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“Go,” you instruct her. “All of them.” In a night brawl like this any Long Lances on deck are simply a liability, and you're unlikely to get a better chance to unleash them than this. Ten more quadruplets of long lethal fish slide into the drink. The tactical plot updates with two closely-overlapping shaded cones - the rough area the Type 93 oxygen torpedoes are currently screaming through. They overlap nicely on the mostly-orderly rows of the densely-packed convoy trying to bull its way through the strait.

You don't know where they were headed, but their new itineraries are closing at 52 knots.

Inb4 navyfag

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The Malyasian gunboats are pressing their attack on their eldritch counterparts, fog swirling in on the long clean tracks their high prows slice through the night at forty-five knots. The Kasturi trails behind at twenty-eight, her newly-reinstalled four-inch forward gun barking steadily, walking shells towards the darting phantoms of hostile boats half-glimpsed in the fog. The Spica's open up with their 57mm turrets, the terrible rapid thunder of the autoloading weapons booming through the mist. Sheets of water douse the mist as they bank hard, weaving through one another's wakes, incoming cannon fire splashing wide as they swing their fantails through violent turns, 40mm aft turrets adding to the din. You switch to the Global Hawk's IR feed as the dueling speedboats merge and begin circling each other at close range, their helmsman never letting them rest for a second; machine gun tracers licking through the night and ricocheting off the water to skip skyward like lost comets. The drone operators flip through the Hawk's filters, combining them in various multi-sensor schemes to try and clarify the picture, but for whatever reason you can see nothing more distinct than the churning of the mist over the racing duelists below.

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And through this maelstrom charges Naka. She weaves to and fro as best she can, but without the radar systems and IFF equipment on the gunboats she dare not fire into the melee lest she strike her own allies. The abyssal cruisers fire slackens for a few minutes; primaries and secondaries both - from what you can glimpse of their masts (and rigging!?) above the fog, they seem to be executing a simultaneous turn to port, hard as they can.

You glance askance at your watch. Twelve minutes to cover 14,000 odd yards - and you're only about halfway there.

The two cruisers looming in the dark continue sailing their lonely battle-line south, right down the middle of the strait, eight-inchers thundering to the East and six-inchers West. Two small digital dials are superimposed on the upper-left corner of the map, counting down - maybe a minute left till the Long Lances meet the hapless convoy.

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The Lekir is the first to see blood drawn as she and her Spica escort circle well north of the convoy, escaping the treacherous confines of Sunda's narrowest point. A great fireball climbs high above the leading edge of the mass of contacts that jitters and fades and morphs in and out of resolution on the tactical plot; lighting, if only for a few seconds, the mass of ships that crowd Sunda Strait.

“Are those fucking longboats?” Goto breathes.

“Does it matter?” you return.

“Not if they draw more than five feet,” he agrees.

They don't. The carnage begins to unfold with horrific intensity; some vessels on the leading edge taking two or even three hits. Kitakami and Ooi were careful to space themselves as widely as the Strait would allow; and the hasty and ill-advised evasives of the longboats serve to provide even better broadside angles. The Hawk switches to thermal, then reverse thermal; the world becoming a washed-out white plain with the flickering specters of dancing flames its only inhabitants. More and more sprout as the leading quarter of the convoy is struck again and again, sinking ships absorbing torpedoes for their fellows.

>>45346131
Carry longboats forever! Wryyyyyyyy!!

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No matter. Ooi's salvo is close behind.

The abyssals gun line has completed their turn, swirling fog leaving a faint trace of their 180 degree emergency turns. The leader now the trailer, they surge through the mist as they strive to regain lost speed, chasing the two shadowed cruisers south. The secondary battery opens up on Naka again, a rough ladder salvo that drops raggedly to either side. Naka's camera feed begins to dip and sway alarmingly in its mount as she strains her boilers to the max, slamming her rudder from side to side, but the quick-firing secondaries ranging her easily as she chases through the wakes of the big cruisers their primaries are already engaging.

“Flare ship on station, sir,” one of the Ops room people says in your ears. “Awaiting tasking.”

[ ] Light up those god damned cruisers - I want to know what's in that gun line.
[ ] Light up the convoy - I want to know what's in that clusterfuck.
[ ] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

Sorry this went up almost an hour late. First I had to fight with GIMP to try and put a few god damned labels on the CMANO map to help jog anon's memory and after fucking with the new goddamned text-tool interface in GIMP I finally fucking gave up. I used to rely on the GIMP a lot, but for years now every successive upgrade has removed important functionality, made existing functionality harder to use and just fucked shit up, like this fucking "export" bullshit. If I wanted Paint Shop Pro, I'd fucking use that in the first place, assholes.

Anyone know a good freeware/open source image editing program that isn't the fucking GIMP?

>>45346152
>[X] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

>>45346152
>[ ] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

This seems the prudent option, given the nasty surprises the Abyssals have been able to throw out

>>45346152
>[ ] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

[X] Light up the convoy - I want to know what's in that clusterfuck.

It's the last place I'd expect the really hazardous firepower to ever be, and my first guess is never right, soooooooo...

>>45346152
>[ ] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

>>45346152

How many big-fuck flares does that C-130 carry, planefag?

[ ] Light up those god damned cruisers - I want to know what's in that gun line.

Followed IMMEDIATELY by

[ ] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.


We need intel and the convoy can be dealt with by KTKM and Ooi.

We need Jintsuu and Sendai to start moving back to the southeastern side of the island, they still have some torps left don't they? They can deny area to the incoming cruisers or score free hits, or at least draw fire for Naka and the two probable friendlies.

planefag, do our two FFGs have fiiring solutions for their 5 inchers on the spotlighting ships of the enemy fleet?

And where are those exocets?

