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WELCOME TO TONIGHT'S BELATED RUN OF KCQ, WHERE THE ROUTES ARE LOCKED AND THE WRITEINS DON'T MATTER! THAT'S RIGHT, THE WRITEINS ARE LIKE 3/4THS OF CHINA'S AIR FORCE INVENTORY!

Please talk among yourselves, ask me questions and/or just generally shitpost while I write the first proper update. I'd especially like to know how everyone thinks the quest is going right now; things you want less of, things you want more of, etc. "More killer less filler" is a given and on the agenda, of course. No, I will not put your favorite shipslut in. Aside from that, fire away.
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Inb4Navyfag
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>>44412267
FIRST FOR FAIRY WARFIGHTERS!
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>>44412267
This thread is going to reach autosage before the first goddamn update.

Jesus tapdancing Christ.
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'TWAS THE POST BEFORE NAVY'S, AND ALL THROUGH THE BOARD, NOT A POSTER CAME AFTER THAT SLOWPOKE FAGLORD
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>>44412267
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>inafter inb4 me
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>>44412291

[generic complaint about being so popular]
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Less american ships
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Less Crix
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>>44412313
[promising violence in expedited fashion]
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>>44412307
Shut up you Greek slut; you know you love it.

Moar fairies, dammit. Like, 50% of Settle's problems could be solved with fairies, right now.
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>>44412313
>less

But that's the opposite of the right thing to do.
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>>44412294
Fucking glorious.
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>>44412297
Hes learning!

>>44412313
Trash doesn't belong this board.
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>>44412313
You're gonna have a bad time, son.
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>>44412327
MORE AMERICAN SHIPS, SMOTHER US IN GOOD OL' GOD BLESS AMERICAN WARSHIPS
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Something something get back to writing faget etc.
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>>44412267
Personally speaking, I don't mind the dearth of romance (as in passionate scenes) so far in this quest, as in my opinion that takes away from the overall pacing of the story. Still, if you find that you need to add it to keep the waifu idiots from devouring the quest whole, do what needs to be done.

Action would be nice, it will be interesting to see how the Yamato rifle performs in actual combat, as well as how that whole, "capture an abyssal" mission goes. Perhaps this will go hand in hand with the retaking of Iwo Jima.

In case the trolls ever do get to you, know that there are those of us who genuinely want to see the quest go forward and to make the sane choice, even if it is not always the most immediately satisfying choice.

Even so, it is often fun to watch the train wreck happen, so let the update continue!
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Well, per instructions by someone else that this needs to be a thing, Imma put this idea out there for the drawfags.

Shipgirl Hockey. BATTLESHIP BODYCHECKS.

Arizona Kronwalls Shoukaku away from Settle with a massive butt-check! Iowa crushes Yamato into the boards! Sammy somehow manages to get charging, cross-checking (to the throat!), and high-sticking penalties as she commits several felonies in brutalizing Shimakaze! Iku takes out Wasp, O'Brien, and North Carolina all in a single massive hit from behind!

...I'd fund it, but I've currently got all of two dollars to my name, so...
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>>44412267
Also seeing Yamato finally sortie will be interesting. She'll probably have to sail under American command, using American resources. The shitstorm in Japan is going to be immense.
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Toot toot, The final installment of TeleGraf is done.


No, I'm not posting it, yet. Writeups come AFTER the quest is done.

But hold on to your poopers, because this one will be a doozy.
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Honestly? I kinda wanna see a bit more exploration of ships like Yuudachi or Willy; ships with significant history that strongly colors their current lives.
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>>44412267
Sign that things will be alright. It feels like the whole base is a few bad breaks away from self-destructing at times.
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>>44412435

planning on this heavily
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>>44412267
More combat
More mentions of other people handling their responsibilities, and just the scuttlebut around the base
I'd say less waifu baiting but we're already at a good level of 'nope fuck this Goto was right' imo
Joint operations between conventional ships and shipgirls are great I love them
I'd like to hear what all the eggheads are doing with Abyssal wreckage.
Keep on keeping on, but get on with it. Cheers, I'm enjoying myself.
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>>44412432
Nakatime bad?
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>>44412267
Are you planning something, and then saying there's no way for us to stop it?
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>>44412457
I am the best metric.
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Definitely more Naka.
Like, as much Naka as physically, humanly, spacially, metaphysically, thermodynamically, and theoretically possible.
Because everybody loves Naka
Especially Crix.
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>>44412267
i'm pretty happy, it's fun to be here. sometimes my little shoops get reposted which is neato.

i consider KCQ my new home since my home planet on vg got terminal cancer.
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>>44412267
Also, if Hosho ever appears in the quest proper, it will debunk at least one theory that the abyssals are all scrapped or incompetently led ships. Hosho was scrapped in 1946. As for incompetently led, Willie was the epitome of this, so often derided with, "Don't shoot, we're republicans!" amd being assigned the dregs of the Navy, and she still came back on our side.
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>>44412513
Sendai and Jintsuu are great too
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>>44412519


Poor Willie.
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>>44412449
More poi would be appreciated, as would Wee Willie Worth-something.

>>44412416
I think I said aaaages back that Yamato's eventual deployment (and even more so her homecoming) will be a thing of glory and pageantry. If there's one thing that will galvanise Japan, it's Yamato actually fighting in open combat alongside the Americans and her fellow shipgirls.

Also, it's rupture the anuses of the ultranationalists so hard, it'll be hilarious. They'll either have to become more moderate, or committu sudoku for greeeaaaat dishonor!

We'd better see some Imperial presence at her return. I mean god damn, if that doesn't lure his majesty out, NOTHING will.

>>44412374
I swear, if the liberation of Iwo Jima doesn't feature the brave fairies of His Imperial Majesty's Special Naval Landing Forces, I am going to... Be really upset.
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>>44412568
Poor Willie indeed, and yet, that's the point. Her story, given the conditions that seem to govern which ship becomes an abyssal, would be a textbook example, and yet she still came back to us. Why?
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>>44412596
I mean, assuming that Yamato comes into play through proper channels and not through 'oh fuck another base raid'
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>>44412502
Hey, Naka, I've been wondering--how are you taking it now that your latest song's been bumped down the Billboard charts by a bunch of American fairies who dress like an Indian, a cop, a construction worker, a cowboy, a soldier, and a leather fetishist?
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>>44412267
Less MRA pillow fort
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>>44412596
>I swear, if the liberation of Iwo Jima doesn't feature the brave fairies of His Imperial Majesty's Special Naval Landing Forces, I am going to... Be really upset.
Hope you brought tissues then
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How many updates do you think tonight's thread will have? I think it'll be three.
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While I don't want to buried in American ships, a CL would be a nice addition. And possibly one of SAMMY's sisters in arms (I'll take Butler). Something to help round out our tiny-ass flotilla.

Also, another round of combat would be fun. Something to hold anon over untill we storm Iwo Jima.
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>>44412267
More salt.
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>>44412596
Especially if she denounced them for their stupidity, wishing to "restore," Japan to the Imperial Japan of WWII. She saw just how well that particular train wreck went.
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>>44412596
>Luna Child with a French WW1 helmet
Kek
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>>44412643
i'm hoping for a pre-written no votes wild ride like the battle of LA to sweep through like a plot progression tornado and dump us out at the invasion of iwo
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>>44412596
>We'd better see some Imperial presence at her return. I mean god damn, if that doesn't lure his majesty out, NOTHING will.

We'd better fucking not. I'd rather not have to dress the fuck up. I don't even know where my blues are
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>>44412267
Out of curiosity, we going to see any kraut shipsluts at all?
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>>44412620
I'm just happy that Harder has finally gotten in touch with his artistic side.
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>>44412752
Navyfag's writeups may be of interest to you
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>>44412746
Oh lookie its 'Hate'
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>>44412742
>That was fast
>fast
GUTS
PLEASE

>>44412752
Do you read the Parker writeups?
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>>44412617
Because above all else Willie is a good girl.
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>>44412746
So that's who was playing Hate.
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There's something I've been wondering: do Abyssals sleep?

Shipgirls obviously need sleep. If they do, then it follows that they need a place to rest, probably an island base somewhere in the south pacific. If we can find it (say with satellite recon), it would provide us an excellent opportunity to capture an Abyssal or nuke the island and kill them all.
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>why won't you add more waifus
same fag later:
>why does it take so long for my waifu to get some screentime

planefag how do you stay sane?
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>>44412790
Maybe shimakaze can cheer her up while Willie can get her to realize how uncomfortable she makes other people?

A long shot I know, but stranger things have happened.
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>>44412829

he doesn't.
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>>44412829
>planefag how do you stay sane?

it helps that I was never sane to begin with

I make up imaginary people and then have them talk to each other
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>>44412746
Good going ghost
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>>44412829
The question is how does he stay FUNCTIONAL, not sane.
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>>44412829
The salt of those idiots probably helps.
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>>44412782
>>44412768
Haven't yet, nah. I generally don't read quest omakes. But, it seems I should.
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>>44412766
>Filename
Naka confirmed for good taste in cowboys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWooB4tpQ9I
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>>44412640
God dammit... Short of [Insert your shipfu/daughteru of choice here], the fairies are the best part of KanColle!

They're adorable! They're dangerous! They're cute! They're industrious! They're tiny! They're characterful! They're sweet! They're heavily armed! What's not to love?!

>>44412663
I'm actually an Neo-Imperialist (British, not Japanese, if you couldn't tell), but the empires of the last century were a textbook example of how to fuck everything up. An empire that does not care for its subjects and conquests as if they were their own native citizens is doomed to fail.

>>44412746
What, you don't want to see your sister finally get the recognition and battle action she deserves and longs for? No-one could call her 'Hotel' after something like that!

>>44412790
>>44412617
Willie is an adorable daughter-ship. She's a good girl. She and Destroyer Division 6 make me all warm and fuzzy inside.

>>44412818
We don't even know where they're striking from yet. Could be Atlantis returned; could be huge floating island-ship-fortress things straight outa Red Alert 3; could be portals to the Sanzu River/River Styx for all we know...
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>>44412775
>>44412808
>>44412810
>>44412852
>implying nobody knew
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>>44412871
The later ones are pretty alright
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>>44412849
So all those years of playing with barbie dolls really worked out in your favor when you need to make the waifu and self insert do stuff.
"And then they kiss."
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“What was all that about?” Shoukaku asks you curiously.

You're still chuckling as you slide back into the easy chair. “Oh, I just got one over on Naka.”

Shoukaku's face goes completely blank. “You... uh...”

“It probably means sex,” Hamp says helpfully. Shoukaku's mouth doesn't quaver, but her eyes widen in horror. Hamp manages to duck under the incoming sofa pillow you loft his way. The occasional 60-year gap in slang terms cropped up with your own shipgirls, but for the most part you recognize all of theirs - they sound dated, but you still know them. With a native Japanese speaker, however, the language barrier was greatly compounded. “No, Shoukaku, that means I got a quip in she had no smartass reply to.”

“Impossible,” Shoukaku says immediately. “She *always* has a smartass reply.”

“She- oh, just look,” you say, handing over your phone. She sets down the pair of coffee mugs in her hand and peers at the screen, scrolling carefully.

“Damn, the hell is this doodad?” Hamp asks. “What th-” he blinks as he gets a look at the screen. “Holy shit.”

“Yeah. Electronics have come a long way in sixty, seventy odd years.”

“Damn,” Hamp says. “I thought those were just really compact radiophones.”

“They are. About fifteen years ago they started adding compact computers to them as well.”

“What, you can crunch numbers on that fucker?” Hamp leans over to look at the underside of the phone, verifying its thin profile.” “Damn. What else can it do?”

“Well lemme put it this way - they put Playboy out of buisness.”

“Playwhatnow?” Hamp squints, then leans over and sniffs the phone. “Ah, hell, it can't possibly. The smell is like half the experience, man!”
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Woo, thread! No writeup from me tonight. Part 5 of Deutsch will be interesting, though. That and Navyfag and I were tossing around some ideas that may be in the works.
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>>44412881
>We don't even know where they're striking from yet. Could be Atlantis returned; could be huge floating island-ship-fortress things straight outa Red Alert 3; could be portals to the Sanzu River/River Styx for all we know...

This seems odd to me. I thought Abyssal radar returns are the same as their WW2 ship equivalents, it shouldn't be impossible to track them from orbit.
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“... what?”

“So kids these days just poke that glass screen and play with a *picture* of play-dough? That's fucked up, man.”

“Hamp-”

“The tactile experience, that unique smell, the thrill of cramming it down the throat of that little shit that won't stop hogging the block bin-”

“HAMP!”

Shoukaku begins giggling as she finishes scrolling through the texting log. “I see what you mean.”

“See?” Hamp says, jerking his thumb at her. “She doesn't like squeezing make-believe doughboys either.”

