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Changing Destiny (Kancolle)

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Burning Baron said:
Not, whatever it is she's doing. That looks uncomfortable.
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That's because... how do I put this into words?
Sara's weapon is something that looks cool, but is very easy to screw up. The key is the buttstock. The art that Sky posted? With a deck that wide atop an SMG, you really couldn't put it to your shoulder without somehow making the deck phase through it. Not to mention the angle means we can't see the stock at all, assuming there even is one.

By contrast, the official artwork has the flight deck placed in such a way that by putting the buttstock in a proper position, to her left shoulder, it looks like the back half of the flight deck would end up back and over the shoulder.

Am I making sense with this?
 
Am i the only one who is bothered by how she is holding it. Her left arm should being holding the forward grip and her right should be holding the trigger.
edit: I put my arms in the postilion and it started to hurt almost immediately.
 
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asqwerty3345 said:
Am i the only one who is bothered by how she is holding it. Her left arm should being holding the forward grip and her right should be holding the trigger.
edit: I put my arms in the postilion and it started to hurt almost immediately.
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Welcome to being a southpaw in the 40's.
Or having a massive fucking carrier deck that hangs mostly to the left strapped to the top of your gun.
 
Thorthemighty said:
Not true, the FN FAL and AK-47 are both Ambidextrous guns.
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Not... entirely. There are a lot of rifles that one can technically fire left-handed, but which are rather uncomfortable to do. The FAL and the AK are both among them; they eject their brass on the right-hand side, so the left-handed shooter is subjected to having hot brass shot across--and occasionally into--his face with every round fired. The M1 Garand and M14 combined this design... feature... with a right-handed charging handle that was permanently attached to the bolt carrier, which, while not actually dangerous, gave the perception that it was attempting to scoop out one's eyeball with every round fired left-handed. (Its travel wasn't enough to actually reach the eye, but it sure as hell looked like it was gonna get there before it hit the stop maybe an inch away.) Even when a gun is equipped with ambidextrous controls, the majority are still ergonomically designed for right-handed shooters and are awkward, uncomfortable, or downright dangerous to shoot left-handed. (A bullpup rifle, for example, like the French FAMAS, can't be shot left-handed unless you get a specially-built left-handed rifle; on a standard one, the brass will be ejected directly into a left-handed shooter's ear and/or neck. And given how hot spent cartridges are when they come out--as anyone who's ever done that "hot brass down the collar!" dance at the firing range can attest--that would be genuinely hazardous to the user...)
 
rdfox said:
(A bullpup rifle, for example, like the French FAMAS, can't be shot left-handed unless you get a specially-built left-handed rifle; on a standard one, the brass will be ejected directly into a left-handed shooter's ear and/or neck.
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FAMAS wass a bad example, it's not a rifle that needs to be built left handed.

If the timestamp doesn't work it's at either 21:22 or 22:22. All you need to do is swap the extractor with the inbuilt dummy one and swap the cheek piece.
 
The Steyr AUG can make the same change in the field, too — it's a matter of rotating one component and switching the blanking plate to the other side, IIRC.
 
Jrandom said:
There's a scene in "Saving Private Ryan" where the sniper of the team is firing a standard M1903 Springfield left-handed and reaching over the stock to work the bolt with his left hand.
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Sure. You could fire old weapons left handed; I know a WW2 reenactor who carries his M1 Garand left handed. That said, the weapon isn't designed to be used like that: the hot brass will eject to the right and nothing you do will alter that.

There are weapons today that can be modified to eject to either side, so that a lefty shooter can eject to the left and a righty shooter to the right. Old weapons there's no choice: if you shoot lefty then hot brass will be flying across your face and you just have to deal with it.
 
It's a fun fact few seem to know that one of, if not the most, effective Resistances to Hitler during the war was the German Resistance. The things they did need more widespread credit.
 
And with some of the most dedicated. Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff tired to suicide bomb Hitler during his inspection of captured soviet equipment. Hitler went through the exhibit quicker than expected so Rudolf had to rush to a restroom to disarm the bombs timer.
 
I remember reading about underground Scout troops that aided the Allies with intelligence, maps etc when they were invading Germany, one kid even swam out and disarmed the demolition charges on a vital bridge the Allies needed. The young man was later killed guiding a scout car through a minefield a few days later if I recall right, just before he received official recognition of his efforts.

Edit: Just off the top of my head, and with little background reading on the matter, I can think of about a dozen attempts to assassinate Hitler undertaken by the German Resistance, which all failed through what was sometimes the craziest of luck for Hitler.
 
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The problem is that Hitler and his High Command are vindictive little bastards and most of the crew will have parents, siblings, spouses and children whose lives will be...difficult...at best, should they defect. And any mass movement of those families, if they even agree to it when they believe in Hitler and the war is going well, will be noticed.
 
Excubitor said:
The problem is that Hitler and his High Command are vindictive little bastards and most of the crew will have parents, siblings, spouses and children whose lives will be...difficult...at best, should they defect. And any mass movement of those families, if they even agree to it when they believe in Hitler and the war is going well, will be noticed.
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I take it that's one of the reasons why the German Resistance had any difficulty opposing Hitler and his High Command? Please correct me if I'm wrong or off the mark.
 
Excubitor said:
The problem is that Hitler and his High Command are vindictive little bastards and most of the crew will have parents, siblings, spouses and children whose lives will be...difficult...at best, should they defect. And any mass movement of those families, if they even agree to it when they believe in Hitler and the war is going well, will be noticed.
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He doesn't need to defect. He just needs to be on America when Hitler declares war on the U.S. when that happens Bismark and her entire crew just became POWs. The admiral just needs to time it right.
 
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