>>41923391

YES.

TITTIE- I MEAN TITLES

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“YEEEEAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO,” Sammy whoops like a “red injun,” to use Hornet's description (delivered with a little sniff of superiority, for some reason,) and turns so fast that her feet seem to skid in the water, kicking up a little bow wave as she heels over. The other three follow suit a little slower, the nimble destroyers turning so fast they go charging through their own wakes. Sammy is now in the lead, racing along several knots faster than she ought, by rights. She closes the range rapidly with the hostile destroyers, tacking westward, Fubuki, Willie and Shiranui following close behind.

The abyssal destroyers, racing east-south-east at the center of your line in a column, see the danger – if they turn south and form a line, you'll be crossing their T, and if they maintain course you can simply pick them apart piecemeal, from bottom to top. The closest destroyer; a four-stacker belching ugly, flame-speckled smoke turns northward and runs for help as its closest four fellows scramble to form a line to meet you. The other five maintain course, unable to join their compatriots for fear of being pounced upon by Division One. It's not exactly divide-and-conquer, but it's something.

Sammy's the first to fire, around ten-thousand yards. Slinging a five-incher in each hand like a gunslinger, she starts thundering away as fast as possible, kicking up splashes in the wake of the hastily-fleeing four-stacker. Willie opens up soon after, her hands jittering as she tries to level her gun and aim through the sight, just like you saw at the range. Shiranui sails up past Fubuki, gently nudging the dark-haired girl aside and wraps an arm across Willie's chest, covering her eyes with the other. Thus blinded, Willie fires blind – and her shells start marching straight up the four-stacker's wake. Their fellows come in straight, their bow guns hurling a weak reply to Division Two's broadside.

>DOES ANYONE EVEN GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THESE TITLES
I do...

Also, a warm reminder to FUCKING READ THE THREAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwrybM6tL-8

>>41923391

I see your titles, I'm watching

>>41923391
I find them highly amusing.

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“The fuck are *they* doing?* Goto says, frowning at the eldritch escorts. “Doesn't make any sense.”

“Eh?”

“I'd have turned the top five north, bottom five south,” he says quickly, with quick slashes of a laser pointer, “into lines, loosed my fish broadside at max range and-” the laser pointer sweeps south-south-west, “formed two lines covering each other's flank to shoot my way back to the cruisers. The fuck are they doing?”

“Getting their asses kicked,” you opine. Sammy turns sharply to starboard, turning back to the west, away from the enemy cruisers. Only destroyers can reverse a line this swiftly. The other three follow her through the curve, pouring fire at the abyssals who are only now swinging their broadsides to bear – and they're already catching the worst of focused fire from some of the most modern destroyers in your fleet. One modernish-looking, high-prowed abyssal takes a shell to the foremast, showering the rear of its foredeck barbette with shrapnel. The gun stops firing, turning lazily on its pedestal as the vessel maneuvers, its theoretical crew apparently out of action. The four-stacker takes a shell in the third smokestack, its speed slackening slightly as a result. Sammy's angling for the enemy when Shiranui countermands her - “reverse order!”

Sammy obeys with a wild cackle, seeming to sail backwards as she punches shells over her wake, every shot punctuated by a thrust of her gun-hand. “C'MERE, YA PUSSIES, IF YAH THINK YER HARD ENOUGH!” Shiranui in the lead once more, she tacks her line away from the now-formed destroyer division, rapidly pulling out of the short effective range of destroyers; presenting an unfavorable torpedo target at the same time.

>>41923418
Of fucking course Willie shoots better blind.

>>41923391
I've never read one in my life

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Five-inch shells begin splashing around the abyssals still charging line-abreast as the cruisers open up with their secondary batteries at fifteen-thousand yards. The cruisers are large, stable gun platforms, but their primary rangefinders are tied up flinging shells at the opposing battle-line, and the range is extreme – the swift destroyers are unperturbed by the fusillade. Division One's veteran destroyers, four thousand yards closer as a screen, is a different story. Closing with the tail-end of their battle line, the small girls are bracketing the enemy quickly; making up for their inaccuracy with sheer volume of fire. The abyssals reply with their bow guns for a minute or two, then turn line-abreast around nine-thousand yards. You zoom the Global Hawk's feed in with your remote and are unsurprised to see the twisted, pointed shapes of abyssal torpedoes flying from their midship decks and splashing into the water.

“Division One, Column Turn!” you order, snapping your fingers at Naka, who's already ahead of you, a stopwatch in her hand. You scowl at the display – you've only moments to make your choice.

[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.
[ ] Turn towards them and keep the pressure on – five versus five, but yours are veterans, good shots.
[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

>>41923418
>Sammy is now in the lead, racing along several knots faster than she ought
Has Sammy had engine modifications?

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

>>41923480
>[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.
This seems like the worst idea.
Thus it must be the best idea.

>>41923480

The Torps are heading towards our Div 1 DDs?

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.
We just want to keep them away from us, don't go into an engagement that does not favor us.

>>41923480
>[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.
The only thing shooting at them are secondary batteries so they should be able to endure for long enough to get a knockout shot in.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn towards them and keep the pressure on – five versus five, but yours are veterans, good shots.
We can't count on that being all of their torpedoes without a solid ID
>>41923518
Probably just redlining her boilers like she did at Samar. She'll probably be in a wheelchair for a bit once she comes back to being a girl

>>41923518
Sammy does as Sammy does. Ain't no spec sheet gonna change her mind.

>>41923480
>[X] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

>>41923518
Sort of. During the Battle off Samar, the limiters on her engines were removed. That means her engines will wear out much faster than they would normally, but that doesn't matter too much when you're going into a fight you probably won't come out of.

>>41923518
She's been drinking redbull.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn towards them and keep the pressure on – five versus five, but yours are veterans, good shots.