The long-haired woman blinks, having just tuned into the current chat. “Uh, what-”

“Shoukaku, don't you think squeezing playdough with your hands is better than rubbing your fingers on a flat surface?”

“Wh-what-” she stammers, eyes wide with confusion.

“The SMELL, the TEXTURE, the squishy-wishy,” Hamp elaborates, making grabby motions with his hands.

“N-no!” Shoukaku says, retreating a step and drawing her arms up over her chest.

“What, really? You prefer twiddlin yer fingers on some flat little board-”

“LEAVE ZUIKAKU OUT OF THIS!” Shoukaku snaps.

Hamp retreats a step, palms in the air. “Woah, we got us a banzai here!”

“I - YOU - you I - buh-” Shoukaku stammers as a beet-red flush emerges from her collar and climbs fast for her brow. “I have uh, here's your coffee!” Shoukaku says, picking up the mug from the end-table and thrusting it into your hands before running back into the kitchen.

Hamp sips at his Starbucks and heaves a sigh after her. “Skipper, she's pretty and all, but I wouldn't have kids with any dame'd deny her kids the savage smelly majesty of play-dough.”

[ ] ... just turn on the fucking news again.
[ ] Go do that thing we keep fucking forgetting to do [write-in.]
[ ] You need to get Hate's gift for him, posthaste - you owe that SOB a few times over, now. Get crackin.
[ ] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
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>>44412922
>[x] Go do that thing we keep fucking forgetting to do [write-in.]

How about dealing with the fact that our bodyguard punched out or secretary?
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>>44412885
Is there a pastebin, or do I ctrl-f the archives?
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>>44412922
>[ ] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
PLOT
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>>44412920
>This seems odd to me. I thought Abyssal radar returns are the same as their WW2 ship equivalents, it shouldn't be impossible to track them from orbit.

The fact that nobody's been reliably able to yet is one of the very, very frustrating mysteries about them. However, the battle of the Bonin Islands was notable in that the bastards actually had a big surface group, and it was found - and they were traveling with oilers and such, indicating a need for logistics that they have never needed before.

small raids appear from nowhere for monsteroftheweek division-on-division scale battles, big fleets respect logistics for major fleet engagements
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>>44412922
>[ ] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
IT BEGINS, GENTLEMEN
Also, Hamp is fucking lewd.
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>>44412922
[ ] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
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>>44412922
>[ ] You need to get Hate's gift for him, posthaste - you owe that SOB a few times over, now. Get crackin.
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>>44412922
>“What, really? You prefer twiddlin yer fingers on some flat little board-”

>“LEAVE ZUIKAKU OUT OF THIS!” Shoukaku snaps.

no bully
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>>44412922
[ ] Go do that thing we keep fucking forgetting to do [write-in.]

Shoukaku time.
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>>44412922
[ X ] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
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>>44412922
[x] go do that thing we keep fucking forgetting to do.

Work that admiral Thomas told us to do, followed by

[x] the invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.

Finally, We get to Iwo Jima and see Hate in action with the Yamato rifle!
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>>44412922
>[x] You need to get Hate's gift for him, posthaste - you owe that SOB a few times over, now. Get crackin.

If i had to choose, it'd be this.

Though as far as Hamp and the playdoh thing, not sure if he was serious or just trolling.
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>>44412881
>implying England cared for its own native citizens

There's a world of difference between a subject and a citizen. Considering how much of the American republic was informed by English legal concepts, it's a shame England never borrowed some concepts back.
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>>44412922
>[x] Go do that thing we keep fucking forgetting to do [write-in.]
did we get around to un-fucking sendai's training program before we went and got our dumb ass launched off a steam catapult?
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>>44412922
>[ ] You need to get Hate's gift for him, posthaste - you owe that SOB a few times over, now. Get crackin.
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>>44413010
>Work that admiral Thomas told us to do,

what was that exactly
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>>44412922
>[X] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
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>>44412922
>The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
Disregard sluts, acquire awe-inspiring invasion fleet
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>>44412922
>[ ] You need to get Hate's gift for him, posthaste - you owe that SOB a few times over, now. Get crackin.
It's important that we prepare Hate's gift for him as soon as possible!
After all, he might die.
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>>44412954

http://pastebin.com/bz0MPTyU

Here's all that I've 'published' so far. My early shit is just that; shit. I've gotten a lot better in my opinion, and one day I'll go back and 'remaster' all the old stuff.
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>>44412922
>[ ] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
No point in getting Hate's gift if he bites it, and watching the news would be just like watching the invasion from CIC, except you wouldn't have as much information available.

That said, we should probably show Hamp the Wikipedia entry on Playboy en route.
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>>44412922
>[X] You need to get Hate's gift for him, posthaste - you owe that SOB a few times over, now. Get crackin.
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>>44412775
>>44412808
>>44412852
>>44412881

eh, it was gonna be obvious enough anyway after my bit of writefagging dropped!

Oh well.
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>>44412922
>[ ] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.

Gather Shou and Hamp. Lets go see.
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>>44413041
Inspect our ships, if you know what I mean.

stow all the lines

polish the brightwork

top off the bunkers

hose down the foredeck
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>>44413041
He might mean the swordfight email, but that was resolved already
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>>44413041
Never mind. I could have sworn somewhere that we were neglecting some form of work. If not that, then deal with Arizona. That's some bad vibes that need to get sorted out, but if it distracts from the invasion, go with that.
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>>44413091
It was already pretty obvious from day 1.
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>>44412922
>[ ] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
Bring Shoukaku and Hamp.

Also the woman got coffee. Taste it and compliment her on it. It's gotta be good. Hamp taught her how to make it after all.
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>>44412922
>[o] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.

I'd LOVE to also do the thing we keep forgetting, but it's been so long, I'VE forgotten what it is!

Also, please set the record straight with Hamp...

PlayDough sucks. I hate the stuff.
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>>44412922
>[ ] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
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>>44413161
I'm sure Planefag forgot as well.
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>>44413115
I think Arizona just needs a bit more time to cool off, and for us to continue not being retarded
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>>44412960
From a meta perspective though, finding an Abyssal base would be the best way to let us capture one of them, since Settle doesn't look like he's going to have much interaction with the Iwo battle.
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>>44412922
>>44413150
>Also the woman got coffee. Taste it and compliment her on it. It's gotta be good. Hamp taught her how to make it after all.

Yes. Make sure we do this.
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>>44412922
>[ ] You need to get Hate's gift for him, posthaste - you owe that SOB a few times over, now. Get crackin.

You know, he deserve it after everything he's done. I can't wait to see how he responds to all the emotion we'll put into it.
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>>44413041
didn't it boil down to "jesus fuck i'm so busy i don't even have enough breath to yell at you, go to your office and stop making work for me or you'll fall off the wrong end of a cost/benefit analysis and spend the rest of your career sealed in a drum of cosmoline"
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>>44413173
I feel like this decision is going to come back and bite us, but /tg/'s mind seems set.
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>>44413161
Not liking playdough
Limey pls
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>>44413213
She can sort herself out first she is not our mother.
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>>44412267
I wanna see more about the "Creepy Abyssal Signal", you know the one that sounds like death to everyone that hears it. We should be tracking abyssals worldwide with that, yes? What kind of information are we learning? (And "it doesn't work" counts.)

On the same note, what about the less creepy noise returned shipsluts make? (And I think steel-ships, but I might be making that last bit up.)

Other then that, moar faeries is always fun. Good quest regardless, though.
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>>44413227
Yeah, ordinary hulls make That Sound (tm) too
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>>44412920
Actually, I think the only way we've been able to track them so far is by the 'Spooky Signal'. Listening for their screws just doesn't work, for some reason.

>>44413014
Like I said, I'm an advocate of imperialism, just not the exploitative kind that sees people as resources no different to cotton, petroleum or rubber...

>>44413220
Hate the smell, hate the texture, hate the way it stays with you for hours after you're done playing with it.

>>44413227
I think our shipgirls sounded like heaven's music, last I checked... But I'm also certain the details were classified and outright DELETED to stop awkward questions.
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>>44413213
She was upset because we disregarded our promise to be careful and drunkenly denied any wrongdoing. It's something that will pass if we don't continue to fuck up continuously, which isn't giaranteed
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>>44413213
It's KCQ so just about anything we do will come back to bite us.
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>>44413135

There's that too. Everyone was pretty cool playing along as long as they did, IMO.

Though just cos it's in the open doesn't mean I'll be dropping the character though!
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>>44413173
Fair enough, I mean, it should be resolved at some point, but it probably would be wiser to wait for the future. To Iwo then.
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]>>44413259
You must've gotten the early versions then. Or it was probably exclusively terrible to the west hemisphere because we don't have those problems here in the far east.
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>>44413267
I feel a bit stupid that I didn't realize who was playing Hate until now.
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>>44412922
>[X] The invasion of Iwo Jima is beginning soon - you want to watch that go down.
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>>44412876
I can only ever think of the Beatles song.
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>>44413135
It wasn't for me though, I would've never figured it out.
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>>44413221
I don't really see how helping Ari and and Naka work out their differences in a less violent manner is Ari becoming our mother...

>>44413263
>which isn't guaranteed
Exactly
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>>44413227


We're still working on integrating that into SOSOUS and the few whale-watching buoys, while also making sure none of the operators hear the base signal and lose their shit.

Fucking submariners, am I right?
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Surcouf shipslut when?
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>>44413346

When infuckingdeed. Fuck, I even know some french, know what I mean? You know what the fuck I mean.
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>>44413328
That one's good too.
I just remember that particular Cowboy Bebop song because of the context.


>>44413343
>Trusting SOSUS
I bet you play Minesweeper on your PC, chief!
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>>44413364

She'd probably surrender immediately.

I kid, I kid.
the French are bro-tier as far as I'm concerned.
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>>44413333
Ari and Naka feels like a moment of anger that passed, anyway. Like if a friend got my sister drunk and they almost died. I wouldn't punch them because I wasn't born before the first world war, but I'd still be pissed as hell
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>>44413381


Nah, I play minesweeper on my phone. And it's not like I TRUST those weirdos that work with SOSUS; but you go into battle with the Navy you got...
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>>44412881
>What, you don't want to see your sister finally get the recognition and battle action she deserves and longs for? No-one could call her 'Hotel' after something like that!

Oh, fucking yeah. if by 'recognition' you fucking mean "Gets wined and dined by every two bit government shitbag this side of korea" and drags me the fuck along like she's already told me she wants to.

Fucking, yeah. recognition. fucking please.
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[X] naval battle tiem

calling out arizona isn't going to fix any of naka's problems, and will create more. let's pretend we don't know so we don't have to act on it. discretion, valor, ect.
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votes called woot woot
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>>44412922
[X] Explain what Playboy is to Hamp. Porn, Hamp. You came off like the lewdest thing since Iku just now to her, Hamp.
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>>44413430
Hope we're bringing the both of them.

The more experience our ships have seeing how modern sea operations work, the better.
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>>44413437
MY SIDES
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>>44413346
cut that shit out froggot.
we're creeping up on 100 threads and there are girls who've been on base since day 1 who still haven't gotten a line of dialogue.
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KK, that's 13 total for "WATCH THE INVASION," so off to the CIC you go!
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>>44413470
Hamp's our bodyguard and Shoukaku wants the flag, so they'll come along
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>>44413499
>and there are girls who've been on base since day 1 who still haven't gotten a line of dialogue.

well clearly they suck who cares about them pff
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>>44413501
IT BEGINS

>>44413499
This kills the admiral
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>>44413501
Thank the shou for the coffee too
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>>44413499
who?
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>>44413407
The deeper problem is Ari blaming Naka for something that was really our fault. If we do something dumb and get hurt again, Ari will blame Naka. This hasn't exactly become a pattern yet, but it is something to be careful of. It's also not healthy for Settle to avoid taking responsibility for his actions like this.
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>>44413517

I pity the planefag who has not learnt the glory that is Akebono.

https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/7980
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>>44413501
Oh boy oh boy.
We don't get to ride along on the Blue Ridge?
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>>44412893
Kylo Ren please.
Please.
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>>44413501
We can explain Porn to Hamp as we travel there
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>>44413546
It's both of our faults. We're the one who decided to wander out into the night, but Naka definitely helped, what with the booze. It was a combination of factors.
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>>44413573
We're not in charge of the invasion force, so that one's a no-go.
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>>44413563

isn't that the mouthy bitch that always sasses the admiral?

screw her o-

wait

WAIT

*EXPY FOR ANON*
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>>44413603
Boss
Boss wut are you thinking
Nuuuuuuuuu

>>44413610
DEATH TO THE EMPIRE
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>>44413603
>*EXPY FOR ANON*
This could either be pure awesome or unadulterated suck, and I'm not sure which one would be more fun.
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>>44413546
Anon, listen.

I got Settle drunk.

