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Burning Baron said:
I am speechless.

EDIT: I have no way in English or German to describe Pennsylvania's Return. For once, I have no words. This is why I envy writers. They can make things of beauty.
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I thank you for that. I really appreciate it. :)
Spectre said:
Please tell me Kaga isn't in the room...
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Kaga is long gone from Sasebo. She's already back at Yokosuka.
Spectre said:
makes sense given how she was forced to watch her sister/half sisters slaughtered in their sleep while sustaining what amounted to cuts and scrapes in the same attack.
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It probably doesn't help that some of the damage she sustained to her forecastle was by means of having pieces of destroyers hurled into it.

And that's only the beginning~
 
Yeah, the attack was bad. Friendly reminder that Frisco had to listen to two destroyers hugging each other for comfort as they burned to death.
 
Imagine poor Okie. She had to listen to the crew left alive either drown, or even worse, watch them suffocate. Of all of Battleship Row, arguably Nevada got off the lightest. She got underway, actually got a kill (unverified), and managed to beach off Hospital Point, and get aid for sailors aboard.

theJMPer said:
Yeah, the attack was bad. Friendly reminder that Frisco had to listen to two destroyers hugging each other for comfort as they burned to death.
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'War is war, and hell is hell. And war is far worse.' Alan Alda, M*A*S*H
 
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Burning Baron said:
Imagine poor Okie. She had to listen to the crew left alive either drown, or even worse, watch them suffocate. Of all of Battleship Row, arguably Nevada got off the lightest. She got underway, actually got a kill (unverified), and managed to beach off Hospital Point, and get aid for sailors aboard.
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she was also rather lucky. Had she not had her magazines emptied the day before she would have suffered the same fate as Arizona.
 
theJMPer said:
Yeah, the attack was bad. Friendly reminder that Frisco had to listen to two destroyers hugging each other for comfort as they burned to death.
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You know, I'm kind of surprised Frisco doesn't have some sort of a "no one else dies on my watch" mentality given her service history.
 
I actually just yelled "yes!"

Old Falling Apart is easily my favorite American battleship (and probably my favorite battleship, period). I started looking into her when I when I was first getting into naval history, and I found out Arizona had a sister ship (I'm pretty sure Ari and Mo were the only American warships ever mentioned in my school textbooks) in an article titled "USS Pennsylvania: The Forgotten Sister". The flagship at Pearl Harbor, the first of the battleships back in service after the attack, fired the most shells of any American battleship (IIRC), all before finally ending her life at Crossroads (incidentally, she shares the island she was finally scuttled at with Prinz Eugen). That she was named for my home state was merely a plus.

Suffice to say, I'm so pumped to see her in BelBat, keep up the great work Iron.
 
Burning Baron said:
'War is war, and hell is hell. And war is far worse.' Alan Alda, M*A*S*H
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Hawkeye was a brilliant character.
Spectre said:
she was also rather lucky. Had she not had her magazines emptied the day before she would have suffered the same fate as Arizona.
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That's more than horrifying to imagine. If being blown apart is a bad enough death, the ripple through the war would not be a small one.
Warhawk said:
Rambina
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Rambina? :rofl: I think Rambo was actually sane though.
Star_Trekker said:
I'm pretty sure Ari and Mo were the only American warships ever mentioned in my school textbooks
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They're... really, really famous. Arizona is actually mentioned in the description for the battleship unit in Civilization 6. Her, alongside Bismarck, Hood (battlecruiser, I know), Yamato, and MIssourri.
Star_Trekker said:
Suffice to say, I'm so pumped to see her in BelBat, keep up the great work Iron.
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I shall do my utmost! :D
 
Spectre said:
Given that Penny Dread never fired her guns at Surigao, and thus wouldn't have been spotted by Yamashiro, I don't think she'd be as much of a problem as one of the carriers that killed Penny's sisters.
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I'd think Pennsy not getting a shot off would only make her more angry.

