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Belated Battleships (KanColle) [REHOST]

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theJMPer said:
Shinano was so happy she could squeal.

So she did.

She let out a high-pitched girlish squeal and hugged herself for lack of anyone else to hug. She felt so happy, happier than she'd ever felt when White wasn't around.
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Aaaaaaw.:D
theJMPer said:
The big carrier cradled the bowl against her breast with her ragged stump and fumbled a spoon between her fingers. She gathered a few noodles and a healthy helping of warm broth and carried it to Ryuujou's torn lips. "Open wide."
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Now this is ideal fanart fodder.
theJMPer said:
"How'd it go," Shinano sunk down in the pool until her chin ticked the surface and even her expansive breasts barely crested above the glassy smooth water. She screwed up her face in thought, and then it came to her.

"Rev'n up your engine," sang Shinano in the same gentle, soothing tone White would use when she couldn't sleep. "Listen to her howlin' roar."
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*snrk* Danger zone as a lullaby. Never going to stop laughing at that.

theJMPer said:
Shinano kept singing until the end of the song, but she was pretty sure both carriers fell asleep halfway though. She didn't mind, they'd worked hard. They'd worked so hard for so long… Shinano was just honored she got the opportunity to sing them to bed.

"That was very beautiful," said a voice Shinano recognized instantly, even though she'd only heard it in stories and legends. Her pulse instantly skyrocketed, and she had to scramble to avoid a catastrophic steam explosion.

"K-Kaga-dono!" Shinano whipped around in the pool and tried to bow, curtsy, and hide all at the same time. All she actually accomplished was cracking a dent in the poolside tile with her forehead. "Owwwwww."
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Kaga? What are you doing here? And when did you get a taste for American rock music?
theJMPer said:
"Shinano?"

"Y-yes," Shinano clenched at her forehead and stared at her own reflection. She wanted to bow deeper, but the water just wouldn't let her.

"Look into my eyes." Kaga's voice didn't waver from it's calm, controlled timbre, but there was the bite of a barked order wound tight into her tone.

Shinano whimpered, and forced herself to meet the fleet carrier's piercing gaze. Kaga's stern features stood in sharp relief in the dim dock lighting, as cold and unyielding as granite. Her deep brown eyes bored though Shinano's with unblinking intensity. "Y-yes, Kaga-dono," mumbled Shinano.

"They found the carrier who launched the strike," said Kaga with biting hatred tinting her clipped syllables. "It's helpless without its planes. Mogami and Choukai have engaged it in surface action." Kaga hissed out a breath though gleaming teeth and pulled the fabric of her hakama smooth. "I do not expect it to last until nightfall. I thought you would like to know."

Shinano nodded. "I… I would." She blushed and glanced down at the poolside again. "T-thank you, Kaga."
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Wow. Kaga comforting Shinano. Major props to her.
theJMPer said:
"Shinano," Kaga's voice was as harsh and curt as ever. But Shinano thought she heard—just for an instant, mind you—a warm shade to the cool, clipped tones.

"Yes?" murmured the giant converted carrier.

"Are you familiar with the battle of Midway?" asked Kaga.

Shinano hung her shoulders. "A- a little."

Kaga leaned forwards with the oiled precision of a battleship's main battery. Her hands stayed planted on her hips as her face came nose-to-nose with Shinano. "Are you familiar with how I died?"

Shinano bit her lip and shrank away from the fleet carrier's piercing gaze. "N-not really."

"A thousand pound bomb," explained Kaga with cool indifference, "punched though my flight deck and exploded in my upper hanger." The carrier grabbed Shinano's hand and planted it on the lacquered wood of her breastplate.

Shinano tried to squirm away, but Kaga as unyielding as a mountain. "The blast ruptured my avgas lines," she said, "and started secondary fires, destroyed my fire-suppression gear, and detonated eighty-thousand pounds of ordnance that blew out my sides."

Shinano shivered and felt her heart rate push the redline even further.

"You took a blow that shattered me." Kaga stood to her feet in one smooth motion. Her knees locked with mechanical grace and she pulled her uniform smooth. "And spotted a strike regardless." The old carrier stared though Shinano's glasses into her glassy purple eyes. "Never forget that."
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... Shinano, Kaga just paid you the highest compliment she could as a warrior. The only thing she didn't do is a seventy degree saikeirei! You have, in the eyes of one of the Kido Butai, the most veteran carriers in all Japan, demonstrated yourself as a skilled and worthy carrier.
If you do not show some goddamn pride after this, I will reach through the fourth wall and force you to watch Dragon ball Z until you are a Vegeta clone!:V
 
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There is a reason Kaga has the second highest results when searching on the boorus. The first of course belongs to the much beloved bongou.
 
Heh, love the fact that Shinano considers White as her Momboat. Though that begs the question, if Shinano considers White as her Momboat, does that mean that Jersey is her Grandmaboat?
 
Harry Leferts said:
Heh, love the fact that Shinano considers White as her Momboat. Though that begs the question, if Shinano considers White as her Momboat, does that mean that Jersey is her Grandmaboat?
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Musashi *grins*
Jersey: "No."
Musasi: *grins wider*
Jersey: "Nononono."
Musashi: *inhales*
Jersey: "Don't you fucking da-"
Musashi: "Obaasam-"
Jersey: *incoherent rage*
 
Always Late said:
Musashi *grins*
Jersey: "No."
Musasi: *grins wider*
Jersey: "Nononono."
Musashi: *inhales*
Jersey: "Don't you fucking da-"
Musashi: "Obaasam-"
Jersey: *incoherent rage*
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Then to build off of that, wouldn't Jersey consider the British Queen Elizabeth class Battleships as her mother? Mainly because while they are Super Dreadnoughts, for their time they were pretty damn quick. The quickest Battleships in the world when first launched, with a top speed of either 24 or 25 knots. Or would she openly deny it, but deep down she knows that it is true.
 