>>45346152
>[ ] Light up the convoy - I want to know what's in that clusterfuck.

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>>45346152
>[ ] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.
Guderian.jpg

>>45346192
Lelei confirmed for Initial D fan.

>>45346208
MSPaint

>>45346152
[x] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

You KNOW it's coming. Might as well figure it out now. Besides, knowing the composition of the cruiser force is less important than knowing it's location (which we do).

>>45346032
WE SHIPSLUTS NOW!

Hey planefag, you didn't tweet this. Just sayin'.

>>45346212
Thank you Super KTKM-Sama

>>45346212
Get wrekt KTKM Hawk. You will be thrown out of harbor.

Orbitalfag here. Could carriers handle nuclear love?

>>45346239

By lighting it the fuck up NOW, however, we force the enemy into evasives or knowing that they're facing massive incoming that's far more accurate, plus it gives any remaining torps we have a much better aiming solution.

Plus it'll make ramming exocets down their face a lot easier.

>>45346208
Photoscape seems nice, boss.

>>45346152
>[X] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

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Can someone repost that map from the last thread?

>>45346152
>[x] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

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Do you think she's listening to Naka's latest single?

>>45346152
>[ ] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

>>45346152
>[ ] Light up those god damned cruisers - I want to know what's in that gun line.

>>45346279
Jpop is garbage, so I hope she has better taste than that.

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>>45346152
>[x] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.
what we've seen can't be their entire force. if they're using longboats for landing craft they must've sunk all their BV into big bad battleboats

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>>45346148

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>>45346255
>implying

>>45346267
For the love of god please stop.

>>45346279
Ah supply base princess. Gonna have fun fucking her up once I get off work.

>>45346313
>YFW they sunk the rest of their BV into an off-map nuclear Urbie

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>>45346208
JUST. TORRENT. PHOTOSHOP.

>>45346152
>[X] Light up those god damned cruisers - I want to know what's in that gun line.

Threadly reminder that Lexington is

S T A C K E D
T
A
C
K
E
D

>>45346152
>[ ] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

>>45346308
It is, but it helps me cheer up in the morning.

Nothing like sitting in traffic with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyyhtOrKPI blaring in your ear.

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>>45346308
Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pOhruHwbd4

>>45346267
if they were built as CVNs in the first place yes. otherwise fucking no

>>45346131
Okay so I was wrong. Apologies. I'm sorry for spamming my theory.

>>45346152
[X] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

I would go for lighting up the convoy (because lighting up Naka's general position - if I'm interpreting that correctly - would not be good for the continued survival of the CLady (radiofag may have coined the phrase, I'm taking it)...
But given the option is there, I'd rather check to see if there's going to be a SURPRISE HEAVY CRUISER PRINCESS

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Every thread

>>45346208
Adobe put all their basics up for free, including a functional-but-not-super-in-depth release of Photoshop. Go get it, faget.

>>45346152
[X] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

Intelligence is Paramount.

>>45346152
>[ ] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

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>>45346231 here

Here's a shitty mspaint updated version of THE FUCK WE DOIN and WHAT WE SHOULD DO

>>45346208
I don't know what that is.

>>45346212
THANK YOU SUPER KTKM-SAMA

>>45346231

INSTANTLY SHOT DOWN BY SECONDARY BATTERIES

INSTANTLY

PLANE CRASHES ON TENRYUU WHO'S LONG-LANCES EXPLODE HURLING SHRAPNEL INTO TATSUTA WHO SYMPATHETIC DETONATES WHO THEN BLOWS UP KTKM AND OOI LIKE A SIDE-BY-SIDE GTA-2 CARSPLOSION-CHAIN. THE FIREBALL OF BURNING OIL SPREADS ACROSS THE FLEET SETTING OFF THE MEGATON NUKES HIDDEN IN THE ABYSSAL SHIP USS SOMESHIPTHATSANKWITHNUKES AND SETS OFF KRAKATOA'S SLUMBERING MAGMA CHAMBER LEADING TO A VOLCANIC ERUPTION THAT ENDS ALL LIFE ON THE PLANET.

SO DON'T DO THAT.

>>45346152
>[o] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

We've fought enough Abyssals to know that caution pays off.

I mean, the gunline would be great, but still... I don't want nasty surprises!

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Look, this whole battle is misguided.

You should just give up.

>>45346411

As well, you guys voting for just one flare drop are forgetting that it's a C-130 and that there's MILES between the two sites.

It can easily make the turn after dropping on the cruisers to drop flares in the unknown area.

>>45346375
>SURPRISE HEAVY CRUISER PRINCESS
Nah, aerohomo planned this in advance, there's no way he'll pull out something that was revealed today. Surprise Light Cruiser Oni is more likely.

>>45346152
[x] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

>>45346267
Are you fuckin'-

JESUS H CHRIST DO YOU EVEN KNOW ENGINEERING

>>45346411

The FFGs are about two thousand yards outside of the max range of their 5''/54 guns, anon.

>>45346208
paint shop pro is truly dildos for text i can see why you wouldn't want that

>>45346414

lol wut?

Can I get an answer that isn't incoherent shitposting?

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>>45346425
Stop talking Wo.

You just need to sit and look cute.

>>45346374
Hate, do you have any idea how to get this concept through the heads of those fucking flyboys infesting the admiralty?
Because if you have a means to make them stop insisting on sending me to try to perform fucking everything transplants on hulls, I'm all ears.

>>45346425
We should capture the abyssals and undo the abyssalification and make them into normal kanmasu again.

Far better option than just sinking every abyssal that shows any sign of self thought.

>>45346329
feck off
>>45346374
So shit construction got it

What about coilguns? the poor mans railgun

>>45346431

You'll be getting at least one flare drop vote an update. It'll be making multiple runs and dropping more flares in the same area over whatever you're targeting.