Those torps shouldn't be able to touch our nimble destroyers and I seriously doubt the Abyssals won't have something nasty to do with their own destroyers. So we should take them while we can.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

>>41923480
>Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

>>41923530

Yes. They're out of range of your battle line.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn towards them and keep the pressure on – five versus five, but yours are veterans, good shots

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn towards them and keep the pressure on – five versus five, but yours are veterans, good shots.

>>41923480
Do NOT assume they're no longer a threat just because they don't have torps anymore.

At the very least, they might still be spotting for the enemy cruisers, to help them adjust their shell fall.

At worst...they reload torps, or they get lucky and land a golden bb shot with their guns.

Though we still have to be cautious of the enemy's cruisers...

>[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn towards them and keep the pressure on – five versus five, but yours are veterans, good shots.

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>>41923391

Fuck yeah, I dig the titles!

Finally caught up to the archives, AND managed to snag a live thread? Today is a good day.

>select all the doughnuts

Fucking captcha making cop jokes...

>>41923570
Nah

That NOS energy drink.

shipslut metaphysics probably makes it work like a real nitrous boost in her engines.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

>>41923629
>At worst...they reload torps
Or they just have another rack, or didn't blow their entire wad

>>41923480
>[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.

these are our veterans, they should be more proficient at quick maneuvers to dodge those torps

>>41923480
>>[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.

Perhaps the right move. I hope.

>>41923592

.....................

Somethings wrong.

Why are they not using them against the cruisers?

Thats one of their best bets to break through. A lucky hit that knocks out one would be sufficient for them to bumrush right through the line.

And firing Torpedoes at DDs...

DDs that can easily evade a torpedo spread like that, they MUST know it.

They're not trying to sink the DDs, they're trying to drive them away. They're screening something.

Can we get a LAMP to drop a sonar Buoy?

>>41923655
If they're Nip DDs, they have reloads

If they're older US DDs, they have torp racks on eaach side of the hull.

THey may wells till be a threat.

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>>41923652
>it work like a real nitrous boost in her engines

She's steam-engined.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.
From the shadows we came... to the shadows we shall return... The way of the Iga Clan is absolute.

>>41923480
>[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.

>>41923677
So spray nitrous into her boilers.

The point is to improve combustion one way or another.

This'll help superheat them and get more steam pressure.

>>41923480
>[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.
it should be trivial go calculate when to turn. 9000 yards, let's assume 80 knots (crazy fast for WWI torpedoes, but I no longer count on that), about 45 yards/second, give our destroyers 30 seconds to turn and doge, that should mean we've got 170 seconds to continue firing. Plenty of time to keep scoring hits; just because they're torpedo-less doesn't mean they don't have guns, or have figured out the magic of World of Warships.

>>41923670
fuuuuuuu

>>41923670
Agreed. This sure sounds like they're playing for space ...

>>41923480
>[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn towards them and keep the pressure on – five versus five, but yours are veterans, good shots.

Either way, their fish are spent. This way, we can still mess with em, keep em tied down and knock em out.

>>[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.

>>41923518
>>41923555
>>41923547
>>41923567
>>41923570
>>41923677
>Lucky [ushed their good fortune a bit farther. The boilers on the Roberts were designed to carry 440 pounds of steam pressure. Lieutenant Trowbridge ordered water tender third class Wilfred Labbe to turn off the boilers' safety valves and build up to 660 pounds of steam. Trowbridge would need every roaring ounce of it if he aimed to live up to his nickname and get the ship through its torpedo run.
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, page 200

>>41923707
>figured out the magic of World of Warships.
With all the other eldritch bullshit they've pulled, it's practically mandatory to expect them to pull some WoWS-tier bullshit with their torpedoes and ammo

VOTES CALLED

>>41923670

If that's the case, then should we pick the "turn towards them and keep the pressure on" option?

It means we don't break off, and we remain in the fight?

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn towards them and keep the pressure on – five versus five, but yours are veterans, good shots.

>>41923480
>>[x] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.

Never know what those devious little bastards are up to, best to keep em away from our line.

>>41923480
[ ] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.

We have units made for annoying the hell out of bigger ships who are also good at what they do. Trust the crazy pint-sized marine's crew. If they could go back and forth in smoke, all the better.

>>41923701
>>41923677

Either way: when we get back to yucky-sucky, Let's ship in a pallet of the stuff, feed it to the girls and see what happens.

>>41923480
>Turn towards them and keep the pressure on

Don’t let up until the enemy is dead or fleeing. That’s how you break them.

goddammit planefag, you've been afk for friggin weeks and NOW you show up? I was just starting to get my shit together.

>>41923670
is right. Somethin' aint right.

>>41923753
>>41923778

I gotta get used to the voting times here, heh. too used to idly observing the thread

>>41923805
Someone doesn't use twitter :^)

>>41922138
>Fubuki Exia Repair II
Yeah how about no
STRIKER CUSTOM MASTER RACE

>>41923701
It's not a matter of gaining pressure, it's holding it without LITERALLY blowing a gasket

(SAME GUY FROM >>419236700)

FUCK, they're doing 30.5 knots and we're seen from the submarine POVs that Abyssals can easily reach that speed.

THEY'RE ESCORTING SUBMARINES UNDERNEATH THEM.

They're hiding in the sound made by the propellers.

Thats why they're staying their course like that!

[X] Keep steaming in a line for a little bit longer; keep those broadsides on them as long as possible, hope for a knockout. Even torpedoes take time to travel, and destroyers turn very, very fast.

>>41923841
So, we should... ping?

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>>41923841
Shit. SHIT!

>>41923701
>>41923828
This anon speaks truth. Anybody can build more heat just by burning more fuel faster and turning up the fires; the problem is containing all that steam and channelling it in a way that won't lead to a catastrophic pressure failure of the pistons or turbines driving the propellers.

Steam explosions are not worth messing with under any circumstances.

>>41923480
>[x] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

So how much discussion and thinking and figuring-out-what-the-fuck-is-going-on are we actually expected to do if the votes only go for 10 minutes?