I passed out on his desk.

I goddamn invited the problem in the first place dealing with that clown who tried to hustle me.

She has every right and more to be upset.
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>>44413603

YES.

You know you want to do it. Let the kuso flow.
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>>44413517
And you wonder why shitposting is so rampant in KCQ threads.
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>>44413603
SHITTY PLANEFAG
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>>44413563
She gives me an Akeboner
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>>44413623

nah, the fault is settles.

You did nothing wrong. Arizona should have blamed us more and not you.
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>>44413546
Anon Jesus. You are making mountains out of molehills man.
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>>44413623
Settle could have said no, Naka. It is possible to say no to the great and might Naka.
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>>44413623
If I take that alcohol away from you, will you die?
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>>44413642
Getting your boss drunk is irresponsible at the best of times. I don't think we should be angry, it was a good talk, but it's perfectly understandable for Ari to be angry. Was hitting Naka out of line? Yeah, but like I said these girls have a lower threahold of when violence is appropriate
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>>44413603

And closet Naka fan
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>>44413672
EMPIRE GET OUT REEEEEEEEE
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>>44413623
>I goddamn invited the problem in the first place dealing with that clown who tried to hustle me.

I'm starting to understand why Arizona hauled off and hit you. It might not be for the reason you think.
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>>44413722
Settle, get Harder.

He needs to torpedo Naka.
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>>44413722
>It might not be for the reason you think.
She is rather selfish and self-centered, isn't she?
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>>44413743
>Going for the torpedo first and foremost
>not making them hold hands first
Anon pls
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>>44413603
from our shitposts directly to her mouth, see how long she lasts talking that kind of shit in the nation of educational beatdowns
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>>44413765
>She is rather selfish and self-centered, isn't she?

how can you get things literally 180 degrees turned around

good christ fatgreek how do you deal
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>>44413681
I took that alcohol away from me ... god, what was it, a week ago? And I feel dead, so yes.

It has been extremely painful. For me!

>>44413722
Oh, are you? Have you finally accepted she's not looking for Kidd II: Bridge Crew Boogaloo, and she might actually want something from you that isn't orders?
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>>44413718
>Legend of the gaylactating homos
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>>44413718
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>>44413789

>Drunk Sendai

Probably hate.

After Night Battle.
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>>44413765
Waifu combat, not even once
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>>44413681

FUCKING PROBABLY

>>44413388

They ain't bad. It was the legion that came in right after the shit in Ramadi. Hell, the dustoff that got me back to Baghdad was a frog NH90
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>>44413789

>shotsfired.jpg

Where's Arizona when you need her? brb prepping a morse-code message...
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>>44413789

I see your attempt to redirect the conversation and raise you by your own favored technique:

"Yeah, that's what she needs, an emotionally volatile cripple who's married to his job woo hoo."

PROVE ME WRONG
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>>44413804
Kek

>>44413789
Was it part of your plan?!

>>44413807
DVRRRREEEEEE
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>>44413804
Best shipgirl from LOGH.
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>>44413849

Just dick them fucking both for christ sakes you stupid fuck.
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>>44413603
>planefag notices your waifu
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>>44413860
That ship looks like a cross between Grand Order's Ruler and Alice.
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>>44413889

Truer words never spoken.
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>>44413889

look who's talking sir supercuck

last time I checked the only girl looking at you gave YOU *her* big gun dohohohohohohohohohohoho
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>>44412916
I wonder if for Deutsch, she'll ever have a moment like confrontation from Jekyll and Hyde. The musical, not the book
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>>44413849
your job is battleship
get married to your battleship because it's your job
probelm solved
i should get a medal for being smarter than u
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>>44413968

Yeah. Yeah. Keep making that fucking joke.

I don't fucking care. I have an automatic 18.1" Naval rifle fucking firing from a 30 round fucking magazine that shoots damn flat out to 1500 meters. Past that I need a fucking spotter anyway so who the fuck cares.
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>>44413849
You're the emotionally volatile cripple who's been there for her since you met, and you keep tripping and landing balls-deep in her heart with your hero routine. You also treat her like more than her legacy, until you consider putting your fly down and your flag up.

You know why she decked me, Settle? Because I made a promise, to her, to her fucking pretty Yankee face, to keep you safe. And I blew it.

She appreciates you like no one else, you stupid bastard. Because you appreciate her for her. She wants you to appreciate the rest.

Prove ME wrong, stumpy.
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>>44413980
Hell, for that matter, what of the shipgirls, since Naka's been demonstrated to have been in contact with the other.
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I don't know WTF is happening anymore
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>>44414018
Think we can find a way to integrate some gun ranging radar onto you?
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>>44414032

Now watch. He'll make some fucking excuse or try to talk some shit at me cos I responded. money the fuck down.
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>>44414018
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>>44414058
Just another regular day in Fort Planefaggotry
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>>44413786
>good christ fatgreek how do you deal
I'm sorry, what
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>>44414058
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>>44414078

Don't even try to fuckin tell me it's not baller as fuck.
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>>44413603
Does this mean Akebono bullying soon?
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>>44414058
we're on our way to the really big TV room where admirals pretend to be in control of stuff

CVN(for Nuke-u-lar)77 George Aitch Dubya Bush and her pals are here to FREE the SHIT outta abyss-occupied Iwo Jima

we're gonna sit back on a throne made of waifus and watch the fuckin amphibious superbowl.
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>>44414169

Yes.

Akebono for daughteru.
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>>44414146

idk man, i'm working on a parts list right now. It's starting to feel....excessive. Maybe. Probably not idk.
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>>44414174

and give advice on spooky shit going on.
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We've actually not gotten around to finding out what Shoukaku wanted or needed help with, didn't we?

We should ask her about it soon.
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>>44414228
We're never going to get anything done, because the people who are voices of reason can't get their posts in in the first 30 seconds of the vote. By then it's already over.
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>>44414228
She wants the D.
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>>44414228

Probably her bra.

*Ssssip.*
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>>44414245
BADUM-TSS
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>>44414199

Probably is. Simple shit is the best shit.
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>>44414241
truth
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>>44414259

I'm here all night.
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>>44414228

Should ask her about it then. Could do it later when watching the show. Not like we'll be very needed.
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>>44414228
shoukaku needs her sink fixed. her pipes are so backed up she almost FUCKED HER SISTER
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>>44414228
Whatever it is, it's probably less of a problem than her inability to make decent coffee. With that in perspective, she's better off now than if we had actually dealt with whatever she was going to ask us about.
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>>44413623
You deserve to get hit for thinking it's your fault.

You are the worst kind of narcissist.
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>>44413889
And yet when anon suggested the same to you you went all 'muh Valhalla' or something.
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>>44413981
>famas
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>>44414319
Secretary duties include bodyguard. I didn't do that. It's that simple.
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>>44414344
Hates just scared what would a kid of shipgirl/human would look like.
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>>44414344

Cos-

You fucking know what? Naw. I ain't explaining this shit the fourteenth time. Dipshit.
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So, whatever happened to Houshou?
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>>44414399
It was all a dream, anon. Just a very bad dream.
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>>44414080
>Nagato is fucking your wife.
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>>44414399
tore open a portal in time; flung her into the future
where crix's writing is canon
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>>44414263

I'm just tryin' to simplify the problem, is all.
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>>44414431
wew lad
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>>44414377
I bet half the scientists of the world want to know too. I wonder, will they be more ship, or more human? Will they be able to turn into a smaller version of the original ship? Where do they go if the shipgirl becomes a warship or goes shipgirl in combat? What of the offspring of a shipman?
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>>44414228
She can get in line. Hornet's had something to tell us for months now
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>>44414473

Pity this won't happen. Since Kongou got a taste for Navy Coffee
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>>44414489
Wasn't Hornet ok already?
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Anyone ever think there's hardly any focus in this quest?
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>>44414058
Role players, man. Just do something else until planefag updates.
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>>44414515
Sorry, i was too busy arguing about waifus to pay attention to your post.
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>>44414512
Besies the jealousy? Yeah she seems to be doing pretty alright now.
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>>44414515
No shit Sherlock. It's what happens when you have a horribly diverse group of readers and being too lazy to offset it.
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>>44414361

You know beating yourself up like this is just putting you closer and closer to your "sister"'s maw, right?

If you don't stop constantly martyring yourself, cutting yourself into little (bite-sized) pieces again and again and again, you're going to end up drawing her straight to the base with a bunch of her friends in tow.

Feeling guilt is fine. You DID mess up. But part of being a competent human being is knowing not to wallow in self-hatred. You have to pick yourself up and push forward - you don't have to get *over* it, but you do have to get *past* it.
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>>44414489
Yea but if a shipgirl comes to us directly, it must be abit urgent already. Thats how things blow up.

And then she just put it aside to look after us first, lack of coffee expertise none-withstanding.

We should ask to find out.
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>>44414381
Very good at dishing out, but not great at taking it. I understand your actual point, but making the same play at settle is hypocritical, Marine, when you refuse to do the same.
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>>44414361
Now you will never be able to react the scene from The Bodyguard while singing a Jackson song.
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...we still haven't gotten our shit from the post office, have we?
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>>44414593
Why is Goto watching an anime about Kongou?
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>>44414582

Because the same play doesn't fucking apply, dingus. I have one girl that is like family to me and one that's my fucking Valkyrie. that's fucking it. Not two ships that are openly and clearly after my dick. I have to fucking say this every fucking time you fucks start talking about dicking warships. A motherfucker and a bitch can have a close fucking relationship that not only doesn't fucking involve sex, but sex is with the other is fucking disgusting to think about.
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>>44414515
nah mate.
you're comparing it to curated archives of old quests with all the anon shiptoasting cut out, tiny questlets where only five to ten anons actually post, or forum quests where everyone lives in fear of the ding dong bannu.
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>>44414637
Cuz hes got the hots for her.
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>>44414641
I don't think the RP helps
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It takes you a few minutes to coax Shoukaku out of the kitchen - what finally gets her to stop making jittery excuses about cleaning the coffee pot is the simple statement “WE'RE LEAVING,” from Hamp, which brings her running. She catches your hand and slips her arm through yours tightly.

“Protecting my honor?” you say with a grin.

She flushes again. “That cruiser of yours is most indelicate.”

“Yeah, I don't brew up after one lousy bomb hit,” Hamp smirks.

“THAT WAS AKAGI AND SHUT UP,” Shoukaku snaps, shoving you sideways to shouldercheck Hamp by proxy. He slides a shit-eating grin off the corner of his mouth at her and takes a long, noisy sip from his starbucks cup. “Where are we going, anyway?”

“The base CIC. Well, our CIC, the glorified conference room.”

“We have an operation?”

“Invasion, actually. They're hitting Iwo Jima today.”

“What?” Shoukaku asks in surprise. “I didn't hear of any sorties.”

“No shipgirls on this operation,” you explain. “Pretty much everyone we had free and not deployed got chewed up pretty good in that big fleet scrap, and the rest of them need rest and refit. Our amphibious invasion transports haven't had anything to invade for the whole damn war, so they were ready to go.

“LSTs?” Hamp asks.

“Better. We've got light carriers - I guess they're the modern equivalent of a CVL or an escort carrier, really - that do nothing but operate helos and vertical take-off capable stuff to pound the ground in support of Marines. They can also airdrop them, and they've got boat wells for hovercraft - think a landing barge on cocaine and a hell of a lot faster.”

“Huh, no shit.” Hamp sips his coffee.

“Yeah. The USN doesn't use Large Slow Targets anymore; we've got ships that prioritize launching a bunch of air-cushion barges and big heavy helicopters to get shit ashore while leaving the transport at a safe distance.”
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>>44414705
>Yeah. The USN doesn't use Large Slow Targets anymore

Yet we still keep BuOrd around to fuck with our weapons development.
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“How big is the force, then?” Shoukaku asks curiously. “I was under the impression they barely had enough destroyers to go around even with us kanmusu in play.”

“Lessee - can I have my phone back?”

“Mmmhmm,” Shoukaku says, handing it back. You swipe your thumb over the lock screen, and -

“... Shoukaku?”

“Yes?”

You turn your phone to her, showing the new desktop picture of the long-haired woman sucking on a spoon while winking at the camera. “What is this?”

She peers at it. “Would you like one with me in an apron?”

“I never understood why aprons are supposed to be sexy,” you reply. “One of my first shipboard duties was dishwasher. There's nothing sexy about aprons.”

“Hmph,” Shoukaku says, turning her face away from you and releasing your arm. “Not when dirty yankee sailors are wearing them.”

