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Belated Battleships (KanColle) [REHOST]

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PAGDTenno said:
Suzutsuki is Duckie #3,not #4.
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Agreed...in terms of commissioning, she's #3.
Akizuki - 11 June 1942
Teruzuki - 31 August 1942
Suzutsuki - 20 December 1942
Hatsuzuki - 29 December 1942

And if we're going in order:
Niizuki - 31 March 1943
Wakatsuki - 31 May 1943
Fuyutsuki - 25 May 1944
Shimotsuki - 31 May 1944
Hanazuki - 26 December 1944
Haruzuki - 28 December 1944
Yoizuki - 31 January 1945
Natsuzuki - 8 April 1945

Guess there will be some new fan arts of the Ten-Go group.
 
Abject Testament said:
I would like to presonally announce for those of us not already aware that 4th ducky is now offically coming in the Fall Event.
Gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to:

Suzutsuki
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You know, the fact that fanarts of her were already in the Kantai image thread just a few days after her announcement in the event is ridiculous.
 
Abject Testament said:
Either way, there are now 4 out of 7 Duckies in the game now. Only three left to go before the flock is complete.
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See above list...there are 12 Duckies in all. We're only 1/3 of the way there. Only two destroyer classes are completely present in the game (Akatsukis and Shiratsuyus). The other classes are as follows:

Shimushu-class - 2 remaining (Ishigaki & Hachijo)
Etorofu-class - 10 remaining (Oki, Iki, Fukue, Mutsure, Wakamiya, Hirado, Kanju, Amakusa, Manju, & Kasado)
Mikura-class - yet to appear
Hiburi-class - 7 remaining (Shonan, Kume, Ikuna, Shisaka, Sakito, Mokuto, & Habuto)
Ukuru-class - yet to appear
C-class - yet to appear
D-class - yet to appear
Momi-class - yet to appear
Wakatake-class - yet to appear
Matsu-class - yet to appear
Tachibana-class - yet to appear
Minekaze-class - yet to appear
Kamikaze-class - 4 remaining (Yunagi, Oite, Hayate, & Asanagi)
Mutsuki-class - 1 remaining (Yuzuki)
Fubuki-class - 5 remaining (Shinonome, Usugumo, Shirakumo, Asagiri, & Yugiri)
Hatsuharu-class - 2 remaining (Yugure & Ariake)
Asashio-class - 2 remaining (Natsugumo & Minegumo)
Kagero-class - 2 remaining (Hayashio & Natsushio)
Yugumo-class - 8 remaining (Makinami, Onami, Kiyonami, Tamanami, Suzunami, Hayanami, Kishinami, & Akishimo)
 
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I will admit... I am almost frightened for how the Chidori class will appear when they show up. After all, each of them have half the armament of a Fubuki on a hull less then 800 tons in displacement...
 
Yeah the Chidoris and Otoris will probably be just like the DEs...beyond adorable and Nagamon-inducing. :D
 
Dirtnap said:
They were patrol boats not necessarily combat craft. They had a rather low range iirc.
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The Eries were very much intended as combat craft, with an 8000-mile range, very similar to contemporary US light cruisers. What they were short on was speed, with a top speed of 20 knots. They were designed specifically to be the largest, most powerful craft that we could build in the "unrestricted" category of the London Treaty (2000 tons or less standard displacement, no more than four main battery guns of no bigger than six inches, top speed of 20 knots or less, no torpedoes); while their official purpose was to replace the rapidly-aging "peace cruisers" and coastal gunboats the USN already had in service (showing the flag in foreign ports and, much like a police car rolling through a neighborhood on patrol, helping stabilize areas like southeast Asia and South America that were, at the time, rather unstable, just by being there), Admiral King had another goal in mind for them.

See, the original proposal at London for unrestricted small ships was really intended for the peace cruiser/gunboat role and small ASW escorts, and had a top speed of 18 knots. Admiral Pratt, however, who had just taken over as CNO, pushed hard for the speed limit to be increased to 20 knots (which eventually happened by his agreeing to the two-tier light/heavy cruiser system to mollify the Brits), because he looked at the US fleet, with its battle line of Standards that topped out at 21 knots and would probably, in practice, fight at about 18-19 knots, and thought, "Aha! Here I have a loophole! If I order a fuckton of these, I can build all the light screen cruisers I need to protect the battle fleet, allowing me to assign my limited cruiser tonnage to scouting and detached duties instead of having them screen the battle fleet!"

It actually wasn't a bad idea, and thus the Eries were designed as full-fledged seagoing small, slow cruisers... and then Congress only bought two of 'em; by the time Congress was willing to start major spending on shipbuilding again, the treaty system had pretty much collapsed and aggregate tonnage limits were right out the window, so the idea of building these specialized slow screening cruisers was much less attractive than building full-sized general-purpose CLs, particularly with our starting to build fast battleships that they wouldn't be able to screen for...
 
Heh. Ironically, in the General Board meetings to hash out their characteristics, very little time was spent actually debating what sort of ships they should be, with the bulk of the meetings actually consumed by endless debates over nomenclature--specifically, what was a less-offensive term to the isolationist American public of the time, the word "sloop," as used in other navies, or the word "gunboat," as we used for riverine patrol craft in East Asia.

And given that the whole point of the exercise, from Pratt's point of view, was to dodge the London Treaty limits on cruisers, calling them Cruiser, Anything would have been a non-starter...
 
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