Well of course the Newfies are friendly, everyone there is one the same side (and the girls give really good behind-the-ear scratches). Probably an entirely different story when any Abyssal subs show up.
I've been kicking around in my head the idea of Abyssals sailing into the great lakes and shelling Chicago and other cities along the way, put the old WWII line of 'the only safe water is the Hudson river'(sic) on U-boats to shame. Not sure how far they'd get, given how good conventional militaries are against Abyssals.
Well, the USS Sable and Wolverine operated in the Great Lakes as training carriers...
Lesse here...*wikis names*
Hm. If this reference is what I think it's supposed to be, this should probably actually reference the Missouri, not the Iowa.
Actually the getup that Alabama is wearing (and the dyed hair) is a reference to the Iowa in Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls which this quest draws a fair chunk of imagery from.
Yeah, dedicated trainers (SNJ Texan) were sometimes used with the two carriers but mainly it was combat aircraft (namely the ones you mentioned though there were also Wildcats and Vindicators).
The first list is all stuff that you can do without cutting holes bigger than for wires in the armor box-it might be possible to do those all pierside, if you can find a power-drill big enough. The second list is a bit more intensive, and will definitely require dry-dock time. The third list is basically 'put her into a yard and keep her there for a year or two.' and is intentionally invasive to justify that kind of time spent at work.The more I look at your list, the more it looks like a complete overhaul for Arizona's systems.
In a "Six Million Dollar Man" sense.
I'd like to say that a few improvements to be gradually integrated into Arizona would be optimal, but the state of the fighting requires combat assets... that aren't as politically "hot" but just as strong as Yamato.
Engines and power plant. That's pretty impossible to do.
The old Bofors 40/L60 is long out of production, true, but its successor the L70 is alive and well: Oto-Melara Twin Forty Compact. It's arguably a better choice than its bigger half-brother, the Mk.110 57mm (Bofors 57mm Mk.3), owing to a higher rate-of-fire and better ammunition capacity, but OTOH the Mk.110 is already in USN service.
Gun mountings are pretty trivial to replace. I have seen one being installed before. It's hull and engine work that's the problem.
It's been done before-Arizona replaced her original twelve boilers with six small tube boilers, and new turbines during the 1930s refits. That said, and as I said in the post, that is the 'cut her open and rip her guts out' option. I expect it to be just as traumatic as getting a full Heart/Lung transplant if you go for that. Recovery time could be an eternity in game-time. But I listed it anyways because I believe in complete options.
Yea. You can't fit a modern ship engine and what not in, what with the differing supports needed as compared to ye olde boilers. You still need to use something similar as she wasn't designed to take that sort of thing in her guts. There's the pipings and such to consider. This is the kind of modernization where you are probably better off spending time and effort in building a new warship.
In-story, wouldn't it be a Kai Ni* upgrade? Which is basically, "Poof! You're improved."
Yeah, that's the Japanese term for it.
Hardly. Even in the mediocre anime, a remodeling still had to take place in a drydock/hospital. For something as big a boost as modern systems and equipment, PF is going to make us pay out the ass for it, in more ways than one.Which is basically, "Poof! You're improved."
I'm not sure if we have an actual difference of opinion here since we both seem to be saying 'this can be done, if you put in more effort than it is probably worth using on paper.' It might still be possible to do if there is some overriding factor that forces this, but it's listed there mostly to stop people from saying things like-
That. Because I'm aware that 'in story' shipgirls can linger in recovery time for weeks, there are no instant repair buckets, and upgrades of the more severe sort might involve metaphysical or literal brain surgery+organ transplants.In-story, wouldn't it be a Kai Ni* upgrade? Which is basically, "Poof! You're improved."
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* Right term?
And Arizona's going to be undergoing it with doctors/mechanics who have never done anything resembling this before. When you think about it, we're almost begging to have her be crippled/killed from complications here.
I'd like to think that Arizona signed up for the modernization experiment out of her loyalty (or other vague feelings) for Settle.
And it's all going to be repaid with a botched operation and malfunctioning equipment. Or it'll work perfectly and be the second most overpowered thing in the quest, number one being Hate and his anti-Abyssal rifle.
