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“No,” Hate says from the corner of the room. “Look to its left – that's muzzle flash. Probably an LMG...” he steps forward and points at an almost invisible line of stringy blobs. “I've seen LMG tracers on FLIR often enough to know. The one facing the camera is an infantryman de-assing the area – probably a peeling withdrawal.”

“There's people still alive on that rock?” you breathe.

“JSDF keeps a four-hundred man garrison there,” Goto replies. “They couldn't hold the base, but there's plenty of places to hide on that miserable rock.”

“How the hell are the Abyssals performing air ops if they-”

“Shit,” Hate cuts you off, “we had Army P-51s flying close air missions from Iwo's airfield before we finished taking that rock.” A beat. “Not that the Marines needed them, but they wanted to help, so, you know.”

“Settle,” Hornet's terse voice cuts in. “My SBD's just found the surface group.”

“Onscreen,” you say.

Goto and Hate both look at you.

“ON. SCREEN,” you enunciate clearly, and this time the fucking voice-recognition software processes it properly and increments the secondary display screen, piping you a feed from a Global Hawk flying out of Kaneda. The image jitters and jumps a bit – the Hawk is “close,” but at those magnification levels it's still like peering through a straw – but you get a pretty amazing view of the SBDs nonetheless after Hornet relays a few position/altitude corrections to the operators.

“Helldivers,” Shoukaku whispers.

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“Enemy bearing?” you ask.

“Zero-One-Four.”

The drone operator dutifully pans the camera over and for the first time you get a good look at the enemy surface action group; little dots sprawled across the ocean. The camera begins singling out ships and going to even higher magnification; giving you brief, shaky glimpses of their bow-on silhouettes.

“At least six cruisers,” you mutter. “Heavy or light, I can't tell.”

“Looks like... three destroyer divisions. Twelve or fifteen, unless I'm counting subchasers by accident,” Goto adds.

“Admiral, my bombers are reporting enemy fighter escort over the fleet!” Hornet says sharply. “Twin-engined, on an intercept course!”

[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)
[ ] Order the strike to focus on a few big boys, even if it takes them longer to find, form up and attack them.

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[x] Focus on the big boys

>>41833819
[x] KONGOU DESS

>>41833884
>[X] Order the strike to focus on a few big boys, even if it takes them longer to find, form up and attack them.

Let's rock!

>>41833884
>[x] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

>>41833884
We arrive!

I am... uncertain of the best decision. Still in uncertainty...

[X] Order the strike to focus on a few big boys, even if it takes them longer to find, form up and attack them.

We should strike at the head, that the body may die.

Also, Goto has proven his mettle. He stands again.

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>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

YO! Planefag! I got a new pic for ya!

>>41833884
>[x] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

We'll need as many planes as we can once those flights start hitting us, and that surface group is pretty low on the threat scale.

>>41833884
>[x ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

The margin in narrow enough, we need them back ASAP.

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>>41833884
>[x ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

If we take out the cruisers that surface fleet is as good as finished. Maybe not all fae will return, but they knew the risks when they enlisted.

...wait, how do fae work again?

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

Kill some quickly and get out.

Don't lose too many planes.

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

>>41833981
Wait, shit. Obviously meant
[x] Order the strike to focus on a few big boys, even if it takes them longer to find, form up and attack them.

I'm too sleepy for admiralting today.

>>41833981
The Unbound are still studying the phenomenon. It is... quite fascinating.

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>>41833884
>Fighters
>Twin engined

So... either P-38s or pic related

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

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What a great day

>>41833884
>>[X] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

Bomb and gtfo.

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)
quick and fast

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>>41834024
God help us if it's the latter

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to focus on a few big boys, even if it takes them longer to find, form up and attack them.
Planefag, is there an ETA on the P-8s and the other human support aircraft.

>>41834024

Best part is that squadrons of those actually did operate from Iwo Jima.

Throw in that some squadrons saw so little action that some ended the war without a single kill to the squadrons name and you have units ripe for Abyssalification since they did nothing n ww2.

>>41834024
While the P-38s are more likely...

>>41834075
We should indeed fear the alternative.

>>41833884
>[x] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

The point of this strike was to get some recon and a few cheap hits before returning to CAP our task force, not to get stuck in. Once Iwo and the enemy carriers are out of commission, we can pick off the enemy SAG at our leisure.

Also, barring the Abyssals having a few more carriers we don’t know about, we can assume their CAP came from Iwo. That limits how many escorts the strike inbound from Iwo will have, which is good news. And I doubt these came off carriers, because twin-engine carrier - based fighters are too modern a development for the Abyssals.

>>41834024
What makes you think their american based ships?

>>41834024
So how far out are the modern support units (F-22s, P-8s and Hornets)?

>>41834095
maybe there f7f tiger cats from the ACTF

So after the last thread I decide I need to learn me some combat, so I started reading through Pacific AARs. What I discovered astonished me:

>Serial 0679, Attack on Allied Personnel and Property by a Plane of American Type and Markings.

>This report covers an attack by an observation plane from the USS Northampton on a British auxiliary cruiser operating out of Apia, Samoa Island on January 23, 1942. This attack was made because the British vessel did not answer the plane's recognition signal. The pilot ordered the ship abandoned and then droppe two bombs, both near misses, and then straffed the vessel with machine gun fire. Following the attack the British crew returned to the ship and managed to get back safely to Apia.

>After an investigation the pilot of the observation plane was found to have been unjustified in attacking this vessel.

Indisputable proof that Northampton is best cruiser.

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

>>41833884
>[X] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)
Do some damage and get the hell out of there.

>>41833884
>>[x] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)
SOMEONE'S GONNA DIE

>>41834194
Do specify? Many Bound personas die every minute.

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)
Wiping smaller escort vessels will help us during the next wave

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>>41834167
How the hell does that make the Northhampton best cruiser?
If anything that looks pretty worst.

>>41833968

YES. This pleases me greatly, most of all the absolutely perfect forced-blank look on Settle's face.

