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- “fuck I have'em at eleven-thirty low,” your wingman comments dourly, and for a second you agree with his summation. The inbound gaggle is *massive,* too many planes to count during your high-speed dive. Two squadrons, at least. And that's just *your* part of the fight – you're descending into the kind of battle you read about in fascinated wonder as a child, the epic tales of gargantuan conflicts involving hundreds of aircraft and thousands of lives. Not until now, in the cockpit of your plummeting fighter, did you realize how distant those battle seemed, like Arthurian legend of old. In that age planes were ten times cheaper, expended more as ammo than assets, and from the ranks of hundreds of plodding line pilots emerged a few spectacular heroes who strode among legions and slew all opposed them.

Into this titanic clusterfuck you are diving – two flights, eight Marines, the end product of the modern age where quality trumps quantity. You're diving into another age, one that's forcing you to play by its rules with powers beyond comprehension. You're probably helpless to change the outcome.

Probably.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH6ZiySBy_w

You pull out of your dive over the waves, booking close to 700 knots without touching the afterburner and your precious fuel supply, the gaggle of abyssals only heartbeats away from you. Without time or space for a front-aspect shot you simply switch to guns and stomp the rudder, brushing the trigger as the reticule flies past a black dot banking hard to evade. Then you're through; past their screen, behind the escort fighters and already punching the afterburner to scream upwards, grabbing altitude for your next attack. With g-forces keeping your turnip nailed to the headrest you can't check the effectiveness of your move, but you know the attack has been scattered to hell and gone, their defensive firepower compromised with that big cloud of SBDs seconds away from contact. You take the Bats to fifteen-thousand feet before letting off the afterburner and leveling out inverted, surveying the battle through your canopy as you hang in the straps. Below you see the destroyers turning hard, the unseen dots of shipgirls clearly visible by the massive ship-sized wakes they trail. The SBDs hit the formation of abyssal torpedo bombers like two brick walls in a sumo match; tracers flying everywhere as they break into a mad, lethal wavetop melee. The radio is utter chaos ruled by the iron tones of That Voice, tersely directing fighters to various bearings.

Nukes when

>>41839826
You know Sentinel, New Zealand had a couple Flower Class corvettes during the war, the same kind Canada used. They also have a native population of Canada geese introduced (some would say unwisely) as game birds. Corvettes can make 16 knots, that's more than enough power to tow some water skiimus.

mfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XmDYJBZZdc

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“Level bombers!” a young girl's voice cries out fearfully. “Look! LOOK!”

“Bandits, two-o-clock!” someone in your flight cries, and you snap your eyes about to see twenty-odd planes closing on you. Flak bursts are already puffing up around them. A quick 360 scan reveals Hellcats motoring towards them, but most of them are tangled up in a furball on the other side of the battle.

“Dive-bombers!” that voice says again, the tone finally cracking. “Engage them, somebody SHOOT them!”

You roll your Hornet upright and shove her into afterburner, the throaty, hungry growl of a Sidedwinder already filling your ears as their escorts angle towards you.

[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...
[ ] Meanwhile, 225 nautical miles away and 400 feet deep...

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840288
[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840256
>DOG FIGHTER
FUCK YEAH, WE MACROSS NOW

>>41840272
SEE?
IT WAS PRE-DESTINED. THE GOOSE-EMU ALLIANCE WILL COME TO CLAIM US ALL.

>>41840288
>[x] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840288

[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

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>>41840288
[X] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, 225 nautical miles away and 400 feet deep...
HIT 'EM AGAIN, HARDER!

>>41840288
>[X] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840267
That is a shitty idea.

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Today's dose of happiness and sunshine brought to you by /wowsg/.

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840288
[x] Meanwhile, 225 nautical miles away and 400 feet deep...

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>>41840359
Or is it the best idea?

>>41840288
>[x] Meanwhile, 225 nautical miles away and 400 feet deep...
because I actually know who this vote goes to now, let's finish what we started last weekend

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...
>>41840256
>shipgirls clearly visible by the massive ship-sized wakes they trail
Ooh!
I've been wondering about that, that is very good to know.

We still really need to ask somebody how the fuck kanmusu supply and resupply works.
>Naka had a slick of burning oil when she got shot in the dick
>The armorers are loading miniature shells and powder charges for training- is that what they're doing for sorties too?
>Harder loaded torps that were worked on by the ordnance techs
HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS WORK

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Just finished scribbling this.

>[ ] Meanwhile, 225 nautical miles away and 400 feet deep...

>>41840337
>Seiga nyan-nyan
THE FACE OF TERROR

>>41840256
Dammit planefag, at least use the extended version
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yI3MUb0OpA

>>41840288
>[x] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

I want to know if Harder got so mad he murdered all the wildlife in the area.

>>41840288
>[x ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

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>>41840417
Adorable, need moar

but where is braid?

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...
Remember my words of wisdom, Anons.

>>41840417
Scribbler pls

>>41840414

Ever seen an ordinance tech directing a jeweler as he works? It's like an autism cannonball hitting... another autism cannonball.

>>41840288
[ ] Meanwhile, 225 nautical miles away and 400 feet deep...

You niggers. 15,600 feet below is the fucking SSNs. Harder is fucking around waaay over there, in the enemy Carrier group.

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>>41840414
>Harder loaded torps that were worked on by the ordnance techs
>HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS WORK

Is it time to discover the fate of our SSNs?

>>41840288
>[X] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below

Virginia time

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>>41840462

>>41840288
>[ ] Meanwhile, 225 nautical miles away and 400 feet deep...

>>41840417
And because I don't think I got to save it last run, can anyone repost the AZ one that this glorious artist made?

Least, I think it was AZ

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>>41840288
>[X] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below..

From Furball to the silence of the deep. My body is ready.

>>41840462
We are well aware.

VOTES CALLED

>>41840362
Welp, I wasn't planning on sleeping anyway!
Thanks a lot man.

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>>41840495

>>41840455
That... is exactly the kind of answer I was hoping for.
Huh.
So they still need very real munitions, just very small and just multiply the boom by a few orders of magnitude.

Fascinating.
>>41840462
I'm aware. The person who said 'yay harder' voted for the other option, so I see no trouble

>>41840452
Never go full active?

>>41840496
>>41840508
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEt41bYQBgE

>Select all the donuts
Welp, Kongou beckons, comrades!

>>41840495
It's >>41840524, but that wasn't scribbler's work. That's Halley's.

[ ] Meanwhile, fifteen-thousand, six-hundred feet below...

I'm going to mention this because it seems like it needs to be said

A Crazy Ivan is only done to check one's baffles. The sonar in a submarine can't look directly behind it. A towed array eliminates this problem, but can't look directly in front of it. Further, it's not necessary, nor a particularly good idea in a real war.

>>41840547
Try to avoid going active at all, really.

>>41840452
For reference:
>>41837806
>>41837941
>>41838351
Though honestly I think this might be a turkey shoot.
Or silence while we don't do anything because there weren't any subs at all

>>41840272
Starshadow pls

>>41840414
Most likely they touch whatever they need and send it to Hammerspaced ship form, explains how Harder summoned torpedoes out of thin air.

>This feature article appeared May 17th, 1948 in the Milwaukee Journal. It was illustrated with a picture of the cruiser and two cartoons reproduced from the ship's history. Contributed to the USS SLC Website by SLC
ball-red-02 Veteran, James O'Hara

>They're taking the old Swayback Maru out and sinking her. And that's more than the Japs could ever do! The news of her fate was in the newspapers a week or so ago. The item said:

>Vallejo, CA. --- AP --- The heavy cruiser Salt Lake City, radioactive from her role in the Bikini Atomic Bomb Test, will be sunk this month, according to officials of the Mare Island Navy Yard.