“Lets see,” you mutter, paging through your phone. “Here, order of battle:”
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>>44414705

God dammit, I am going to miss having Hamp as our guard.
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>>44412519

Okay that is Bullshit of the highest order Incompetently led?
Her Captain retired a Vice Admiral Sorry you don't get stars for being Incompetent.
Most of her Crew were city boys who were never on a ship and trained literally on board.
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CSG Five:

CVN-77 George Bush
CG-54 USS Antietam
CG-67 USS Shiloh

DesRon 15:

DDG-56 USS John S. McCain
DDG-54 Curtis Wilbur

Combined Command Invasion Fleet:

LSD-48 Ashland
LSD-42 Germantown
LHD-2 USS Essex
LHD-6 USS Bonhomme Richard
LCC-19 Blue Ridge (Flagship)
LSD-46 Tortuga
DDH-976 ROKS Munmu the Great
LPH-6111 ROKS Dokdo
DDG-173 JDS Kongo
DDG-174 JDS Kirishima
DDH-184 JDS Kaga

Hamp is the first to chime in after you've finished reading off the list. “Munmu the Great? Who the actual hell?”

“South Koreans,” you tell him. “Pretty competent fellows.”

“The hell happened to the North?”

“Commies own it.”

“What, why didn't we stomp them?”

“Long story, that.”

You and Shoukaku flesh out the immediate postwar history for Hamp - the Soviet Union, China, Taiwan, the Korean War. You're still fielding his questions as best as your memory can when you reach the main administrative building. You all breathe a sigh of relief as you step into the nice, cool, air-conditioned interior - summer in southern Japan is no joke. The CIC is packed, as expected, but not bustling - the invasion is being run from the USS Blue Ridge, a radio-packed command ship built just for the purpose of orchestrating large amphibious invasions. You spot Hate off to one side - he's pouring about half a bottle of creamer into his full carafe. He seems to have brought his own Bun machine along on its own little rolly-cart. A few Corgis are orbiting it in restless little circles, clearly on guard duty.

“Hate,” you say by way of greeting.

“Skipper.” He trots over to meet you. “Came to watch the big show?”

“Indeed.” You peer at him - he's got his cover on, which no Marine on earth would do indoors. He catches your suspicious squint and decides to move quickly. “Ah, lady Shoukaku,” he says politely, picking his cover up by the brim and lifting it off his head.
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>>44414705
>Shoukaku snaps, shoving you sideways to shouldercheck Hamp by proxy
Kekekeke
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>>44414032

She's been back for three weeks, tops, and has no fucking idea how many options she's got.

You really think she's gonna stick around once she realizes the whole damn world is her oyster?
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>>44414701
The RP isn't affecting the shitty decision-making of anons.
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>>44414736
>BuOrd
Hasn't been around since the mid-60s, when the old Bureaus were abolished in favor of the unified Systems Commands that exist to deal with how heavily integrated naval weapons systems have to be now.
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Shoukaku lets out a yelp, jerking backwards as something on Hate's head *moves.* Hamp leans in, peering curiously, and takes a step back himself as he recognizes it.

“W-W-WHAT THE F-F-FFFFFFF-” Shoukaku manages to choke off the invective, but only just barely.

“That's Frank,” Hate says. “Found him in my hat when I put it on. Decided to leave him there. He likes it up there.”

“Of course,” you reply. “It'd be too hot atop a head with blood flow in it.”

“Mheeaaa, mediocre,” Hate mutters. He and Hamp sip their coffee at the same time. “Hey, want a refill?” He hoists the carafe at Hamp.

“HET,” Hamp says, warding the carafe off with his palm. “My tastes are very particular.”

“He likes to squeeze dough-boys,” Shoukaku adds brightly.

Hate retreats a few hasty steps. “Right well yeah cool yeah it's the twenty-first century and all that hokay going over here,” he says quickly, spinning on his heel and marching towards the big CIC screen. You and your small entorage follow.

“Tea~to~kuuuuuuu~” comes a familiar singsong voice. Glancing aside, you spot the flowing white garments of Kongou herself as she fairly frolics through the darkened CIC, a box in one hand and a steaming paper cup in the other. “I brought you something~”
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>>44414788
Is Kongo burnt out on trying to field some of Goto's paperwork yet?
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>>44414754
>“... Shoukaku?”
>“Yes?”
>You turn your phone to her, showing the new desktop picture of the long-haired woman sucking on a spoon while winking at the camera. “What is this?”
>She peers at it. “Would you like one with me in an apron?”
SHOUKAKU
SHOUKAKU WAT R U DOIN
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>>44414799
>implying the bastards ever left
hail hydra
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>>44414754
>You turn your phone to her, showing the new desktop picture of the long-haired woman sucking on a spoon while winking at the camera. “What is this?”
>She peers at it. “Would you like one with me in an apron?”
>“I never understood why aprons are supposed to be sexy,” you reply. “One of my first shipboard duties was dishwasher. There's nothing sexy about aprons.”

Love you shou
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You recognize her victim's profile - Goto, of course, standing so ramrod straight you didn't identify his shadowed form at first. He lifts one hand from his side, rotating only from the elbow to accept the donut placed gingerly in his hand. Kongou just steps across his front so he can robotically hoist the other forearm and receive the coffee cup. She stands there, staring up at him with open adoration as he studiously stares straight ahead at the CIC screen. After a few moments she slips away reluctantly, then bounces (quite literally; given her outfit) to the door with unhidden giddy exuberance, eyes squeezed shut in excitement.

“That's new,” Shoukaku says softly.

“Shoukaku?”

“Yes?”

“I can't feel my hand.”

Shoukaku peers at you quizzically - then releases your arm as if it just burned her. “Oooh,” she says with embarrassment, hands shooting up to cover her mouth. “I didn't mean to- Settle?”

You're already three strides distant, closing on Goto fast. “YOU!” you bellow, shocking every spectator in the CIC.

Goto's head slews-to-cue on you, his eyes cold, glassy, and seeking the heat of your beating heart. “YOU!” he bellows back.
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>>44414562
I'm working on it. That's why I offered to get back to the job in the first place instead of just sailing in a direction until one of them found me.

>>44414592
Damn it. Never mind, off I go.

>>44414788
Yep.

Riddle me this, Admiralhu Ackbar. When Kongou went crying to you about her unsatiated girlboner for Goto, you told her to act quiet. Dependable. Reliable. Always be his rock. That'd steal any admiral's heart, right?

Now why in the hell would you tell Kongou she should act like Arizona to win someone's love?
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>>44414799
So it does less than before but with more words?
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>>44414792
fuck you. democracy is always right, even when it's wrong.
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>>44414842
Goto done snapped
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“YOU DIRTY ROTTEN SON OF A BITCH!”

“YOU DOUBLE-CROSSING UNDERHANDED LOUDMOUTHED SEAMEN-SUCKER!”

“WHY DIDN'T YOU WARN ME, YOU UGLY SLANT-EYED YELLOW-BELLIED SAP-SUCKING SONOFABITCH!?”

“WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY TO HER, YOU SHIT-KICKING JIZZ-JUGGLING DIPSHIT!?”

You and Goto come to a halt inches from each other's noses in the middle of the CIC.

“THE TURRETS, YOU ASSWIPE.”

“KONGOU, YOU FUCKBARGE.”

You both take a deep breath.

“Creepy. Little. Eldritch. TURRETS,” you opine, pointing at your eyes. “WITH HOLLOW AND EMPTY EYES.”

“Kongou,” Goto hisses back. “Kongou, using an *indoor voice.*”

“Creepy, uncanny valley, unholy abominations that rip apart the mind just to *behold,*” you snap, your pointing finger vibrating in air near Goto's cheek.

“Kongou acting *sweet,*” Goto retorts. “Kongou HANDING me shit instead of twisting her arms into mine and trying to make me eat a donut out of her goddamned mouth like a fucking baby bird!”

You and Goto both snap your gaze to the peanut gallery for judgement. Hamp, Shoukaku and Hate all purse their mouths, and finally waggle their flattened hands in a so-so gesture.

“This isn't over,” you promise.

“Damn straight,” Goto hisses. His dark eyes are intense and haunting in the shadowed room.

Without further ado, you both pick up your headsets, don them, and tune into the invasion-in-progress.
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>>44414807
>“He likes to squeeze dough-boys,” Shoukaku adds brightly.
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>>44414639
Eeesh, wasn't even baiting. I got it and said so. Down boy.
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>>44414865

I fuckin like her. She's a helpful fuckin girl. NICE FUCKIN CHANGE OF PACE AROUND THIS FUCKING PLACE.
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>>44414864
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
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>>44414864
>exchange
IZZ FUNNY TO ME
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>>44414852
Pretty much. Though at least we don't get fuckups like nearly scuttled the Iowas before first metal was even cut any more, since BuShips and the shipboard-weapons side of BuOrd got married into NAVSEA...
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>>44414637
She has replaced all his DVD's with videos of her.
Its just her and her sisters doing crude parodies of the videos original contents.
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>>44414864

Waifu choice fucked over Goto
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>>44412954
Or you could check out the transcripts I've compiled at
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/kant-o-celle-quest-a-kantai-collection-game-transcribed-from-4chan.345865/
or
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/kant-o-celle-quest-a-kantai-collection-game-transcribed-from-4chan.19609/

Check the thread-marks if you're after something specific.
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>>44414850
>Now why in the hell would you tell Kongou she should act like Arizona to win someone's love?

WHY ARE YOU SO YOU
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>>44414925
>Space Battles
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEahh fuck it, I can't get a rage boner from this anymore.
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>>44414916
With Kongou, you don't pick waifu, waifu picks you
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>>44414864
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>>44414928
Good night, Admiral.
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Heh Shoukaku got a little bit of revenge.
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>>44414864


Yaoi, right?
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>>44414925

Also, you. I haven't posted on SB to say it, so I'll say here how much I appreciate you going through the trouble of crossposting my story. I especially like how you bother to snip out non-story posts that are relevant to the discussion for the SB readers, too.

Still writing, everyone - I'm approaching my prewritten materiel so this shouldn't take long. Or "shouldn't take long."
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>>44414850
Did that win? I don't recall, I just remember us voting not to go that far but just be helpful to Goto.
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>>44414943

Not kongou herself but having Kongou acting like arizona.
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>>44414925
But then we'd have to go to spacebattles.
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>>44414963
KITAKAMI-SAMA!~
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>>44414966
Yeah, he's been doing a good job with that
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>>44414807
>“HET,” Hamp says, warding the carafe off with his palm
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>>44414999
Put those torps away before they kill someone.
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>>44415005

Better than SV
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>>44414999
TORPEDO WARNING
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>>44414971
Yes, "Act like Arizona" explicitly won
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A gift to Ghost Division...Musashi-sensei.
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>>44414981
There's a rar archive of pf posts floating around somewhere. It even comes with a collection of drawfaggings.
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>>44415075

Unf. The teacher/office lady thing never did much for me, but damn she wears it well.
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>>44414916
"fucked over"
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>>44415051
It did? Settle did think that Kongou not like acting like Kongou will break Gotou's heart.

I only remember him telling him just to cool off a bit and help him productively.
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Settle never seen just an apron on a girl like Shoukaku.
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>>44415087
I also have Musashi in; Wedding dress, off shoulder sweater, office attire, and MILF w/ baby Musashi...and preferences?
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>>44415087

Girl like that... She'd could be wearing nothing at all...

*ssssip*

Mreowl.
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>>44412994
Cannot unsee.
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>>44415094
He told her to always be at his side, ready to help him, and then used Ari as an example.
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>>44415117
link to pixiv/danbooru instead of consuming the image limit before delayfag finishes his story posts?
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>>44415138
You're going to make Hornet bomb a love hotel, and all that lonely blood is going to be on your hands.
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I think the major problem for Goto is that it is working. Keeping Kongou at arms length must a have been a trial before now. Job never knew how good he had it.
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I'm still pretty sure it was a good decision and these are the "ahah funny" consequences and not "you fucked up" consequences, but I doubt sometimes.
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>>44415191
Also the unknown, not knowing when the other dess will drop.

Not exactly helpful when trying to fight a war.
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>>44415200
Yeah. It was ghe 'worst' option because it was the best advice. A helpful and restrained Kongou is exactly the kind of rock that Goto needs to lean on, even if it also wants to shag him senseless
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>>44415188

She hasn't laid claim to me. I'm still a free man who can ogle me some thick belt armor when I feel like it.
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>>44415254
You can do her the courtesy of *telling her that*.
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>>44415254
Why dont you lay claim to her?
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>>44415288
So he can ogle him some thick belt armor when he feels like it.
Dude just came back, let him look around a bit before he gets saddled with someone.
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>>44415254

21st century advice here.

A large number of girls these days are a lot more sensitive about being checked out - as in "will cry rape if you look at them" sensitive.

Hornet's ready and willing and you probably won't have a "man of steel, woman of kleenex" issue with her.

A belt in the hand is worth two in the bush, buddy.
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>>44415326
Fleet ending best ending.

But as for my ending, I'm crawling into bed. Damn you time differences.