>>41834280
Idunno, sounds pretty American to me.

>>41833959
>We should strike at the head, that the body may die

[Spoiler]Sure worked against the Yuudachi's task force.[/spoiler]

Regardless, it is still better than splitting up and shooting at whatever catches your fancy.

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to focus on a few big boys, even if it takes them longer to find, form up and attack them.

>writing from mobile
>fucking 5-part captcha with an impossible copy-paste as one section, two minute limit to solve with lag

>>41834095
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_YFM-1_Airacuda

Why not this?

Or Japanese or British Heavy Fighters?

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>>41834280
Because FUCK the British. We should have never given them Lend-Lease.

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

>>41833884
[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

Remember our job here, we want all available cap aircraft and right now these cruisers are smalltime

>>41834050
CHROME DID NOTHING WRONG
H+ IS MURDER

>>41833884
>[X] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)
Tactical withdrawal

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[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)

Thin them out.

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http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6572172

>>41834161
>>41834315
In all previous cases, we seem to have faced American originated Abyssals. While others aircraft are indeed possible, we go to the familiar rather than the unprecedented.

And the SWQ joke was obvious.

>>41834314
I have been a peaceful trader for over 4 millennia. I may be slightly out of practice at the art of war.

>>41833884
>Pick LARGE targets and gtfo
Odds are their formation is centered on the cruisers- if we can keep them manuevering from a stream of smaller attacks that buys us TIME

>>41834335
Nazi sympathizer pls go

VOTES CALLED WRITING ETC.

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to focus on a few big boys, even if it takes them longer to find, form up and attack them.
Bomb the Carriers!

That's how we won Midway and how the Japs lost!

Same strategy, different results. How odd.

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>>41834451
>writing

I don't believe you.

>>41834454
not carriers were bombing the surface group

>>41834454
There's no carriers here, this is the surface combat group.

>>41834454
This is the Abyssal surface group.

Taking out those carriers should be a top priority for us though, because while they're in the game it's five effective flight decks against our three.

>>41834451
On a scale of 1 to 10, how drunk are you tonight Fap Angel?

>>41834454
These are cruisers anon
>>41834389
Seriously, Samar was a perfect example of this. The japs spent more time driving in evasive circles than chasing their targets. Hell the Yamato literally ran directly away for like 8 minutes because of a lucky torpedo beacket

>>41834485
sub witches when you faggot

>>41834493
>not carriers
>>41834499
>There's no carriers
>>41834509
>Abyssal surface group
>>41834527
>These are cruisers anon

Aviation cruisers?

Damn, those sneaky Abyssals and their pre-dreadnaught tech base got the best of me.

>>41833884
>[X ] Order the strike to focus on a few big boys, even if it takes them longer to find, form up and attack them.

Did our tomahawks bombard the surviving JSDF soldiers?

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>>41834563
FUCKIN' NEVER

SWQ DED
SUWQ DECANONIZED

Unless, you know, I get bored or something.

>>41834579
The fuck is wrong with you?

>>41834579
Oh you're confused about where the enemy fighters are coming from
...that is a very good question. Probably Iwo Jima?

>>41834579
anon the fighters are from the airbase or carriers

>>41834600
Then what are you doing now?

>>41834603

Twin Engines are land based. Probably, yes.

>>41834609
Fishing for attention.

>>41834389
Sure, but the surface group is still... two hours away I think? Meaning that they're out of the fight for now.

I think the Abyssals were trying to time it so the surface group, carrier group, and Iwo Jima could all hit us at the same time, but Goto's call fucked that up and forced them to move ahead of schedule. This could be important, suggesting a time limit to their 'materialization' ability.

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>>41834598
No, they were pulling out of the area.

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Also be sure to identify the nationality of the abyssals. If those DDs are murican, our planes are as good as dead.

>>41834615
there are twin engine naval fighters like the F7F Bearcat

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>>41834609
Shitposting.
Making people chimp out.

And slowly writing a lovey dovey slice of life fic with maybe lewds. I dunno yet.

>>41834623
YOU FUCKIN' KNOW IT

>>41834642
Which is STILL not something we want to tangle with.

>>41834625
They arenvt an IMMEDIATE threat to our carriers, but they are a significant and unignorable one

>>41834609
Existing, which is a shame.

>>41834629
>Be onna island
>Boring rock-watching post
>Suddenly LIBERATE TUTEME EX INFERIS
>Oh god there are machine guns and spooky chicks and death
>Ancestral instincts kick in, go hide inna cave while everything is blowing up

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>>41834635
>Mad Cat
Eat shit and die, Clanner scum

>Folks still alive on Iwo Jima
REV UP THOSE LANDING CRAFT

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>>41834635
You best get your self out of the inner sphere right now clanner!

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Posting handy carrier guide

>>41834778
>handy carrier guide
seems legit

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>>41834778
Did someone say Mumboat?

>>41834778
>always in heat
>shooting target
That's them alright. Now it's only missing mast height.

>>41834827
Mumboat best boat

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>>41834768
no bully

>>41834778
>Mariana Turkey
kek

>>41834642

The F7F was the tiger cat the F8F was the Bearcats the former being the twin-engine fighter and the latter is an engine with wings.

I feel the autism overtaking me It is a good pain

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>>41834882
The chance for that ended when the Star League did.
It's Blake time now, friend.

>>41834905
shit my bad meant tigercat

>>41834778
Hiryu and Soryu, meanwhile, are the Isn't It Sad twins.

>>41834930

it's all good they are both sexy as fuck shame they came too late, not that there was anything that the Hellcat couldn't already handle

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>>41834922
I prefer an alternative force of mechs.

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>>41835003
Let freedom ring

>Goto's back in the fight
Ih thank goodness, I was worried he'd be out for a couple of hours

>>41835040
I'm just glad that he's only suffered minor san-loss.

>>41834509
>Taking out those carriers should be a top priority for us though, because while they're in the game it's five effective flight decks against our three.