>This news item, to anyone who ever knew the old girl, is grossly inadequate. The Salt Lake City was not the best ship in the world. She was a cantankerous, rough riding, flea bitten, left handed old rust pot, with a past, but no future.

>Any of the 1,100 men aboard would have told you that. But they might have poked you in the nose if you agreed. She looked like something the cat dragged in. She was as glamorous as a middling beautiful warthog. She was as luxurious as a garbage truck. Public acclaim passed her by. But she could fight, brother, she could fight.

>Just to put the thing in focus, here's what she did:

>She fired the first American shells to land on Jap held soil. In one battle, she accounted for two Jap heavy cruisers, a light cruiser, a destroyer and an auxiliary vessel. She got the destroyer in a single salvo. She fought in the longest naval duel ever staged by American ships and in standing off twice her own weight, may have saved the invasion of Attu.

>She engaged in 91 days of bombardment in a period of 101 days, probably a world record. And she was, without doubt, the only modern ship whose steering wheel fell off twice in battle.

>>41840608
Yeah, but the question remaining was whether they needed full-sized munitions or, as planefag has helpfully confirmed, they take the tiny shit and make big booms

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>>41840524

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>>41840495
>>41840632
>>41840550
It's Arizona, yeah. If she's in a maid outfit, I draw her with fluffy/curly hair.

>>41840524
Thanks anon

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>>41840615
>And she was, without doubt, the only modern ship whose steering wheel fell off twice in battle.

>>41840615
>fell off twice in battle.
fucking twice, goddamn

>>41840615
>twice
Well crap.

>>41840656
Hey Hal, you got my message yesterday?

>>41840615
>>41840660
>>41840667
Now I'm curious. Which two battles?

>>41840656
>filename
Look forward to the finished version, Halley

>>41840615
Steering wheel fell off twice in battle, and still that badass? I gotta read up on the Salt Lake City

>>41840615
>steering wheel fell off twice in battle.

>>41840660
>>41840667

But wait, theres more!

>To a man who came aboard later, it was odd to think that the Salt Lake City had once been a bulwark against the rising tide of Japan. That tide was receding. America had put out newer, sleeker ships and the Swayback --- now 14 years old --- was fast becoming antediluvian. Her towering tripod foremast had become outmoded. At the end of the war, it was the only one on any active cruiser in the fleet.

>Somewhere, she had picked up a perpetual list, which gave her the look of a tipsy dowager. People who viewed her in shocked awe for the first time confessed later they expected her to hiccup.

>She picked up tons of water. Her gear was old, her look shopworn. In the "passion pit" where ensigns lived their hodgepodge lives, there was whispered doubt as to whether her watertight doors were really watertight. The crew said that a seaman chipping paint had driven his hammer right through one rested outside plate. And the legend started that the Swayback kept afloat only because the cockroaches formed a ring around her hull and held hands.

>One new engineer came aboard, fresh from the States and full of "book-learning". It took seven cups of the lethal wardroom coffee to restore him to speech after his first inspection trip.

>"My God," he said. But the Swayback made her 30 knots in the second battle of the Philippines.

>Her duty at that time was mostly of the type known as detached. With her fellow cruisers, the Chester and the Pensacola, almost equally old, and a handful of destroyers, she prowled the waters north of Saipan. To its unimpressed denizens, the task force was known as the "junkyard flotilla" and the quip was that it was kept away from the newer ships of the fleet because sight of it would ruin their morale. The admiral in command was known as "the mad mariner of the Mariners."


fucking SLC, talk about a ship with character. Theres a fuckload more of this, by the way

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>>41840414
>kanmusu supply and resupply works
If that blows your mind try to imagine boarding actions.

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>>41840656

>>41840587
>going active
Does that mean don't go active duty?

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>>41840615

I'd guess that the "fell off twice in battle" is a matter of falling off once due to freak accident/chance, them jury-rigging it back on, and the jury-rigging failing within the span of the same battle.

If it was really two separate battles my sides are gonna leave orbit.

>>41840742
I haven't seen this picture in the better part of a decade, holy shit. Where'd you dig up this fossil?

>>41840767
Active sonar, nitwit.

>>41840767
It means don't ping, don't go fast, don't surface, really just don't do anything but be very quiet, listen, and kill

>>41840741
So basically this ship only stayed afloat on willpower.

>>41840781
I bet danbooru.

>>41840772
read, and be amazed
>By way of variety it raided Chichi Jima, 350 miles from Tokyo Bay, the closest that American surface vessels without air cover had been to the mainland of Japan.

>When the Wheel Fell Off

>On one of those raids the steering wheel, loosened by the jar of the firing, fell off. The helmsman held it up in his two hands. And he turned to the captain with deference.

>"Sir," he said, "what do I do with this now?"

>"Switch steering to auxiliary steering aft," ordered the sweating Captain.

>The crew fell into a certain nonchalance about combat. At Saipan the officer of the deck accepted a line from a tanker and started fueling while an air attack was going on at an island two miles away.

>During one bombardment some genius of the commissary discovered caviar left over from a gala in San Francisco a year before. Officers off duty munched it in the wardroom while the guns roared.

>Off Okinawa, Poncho Miller, the boss of the lookouts, reported calmly, "Jap Betty (a bombing plane) is directly overhead."

>"Signal it to keep going," was the reply.

>For the Swayback was at Okinawa and she was in on the fall of Iwo Jima too. She stayed 25 days at Iwo, bombarding continuously, as long as any major bombardment ship. And 10 days later --- six of them had been spent in traveling --- she was at Okinawa.

>She stayed there 66 days. Her task was not nearly as dangerous as that of the heroic little vessels who went on radar patrol up Amami O Shima way. But it was uninterrupted drudgery, heightened by a remark by the admiral.

>He was down to one ship then, for the Chester had been in a collision off Iwo Jima and the Japs had beaten up the Pensacola badly. The high brass at Okinawa had a plan for keeping the Jap suicide boats bottled up at night in Naha Harbor.

>"I can do it better," said the admiral, in effect.

>"You go do it" said the high brass.

>>41840362
Oh God.

>>41840791
watch as our target enemy subs show up outside our range, but our own friendlies wander into the enemy sub's torp range...

>>41840806
Northampton/new Orleans class boats could take a fucking beating and keep on ticking.

>>41840806
>tfw Salt Lake stayed afloat due to Spiral Power

>>41840615
>steering wheel fell off twice in battle

How?

>>41840833
>a certain nonchalance
>"Signal it to keep going,"
>refueling under fire
Literally not giving a fuck.

>>41840833
>Off Okinawa, Poncho Miller, the boss of the lookouts, reported calmly, "Jap Betty (a bombing plane) is directly overhead."
>"Signal it to keep going," was the reply.
w o w

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>>41840435
There is no extended version, that's just the song on loop like three times.

>>41840833
>>Off Okinawa, Poncho Miller, the boss of the lookouts, reported calmly, "Jap Betty (a bombing plane) is directly overhead."
>>"Signal it to keep going," was the reply.
Fucking genius

While we wait for deme, here are the continuing stories of CA-25!

