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Don't Shoot, We're Republican! - A Kantai Collection Quest

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TheBleachDoctor said:
Okay, so I'm taking a short break from writing essays in the wee hours of the morning to bring you a mini-omake.

M&M

"..." the Admiral stood at the docks, staring out into the bay as the intermittent cracks of old cannons engaged in a shouting match with roaring broadsides.

"Sir," the Admiral's aide asked, "How... How long have they been at it?"

"Five hours," the Admiral answered tiredly, "They should be running out of ammunition soon."

"...Why did it have to be them?" the aide also asked.

"I don't know," the Admiral rested his head in his hands, "Why."

"SINK ALREADY YOU SOUTHERN HARLOT!!!" the USS Monitor shouted angrily, her back-mounted turret firing its two cannons while a full broadside of cannonballs bounced off her side.

"NEVER, YOU NORTHERN WHORE!!" the CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) yelled defiantly, Monitor's shots doing nothing more than denting the two massive iron-clad wooden shields she held, one for each arm.

"THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!" Virginia declared, cannons firing out of the gunports in her shield, most missing the Monitor or glancing off her turret.

"Useless," the Admiral moaned into his hands, "Just... useless..."
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THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
 
[x] Stay with Mahan. Your own repairs can wait until she's well. Also Iowa told you to.

I'll admit, I don't really know a whole lot about Kantai Collection. Hell, I always kind of assumed the Abyssals were supposed to be the USN or something . . . But this looks interesting.

I've also seen some interesting designs for American Ship Girls . . . I think I'm in love with Hornet, but Iowa is also quite nice with her blue dress and her umbrella and her sunhat.
 
TheBleachDoctor said:
Okay, so I'm taking a short break from writing essays in the wee hours of the morning to bring you a mini-omake.

M&M

"..." the Admiral stood at the docks, staring out into the bay as the intermittent cracks of old cannons engaged in a shouting match with roaring broadsides.

"Sir," the Admiral's aide asked, "How... How long have they been at it?"

"Five hours," the Admiral answered tiredly, "They should be running out of ammunition soon."

"...Why did it have to be them?" the aide also asked.

"I don't know," the Admiral rested his head in his hands, "Why."

"SINK ALREADY YOU SOUTHERN HARLOT!!!" the USS Monitor shouted angrily, her back-mounted turret firing its two cannons while a full broadside of cannonballs bounced off her side.

"NEVER, YOU NORTHERN WHORE!!" the CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) yelled defiantly, Monitor's shots doing nothing more than denting the two massive iron-clad wooden shields she held, one for each arm.

"THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!" Virginia declared, cannons firing out of the gunports in her shield, most missing the Monitor or glancing off her turret.

"Useless," the Admiral moaned into his hands, "Just... useless..."
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Once they run out of ammunition, they move into a boxing match.

As they get more and more tired, it turns into a slapping fight, which eventually just becomes them kind of limply pawing at each other until they collapse of exhaustion.

The next day is spent with them glaring at each other over breakfast (with Monitor continuing to refer to Virginia as Merrimack, much to Virginia's growing irritation) until they have a chance to re-arm.
 
warhammer651 said:
Once they run out of ammunition, they move into a boxing match.

As they get more and more tired, it turns into a slapping fight, which eventually just becomes them kind of limply pawing at each other until they collapse of exhaustion.

The next day is spent with them glaring at each other over breakfast (with Monitor continuing to refer to Virginia as Merrimack, much to Virginia's growing irritation) until they have a chance to re-arm.
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Aww look! They really do love each other!
 
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ForeverShogo said:
I'll admit, I don't really know a whole lot about Kantai Collection. Hell, I always kind of assumed the Abyssals were supposed to be the USN or something . . . But this looks interesting.
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You are technically right. Going with the anime, the Abyssals are ship-girls that has sunk and is resurrected back, at least a part of the Abyssal force that is, and that they seems to be a tool or part of a force that seeks to repeat fate with the ship-girls. Thus, they are basically a stand-in for whatever enemy the ship-girls are fighting in a certain battle.

If you want to know more about Kantai Collection, then I'd recommend the Historical KanColle series on danbooru (just search 'pool:8262' on the search bar there and start with the last one). Just keep that KanColle wiki tab somewhere near, because the number of characters rivals that of Touhou's number.
 
warhammer651 said:
when quartered within earshot of one another, they play civil-war marching songs at each other. Constantly. When quartered on opposite sides of the base, they commence pranking one another.


That said, they bond over befuddlement at modern weapons technology
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They make a living doing Civil War reenactments, since the Admiral won't put them back on the Naval roster (even though they live on the base).
Audiences of said reenactments say that they're pretty sure the Battle of Hampton Roads didn't involve quite so much audible cussing, and they're also very sure that both ships didn't engage in a catfight once their ammo ran dry.
 
TheBleachDoctor said:
They make a living doing Civil War reenactments, since the Admiral won't put them back on the Naval roster (even though they live on the base).
Audiences of said reenactments say that they're pretty sure the Battle of Hampton Roads didn't involve quite so much audible cussing, and they're also very sure that both ships didn't engage in a catfight once their ammo ran dry.
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There was also betting involved.
 
Monitor and Virginia. Two ships who hate each others guts but are unable to do any amount of damage to each other.
 
[x] Stay with Mahan. Your own repairs can wait until she's well. Also Iowa told you to.

Also, something that I noticed that it finally registered was bugging me: F2A Buffalos? Admittedly I know very little about Kancolle and less about the actual game itself, so I dunno if they're just 'what's there in the rules', but...really I'd rather go into combat with a squadron of Blackburn Skuas. And the historical Independence never operated Brewsters; her shakedown-cruise airgroup consisted of F4F Wildcats, SBD Dauntlesses and TBF Avengers, while her combat airgroup consisted of Avengers and F6F Hellcats (dive bombers being determined to be too large to efficiently operate from light carriers before she made it further into the theatre than Pearl).

Independence's airgroup history (note a FM is the same thing as a F4F, and a TBM the same thing as a TBF, just from a licensed manufacturer (GM) instead of the designer (Grumman)).
 
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TBM is not the same as a TBF. It's an upgraded version. (The TBM in the aircraft list is the TBM-3)

As for her not operating brewsters, this is a game, and you are all still level 1.
 
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The Bushranger said:
[x] Stay with Mahan. Your own repairs can wait until she's well. Also Iowa told you to.

Also, something that I noticed that it finally registered was bugging me: F2A Buffalos? Admittedly I know very little about Kancolle and less about the actual game itself, so I dunno if they're just 'what's there in the rules', but...really I'd rather go into combat with a squadron of Blackburn Skuas. And the historical Independence never operated Brewsters; her shakedown-cruise airgroup consisted of F4F Wildcats, SBD Dauntlesses and TBF Avengers, while her combat airgroup consisted of Avengers and F6F Hellcats (dive bombers being determined to be too large to efficiently operate from light carriers before she made it further into the theatre than Pearl).

Independence's airgroup history (note a FM is the same thing as a F4F, and a TBM the same thing as a TBF, just from a licensed manufacturer (GM) instead of the designer (Grumman)).
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It's a gameplay mechanic more than anything else. Level up to get better fighters.
 
*comes to see how this compares to FotH*

*notices a lack of lewding the shipgirls*

*stays anyway*

[x] Stay with Mahan. Your own repairs can wait until she's well. Also Iowa told you to.
 
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