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Grumpkin said:
I honestly cannot see Big J saying that about Shinano, whom she regards as innocent and precious and adorable. She is more mature with the Taffies than she is with the Littlest Yamato. Yeah, she curses and the like, but she's always careful to soften her words and be just a bit gentle.

Minor side note here. I regard Hiei's conduct during the wedding with regards to Hunter and Ashigara as having crossed a line. She basically left them in the lurch because it would be more amusing than helping them out when their only mistake was getting caught up in the moment and forgetting to trade digits.

Having internally acknowledged how much the universe likes to crap on Ashigara, she then gleefully takes part in helping that continue.

I'd like to see her get a little karmic justice, but my interpretation of this story tells me that is not likely.

Moving on to more current events...

I'm hoping to see a lot of ships self-summon in reaction to the loss of Hawai'i, especially with the loss of the Arizona Memorial now. I think America might be in more severe circumstances now, which may warrant more girls waking up.

Imagine every BB ever built from Florida to Wisconsin, all sailing in a battle line. :)
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i meant Yamato. not Shinano. i forget that Shinano was supposed to be a Yamato class battleship originally.
 
Grumpkin said:
I assume you mean Hiei, since it was not Naka who did what I was talking about. If she did, it would be more forgivable, but there is no mention or evidence of her having done so.

Also, I did some number-crunching. If every dreadnought, super-dreadnought, and fast battleship built in America for the U.S. Navy were to self-summon right now, from South Carolina and her sister forward to Louisiana, to include the fourth Colorado, the 1920 South Dakota sisters, the fifth and sixth Iowa, etc...?

That is a combined battle line of four hundred and sixty-four guns. :o
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The fast BBs alone have a combined ninety sixteen inch guns!!
 
At the ranges they would be engaging at, anything older than New York isn't going to be very useful. At close range, that's a different story. Also, OP has said no to incomplete warships, so no SoDaks (1920), unfinished Iowas, or Montanas.
 
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maes said:
Nah, those are 'missing' *cough*Albie*/cough*. He's sporting Mutsu's glittery, pompom-topped cotton-candy-pink ones. Either that or the backup 'bigfoot feet' slippers. :p
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Richardson: *poses dramatically with Mutsu's slippers*
Admiral_Corgi said:
With no return call, the lonely Jersey will huff and demonstrate minor aggressive actions until her frustration drops to a manageable level, much to the determinant of the structural integrity of any nearby lockers.

Oh great. Now I'm imagining some bored marine doing a nature documentary style video on shipgirls to help familiarize freshly minted grunts and officers with the girls and their quirks.
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I would pay good money to watch that. XD
PAGDTenno said:
Hire Morgan Freeman to do the narration. Much better that way.
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I'm throwing money at the screen and nothing's happening!
Grumpkin said:
That is a combined battle line of four hundred and sixty-four guns. :o
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Rampantfury said:
The fast BBs alone have a combined ninety sixteen inch guns!!
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Not enuff dakka. But iz still *good* dakka.
:p
 
Rampantfury said:
The fast BBs alone have a combined ninety sixteen inch guns!!
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It's over ni-*Explodes in a hail of 406mm shellfire*

BigBadBen said:
so, who wants to celebrate fourth of july with all these guns?
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Yeeeeeesssss...

Archduke said:
At the ranges they would be engaging at, anything older than New York isn't going to be very useful. At close range, that's a different story. Also, OP has said no to incomplete warships, so no SoDaks (1920), unfinished Iowas, or Montanas.
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Probably more or less true. New York and Texas were kept active into the 1940s because they were still usable. Their guns, armor, and engines were still effective in the era in question.

Say, the Florida sisters were originally meant to have eight 356mm guns instead of ten 305mm. Suppose that was their upgrade option?

As to the other? The author has said certain other things would not happen in the past, if I recall correctly. Never say never, and all of that.
 
Anyone else think SoDak would be a Star Wars fan like Jintsu?

*SoDak self-summons after the loss of Hawaii*
*Meanwhile, in Japan, Jintsu is doing paperwork when she suddenly stiffens and gets a vacant stare.*
Richardson: *Notices* Jintsu? Are you all right?
Jintsu: *Murmuring to herself* There is a great disturbance in the Force. A presence I've not felt since... *She comes out of her trance and notices Richardson, Mutsu, and Arizona staring at her in concern* I don't think any of you can help me...*she heads for the door* I must go alone.
Richardson: *Groans* Great...

:D
 
Old Iron said:
Not enuff dakka. But iz still *good* dakka.
:p
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Fool! There is never enough dakka. Such a thing cannot exist in nature.

ijnfleetadmiral said:
Anyone else think SoDak would be a Star Wars fan like Jintsu?
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This needs to happen. This needs to happen right now, and if it doesn't then I'll...awkwardly keep bringing it up every few pages or something. I dunno'.

I kind of want to see an older, much older U.S.N. ship come back just for the nod to history.
 
Grumpkin said:
Fool! There is never enough dakka. Such a thing cannot exist in nature.



This needs to happen. This needs to happen right now, and if it doesn't then I'll...awkwardly keep bringing it up every few pages or something. I dunno'.

I kind of want to see an older, much older U.S.N. ship come back just for the nod to history.
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Any votes for Olympia? Hell she can self-summon if she likes.
Leviathan would be another option. WW1 troop ship and we need more civies!
 