>So the routine was bombard by day and bombard by night and all hands to battle stations, there's a Jap air attack coming in. Men worked until their eyes and their brains became exhausted. And the only fun aboard was the trick that was being played on Alley Oop.

>Alley was a senior officer who, by force of personality, had won a following of fanatical dislike. Men caught their sleep those days when they could --- all but Alley Oop. There was a five inch gun just outside his cabin, and when he sneaked in for a short nap, the word was passed quietly and the men on that gun went to work in unholy glee.

>Now... the bark of a five inch gun 10 feet away is something no man can sleep through, unless that man be dead. It fetched Alley Oop bolt upright and swearing.

>There was rejoicing aboard the Swayback when the trick reached its climax and the unfortunate man fell asleep at breakfast, with his face in his scrambled eggs.

>At Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the Swayback fired 29,770 eight inch and five inch shells, in addition to the lighter stuff she tossed at Kamikazes.

>She went away at last with a single destroyer escort. The whiplash from the firing had so cracked the antenna of her air search radar that whole areas of sky could not be surveyed, the rifling on her five inch guns was so worn that the guns couldn't twist a star shell enough to set it off.

>>41840806
If this ship came back, I don't see her as a cute girl. I see her as a grizzled war veteran with more than a few scars, a limp, and stubborn as an ox.

>>41840741
>Swayback kept afloat only because the cockroaches formed a ring around her hull and held hands.

My sides.

>Off Okinawa, Poncho Miller, the boss of the lookouts, reported calmly, "Jap Betty (a bombing plane) is directly overhead."
>"Signal it to keep going," was the reply.
Fucks given = zero

>>41840781
Hell if I know, the oldest pics in my /tg/ folder date to around 2006-2007. Pretty sure I saved that one from /tg/ or it wouldn't be in that folder though.

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>>41840833
>"Signal it to keep going," was the reply.

>>41840908
Or a shota with a drill bit.
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXQYPvo1xLs

>>41840904
Keks

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Habakkuk shipslut when?

Just imagine her proportions!

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What was it that people were saying last thread? Something about wanting an American cruiser? Because god fucking damn

>>41840891
Would the nip be so confused they forgot to bomb or consider it a friendly ship?

>>41840741
>Tried to launch it's float plane in the Battle of Cape Esperance, float plane caught fire from flares in the cockpit and crashed right next to the ship.
>Japanese fleet sees burning plane, mistakes it as a signal from the landing party they were there to support and signal back giving away their position.

I think this is the last of it...for now.

>A Jap plane spotted her off Formosa. Six could have sunk her, or maybe four, for her worn anti-aircraft's couldn't have hit the continent of North America. But nothing happened. The Swayback was a lucky ship.

>At Marcus Island, a Jap battery had got her range and straddled her seven times, one shell falling just short, the other screaming over. Spray from one shell splashed her main deck, but nothing touched her.

>Once at Iwo Jima she went fast aground. But the Japs failed to fire while she was helpless. Her closest call at Iwo was from the shell of an American battleship that missed the low part of the island and exploded so close to the Swayback that a fragment struck her above the bridge.

>Off Kerama Retto she went through a Jap minefield at night with an air raid going on. At Okinawa, Kamikazes twice took out the next ship in line and coastal batteries sand another, but they never scratched her. In the China sea she brushed a floating mine, but it was a dud.
>And on the peacetime voyage home the luck of the Swayback almost ran out. She lurched across the ocean in heavy seas in the wake of a typhoon. At the mouth of the Columbia River, within sight of the land she had helped defend, a freak wave smashed her and rolled her 47 degrees off horizontal. She escaped capsizing by a terrifyingly small margin --- just eight degrees.

>The Swayback was selected --- what else could you do with such junk? --- for the Bikini Atom Bomb Test.

>Nobody who had been aboard would have given you a Chinese dollar for her chances. But she rode the waves that the bomb set up the way a duck rides over a ripple.

>Now they are taking her out to sink her in the blue, clean water.

>Sea creatures will crawl over the deck. The waters will close over her and she'll be forgotten. But some of us will be sad at her going.

o7 Swayback.

>>41840974
This nigga right here
This nigga gets it
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V7aUT13qtM

>>41840982
You're misunderstanding what the signal was.

>>41840995
Now, there... There was a real ship.

>>41841011
Wait, they signaled the Nip bomber to keep going?

Balls of steel.

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>>41840833
>Off Okinawa, Poncho Miller, the boss of the lookouts, reported calmly, "Jap Betty (a bombing plane) is directly overhead."
>"Signal it to keep going," was the reply.

>>41840966
Probably lots of ass and tits.

>>41840995

Swayback gets max luck stat.

>>41840995
>21-gun salute in the distance

>>41840966
Never made, never floated, never gonna happen.

>>41841040
Their signal was AA fire, you twat.

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>>41840833
>>"Signal it to keep going," was the reply.

Admiral Halsey approves of the order to cease all dispensation of fucks.

>>41840995
>The waters will close over her and she'll be forgotten.


Except she's not. Thanks for finding this, I'm going to save a copy.

>>41840966
She would be a cold girl.

>>41840995
>Jap gunnery
>Literally run aground during bombardment, don't get shot at
>Near-scratch from friendly fire
>Hit a mine, it's a dud
>47 fucking degrees off horizontal
>SURVIVED CROSSROADS
This fucking ship

>>41840986
>Her screwing up helped win them the battle.
This could be Willie's idol.

>>41840995
Hot damn anon, 10/10 suddenly a Salt Lake City fan.
This is a story told from 1948? That's when wikipedia says she was sunk as a target hull.

>>41840995
The tale of USS Swayback. The ship that refused to go out like a bitch.

>>41840995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KCiMdR1ox0
O7

>>41841065
While they are chewing on caviar no less.

>>41841113
1 year old caviar that likely has gone bad.

>>41841050
>lucky
She nearly sank at the Battle of the Komandorski Islands

Looks like we found our new shipgirl, planefag.

I hope she runs on spiral power

>>41841124
Even better.

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>>41841134
Haven't used this in over a year.

>>41841132
but she didn't, thats the important part

What it would take to make man give no fuck like this?

>>41841124
>This taste... it's the taste of not giving a fuck!

>>41841162
Combine Hate with a man with an Iron liver.

Then get him drunk as fuck.

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“Splashes -”

Silence.

“Ten-”

A pause.

“Fifteen... tw- ah, high-speed screws.” The sonarman looks at you. “Air-dropped torpedoes.”

“So it's happening,” you say flatly. Six hundred feet above your head, two Burke's and a fleet of reincarnated warships are fighting for their lives; turning hard to dodge spreads of incoming fish. “About fucking time. Take us up.”

The deck of SSN Oregon begins tilts slightly as she begins to creep upwards; if you can call 35 knots “creeping.” ASW escort is all fine and good for a carrier strike group on a Sunday cruise across the Atlantic, but a battle group maneuvering at combat speed isn't so easy to keep up with.

“Passing thermal layer,” the sonarman intones as the depth needle brushes 300 feet.

>>41841132
The opposing cruisers simultaneously opened fire at a range of 20,000 yd (18,000 m). The ensuing battle was a retiring action on the part of the Americans, for the Japanese foiled their attempt to get to the auxiliaries. Salt Lake City received most of the attention and soon received two hits, one of them amidships, mortally wounding two men, but she responded with very accurate fire. Her rudder stops were carried away, limiting her to 10° course changes. The starboard seaplane caught fire and was jettisoned. Another hit soon flooded forward compartments. Under cover of a thick smoke screen and aggressive torpedo attacks by the destroyers, the American cruisers were able to make an evasive turn, which for a while allowed the range to open. Salt Lake City soon began taking hits again and her boiler fires died one by one. Salt water had entered the fuel oil feed lines. There was now cause for grave concern; she lay dead in the water, and the Japanese ships were closing fast.