It's already too late. We haven't completely fucked up everything, but we're pretty close. We should have sent the Hornet's bombers in with the strike against the Abyssal carrier force, where they could have insured a much heavier knock-out blow. Instead they're going to be hit, unescorted, over the surface group by those defending fighters. The survivors who get back will not be adding much to the defense against the Abyssal carriers' strike, and we'll still have to weather whatever Iwo Jima base is throwing at us.

It looks like the only really right call was using the Tomahawks on Iwo Jima so at least there won't be a second strike from there. But the odds are good one or more of the Abyssal carriers will survive, and Harder and his wolfpack were not doing very well at all when we last left them. And we're going to have to rely on the SSNs and support assets against the surface group; if we'd committed to knocking out the Abyssal carriers with all our available strike groups we could have thrown a second strike against them instead of having to follow up against the carriers.

Using the friggin' dive-bombers to thicken up CAP was a complete misuse of resources and the failure to concentrate assets on the Abyssal carriers is still going to fuck us in the ass, though.

>>41835040
Kongou's probably doing this-and-that to him under the table.

>>41835040
We just have to keep watch on him for a bit, just in case he starts chanting "Ia Ia Bismarck ftang".

>>41835040
Kongou ministered to him.

I thought everyone agreed to strike the CVs a few threads back?

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>>41835040
The magical power of donuts.

>>41835110
"a few threads back" was about two months ago. We've forgotten.

>Hornet's SBDs were due to hit the surface group and return to station shortly before the strike from the carriers
>Aircraft from Iwo Jima have met them, and can presumably reach our carriers at roughly the same time as our birds can return
...this doesn't feel right. Are fighters quicker to load and launch than attack craft? Would it make sense for Iwo Jima to have sent out these fighters to cover the surface group before launching her strike package?
Because if those fighters are the leading edge of her aircraft's field of movement that makes me very, very nervous.

>>41835110
That's a separate strike, fellow admiral.

>>41835134
Yes.

>>41835110
We are doing that.
With the massive, turgid strike packages from the jap carriers

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Arkansas got spawncamped at Bikini, no fair

>wow, it took 5 of you to kill me!

>>41835111
And public hand-holding.

Also, can I just say that having those Burkes sailing with our girls in a joint fleet makes me rock fucking hard in the 'fuck yeah' sense?

>>41835161
Why do I have the feeling that she's going to show up at LA bloodied, battered and wondering who the fuck she should report to.

>>41835198
Iowa. She'll go report to Iowa.

>>41834720
You mean ancestral Japanese instinct, which is to dig in, and make each step costly for the enemy.

>>41835161
>Arkansas
>twelve 12"/50 guns in six turrets
>twenty-one 5"/51 guns

DAKADAKADAKADAKA

>>41835110
>I thought everyone agreed to strike the CVs a few threads back?

Detailed analysis only happened /after/ the thread, which was dominated by revelation of the trap which encouraged the subsequent defensive-mindedness. Holding a vote on strategy at a cliffhanger and then implementing results in the next thread might just not be a good idea. We'd almost certainly have sent Hornet's strike group with the Jap planes to attack the carriers if the sudden trap hadn't made the players too cautious.

There's a valuable lesson here about how being too defensive-minded and cautious can be just as bad as being too aggressive. Though maybe the lesson is that votes to deal with a cliffhanger should happen in the next thread instead.

>>41835058
>Harder and his wolfpack were not doing very well at all when we last left them

Spoiler alert! They all live. We win the engagement.

>>41835225
Yeah, that's what I was getting at.
That whole damn island is just a bundle of unsettling inplications though

>>41835225
Huh. That explains why the Japanese like the Germans so much. Germans instinctually fortify beaches.
If you see a hole on a beach, then a German will have dug it.

>>41835278
I still don't understand why though.

>>41835278

for some reason, I feel like this is relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGaGBbkmMFQ

>>41835270
The goal was to take out those carriers. The Jap subs were getting chased away, and Harder was pinned between a pair of destroyers. Not exactly winning.

>>41835270
>They all live. We win the engagement.
One thing does not necessarily carry the other. We only know they got out alive, but as far as we know they may have not hit a single vessel.

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My body is ready for when Settle finally gives up.

>>41835258
In a carrier battle, being defensive means you get another chance to strike the enemy. Otherwise, you get no second chances.

>>41835316
>>41835330
If literally nothing else they drew the flattops' escorts away from them and forcd them into ucomfortable maneuvering right as the incoming air strikes started. Very important.
>boat captcha

>>41835316
>Harder was pinned between a pair of destroyers
Naughty boy.

I'm wondering when he will figure out that a) he can shoot up, and b) he has full situational awareness unlike people in a submarine.

>>41835330
As evidenced at the Battle of Midway, a single distracted escort chasing away a sub can have far-reaching consequences.

>>41835316
Harder was able to surface in order to save a few jap faeries. That would imply we cleared out the carrier group.

>>41835364
NO WAIFUS
NO DAUGHTERS
HOPE RIDES ALONE

>>41835299
Collective shame over the failure of the Atlantic Wall.

>>41835364
So when when you say give up. Do you mean give up on not fucking the ship-girls or just generally give up on everything?

>>41835392
Because hope needs nothing else.

>>41835379
The one who lead the strike force to the carrier was not chasing subs though.

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>>41834922

>>41835408
one leads to another

>>41835408
Yes.

>>41835376

And he is literally fuckin' tiny.

>>41835225
Traditional Japanese naval defense doctrine was to establish a strong defensive perimeter around the beaches/ports to deter enemy attacks via the sea. After that was literally.... nothing.

Iwo Jima... was a complete reversal of that doctrine. The GENERAL in charge of Iwo Jima in WW2 knew he was royally fucked, so instead of following Japanese doctrine, he engaged in a punishing gureilla(sic) war that made the American advance bleed.

Instead of the projected 7 days estimated by the USN to take Iwo Jima, it took nearly a month.