I'll have Nelson and Victory ready as soon as this damn cold stops making my bones ache like this...

>>44415385
Nah, they only do that when the person looking at them doesn't match their preferences. Hamp has noooo worries there.

Plus, you think he'd be eyeing up those kinds of girls, with all these ships around? Do me a favour.
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>>44415282
>>44415288
>>44415385

She's her own woman. She knows where to find me when she's good and ready.
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Speaking of belt armor, if three inches makes Hamp a sight for sore eyes, just imagine-
>Shoukaku: 8.5"
>Iowa: 12.1"
>Arizona: 13.5"
>Kaga: 6"
Tasty
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>She's her own woman. She knows where to find me when she's good and ready.
Good guy Hamp. Stay classy, bruh.
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>>44415427

*ssssip*

You get it, sir.
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>>44415428

Roger hamp.

We'll work on her.
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Behold! A fully dressed Shimakaze!
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>>44415428

She's also the kinda lady who wants to be swept off her feet. That means YOU going to HER.

No matter how hard she's pining for your fjords, she's going to wait for you to Manifest Destiny her.
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>>44415492
>Behold! A fully dressed Shimakaze!
WHAT MADNESS IS THIS!?!?!
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>>44415492

Sorta slow, but not as lewd.
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>>44415492
More like overdressed.

And she doesn't look very happy about it.
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>>44415508
Winter
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>>44415492
Who gave her my coat? now it's a whore-coat. I'll never be able to wear it again!
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>>44414776

>LSD-48 Ashland
>LSD-46 Tortuga
>LHD-6 USS Bonhomme Richard

Oh god, my old girls...

All those puking Marines...
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>>44415573
Nah, don't worry. Given that most of 'em are too young to have been in the sandbox, they'll be too busy pissing themselves to puke.
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>>44415571
But Sammy it was a whore coat after you got it~
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>>44415573
>LSD

Lots of Hallucinating marines too?
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>>44415492
Gotta go fast.
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>>44415571

You're complaining about her wearing it?

After you bragged about how many horny young men you've had inside you?
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>>44415607
The fuck are you implying, nigger?
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>>44415573
stupid question here, Whats the difference between a LHD, LPH, and a LSD?
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>>44415645
That you got a mouth like a two cent hooker.
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>>44415573
Oh god, Parker I'm so sorry.

About the Marines, but also the op... I can't think of many ways this will go well...

>>44415654
I wanna know too, when I return in the morning...
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>>44415645
he's implying that you're a cunt and a whore.
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>>44415654
Aviation facilities, I think
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>>44415603

Oh, you'd THINK that...

>>44415618

"Landing Ship, Dock". They got the space to gear 'em up and push 'em out.
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>>44415654
L is for landing ship. H is for whether or not they can launch helicopters, and D if they have a well dock.

So an LHD is a landing ship that carries helicopters and has a well dock, an LSD is a landing ship that has a well dock, but no helicopters, and an LPD is a landing ship that has helicopters but no dock. It has different lettering because Korea.
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>>44415657
Nice knowing ya man, because here comes the pain train
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>>44415754
*LPH, sorry. Stands for Landing Platform, Helicopter.
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>>44415754
And knowing is half the battle. Come for the waifus, stay for the naval information
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>>44415657
Nice knowing ya man, here comes the pain train
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>>44415774
>And knowing is half the battle. Come for the waifus, stay for the naval information
Kantai Collection in a nutshell, honestly.
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>>44415117

I've probably seen all of them. And saved all of them, too.
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“... what's going on?” Shoukaku says, peering at the computerized map being projected onto the screen.

“You guys know how to read a plot, right?”

“Kind of,” Hamp says with a frown. “I don't recognize any of the symbols.”

“Here, I'll give you a rundown.” You pick up your remote, easily identifiable by the masking tape label, and swish it at the screen to employ the built-in laser pointer. “That's the carrier battle group, the Bush. Those little icons are for aircraft. She's conducting air ops right now.”

Shoukaku squints at the screen, watching it intently. “So those are aircraft?”

“Yeah.”

“If she's launching, where's all her planes?”

“Eh?”

She points. “I've been watching those for the last few minutes - she's got a good ten planes in the landing pattern waiting for her to clear her decks, but only two come off the bow every minute and a half or so.” She shakes her head. “It should only take about thirty seconds betwen planes - less, if they're good.”

“Oh,” you say. “Hold up.” Fiddling with your remote, you bring up a PIP and select the camera on Bush's flight control deck. It snaps into focus just in time to catch a Super Hornet snagging the #3 wire. You adjust your headset.

“Bush, this is Admiral Settle calling. Mind panning your trap cam to show the deck? I've got a curious Shoukaku-class here.”

A chuckle, and then the camera obligingly slews to show the angled deck.

“.... oh,” Shoukaku says in surprise. “Is that why they look like that?”

“You didn't know this?” Goto asks quizzically. “I thought someone explained that.”
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>>44415654

Cargo space, hangar space, welldeck capacity.

LHDs have greater cargo capacity than the LPHs. LPHs have more personnel space.

LSDs have greater docking capacity.

LHDs/LPHs can fit one LCAC or LCU in their welldecks, while an LSD can fit three LCACs or two LCUs.

LHDs and LPHs DO have STOL/VTOL flight decks and can launch VTOL aircraft like SH-60s and F-35s, whereas the LSDs can only launch and recover helos.
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>>44415782
And you also get gems of info like this
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>>44415618
imagine you're a jarhead crossing the ocean on a small wobbly passenger ferry with 500 smelly broheims and just enough brass to keep you from turning this shit to jamaica and never looking back
the battlefield 1942 loading theme has been playing softly through the intercom 24/7 for six weeks
scuttlebutt is that none of the shipgirls are even going to be there to see your awesome fight
you wonder if you can have sex with abyssals. you also sorta wonder if they're edible. it's been a long trip.
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>>44415788
All this showing how the new current navy operations are carried out.

Delicious.
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>>44415838
Agreed
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>>44415820
>the battlefield 1942 loading theme has been playing softly through the intercom 24/7 for six weeks
Hahaha
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Shoukaku shakes her head a bit. “Not really... I mean, I wondered. Somebody said it was Kato-burr, or something...” she shrugs. “We've never worked with a modern carrier, and when I'm off-duty... I'm off-duty.” You feel her fingertips brush your sleeve, as if wanting to slip her arm through yours again, but she leaves you be. “So you can land and launch at the same time?”

“Yeah. A lot of our wartime carriers were retrofitted with angled decks afterwards. And we don't stack up planes to launch anymore - they're just too damn big. Every launch is a cat launch. There's two on the bow, and two on the edge of the angled deck. They're recovering and launching at the same time right now, because they're not even sixty miles shy of the island; burning fuel during form-up loiter isn't an issue.”

“Ah,” Shoukaku says softly.

Hamp crosses his arms, peering at the screen disapprovingly. “The carrier's got a few destroyers for escort?”

“Is that bad?”

He points at the labeled icons nearer to the north beach of Iwo Jima. “Escorting CAs should stick by the carriers they're escorting,” he says sternly.

“Those Burkes displace about ten thousand tons,” you inform him.

“... they do?”

“Yeah.”

“So why the hell do they call them destroyers?”

“Because they're not built from the ground-up to provide air defense for carriers like the Ticonderoga-class cruisers are.”

Hamp lets a satisfied grin spread over his mug. “Ah. Better.”

“Indeed. They carry two five-inch guns, so they're down there to provide fire support.”
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>>44415784
I wouldn't doubt given that you're coco for Coco Puffs.
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>>44415820
>none of the shipgirls are even going to be there to see your awesome fight
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>>44415851
>“Indeed. They carry two five-inch guns, so they're down there to provide fire support.”

Incoming spit take.
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>>44415851
>Teaching Hamp the weirdness between the burkes and the ticonderoga's classification
Hhehehe
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>>44415851
>two five-inch guns
i know better but man that sounds kinda weedy
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>>44415893
Thats the 'exact same' armament that SAMMY has. The destroyer escort.
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>>44415893

It is weedy.

And unfortunately, seriously lacking in an age where battleships are on the seas once more.
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“Aahahahahahahahah,” Hamp says. “Ahaha. Hah. Ha. Say that again.”

“Two five-inch guns.”

“Uh.” He makes an odd, uncomfortable grimace. “Well, those are guns. Bit far out, aren't they?”

“Yeah, you'll see in a minute,” you chuckle. “Here. Those are the hovercraft.” You switch camera feeds again - the landing ships are minutes from shore, and the heloborne assault teams are already on the ground. Shoukaku and Hamp watch as rapt as the other shipgirls and personnel crammed into the room.

“How many soldiers?” someone asks from behind you.

“At least six companies of marines,” Hate says. “That South Korean amphib alone holds at least seven hundred.”

“At least?” the cool new voice says.

“It sailed from Korea with a full load of troops from Camp Mujuk,” Hate replies. “A bunch of South Korean marines boarded at the last minute and nobody had the balls to ask them to leave, so-” he shrugs. “A lot.”

The newcomer steps up between you and Goto - from the uneven silhouette of her hair, you recognize Kaga. She watches silently as a fresh flight of Sea Cobras lift off from the Bonhomme Richard and fly over a destroyer flying the Japanese flag.

“Which one is that?”

“JDS Kongo.”

Kaga just hrms. “And that one?”

“Kirishima.”

Kaga folds her arms over her stomach, standing silently as the camera shifts to the LHDs. “Are those what you call light carriers, now?”
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>>44415917
GPS-guided projectiles, though
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>>44415917
>And , seriously lacking in an age where battleships are on the seas once more.
Over the horizon Beyond-Visual Range Missiles Anon.
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>>44415851
So, just verifying, it's the Ticos on fire support and the Burkes on escort?
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>>44415887
>>44415893
>TWO GUNS, NIGGA!
>SHOOT TWO NIGGAS AT ONCE!
>SHOOT ONE NIGGA TWICE!
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>>44415932
>700 ROKMC jarheads
wtf is this, Operation Detachment 2: Joint Ops Boogaloo?
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“Kind of,” Goto says. “Ones built as light carriers usually have a ski-ramp at the end to help them launch real fighters. These-” his own laser pointer swishes around an F-35 - “are proper fighters that can take off and land vertically, but they're very new. None of these small decks were built for the job originally - they were all VTOL carriers; either helicopters, or fixed-wing aircraft only really fit for ground-attack in support of an amphibious invasion.”

Kaga points. “That one. She only has helo-copters?”

“Yeah. She's handling most of the anti-submarine patrols for the fleet, actually.”

“What's her name?”

Goto grins. “That'd be the Kaga.”

You study Kaga's face in profile; her expression inscrutable in the soft glow of the CIC's glowing screens. For some reason it bothers you, so you pick up your own remote and focus back on the beaches. “Here, they're calling in another wave of airstrikes. Let's listen in.” With a few button presses, the speakers in the CIC come to life for the benefit of everyone without a command headset.

“Grizzly one-one on station, two F-18s holding at point Zulu. Eight GBU-12s, full guns and FLIR. Available for tasking.”

“Grizzly One-One, this is Eyeball One, I have tasking, type one. IP is north-west Islet, IP Bravo. Ingress heading One-One-Eight, distance one-point-five miles, elevation tree-two-eight feet. Infantry in close-contact with probable friendlies, expect talk-on. Guns only, repeat, gun-run only. Targets at two-fowar, fowar-seven, two-one North, One-fohwar-one, one-eight, tree-eight East. Recommend egress due north.”

“Grizzly to Eyeball One, that is heading one-one-eight, distance one-point-five miles, elevation tree-two-eight, danger-close, guns-only.”

“Grizzly one-one, readback correct.”
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>>44415946

Dont work against abyssals.
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>>44415932
>“Are those what you call light carriers, now?”
NO NO IS DESTROYER!

HELICOPTER DESTROYER!
IS NOT OFFENSIVE WEAPON!
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>>44415956
If Sammy hasn't seen this pic yet, I'll be severely disappointed.
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>>44415950

Yes. The Burkes are pretty damn good at the job, and you kicked the shit out of the abyssals hard enough that they judged it worth the risk.

More gun power on the beaches is what they want, and no Zumwalts are available.

>>44415956

also this
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>>44415962
>Dont work against abyssals.
Have we been reading the same quest?
They worked pretty fine against Abbyssals the last fight we had. Shipgirls are just fucktons cheaper than missiles. And they're both still cheaper than building a brand new purpose-built "Battleship
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“Copy that, Eyeball. Approaching IP now.”

“Roger, Grizzly, I've got visual on you. Advise when ready for talk-on.”

“IP inbound, talk sexy.”

“Continue.”

The FLIR feed flickers into being on the CIC's main screen fifteen seconds later as the JTAC guides the Hornets in; the licking line of 20mm tracers -

“Guns guns guns from two!”