>>41841134
She doesn't run on anything.
>Sway you should be out of fuel how are you still sailing
>I don't give a fuck
>SWAY YOU SAID YOU WERE ALMOST OUT OF SHELLS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN FIRING RIGHT NOW
>I don't give a fuck
>Sway, enough enemies to fuck us ten ways from sunday like 50 times over are inbound
>I
>Don't
>Give
>A
>Fuck

>>41841157
>We of the USS SALT LAKE CITY are sustained by willpower! Even when mocked as reckless and crazy!
>If there's a wall in our way then we smash it down! If there isn't a path, then we carve one ourselves!
>JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE?!

>>41841198
>The destroyers charged the Japanese cruisers and began to draw the fire away from the damaged Salt Lake City. Bailey suffered two 8 in (200 mm) hits while launching a spread of five torpedoes at long range. In the meantime, Salt Lake City′s engineers purged the fuel lines and fired the boilers. With fresh oil supplying the fires, she built up steam and gained headway. Suddenly, the Japanese began to withdraw. This was due to the combination of the Japanese having intercepted demands for air support from the American forces, and the mistaken belief that the high explosive shells being fired in desperation by the American cruisers were air-dropped bombs. The Japanese forces were also fast exhausting their ammunition and fuel. They did not suspect that the Americans were in far worse shape in terms of both ammunition and fuel.

>>41841084
Save it, Cap it, Post it, I need this story too. People need to hear this.

>>41841101
I was about to retort venomously, but then I thought about it and you're not far off. A pensacola-class cruiser has a good chunk of what it needs to teach Willie how to success, and looks like Swayback's luck is just good enough that Willie can't steal enough to sink her.

Theory that Willie is extremely lucky, but only by sucking the specifically Willie-related luck away from her comrades. Nothing outright terrible happens to her, and noone ever got hurt by her antics in the stories, not the ones I've read. Willie Dee a secret best

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>>41840995

May she be a good mama to her children.

>>41841227
So she's an inverse luck vampire?

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“It's going to be a whore to hear anything in the surface duct with that shit going on,” your XO complains, glaring at the steel roof like the battle above has offended him personally.

“Yeah. It just became the best place to make thirty-five knots submerged.”

He shrugs. Your XO is a strange duck; he bitches incessantly about everything, as if he considers himself a professional Devil's Advocate. You're your own fucking devil's advocate so his complaints are always parried, but he's always game to try.

If he wasn't terribly clever from time to time you'd blow him out the fucking escape hatch yourself.

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He contents himself by squinting at the display screens with the most current plot guesstimates for the surface fleet, a small army of sonar operators and a supercomputer laboring to update them second by second. The helmsman is keeping Oregon under the fleet as best as possible, but as the battle up there develops the battle group will disperse, the escort screen will fall apart -

- and whatever's lurking out there in the deep will slide in to take its shot. That's what you'd do, anyways.

>Move to the outside of the screen – put the battle noise in your baffles so you can hear incoming goblins (subsurface contacts) as they approach the battle – or as you approach them, at this speed. You've got the noise of a fleet to hide against, but you're listening for someone or something waiting for the battle group to steer in its direction, they won't be going fast – you'll need all the help you can get to find them.

>Camp right underneath the fleet and hide in the noise – at thirty-odd knots you need all the goddamn help you can get to hide your signature. If they're perfectly positioned to ambush you you'll never fucking hear them with a 30-knot slipstream over your hydrophones anyways – more likely they're gunning it submerged or even surfaced, trying to get in range of the predicted course track for a shot. You can't miss an old diesel boat gunning it if you were moving at *sixty* knots.

>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

SUBMARINE ANONS DISCUSS AND HELP US DECIDE.

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

Sub anon taught us to dash and drift instead of dashing

>>41841295
>Camp right underneath the fleet and hide in the noise – at thirty-odd knots you need all the goddamn help you can get to hide your signature. If they're perfectly positioned to ambush you you'll never fucking hear them with a 30-knot slipstream over your hydrophones anyways – more likely they're gunning it submerged or even surfaced, trying to get in range of the predicted course track for a shot. You can't miss an old diesel boat gunning it if you were moving at *sixty* knots.

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

While we're talking about old ship stories I have one I read on Navweaps. When they did sea trials for the Iowa class ships one of the tests was to see how fast they could stop the ship. A Iowa moving at 30 knots will take about a mile to come to a complete stop if all 4 screws are reversed at full power.

However there is an additional manoeuvre that can be performed called a "Barn Door Stop". To perform this both rudders are turned INWARD, blocking the blow of water between them. The Wisconsin is the only one of the Iowa sisters to ever attempt this and she managed to come to a complete stop from 33 knots to zero in about 600 feet, or the distance from the bow to turret 3.

Amusingly this led to Wisconsin having noticeably loose rudders.

>>41840966
I have a notepad full of ideas for a modernized Habakkuk carrier with slanted flight decks and everything. The original design wouldn't work for modern aircraft and sadly we don't really use cool prop driven medium/heavy bombers like B-25s and B17s anymore. I'll keep plugging away at it, maybe something will take shape.

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>>41840995

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

>>41841295
>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

>>41841295
>Move to the outside of the screen – put the battle noise in your baffles so you can hear incoming goblins (subsurface contacts) as they approach the battle – or as you approach them, at this speed. You've got the noise of a fleet to hide against, but you're listening for someone or something waiting for the battle group to steer in its direction, they won't be going fast – you'll need all the help you can get to find them.

>>41841295
>>Camp right underneath the fleet and hide in the noise – at thirty-odd knots you need all the goddamn help you can get to hide your signature. If they're perfectly positioned to ambush you you'll never fucking hear them with a 30-knot slipstream over your hydrophones anyways – more likely they're gunning it submerged or even surfaced, trying to get in range of the predicted course track for a shot. You can't miss an old diesel boat gunning it if you were moving at *sixty* knots.

>>41840615

ara ara as FUCK

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

If we camp, we can't offer protection until it's too late and if we're ahead, we can head off anyone trying to set up an intercept.

>>41841343
Would Habbakuk be reasonable as a carrier today? She can get bunker busted but short of that no one can harm her.

>>41841373
Would she be the lucky motherly girl or the cankerous old granny who punches like a truck?

>>41841384
SHE'S TOO BIG
I doubt any fleet can keep her afloat with our current budgets.

>>41841373
New shipgrill?

>>41841295
>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

>>41841384
Well one question is how the hell you protect it? How many defense systems can be put on it?
And what happens if it manages to receive a hit?

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>>41841257
Yeah, sorta. Basically the idea is that it all dissipates somewhere after some time. See, she can do her job in combat well enough, and nothing she did (specifically, incidents she caused), while strongly outside of the safe zone for good doctrine and competence, was more than a minor annoyance. and more importantly, every single sailor on that ship made it out alive when she sank. That can't be unlucky, regardless of what else she's done.

Perhaps she sucks Willie-related luck out of allies, so incidents are caused by her, but it builds up inside of her to be released when absolutely necessary for one burst of super-luck. the one-shot saving miracle, like the ENTIRE crew getting out alive.