And THAT is why the Marines hold such reverence for Iwo Jima.

>>41835392

THERE ARE NO HEROES LEFT IN MAN

>>41835369
>In a carrier battle, being defensive means you get another chance to strike the enemy. Otherwise, you get no second chances.

And the enemy also gets another chance to strike. Which is a /problem/ when the enemy has more assets than you do. Their carrier group will have been hit by one air strike, ours by two air strikes. So if they get a third air strike in while we get a second strike in, it's very likely those results will be much less favorable than if we'd overwhelmed them on our first strike.

By which I mean we have more dead shipsluts.

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>>41835527

BELIEVE.

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Crush the Abyssals!

>>41835547
Alright then, so let's say you're 100% on the ball and have a greater understanding of the situation than myself and the other Anons. What are your recommendations on resolving the situation that we're in? Is it better to stick to our plan, break off from the fight, or make some changes?

>>41835570
Believe? But what?

>>41835616
Believe in dreadnaughts?

>>41835616
>>41835655

BELIEVE IN PLANEFAG.

And Kamen Rider.

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This is why you don't get Native Americans drunk.

>>41835669
ENTER A HERO, ENTER A HERO, ENTER A HERO...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62qWI7CpIds

>>41835616
In a thing called love.

Just listen to the rhythm of my heart.

>>41835685
Damn it Hate this is how escort carriers are made...

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You flick your eyes at your watch and hiss – the laws of Time and Space are knocking again, and you're cutting it awfully fine. “Tell them to pick out the closest targets and nail them.”

The strike force – eleven SBDs and four Hellcats – split off in groups of four and three, angling for the most attractive target in their area. The Hellcats swing towards the incoming twin-engined machines; a horrific grisly grin shining out of a black carapace sandwiched between two segmented thorax-like nacelles. The incoming heavy fighters break off their attack run when the Hellcats give them a good squirt or two at long range; and then the fighters push over into dives at the closest escorts below them. They're some of the deckload of fighters you ordered Hornet to spot before dawn; when they were launched to clear the deck for a hasty launch of her SBDs she sent a few along as escorts, so they retained the light bombload you'd ordered slung. The “pilots” enter brief, steep attacks against the abyssal escort screen, throwing up towering columns of spray around the destroyers nimbly weaving through them – one of them with the old curved hull of a “torpedo boat destroyer” and another sporting the archaic four-stack design of an interwar destroyer, replete with the usual abyssal nightmare garnish.

>>41835685
Huh, I thought Hornet will invite Settle more then Hate in that situation....

Or am I the only one?

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>>41835364
That should be on pic related. Might actually be on there already, haven't checked all of them.
extremely lewd

>>41835685
Especially when you realize she's talking to one of the corgis.

...hopefully not 109.

>>41835603
>Alright then, so let's say you're 100% on the ball and have a greater understanding of the situation than myself and the other Anons. What are your recommendations on resolving the situation that we're in? Is it better to stick to our plan, break off from the fight, or make some changes?

There's nothing to be done about it now. It's too late to change strategy. Hornet's unescorted divebombers are going to be butchered by the Abyssal fighters, and the survivors will do what they can in the CAP but be in no position to carry out another strike later on. So it's going to be up to the results of the purely Japanese strike and seeing just how effective our air defenses are.

Afterward we'll almost certainly have to strike the Abyssal carrier group again, and make damned good use of our support assets to escape without any further serious losses.

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>>41835685
First Iowa, then Hornet. There is no stopping Hate is there?

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Another monitor flicks into life as the drone operator gets his second long-range camera locked on (the fact that Global Hawks *have* two of them is presumably something you Didn't Need To Know.) You hear the faint sound of Shoukaku's odd footwear scraping across the tight-weave carpet; a sound you unconsciously associate with a man subtly stiffening his posture when someone Important walks into a room. You don't need to look to know she's thrumming with tension as the shaky camera feed shows the eleven SBDs motoring towards their targets, three flights singling out ships from the escort screen. They roll into their attacks, peeling out of formation in hard turns and turning inverted as they enter their dives to keep eyes on the target throughout the attack. Shoukaku cease to breathe as they pop their dive brakes. They seem to be moving in slow-motion, the attack stretching impossibly long; the small dark silhouettes vivid against the cornflower blue sky, with no background to give their velocity reference. You count ten, twenty, thirty seconds -

- and the sea seems to jump into the narrow field of view from nowhere, causing Shoukaku to gasp. The bombs swing out on yokes that sling the bombs clear of the SBDs propeller arcs as the bombers pull out at the last second, the heavy, sturdy planes pulling out of their dives within a few hundred feet of the ocean. Columns of spray explode around the abyssal warships -

>>41835685
A real feelthy Hornet

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>>41835616
Believe in AMERICA!
>>41835685
Hate: master of ship seduction

>>41835685
THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED EVER

HATE TELL THEM THIS HASN'T HAPPENED

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“GOD!” Shoukaku cries as the view vanishes in a horrible, blinding flash. The screen fuzzes as the operator disables the FLIR enhancement filter; and the image snaps into awful clarity; a fireball climbing for the sky.

“Right through the forward magazine,” Hate murmurs. Another two blinding explosions obliterate the view, and when they clear the ancient pseudo-ironclad is gone, and the four-stacker is now a three-stacker, her remaining chimneys bent and battered and afire stem-to-stern from flaming oil hurled on her by her expired mate. The SBDs motor away at wavetop height. The heavy fighters come thundering in to harass them, but the unburdened Hellcats are already zipping their way.

Except for one. The other drone cam is swishing back and forth trying to follow the maneuvering machine with its narrow field-of-view as it sheds its 12,000 feet of altitude in a tight downward spiral. The camera finally stops moving as the fighter levels out around 3,000 feet and plummets into a near-vertical dive, pulling out just over the waves as it races towards a destroyer turning away hard, hurling tracers and flak bursts into the air. The Hellcat's nose jerks up sharply and her bombs fly free for a few long seconds before they hit the calm water and glance off like stones, bouncing three, four, five times before they slam into the tin can's thin sides and detonate with terrible force. The pilot aimed for the stern and hit; you see the tiny dot of something on what looks a lot like a depth-charge thrower turn into a nimbus of light before entire stern vanishes in an explosion.