>>45346468
Don't pick two choices, anon.

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>>45346414
You know this will just encourage some people.

>>45346474
I actually agree but the problem is resources and manpower.

Later stage of the war we can do that, but not now.

>>45346212
I thought I smelled shit in this thread.

>>45346152
>[X] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

>>45346459
He clearly showed that he didn't last time. Why expect him to this time?

>>45346461

Ah, thank you for the update on that, then.

Well, we need to keep them out of the fight but they could set up a short line a little closer, the aster 15 is short ranged after all, so they should close a little more to maybe a mile or two inside 5 inch range.

At this point we need all the gun we can firing, and even if they can't get their missiles in play their rapid 5" fire on the convoy could tip the balance if it means we can divert more CLs to torp runs and slamming HE into those fucking unknowns.

>>45346481
You're a fucking clown.

>>45346152
[o] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.

We haven't had a fight so far where the Abyssals didn't try some new trickery.

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>those socks and sneakers

Where do Abyssals get all these clothes from?

>>45346414
>not USN WW2 secondaries
>hitting shit at night
>even trying to hit a single airplane at night when they're locked in a gun dual
>inb4 "But what if it is American!"

Then it would have fucking radar and already be shooting at it.

>>45346482

Ah, ok, I thought it was gonna be a THIS IS YOUR ONLY CHOICE CHOOSE WISELY bullshit.

Still voting for
>[X] Light up those god damned cruisers - I want to know what's in that gun line.

Where's Hate and his corgis? Do they have a job waiting for them, or could we drop them behind the Abyssals to recon that area and either shoot anything that looks spoopy, or just flank the enemy from the rear?

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>>45346523

Sunken freighters, obviously.

What, you thought all those jeans and socks and Air Jordans would be forgotten at the bottom of the ocean?

>>45346425
We will not let you massacre the population of Jakarta.
>>45346441
Ah. I guess that's true.

>>45346538

One would assume that his bird is still moving to it's drop point, or he's in a racetrack in the AO outside AA range waiting for his go.

Either that or he's doing sneaky-snake radio silent shit that we somehow don't know about despite being in charge.

>>45346538
We need to deploy a beacon before they can deep strike in.

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>>45346534
>implying they're all WWII abyssals

>>45346152
>Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.
I really want those cruisers dead, but-
If we light them up, houston/perth/naka are backlit to the convoy.
If we light the convoy up, they're backlit to the cruisers, which is even worse.
Those cruisers def need to die tho

>>45346576

Hey planefag, if the USS Salem came back for either side, how much PANIC and or CELEBRATIONS would she cause? Or any others of her class?

>>45346414
so aircraft can be shot down hey look at that
>>45346425
hello recruiter fuck off
>>45346473
why not scrap the piece of shit engineering and use the materials to build better ships

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>>45346538
Hate is busy being a fairy (not that there's anything wrong with that, don't ask don't tell)

Corgis are in the doghouse. Literally.

>>45346562
I wonder if some entrepreneurial transports have set up roaming merchant shops that sell salvage and stolen loot in exchange for pirate gold.

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>>45346562
That pic reminds me that I went looking for spec ops girls pics again, and found this.

>>45346523
it's that wizard who distributes currency and items to monsters that have no way to use them

>>45346617
Is that a giantess?

>>45346152
>[X] Light up a broader area to the south-west - I want to know what these cheesy fucks are hiding up their sleeves.
No Cheek Breeki tonight, Comrade Abyssal.

>>45346208
>Anyone know a good freeware/open source image editing program that isn't the fucking GIMP?
I use Paint.net. Admittedly poorly, but you may have better luck/skills.

>>45346593
Nobody cares about who your shipwaifu is, anon.

>>45346152
>[x] Light up those god damned cruisers - I want to know what's in that gun line.

>>45346630
She's closer to the camera, man.

>>45346576
Then they would also have radar guided FCS, in which case all of the torpedo sluts are fucking dead before they could do the torpedo runs.

>>45346630
>what is perspective?

>>45346514
I have a theory on who this fuck is.
>>45346598
What.
you want to scrap...
What.

Seriously? This is a new level of retardation here.

>>45346654
>>45346659
>what is terrible art

I'm pretty sure that modern ships on our side have star shells. why don't they shoot some off?

>>45346639

You're saying you don't want what is pretty much the be-all and end-all of heavy cruisers, capable of a combined 108 RPM between 9 of the best 8" guns on earth and some of the best AA with 12 twin 3"/50 cals?

Those two girls, if we could get them over here, would shitkick pretty much anything outside of a BB.

>>45346593
How about some love for the Porter Class Destroyers, considering they had 8 5 inch guns and 8 torpedoes. Sure it could only make 34 knots, but it was heavily armed for a destroyer.

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>>45346657
>Then they would also have radar guided FCS, in which case all of the torpedo sluts are fucking dead before they could do the torpedo runs.

cool story bru

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Why do you niggers keep responding to the orbitalretard.
Do you not understand the basic rules of dealing with moronic fags?

>>45346687
Would shitkick a BB as well, the sheer volume of fire would destroy everything above deck, like radar, secondaries, rangefinders, radio masts, etc.

>>45346687
Would it be possible to replace the 40mm guns on the Iowas with radar-directed 3"/50's?

>>45346152
>[x] Light up those god damned cruisers - I want to know what's in that gun line.
Those Cruisers need removing and we still have our missles for any nasty surprises

>>45346687
The leveling effect and planefag's fears of character bloat render your hopes moot.

>>45346728

Except that the main battery and bouyancy would be intact, meaning that they'd eventually be torn apart.

Arizona's first battle should have shown you superstructure doesn't mean shit.

>>45346699
Obviously they just have a GECM VTOL set to ECCM mode.