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Nah, I suspect that Jersey would consider South Carolina BB-26 her mother. Not only was she a dreadnought that was designed entirely before HMS Dreadnought became public knowledge (parallel development), she was arguably more important because while Dreadnought introduced steam turbines to battleships (a technology already in use in destroyers), South Carolina was the first ship in the entire world to introduce the superfiring main battery, something that, within a few years, became the standard in every class of warship because of its advantages in reducing the length of the ship while efficiently using weight. Sure, she was a couple knots slower than Dreadnought, but she was the first to bring a key advancement in warship design to the table--and she was 'Murican, dammit! Ain't no way Jersey would consider a Brit to be her momboat! ;)
 
Mombote SoCar and her sister, Michigan, were also the first battleships to use super firing main battery turrets, which meant they could have the same weight of broadside as Dreadnought with one less turret, which in turn saved weight, which gave them the ability to give her thicker armor, but still come in at 3,000 tons lighter.
 
rdfox said:
Nah, I suspect that Jersey would consider South Carolina BB-26 her mother. Not only was she a dreadnought that was designed entirely before HMS Dreadnought became public knowledge (parallel development), she was arguably more important because while Dreadnought introduced steam turbines to battleships (a technology already in use in destroyers), South Carolina was the first ship in the entire world to introduce the superfiring main battery, something that, within a few years, became the standard in every class of warship because of its advantages in reducing the length of the ship while efficiently using weight. Sure, she was a couple knots slower than Dreadnought, but she was the first to bring a key advancement in warship design to the table--and she was 'Murican, dammit! Ain't no way Jersey would consider a Brit to be her momboat! ;)
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That is a good point, but the Queen Elizabeth class were the first Fast Battleships which Jersey is as well. So while Jersey would admit the South Carolina class were her mother with the Superfiring main battery arrangement. The first American Fast Battleships were the North Carolina class.
 
Does that mean that, depending on the country, and existence thereof, the dreadnoughts that had cross-firing turrets are considered the crazy aunts? Case in point, insanity-wise, is the Radetzky-class from the Austro-Hungarian Navy. I mean

why? Why would you put the main battery guns so far out? That's asking for it.
Then, there's the Colossus-class of the Royal Navy?

Look at it. LOOK! Whose idea was this? And that's just ten minutes of going through the battleships portal on wikipedia.
 
Burning Baron said:
Does that mean that, depending on the country, and existence thereof, the dreadnoughts that had cross-firing turrets are considered the crazy aunts? Case in point, insanity-wise, is the Radetzky-class from the Austro-Hungarian Navy. I mean

why? Why would you put the main battery guns so far out? That's asking for it.
Then, there's the Colossus-class of the Royal Navy?

Look at it. LOOK! Whose idea was this? And that's just ten minutes of going through the battleships portal on wikipedia.
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S.M.S Radetzky is a Pre-Dreadnought, out of all of those turrets, only the centerline ones make up it's main battery, the offset turrets compose it's intermediate battery. Whereas the Colossus class I would agree that is a funky layout, but by the time that the South Carolina class was launched, with it's superfiring armament layout that the Colossus was equipped with, they couldn't radically alter the armament layout without redesigning the whole ship. However the very next class of British Battleship the Orion class did have a Superfiring armament.
 
If you want weird turret arrangements, the Kearsarge-calss kind of takes the cake with it's wedding cake superimposed design. It had an eight inch turret on top of the thirteen inch, which I think lead to issues with firing the guns.
 
Danger Zone is now the official lullaby for carriers of any displacement.

And Kaga's praise? That floored me. I have a hard time imagining anything higher.
 
Burning Baron said:
Does that mean that, depending on the country, and existence thereof, the dreadnoughts that had cross-firing turrets are considered the crazy aunts? Case in point, insanity-wise, is the Radetzky-class from the Austro-Hungarian Navy. I mean why? Why would you put the main battery guns so far out? That's asking for it.
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There isn't enough room on the hull to fit more heavy secondary or main battery turrets on the bow and stern, so the extra guns HAVE to go amidships. Unfortunately that means interference with the superstructure, which means having to put the turrets on the flanks of the ship. It's very much not optimal (since it means the ship can only fire eight out of ten or twelve guns to either side. But it's not THAT bad.

Also, note that these ships were designed under "Tsushima rules," not "Jutland Rules." Under Tsushima rules, typical engagement ranges are in the neighborhood of five thousand yards, and it is far more plausible that a ship will have to engage enemies on both sides of the battleline at once (in which case the unengaged side's turrets suddenly have something to do again. Also, under Tsushima rules, centralized fire direction for the ship is... iffy, a new invention or a nonexistent one, which means that each turret is kind of on its own. This further reduces the problems with having turrets on both flanks incapable of engaging the same target.

Then, there's the Colossus-class of the Royal Navy? Look at it. LOOK! Whose idea was this?
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Same basic issue. There isn't enough physical length along the hull to fit the necessary superstructure AND an adequate number of main battery gun turrets. Especially not without the innovation of superfiring turrets.

Within a few years, they started making the ships bigger, and it became more standard to have four or more centerline turrets. There was also the innovation of triple and eventually quadruple gun turrets, which meant you could mount more firepower in a limited number of centerline turrets (helping to explain why most WWII-era battleships converged on a main armament of four doubles or three triples, with a few exceptions that mounted more numerous 14" guns in triples and quadruples).
 
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