>>41835792
Too late Hornet I've saved that pic for prosperity!

So luck is a stat in the actual game, but do we have anything so far indicating that there is a similar probability-warping effect around the shipgirls in this quest? Because if there is, and one of those carriers is a particularly lucky ship, that could go a long way towards explaining how the battle's gone thus far.

>>41835736
It seems she's bonded more with Hate.

>>41835773
>Dauntlesses

We need to get Hornet outfitted with some Helldivers and Avengers.

Or maybe Corsairs instead of the Helldivers.

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“Better than nothing,” you murmur. You make a silent plea to whatever God there may be that you'll have mobile decks and planes enough in two hours to make this initial swipe meaningless, but you know full well it might not work out that way.

“Kaga. Akagi,” Goto groans into his headset. “Status.”

“Admiral!?” Akagi replies. “Admiral, are you ok-”

“Second strike is almost ready for launch,” Kaga replies calmly. “We're turning south into the wind in a few minutes.”

“Ah.” He flicks his eyes over the multitude of screens currently displaying your battle group – the go-pro cams on the plane guard destroyers, the top-down feed from an MQ-8 hovering over the group and the camera feed from the TV gun directors mounted high on Fitzgerald and Mustin's superstructures. He squints at Hornet, and fumbles blearily with his remote till the view is enhanced, showing the rest of the arrows with dark navy-blue fletching stuffed in her quiver, ready to be fired. “Sending a strike too, uhh?”

“T-those are for CAP,” Shoukaku tells him.

Goto turns his bleary eyes to you – and then closes them for a moment. “Uh.”

“Someone had to make a call,” you tell him. “I made it.”

He looks ready to snap at you – and then he clamps up into a thin-lipped grimace of resignation. “Yeah. I know.”

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>>41835792
How can you be so sure about that if you were drunk?

>>41835783
>AMERICA!

>>41835817
SKIP BOMBING

FUCKING YES

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“You feeling good enough to help me out?”

Kongou almost leaps at you from her position hovering by Goto's side, her warm brown eyes riveting you with a panicked, desperate plea – and then she glances at Goto, tears forming in the corners of her eyes. You know what she's thinking – she wants nothing more than to get him out of this awful room, this awful [i]everything-[/i] but without her trusted teitoku at the helm, she fears for her sister's lives.

Goto seems to feel much the same. He turns his hard dark eyes to the tactical screens, flicking his gaze over his units, his kanmusu, his girls – and then sighs. “I... I've been compromised. If you give me command again, I – what if they – no telling what they *did* to me-”

[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
[ ] He's right – if the abyssals got into his head, they could throw the whole battle with one planted mental suggestion.
[ ] Ask him to make the choice. You're nowhere near qualified enough to qualify or disqualify yourself as the commander in charge of an op like this.

>>41835849
Though it seems Settle was the catalyst for that bonding in the first place.

>>41835887
>[ ] Ask him to make the choice. You're nowhere near qualified enough to qualify or disqualify yourself as the commander in charge of an op like this.

>>41835887
>[X] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

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>>41835887
>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
Time to Rise up Goto! You are better than this!

>>41835887
>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
>[ ] other
And don't worry. If you act up I'll sic Kongou on you.

We sic Kongou on him at the end of the op anyways

>>41835887
>[x] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
If we can manage then so can he.

>>41835887
[ ] He's right – if the abyssals got into his head, they could throw the whole battle with one planted mental suggestion.

This is wayyy too dangerous

>>41835817
I want to meet that pilot.

>>41835887
[x]Other
Kongou will monitor him for abnormalities.

>>41835887
>[ ] Ask him to make the choice. You're nowhere near qualified enough to qualify or disqualify yourself as the commander in charge of an op like this.

>>41835887
>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

>>41835887
[X] He's right – if the abyssals got into his head, they could throw the whole battle with one planted mental suggestion.

Better safe than sorry.

>>41835736
this was that night t the bar where Hate told us about Iowa

it lasted hours, there's no way they weren't both fall down drunk by the end

>>41835792
you wouldn't even know if it had, goddamn alcohol intolerant Pocahontas wannabe

>>41835887
>Shut up and nut up, Goto

>>41835887
Write-in:
Ask Kongo if she still trusts her Admiral to make the right decisions in this situation without being compromised by the Abyssals. She knows him best out of everyone here. She cares the most for him too.

>>41835887
>[ ] Ask him to make the choice. You're nowhere near qualified enough to qualify or disqualify yourself as the commander in charge of an op like this.

If he's in, let him be in of his own accord

>>41835887
>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
>If you are compromised I'll deal with you myself.

>>41835887
>[x] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

He's as coherent as we are. If he's compromised, so are we.

>>41835745
We're not done for yet, the one pro of the advanced CAP is that anything they do send will be mauled to death by sheer dakka of air defenses and cap. Whatever that carrier strike groups sends isn't coming back to reload.

>>41835887
>>41835926
Supporting this.
They both need to get laid.

>>41835887
[X] Ask him to make the choice. You're nowhere near qualified enough to qualify or disqualify yourself as the commander in charge of an op like this.

>>41835887
>>41835926
this

>>41835887
>[x] He's right – if the abyssals got into his head, they could throw the whole battle with one planted mental suggestion.

>>41835887

>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
>[ ] Ask him to make the choice. You're nowhere near qualified enough to qualify or disqualify yourself as the commander in charge of an op like this.

"PsyOps is a normal part of warfare, Goto. And we've got men who stared at GOATS."

>>41835887
>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

>[X] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

He knows his ships better than we do, and he's spent more time commanding fleet actions.

