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Changing Destiny (Kancolle)

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[x] Italy

Pls gib best pastas. Aquila and Luigi of course :V

...waiiiiit. Andrea Doria is in Malta. MALTA the sole british holding in the Med.

Did her captain and crew defect? That's the only reason I can see her still being afloat in Malta, because god knows the Italians and Germans tried to get that rock. Or maybe I'm thinking of Crete.

That mention of Barham still being alive too...hm. I guess its before she canonically sunk.

...is Sascha Tirpitz?
 
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[X] Britain

Tough choice between UK and Germany, but I think this one'll be more enlightening.
 
[X] Britain
Dirtnap said:
[x] Italy

Pls gib best pastas. Aquila and Luigi of course :V

...waiiiiit. Andrea Doria is in Malta. MALTA the sole british holding in the Med.

Did her captain and crew defect? That's the only reason I can see her still being afloat in Malta, because god knows the Italians and Germans tried to get that rock. Or maybe I'm thinking of Crete.

That mention of Barham still being alive too...hm. I guess its before she canonically sunk.

...is Sascha Tirpitz?
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my guess is AD is present time given the fact that there's a destroyer sleeping on her...
 
[X] Britain

Let's face it. Half of us are filthy Teaboos who would immediately jump at the offer if told we would receive command of a Capital Ship in the Royal Navy in exchange for reviving the Empire.
 
Spectre said:
[X] Britain

my guess is AD is present time given the fact that there's a destroyer sleeping on her...
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Turbine had been sunk, the last time we got to see what the spaghettis were up to. So...if Utah self-summoned/deliberately summoned...did Turbine's old chief engineer and the rest of the crew manage to summon her too?
 
[]Try to do all three simulataneously... and then fail miserably.

Wait a sec this isn't Kirika Quest.

[x] Try all three, and then end up in Antarctica.
 
[X] Britain

The other choices are interesting, given the lack of significant focus on them so far, however I would personally like to see more of the Royal Navy, considering that the Britain snippet presents several interesting possibilities.
 
Oh VERY nice reference to one of Winston Churchill's biggest blunders. Although, to be fair to the man the actual strategic idea he came up with made sense and the bungling of Gallipoli may have started with him, but there were serious screwups all the way down with planning, execution of the plan and in tons of other ways.

Not that will please Queen Elizabeth, the more so since this was her first real chance to prove herself and...well.... Her first major battle did not go well at all.

Sheo Darren said:
After that entertaining scene with Churchill, this is now my headcanon for Queen Elizabeth's appearance in your story.
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Good look, but the hair needs to be redder. Elizabeth I (and her father Henry VIII) were redheads IRL. Shipgirl QE is certainly living up to the image set by her namesake as taking zero shit from anyone and not being afraid to lay into people, though.

[X] Britain

Dirtnap said:
Did her captain and crew defect? That's the only reason I can see her still being afloat in Malta, because god knows the Italians and Germans tried to get that rock. Or maybe I'm thinking of Crete.

That mention of Barham still being alive too...hm. I guess its before she canonically sunk.

...is Sascha Tirpitz?
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You're thinking Malta. Crete was taken by the Germans in mid-1941 by a pretty daring attack that gutted their paratroop forces. Malta was touch and go at points, and to be honest, the Italians and Germans perhaps could have taken it, but they committed the resources elsewhere, such as to North Africa.

That said, if Schreiber wanted to help with the war effort in the Med, taking Malta would be key to secure supply lines into North Africa. This assumes he's in a position to influence events and people are willing to listen to him.

Also Sascha is the diminutive of Alexander. Since the ship that was sunk is was named for August von Gnisenau, there may be a connection there. I'm pretty certain her 'sister' is Scharnhorst.
 
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SisterJeanne said:
Also Sascha is the diminutive of Alexander. Since the ship that was sunk is was named for August von Gnisenau, there may be a connection there. I'm pretty certain her 'sister' is Scharnhorst.
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Right but as of now, only Biscuit and Blucher are really in contact with any 'anti-nazi' elements. Unless I missed a bit where Schriber meets Scharnhorst.
 