- walking up the craggy hill towards black blobs that scurry and scatter. You catch a glimpse of ground troops - humans - to the right, running hunched-over for new cover as they advance. The JGSDF on Iwo aren't waiting idly for their rescue, it seems.

Goto wields his remote, and the voiceover changes abruptly to the inter-ship comms network, the lifeline that links the CICs of every ship to the command center in the Blue Ridge.
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>>44415960
>an F-35
>proper fighters
took them long enough holy shit
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>>44415983
>Zumwalts

Is this an alternate universe where they built more then 1?
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>>44416001
>>44415960
>Air tasking pillow talk
Yes
This pleases the Marine ANGLICOs
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>>44415960
Kaga's so smaaaaaall!

Kaga's so cuuuuuuute!
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“Richard, what's the word on those Cobras?”

“We're ready for flight ops, tell us where you want'em.”

“Put them on Bravo for me.”

“Copy that.”

“Essex, this is flag, what's your deck like?”

“STACKED TO THE GUNWALES WITH DEATH!”

“... Essex, please repeat.”

“Flag, that wasn't-”
“ITS HOGS WALL TO WALL, CAP'N!”

“... Essex, I need that strike in the air, god dammit!”

“YOUR WILL IS MY COMMAND!”

“Flag, this is Essex-”

“You already confirmed, Essex, stop jamming the net!”

“THAT WASN'T ME, FLAG!”

The commander's deep, shaky breath is loud enough to activate his mic. “Essex, are you launching your strike? Yes or no.”

“Affirmative!”

A miserable sigh. “And Goto thinks *he's* got it tough,” the commander gripes. Goto leans back and crosses his arms, giving the little blue icon of USS Blue Ridge a rather huffy look. You take up your own remote and scroll through available radio channels for a minute, sampling the radio chatter at will as the airspace over the littorals begins to glow blue with new aircraft tracks.

... a *lot* of aircraft tracks.
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>Battle-chatter porn
Unf
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>>44415856

Musashi, specifically, though delicious is delicious regardless of what name she has.
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>>44415997
>Have we been reading the same quest?

Are we?

Remember the fuzzy tracking? That was the reason why we sent tasking for the missiles to go off against iwo jima instead of the STF?

And that in the first battle against the abyssals, Settle had to lock onto a stricken coast guard vessel for a targeting solution?

We are reading the same quest?
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>>44416023
>somebody who actually fucking knows how to do a nine-line brief is in here

please don't hit me I tried very hard
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>>44416030
>Essex acting like an RTS unit

What the fuck?
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>>44416026
DDH Kaga is almost exactly as large as the old carrier Kaga, mate
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HMS Repulse entering Vancouver Harbor sometime in 1924.
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Was that CV-9?
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>>44416014
Dude, we built three of 'em in THIS universe.
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“Flag to Essex, what the hell are you doing now?”

“.... launching?” comes the rather hesitant reply from Essex.

“Launching WHAT!?”

“Strike... package... alpha?” Essex's skipper ventures experimentally.

“Define this strike package Alpha.”

“THIRTY-FIVE FIGHTERS!”

“Aay-” the flag commander replies, at a momentary loss for vocalization. “F-35s?”

“YES,” the skipper replies emphatically.

The screen is showing a good fifteen fresh bogies in the air now, another one appearing every thirty seconds or so. “You put up your whole fighter complement?”

“The whole goddamned deckload!”

“Right...” The Essex had 15 Lightnings embarked, so as bogies 16 and 17 pop into view, circling as they form up their strike, the commander speaks with new confidence. “Big strike, what the hell are those extra aircraft you're putting up-”

“FOR-YOU'S!”

You, Goto and Hate all rock back on your heels, rolling with the punch you can all feel coming. The Flag Commander's ragged exhalation hints at the roiling wrath in his breast. “Essex. I will ask you. One. ONE more time. What the FUCK you are launching,” the commander says, his voice surging and recoiling like an attack dog lunging at the end of its chain.

“BEES, FLAG, BEES!”

Goto covers his face in sadness, and Hate presses his cover to his chest, head bowed.
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>>44416074
Where did you see anything say CV-9?
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>>44416050
Shouldn't it be SAY AGAIN and not REPEAT though?
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>>44416030
Well. We just had a kanmusu volunteer, didn't we? That's gonna be fuckin' confusin' as hell on the radio...
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>>44416043
>Remember the fuzzy tracking?
That was solved by recalibrating the tracking software and lighting the motherfuckers up like a christmas tree?
>That was the reason why we sent tasking for the missiles to go off against iwo jima instead of the STF?
IIRC we sent the missiles there because the threat of medium bombers from Iwo's airfields was bigger and was easier to hit than ships that are moving and can evade regardless of their abyssal voodoo magic?
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>>44416105
>BEES
My, God.
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>>44416030
>>44416105
...What the fuck is up with Essex?
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“Meme at me... *one* more time,” the commander breathes, his voice sizzling through the distance barrier and getting very, very intimate in your ear. “I dare you, skipper. I *double dog* dare you.”

“B MODEL B MODEL LIGHTINGS F-35 LIGHTNING II B-MODELS FOR FUCKS SAKE-”

“SO WHAT ARE THE OTHER SEVEN, NO, EIGHT FUCKING AIRCRAFT LEAVING YOUR FUCKING DECK!?”

“HOGS!”

“What the *fuck!?*” the Flag commander replies.

“Sir, we're only launching Lightnings-”

“Hog? Light - what's the fucking strike loadout-”

“GUNS AND ROCKETS AND FUEL-AIR BOMBS-”

“A-10S?” the flag commander snaps. “YOU LAUNCHING A-10S OFF YOUR FUCKING LHD, SKIPPER? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME?”

“Sir, I have no idea what the fuck you are babbling about.”

“NEITHER DO I!” the flag commander nearly screams. He turns and screams at an aide so loudly you can hear a little of it via the voice-activation feature - apparently an order to turn on transponders, because four of the bogies course tracks are quickly resolved a lot more precisely, and they're clearly labeled as F-35s.
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>>44416116
Iwo Jima ate the missiles because they were the bigger threat, and because the subs had the carriers under control. It was the only realistic choice
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>>44416142
>“HOGS!”
KEKEKEKEKEKE
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“One. More. Time,” the commander tries. “Essex, what the hell did you put in the air?”

The response rolls in, a garbled mess of overlapping syllables that strings out to something strangely congruent:

“FOUR EF THIRTYFIVE F-FOR'US WITH SMALLTINY TIMDIAMETER ROCKDAMS!”

The conspicuous silence is of the respectful two-minutes kind; a few observing shipgirls are even covering their mouths in horror. At last, the other shoe falls, and the commander replies.

“Skipper, give your headset to your TAO.”

“Sir, there's-”

“GIVE THE PHONE TO DADDY, SON.”

The chastened skipper of LHD-2 hands over his headset, and a second later the TAO comes on. “Sir, we're being AWAY MY MINIONS by some other CRATE OF MOTHERFUCKING THUNDER! nearby WAIT THAT'S CHAIRFORCE.”

“... I, uh-”

“WE'RE BEING ESSEX EXTRAVAGANZA TWO OVER OUR TRANS-HOG BOOGALOO!”

Hate's head slowly rotates, his eyes full of queries you cannot answer. Almost a minute of awkward silence passes on the ship-to-ship fleetwide commo net before the commander speaks again.

“Blue Ridge calling Essex, come in, Essex.”

“Who calls upon the GREAT USS Essex, FIRST among the fleet!?”

There's a polite little “ding!” as USS Blue Ridge's RF equipment gets a vector on the transmission - a narrow wedge-shape with a (very rough) range estimate. One thing's clear; it's not coming from the Essex's proper position.

“Essex, please report your position.”

“IN THE WATER!”

“Oh Jesus,” the commander breathes.

“WHERE!?” comes the incredulous, yet excited reply.
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>>44416030
>>44416105
>>44416142
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>>44416142

What the fuck is going on with Essex?

Is she pulling an Iowa and the extras are coming from her shipgirl form?
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>>44416133
Thats not the ship we chased the corgies onto is it?
The one where all the sailors were at the ends o their ropes from a combo of overwork and anxiety?
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>>44416030
>>44416105
>>44416142


>scared.jpg.png.gif.bmp.tiff

I think I know EXACTLY whats going on...
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>>44416161
ruh-roh, radmiral
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>>44416179
no, that was a Destroyer, I think.
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You hear Hate's cover hit the floor a second before he starts shaking your shoulder and pointing at one of the PIP windows. You fumble with the remote till he snatches it from you and changes PIP focus himself, thrusting it forward like a sword to make the IR beam go faster. The feed (from an orbiting Fire Hawk) is enlarged just in time to see a navy-blue aircraft come screaming in towards an AA pit near the older, shorter airstrip. Bright flares ignite beneath both wings, and it peels away as two massive weapons part company and thunder past the smoking tracers; like a pair of cruise missiles launched at point-blank range.

“Four-U,” Hate says.

“F-4U,” Goto repeats.

“Hogs,” you add.

“USS Essex,” comes the commander's voice, dripping with dread. “Please verify your pennant number.”

“LHD-2-”

“CEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *NINE!*”

That's about when Goto self-destructs. His high-pitched whooping laughter whips around the room as he hunches over, grabbing his midsection helplessly. He begins to wheeze as he runs out of air. Kongou slides in to catch him before he can fall to the floor, felled by asphyxiation. “W-who's g-got it h-hard now, a-a-ssho-ole?” he manages, before surging into a fresh spate of guffaws.

[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
[ ] Say nothing. For once, it's someone else's damn rodeo.
[ ] Put Shoukaku on the line - she's such a sweet girl, she could get through to anyone.
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>>44416175
No, this is the weapon to surpass the Dess. I'm sure of it.

This is CV-9
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>>44416161
OH
OH
SHIT
NIGGA
IT'S
THE
ESSEX
FUCK
NEW SHIPGIRL
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Sup.
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>>44416195
>[ ] Say nothing. For once, it's someone else's damn rodeo.
>[ ] Put Shoukaku on the line - she's such a sweet girl, she could get through to anyone.
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>>44416043
We missile striked Iwo because we could use GPS guidance to crater the runway and not have to worry about hitting a moving target. Abyssals can't fool GPS, by the time the missile enters the electromagnetic fuckery radius it's already going terminal, the only thing you can do is a crazy ivan or shoot it down.
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>>44416195
[X] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.


"Essex, we'e made the japs a colony, do not kill meatballs. repeat do not kill meatballs"
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
Now. Is it a boy or a girl?
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>>44416206
FUCKING CV-9 IN THE HOUSE YO
HOLY SHIT
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
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>>44416195
>[ ] Say nothing. For once, it's someone else's damn rodeo.

We don't want to interrupt operations. Especially during such a critical time.
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.

I don't expect it to work, but we should probably try before somebody gets sunk.
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>>44416195

>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.

>>44416197

Good giess.
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
Do it in the Admiral Voice that Brooks No Discussion.
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>>44416195
>[x] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
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>>44416195
>[ ] Say nothing. For once, it's someone else's damn rodeo.
>[ ] Put Shoukaku on the line - she's such a sweet girl, she could get through to anyone.
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>>44416195
>Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence
This literally is our job, also hahahaha holy shit
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
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>>44416195
>[ ] Say nothing. For once, it's someone else's damn rodeo.
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
We need to make some pretense of having authority.
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why is CV-9 so.... energetic?
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>>44416195
>[ ] Say nothing. For once, it's someone else's damn rodeo.
>[ ] Put Shoukaku on the line - she's such a sweet girl, she could get through to anyone.

I want to see what happens.

Shou, darling. Do your stuff.
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
Whisper at will, Commander.
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>>44416206
Is she literally on fire from the stacks?
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FUCK

FUCK

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK
I'M DONE
I'M OUT OF HERE
OH MY FUCKING GOD
NO
I CAN'T TAKE THIS
NO
PLEASE NO
I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE
I'M SORRY
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>>44416195


O-oh, just another of the Returned.

CV-9, huh? Cool.

A-at least the active ships aren't also waking...
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>>44416195
>[X] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
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>>44416206
>fold-up elevator
Cute!
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>>44416195
>[x] Say nothing. For once, it's someone else's damn rodeo.
not our circus, not our monkeys. he's shooting the right way so what could we add, really?
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>>44416275
no anon, that's just steam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M semi-related.
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>>44416195
[ x] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.

Failing that,mothe shoukaku option
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>>44416268
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>>44416195
>[ ] Put Shoukaku on the line - she's such a sweet girl, she could get through to anyone.
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>>44416195
>[X] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
OMG AMAZING.
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>>44416195
>[X] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
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>>44416268
She's is powered by INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH HOTBLOOD!
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>>44416195
>[x] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
"CV-9, Be advised, the Nips on Iwo are on *our* side. Please shoot the horrible demon things instead."
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>Shoukaku
>a sweet girl
What? She was one of the superstitious Shigure-shunners. Everything we've heard about the IJN carrier girls is bitchiness to eachother. She's a fucking Jap, more ro Essex's concern.
This is not a good choice.
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So why is CV9 the American Kongou?
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>>44416195

[x ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.