Votes called!

And yes, Hate is in a holding pattern; you'll be getting votes afore long regarding exactly where you want your FIVE-DOG-LONG MARINE to DYNAMICALLY INSERT for TACTICAL DEEP STRIKE

>>45346725

It's delightful to see SB lecture me about not responding to trolls even as a troll was leading them on a chase most merry. Over hill, over dale, over hedge over ha-ha, lawdy lawdy what a jape

>>45346660
who am I then

scrap the shipgrills ships and use the material to make not shit construction stuff built to handle nuclear love like all other anons are saying since wwii construction is too shit to handle it

>>45346699
Is there any possibility of having the C-130 laze targets for the Exocets, or at least provide a targeting uplink for terminal tracking so we don't have to do the semi-dumbfire method? Or is that outside our capabilities at this point.

>>45346725
Because theres a vague fucking hope that the fucking clown will go oh, I'm being a shittard, I ought to do some research

>>45346736
The twin-3" was supposed to be a drop-in replacement for a quad-Bofors, so "Yes". Probably. Assuming Iowa goes for the idea.

>>45346760
>TACTICAL DEEP STRIKE
>tfw Hate and the corgis are in an Airspeed Horsa, waiting to be released on a target

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>>45346593
>Hey planefag, if the USS Salem
>haunted as fuck museum ship
>literally a rape machine on water

Half the Navy wants to try awakening her so bad they can taste it. The other half are afraid they will awaken pic related.

>>45346760
>SB REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>45346773
Neat.

Super Iowa when?

>>45346683

You can expect those to start flying shortly, btw. The flare ship can absolutely *shit* flares however, and they last longer, too. Treat it as an effective combat bonus to whatever you are engaging, or the ability to search an area of ocean without devoting secondaries to hurling shells out to peek.

>>45346699
>Jamming multiple ships using unknown frequencies that are switching between different radar frequencies for surface search, and gun targeting, and can just switch at a moments notice if one gets jammed

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>>45346795
>SB REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

if someone made me an SB REEE flag similar to this one I would love them forever

>thread theme song
Pick your poison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFJY93pU1sk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vdsmUa3LFw

>>45346760
It's the obsessive-compulsive disorder common to most debaters. He's wrong and damnit, you will prove it so conclusively he will admit it.

Sometimes, you even manage to achieve it.

>>45346778
Hey, can we get some "Haunted USS Salem/Ship" stories going here?

I'm interested in the tales.

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>>45346760
>SB was trolled and led off the rails by a troll trolling on a different site

What a world we live in, where spacebattles cannot stop sucking the /tg/ orc cock.

>>45346763

you know, props fir getting responses as long as you did. I'd rate you a fucking 6/10. Solid show, you even got me for a fucking bit

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>>45346687
can they handle nuclear love or railguns or coilguns
>>45346725
fuck off sb reeeeeeee

>>45346760
>your FIVE-DOG-LONG MARINE to DYNAMICALLY INSERT for TACTICAL DEEP STRIKE
Will we name this maneuver "Wood Rain"?

>>45346855
But Hate doesn't have a speech impediment?

So is Hamp going to get a younger Brother or Sister? And will they be that person who cuts him off in traffic with an "I love the NRA" sticker on the back of their car?

>>45346817

just reverse the polarity and route it through the main deflector dish

seriously don't you know anything wtf

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HARDER AND NAKA SIRING A LITTLE PIC RELATED WHEN?

>>45346778

Thank you, planefag. That's fucking hilarious.

Has there been attempts to summon her dogpiled, then said dogpilers dogpiled by those in favour?

>>45346876
Now, where is that song... Ah! There it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03E68F6599Q

>>45346757
Superstructure means fucking everything you retard. You lose your radar, and your fucking FINISHED in a night battle.

You lose your Radio, and you're all fucking alone.

You lose your primary FCS, and now you're shafted because you're stuck using local control, which can also be knocked out by the sheer shock of shells hitting the turret, or striking the rangefinders on the turrets themselves. This is in addition to the fact that local control is both inefficient, and inferior to the primary FCS.

Don't underestimate the value of volume of fire. Arizona BARELY won against a pair of predreadnoughts at point blank ranges during the day.

>>45346855
>>45346864
>Wood rehn
>gliders droppin from the sky again
>Wood rehn

DOG MEHREENS
WE HAVE FAILED THE ADMIRAL

>>45346765

fog and clouds are especially bad for that

plus exocets are radar-terminal guidance

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>>45346847
>some barely coherent retard accuses me of being SB
I've never been so flattered.

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>>45346824
9000 hours in ms paint and all that.

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>>45346824
Satisfied?

>>45346765
Most normal C-130s can't mount laser designators. Some USAF spec-ops MC-130s can, but I was under the impression that the flare-ship overhead was a cargo-model Herky-bird from one of the participating ASEAN nations.

>>45346931
>>45346923
Hivemind

>>45346931
>text doens't even match

pls

>>45346941
More like paintmind.

>>45346457
Kiwis have longer beaks than that

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>>45346778
The obvious solution is to take the decision out of their hands.

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>>45346931
>>45346923
>REEEEEE-mind


>>45346937
I think PF pointed out that it was a flight of Combat Talons from the USAF supporting us.

>>45346876
[memes internally]

>>45346760
Tell me more

>>45346763
So, you want to scrap one of our most cost-efficient methods of dealing with the abyssals... for the chance to do... what, build better conventional ships? For the slim chance that it wouldn't fuck up the ship-spirit magical shit that's going on here?

>>45346847
holy fuck orbital anon you know not what you have done

>>45346827
Yeah, we all know the feeling.

>>45346959
Wherever I go, I must also REEEEEE

>>45346959
Yep, I remember MC130J being mentioned.