People last thread bitched about others not taking the time to consider what to pick, or about not listening to others, or about not asking questions when you're sure -- but here I decided to sit and think and then ask a question about what to do here (>>41923755) but the very fucking post just above it is "VOTES CALLED".

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to not-fuck-up when I don't even have time to ask questions.


Hell, a few people like >>41923670 and >>41923841 have thought up some of the "oh shit" implications of this -- and it's too fucking late? The fuck, that doesn't seem very fair?

We literally don't have TIME for ANY discussion or anything!

>>41923824
nope, never had one, don't plan on it. I like not being wired in. it's more peaceful this way.

>>41923841
that... sounds like a potentially devastating trap card.

>>41923870
>>41923841
Probably, but we noticed too late. Planefag's already writing.

We might've screwed the pooch.

>>41923870
we can't, we're going too fast

even if we ping, we wouldn't be able to see whatever we pinged with our sonar, as our own machinery and wake would interfere with our returns.

>>41923888
>We literally don't have TIME for ANY discussion or anything!

Welcome to combat

>>41923888
Welcome to war.

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>>41923841
FUUUUU-

>>41923888
I'm pretty sure planefag's been waiting for discussion to die down before calling votes rather than a decu-style timer, but he can't wait forever

>>41923888
As an rts player, that's how it goes sometimes.

PLANEFAG TAKESBACKSIES!

>>41923841

That is likely what happened, and changing vote times, so we fucked up, unless plane fag includes some things to change it.

Right, okay, so -- if there ARE subs in there, what should we be doing?

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>>41923841
Well fuck! Ping now!

>>41923920
>>41923921

Beat me to it.

>>41923888
See >>41923480
>you've only moments to make your choice

That's why. It's a trap, but no one saw it quick enough.

So we're fucked.

>>41923942
SING THE SONG OF GLORIOUS MOTHERLAND
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsC2ETsZL0g

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>>41923888
war never changes

>>41923950
>That's why. It's a trap, but no one saw it quick enough.
>>41923927
>I'm pretty sure planefag's been waiting for discussion to die down before calling votes rather than a decu-style timer, but he can't wait forever

Neither of those are true though:

This guy >>41923670 saw it fast enough AND his post was well before the "votes called" post, which means the 'discussion period' HADN'T ended, and that somebody HAD seen it in time.

>>41923841
MOTHERFUCKING A-WING SLASH

ENEMY ADMIRAL IS THE IBLIS

>>41923652

>NOS
>NOS
>NOS

oh lawd no

that thing is pure poison

We had to warn a streamer to drink Jack Daniels instead of that

>>41923942
If those subs are post ww2 subs, they'll have homing/wire-guided torps.

If those subs are SMART subs, they'll have fired those guided torps WITH the destroyer's torp screen. Thus seeding the conventional torp wall with some extra deadly killers.

Which then means the smart option is to BREAK now, when you can outrange the torps by running away, and so save our dd's. But which also allows the subs to close unimpeded to our cruisers...

HAHA
IT'S JUST LIKE THE BATTLE OF VON BRAUN
WE TITANS NOW
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUZaMqjP96Y

>>41923975
So then, we get to see whether planefag honors that it was figured out before the time ended, or whether this was a trap we had no chance of escaping from the very beginning.

>>41923975
See
>>41923920
>>41923921
Shit happens fast. Very fast.

>>41923874
Well.

Let's feed it to Graf Spee and her sisters if they show up. They had Diesels instead of Turbines.

>>41923949

No real time pausing you cowards

>>41923975
In which case if it's relevant he might include it without having to need a full vote for it

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So while we're waiting for planefag, anyone else playing Legacy of the Lunatic Kingdom?

>>41923391
>DOES ANYONE EVEN GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THESE TITLES
A little.

>>41923987
also, addendum; do not forget what the Oregon's XO commented about when it comes to the abyssals.

All they want is to kill.

Keep that in mind when thinking about what they may or may not do next.

>>41924028
CLOWNPIECE 2016
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcjtVymwKhI

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>>41923990
zeon removal best day of my life

>>41924028
>anyone else playing Legacy of the Lunatic Kingdom?
Too busy ATBing to do anything else.

>>41924002
...Harder has a Diesel engine, doesn't he?

Harder hopped up on energy drinks to get an extra knot or so, here we gooooooo

>>41923987
Running towards the torps is a better option if they’re guided, because that way if we dodge them the torps have to waste time and fuel coming completely about to reacquire us. Running from them won't work, because the torps are faster and we can't escape their range before they hit.

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>>41924028
FUCK CLOWPIECE SURVIVAL CARD AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn away under smoke – with their fish spent the threat to your battle line is, too.

>>41924053
Arizona with a biosensor when
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3yY8EncET0

>>41923480
>[ ] Turn towards them and keep the pressure on – five versus five, but yours are veterans, good shots.

>>41924057
You can't go extra on extended runs, though. You'd ruin the screws.

>>41924073
>>41924083
Little late, anon.

>>41924095

Yes I am.

>>41923987

Well, by my count "Turn away under smoke" won narrowly, so is that good/bad?

>>41924057
>>41924092
Also a submarine's surfaced speed is... generally not as important in the tactical sense as its submerged

>>41924092
Given he's coming home to Naka, I'd say he's screwed anyway.

>>41924107
Bad, if what we think is happening is happening.

>>41924095
That's actually pretty early by his standards.

>>41924107
Depends on whether planefag is taking into account the thread shitting itself after the fact.

>>41923670 & >>41923841 here

To get at them, we need to remove the cruisers. We can't get ontop, we can't drop Depth Charges.

If they're committed to being a cruiser screen, launch the torps. Either they evade and disperse or they take the torps and die.

Our cruisers can then engage each side piecemeal if they evade. We need to clear up the area before our DDs can begin ASW work.

