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sparkmaster posted:First the Royal Navy, now the British monarchy. English Breakfast, because destroying it would inarguably make England a better place.
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Zeroisanumber posted:English Breakfast, because destroying it would inarguably make England a better place. I'm American, and even so these are fighting words, Sir.
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pthighs posted:I'm American, and even so these are fighting words, Sir. Srry for not being into a plate of colored slime for breakfast. 
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You can't fight in here! This is the war room!
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sparkmaster posted:First the Royal Navy, now the British monarchy. 
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   The guns at Wake continue to thunder out. We later get reports that the engineering brigade there has been wiped out by attrition.   The Solomon sea is full of damaged ships.  A rare air combat where we don't lose a plane.  Two in a row? Very rare!   A quiet day, but time to count the cost.  Nooooo! This is a big hit!   Then you add in the fact that ALL of my battleships are damaged and in need of repair! This was one of those battles that was always going to happen, but it still makes it painful. These ships will spend a few days repairing the system damage before heading for Japan – though our losses could have been a lot worse!  This is now the sum of my raiding forces. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Apr 11, 2018 04:56
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Fuuuuuuck that wasn't supposed to happen
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Welp.
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Alas, poor Mushashi. You will always live in our memories. Dying the way you were designed to. Slugging it with enemy Battleships. You shall be mourned. Your day in the sun came at a cost. But you died the way you lived. The way you should have gone out. Bringing death down the barrels of 18". Also YEOWCH this brawl was messy. TWO dead BB's for one Allied one and the entire surface TF that survived going to spend a long time in dry dock. Massive air losses on top of that for the carriers and ground based air forces that still were replacing losses. Good luck Grey and thank you for giving us the battleship duel we all dreamed of and wished - the Yamato and Mushashi vs the Iowa. The cost was high. But glorious to see. the age of the Battleship comes in with a bang and continues with point blank gunnery duels. How long likely to build up the carrier air pools once more to full strength and get Rabaul's CAP up to spec? wedgekree fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Apr 11, 2018 05:03
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gently caress Goddamnit!
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Wasn't the Yamato class supposed to withstand Iowa shells?
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That's a heck of a result for US Navy given the numbers involved.
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Seriously, Iowa went down like a motherfucking champ.
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Apr 11, 2018 05:16
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 At least Musashi went down in a brawl like she was meant to.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Seriously, Iowa went down like a motherfucking champ. Can you imagine if they'd had more than one Iowa Class in there? They'd have killed his entire battle line, by the looks of it. gently caress yeah, Iowa. You rammed and point-blanked Musashi in my mind. 
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Trading it for the Iowa honestly isn't that bad of a trade when you consider the AA loadout that an Iowa-class battleship is rolling with. That alone probably saved at least one hundred pilots, to say nothing of thousands of pixelmen it would have bombarded.
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RZApublican posted:Trading it for the Iowa honestly isn't that bad of a trade when you consider the AA loadout that an Iowa-class battleship is rolling with. That alone probably saved at least one hundred pilots, to say nothing of thousands of pixelmen it would have bombarded. this is such a Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf post 
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gradenko_2000 posted:this is such a Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf post I'd make a photoshop of him but with Croctopus but I'm pretty sure I'd gently caress it up.
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Where is the Mutsu? she didn't blow up after reaching Rabul I hope? 
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For a decisive battle the Allies absolutely spanked you. I can already see all the rampant internet posts and debates in 75 years time. There will be a whole subreddit set up to the Iowa's prowess and how it would have sunk the Yamato too if it wasn't for x/y/z.
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gradenko_2000 posted:this is such a Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf post 
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Looking forward to this universe's epic sci-fi anime, Space Battleship Musashi. Edit: poo poo someone made that joke yesterday.
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Drone posted:Looking forward to this universe's epic sci-fi anime, Space Battleship Musashi. Great minds think alike Anime fans never differ.
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Think of all the fuel you'll save with Musashi being gone!
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This timeline's version of Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors is going to be wild. For that matter, Neptune's Inferno is going to be a five volume work.
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pthighs posted:Think of all the fuel you'll save with Musashi being gone! And it's still a more glorious end than the real Musashi, getting swarmed to death by Helldivers and Avengers. Hell, the Yamashiro even went down fighting, IRL it got basically murdered by firing squad.
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far less embarrassing end than the historical ship at least too bad, tho, thought itd live to sail again, after two years of repairs
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We haven't seen many fleet carriers have we? Is that because we damaged them all in our Not Midway battle? If they come back all at once that is going to make the end of the war quite hellish.
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I would love to see the US papers - they would be leading with "Jap(anese) surface fleet mauled" and not "Newest battleship lost and ANOTHER covoy sunk." Lets not beat about the bush, I lost a couple of battleships, but they lost one and a bunch of troopships - which may well include their biggest cruise ship!
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The good news is that Operation Downfall is going to be 600 Liberty Ships, a half dozen mine layers, and escorted by a hospital ship and the last fleet oiler in the pacific.
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Only the Americans could have so many ships they use a cruise liner to land troops.
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Ardeem posted:The good news is that Operation Downfall is going to be 600 Liberty Ships, a half dozen mine layers, and escorted by a hospital ship and the last fleet oiler in the pacific. Bonus points if the oiler is japanese and really confused as it leads the charge on Tokyo Bay
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Ardeem posted:The good news is that Operation Downfall is going to be 600 Liberty Ships, a half dozen mine layers, and escorted by a hospital ship and the last fleet oiler in the pacific. and they're still going to be able to put up enough flak to repel Japan's 30 EXP pilots
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gradenko_2000 posted:and they're still going to be able to put up enough flak to repel Japan's 30 EXP pilots At the rate we're going won't the allies just make guns that shoot Liberty ships?
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Ardeem posted:The good news is that Operation Downfall is going to be 600 Liberty Ships, a half dozen mine layers, and escorted by a hospital ship and the last fleet oiler in the pacific. Of the 159 Liberty-class Ships we've seen, 51 were last reported with Heavy Fires and Heavy Damage, 38 having sustained heavy fires, 10 with minor fires and/or heavy damage, and 41 sunk. (Unless I pulled up the stats improperly.)
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I saw the thread had 60 new posts and just knew that we lost one of our big bruisers. Banzai, Musashi, banzai
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mercenarynuker posted:I saw the thread had 60 new posts and just knew that we lost one of our big bruisers. Banzai, Musashi, banzai http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=40
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10 April 1944 March was a pretty quiet month in the historical war, all things considered; April will be similar. Our first casualty is the German minesweeper M-459, sunk off Narva by Soviet air attack.
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Nippon banzai Woof. Losing Musashi is a heavy blow. loving radar directed gunnery.
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MA-Horus posted:Nippon banzai Shipbuilders in the US must be wondering why the Montana-class was cancelled. Can you imagine an even better armed and armored Iowa going up against the IJN? One Iowa and one WW1-era battleship just took it to a fleet containing every Japanese battleship (I think), and sunk a 1920s BB and a Yamato class!
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