Always a best

While we wait for votes, here's some more for Swayback

>Captain Recalls demise of USS SALT LAKE CITY

>"They pumped 50mm shells into her. Then they followed with rockets. Next came the bombers, first with 100 pound bombers, then with 500 pound bombers, finally 1,000 pound bombers.

>She still stood there, mauled but not beaten. Then the destroyers came and shelled her with their five-inch guns. She took it for two and a half hours."

>Capt. E. J. MacGregor studied the bell of the cruiser USS SALT LAKE CITY.

>It hangs in front of Utah naval reserve headquarters at Ft. Douglas. Capt. MacGregor is deputy chief for the Naval Reserve, 12th Naval District, San Francisco, here for a seminar with Utah Naval Reserve officers.

>But in 1948 he was at Bikini Atoll on the bridge of a ship watching calculated destruction. The USS Salt Lake City already a survivor of an atomic test blast, was now getting a "progressive" battering.

>But even after the destroyers had hurled hundreds of shells into her, she was still afloat.

>Capt. MacGregor had been a submariner. They called for a submarine. The under seas craft slid into position 1,000 yards away. It was like taking the challenger out of the ring in the 12th round and substituting a fresh fighter. The torpedo hammered home. Whoomph! The Salt Lake City heeled over and died.

>"Everybody walked off the bridge with tears in his eyes."

reading these is making me both happy and sad at the same time

>>41841405
Stick a bunch of young unemployed man on it and you are golden.

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.
Gah, internet cut out just as the vote came up.

The correct choice here is the sprint and drift.

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

>>41841421
Good point. But how do you protect a super carrier? With a fleet.

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

>>41841295
>Haul ass like we're towing a trailer full of porn stars

>>41841428
>Implying NEETS would really like to man a carrier

>>41841423
That's basically Hina Kagiyama in a nutshell.

>>41841425
Like Benkei's Standing Death...

>>41841479
Even employed man would jump at a chance to man an ice carrier.

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>>41841479
>That's basically Hina Kagiyama in a nutshell.

but willie can't spin2win

>>41841489
It would make a kick ass place for people to store Ice Cream.

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

>>41841295
>>Haul ass ahead of the battle group while the battle's covering your noise a bit, then drift and see what you can sniff out. The abyssals aren't expecting a sub and your bearing won't diverge from the visible surface ships unless they're positioned abeam enough that they're either too late to take a shot or already have.

Sprint n' Drift, as Subanon said earlier.

>captcha what the fuck, hamburger meat is not bread

>>41841518
The Canadians have it good - their ice cream is delivered from home to the war front on an ice carrier.

VOTES CALLED TOOT TOOT

>>41841517
Time to teach her then!
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTSQYv34ayM

>>41841517
ngh, dem legs.

>>41841551
thanks conductor-kun

The Unbound regret our lack of experience in submarine matters. We could neither advise, nor vote.

Let us see the result of your choices.

>>41841536

>They'll tow Old Swayback Maru out to blue water sometime next week---and sink her.

>Our own guns will train on her battered, lop-eared carcass. But Old Swayback's rifles won't answer. The angry muzzles that poured steel at the enemy in the Marshalls when the US Navy was backed to the wall in 1942 at Jap-held Wake, Guadalcanal, the Aleutians, Leyte, Iwo and Okinawa---those muzzles will be cold and still.

>Maybe you know Old Swayback as "the One-Ship Navy.' She got that name at Cape Esperance on Oct. 11, 1942, when she personally promoted a Nipponese heavy cruiser and destroyer to the locker of Master Davy. Jones.

>Named Salt Lake City

>Or perhaps, if you're the precise type, you prefer to call Old Swayback, the USS Salt Lake City, CA25, oldest heavy cruiser in the US Fleet.

>Her demise somewhere off San Diego early next week won't be so ignominious at that. In World War II, Old Swayback, 10,826 tons, 585 feet, 107,000 shaft horsepower, 10 8-inch main battery guns, took everything a skillful enemy could ladle out.

>Her labors ended, in the bright summer of 1946 she joined the iron guinea pigs at Bikini. Even here Old Swayback had a place of honor --- within 400 yards of the ancient Arkansas for Test Baker, the underwater atomic blast bull's-eye.

>Sure, when the poisonous smoke cleared away, she seemed relatively undamaged, but "contaminated" forever by gamma rays.

You ever wondered why people refer to ships as women? Because they have a really long fucking story to tell no matter what, and are cantankerous old whores.

And we love them for it.

>>41841591
Imagine what a museum ship she would make.

>>41841591
After all, the ship is like the caring mother that kept her crew alive in the worst weather.

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>>41841425
>She doesn't want to die
>Noone does, but she fought damn hard to keep afloat, to prove she was still combat-ready. She just wanted to do her job.

And we still sank her, finished her off with something she could never counter, not as she was. Overkill.

So, bets on which side she jumps on? Anyone?

>>41841634

She'd, uh, be highly radioactive. Good luck with getting that back to shore safely. Good luck with putting her ANYWHERE public.

>>41841644
But if she still comes back on our side?

I have no word to describe this feeling.

>>41841648
I meant before Atoll bombing.

>>41841644
Swayback would never come back as an abyssal. Too much soul, too many memories.

>>41841644
She did her job and was given a warrior's death, serving her country one last time to help train the next generation.

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Salt Lake City!

>>41841644
I hope that she comes back on our side.

Because if she becomes an Abyssal then we are so fucked.

Since we're about to go FULL Silent Hunter on some abyssal ass, here's a video of a Canadian sub sinking a ship with a Mk48.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfgecbxU5cs

>captcha what the fuck, hamburger meat is not bread
I had captcha try to convince me that cheeto fingers counted as "food" a little while ago.

>>41841644
Are you dense? Are you not grasping the reverence that pervades everything this anon has been posting? She was not unloved or forgotten

>>41841691
>Ike, Gun Funnels!
>Salt Lake City wa date ja nai!

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>>41841691
Nice.

>>41841689
A warrior's death is getting the crap beaten out of you by your replacements?

>>41841679
>>41841680
>>41841697
>>41841700
I hope you are right, for all our sakes. I feel if she decided to come back against us, She'd bring the same fighting spirit that she brought against the japs, and I'm not sure we could handle that with everything we have.

I swear to RNGsus I'm not Bad Idea Anon

All of these fucking news articles

>Two weeks ago the mare Island Navy Yard announced that Old Swayback would become a punching bag for the last time. Deep waters were to receive her loyal ones, as they already have received the nautical remains of the Pennsylvania (once the Pacific Fleet flagship), the gallant destroyers Talbot, Wilson & Trippe and the courageous attack transport Fallon, Bracken and Banner.

>Naval statisticians figured it cost $100,000 a month to maintain the ghost ships that survived Atomic Tests Able and Baker in July - August, 1946. It also took 260 men to guard them, keep their deadly bilge's pumped out, repair their battered hulls.

>Last year, with a grim assortment of sister target ships, Old Swayback returned to the West Coast at the end of a towline. Nobody was aboard her. In the Central Pacific less "lucky" vessels already had found their graves; the mighty Saratoga, Arkansas and the erstwhile foremen ships Prinz Eugen (German cruiser) and Nagato (Jap battleship).

>But 25 craft in all were earmarked for scuttling this year by the Navy. They are the last. Most lie uneasily at anchor in Kwajalein Lagoon.