In any case, we need to pull back Div 2 so that they have opportunity to respond to attack the subs when we find them. Doesn't hurt that Sammy and Willie have a good ASW loadout as well.

We also need the LAMPs to drop a number sonar buoys to search for them. Just dropping
them should be sufficient alert the virginias that somethings up and to expect company. Based on those reports, we can then vector our DDs in to target the submarines since with the surface fight going on, hydrophones are going to not very useful.

>>41924114
ONOREEEEE

>>41924107

Depends, if they seeded deadly torpedo's with the normal ones, that is good.

If they are escorting subs to get strikes on the carriers, that is bad.

>>41924154
What if they’re doing both?

>>41924180
Then the deck was stacked against us and we're fucked anyway.

>>41924180
Gee, thanks a lot pal, you just gave us more reason to worry.

>>41924154
Well, presumably the two Virginias are still doing their sneeki breeki thing, since I don't think we ever got to tell them otherwise.

Is the battle ever going to end at this rate? We're gonna have to roll it over to another day unless this last update solves literally everything.

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>>41924028
SEND HELP CLOWN PIECE TOO BRUTAL

There's at least one sub stinking somewhere.

Oregon nailed one, Harder was stinking around in the center of their formation.

If we turn back, our next action should be to have the destroyers (or whoever fucks up subs) drop charges into the wakes of our own force. This might force the subs to break off or to go into waters where they'll be easily spotted.

>>41924114
I still find it interesting that harder (and /tg/) is forgetting he's not a sub anymore. More like a submerged mobile torpedo platform. Why hasn't he abused this yet? Get right under, the shoot essentially straight up. As far as I'm aware, the quick travel up, with additional fact that it's a vertical launch would play havoc with hydrophones, right?

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Ha hah, time for cut-ins.

>>41924197
I'm still waiting on confirmation if we got the flagship in the Tomahawk we mailed to the JAXA station.

>>41924227
Water physics still think he's a sub.

>>41924213
>All that FREEDOM

>>41924197
THE LAUNDRY LIST

>getting the task force back home safe and sound
>implies defeating the surface force right now
>fishing aircraft and air crews out of the water post battle
>following up on abyssal carrier task force steaming away from us
>resolving the second modern sub currently pinned down by our other anti sub sub.
>resolving Harder and the jap sub sluts' return to base, post ASW barrage from abyssal dd's.

>>41924180

Not just that. If we focus on one arm of the attack, the other has a greater chance to break through.

Just because submarines are fucking dangerous doesn't mean the ASAG isn't.

Now would be a good time to empty the Tomahawk cells on our Arleigh Burkes.

Kill the cruisers asap, find and hunt DDs.

>>41924197
The surface fleet is the last thing to confront. We will have to deal with Iwo Jima permanently, but at a later date -- our ships are too torn up right now.

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>>41924213

>>41924223
Harder's near the hostile carriers, last we heard from him

>>41924227
He's still functioning as a sub, and I don't think the Mk 14's gyroscope could handle a vertical launch like that

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>>41924213
PURE AMERICAN DESTRUCTION

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“Division One, turn away under smoke!” you instruct. They wheel about in hard emergency turns, thick smoke already billowing from their “stacks” as they open the range fast. The hostile destroyers turn line-astern, hoping to reverse positions and catch your line bow-on with their broadsides, but you're already out of easy range and pulling away fast, their tardy shells splashing in your wakes as the abyssals struggle to find the fast-changing range.

“Two minutes,” Naka calls shortly. “The torps should be past by now.”

“Give it another thirty seconds, and we'll turn,” you say. “Just in case they're slow-running Whiteheads, or something.”

Meanwhile the cruisers have been continuing their long-range gun duel with the abyssals. Picking up “your” remote, (the one with the masking tape some wit scrawled “Settle's Hook” upon,) you focus one of the Hawk's cameras tightly on each ship in the line. They are undoubtedly cruisers – you see why Tone's #4 seaplane felt so jilted at her harsh reception. Two of them sport the distinctive four-stack design common to World War One and antebellum designs, and the fighting-tops/crossed-spar masts that lingered from the age of sail. The archaic holdovers impact their sleek, lethal looks not a bit; their black, mottled hulls glide through the water like oiled iron. They sport the fore-aft two-main-battery designs of pre-dreadnaught battleships, but their very high, sleek sides are unmarred by the usual bristling array of quick-firing light guns. They could be anything from light cruisers to armored cruisers .

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>>41924241
>>41924213
I can't handle all this FREEDOM.
Died 40 times to this spell so far and I still can't figure out how to move through it's puzzle.

>>41924240
But he launches from his hands. Couldn't he launch from directions that are impossible with a normal sub?

>>41924247
>Now would be a good time to empty the Tomahawk cells on our Arleigh Burkes.

Do they have any more? I thought they used those against Iwo Jima.

>>41924126
>Bad, if what we think is happening is happening.
>>41924154
>Depends, if they seeded deadly torpedo's with the normal ones, that is good.If they are escorting subs to get strikes on the carriers, that is bad.

So it's either Yes or No (with a third option of "Screwed anyway" >>41924180 >>41924189 ).

I'm starting to feel less empathy for the "Well then you should read before you vote!" sentiments that were said at the end of the last thread -- *because even reading AND asking other people doesn't help at goddamn all* for me to understand what the fuck is going on AND what the fuck we should DO about it.

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“Naka-”

“Analysts are already on it,” she says distantly, her eyes focused on the screen and a phone clamped between shoulder and ear as she scribbles furiously.

“Attagirl.”

The abyssal destroyers go scampering back to their charges, forming up two lines, just like Goto said they would. They begin laying smoke to screen their charges as the abyssal line angles in steeper, closing the distance a bit faster. Goto radios in fire-control corrections from the Global Hawk, and each girl's floatplanes climb steeply for altitude to ensure they can see over the drifting haze and continue calling in fire. Blind-fire with spotter aid isn't very good, however, and the abyssals are able to close rather rapidly – probably trying to rush through a plunging-fire vulnerability zone. Older ships would suffer that from thirty-thousand to twenty-thousand, and they're around twenty-five thousand yards distant.