>>45346948
Go torrent your Photoshop already homofag.

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>Salem showed up
>killed all of the abyssals
>got bored
>killed everyone else
>we are all just ghosts aboard Salem

>>45346948
Hey planefag, what is your opinion on photoshop?
>>45346955
Looks like somebody's about to die bloody...

>>45347017
Almost looks like an Iowa.

>>45346757
Hard to kill something when you can't hit it because your fire control system has been blown all to hell. Superstructure hits can get a "soft" kill just fine--ask South Dakota about that.

>>45347017
>implying that humanity doesn't fight so many wars we'd give her eternal entertainment

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>>45346824
Here's my attempt, I think it turned out good.

>>45346598
>why not scrap the piece of shit engineering and use the materials to build better ships
>scrap
>hulls
MotherFUCKER where do zero intelligence zero humanity fuckbends like you crawl out of? You can't just BUILD the soul of a sunken warship.

I like how since Heavy Cruisers versus Light Cruisers was pretty a much a wash during WW2, the USN just decided to build a Heavy Cruiser with 8" guns that fires as fast as a light cruiser with 6" guns.

Thanks America.

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>>45347049
>>45347017
>USS Salem is basically Rory Mercury

>>45347064
Too thick

I've gotta say I'm kinda impressed that you manage to run threads so long given you usually start at like 2am in Greece, Planefag.

Do you just drink a fuckton of coffee and energy drinks or something?

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>>45347023
Yuudachi remains calm so long as you don't remove the blindfold.

>>45347075
>we send her into North Korea with no support
>ten years later, the country is in her control

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>>45347047
Really though, most of her problem was that she went in blind due to a malfunction and then had the misfortune to illuminate herself to the fire of the ENTIRE ENEMY TASKFORCE.

She was still only hit a few times and sailed out under her own power.

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Hornet is big and flat.

>>45347083
he's Greek-american so he runs on US time.

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Is it bad that I genuinely look forward to these threads?

Pic unrelated.

>>45347083
He's a Greek on the Eastern Seaboard, anon.

Or at least, Eastern Standard Time.

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>>45347095
>Ten years
>not Ten Days

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>>45346387

What advances have there been in active protection systems since los angeles?
>>45346976
fuck off if youre going to spout contrary statements first you say wwii construction sucks and cant handle nuclear overhaul so why not scrap it
>>45347065
couldnt the shipsloot just take command of the new improved nuclear loveboat it is built with the same material and all after all arizona was shot up and repaired

>>45347120
>implying she doesn't always give the Norks just enough hope so that she can pull it away

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>>45347095
God a shipgirl taking over a small dictatorship like that...

Fuck me, she's make it into an Outer Heaven for Shipsluts. That's amazing.

>>45347113
They're one of my week's highlights.

>>45347083
He replaced the water in coffee with MONSTER.

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>>45347113
Is it bad that I have a serious boner for the refitted Iowas.

>yfw four generations of Americans served aboard them

>>45347136
>Fuck me, she's make it into an Outer Heaven for Shipsluts. That's amazing.

That specific idea is bait for people to claim you're some SB faggot, but yeah, a Salem led PMC is probably what she'd do.

>>45347159
No anon. You are the SB.

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>>45347113
Nope, these threads are better than anything on TV.

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>>45347149
Not at all.

The Iowas were the last, best battleships. If being the last country to operate battleships in any capacity doesn't make you proud to be an American, I don't know what will.

>>45347095

>thinking the abyssals haven't already done that

>>45347159
>"Salem, this is a sneaking mission."
>"Lol no."

[muffled 8"/55 automatic fire in the distance]

>>45347136
>she's make it into an Outer Heaven for Shipsluts.

It already exists, they're called Abyssals.

>>45346959
>>45346982

After checking the earlier threads, I found it here: >>45246131
I withdraw my point-of-order and shall now sit corrected.

>>45347084
Hmm. I'll keep that in mind... not like I would ever implement it.
>>45347127
...
>What advances have there been in active protection systems since Los Angeles?

Now I want to know about this too.

>everything else

By God you're misgui- wait. Oh fuck you don't you dare take my ideas and pervert them you bastard.

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This ship when? For the confusion factor with Willie D.

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>>45347139
>He replaced the water in coffee with MONSTER.

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>>45347184
I don't care what people call me. If we're going to characterize Salem as someone always needing a fight, a Private Military Company is the best place for her.

She ain't Big Boss. Not by a long shot. Ain't no one in this setting BB.

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>>45347149

>Try to make it look like Iowa is making way under her own power by cutting out tugboat pulling her
>still can see chain attached to her bow

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>>45347113
Hell no, this shit has me too damn invested.

And now that I'm home and caught up, I'll try to whip up another tactical overview. Which vote won just now?

>>45347191

That's not setting the bar very high now, is it?

>>45347226
Why is Iowa standing in front of the French flag?

>>45347226
The previous captain and several generations of crew members expressed their anger at the fact that they towed her in instead of having her steam under her own power.

>>45347223
Settle might, maybe, be as close as it gets.

And even then, he's only Venom.

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>>45347211
>Hmm. I'll keep that in mind... not like I would ever implement it.
Suuuuure.

>>45347083
It's pretty easy when you consider that he lives in Michigan. "Greek" is ethnicity, not nationality.

>>45347223
>Private Military Company
Dude, she can always start her own version of Mithril or Hotel Moscow, you know.

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>>45347139
Tried that once. Didn't really feel any distinct rush of energy.
>>45347221
That was awesome (literally). Crossroads?

>>45347244
It clearly means we must annex France.

>>45347234
Eh, there are a few good shows still out there, but these threads beat even those by a long shot.

>>45347266
It was an H-bomb, so no. Probably Castle Bravo.

