Changing Destiny (Kancolle)

Wolf of the Sea · Jan 17, 2017

DawnofWar32 said:
Woah there, Sara. Calm down. You don't want to include Sky in your bombardment, right? And you, good sir, ought to know that it is rude to mention a lady's age.

Exactly, the results are never pretty.

Still that said, even if Sara isn't at Coral Sea, there was one CMOA that occurred during the battle, where SBD Pilot Swede Vetjasa engaged and shot down two Japanese Zeroes with a third probable during the course of a twenty minute dogfight. This bears repeating, he went head-to-head with three A6M2 Type 0 Model 21s and won.

Of course then there's that one Japanese pilot -I can't remember his name- but he shot down an F6F Hellcat in a F1M2 Pete, now that takes skill.

spartan448 · Jan 17, 2017

Thorthemighty said:
Exactly, the results are never pretty.

Still that said, even if Sara isn't at Coral Sea, there was one CMOA that occurred during the battle, where SBD Pilot Swede Vetjasa engaged and shot down two Japanese Zeroes with a third probable during the course of a twenty minute dogfight. This bears repeating, he went head-to-head with three A6M2 Type 0 Model 21s and won.

Of course then there's that one Japanese pilot -I can't remember his name- but he shot down an F6F Hellcat in a F1M2 Pete, now that takes skill.

You want skill? Go look at the Aussie Hudson crew who kept nine Zeroes, one of which was the Zero of Saburo Sakai, busy for 10 minutes.

PAGDTenno · Jan 17, 2017

spartan448 said:
You want skill? Go look at the Aussie Hudson crew who kept nine Zeroes, one of which was the Zero of Saburo Sakai, busy for 10 minutes.

I think we can agree that WW2 had plenty of badass piloting.

Jack_Fireshard · Jan 17, 2017

PAGDTenno said:
I think we can agree that WW2 had plenty of badass piloting.

On both sides of the war to boot.

Star_Trekker · Jan 17, 2017

Jack_Fireshard said:
On both sides of the war to boot.

The German pilot that shot down a de Havillend Mosquito in a Me 163 comes to mind.

Wolf of the Sea · Jan 17, 2017

Star_Trekker said:
The German pilot that shot down a de Havillend Mosquito in a Me 163 comes to mind.

Yeah, that's pretty impressive. But not as impressive as going skip-bombing in a B-17 Flying Fortress!

PAGDTenno · Jan 17, 2017

Thorthemighty said:
Yeah, that's pretty impressive. But not as impressive as going skip-bombing in a B-17 Flying Fortress!

That's not just good, that's insane.

Please tell me they hit their target. That kind of insanity should be rewarded.

Wolf of the Sea · Jan 17, 2017

PAGDTenno said:
That's not just good, that's insane.

Please tell me they hit their target. That kind of insanity should be rewarded.

I don't know if it did. But the B-17 in question, it's tail number was 41-2666.

Also the ship that was skip-bombed was an enemy CV. The plane came within fifty feet of it's decks.

Burning Baron · Jan 17, 2017

PAGDTenno said:
That's not just good, that's insane.

Please tell me they hit their target. That kind of insanity should be rewarded.

Unless it's Hollywood. In which case, there will be a HARD commander scolding the pilot for being reckless.

Star_Trekker · Jan 17, 2017

Thorthemighty said:
I don't know if it did. But the B-17 in question, it's tail number was 41-2666.

Also the ship that was skip-bombed was an enemy CV. The plane came within fifty feet of it's decks.

Ah yes, Old 666, the plane that took on damn near half the IJNAF and still made it back to base.

Sir_Braazmiir · Jan 17, 2017

Star_Trekker said:
Ah yes, Old 666, the plane that took on damn near half the IJNAF and still made it back to base.

Which carrier did Lucy bomb? I lack the google-fu skill level necessary to find it.