You zoom the camera out after your detailed inspection – and frown.

“Why is their line staggered like that?” you ask.

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“What now?” Goto says distractedly. He seems to be willing each shell towards the hostile cruisers, as if he could guide the shots by psychic pressure into a hostile deck.

“They're not perfectly in-line,” you point out. “Each ship is about a hundred yards closer to us than the one in front of it.”

“Because they came in laying smoke,” Goto points out. “This way they can keep a smokescreen up without blinding anyone behind them.”

You zoom the camera out a bit more. The light wind is still blowing from the south, slowly dispersing the thick, tar-like fumes of the abyssal fleet into an ugly greyish blob to their northwest, hugging the surface closely.

“Why are they taking their time?” you say, suspicious.

“They've got the numbers advantage, so they're counting on gunline superiority,” Goto says. “I'm banking on fire-control. Looks like they're tired of missing, though. Maybe I can start full-rate fire soon.” He cuts a glance at you. “Think you can take your girls over there and stir up some shit?”

[ ] Straight down the gullet – time for our own torpedo attempt.
[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.
[ ] The time isn't right yet. Just wait – they're coming to us.

>>41924285
The carriers launch planes from arrows from a bow, but they still have to launch into the wind

>>41924316
>[X] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

ackbar.jpg

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
What

the

hell

They're acting more and more passive, and they KNOW an airstrike is incoming soon from our carriers.

WTF

>>41924316
>[x] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

abyssals trying tactics means something weird is going to happen

>>41924281
Halley, micromovement is a thing.


>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.
Inb4 they're laying the net for longship abyssals and viking boarding action

>>41924316
>[X] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.
"Nobody move! I think they're fucking with us."

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

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>>41924316
>[X] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

Could we have the Burke's launch some active-homing torpedoes to spook any lurking Abyssal subs?

>>41924316
> They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>They're up to something, I don't like it.

It's_a_trap.mp5

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.
On the one hand it's a bait option, but on the other hand it served us well when Iwo Jima woke up

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>They’re setting up so they can turn in unison and unmask all their broadsides simultaneously. The instant they do, THAT'S when we launch our torpedo run.

>>41924316
>>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

We must figure out their plan, lest we be overcome.

>>41924316
>[ ] Straight down the gullet – time for our own torpedo attempt.
Fuckit

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>[X] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>[ ] Straight down the gullet – time for our own torpedo attempt.
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

BOTH

We need to find out what they're planning, AND we need to disrupt it ASAP, before it becomes bad news for us.

>>41924368
Remove Junko
Ran-shama still best kitsune

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

Not today, motherfuckers

>>41924316
>[x] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

MUSTIN, ASW NOW

>>41924316
>[X] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.


>Slow and staggered

They're screening for subs. I'm sure of it now.

Maybe they're using the smoke to make sure we can't spot the subs by air?

Or kill them from air like we did with the other one?

>>41924316
...All of our battleships maintain full magazines, right? I'm not expecting a sucker punch, but if they try to roll us up at the base again while we're occupied I'd rather our sluggers be able to slug.

>>41924369
>active-pinging torpedo several thousand yards away swimming in aimless circles
>"spook"

[ X ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924316
>[x] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.
sneeki breeki motherfuckers

>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924415
what battleships? We don't have any here with us.

>>41924316
>[ ] Straight down the gullet – time for our own torpedo attempt.

If they're screening for subs, just launch the torps.

If they want to keep screening, they have to hold position.

>>41924375
Wanted to be sure to get this in, hence the lack of explanation. That staggered line they're using is for precisely this reason. It lets them all turn at once and form a solid gunline while minimizing aspect ratio on the approach.

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>>41924390
I think its kinda hard to call Junko a Huli jing anymore. She has reached her 1800 years and ascended into a higher form. Ran is still 900 years behind.

So Ran a shit

VOTES OVERHWELMINGLY CALLED TOOT TOOT

>>41924432
At Yucky-sucky, I think

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41923841
What this guy said is still relevant.

>>41924432
Here with us as in the naval base, not the battle we're watching

>>41924342
That's no excuse. They have to do launches like they used to because the planes are still planes. Harder should have had modern-ish torpedoes that could take both the stress of a non-streamline launch, and have a gyro capable of accounting for odd launch angles. Why didn't he use that to his advantage? He had a couple of prime moments to use his unique nature to play havoc with his enemies...

Captcha had been eggs this entire time. Wut?

So it's probably either this --

>>41924375
>>They’re setting up so they can turn in unison and unmask all their broadsides simultaneously. The instant they do, THAT'S when we launch our torpedo run.
>>41924438
>Wanted to be sure to get this in, hence the lack of explanation. That staggered line they're using is for precisely this reason. It lets them all turn at once and form a solid gunline while minimizing aspect ratio on the approach.

or this:

>>41924407
>>Slow and staggered
>They're screening for subs. I'm sure of it now.

then?

>>41924450
Oh damn those eyes are fucked up

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>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.

>>41924484
Cuz he's not really a boy who fire torpedoes. He's a sub that looks like a boy for some reason. He still has to obey sub rules.

>>41924450
Junko doesn't have a nice nekomata shikigami tho
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpOXJmp1RKw

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posting boatbutt

>>41924375
Seriously. This is almost guaranteed to be their plan. Settle and Goto wouldn't immediately recognize it because they're still not used to commanding gunlines.

Why nobody else seems to have noticed and thought about it when voting, I don’t know. Should I caps-lock this shit in the future to make sure you people see it?