>>45347265
So, Mercenary company that pretends to be good guys or... Mercenary company that went full Organized Crime?

I'm seeing a lot of Mercenary Company, here.

>>45347245
Never mind that she hadn't been fired up in years, and that a standard clause of the Navy's museum ship donation contract is that the ship not move under its own power in private hands...

>>45347266
No, that looked like Castle Bravo, the largest H-Bomb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd1IFjBNNVo

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>>45347244
>He hasn't looked at state flags ever

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>>45347244

That's closer to a sideways Crimean flag than a French one.

>>45347298
Thank you freedom fairy.

>>45347191
I dunno. The X-Files episode last week, Mulder and Scully meet the Were-Monster, was pretty good.

Reminded me of KanColle.

>I was a ship lying on the bottom, but then I woke up, had these fingers, and had a sudden need to fuck an Admiral

>>45347265
I think we're debating semantics, Anon.

Point is, Salem would do better outside of the military than in it.

Or possibly...

>AWOL team picks up Salem

>>45347265
Hotel Moscow with ship-girls...and then Hibiki was Balalaika.

>>45347296
Largest H-Bomb detonated by the US, I meant to say.

>>45347315
I really need to catch up on the new X-Files.

>>45347298
Thank You Freedom Fairy

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When.

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>>45347298
Thank you freedom fairy!

>>45347337
Spoilers: first episode is awful because it has Not-Alex Jones in it, which is surprisingly unfitting to the X-Files.

But the episode I mentioned is a must see. I thought it was better than Jose Chung, if you will believe it.

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>>45347298
Je vous remercie de conte de liberté

>>45347290
>>45347315
Would you rather she be part of the Wild Cards?

>>45347316
YPA and all that jazz.

>>45347362
>Would you rather she be part of the Wild Cards?

I don't care, so long as she shows up.

>>45347295
>>45347245

Would her engines still be serviceable after so long rusting away in Suisun Bay alongside all the other ships serving in the mothball fleet?

>>45347362
I thank you of tale of liberty?

I'm a francophone and I don't understand what you mean with that phrase.

As for the Wild Cards... I'm missing the reference, unfortunately.

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Loli CV with her arms stuffed full of PBY's when.

>>45347259
Yuudachi is someone who I would hug, not fuck. Destroyers are not for lewds.
>>45347289
>>45347296
Ah. I'm not exactly familiar with the matter, couldn't really tell the difference between- HOLY FUCK WAS THAT THE BOMB AT 0:48?

... holy shit. Holy fucking shit. I can see why people keep regurgitating the same shit over and over regarding nukes (I understood before - the 'Big Stick' syndrome - but now...).

>>45347382
Well, they had already done it once to bring her (sister) back for Vietnam, and then again for the gulf war.

>>45347397
>Why can I

>hold all these PBYs?

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>>45347402
>Destroyers are not for lewds

literally built for lewds

>>45347397
Is that going to be our version of "REPPU, REPPU!"

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>>45347393
A mercenary fighter team from Ace Combat Quest, a quest run by Merc Command, who also did a spinoff of SWQ.

>>45347397
That is so fucking cute

>>45347442
... Hm. Gonna have to get on that.

>>45347428
Not enough up top for lewds.

Are we winning?

>>45347442
>A shipgirl as an airplane pilot

I wonder how well that would work. I want to think one of the shipgirls knows how to drive, but... I don't remember all that well.

>>45347458
It's also a bit more light-hearted than KCQ, so it's a good thing to read if you need a break.

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>>45347458
It kinda wrapped up a few months ago, unfortunately.

>>45347479

Too early to say. We certainly have the element of surprise going for us right now--that much is certain.

This girl when?

>>45347482

Kongo, oddly enough.

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>>45347402
>Yuudachi is someone who I would hug, not fuck. Destroyers are not for lewds.
Destroyers were made for lewds.

>I'm not exactly familiar with the matter, couldn't really tell the difference between-
H-bombs have a distinct double flash.

>HOLY FUCK WAS THAT THE BOMB AT 0:48?
Yes, prototype design that was not mobile.

>>45347479
Maybe!

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>>45347499

Image that was supposed to be here

>>45347491

Which sucks, cause the three he's done since have been shit.

>>45347482
Kongou can. Hamp definitely FLOORED it during the Corgi chase, and during his first appearance.

As for shipgirl fighter pilots, a team of Nosferatu pilots in-quest are based off of desdiv 6.

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>>45347461
Plenty of those

>>45347487
Well, I find the current situation quite light hearted and relaxing. Without any sarcasm.

>>45347491
Oh, well. At least I won't have to get involved in the voting or wait for updates when reading through the archives.

>>45347519
>your opinion
>not shit

>>45347461
Tell that to people who like their girls slim. It's ultimately about the mentality and not all Destoryers are mentally 10 like DesDiv6 (and even then some people would lewd them)

>>45347526
She is for lewds.

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While we wait for updates, let us talk about the benefits of having a Chrono Miner in our team.

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What could go wrong?

>>45346593
The question is what the leveling effect does to her duel purpose, radar directed, rapid fire 8" guns.

If they remain has hax as that sounds in a WW2 context, then we win everything forever.

(This is also why we probably won't see her.)

>>45347568

Literally what.

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>>45347543
If that's the case, would this girl be 13 or 20? I'm assuming ages for destroyers and light cruisers respectively. She had the greatest displacement of the inter war destroyers, 8 5 inch guns, and 8 torpedo tubes, and could only go 34-34.5 knots.

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>>45347518

It'd be interesting to see her come back, but I'd be more interested in seeing what would happen if Olympia returned.

Then seeing her, Aurora, and Mikasa have a bully old time talking shit about the newfangled shipgirls all around them, with their huge turrets and pagodas.

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>>45347589
Probably why we won't see Cleveland either.

