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Changing Destiny (Kancolle)

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Burning Baron said:
It wasn't exactly difficult. He used a tactic that most countries have been using for generations. Pretend to retreat, then fuck the chasing army up. Not only that, but they had FAR better equipment than the US did. They still expected the M2 to pierce tank armor.
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M2 Mediums?! Good God! That means Kasserine Pass wasn't a battle, it was a Curbstomp of the highest caliber.
 
It wasn't exactly difficult. He used a tactic that most countries have been using for generations. Pretend to retreat, then fuck the chasing army up. Not only that, but they had FAR better equipment than the US did. They still expected the M2 to pierce tank armor.
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And the US Army really really should have known better. "Don't chase the Sioux." All it took was the Fessenden massacre and the Little Bighorn.
 
Thorthemighty said:
Granted, but then again you had the Battle of the Atlantic that was ongoing among other things.
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Even then they had the Italians by the throat, but Churchill thought that rather than strike the finishing blow the theatre commander should halt his units, gut them, and send everything to Greece because reasons.
 
It's wonderful to read about what-if political scenarios and land battles in North Africa in a story based on an Japanese naval game :)
Seriously, I love it. This is one of the reasons why I love KanColle so much. From the day I found out about this game, I learn many great things not only about Navy, but also history just from many works about KanColle. It's fantastic :)
(Sorry for going off-topic, but I can't help it :( )
 
QuantizedOne98 said:
It's wonderful to read about what-if political scenarios and land battles in North Africa in a story based on an Japanese naval game :)
Seriously, I love it. This is one of the reasons why I love KanColle so much. From the day I found out about this game, I learn many great things not only about Navy, but also history just from many works about KanColle. It's fantastic :)
(Sorry for going off-topic, but I can't help it :( )
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The Internet. Come for the porn and waifus, stay for the discussions on the impacts of the Russo-Japanese War on politics in the 20th century. Also,

Welcome to our threads.
 
PAGDTenno said:
That said, I would totally use, say, a Fubuki, Mutsuki, or Akatsuki as a teddy. They're so cute and cuddleable!
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Deus said:
I'll rather cuddle with Hibiki. Less movement and she acts like a cat.
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DawnofWar32 said:
Well for me, I would cuddle with Kaminari Ikazuchi. *shrugs*
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I'd cuddle with the Kamikazes and Hatsuharu. (Though with the latter, I'd fear her ponytail accidentally suffocating me or something.)

Burning Baron said:
Case in point, the Germans built a wooden airfield, armed it with wooden AA guns, and had wooden airplanes on the field. The Allies let them finish, then bombed it with wooden practice bombs.
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Wait, this actually happened?

LGear said:
About the truthfulness of that particular wooden story...
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Ah, darn.

Burning Baron said:
The Internet. Come for the porn and waifus, stay for the discussions on the impacts of the Russo-Japanese War on politics in the 20th century.
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Exactly
 
Thorthemighty said:
How was Gallipoli a head in the sand moment? Then again, I have preffered researching the European and Pacific Theaters.
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302,000 casualties, three battleships sunk, a battlecruiser nearly sunk along with another two pre-dreadnoughts, no progress made towards Constantinople, Mustafa Kemal becomes a national hero to the Turks (which would come back to bite the Allies).

And it was Churchills idea.
 
And then there's his bizarre insistence on invading Greece from 1943 onwards.

Really, what is it with British leaders in the World Wars and daft invasion plans? Between Churchill and Fisher's Baltic Plans, it makes me wonder what they put in the rum.
 
Star_Trekker said:
302,000 casualties, three battleships sunk, a battlecruiser nearly sunk along with another two pre-dreadnoughts, no progress made towards Constantinople, Mustafa Kemal becomes a national hero to the Turks (which would come back to bite the Allies).

And it was Churchills idea.
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Epic Fail. Not as Epic of a fail as Jutland for the British but still pretty impressive.
 
What is epically tragic about Gallipolli is that if the British had put a younger general like Julian Byng in charge in the first place it would have been possibly successful as they had actually achieved surprise. However, generals at the time were selected to lead by seniority. So they had an epic old fool in charge who wasted three whole days just unloading the ships onto the beach. And then the idiot told his troops to dig trenches.

Almost all of WWI the British soldiers were lions, led by jackasses.
 
Thorthemighty said:
But, one of those jackasses learned from his mistakes. General Douglas Haig who was in charge of the Battle of the Somme learned from his mistakes and pioneered Combined Arms Warfare at the Battle of Amiens, which again changed.
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In his case it was about learning a new style of warfare, in the case of Gallipolli is that even after learning the costs of procastination they did a secondary landing at Sulva bay that by a miracle managed to get both tactical and strategic surprise General Sir Frederick William Stopford did less than nothing for days so the turks had a chance of getting reinforcements to bottle the new threat so instead of a the walk in the park the landing should have been it became just another horror with the troops barely holding on the beaches.
 
BF110C4 said:
In his case it was about learning a new style of warfare, in the case of Gallipolli is that even after learning the costs of procastination they did a secondary landing at Sulva bay that by a miracle managed to get both tactical and strategic surprise General Sir Frederick William Stopford did less than nothing for days so the turks had a chance of getting reinforcements to bottle the new threat so instead of a the walk in the park the landing should have been it became just another horror with the troops barely holding on the beaches.
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I will just leave this here:



Because that is basically my reaction to the fail that was the Landing at Sulva Bay.
 
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