>>41835926
>>41835887
This

>>41835887
>[X] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
Next time we answer the phone though.

>>41835945
and they ended up waiting near his room didn't they?

>>41835887
>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

[X] Order Kongo to watch him and if he does something adnormal to ship up and pull him out.

>>41835887
>>41835926
ahaha this

>>41835887
[X]Ask him to make the choice.
If he goes full [Enemy Control] we'll Kongo him into submission

>>41835994
yup

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>>41835992
>>41835887
+1

>>41835817
GET THAT MAN A MEDAL

>>41835887
>[x] Shut up and nut up, Goto - I need you, and so do they.

So my reading comprehension has gone to hell.

How much did the surface fleet had in terms of ships.

How much damage did the scouting raid do?

>>41835930
>I want to meet that pilot.

There's a distinct probability that he has died of old age at this point. Even the youngest WW2 vets are around 90. Something great will soon be lost. Actual combat witnesses to WW2.

>>41835887
>>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
>>[ ] other
>And don't worry. If you act up I'll sic Kongou on you.
>We sic Kongou on him at the end of the op anyways

We talked to her too. If one of is compromised, we might both be. I suppose we'll just have to let the other people in the room tell us if we've gone *too* crazy.

>>41835992
>Next time we answer the phone though.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little ship? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class at Annapolis, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Abyssals, and I have over three confirmed kills. I am trained in surface warfare and I'm the top Rear Admiral in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another contact. I will neutralize you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the phone? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of subs across the Pacific and you phone number is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, dinghy. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your flight deck. You're fucking dead, slut. I can command anywhere, anytime, and I can confuse matters in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare voice. Not only am I extensively untrained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Slut Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable hull off the face of the ocean, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your "clever" little comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't and now you're paying the price, you goddamn shipwreck. I will shit Tomahawks all over you and you will drown in them. You're fucking dead, shipo.

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>>41835887
>>41835926

This.

And then when Goto is being dragged away, dinner with Shoukaku

>>41835887
"Kongo, if Goto starts acting funny, then do your thing."

>>41836030
Are you retarded?

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Muh Mustin.

>>41835887
>[x] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

"When the Abyssal looks into you, you look back into it and tell it to get stuffed. They’re just echoes, and they don't even realize how lucky they were to not have to throw their crews into the fire. Don’t worry about them knowing how to fuck with your brain, because they don't even know enough to unfuck themselves."

>>41835887
>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
just make sure kongou doesnt leave his side

>>41835887
>[X] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

I had a similar phonecall buddy. If you're compromised so am I, so nut the fuck up and help me help our people win this goddamn fight.

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>>41835817
>>41835870
WHO IS THAT PILOT?

Give that man a medal! Then court martial him as a formality for breaking formation n' shit

>>41835887
[X] He's right – if the abyssals got into his head, they could throw the whole battle with one planted mental suggestion.

It's just like my X-Com clusterfucks! I mean games!

>>41836055
Ok, I'll bite, why am I retarded? Was my math off?

>>41836066

Its a Young fae

>>41836081
How would a fairy die of old age?

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>>41835926
>>41835887
Perfect

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>>41836039
>You're fucking dead, shipo.

>>41836032
Seconding these.

>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

We're gonna be by his side the entire time. Worst comes to worst, we have multiple shipgirls nearby to subdue him.

Being sane was never in the job description after all anyways.

>>41836044
Nah

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>>41835887
>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

Grow some balls, we have a war to win.

>>41836114
>Being sane was never in the job description after all anyways.
It's a life lesson he taught to us, and now we need to remind him of it.

>>41835887
>Kongou, keep an eye on him. Goto, any orders from you go through my mouth and radio

>>41836044

This man gets it

>>41836090
I was>>41835930 under the impression that Anon wished to meet the pilot of the plane in the photograph.

Wanting to meet the fairies from KanColle would be a given around here, and hardly worth mentioning specifically.

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>>41836044
>>41835887
S H O U K E I N E

>>41836044
Nah, Victory Dinner with the expedition fleet.

>>41836044

I can get behind this.

Dinner after successful op.

Maybe head off base?

Or home cooked meal?

>>41835887
>[X] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
Compromised or not, if he goes the rest will notice and fear for the worst.

votes

C A L L E D

We should see about getting Harder some upgraded torpedoes for his next op. Mk16s are a direct upgrade of Mk14s with better range and a much more powerful warhead. However it was also more expensive, the USN used both types up until the 70s. If the ordnance techs managed to un-fuck his Mk14s they should be able to get him some.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_16_torpedo

>>41835887
>>41835926
TIE GOTO TO HIS CHAIR using Kongou instead of rope.

This way he can stay and give his input but we don't have to worry about GOTO IS UNDER ALIEN CONTROL.

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>>41835887
>[ ] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.
Have a backup plan in place just in case Goto goes bonkers though. By which I mean someone with a big stick

>>41836158
So you are retarded. Good to know.

I'll be nice and advice you to reread that story post. Twice. That way your brain might pick up on why someone might want to meet a specific fairy mentioned in that post.

>>41836175
If that's Keine, where's her pagoda hat?

>>41836187
Hang out with the injured

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>>41836200

Thing is, are his tubes compatible to the Mark 16?

Or will we be stuffing them torpedoes into holes too small for them?

>>41833884
>[ ] Order the strike to pick targets now attack and exfiltrate at best speed by flight (units of four.)
This is meant to be a quick harrassment strike to get the bombs off the planes so the SBDs can return to CAP our own task-force. Get in fast, rattle their cage, then bug out and cover our own carriers. Timing is critical, and right now actually damaging the enemy heavy units is strictly a bonus.

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>>41835926
>>41835968
>>41835971
>>41835989
>>41836015
>>41836044

Guys, don't threaten him for acting up. If they get into his head, that's two birds with one stone for them. threaten him for letting them in.
>"If you let them into your head, the rest of your life will be in a white room with naught but Kongou and a teakettle. Now get in the game, Goto."