DEESSEST Essex
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>>44416278

wat
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>>44416283
>A-at least the active ships aren't also waking...
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
I know exactly what's happening and all I can say is that we probably deserved this.
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How bad is the rest of his or her 17 sisters and brothers going to be?
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>>44416268
hamp only has like four aviators perched on his shoulders whispering insanity in his ears
essex keeps a whole chickenshed of PAHLOTS
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>>44416071
Fuck. I know that shoreline. That bridge is over the Capilano river. Whole damn forest is a shopping mall now. Fuck this city's young.
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>>44416374
Intrepid is going to be into space shit, and the Illuminati
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>>44416195

>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
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Of all the possible shipgirls we could have had spontaneously appear, I don't think anyone called CV-9.

Looks like she's gonna be a source of shenanigans, though. Her first meeting with Sammy should be epic.
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>>44416385
Right, but planefag was just exaggerating about how crazy US pilots could get in SWQ, right?
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
>[ ] Put Shoukaku on the line - she's such a sweet girl, she could get through to anyone.


We actually need to do both.

Explain everything to the other flags in the Fleet AND get a liaison to help CV-9 in the current air op.

The USN admirals and captains may have some idea of how to work with kanmusu but CV-9 him/herself would have no idea how to incorporate themselves into a modern USN operation.

We need another kanmusu to help smooth things over.
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>>44416195
>[Z] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.

WHERE IS MY POPCORN?!?!
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>>44416195
>[X] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
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>>44416385

So does Hornet. And Hornet is more or less sane.

DOn't look at me like that. I said more or fucking less.
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>>44416195
I'm not entirely sure this is the correct move, but:
[X] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
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>>44416412
Just make it a harrier carrier and tell it to stand by and follow orders
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>>44416411
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAno
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>>44416283
Stay calm, Parker.
Don't let the humming get you worked up.
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>>44416410
I just searched the threads. CV-9 never even came up before now. Not even we wanted CV-9. It sure as fuck isn't Enterprise.
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>>44416412
Shou just shou'd she has bugger-all combined-ops experience too.

We need a carriergirl who's worked with conventional assets before.

We need to put *Kaga* on the line.
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VOOOOOOTES CALLED
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
>[ ] Put Shoukaku on the line - she's such a sweet girl, she could get through to anyone.

Need shou's help.
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>>44416411
get ready to have your potatos rotated m8
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>>44416232
>>44416195
On second thought, changing to this:
[ ] Say nothing. For once, it's someone else's damn rodeo.

Or at least wait for ADM Thomas or whoever is on Blue Ridge to ask us to bring her up to speed first, protocol and all. She's already pointed the right direction so we don't need to panic mode.
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>>44416439
>Not even we wanted CV-9

Speak for yourself, I'm greatly amused by this turn of events.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MTS_7yz-vo&feature=player_embedded just gonna leave this here.
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>>44416442
Well, they're both there. Between the 3 of them, they should be able to work something out.

>>44416443
PF, can we get Shou and/or Kaga to help out with introing CV-9 to the current op?
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>>44416442
Yeah, she's actually worked with guided missile destroyers and modern jet aircraft before
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>>44416425
I'm curious Lt. Hate, did you ever try out for Ranger school?
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>>44415960
>type in co-ordintes into google earth
>north end of Iwo Jima

christ dude
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So how relieved is Essex gonna be that her big sister Enterprise isn't around to baby her?
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>>44416411
Yamato was struck by 6 bullets, fired from a pilot's service revolver, because he was out of cannon rounds.
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>>44416487
>Marine
>Ranger school
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>>44416195
>[ ] Break into the comms - you are the CV whisperer, after all. Best to explain the presence of meatball flags in the fleet right now.
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>>44416489
Whoa
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Writefags, what the fuck is happening right now?
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>>44416489
yep we're bombing japan and they'll thank us for it. ain't life sweet.
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>>44416519

All branches can go to Ranger school.
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>>44416538
Magic
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>>44416538
Ship Slut magic
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>>44416538


Just let me channel my inner-Hamp...

*siiiiiiiip*
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>>44416519
yes
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>>44416538
LULZ: A Corruption of LOL
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>>44416538
We had like 5 carrier-esque vessels bombing Iwo Jima.
Now we have one more, and she's a girl
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>>44416538

No comment.
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>>44416538
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>>44416538
Something beautiful and amazing.
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>>44416566
>she's a girl
She's also young enough to be called a kid.

And she's navy.

SHE'S A KID, NOW! SHE'S A SQUID, NOW!
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>>44416442
>We need to put *Kaga* on the line.
The only way that could go worse is if she was USS Midway instead.
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>>44416610
But why is she underwater? Is she a submarine now?
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>>44416538
damned if I know
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>>44416538
I want Naka-chan to say something clever and insightful about the current situation.
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>>44416654
Going to need summon her! Only way to do that is try and summon something else that would actually be useful.
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did we confirm that essex is a grill
this is important because reasons
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>>44416702
Do any of these reasons involve your penis?
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>>44416695
LSC, here we come!
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Huh just scrolled thru and did the anons shut up Sammy by calling her a whore?
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>>44416442
Nah, Akagi would be better. She's had intimate experience with modern aircraft and their pilots.
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>>44416734
No, Sammy just got distracted by a butterfly.
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How will Hornet feel about the Hornet who replaced her and the other Essexes who replaced her sisters
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>>44416740
She would, but we haven' seen her in here yet
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>>44416610

But is it actually a girl?

Its not clear to us since its in writing and we can't tell the difference in tonal voices whether its female or male.

But in universe over the headset, shouldn't they be clearly be able to distinguish a female voice and a male voice?

I think we've got a new shipboy.
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>>44416702

I'm guessing Essex's a dude, given that they couldn't instantly tell it was a different person by the voice.
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>>44416734
She was probably frothing at the mouth too much to form an understandable reply.
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>>44416702
It's not gay if it's underway anon
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>>44416760
>>44416759
What if they just have a deep or androgynous voice?
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>>44416768
Nah Sammy just had a realization....she was the slut all along.
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>Essex
>the ship that inspired moby dick

Split your lungs with blood and thunder
When you see the white whale
Break your backs and crack your oars, men
If you wish to prevail
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>>44416796
Now your just getting desperate.
How unseemly.
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>>44416760
Idunno mate, women have been allowed on combat ships for over thirty years (as of this current date) in the USN.
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>>44416796
Better question, are they pulling a Hamp right now? Is it just the girl/boy, or the ship too?
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All she needs is a fairy version of David McCampbell.
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>>44416760
It's possible the Essex's radio is shit.
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Ayone else get the feeling that Essex might become the Kongo of the US fleet?
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>>44416816
>Essex was Neil Armstrong's posting
>Essex is Neil Armstrong and goes around in a space suit
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>>44416858
I do believe that is part of why Goto is currently on the floor in a fit of hysterics.
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>>44416858
>>44416876
But does he have a verbal tic to surpass Kongou Dess?
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>>44416914
yeah she's loud
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>>44416914
Oh.
Oh SHIT.
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>>44416914
Speaks in memes
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>>44416858
Truly, a weapon to surpass the Kongou Dess
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>>44416930
Aye Lamo since Essex picked up astronauts
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>>44416934
the age of the battleship is dead, and the age of the carrier has arrived.
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>>44416934
planefag warned us. He fucking warned us.

I for one welcome Essex!
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>>44416796
>girl essex
spouting stale ass memes but we tolerate it because the pussy game ridiculous.

>boy essex
skateboards into the base on his flight deck and poochies it up and we want to strangle the little shit but have to tolerate it because a carrier, ANY carrier is so valuable even if he's ebaums world incarnate ugh
>>
Fap angel is ded
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>>44416974
>note: poochie died on the way back to his home planet
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You feel bad for the poor bastard in the Blue Ridge - a few weeks ago, you were in his shoes. So you adjust your microphone, turn it on and speak up. “CV-9, this is Rear Admiral Ryan Settle calling. How are you?”

“Wet and angry and looking for something to blow the hell up!”

You grin. “I think we can help you with that. We've got Marines on the beach that can guide your Corsairs onto good targets, but you'll need the radio frequencies for it.”

“Ah, yes!” she - unmistakably a she, you can tell - exclaims. “The USS Essex, name ship of her class, winner of the Pacific War, will once again unleash her MIGHTY WINGS against this godforsaken Japanese rock!”

“Actually, the Japanese don't hold it right now-”

“IT'S STILL JAPANESE!” Essex retorts. “I can tell by how it's blackened and smoking, JUST LIKE THEIR HIDEOUS HEARTS!”

You see Kaga tense, her whole body rearing back haughtily as she sucks in a huffy breath.

“Uh, Essex, be advised that we have Japanese ships-”

“I'VE GOT DIVE-BOMBERS IN THE AIR!”

“Wait, no - wait. You do?”

“Corsairs have a dive-brake and some of them have bombs! Show me the vile enemy and I'll clobber'em like it's Midway Two - Bearcat boogaloo!”

Kaga seems to be making a dark, growly noise now; she hardly seems pleased.

“Essex, Japanese ships are present as allied escorts.”

“... ALLIES!?” she exclaims. “Oh! They're in front to soak up the mines!”

“Well, they are -”

“Because who the hell would let a Jap sail BEHIND 'em!”

“Uh-”

“NOT MEEEEE!” Uproarious laughter.
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>>44414776
>That list

He's doing it, the mad man is actually doing it.
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>>44417047
>racist little bitch
I love her already
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Kaga snatches the headset clean off Goto's skull - he seems to be hiccuping now, still too winded to resist. Jamming it onto her own head, she narrows her eyes at the screen. “YOU. ESSEX.”

“THAT'S MY NAME, DON'T WEAR IT OUT!”

“Your 'hogs' are strafing the beach willy-nilly, you stupid yankee cowboy! Discipline your subordinates!”

“Why don't you discipline your big loud mouth, Miss bitchtits!” Essex shoots back. “I'M LARGE, I'M LIVE, I'M READY TO JIVE! Who the hell are you!?”

“Someone who's forgotten more about proper carrier operations than you ever knew, you swine! Your fighters are getting in the way of the Bush's strikes!”

“The whowhat now!?”

“The Bush! The proper fleet carrier some miles back who's strikes your damned fighters are mucking up!”

You switch to another channel and respectfully advise the force commander that he have a few Cobras quick-loaded with smoke rockets to provide FAC for CV-9s fighters - they're not familiar with modern JTAC procedures and lasing targets won't do them a damn bit of good, either. You also remind him that CV-9s planes aren't piloted by mere morals, and they give maybe one-quarter the fucks about battle damage that a supersonic blowtorch welded to a big fuel tank made of aircraft-grade aluminum does, so they can beat the bushes a lot closer than you might risk a Superbug.

“BUSH!? Who the hell names a ship Bush? Not even after a specific bush!?”

“How the hell am I supposed to know?” Kaga snaps. “I don't familiarize myself with moronic American naming conventions!”
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>>44417047
Dis bitch is crazy. I like her.
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>>44417047
>Kaga seems to be making a dark, growly noise now; she hardly seems pleased.

I see Kaga and Essex are going to be the BEST of friends I'm sure.
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“Lilac? Cherry? Sumac?”

“Will you shut up and take some direction already?”

“Dog-weed? Dingleberry?”

“That's not even a bush, you idiot!”

“WHO'RE YOU CALLING AN IDIOT, IDOIT!?”

“THE STUPID BITCH WHO SHOWED UP TO THE INVASION WITHOUT AN INVITATION AND IS CURRENTLY RUINING EVERYTHING!”

Silence. “Who died and made you Admiral? What do you know about land attack?”

“Enough to sink your entire fleet at Pearl Harbor,” Kaga snaps.

Silence.

“Who are you,” comes Essex's low, hot reply.

“IJN Kaga,” Kaga returns, her arms crossed, her face severe.

“... BURNING BUSH!” Essex exclaims with wicked glee.