>It may take more than mere gunfire to finish off Old Swayback, the Navy said. Maybe torpedoes, rockets and aerial bombs will assist in the coup de grace.

>That's only right. Old Swayback was nurtured as a tough baby from the very day they laid her keel at Camden, NJ, on June 9, just 21 years ago. She was a "treaty class" cruiser---our first. Her tonnage hovered exactly at the limits set by the optimistic Washington Arms Conference, where some of the world put its best warships in the ash can while the rest put its tongue in its cheek.

>At an early age the Salt Lake City appeared to have nautical lordosis, or curvature of the spine, at least as far as unpracticed observers were concerned. Fondly, even her men called her Old Swayback. When we got into the Asiatic war "Maru" (Jap for ship) was appended.

>>41841751
If she comes back then it's reasonable to request a squadron of B-52s loaded with Harpoons.

>>41841797
Harpoons, hell.

Call the Russians to bring as many Granits/Bazalts as they can physically deploy to the theater.

>>41841797
How many Harpoons can we fit in a B-52?

Kancolle quest has now become Salt Lake City quest.

And I'm fine with this.

>>41841751
A warriors death isn't necessarily getting the crap beat out of you by your replacements, but it's a damn sight better than being turned into razorblades.

She also fought honorably and valiantly her entire career, which in turn promoted what this anon said >>41841700 the raw love and respect her men treated her with would bring her back on our side simply so she wouldn't dishonor their memory.

>>41841836
Last I checked a B-52 could carry 20 harpoons each.

>>41841836
12 on the G variant if I remember correctly.

>>41841835
>Implying Bazalts are enough

>>41841847
It's gonna have to be enough, then. She did her service and is remembered well, fondly. Entirely likely she's gonna come back on the right side, but still..

>>41841193

I think you may have mistaken me for someone who does not fucking drink. You, sir, are very fucking wrong. So wrong the gods of being fucking wrong are worshiping your fucking ass.

>>41841893
Better than any number of Harpoons.

That's everything I'm gonna post about Swayback.

I'm not gunning for her to become our much sought after American cruiser, I just felt that there was a little known story and some history worth telling. Not too many people know about her anymore, it would be a shame for her to sink into obscurity.

>>41841835
Nah, sic Hate on Abyssal Swayback Maru.

>>41841591
>She got that name at Cape Esperance on Oct. 11, 1942, when she personally promoted a Nipponese heavy cruiser and destroyer to the locker of Master Davy. Jones.

Quick question, which Destroyer was that?

Remember, that's the battle which sank Fubuki.

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>>41841875
>>41841893
The Joke
Heads

Has it really been that long since Strikers '89 started out?

>>41841926
>sink into obscurity
>sink
>pic related

>>41841930
>Hate vs Abyssal Salt Lake
>Hate is curbstomped
>SUDDENLY
>YOU JUST ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!
>IOWAS, GO

>>41841926
Well thanks for the history anon. She certainly garnered my respect.

>>41841751
No, getting the crap beaten out of you by your replacements, having them fail to do the job, and then getting a lethal injection via torpedo.

She most likely went down smugly

>>41841836
Oh great are we back on the how many X can a B-52 carry?

>>41841958
>Wow, it took all of you to kill me

>>41841951
>her steering wheel falls off again
>sails in circles for 12 straight hours as all four Iowas try and fail to hit her before running out of ammo and leaving

>>41841983
How many B-52s can a shipgirl carry?

>>41841946
... Well, I haven't read back on the older SW89 threads, man.

It's the daughterus, man.

SKIPPER'S LIST

The 31 things Admiral Settle is no longer allowed to do at Command Fleet Activites Yokosuka

(1) Willie D is not allowed near the missile store
(2) Nor is Sammy
(3) Not allowed to touch live ordinance with hands
(4) Not allowed to touch live ordinance with any other part of anatomy.
(5) Do not encourage fights between capital ships
(6) The Marines are an important part of our warfighting capabilities in East Asia. Do not mindbreak them with the secrets of NBEs.
(7) Even if he was asking for it.
(8) Not allowed to drive a golf cart during an air raid.
(9) Not allowed to ride in a gold cart during an air raid.
(10) Not allowed to be towed behind a golf cart during an air raid.
(11) Upon being informed of a potential situation involving shipgirls and civilians, the proper response is not "bring it bitches"
(12) Cpl. Hate is an important part of FORCEPRO for the Navy NBE program. As such, he is to be employed against civilians as sparingly as possible
(13) Even if it is funny
(14) 'Sieg Zeon' is not an approved response
(15) Not allowed to imply battleships are secretly male.
(16) Not allowed to threaten ships with black magic
(17) Not allowed to wager with shipgirls on combat outcomes
(18) Even the bitchy ones

(20) There is no 19, and she damn well knows why
(21) Command is not interested in why there you have a room full of shipgirls dressed in nurse outfits.
(22) As an Admiral of the United States Navy, you are expected to maintain a proper military and professional bearing at all times. As such, it is inappropriate to insinuate that a battleship has gained weight.
(23) Even if she has
(24) PT-109 is not to be addressed as "Mr President"
(25) Not allowed to requisition checkered paint or flight line from shipgirls
(26) Regardless of who asked
(27) Even if it can be made
(28) CV-8 is to procure her own undergarments
(29) "The Corgis ate it" is not an acceptable excuse for missing paperwork
(30) Destroyers are not to be used as bait for other shipgirls

>>41841989
Cantankerous old lady who is an absolutely loyal girl in a fight.

Upthread Reader here, is anyone capping the Swayback?

>>41841989
>Nice wonder-bomb you've got there.

>It would be a shame if someone were to survive the blast.

>>41841958
>Is it in yet~? Oh, you were shooting that whole time? I didn't feel a thing~!

>>41841958

Keep in mind, fucking, we don't know what causes traitor bitches to come back as... traitor. Bitches. Fucking, whatever it is they come back as.

But it seems like as long as they were pretty fucking well liked by their guys, or were treated good, they come back on our side. Usually, at fucking least.

>>41842005
Eheheheh--
>(14) 'Sieg Zeon' is not an approved response
NOW WAIT JUST A SECOND THERE, EARTHNOID

>>41841934
A quick gander at wikipedia tells me that the US fire was so coordinated that it's impossible to tell who finished who off exactly, at least without some better sources.

>>41842005
(31) PT-109 is not allowed to contermand orders

Honestly I have no idea how many there actually are in the last thread. I combined, rewrote, and moved things around a bit. Feel free to change things around or if I missed anything.

>>41840362
West Virginia comes back, follows kaga round tapping with a wrench.

>>41841847
This, really I think this is what could decide abyssal and not, respect. love, and memory.

It's why I still believe Nevada wouldn't come back Abyssal even after getting nuked.

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>>41842013
>>41841989

>>41842035
So far its only been ships that have been lost to time.

>>41841934
Has to be Fubuki. She was the only Japanese destroyer sunk in the surface action, the other two (Murakumo and Natsugumo were sunk by aircraft the next day). The lost cruiser was Furutaka; hits to the torpedo tubes and engines plus general pounding sank her the next morning.

>>41842051
God dammit anon, we need to sleep tonight.

>>41842007

Catankerous Lady. Probably somewhat Tsundere.

But her breasts, her breasts. They have to be ridiculously huge.

>>41842066
>saint of killers
OP pls nerf

>>41842079
And perky.

>>41842047
Looks good to me, glad my suggestions got added.

>>41841983
HAHA, HE GETS IT

I was beginning to lose hope.

