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Belated Battleships (KanColle) [REHOST]

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Jersey, you should try playing any of the SOCOM US NAVY SEALS: Fireteam Bravo games. Navy and gun shooting goodness is assured.
 
Harry Leferts said:
He should watch Haifuri, that will make him want to write more BelBatt.

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Watching Haifuri did not help my motivation to write GG :V

Strypgia said:
No, no, you don't understand! Wearing pants interferes with the MAGIC that lets them fly and do cool stuff. Don't ask how, that's rude. It's just entirely valid and plot important the hot young women constantly fly around in panties, really.

And the cat ears and tails.

Plot. Important. ~nod nod~
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I actually wouldn't mind if they wore skirts more. Skirts are way more fun than pants. The conceit is that pants prevent the striker unit from skin contact with your legs and act as a penebat to keep the magical-wlectric flow feom your body going into the unit. Tights and thih highs arent thick enough to be penebat tho, somthey're okay.

Also at least nobody is Kuroe Ayaka, who was pretty much going into combat commando. :/

Also IJN witches wear sukumizu.
 
If bare skin is required to make a Striker Unit work, then why do so many wear thighhighs?
 
Strypgia said:
No, no, you don't understand! Wearing pants interferes with the MAGIC that lets them fly and do cool stuff. Don't ask how, that's rude. It's just entirely valid and plot important the hot young women constantly fly around in panties, really.

And the cat ears and tails.

Plot. Important. ~nod nod~
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Except it's NOT just the witches. I have sadly watched this travesty and I distinctly remember Miyafuji's entire CLASS not wearing pants. ALL of them. As in, it is perfectly ok for prepubescent and older girls to walk around wearing nothing but a very slightly longer than your underthings shirt. My brain died a little when I realized this.
 
owlmessenger said:
Except it's NOT just the witches. I have sadly watched this travesty and I distinctly remember Miyafuji's entire CLASS not wearing pants. ALL of them. As in, it is perfectly ok for prepubescent and older girls to walk around wearing nothing but a very slightly longer than your underthings shirt. My brain died a little when I realized this.
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He speaks the truth. Nobody in the same class as Miyafuji, an early adolescent, wears a skirt or anything. Just a swimsuit with a serafuku top.
 
owlmessenger said:
Except it's NOT just the witches. I have sadly watched this travesty and I distinctly remember Miyafuji's entire CLASS not wearing pants. ALL of them. As in, it is perfectly ok for prepubescent and older girls to walk around wearing nothing but a very slightly longer than your underthings shirt. My brain died a little when I realized this.
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Well the Witches were so cool, everyone wanted to dress like them. Same thing was said of miniskirts and go-go boots.
 
While the Doylist explanation is, of course, fan service, my own feeling is that the Watsonian reason is that given the rather crazy aerial antics, it's not practical to wear Striker Units with anything that restricts leg movements, thus only completely skin-tight garments are worn from the hips down. And then it became fashionable.

I rather like Strike Witches. It's not perfect, but I found it fun.

Admittedly I got into it through Our Witches At War, which drops in an extra-dimensional traveller who flies alongside them with a Jetpack and introduces a larger cast. This leads to the following exchange:

Whittle threw up her hands. "I give up. I just give - wait." She looked at the jetpack again, then eyed Ursula skeptically. "What the devil is this even for? Only someone who can use magic would be able to fly it without being almost immediately killed to death, and at that point why not just use a bloody Striker?"

"Well," said a man's voice equably from behind her, "A, they don't come in my size, and B, nobody wants to see that."

"On a point of order..." Sanya Juutilainen-Litvyak murmured from the doorway behind him, causing Eila to blink and give her a do-what-now? sort of look.

Whittle missed the byplay (and Ursula's giggle at it), being too busy jumping in such a violent start she nearly knocked the jetpack off its stand. "What the - ?!" she blurted, whirling.

"Sorry," said Gryphon. "I don't know how I do that. It's not like I'm in any way unobtrusive." Putting out a hand, he introduced himself, then said, "It's a real honor. I'm a big fan of your work."

"Thank you," said Whittle automatically, and then, "D'you mean to tell me you fly this thing?"

Gryphon nodded. "I sure do."

"You're a man."

"I'm aware of that."

"Men can't fly. I mean, that's such an axiom it's a figure of speech. 'When men fly.'"

"Oink," said Gryphon impassively.
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But we're getting off-topic. Sorry.
 
I still don't see why the Witches couldn't wear cheerleader-style miniskirts; those don't inhibit movement at all.
 
I'm honestly afraid to bring this up but whenever any of the princesses featured thus far talk about having a feast and 'fleet building' (to put it lightly), I've always wondered just how exactly either is done. I have my doubts that they're talking about actually eating stuff when they talk of feasts (at least in Abyssmark's case; it wouldn't surprise if that's exactly what the island princess did when she set up shop), so is it done by the act of killing/sinking the ships? Would the 'size' of the feast depend on what is being transported, the number of ships sunk, the total tonnage sunk or some combination of those factors along with possibly other things as well?

Then there's the question of what initiates the demon making process for princesses, but to be frankly honest I'm not sure if I even want to know the answer to that question.
 
Abject Testament said:
I'm honestly afraid to bring this up but whenever any of the princesses featured thus far talk about having a feast and 'fleet building' (to put it lightly), I've always wondered just how exactly either is done. I have my doubts that they're talking about actually eating stuff when they talk of feasts (at least in Abyssmark's case; it wouldn't surprise if that's exactly what the island princess did when she set up shop), so is it done by the act of killing/sinking the ships? Would the 'size' of the feast depend on what is being transported, the number of ships sunk, the total tonnage sunk or some combination of those factors along with possibly other things as well?

Then there's the question of what initiates the demon making process for princesses, but to be frankly honest I'm not sure if I even want to know the answer to that question.
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theJMPer said:
You really, really don't.
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I do. Because I'm a horrible person and will use dirty tactics to get information.
@theJMPer, please do enlighten and corrupt the rest of us with how the Abyssals 'feast' and make demons./semi-joking
 
I'm pretty sure that Knight's encounter with Woody Island Princess gives enough clues to point us towards the horrifying method they use to make ships and crews.
 
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