>literally the most brokenly overpowered light cruiser ever made

>>45347591
>never played RA2

>>45347568
>not a ship
>not from our timeline where Einstein didn't erase Hitler
Miss Not-Appearing-in-this-Quest

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>>45347266
This one was from crossroads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG9Jo3a6yLY

Title is inaccurate. It's not thermonuclear, and it was 90 ft underwater, not 200.

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>>45347622
That fucking CL will be in my nightmares forever as a DD driver

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BULGES

>>45347617
Yeah, she'd (USS Maine I mean) probably come back Abyssal considering her end.

>>45347637
>tfw Einstein's time-travelling shenanigans transforms into a dimension-hopping incident
Einstein making shipgirl weapons when

>>45347653
>yfw they have nerfed it almost every patch since CBT
>half of the RPM gone
>armor nerfed
>2/3rds of the AA missing
>still wrecks everything else

>>45347660
... RA Shipgirls.

Amazing.

>>45347653
It will be in my dreams forever as a US cruiser player.

It matters not your armor, your guns, or your speed, the Clever shall drown you in fire.

>>45347653
I share your feel, anon. The sooner that thing gets kicked up-tiers, the happier I'll be.

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So, tactical analysis as of now.

Lekir and one gunboat currently have a front-row seat to the longboats getting blown the fuck up, to the northwest.

KTKM and Ooi (how the fuck do you even pronounce ooi) have just blown their wads, so they're hanging out with the chunniboat and her sister to block of their half of the strait.

The frigates are still holding position, in reserve.

Jintsuu and Sendai haven't had their movements updated recently- we know they're in the eastern half of the strait, we know they both fired torpedos already, and that's about it.

Houston and Perth are still steaming south, counter to the invasion convoy, which is still lighting them up with spotlights. Houston is firing at the cruiser line, Perth at the spotlights in the convoy.

The cruiser line has reversed course to maintain fire on Houston, Perth, and Naka.

Naka is moving to join Houston and Perth to provide smoke. She still has her full load of torpedoes.

Katsuri and the remaining four gunboats are currently stuck in with a gaggle of abyssal torpedo boats, keeping them off of Naka and Houston/Perth's backs.

Flare ship is on station.

F-16s are on CAP station

Hawks yet to enter the field.

Hate still in reserve.

>>45347674
>mfw I only ran into it occasionally in the CBT and it was still a rape machine

Really. They should have made another ship the T-6 or have nerfed the shell damage into the ground with it.

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>>45347656

DEM HIPS

>>45347298
Thank you, Freedom fairy!

>>45347679
I think there's art going around of an Allied Destroyer shipgirl and a Soviet Dreadnought shipgirl.

>>45347657
Interestingly enough, that Maine wasn't actually the ship that blew up in Havana Harbor.

>>45347701
NAKA-CHAN

YOU'RE OUR HERO

>>45347702
>>45347696
The Cleveland is sort of balanced, now. Sort of.

The paper thin armour is definitively the most noticeable now. You best hope you have a BB drawing attention nearby, or you will die very quickly.

>>45347045
Almost any american end war fast gunship is going to look pretty similar. They're designed by the same people to solve the same problems.

(Compare the Alaska class as well.)

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With the laser pointer in your “hook,” you circle the dark ocean between Krakatoa and the Java coast. “Have them light the hell out of that area,” you instruct. “And keep the Global Hawk watching, too. I'm tired of getting ambushed by these assholes.”

The operator watches the little mouse cursor that chases your laser pointer like a curious puppy, then confirms the order and starts giving the Combat Shadow... Talon... whatever the fuck they tasked to you its IP and ingress headings.

“Fuck,” Naka whispers under her breath as a scattering of light shells thunders into the ocean in a ragged ring around her, the spray blurring the go-pro feed for long seconds before the saltwater slips from the treated lens. She turns to look at her harasser, which seems to be the former lead-ship of the abyssal cruiser division, now tailing his compatriots chasing Naka's course south. “Fuck *you,*” she hisses, unloading her own broadside. The shells punch through the misty darkness, the faint blurry streaks visibly widening as they vanish into the darkness - and then the Java coastline is lashed with the bright sulfurous light of star-shells as they bloom to life high above. The hulking form of a late-1880s warship is revealed, conflicting shadows from the multiple shells throwing strange angles of shadow every which way. Naka manages to drop her first salvo only three hundred yards short despite that. The second abyssal cruiser - something with tall masts barely glimpsed in the sallow light that slides off their slick-looking shafts - lets fly with its own staggered salvo, shell splashes marching steadily closer to the bobbing, weaving bollio.

>>45347741
Paper thin armor leads to a problem when it comes to BB drivers though. Can't kill a cleveland fast enough with AP.

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Switching to the Global Hawk, you get a pretty decent look to compare with the director on the Kasturi - she's apparently lost interest in the fleeing abyssal PT boats and is lobbing 100mm shells at the tailing cruiser with her solitary gun. More muzzle flashes brighten the darkness from the uppermost decks - quick-firing guns, and a lot of them.

“It never Shigure's but it pours,” Naka says, her tone rather empty as she returns fire; shells dropping depressingly wide. Her mad dodging is disrupting her own solutions, but she's running out of salvos to pursue; two ships worth of QF guns churning the water around her into froth. The patterns are none too tight, but worryingly persistent - she's got some armor, but she's also patched together with duct tape and hope.

“Five-thousand,” Naka whispers, “Five-hundred and a hair for that cute little ass-wiggle you're gonna try, you son-of-a-” her seven small turrets bark again, the meager salvo whistling away through the dark -

- and landing athwart the abyssals beam with tremendous blasts. The vessel vanishes from sight behind the towering water columns; the very fog itself dispelled by the concussion.