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LadyPearl said:
Any votes for Olympia? Hell she can self-summon if she likes.
Leviathan would be another option. WW1 troop ship and we need more civies!
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Grumpkin said:
I'd been thinking one of the old Armored Cruisers, like U.S.S. Montana (ACR-13). I'd been contemplating a story idea based on that one.
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I think it would be great to see some of these in this world. Been toying with some similar ideas myself, but the closest I've written was the Texas Reunion. Of course they would end up in secondary roles. We talk about Ari and Pennsy having bad AA, but some of these old girls would have a couple 37mm Hochkiss guns, a couple Colt 1895 Potato-digger machine guns and some fairies with Remington-Lee 6mm bolt actions and Krag-Jorgensen .30-40 bolt actions.

Still, with the right conditions and right opponents....could be interesting...
 
I looked up the hull numbers mentioned in the omake a few pages back, 372 and 375 are destroyers that went down together at Pearl, but the only results get for hull number 72 and 602 are a Ticonderoga and a Burke for 72 and a Mahan class that didnt see service till after Pearl for 602. So exactly who are these ships?
 
Roaming_Guardian said:
I looked up the hull numbers mentioned in the omake a few pages back, 372 and 375 are destroyers that went down together at Pearl, but the only results get for hull number 72 and 602 are a Ticonderoga and a Burke for 72 and a Mahan class that didnt see service till after Pearl for 602. So exactly who are these ships?
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Looking under the wrong symbols. That's CVN-72 and SSBN-602 (under the assumption that the former was lost in combat during the early part of the war). And attacking Tsu was SS-314...
 
Roaming_Guardian said:
I looked up the hull numbers mentioned in the omake a few pages back, 372 and 375 are destroyers that went down together at Pearl, but the only results get for hull number 72 and 602 are a Ticonderoga and a Burke for 72 and a Mahan class that didnt see service till after Pearl for 602. So exactly who are these ships?
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DD-372 and DD-375 are Cassin and Downes who were killed at Pearl Harbor in the same drydock as Pennsy (and now Abyssmark).

CVN-72 is USS Abraham Lincoln, as is SSBN-602. -602 was scrapped in 1982 and her name was reused for Abe.

SS-314 is USS Shark.
 
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CA-72 is the Pittsburgh renamed from Albany.

Bit more of a stretch and highly unlikely, but the BB numbers stop at 71. So 72 could be an Arizona if they took her name off the register and built more BBs.
 
SisterJeanne said:
DD-372 and DD-375 are Cassin and Downes who were killed at Pearl Harbor in the same drydock as Pennsy (and now Abyssmark).

CVN-72 is USS Abraham Lincoln, as is SSBN-602. -602 was scrapped in 1982 and her name was reused for Abe.

SS-314 is USS Shark.
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And the only reason I didn't give a number for the attacker in the other segment was that there doesn't seem to have been a USS Jason or USS Voorhees. ;)
 
Rancher_357 said:
I think it would be great to see some of these in this world. Been toying with some similar ideas myself, but the closest I've written was the Texas Reunion. Of course they would end up in secondary roles. We talk about Ari and Pennsy having bad AA, but some of these old girls would have a couple 37mm Hochkiss guns, a couple Colt 1895 Potato-digger machine guns and some fairies with Remington-Lee 6mm bolt actions and Krag-Jorgensen .30-40 bolt actions.

Still, with the right conditions and right opponents....could be interesting...
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My thoughts exactly. Of course they would end up in secondary roles, but in a war like the one depicted in the series, it is unlikely any girl would be able to be completely kept out of some kind of operational role.

For me, the interest in the Armored Cruisers comes from their place in American maritime history. They were the capital ships of a Navy forbidden by law at that time from having any ship with a displacement greater than 16000 long tons. They were the battleships of their era.

In terms of role and capability, they were the immediate predecessors of what we now call battlecruisers.

I had an idea for a short story in which Montana, or perhaps Utah returns, and due largely to her age is mostly relegated to training and administration duties, perhaps as personal secretary to an admiral somewhere. Still, she is a warship, and she wants to get back to sea.

So she pesters her Admiral tirelessly for some kind of mission. She offers to do even the most menial tasks, just so she can sail again.

Eventually, her Admiral relents. Perhaps he is unable to stand the sight of such a proud warhip having to swallow her pride as she offers to guard whalers. Whatever the cause, he assigns her to run security on a convoy route believed to be low risk.

Except it isn't low-risk, and on the day a hostile raidng force decides to strike, she is in charge of security for the convoy the raiders attack.

Cue the music.

I fully intend to do this before long.
 
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owlmessenger said:
I doubt they'll EVER reuse Arizona as a name.
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Technically they can since she was stricken from the Naval Register in 1942 so the name is available for use. As a practical matter, even if they were building BBs it is extremely unlikely that either USS Maine or USS Arizona would be used because of the historical significance of their losses. Same reason why there has been a USS Enterprise in service pretty much nonstop since the late 1930s with the only major gap 1947-58 as they designed the nuclear carriers.
 
SisterJeanne said:
Technically they can since she was stricken from the Naval Register in 1942 so the name is available for use. As a practical matter, even if they were building BBs it is extremely unlikely that either USS Maine or USS Arizona would be used because of the historical significance of their losses. Same reason why there has been a USS Enterprise in service pretty much nonstop since the late 1930s with the only major gap 1947-58 as they designed the nuclear carriers.
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Actually, USS Maine has been used several times. I think it was kind of the opposite thinking from Arizona. Instead of honoring her loss by retiring the name, they honor her by carrying the name. Another battleship Maine was launched in 1901 (class lead actually). One of the Montana's was supposed to be named Maine (BB69). And currently, the USS Maine is an Ohio Class boomer (SSBN 741)
 
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