>>41924484
Harder showed up like three days ago, I'm impressed that the ordnance techs managed to manufacture a load of Mk 14s and Mk 16s for him in time let alone more advanced shit.
Advanced shit that would have to be usable from a vintage TDC, no less

>>41924316
>[ ] They're up to something, and I don't like it. Let's feel around the edges a bit, try to shake it out of them.
Are there any assets which can safely drop some sonobuoys out near them? Indecisive sparring can be ended at our leisure; figuring out why they tried something seemingly foolish is more critical.

>>41924526
CAPSLOCK MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER

>>41924526
Don't use greentext when adding a writein. Use regular text or it'll blend in with all the votes.

>>41924526
That can only work if they are confident in their gun superiority...

Oh God, why hasn't CIC returned anything yet about what those ship's possible class/type might be!?

>>41924526

Because most of us are convinced that the unaccounted-for subs is the real plan.

And Goto's been doing this for a year already; shouldn't he have some experience with gunlines?

>>41924526
>Why nobody else seems to have noticed and thought about it when voting, I don’t know. Should I caps-lock this shit in the future to make sure you people see it?

Uh I dunno. I mean, even with what you said, I'm still left going "Okay then, so which of the actions should I vote for?" because I don't know how to react to a gunline?

This is the other problem: just because somebody here has figured out and called out what's going on, doesn't mean people like me understand what we should do about it.

Sorry.

>>41924566
no, because

he's a jap

>>41924518
Which is why he pointed his hands at the carrier as he attempted to bug the Fuck out. Was he pointing his body at the carrier? Because I would have sworn fap angel stated: "thrust his hands" as he attempted launch. At the same time he was trying to get away. I'm not upset, I'm honestly confused.

>>41924546
See >>41924526. This isn't stupid at all. It’s one of the best ways to get a cohesive force into gun range while under fire and still have them able to unmask all their main guns simultaneously.

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>>41924519
Junko got a completely radical friend Hecatia. Who is kinda 20 years behind the goth culture. But still, completely radical.

>>41924541
The USN was using Mk14s for decades after the war.

There's probably a bunch sitting in a Naval Depot somewhere that they've studied.

>>41924526
>Why nobody else seems to have noticed and thought about it when voting
>because they're still not used to commanding gunlines
Now, it seems likely, but I wouldn't even begin to know how to counter that.

>>41924591

Do they fug

>captcha is botes
GOOD TIMING

>>41924595
Torpedo spread as they form up.

They have to scatter or get hit.

>>41924587
He's got stern tubes, which are what he fired as he de-assed the area.
>>41924594
I know, but manufacturing miniature versions so quickly is still impressive.
Unless kanmusu can also use full-sized ordnance, it's just less efficient. Planefag?

>>41924591
>Hecatia
You do realize, people, that now planefag is officially part of Touhou lore because GREEKS?

>>41924595
Stay in maximum firing range and present minimum target, try to bait them into firing with poor accuracy chance.

Our ships have better firing ranges, right? Just pick at them until they fall apart.

which we're already doing

>>41924316
>[ ] Straight down the gullet – time for our own torpedo attempt.
I forget, does Planefag want changed votes deleted or not?
Changing
>>41924546

>>41924621
>stern tubes
>de-assed

and now i'm imagining Harder farting torps out his ass.

Thanks, internet

>>41924633

And a torp spread too.

Actually, even with the submarines, best bet would have been to loose a spread as well to break up their formation too.

>>41924633
Except DDs don't work like that... they're not intended to slug it out, even with other destroyers. They're meant for the quick scrap, not the prolonged gun duel.

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>>41924623
Er, have you not seen Clownpiece?
She's fap angel, the touhou

>>41924316
>[ ] Straight down the gullet – time for our own torpedo attempt.

>>41924621
...but he used his hands. Unless you're implying he uses his hands to represent all his torpedo tubes, that doesn't make sense.

>>41924559
Will do in the future.

>>41924560
Seven cruisers to our four, and two of our cruisers have their rear guns replaced by aircraft launching gear. They have reason to believe it.

>>41924581
I said what to do in my initial post: as soon as they turn, launch our torpedo run. Either they maintain the gunline and stay side-on to our torps, or they turn to evade and lose cohesion. Their light units (which normally are screening to prevent us from doing this) are out of position thanks to their own torpedo run.

>>41924652
>ww2 and post ww2 dd's don't work like that

>what era is abyssal dd

>>41924673
That's exactly what he does. Same way the girls aim their guns with their hands.

>>41924654
Not enough debts.

>>41924677

I thought the Tone class had all their guns mounted forward specifically for room for their float planes?

>>41924679
WWI and pre-WWI, they exist to launch torpedoes, keep other destroyers from launching their torpedoes, and die horribly if anything with guns hits them.

>>41924703
She does serve under Hecatia, so that counts?

>>41924679
Abyssal DDs still wouldn't work like that.

>>41924679

DDs in general, my friend. These DDs (at least the one 4-stacker) are not so far removed from WWII tech/tactics.

Time for theme music.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3U3wTU1oc

>>41924652
>destroyer
...uh, did you notice what we're facing?
And cruisers of some kind.

>>41924743
>theme music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EvvuV_iI3c

>>41924743
Wrong theme, earthnoid!
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=n82FRHHd1bE

>>41924743
>>41924785
Better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGx6K90TmCI&ab_channel=DMXVEVO

>>41924776
They are being screened by DDs.

That being said, up until the Farragut, US boats had broadside torp launchers.

>>41924685
But those act like pistols, especially with people like Sammy and wally. Those should, theoretically, act like handcannons, but still guns. Our ship spirits already tell physics to Fuck off in other ways. Why not these, too? They may be ships, but now they (should) have advantages that their "human" bodies allow that their old forms wouldn't.

>theme music

Thank you guys for giving me a playlist while I wait for update

>>41924817
Should, theoretically, yes. However I'm pretty sure they still follow the limitations of their actual hull

>>41924743
>>41924798
>>41924795
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYu_HZxbfX8&index=7&list=PL8C524D44E4CD9203

Y'alls wrong. There's not NEARLY enough suspense in any of those songs.