Old Iron said:
They're... really, really famous. Arizona is actually mentioned in the description for the battleship unit in Civilization 6. Her, alongside Bismarck, Hood (battlecruiser, I know), Yamato, and MIssourri.
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That's the thing, none of those others were mentioned in school. I only found out that there were ships named Hood, Bismarck, and Yamato from History Channels "Dogfights", and never knew Enterprise had to stand alone as the USNs only combat capable carrier until "Battle 360". Thanks school.
 
Hm.

Pennsylvania is one of the Standards I did not have a handle on and would have had trouble trying to write, Old Iron, so I am very much pleased to see that you have ideas of your own and are developing them. I would have gone in a different and probably less interesting direction in your shoes, so congrats!

theJMPer said:
Yeah, the attack was bad. Friendly reminder that Frisco had to listen to two destroyers hugging each other for comfort as they burned to death.
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Yes. Frisco had to listen to Cassin and Downes die.

Pennsylvania was right there next to them in the same drydock, they blew up right in front of her bow.
 
Star_Trekker said:
I'd think Pennsy not getting a shot off would only make her more angry.
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*Horrifyingly Furious Pennsylvania Noises*
Star_Trekker said:
That's the thing, none of those others were mentioned in school. I only found out that there were ships named Hood, Bismarck, and Yamato from History Channels "Dogfights", and never knew Enterprise had to stand alone as the USNs only combat capable carrier until "Battle 360". Thanks school.
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School needs more warships.
Spectre said:
How is that, I mean I know there's the whole "At pearl harbor and D-day thing" but she literally spent the war pounding sand.
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You're still down a battlewagon in the end.

But the biggest effect I'm betting is on morale. Arizona and Pearl became a rallying cry. Add another name to that list and there's bound to be a visible effect. To what ultimate end I can only guess. Butterfly effects through history are... most definitely not my strong suit.
Simon_Jester said:
Pennsylvania is one of the Standards I did not have a handle on and would have had trouble trying to write, Old Iron, so I am very much pleased to see that you have ideas of your own and are developing them. I would have gone in a different and probably less interesting direction in your shoes, so congrats!
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Thank ye. Pennsy's going to be all sorts of fun to write. And I'm looking forward to it. She's not in a good way already from what little has been revealed. So I think it's time to cue the ominous laughter.

 
And, again, just for emphasis, Pennsylvania was right there in the drydock with Cassin and Downes as they listed, collapsed against each other, and burned out. She was literally sprayed with massive chunks of exploded shrapnel of up to a thousand pounds from secondary explosions as they came apart.

So if you think Frisco's got a complex about that...
 
In my opinion American ship girls and battleships at that should take on some of the characteristics of the state they are named after. Pennsylvania in my opinion would be very down to earth with a definite puritan streak. I imagine she is the most blue collar of her sisters. Yes she would fight for the ideals mentioned but at the end of the day for her it's just a job to be done like any other. Now I hope to see Maryland in this story but I am not sure of her personality.
 
The Quakers weren't really Puritans, they were... something else, something rather gentler and more tolerant.

And the 'prudery' aspect of the the Puritan persona is Arizona's anyway. Pennsylvania is a complicated state, and Pennsylvania-the-ship is very heavily defined by her Pearl Harbor experience.

I'd saythat the states they're named for should be one influence on the personality of American battleshipgirls, but only one of several. Service record of the ship is arguably more important, and a touch of special inspiration should be there too. As in, Kongou is not Kongou because of differences between her name and that of her sisters. Kongou is not Kongou because of differences between her service record and that of her sisters. Kongou is Kongou because, well... burning love!

As to your last remark... Suffice to say that I am very sure I know Mary's personality, although I'm not sure you and I would agree about her personality. ;)
 
Honestly I always thought that their state name defined their look and past service life shaped their personality coming back.
 
Old Iron said:
Hands donning filthy gloves embraced a long rifle like it were both prisoner and lover. A finger over the trigger, held back only by the guard. The safety was noticeably broken.
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Hmm.. I think this means that she in her late-war form. It gives her noticeable different silhouette than her sister in her "as build" form.

Also new member of Crossroad club. They can make t-shirts or pins :)


 
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