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Changing Destiny (Kancolle)

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Not detailed in the snippet. it only says partial miniature. Which hints that it might not be complete. And even if it's five feet long, it can be moved with a modicum of caution.

And why Zippo?
 
Darth Thanatos said:
Not detailed in the snippet. it only says partial miniature. Which hints that it might not be complete. And even if it's five feet long, it can be moved with a modicum of caution.

And why Zippo?
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USS Saratoga CV-60. As for the completion, well, a third of a 1/100th scale CV is still quite heavy. It's not 'needs major dockwork to remove' but still not easy.
 
Darth Herobrine said:
USS Saratoga CV-60. As for the completion, well, a third of a 1/100th scale CV is still quite heavy. It's not 'needs major dockwork to remove' but still not easy.
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<sigh> Which is a good decade away from being designed. Why should a model of a not yet existing ship be in a machine room in Changing Destiny?

Oh, and you can can put the model upright, as it is shorter than a man, and handle it carefully.
 
Darth Thanatos said:
<sigh> Which is a good decade away from being designed. Why should a model of a not yet existing ship be in a machine room in Changing Destiny?

Oh, and you can can put the model upright, as it is shorter than a man, and handle it carefully.
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CV-60 Sara, at least by HatSG logic, would be CV-3 Sara's daughter. As to why it would be there? Well, where else would a pregnant hull-bound shipgirl keep the baby? And I did change the length to nine feet, to make it a 1/100th scale.
 
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CV-60 Sara, at least by HatSG logic, would be CV-3 Sara's daughter. As to why it would be there? Well, where else would a pregnant hull-bound shipgirl keep the baby? And I did change the length to nine feet, to make it a 1/100th scale.
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It might be Lexteen? Since Sky has, in other stories mind you, made Saratoga Lexteen's Mom, then Lexteen was CVN60 Saratoga's mom.

Though having a nuclear powered daughter BEFORE the first artificial nuclear reactor comes online. Heh, talk about an energetic baby.
 
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Minitoga is not a nukebote

Now to try and eat something before I pass out from lack of energy
 
Super Sara is CV-60, not CVN-60.

Though at times she was variously:

CVB-60 (ordered)
CVA-60 (as comissioned)
CV-60 (reclassification in 1972)
 
Ah, awkward. I thought all the carriers after the Midways were nuke boats, starting with Enterprise.

That explains why they sunk America in weapons testing and there wasn't anything about releasing nuclear material.
 
So... Do any of the ship spirit gonna bug Utah how in the world she managed to manifest herself as a shipgirl?

Coz some might be a bit jealous that Utah can move and interact with everyone now...

And some hope to be able to manifest so they can do with what they want...

*Glances at the blushing Arizona, an annoyed Saratoga and a sweatdropping Thompson...*
 
As soon as Halsey finds out what Utah did, he is going to set up a constant guard around His Enterprise. Preferably made of married men.
He is going to limit the amount of horny young men around Little E! at all costs.
 
Sir_Gaea said:
As soon as Halsey finds out what Utah did, he is going to set up a constant guard around His Enterprise. Preferably made of married men.
He is going to limit the amount of horny young men around Little E! at all costs.
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I can see him glaring at any sailor who so much as looks at her for a second longer than necessary.
 
Well, if Thompson succeeds in changing destinies :)D) of a few ships, there might not be any renamed Essexes. Of course, this is ignoring any losses outside of what happened OTL, which is still a possibility.
 
Archduke said:
Well, if Thompson succeeds in changing destinies :)D) of a few ships, there might not be any renamed Essexes. Of course, this is ignoring any losses outside of what happened OTL, which is still a possibility.
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Well, we already know destinies can be changed. Witness Bismarck and Arizona looking at the ocean from the correct side of the waterline on December 8th, 1941.

That said, the USN still has a tall order ahead of it, because the Kido Butai is not destroyed yet. Right now the CV scorecard is 6 IJN to 5 USN for the opening round of the Pacific War. I suspect that 1942 will be a bad year for carrier attrition, though since the Japanese have to grab what they can and fort up, and the USN has to weaken Japanese defenses and their fleet enough to begin to launch the counterattack.
 
True, but don't forget. There were more Japanese pilots who were killed this time around, and the Japanese pilot training shouldn't be called such. It is not incorrect to say that each Japanese pilot is irreplaceable.
 
Sir_Gaea said:
True, but don't forget. There were more Japanese pilots who were killed this time around, and the Japanese pilot training shouldn't be called such. It is not incorrect to say that each Japanese pilot is irreplaceable.
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Dont forget the training doctrine differs between US and Japan.

Afaik, US recall vets from the frontline to teach the greenhorns the ropes while Japan kept the vets mostly in the frontline and just use trainers, who didnt spent time in the frontlines, for the rookies to learn from....
 
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So, ya'll think the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot will be a even greater turkey shoot than it was in the OTL? Maybe it could happen a few months earlier than it originally did depending on the butterflies.
 
Admiral_Corgi said:
So, ya'll think the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot will be a even greater turkey shoot than it was in the OTL? Maybe it could happen a few months earlier than it originally did depending on the butterflies.
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Barring pants on head Japan wank, it is just about impossible for Japan to have survived more than 6 months more than OTL when pitted against the United States. The only way to reasonably stave off surrender for over 6 months more than OTL requires, to quote an AH.com thread on Downfall, the approach of "sometime between the landing ships hitting the shore and the last mountain village being razed to the ground, Japan surrenders".
 
Well, IJN command is going to be rather disappointed once the debriefings start and they find out how much they lost in relation to the damage done and worst of all, the lack of total surprise. Which will probably make the Phillipines even more important to Japan to pull a 'win' out. And with that, has MacArthur been twiddling his thumbs or will some form of preparedness actually take place?
 
MagisterAurelius said:
Well, IJN command is going to be rather disappointed once the debriefings start and they find out how much they lost in relation to the damage done and worst of all, the lack of total surprise. Which will probably make the Phillipines even more important to Japan to pull a 'win' out. And with that, has MacArthur been twiddling his thumbs or will some form of preparedness actually take place?
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A competent MacArthur is more implausible than shipgirls, you know this!

EDIT: The AH.com consensus at least is that portraying Fredendall (the Kasserine Pass disaster guy) as a competent staff officer (he actually was, he just wasn't good at making decisions himself) is vastly more realistic than MacArthur as competent.
 
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