Also MW2's soundtrack is generally fucking awesome.

>>41924848
Needs more UPEO, man.
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXn-In8xrM

>>41924707
Huh, so they did.

Must have taken some work to squeeze them all in forward of the superstructure without catastrophic design compromises.

>>41924848
I prefer War Pig myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1BiuFpFqAc

>>41924848
I feel this is appropriate for the thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMYQ4rhwJto&ab_channel=Zevik

>>41924883
Wrong MW, idiot.

>>41924888
>>41924883
>>41924848
>Hear all those blasting five inchers and sixteen inchers, buddy? That's we're we come in.
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGuwJPepxFc

The boys out in the trenches have got a lot to say
Of the hardships and the sorrows that come a soldier's way,
But we destroyer sailors would've liked their company
On a couple of trips in our lousy ships when we put out to sea.
OH, IT'S ROLL AND TOSS AND POUND AND PITCH
AND CREAK AND GROAN YOU SON OF A BITCH,
OH, BOY, IT'S A HELL OF A LIFE ON OUR DESTROYER.

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>>41924848

>>41924895
I know that nerd

>>41924922
>>41924914
>DIVE NUGGETS, DIVE!
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=md7zarNIgtY

OH WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A TIN CAN SAILOR
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A TIN CAN SAILOR
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A TIN CAN SAILOR
EARLY IN THE MORNING

The damned tin can destroyer was never meant for sea,
You couldn't keep it steady in a lousy cup of tea,
We carry guns, torpedoes and ash cans in a bunch,
But the only time we hit our mark is when we shoot our lunch.
OH, IT'S ROLL AND TOSS AND POUND AND PITCH
AND CREAK AND GROAN YOU SON OF A BITCH,
OH, BOY, IT'S A HELL OF A LIFE ON OUR DESTROYER.

CAUGHT UP

Also did someone say ORBITAL DROPPED SHIPSLUTS?

>>41924970
PUT HIM IN THE BED WITH THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER
PUT HIM IN THE BED WITH THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER
PUT HIM IN THE BED WITH THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER
EARLY IN THE MORNING

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>>41924993

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>Planefag has run more threads in five days than Blackjack has run in 5 months

We have heard of muddy dugouts and shell holes filled with slime,
Of cootie hunts and marches which fill a soldier's time,
But set beside destroyer life, it all seems dull and pale,
When the chronometer hops, the barometer drops, and we line up on the rail.
OH, IT'S ROLL AND TOSS AND POUND AND PITCH
AND CREAK AND GROAN YOU SON OF A BITCH,
OH, BOY, IT'S A HELL OF A LIFE ON OUR DESTROYER.

>>41924993
Someone did.

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Threadly reminder that Lexington is stacked

>>41924965
>not using Naval Blockade

>>41924993
You read right, Sent.

>>41925016
THANK YOU ANON! I was looking for that.

>>41925009
GuPQ is suffering

>>41925007
You can drop anything from orbit once.

>>41925016

Stacked?

Or Asterned?

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>>41925016
Hornet is too

And when we're back in dry dock, we stagger like we're drunk
And wonder how we stood it, and why she never sunk.
You lay out your civilian clothes, but just before you switch
Your sea bag's on your shoulder and you sign up for one more hitch.
OH, IT'S ROLL AND TOSS AND POUND AND PITCH
AND CREAK AND GROAN YOU SON OF A BITCH,
OH, BOY, IT'S A HELL OF A LIFE ON OUR DESTROYER.

>>41923979
What about monster?

>>41925021
>Not using Invincible Fleet
>Erusian battleships, sunk!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr9dWbh5Fvk

>>41925000
SHAVE HIS SCROTE WITH A RUSTY RAZOR
SHAVE HIS SCROTE WITH A RUSTY RAZOR
SHAVE HIS SCROTE WITH A RUSTY RAZOR
EARLY IN THE MORNING

>>41925016
whats happening in this picture?

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>>41925037
Stacked.

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>>41925037
no stacked

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>>41925044

I'd go in a sweat tent and cleans myself with her any day.

>theme music
>Comiket just wrapped up
>2hu doujin albums are starting to be uploaded

Do you here it? It's the sound of my toohoo doujin folder swelling another 5gb.

>>41925067
Gun maintenance.

>>41925067
Field-stripping and cleaning her rifle maybe?

>>41925067
Lex is maintaining her weaponry.

>>41925067

She is cleaning the gun of coarse.

>>41925067
Cleaning her gun?

>>41925070
>the only way to tell the Lexington sisters apart was that Saratoga had a vertical black stripe on her stack, and Lexington didn't.

Identical sisters they were.

>>41925085
>Char
>Interested in anything that could be described as "stacked"
Kek

>>41925085
God damn it, Char.

>>41925086
Muh Hatsunetsumiko's


>>41925085
>>41925102
Char pls
She's not even a loli, she's just a Lalah

>>41925067
Catapult maintenance

>>41925089
>>41925090
>>41925092
>>41925093
>>41925096

But I thought CV's used bows...

>>41925031
You are most welcome. May the Stack be with you.

>>41925117
depends on which fanartist you ask, the USN ones tend to use crossbows, IIRC.

>>41925060
>not using the remix

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>>41925117
American carriers do what they want.

>>41925117
>Implying it's a general thing
>Implying we're following the game's canon

>>41925117

Well the bow has never really been a weapon of the United States, or it's colonial history.

Unlike say Japan.

>>41925117
One uses a crossbow

I wouldn't mind seeing one using a muzzleloaded firearm, that would be pretty neat

>>41925117
Converted Battlecruiser man,

>>41925117
Morgane and their crew have drawn most of their American CVs as using various firearms.
And I mean, let's not forget the jap carriers that use literal fucking magic to launch

>>41925009
I know that feel anon.

