielding alone as POI WEIGHS FULLY LOADED. For EACH reactor.

>>45270058
They wouldn't have the hardware encessary to utilize the shells' guidance.
And it would take production from conventional forces when their ability to create new ammo for themselves is one of a shipgirl's great strengths.

>>45270058

Thought:

Would upgrading their screws and/or engines result in them having new shoes when they summon their kit?

>Does anyone know how much stealth propeller design improved since WWII? We could totally make Harder even more sneaky.

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>>45270020
That has me thinking of a really stupid idea.

Given that ships have souls and can come back as shipgirls, would it be possible to make a ship which is intentionally designed to be absolutely worthless in its normal ship form but once its shipgirl form is summoned is basically toting around a giant fucking cannon or stupidly huge missile system?

Sure, maybe the shipgirl would be as worthless on water as she was as a boat, but all shipgirls have two legs, which means on land they all move just fine.

Basic concept:
>build giant fucking gun
>call it a ship
>treat it for several years like a ship, not seaworthy, sits in the harbor, but everyone goes through the motions
>decades pass
>summon shipgirl
>now you have a soldier who has the power of her giant cannon but is not limited to being a boat any longer

Yes, this is dumb and impractical. But could it work?

Sounds like something Russia or North Korea would try.

I'm surprised no one's suggested modifying Iowa. She's still in ship form, and they know she's back.

Seems like the path of least resistance.

>>45270093
We're doing multiple things at the same time.

>>45270099
Yeah, okay, not the best idea either.

But hardware upgrades seem very possible. In fact, we did already refit some of the girls with radar, yeah? So no problem there.

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>>45270121
If she could, she could probably re-summon her late 80s configuration, though.

>>45270116
Not sure if viable, even for the Norks or russkies

>>45270116
Leveling effect is noted to correlate to how impressive/effective a ship was for its time, so it may just result in a stupidly weak shipgirl.

>>45270132
Something something like tissue grafts, something something might be rejected.

>>45270116
it would probably be an abyssal

>>45270132
Yep! Command settled on looking into the possibilities, Crab's working on it, Arizona volunteered for it, everything is in motion.

>>45270085
Destroyer anon, he suggested we put it on poi

>>45270132
We strapped radar hats onto them. That doesn't really count.
But yeah, hardware upgrades are likely possible, but they'll generally take some doing.

>>45270132
Radar, sonar, stuff'em with more AA (assuming they can properly incorporate it to create ammo for it, which is not a sure thing), maybe do something about retraining IJN fairies for better DC.

>>45270116
That's just begging from some frankenstein-meets-abyssal bullshit.
>YOU MADE ME WHAT I AM NOW

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>>45270162
True, in shipgirl vs shipgirl fights. But consider the example of crippled Naka vs. a Yak.

Against humans, shipgirls are the perfect infantry.

>>45270188
What about reactive armor, would that even work on ships?

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>>45270197
>That's just begging from some frankenstein-meets-abyssal bullshit.

Well, I guess that's one way to think of pic related.

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>>45270093
>last thread
>limited resources
Oh fuck it's you again.

>>45270132
My first, immediate, thought was 'coilguns', but that ran headfirst into the sheer power requirements necessary for such weapons. As queried before, how much power can Yuudachi put out (not like that)?

Probably could stick a few more AA emplacements onto them, though. Better radar is priority one.

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>>45270204
>Shipgirl house-to-house fighting in Venice
Nice idea

>>45270116
Isn't that basically the modern equivalent of a bomb ship?
Because we've seen two bomb ships and they did not turn out well for us

>>45270204
A ship is a ship. A ship has a purpose in the sea.
In your haste for a supersoldier, you create a monster denied of its most fundamental reason for existing.
Do you REALLY thing it'd work?

>>45270230
At least they were trying to make something seafaring, not "oh let's pretend it's a ship even though it's meant to work on land".

>Oh yeah shipsluts in a qouple hours, I'll play XCOM2 until the thread goes up
Then suddenly it was half past midnight. How bad have you guys fucked everything up?

>>45270075
space battleships now thats a thing worth looking at

>>45270085
what would be the problem with that

>>45270096
then what about the heavies like yams or iowa

>>45270266
>>45270116


Better question:

What kind of ridiculous bullshit could a shipgirl of, say, Kirov, Tico, or Zumwalt class pull?