[ ] Try to step in.
[ ] Essex seems to be doing just fine on her own, actually.
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>>44417047
>“Because who the hell would let a Jap sail BEHIND 'em!”
>“Uh-”
>“NOT MEEEEE!” Uproarious laughter.
Oh dear.
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>>44417080
>>44417076
It Begins
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>>44417076
This is just wonderful.
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>>44417090
>[x] Try to step in.
Admiral voice go.
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>>44417047
>she - unmistakably a she, you can tell
dropped
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.
As much as it would be funny, we do need to make sure she actually helps in the landing rather than impeding it.
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.
Remember, the rest of the fleet needs the channel.
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.
>>[ ] Fail
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>>44417090
>[X] Try to step in.
This will only end in both tears and salt.
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>>44417090
Tell them both to shut the fuck up, tell Essex to stand the fuck down, they are both insubordinate as fuck, god damn just bring on the atomic hellfire
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>>44417090
[X] Try to step in.
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.
I love this Essex so much right now.
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>>44417090
>Silence. “Who died and made you Admiral? What do you know about land attack?”
>“Enough to sink your entire fleet at Pearl Harbor,” Kaga snaps.
That's not even a proper response, Kaga!

>>44417090
[X] Try to step in.
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>>44417090
>[X] Try to step in.
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>>44417090
>[X] Try to step in.
We should probably try to get her as coordinated as she can be.
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>>44417090

[ ] Try to step in.

"Kaga, back off. Essex, you're gonna get Americans killed if you don't calm down and shape up."
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>>44417090
>Try to step in.
May e tell Essex that we're commanding from the Jap home islands, Kaga here has been a great help already, and yeah it's good that we already told the fleet how to work around her
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>>44417090
>[X] Try to step in.
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DO AS YOU'RE TOLD GODDAMN WE ARE NOT PUTTING THE WAR ON HOLD FOR YOUR CATFIGHT"
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.

Anyone else think Essex is going to get along great with Sammy?
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>>44417090
>[X] Try to step in.

Getting tired of your shit already
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>>44417090
Try to step in [x]

Let's keep this ship wreck a rollin' and try to intervene and explain the situation to someone who honestly can't even give a fuck. Seriously, she's like Harder initially with even worse hate.
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>>44417090
>[X] Try to step in.
Essex needs to calm her tits.
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>>44417090
>[x] Try to step in.
pufferfish kaga is hilarious
but stop fucking up our order of battle yo
americans are dying on that beach
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.

Esses, chill you heels.
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>>44417166

>Sammy and Essex together

Oh, God, the nip ships are doomed.
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>>44417090
>[ ] Essex seems to be doing just fine on her own, actually.

I wanna see where this goes
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.
Okay let's put a end to this....Sammy 2.0 Carrier edition.
>>
VOTES PRETTY CLEARLY FUCKING CALLED
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>>44417090
>[X] Try to step in.

Have Sammy reign her in if necessary.
>>
Looks like one of those options was basically a giant red button. And it's looking like the sensible one for once
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>>44417090
[X] Try to step in
"For fuck's sake, Essex, we have Marines on the ground who need air support that you're interfering with. No one wants to tell the Admiral that this invasion got bogged down because we couldn't work together, so standby for some targets."
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>>44417090
[ X ] Try to step in.
Tell her about the american troops that are dying while she's squabbling about Japs.
>>44417184
>>
A suggestion, people. When we meet Essex in person at the docks, bring Arizona and Hornet with us. We may need someone strong enough to slap the shit out of her if necessary, and I think said shit-slapping will be taken better if it comes from a fellow American shipgirl rather than one of the Japanese kanmusu.
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>>44417207
Probably the more sensible yeah, but the poor battle net is still gonna be a clusterfuck for a bit longer
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>>44417090
>[ ] Step in and tell Essex a joke about how the Japanese are just tourists in Pearl Harbor now
Get Essex to pull back her planes until the FAC can get unfucked
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>>44417076
>CV-9s planes aren't piloted by mere morals

So super morals?

Flying to deliver litanies of hate and death?
>>
So late! So much to catch up on, so little alcohol. Doubt I'll be voting this thread.
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.
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>>44417190
Especially Shimakaze
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>>44417232
What about Arizona and Hamp?
Or better, Harder and Hamp?
Arizona is still mad at Settle and Hornet can't function around Hamp.
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>>44417090
>[X] Try to step in.

So US superpatriotism to match Kaga's IJ nationalism

Ethusiatic, what's the catch here?
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>>44416268
>>44416299
>>44416330
>They don't know

>>44416538
>He thinks the writefags know
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>>44417238
>So super morals?

I think it's a quip about how immoral her pilots are. For instance, they don't call back and they don't leave a tip.

Especially when it's your first time.
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Looks like hornet just got a sister, and possibly competition for Hamp. This, this will be interesting.
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>>44417232

Essex was scrapped in 1975. She really should be familiar with Japan as an important ally against the Reds, and also that we totally toasted the hell out of the Nips for Pearl Harbor already. Given that she persisted into the Civil Rights Movement era, she might would even tone down some of the casual racism.

Maybe.

I did think it was mentioned Hibiki was a little more aware of postwar history and what was going on in WW2 due to surviving for a while as Verniy in the Soviet Navy.
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>>44417246
You don't need to know anything to vote in this quest.
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>>44417232
because beatdowns worked so well for cheeky little naka rite>?
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>>44416442
>>44417047
>“IT'S STILL JAPANESE!” Essex retorts. “I can tell by how it's blackened and smoking, JUST LIKE THEIR HIDEOUS HEARTS!”
>Put Kaga on the phone guys!

Yeah. It's easy to figure out how that will go:

>"Hello? This is Nip Nong how can I-"
>"REEEEEEEE"
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>>44417298
Yea thats true.

And she came back as per her final refit with F-4s.

She should know this already. Shes just looking for a fight.
>>
Eventually, someone will explain the significance of Essex's personality as it relates to her wartime history, until then, I'll just sit back and enjoy this wonderful display.
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>>44417305
less they put her on the phone and more she took the phone from a cackling Goto.
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>>44417333
F4Us. Corsairs. Not F-4 Phantom IIs.
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>>44417383
>4U
This website has ruined me
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>>44417333
Wrong F-4. You're thinking of the Phantom, but she's running with F4U Corsairs, which are a WWII design.
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>>44417356
It's because she's the fightin'est ship in the fleet.
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>>44417333
>Shes just looking for a fight.
That would make things even worse for her, then.
We have American, Japanese, and Korean soldiers dying out there for lack of coordinated air support and she wants to clog up the airspace and pick fights over the phone?
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We already hit the image limit?
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ARE YOU READY FOR THIS SUNDAY NIGHT, WHEN WORLD WAR TWO CHAMP USS ESSEX DEFENDS HER TITLE IN THE DUBYA DUBYA TWO

SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPER SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYUM

ORDERRIGHTNOWFORTHELOWPRICEOFFIFTY-NINE NINETY FIVE!
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>>44417440
Bu dun dun duh, buh duh dun duh
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Well, shouldn't Essex's history allow her to grasp that Japan might be an American ally? she was active to 1969
>>
We should probably try to keep Sammy and Essex from spending too much time together.
Otherwise we end up with some sort of havoc causing feedback look as they only egg each other on.
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>>44417440
DO DO DO DOOOOOO
DO DO DO DOOOOOO
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>>44417418
Then someone's in for a rude awamending and hopefully a reason you stuck speech in their future if it will get them to mellow out
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>>44417452
Once the existential rush of coming into life reaches that point in her history, maybe
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>>44417440
>get essex to watch wwe
This seems like both the greatest and worst idea in the world.

I wanna do it.
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>>44417403
We're all broken here.
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>>44417440
>mud wrestling with Akagi and Takao

shutupandtakemymoney.jpg
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>>44417383
>>44417406

Huh. My bad. We've noted that ships that returned on their own come back as per their final refit. We see that with Hamp.

Got the planes mixed up.
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.
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>>44417463
Or we could force Essex, Harder and Sammy together in the fleet, give each of them some of the monster coffee, and turn 'em loose. War would be over in a week, two tops.
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>>44417477
I wish you were broken.
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>>44417090
>[ ] Try to step in.
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>>44417541
slow man
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>>44417418
it's not that dire, an extra deckload of flyan freedumbz will save lives in the long run if she can unfuckulate her shit.

the poor conventional navy commander isn't trained to deal with the constant stream of stupid irrelevant bullshit that comes over the net in a shipgirl operation.
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>>44414966
Not a problem, man. I like to think it helps keep some of the salt away from this thread.
I know, I know: "who the fuck do I think I'm kidding?" But every little bit helps, right?

>>44417090
Like >>44417213 says:
>[X] Try to step in
>"For fuck's sake, Essex, we have Marines on the ground who need air support that you're interfering with. No one wants to tell the Admiral that this invasion got bogged down because we couldn't work together, so standby for some targets."
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>>44417517
I'm already am. Paid bills and got nothing left in the bank.
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>>44417403
Did you laugh when the plane crashed in france?

In les baines?
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>>44417575
>isn't trained to deal with the constant stream of stupid irrelevant bullshit that comes over the net in a shipgirl operation.
And Settle and Goto are trained to deal with it?
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>>44417440
ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE WWE NETWORK FOR ONLY... NINE! NINETY! NINE!
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>>44417440
Who is Champ?
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>>44417607
No, but they can at least contain it to some extent.
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>>44417607
It's not tactical chatter, just irrelevant color commentary with no filter
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>>44417607
No, but they're the closest thing to a Shipgirl Cowboy Wrangler we've got.
It's our job, anyways.
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>>44417607
More than he is, Goto more so
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>>44417565
Sorry, I was off tallying the total number of ships we built during WW2 for Edsall and didn't expect the votes to be called THAT quickly.
>>
Does anyone think that "BURNING BUSH" means Essex is about to deliberately blue on blue?
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>>44417607
sort of like how terminal stage cancer patients are fully qualified to be fukushima cleanup operators

settle's already hit his lifetime safe dosage of bullshit, it still tingles weirdly like sunburn from the inside, but what the hell it can't do any more damage
>>
Oh dear god, why is our Super Kongo a damn flat top? Also, I'm afraid of the "BURNING BUSH" comment, here's to hoping we aren't about to lose our new ship to "warned you" fire.
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>>44417668
Pretty sure she was referencing Kaga burning to her keel.
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>>44417721
So the friendly fire will happen when Essex gets back to Yokosuka, from Kaga.


...With love.
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>>44417696
Because Fap Angel hates you specifically.
>>
Does anyone know which IJN ships were sunk by ESSEX? I found something that says she sank 25 of them, but that might include sub-chasers, so more specifics would be useful.

I think we want to know this so we know who to keep her away from.
>>
Time for more alcohol, I understand how Goto feels now I think, at least a little, and why he needs so much of this delicious devil drink.
>>
>>44417440
http://vocaroo.com/i/s04ivQGZMehM

volume warning
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>>44417668
kaga burned for hours. it was some gruesome shit.
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>>44417802
You are not lying about that volume warning.
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>>44417802
glorious.png
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>>44417742
Nah. CV-9 was around for a /long/ time. She knows that the Japanese are the USNs ally.

She could be more tactful, but Murrica gonna Murrica.
>>
New thread going up so I'll have room for the next nawkatiem~

UPDATE INCOMING
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>>44417802
>http://vocaroo.com/i/s04ivQGZMehM
...you know, if you were just a little more phlegmy, you'd have Vince McMahon DOWN.
>>
>>44417802
fucking jumped out my seat 10/10
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>>44417843
No shit. Feelthy cuts a damn good promo.
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>>44417802
Hey feelthy I dare you to write the filthiest, salt inducing smut write-up possible....just as soon as I figure out which ship girl would cause the most.
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>>44417876
Settle being with both Shoukakou and Arizona, and then being so bad he turns them lesbian for each other?
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>>44417876
>Arizona does the entire fleet as a morale-building measure
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>>44417876
Willie Dee...

with Kaga.
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>>44417776

Well she assisted in the sinking of Musashi, Yamato, and Zuikaku, and sank the destroyer Fujinami by herself.

That's just off the top of my head.
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>>44417913
Sounds more confusion inducing than salt producing.
>>
>>44417913
Why not Willie Dee with Shimakaze?
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>>44417876
PT-109 does Yokosuka.

it's actually just the corgi humping everyone's leg
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>>44417913
>Willie Dee...
>with a random corporal wearing Shimakaze's outfit.
FTFY.
>>
>>44417943
Hell, why not go all the way?
Nothing like a little bestiality to separate the men from the boys.
>>
>>44417884

NEW THREAD
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>>44417971
If you're going all the way, have Hate do the entire kennel.
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>>44417971
Because you could mine just as much salt with the title alone and not have to actually put effort into writing it, silly.
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>>44417990
I thought we were suggesting things that cause salt, not things that titillate certain forums posters
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>>44418025
I'm not into gay beasties if thats what you're implying
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>>44417607
>And Settle and Goto are trained to deal with it?
By constantly poisoning themselves they're slowly gaining immunity.
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>>44417943
Severely underrated post!!!
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>>44414953
The more I see this shit, the better the memories are. I can't stop laughing like a madman
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>>44419065
is there a full video?
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>>44419237
You need to have been there to understand, anon.
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>>44419330
I know what happened, but I missed seeing it.



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