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Right but as of now, only Biscuit and Blucher are really in contact with any 'anti-nazi' elements. Unless I missed a bit where Schriber meets Scharnhorst.
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That we have seen. Logically the rest of the Kriegsmarine will have shipgirls, and we know from the example of Utah leading the conspiracy at Pearl they can speak to each other without any human being aware. So it's likely that Biscuit could pass a message to Scharnhorst with a little bit of preparation, and assuming that shipgirl lines of communication are opened between the Kriegsmarine and royal Navy, a message could be passed to Gnisenau in Britain. Heck, or she heads to the nearest beach and walks offshore to communicate with a U-boat or E-boat perhaps. Especially if she can manifest her rigging and have access to her radios on dry land, no reason she could not communicate with a shipgirl stationed in France or Norway (and cause listening posts in both England and France to run around like headless chickens looking for the radio source).

EDIT-Looking at the map, London to Brest, France where presumably Bismark is docked is under 300 miles distance. Ship radios could easily reach each other on shortwave then (albeit everyone could listen in on the transmissions and a fair number of people on both sides of the Channel would be trying to crack the codes if they picked them up). That said, considering the number of radio transmissions filling the air (BBC news to resistance cells iN Europe, Lord Haw-Haw broadcasting propaganda, all the military traffic), it's possible that transmissions might get overlooked in the deluge of other transmissions. This would especially be true if it was using the Enigma settings that Gneisenau and Scharnhorst were using during their last sortie together, which both would have access to, along with their screening ships, like perhaps Blucher or another CA.
 
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I still don't think Malta fell given they way AD describes it, it sounds like this is post surrender for her given her comments about Italy being different from what she remembered confusion over being in Malta (considering she would have been part of the invasion force) and the new friends (There's no way in hell Schiebers managing to get approval to send Bismarck and co into the Med). More than likely this is post internment.
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You're thinking Malta. Crete was taken by the Germans in mid-1941 by a pretty daring attack that gutted their paratroop forces. Malta was touch and go at points, and to be honest, the Italians and Germans perhaps could have taken it, but they committed the resources elsewhere, such as to North Africa.

That said, if Schreiber wanted to help with the war effort in the Med, taking Malta would be key to secure supply lines into North Africa. This assumes he's in a position to influence events and people are willing to listen to him.
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the issue was more they never had all the pieces themselves, pre may 41 the RN supremacy was to great for the RM to get troops their outside of the airborne and post May there weren't enough transports to get their airborne there in the first place.
 
Spectre said:
the issue was more they never had all the pieces themselves, pre may 41 the RN supremacy was to great for the RM to get troops their outside of the airborne and post May there weren't enough transports to get their airborne there in the first place.
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Yeah, unless they hit Malta instead of Crete in May 1941. With Taranto happening as it did IRL, the RM really would not be able to take sea supremacy around Malta to launch an amphibious operation against it. I agree that it's probably post-surrender though since Malta was a very very tough nut to crack.
 
[X] Britain

APPARENTLY, Germany isn't on of the choices, even though it has a snippet and France does not. Top job *slow clap*
 
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SisterJeanne said:
Also Sascha is the diminutive of Alexander. Since the ship that was sunk is was named for August von Gnisenau, there may be a connection there. I'm pretty certain her 'sister' is Scharnhorst.
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Thank you for explaining the logical reason for the guess my brain took. Also, thanks for the lesson there.
 
As I said, those snippets are of future chapters. Not of the interlude. This is why Germany isn't a choice, along with the fact that Schreiber and friends are still the secondary-main-cast. They'll get plenty of focus all their own, even with the Pacific War going hot.
 
[Q] Russia

Wait, what do you mean that isn't an option?! Durn...

[X] Italy

Kinda torn between the options, but the Italian shipgirl kindled my curiosity the most.
 
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