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>>41925117
not american ones

>>41925138
>SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

>>41925112
>New Hatsunetsumikos
>New Pop Culture album
>New Yuuhei Satallite

Every 6 months, so much good music

>>41925149
>>41925138
HA, NICE!

>>41925134
... Touché~
Have some Blue Skies, then!
Seriously where are the Eagle and Viper Zero drivers
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANlAn2AbqM

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Someone clever once said that the aim of strategy is dislocation, and even though he was right you can't remember his name because he was an army clown. As the abyssal battle line straightens out and sails due south, still in their slightly staggered line, you order Division One to lag back a bit. Division Two can rapidly reach the center, sailing north at flank while the cruisers steam south at speed, if you really need to. You have the feeling you're being drawn south, out of position, so something or someone you haven't seen yet can make an end-run around you and launch a spread at Hornet. Fitzgerald and Mustin are waiting for them there, of course – with the range of their missiles, they needn't steam along to keep in range.

Still.

Something's off.

The destroyer smoke screen fades as the two battle lines finally square off, nineteen-thousand yards apart and closing slowly.

“Division Three,” Goto says eagerly, “Commence full-rate main-battery fire!”

>>41925168
AM I BEING DETAINED?!?!

>>41925171
>Yuuhei Satellite
FUUUUU I NEED THIS NAO

>>41925184
>Commence full-rate main-battery fire
DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA

>>41925100
well, those stripes on Saratoga's deck are smaller. and lex has a flagpole on her stern.

But yeah, pretty much only cosmetic differences, to my landlubber's eye.

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>>41925189
BUTTFUCKER!

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>>41925184
>and even though he was right you can't remember his name because he was an army clown.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vU7XqToZso

Takao, Maya, Chikuma and Tone open up with their guns, a thundering broadside screaming into the air every fifteen seconds. The abyssals respond in kind. Towering columns of spray begin climbing high into the air as both sides find the range firmly and bracket each other.

Now it comes down to accuracy – of the rangefinders, the guns, the pattern dispersion. Armor, damage control, quality of design. Rate of fire – weight of fire. It's a slugfest pure and simple – but with the light armor of cruisers, fast-firing eight-inchers and dozens of torpedoes in play, it's nothing like a battleship duel.

It's simply sudden death.

Maya's the first one hit.

“Belt de-capped and detonated it!” she calls. “Trashed the floatplane hanger, its empty.”

It's Chikuma who draws first blood, planting a twelve-centimeter shell in the bow of an opposing cruiser. The AP shell punches clean through before detonating on the other side, leaving a hole big enough to see daylight through. The wound isn't serious, however, and the ship keeps firing for all its worth.

>>41925178
Soon(tm)

>>41925219
>Pacific Rim theme
Hype instantly redlining.

>>41925168
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

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>>41925219
>MUSIC

>>41925219
>Chikuma
>12cm

reeeeeeeee

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“Now!” Goto calls. Mustin and Fitzgerald's decks are kindled aglow with the righteous fury of rocket motors igniting, ripple-firing Tomahawks into the sky. They climb swiftly, slowly tilting over to arrow towards the battle. The missiles scream over your four cruisers, skimming the waves as they close on the abyssals. The dark ships sides light up with muzzle flashes as their AA guns open up, a hail of tracers and flak puffs seeking the incoming warheads, but most of the weapons win through. The Burke's focused their fire on the three trailing ships. The AA fire splashes two, three, four missiles, finding their targets with uncanny accuracy that makes you grit your teeth – leveling effect, leveling effect! The first few come screaming in, pulling up hard for a terminal dive through the thin deck armor - and overshoot the target, smashing harmlessly into the water just starboard, sending towering columns of spray into the thick, choking smoke.

>>41925219
HYPE TRAINS ACTIVATED
ACCELERATED TO HYPE SPEED
HYPE SPEED ACHIEVED

>>41925219
Let's hope our girls come home less fucked up than theirs... damn I'm tense.

>>41925219
>pacific rim theme
SHIT'S REAL NAO

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>>41925258

my bad, I'm tired of converting to cm. it's 7.9 fucking inches, from now on its 8 inch guns because fuck metric

>>41925219
WHAT A SLOBBERKNOCKER, MIKE!

>>41925259
>overshot
FUUUUUUU

>>41925259
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

>>41925259
FUCK

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The remainder sink lower, responding to the digital leashes held by the Burke's weapon officers. Zig-zagging sideways, their thin little wings flexing through the maneuvers, the Tomahawks smash into the high, slick sides of their targets and vanish in blasts of cataclysmic force. Torpedo impacts are terrible things to behold; thunderous blasts of fire and water that send columns of spray a hundred feet high – but they've got nothing on a cruise missile. Each struck cruiser vanishes behind a wall of fire, engulfed by fireballs that blossom in the water and roll upwards towards the sky; the thick, vile smoke itself blasted away by their force. As the blinding moment fades twisted pieces of shrapnel come raining down to churn the water with tiny splashes. The victims rock slowly to starboard, revealing their smashed-in sides where the missiles smashed deep holes in their armor, the interiors already glowing cherry-red with fire. Two of them begin listing to starboard, counter-flooding to keep the awful wounds near the waterline above the waves. Their stacks shattered and shorn by the titanic blasts, they soon drop behind the formation, unable to keep steam up enough for flank speed. The third, tail-end Charlie, slows to a complete halt, the single awful hole in its side belching fire and soot. It slowly settles on an even keel; but the desperate counterflooding isn't enough – it begins to list to port. Cold water rushes into its flaming bowels, and the warship vanishes in a horrific explosion that sends shockwaves racing through the calm Pacific waters as the white-hot boiler detonates. The bow and stern fold up slightly before it capsizes and vanishes beneath the waves.

“Eat *shit,*” Goto snarls in satisfaction. “Girls – torpedoes, NOW!”