>>41836039
Make Pic related version of this. Someone. Anyone.

>>41836232
Its going to take at least one full day for them to come back you know.

Oh yeah. Shoukaku is apparently getting a Kai Ni soon. The current event drops a component needed to upgrade her (or Zuikaku, who's also getting one) as the reward for clearing one of the maps.

>>41836237
Hey I don't know if anyone's told you yet but moot left us.

>>41836237
Anon is your ISP always that shit?
I swear i've seen you in another quest.

>>41836271
Also, a black dude got elected President.

>>41836258
I see then we can spend that time preparing for their return.

Willie D shows she is not a fuck up,

Fubuki hangs out with her Senpai.

Save Harder from the Iku

Hornet gains confidence.

>>41836314
Provided that they all survive.

[X] Shut up and nut up, Goto – I need you, and so do they.

Hell, we listened to the phone too. If they've got some kind of audio mind-control then both of us are fucked.

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>>41836314
>Save Harder from the Iku
Why would we?

>>41836314
Dont we still have to wait for them to get back first for that?

>>41836314
And 20 threads late or so, we throw a party!
And AZ will be there, and Shoukaku will be there, and we'll make the theme being welcome in human society! Because how has no-one thought to just throw a bloody "welcome home" party for the 70+ year-old homes and lives of our militaries?

assuming we win.

>>41836359
Yeah, that's naka's job, not settle's

>>41836261
It'll be interesting what it'll turn out like both in looks/stats.

>>41836314
Don't you help Harder deal with Iku fittingly?

>>41836283
Fucking Windows Update is killing my DL speed.

>>41836299
... you mean Florida finally sorted out that 'dimpled chad' bullshit?

>>41836261
We'll have to help her with her fitting out

Make sure everything's shipshape and whatnot

>>41836314
You've forgotten...
Kongou successfully seduces Goto.

Yamato gets spanked by a badminton racket.

the DesDiv 6 lolis get leather long coats and cowboy hats

Settle has a nice home cooked meal with Shoukaku and Arizona.

>>41836386
As this anon, to clarify (before the waifufags and anti-waifufags chew me out): It's implied that everyone will be there, those two are just part of the list. Willie Dee, Harder, Hornet, Naka etc. etc. somebullshit.

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cool

>>41836411
>leaving auto-update on
Turn windows update off and just update manually once a week.

And if you are on Win10 which cant turn auto-update off, upgrade back to Win7.

>>41836436
>Hates ravaged body is found in his bunk, along with a white sunhat bearing a black ribbon

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>>41836359
>literally the cold war submarine situation

ahahaha

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>>41836234
>Or will we be stuffing them torpedoes into holes too small for them?
>next to a pic of I-19
>holes too small
>I-19

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>>41836436
>Yamato gets spanked by a badminton racket.
>the DesDiv 6 lolis get leather long coats and cowboy hats

I'm trying to decide which one of those would be better.

>>41836436
Didn't Hornet have something to tell Settle after the OP?

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>>41836501
could be worse

Also, SoDak class confirmed FAT

>>41836555
Yup
Nice Trips

>>41836436
>the DesDiv 6 lolis get leather long coats and cowboy hats

ARIZONA: -.-- --- ..- / . .--- . -.-. - . -.. / - .... . / ..-. .. .-. ... - / ... .... . .-.. .-.. / -... -.-- / ..-. .- .. .-. -.-- --..-- / -.. .. -.. -. .----. - / -.-- --- ..- ..--.. / .. / ... . . / .-- .... .- - / -.-- --- ..- / .-- . .-. . / - .-. -.-- .. -. --. / - --- / -.. --- --..-- / -... ..- - / - . ... - .. -. --. / .- / - . -.-. .... -. .. --.- ..- . / -.-- --- ..- .----. ...- . / --- -. .-.. -.-- / .... . .- .-. -.. / .- -... --- ..- - / .. -. / - .... . / -- .. -.. -.. .-.. . / --- ..-. / -... .- - - .-.. . / .-- .- ... -. .----. - / ...- . .-. -.-- / ... -- .- .-. - .-.-.- / -... . ... .. -.. . ... --..-- / .. / -.. --- -. .----. - / - .... .. -. -.- / -.-- --- ..- .----. .-. . / -.-. ..- - / --- ..- - / ..-. --- .-. / .- -. / .- ..- - --- .-.. --- .- -.. . .-. / .- -. -.-- .-- .- -.-- .-.-.- / -.-- --- ..- / - . -. -.. / - --- / .- -... ... --- .-. -... / .-. . -.-. --- .. .-.. / -... -.-- / -... . -. -.. .. -. --. / - .... . / . .-.. -... --- .-- .-.-.- / - .... .- - .----. ... / -- --- .-. . / --- ..-. / .- / .-. . ...- --- .-.. ...- . .-. / - . -.-. .... -. .. --.- ..- . .-.-.-

ARIZONA: ... - .. .-.. .-.. --..-- / - .... .- - / .-- .- ... / ... --- -- . / ..-. .- -. -.-. -.-- / ... .... --- --- - .. -. --. .-.-.- / -.-- --- ..- .----. .-. . / .--. .-. . - - -.-- / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-

AKATSUKI: Pretty... good...

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>>41836573

>>41836555

still sad that nobody screamed DEATH FLAG at that

oh well, can't always be mister fancy foreshadowing I guess

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>>41836562

God damn, boom boom chubby choom choom needs to get in the fuckin' gym.

>>41836534
but thats talking about harder's holes.

>>41836562
jesus christ, just imagine the SWEET HOME ALABAMA on that girl

>>41835505
We know how well that doctrine worked for Truk.

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Soon

>>41836573
>Translation for people who cannot into morse code.