>>41842051
Honestly I'm proud of Arizona. She hasn't shot anybody with her revolver despite being on a hair trigger, and she's managed to exist in the same room as her murderer without starting shit.
Arizona is a good girl.

>>41842079
don't forget; swayback

every single movement she makes has to be provocative

EVERY MOVEMENT

>>41842112
Arizona will always be a good girl, why the navy keeps her around. She didn't get much chance to do her job, but she sure as hell didn't complain, and she was ready anytime. Not in a lewd way.

Yeah, there's plenty to be proud of there.

>>41842144
Or drunken/swaggering.
Actually no, imagine her with Vince McMahon's gorilla stride

>>41841989
>Stop trying to hit me and hit me!

>>41842144
BOINK
BOINK
BOINK
Goddamit, that annoying twerk it like miley song is now stuck in my head

>>41842144
Swayback just means it doesn't mount an AC/20

>>41842072
That's useful/interesting to know.

On the other hand, wikipedia doesn't mention her in that kill.
>During this time, San Francisco and Boise sighted Fubuki about 1,400 yd (1,300 m) away and raked her with shellfire, joined soon by most of the rest of Scott's ships. Heavily damaged, Fubuki began to sink.

Just want to make sure we don't have a repeat of SoDak's 'I don't see anything on radar, so clearly I sank them. It couldn't possibly be my radar no longer works.'

>>41842035
Expect Juneau to come back on the other side.

Have the scuttled ships of the Hochseeflotte come back? I'd be distinctly worried about them.

Regarding other German ships, Goeben would be nice to have on our side. Especially because the Greeks would flip their shit at the Turks getting a battlecruiser.

>>41842079
I'm imagining Iku levels of lewd movement here

and enjoying it

I must regretfully depart. Some events require my attention and my Bound bodies need to enter their bi-centurial REM sleep period.

Do keep our ships well and hale. All of them. I would be most displeased if you did not.

>>41842212
Don't RP next time. This isn't BL.

>>41842178
Fubuki was the victim of a brutal America-style gangbanging. All of our ships who were there got a piece of that action.

>>41842212
See you later Bentus.

>>41842223
>This guy

>>41842212
by'a

>>41842212
Until next time O7
>>41842223
Bentus is cool, fuck off.

>>41841926
I know the anons here have been reading up on ships, but what about the in-quest neckbeards and the like?

Has everyone been panicking and reading up on their naval history and gaining new respect for old ships?

would it sway a possible abyssal ship?

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>>41842212
Don't worry, we'll only kill some of them

>>41842223
>this isn’t BL

You do realize that after the Akihabara trip, the fujoshi circles probably started churning out tons of Settle/Hate porn, right?

>>41842184
I'll put it to you like this, Fucking, the RN OWNS the fucking water around the UK and the better chunk of the north fucking sea. those brit bastards have a naval tradition going back a fucking thousand plus years, so put two and fucking two together.

The krauts, on the other fucking hand, got a handful of Nazi boats they don't seem to fucking like. That's all I got about it. Nothing from anything earlier than that though. But, fucking, remember, the scuttled ships were fucking scuttled to keep them out of Brit hands, and the guy that ordered it was considered a fucking hero back home, so they might not all be fucking pissed off.

>>41842107
(32) I-19 is under no circumstances allowed to be left alone in the same location as Harder is unsupervised for any length of time. He is not her play toy.
(33) This rule also applies to the rest of the female sub-hulls. Harder is not to be 'passed around until he's broken in' as explained by I-8.

>>41842275

Fucking, no. Well, no, I mean, fucking, kinda. What's been going on is they've been learning everything they fucking can about their favorite, then pretending that knowing her down to when the steel for her armor fucking plate was cast somehow makes her more fucking attracted to them.

Pro fucking tip: it fucking doesn't. It's fucking creepy. Knock it the fuck off.

>>41842212
Night Bentus

>>41842290
Yeah, I figured. Probably means the French ones from Toulon are either staying asleep or on our side too, then.

Mers-el-Kebir, on the other hand...

>>41842275
Maybe. Every so often Hate tells us about how he has to chase away guys crying for their shipfu, so they're clearly known about and popular in society at large.

>>41842275
I've been learning about naval history since I was a kid. My dad really loved the Swayback for some reason and that fascination was transferred to me.

Hopefully I did the same for a few anons tonight by helping remember an old and busted cruiser. If that's going to be the tipping point between abyssal and shipgirl, I'll be happy.

>>41842327
The french ships were scuttled due to incompetence and french posturing.

I think they might disagree.

>>41842290
If it transpires that the Abyssals have supply lines, cargo ships, that sort of thing, we're really going to need to twist the balls of the Krauts and get them a-summoning as many U-boats as possible.

Losing side of both wars or not, they've got more experience in raiding operations than anyone.

>>41842305
>Not the anon who compiled the list, nor the original, made minor suggestions in the last thread.
>Fluff drops more in a reply to me anyway

Please change fluff

>>41842321
I'm not vying for a shipfu here. But SLC deserves to be remembered in ways better than;

"target ship #38"

>>41842401

Where did you think the abyssal submarine force was coming from.

>>41842355
Just depends on which direction it tips, but you did good by me, Anon.

>>41842417
Damn right

>>41842290
I think the ones who got mixed feels just stayed asleep, just like Mikasa. Japan forgot about her but the USN saved her, so between the two feelings she just decided to stay asleep... but that's wild guessing. Though I still wonder if Willie 'saw' her that day.

Here's a question.

The museum ships are all pretty firmly closed off, right? So how are they doing maintenance? I mean, as long as the ship's still in water deeper than her draft, her bilge pumps need to be functional; no ship ever built is perfectly watertight, so if the pumps go off and don't come back on, bad things are eventually gonna happen. Plus other stuff, like keeping the paint fresh so she doesn't rust. Clearing out animals that might damage the wiring and fittings. Shit like that

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>>41842401
>If it transpires that the Abyssals have supply lines, cargo ships, that sort of thin

>>41842466
Closed off to the public, not completely.
Mikasa had guards and curators still, they're just not letting anybody else on and working under the knowledge that they may need to abandon ship very quickly

>>41842422
Not Germany. They maintained great respect for their submariners.

The KM, despite Dönitz, was the least Nazi out of all the branches and kept a relatively good rep postwar. Things like the Admiral's revolt helped too.

>>41842372
At Mers-el-Kebir, yeah, the ones that didn't either escape or get sunk by the Brits. Toulon was two years later, though, and that time it was done to keep the Germans and Italians from getting their hands on anything that couldn't escape.

jesus christ

>>41842422
>>41842401
Exactly, lots and lots of scuttled U-boats out there, lots and lots of shitty U-boats who's crew hated who went down.

>>41842493
>They maintained great respect for their submariners
And yet, they still had a ~75% mortality rate, with a lot of the boats sortieing post-1943 just getting sunk without doing much of anything

>>41842518
Not coming back, because he wasn't a warship.

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West Virginia after Battle of Surigao Strait
where she lead the Pearl Harbor battleship line.

>>41842518
Hello, Eirin here to help you with Kant-o-celle Quest.
Is there anything you'd like to know?

>only 200 posts 2 hours into the thread, nowhere near image limit
>Still on Page 1

Planefag, I don't think you'll need 3 threads

>>41842474
>arms bolted down
>head covered
>body deformed and bloated by abyssal black magic
>fucking body horror


protip;

Being a supply ship and coming back Abyssal is much worse than being a warship and doing the same.