>>45270290
shit's on fire

>>45270266
you mean USS White Sands, right? Because that totally describes USS White Sands.

>>45270308
Given the rules we have, it will be cheaper, more functional, and less prone to backfire to just build flight two Zumwalts with rail-guns.

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>>45270308
pic related

>>45270320
>Kirov
ALL THE GRANITS
>Tico
DUAL-WIELDING FIVE INCHERS
>Zumwalt
I IS IN YOUR BASE LRASM-ING UR DUDES

>>45270340
I don't because I have no damn idea about any naval shit, never mind naval shit about a country that's not mine, so I'll need clarification.

>>45270242
As of the end of World War Two, US destroyers--which had much more electrical generating capacity than Japanese ones--had a standard outfit of two 400kW ship's service turbogenerators for a total electrical generating capacity of 800 kilowatts.

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>>45270252
>we'll never fight abyssals in Venice
>we'll never raid a fortress hidden within the lava tubes of Santorini and get a few hints from recovered artifacts about the origins of shipgirls
>we'll never have to run the gauntlet of the ruined Suez canal, now under the control of the abyssal Yellow Fleet
>we'll never enjoy Italian or French cuisine on a date with [insert waifu here]

I kinda wish this quest wasn't stuck in Japan. No offense to planefag.

Lot of interesting locations in the world.

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>>45270308
>space battleship
UCHUU!
SENKAN!
YA! MA! TOOO!

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OH THE SUSPENSE

>>45270183
>Nuclear Poi
Are you insane?

>>45270379
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Desert_Ship_(LLS-1)

My mistake, I meant this.

>>45270058
You'd probably be better up upgrading all their fire control systems first.

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>>45270340
I looked up White Sands, never having heard of her before, and found this. What the fuck is wrong with people

http://blog.friendsoftheballardlocks.org/2012/05/october-4-1975.html

>>45270308
I won't go into a full dissertation on all the reasons why; I'll just say this quickly and simply:

Attempting to install nuclear reactors on any ship that was not designed from the very start for nuclear power is a good way to end up with the ship either Not Floating, or, if it does actually float, breaking in two from concentrated stresses in places that the hull was never designed to support.

It. Isn't. Happening.

>>45270397
Operator shipgirls doing operator things isn't very feasible right now.

On a related note, recovering artifacts in Venice sounds very LoExG to me.

>>45270431
Fire control systems are hard to replace, especially when they're mechancial systems.
Hell, we never replaced the ones in the Iowas just because they did a damn fine job already and it would have cost way too much to do.

>>45270308
No, because we don't have the fucking industry for that - haven't you learned anything from the past thread, motherfucker, don't think I don't know who you are.

Did you not see the whole 'the reactor shielding weighs as much as the ship in total' post, chucklefuck?

>>45270391
Yeah, that sure as fuck ain't enough power for that shit.

>>45270415
>Nuclear, railgun-armed poi
Yes, yes he is.

In closing - fuck off, orbitanon, the technology + industry just isn't set up enough here... though you have given me a few ideas.

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>>45270459
>Damn fine job already
You're goddamn right they did.

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>>45270405
Guess what space battleship series is getting a second season~

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>>45270443
No, it was recovering artifacts from Santorini aka one of the potential sources for the story of Atlantis. Had a huge St. Helens style eruption 3500 years ago.

Also, what's LoExG? Google turns up nothing but something about lithium exploration.

>>45270415
clearly, the anon that suggested it is. But then again, he was the one last thread who wanted to evac all the coastal cities and move the population inland, as well as move cargo via orbital insertion, so of course he is.

>>45270506
Oh, I'm sorry, I meant League of Extraordinary Gentleshipgir--Gentlemen.

>>45270416
Ah, I see. Well, that's just a building. Anon is suggesting something with an actual hull that can't in fact ship properly.

>>45270500
I can't tell if that's sarcasm, because that Pentagon looks pretty dead to me.

>>45270557
why not give yams some nuclear love then if poi cant take it

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>>45270503
m-MASAKA! There's no way that could be true!

>>45270569
That's definitely not Sarcasm. Some Navy dudes justified the redundancy of switching Iowa's targeting systems by showing how dead the Pentagon would be if Iowa managed to steam at firing range and hit it with a full salvo.

>>45270569
hue hue hue.