ARIZONA: YOU EJECTED THE FIRST SHELL BY FAIRY, DIDN'T YOU? I SEE WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO DO, BUT TESTING A TECHNIQUE YOU'VE ONLY HEARD ABOUT IN THE MIDDLE OF BATTLE WASN'T VERY SMART. BESIDES, I DON'T THINK YOU'RE CUT OUT FOR AN AUTOLOADER ANYWAY. YOU TEND TO ABSORB RECOIL BY BENDING THE ELBOW. THAT'S MORE OF A REVOLVER TECHNIQUE.

ARIZONA: STILL, THAT WAS SOME FANCY SHOOTING. YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD.

AKATSUKI: Pretty... good...

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>>41836573
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

>>41836594
Thought about it, but I felt it was too easy to make the judgement/too cliche for you.

>>41836501
Bookworm Moe (yet mildly lewd) Sub~


>>41836594
It's comically blatant one.

>>41836607
Oh god that reminds me of the hambeasts that would come in and buy entire liters of diet cola.

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>>41836594
OH HYEA NAH!

>Oh crap
>don't thing PF is kidding
>Hopefully we don't get a repeat of Kisaragi who lives in a pineapple at the bottom of teh sea.

>>41836672
And here I can read morse code, but it's--as intended--encoded. It takes time. I'd have gotten that eventually, but after the 5th word or so, I figured someone was gonna use a translator long before I could finish reading and reply, as I used to do for that AZ namefag's posts.

>>41836725
Hammering Hank did nothing wrong.

Question, PF. What's the status of the Islamic State assholes in this universe? Are they pulling ever more heinous shit in an attempt to draw worldwide attention back on them, or did the international community finally get sick of their shit and bomb them back to the stone age?

>>41836234
It's hard to find data on the Mk16 because it was introduced at the very end of the war and gyro guided torpedoes were going obsolete. No one had a navy that was worth using them on. By contrast the Mk 14 is very well documented because of it's various fuckups.

As far as I can tell though the Mk16 is a direct upgrade to the Mk14. It has the same 21 inch diameter and the same length, but is some 305 kilos heavier.

Mk14
Date In Service: 1931
Weight: 3,061 lbs. (1,388 kg)
Overall Length: 20 ft 6 in (6.248 m)
Warhead: 668 lbs. (303 kg) TPX
Range / Speed: 4,500 yards (4,100 m) / 46 knots or 9,000 yards (8,200 m) / 31 knots
Power: Wet-heater steam turbine
Guidance: Mark 12 Mod 3 gyro

Mk16
Date In Service: 1945
Weight: 3,922 lbs. (1,799 kg)
Overall Length: 20 ft 6 in (6.248 m)
Warhead: 960 lbs. (435 kg) HBX
Range / Speed: 11,500 yards (10,500 m) / 46 knots
Power: Hydrogen Peroxide (Navol) turbine
Guidance: Mark 12 Mod 3 gyro

Incidentally the Mk15 torpedoes used on US Destroyers were very similar to the Mk14, being 20% longer. The Mk15 got the same technology upgrade that the Mk14 did. At the moment only Sammy and Willie could carry Mk17s but it would be a huge upgrade, the maximum range alone is over 3 times that of the Mk 15s.

Mk17
Date In Service: 1945
Weight: 4,800 lbs. (2,177 kg)
Overall Length: 24 ft 0 in (7.315 m)
Explosive Charge: 880 lbs. (399 kg) HBX
Range / Speed: 18,000 yards (16,500 m) / 46 knots
Power: Hydrogen Peroxide (Navol) turbine
Guidance Mark: 12 Mod 3 gyro

>>41836790

Did you miss the part where Hate makes fuzzy implied commentary about Falluja 2.0?

>>41836546
not gonna lie, I kinda want that turret squirt-gun

>>41836594
Thing is the shipgirls won't abandon her.

>>41836562
The South Dakota sisters aren't fat, they have the same three sizes as the Iowa sisters. It's just that they're only three quarters the height, so if Iowa is six feet tall, Alabama is only four foot six...

>>41836044
Nah, tired of her getting shoved down our throats.

>>41836829

Proportions, motherfucker, do you understand them?

>>41836807
Yes. Yes I did. I honestly didn't put the pieces together and thought he was talking about Falluja part 1.

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>>41836790
who cares

>>41836790
Probably still around, but jihadis in the sand aren't really an existential threat in the same way vengeful warship denying sea travel is.

>>41836829
A shortstack eh?....Or as the japanese call them Oppai lolis!

>>41836841
>tired of her getting shoved down our throats
Shouldn't that be the other way?

>>41836790
I guess that by this time, America has got tired of their shit and has sent in the B-52s. Followed by marines.

>>41835979
Story anon, story! Goats?

>>41836790

Starving.

Middle East in general needs to import food. Lot of it is starving.

>>41836898
The US tried to develop psychics during ww2 by having men stare at goats.

Hey guys we just hit bump limit.

>>41836928
Slower than usual.

>>41836672
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0dI4JoHEcpO

>>41836898
I think it was a CIA-funded experiment into the possibility of actual psychics. The basis for the experiment was (I believe) unconfirmed reports that the Soviets were doing the same.

All in all, it just amounted to a bunch of guys being paid to stare at goats and try to spontaneously develop psychic-powered death glares.

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Every thread.

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someone make a Hate fae

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>>41836261
>Shoukaku Kai Ni

>>41836981

XO on the Iowa

>>41836981
Not nearly angry enough.

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>>41836928
>>41836939
Only 310 posts, and 1/3 of the image limit?

STEP IT UP, ANON

>>41836926
>>41836957
I don't even.

Where did the Soviets get goats?

>>41836981
But Hate IS fae.

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>>41836991
That hat is not nearly big enough.

>>41837006

MOAR GRUMPUS IS REQUIRED

>>41836851

Yes, I do. :) And I find short women very sexy, cutest woman I've ever met was <5 feet tall and had a perfect figure for a supermodel otherwise. Would have fit perfectly on my lap except she was already married. :(

>>41837017
Or half fae at least by now.

>>41837015
Plundered them from the Germans during/after WW2.