Wolf of the Sea · Jan 17, 2017

Sir_Braazmiir said:
Which carrier did Lucy bomb? I lack the google-fu skill level necessary to find it.

It just mentions it. But, considering it was May of 1943 and that Old 666 was based in Port Moresby, we can then extraplate what Carrier it was or could have been.

SquireHarbour · Jan 18, 2017

Star_Trekker said:
Ah yes, Old 666, the plane that took on damn near half the IJNAF and still made it back to base.

Also, Old 666 wasn't your old regular B-17E. They replaced the single mount, .30 cal machine guns with .50 cal machine guns, with the waist gunners receiving twin mounts, and somehow managing to add a .50 cal where the pilot could fire at enemy craft.

MagisterAurelius · Jan 18, 2017

SquireHarbour said:
Also, Old 666 wasn't your old regular B-17E. They replaced the single mount, .30 cal machine guns with .50 cal machine guns, with the waist gunners receiving twin mounts, and somehow managing to add a .50 cal where the pilot could fire at enemy craft.

Sounds like the pilot got his plane mechanic and the chief armorer in a meeting and told them in no uncertain terms, "My plane lacks enough dakka. I want MOAR dakka. I don't care where you get it from. Get me MOAR."

Always Late · Jan 18, 2017

Not that I don't love Old 666, but how does it relate to the story of Changing Destiny?

Darth Thanatos · Jan 18, 2017

MagisterAurelius said:
Sounds like the pilot got his plane mechanic and the chief armorer in a meeting and told them in no uncertain terms, "My plane lacks enough dakka. I want MOAR dakka. I don't care where you get it from. Get me MOAR."

So, either a proto-Space Battler before Space Battles even existed, or a time-travelling Space Battler.

I can buy either without breaking my SoD. If we have time travelling Admirals, we can have time travelling Dakka Cultists.

Praise be the Dakka!

Wolf of the Sea · Jan 20, 2017

Always Late said:
Not that I don't love Old 666, but how does it relate to the story of Changing Destiny?

Old 666 did a skip-bombing run on a Japanese CV, the way this relates is that it would be funny as hell to see the reaction of the spirit of said Japanese CV.

PAGDTenno · Jan 20, 2017

Thorthemighty said:
Old 666 did a skip-bombing run on a Japanese CV, the way this relates is that it would be funny as hell to see the reaction of the spirit of said Japanese CV.

Be even funnier if Old 666 somehow managed to develop a spirit and they met.

(Yes, I know that's more than a little cracky. Shut up and enjoy the mental image.)

Skywalker_T-65 · Jan 23, 2017

Righto. Next chapter is in the process of being looked over for errors and such. Unless something truly horrendous comes up, it should be up sometime tonight. This was not an easy one to write

...for reasons that will become readily apparent once it's posted.

Star_Trekker · Jan 23, 2017

Skywalker_T-65 said:
Righto. Next chapter is in the process of being looked over for errors and such. Unless something truly horrendous comes up, it should be up sometime tonight. This was not an easy one to write

...for reasons that will become readily apparent once it's posted.

Obviously you couldn't find ways of making Blücher even cuter.

Skywalker_T-65 · Jan 23, 2017

...yes, let's go with that.

Spectre · Jan 23, 2017

Why do I get a bad feeling we're about to get a serving of cooked spaghetti...

Always Late · Jan 23, 2017

Spectre said:
Why do I get a bad feeling we're about to get a serving of cooked spaghetti...

Where did I put my 'spaghetti everywhere' reaction images...

Icywinter · Jan 23, 2017

Star_Trekker said:
Obviously you couldn't find ways of making Blücher even cuter.

...

The face you see right now is totally not a blushing Winter. At all.

(Damn me and my Germanic tastes >_<)

PAGDTenno · Jan 23, 2017

Star_Trekker said:
Obviously you couldn't find ways of making Blücher even cuter.

Let's just say I'm happy that the Des Moines sisters weren't even commissioned until the end of the war.

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