>>45347768
Naka got beaten to death by cookies?

>>45347762
HE works well enough. At least, from my perspective when I captain my Cleveland.

The opposite, when I captain my BBs, is not the same.

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>>45347708
not even the widest

>be refit
>gain an extra 17 feet on the beam, and 10,00 tons in weight

literally went from something like Arizona, to an hourglass figure.

>hips too wide to fit through the Panama canal

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“Wwhwhaaa-” Naka stammers, sounding very much like her old self for a half-second. “Bombs!?”

“Seven,” you whisper to yourself, eyes fixed on your wristwatch. “Eight. Nine. Te-”

This time the hulking cruiser emerges from the drenching still rocking as it rights itself, hull plates stove in by tremendous force.

“She's firing explosive,” you tell Naka. “Suppressing those secondaries with splinters.”

“Who?”

You smile thinly. “You'll see. Start making smoke.”

Naka's finally gaining on the two cruisers - they seem to be sluggish, perhaps still building steam. The tailing ship is lost to view behind a straddling salvo of HE shells, a stray shell splinter whistling past Naka's head - but on the mast of the taller ship, just barely poking above the fog, a tattered ensign waves. In the coal-black sky above abyssal flares ignite, smoldering sullenly. In the star-shells red glare you can see the shrapnel shredded American flag waving from her mast.

“Hello, Houston,” you whisper. “Hell of an entrance.”

[ ] Try to raise her on the radio.
[ ] Let Naka handle first contact - she seems to have a knack.

>>45347428
>>45347502
DDaughters, no.
CLadies/CAdies, yes.
CVs... on a case-by-case basis, perhaps.
BBs... friends.

Thanks for the information. Filing it down now.

Huh. I wonder what the size of the bomb would be for the final production model...?
>>45347526
That's... Hayashimo, correct?
>>45347645
Thanks for the correction/clarification.
21KT... hmm.
>>45347701
>how the fuck do you even pronounce ooi
Just as one would expect. Long o, then i. Like 'Oy'.

Also, regarding Naka... we witness you, little CLady.

>>45347701
It's pronounced "Ohh-E" With the "Oh" syllable a bit drawn out. (Using the normal transliteration, it'd be "Oui," but they went with the alternative one to avoid having it mistaken for French.)

>>45347778
That's the personal issue - BB's rely a lot on that one fucking shot hitting and doing massive damage. Perfectly fine for slugging it out with BB's, but thin armored cruisers are really a BB's most annoying foe as they just flamethrower you to death and you can't hit them at all.

>>45347787
>[ ] Let Naka handle first contact - she seems to have a knack.
I kinda have a bad taste at the mouth with Essex so, uh, let LE DOCTOR NAKA do the diagnosing.

>>45347787
>[X] Try to raise her on the radio.
HELOOOOOOO HOUSTON

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>>45347787
> In the star-shells red glare you can see the shrapnel shredded American flag waving from her mast.
>pic related

[X] Try to raise her on the radio.

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>>45347787
>[X] Let Naka handle first contact - she seems to have a knack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ZYGJSpx1I

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>>45347787
>[x] Let Naka handle first contact - she seems to have a knack.

>>45347787
>[ ] Try to raise her on the radio.
I get the feeling Naka is going to do it anyway, so it's probably for the best that we make sure Houston and Perth aren't going to destroy her for being Japanese.

>>45347787
>[X] Let Naka handle first contact - she seems to have a knack.
Trust the Naka.

>>45347787
>[X] Try to raise her on the radio.
Try to head of any

>IJN REEE
>Meatball get out!

>>45346104
>(and rigging!?)
Why does this matter?

>>45347787
>[ ] Let Naka handle first contact - she seems to have a knack.

Also, nice reference to the Star Spangled Banner there.

>>45347787
>[X] Try to raise her on the radio.

>>45347821
>>45347831
Houston, we have a problem...
>[electrical fires hissing in the distance]

>>45347847
Hopefully Naka will be singing that song when she becomes a US citizen thanks to her marriage to Harder.

>>45347787
>[ ] Let Naka handle first contact - she seems to have a knack.

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>>45347831
>I get the feeling Naka is going to do it anyway, so it's probably for the best that we make sure Houston and Perth aren't going to destroy her for being Japanese.
I think the abyssals being there ensures they're not going to attack Naka.

>>45347792
No, this is Hayashimo.

>>45347787
SO Houston and Perth are still ships then? Not ship girls?

>>45347787
>[ ] Try to raise her on the radio.
Naka has a knack... but Houston might still think she's an enemy, if she doesn't know the situation well. Better for the first voice she hears be American.

>>45347787
>[ ] Try to raise her on the radio.

>>45347818
I was unclear. I meant that, when I captain my Cleveland, BBs seem to have little problem annihilating my HP and systems with HE.

But when I captain my BBs, I can't fucking hit the bastards. Bracketing? Fuck Yes. I'll give you the most cinematic feeling you'll ever get with shells splashing all around you with mere meters to spare.

Hit you? Fucking never.

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>In the coal-black sky above abyssal flares ignite, smoldering sullenly. In the star-shells red glare you can see the shrapnel shredded American flag waving from her mast.

>>45347787
>>[ ] Try to raise her on the radio.
Remember, Naka was there for the battle of the Java sea. Introduce her as a friend, conceal our shit-eating grin.

>>45347865
Seems like it. They'll probably power down like Hamp did later on.

>>45347787
>[X] Try to raise her on the radio.

>>45347768
>“It never Shigure's but it pours,”

Is Shigure supposed to mean something?

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Guys, Abyssals are currently firing at Houston and Naka.

I'm pretty sure Houston well get the message that Naka is an ally.

>>45347872
>He can't play the Cleveland right
Get good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87J0wCKsxso