>>41842538
Well I mean he did come back, but not as a cute girl with cannons.

>>41842528

They go down to the ironbottom

>"...i just wanted to sink a ship..."

And then back as abyssals.

>>41842493
Pasta U-boats then?

>>41842538
Not according to my copy of the bible

>>41842528
So? Most of the IJN died horribly too, and look how many of their shipsluts came back.

>>41842555
its normal with weekday threads. Most people go to sleep at around midnight and get up for work I the morning.

>>41842555
>only 200 post
Bitch we're up to 284... 85... 86

>>41842570
Okay, not a Christian, but if there's a version of your Bible where everyone's a warship I'd find your religion a lot more interesting.

>>41842574
Or maybe its the suicide weapons.

Manned torps are still a type of submarine.

>>41842556
Speaking of which. What do anons think supply ships would come back as?

I imagine that they would essentially be disarmed ship-girls that carry about a satchel or backpack filled with food and water (or tea if they are British ship-girls).

>>41842583
>its normal with weekday threads. Most people go to sleep at around midnight and get up for work I the morning.

One reason I try to avoid these if I can. However we're doing a lot of perspective-switching through "slower" moments of the battle right now, and even though I write at sanic, well, quest stuff is a pretty short read in the archive when you can go through it in one sitting. So I try to prime things for the weekend when BODIESHITTHEFLOOR as best I can.

Yes. It has been a successive series of cliffhangers just for the purpose of having enough things to cash in on Friday AND Saturday.

UPDATE INBOUND

>>41842606

Navalology

>>41842606
A good number of the apostles were fishermen, but that's about it

>>41842632
Refer to >>41842474

>>41842632
backpacks, water jugs, cranes for repair ships, and massive fucking backpacks housing mobile repair shops for floating drydocks

>>41842606
The crucifixion of Jesus is replaced by the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests?

>>41842657
I think he means non-abyssal ones

>>41842606
>Jesus was a fleet carrier, and the apostles were escort ships
would read from cover to cover
>>41842632
I like to imagine they come back as normal-looking, foul-mouthed, but rather nice girls
and there's a shit ton of them

>>41842647
This is now the quest thread, planefag.
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=04F4xlWSFh0

>>41842647
Hey planefag! How would the ship girls react to hearing these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMYQ4rhwJto&ab_channel=Zevik

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>>41842595
okay, fair enough. closer to 300. Still nowhere near needing a thread 3, as pf predicted.

>>41842647
>UPDATE INBOUND

You're funny, Pf.

>>41842574
Could be because Japan has been actively summoning ships, grabbing them before Davy Jones has a chance to. And it could be that, in their reluctance to do the same, the US Navy is dooming many of their beloved icons to un-lives filled with hatred and pain, eventually to be put down by the very people they fought alongside, the very people they *died* for.

Or, you know, maybe not.

>>41842632
They summon food carts and drink vendors.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INTxbCpWxjc&list=PL2BF597D4E13BBA8A&index=7

“Helm, step on it,” you instruct. “Get us outside of the escort screen.”

When a Virgina-class wants to move, it *moves.* The 688s were fast motherfuckers in their own right, but the next-gen propulsion system of the Virginias are terrifying to behold – even when you hit 40 knots, you're making less noise than the warships above...

… girls. You suppose they're girls, or NBEs or whatever bullshit acronym the Department of the Navy is pedaling now. All you know is, they sound like warships on the hydrophones, so as far as you're concerned, their ships. They certainly maneuver like ships; taking up as much space to turn as any carrier would. Your sub pulls two miles ahead of the battle group without any trouble, the little blue dot of your boat marching steadily away from the cluster of dots with growing “uncertainty” circles forming around them; the growing distance and their desperate maneuvers already confusing your carefully assembled plots.

The man on the engine telegraph is watching you like a hawk as you pull further and further from the battle. You finally nod and he chops power to a crawl; your boat slowing to a mere five knots quickly. You resist the urge to pace the cramped space of your boat's nerve center as you wait for the sonarmen to catch a whisper of the enemy – it doesn't look good in front of the crew, after all. Patience is the greatest virtue for any attack skipper...

transport ships wear video related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAtzN_ScKXY

>>41842632
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERKrMiOThi0

>>41842709
Doubt it.

I just don't believe for a second that most of the Kreigsmarine would go Abyssal. Or, frankly, much of the Hochseeflotte.

For all the shit Germany gets for not being a traditional naval power, the navy was a large and respected part of their military for much of the 20th century.

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… but you can't shake the itch on the back of your neck. They're *here.* That sour bastard can gripe all he wants, but you *know* they're here.

As for vice-versa, well...

“Helm, dip us under the layer.”

The XO squints at you, but when he sees you tense he shuts his mouth and just taps his watch. You haven't been “drifting” for even three minutes yet.

“He's approaching aircraft carriers,” you mutter. “Don't know if he knows about MADs but he knows aircraft can spot him shallow.”

“Him?” the XO says, voice dripping with dubiousness.

You bite off a “fuck YOU” and turn away from him. You both reach out automatically to catch a handhold as the boat tilts at a 25 degree angle, your crewmen giving her a nice steep angle on the planes to get you deeper, faster, with the meager five knots headway. You hate this yo-yo shit, but towed arrays don't tolerate being dragged around at thirty knots very well, so it's all hull hydrophones for now.

You hate playing fair, but you can't complain about babysitting carriers. You couldn't ask for better bait.

>>41842749
>HW soundtrack
MY ABSOLUTE NIGGER

>>41842749
>HW soundtrack.
>THAT SONG in particular.

Its perfect.

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“I got something...” your lead sonarman says tersely.

The entire CIC holds its breath for a three-count.

“Biologics.”

The XO exhales in a huff. “They won't be down here. Search planes aren't looking during a fucking air attack, he'll be up there using his periscope to follow the convoy track.”

“Great place to catch a stray torpedo from a missed bomb-run,” you murmur. “Or catch one up the ass when your own side's torpedo plane goes in the drink and the fish swims away, happy and free.”

“Do they even WORK like that-”

You snap around and give your XO a look that could've made Khrushchev drop his shoe. “Stop. Right now.”

Your XO swallows – but doesn't waver. “They. Are. Not. *People,*” he says quietly. “They're not worried about keeping their boat intact, like you are.”

“Then what the hell DO they want!?” you hiss, knowing you shouldn't be having this chat in front of the crew, but so fucking strung out and fed-up that you're willing to risk it, just in case he gives you an excuse not to confine him to new quarters in the escape trunk.

His cold, watery gray eyes bore into you. “To kill.”

“Contact,” the head sonarman whispers.

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>>41842632
There's already a few auxiliary ships in Kancolle. Food supply ships Mamiya and Irako, repair ship Akashi, Oiler Hayasui.

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>>41842806
>His cold, watery gray eyes bore into you. “To kill.”
>“Contact,” the head sonarman whispers.

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You snap about, tense and eager – but he says nothing more.

“... well?”

He shakes his head. “No sound yet.”

“Then what the-”

“The whales,” he says tersely. “They're talking about something.”

You and the XO share a Look. He catches it and glares at you both. “Some of us went to a real school,” he bites back. “They're alerting. Like birds in a-” he sighs, clearly giving up on you both, and returning to his phones.

Come to think, you'd like to blow the sound department out the escape hatch some days, too. At least you're not alone on that one.

>>41842806
This better not be the fucking end of the thread.

inb4

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