With that job done, you take a deep breath, lean your head forward to perch on the tips of your steepled fingers, and close your eyes, thinking. There's the other half of your promise to keep.
Time, you think. Time, and space. You think back to the post-battle round table; England's insistence that staying reactionary would lose humanity the war by inches, and your presenting Hate's suicidal live-capture idea. At the Bonins you narrowly managed to slip from between the hammer and the anvil - and it nearly came unraveled anyways, saved at the last second by Hamp and his fresh firepower. On the back foot, you can only dodge and parry and sneak in the occasional riposte - what you're seeking now is data, information, actionable intelligence. You need to know your enemy in order that you might *strike* him, hurt him - crush him. Find where they live and hit them there, as they've hit humanity. You're going on the offensive, in other words.
Time and Space are all fine and good - but soon you'll need raw, brutal Force.
You'll need Yamato.
You think through a few possibilities - the first is to use your CAC card and go through normal channels; CIA, DIA, NSA, all the other alphabet agencies - but that takes time, quite a bit of time, and will drag in all sorts of names and desks more likely to say NYET than DA, especially since it might trip over already active ops and interests of those own agencies in Japan. You could call Parker and see if any of the dozens of high-tech NSA cell-phone snooping toys invented over the past few years are in his toybox - you seem adept at pissing these clowns off, and maybe they'll slip up and say something on a supposedly-secured line - but you rule that out as the exact kind of risk tactic that had Admiral Thomas breathing fire up your ass earlier.
Which leaves one remaining option - ask the man who knows the goddamn locals. You reach for the phone to dial Goto -
- when your own cell phone rings. Plucking it from your pocket, you check the screen.
<<PRIVATE CALLER>> the blinking green name informs you.
You tap the green button. “Hello?”
A cultured, educated voice with a hint of English accent replies. “Rear Admiral Settle, USN?”
“Yes. Who is this?” you ask suspiciously.
“Please think of me as Boss Taro.”
Your chair creaks as your spine snaps straight. “How did you get this number?”
“Right off the base directory. How I got that, I suppose you can imagine.”
“The fuck do you want?”
“To apologize,” he continues, “for the recent rash actions of certain individuals whom I was ultimately responsible.”
“... apologize?” you say, voice low and hot.
>>44762456
>inbetween fags
Naka time when
Something about denbts etc
>>44762485
>“To apologize,” he continues, “for the recent rash actions of certain individuals whom I was ultimately responsible.”
WHERE'S THE PINKIES, BOY? I KNOW HOW THIS WASHIKAZI BULLSHIT WORKS!
>>44762485
>Yak interrupt
Oho, the plot thickens
“I represent the Sumiyoshi-kai,” 'Taro' says calmly, seeming immune to the heat in your tone. “We operate as a federation of smaller, independent groups - kind of like your United States. It is a very egalitarian organization which respects the independence and private dealings of our partners. Sometimes this makes it difficult to learn of their... less-inspired ideas before they are put into motion.”
“... I see,” you say quietly.
“We believe strongly in... the English expression closest to it is minding your own business,” Taro continues. “You have minded your own business well. My compatriots have not. As part of our apology, we will of course be taking steps to ensure you are not unduly bothered again.”
You pause, fingers racing as you pull up your e-mail and scroll down quickly to the briefing document e-mailed to you - the preliminary results of the investigation into the dead Yaks. You skim the lines again - associated with the “Japanese Youth Society,” one of the biggest nationalist groups, itself set up by the Sumiyoshi family in the 60s...
“Boss Taro,” you ask politely. “The Sumiyoshi family, are they...?”
“They are among our associates, yes,” he replies, seeming to have expected the question.
You review the situation quickly - the attackers came from a one of the most active groups set up by these Yaks decades ago. They're no pack of loudmouth clowns tolerated by the Yakuza and exploited as a cheap distraction or front for their efforts - these are the people squarely behind the few nationalist politicians everyone else fears giving too much traction.
In other words, there's no way you can 'mind your own business' if you're to bring Yamato into play.
[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
[ ] You don't believe the son of a bitch, and you think this is just damage control to stave off more serious repercussions - complete with throwing the cut-outs under the battleship, as it were. Tell him he's going to need to offer much better reasons to keep the USN from coming down on him with everything they've got - does he know what a SEAL is?
[ ] Other?
>>44762515
>that picture
wat
>>44762546
Raep.
>>44762537
>[X] You don't believe the son of a bitch, and you think this is just damage control to stave off more serious repercussions - complete with throwing the cut-outs under the battleship, as it were. Tell him he's going to need to offer much better reasons to keep the USN from coming down on him with everything they've got - does he know what a SEAL is?
>Infiltrating houses through tiny japanese plumbing intensifies
>>44762537
>[ ] Other?
>Tell Mr. Taro that the Sumoyoshi family may find themselves angry at us again soon. We're about to do something Big, Dumb, and American, for the sake of the country. He has our number.
Our own skin is being handled by Thomas' men, we don't need to be snippy about two dead japs under the bridge.
Has it been confirmed when a boat gets a soul yet? When the keel is laid? Before? After?Iowa, you stole everything from me before I was even born?
>>44762537
>[x] You don't believe the son of a bitch, and you think this is just damage control to stave off more serious repercussions - complete with throwing the cut-outs under the battleship, as it were. Tell him he's going to need to offer much better reasons to keep the USN from coming down on him with everything they've got - does he know what a SEAL is?
>>44762537
>[X] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
Let's not antagonize everyone at once. First we take out the Sukiyakis, then the rest. Ari and Hate could use the workout.
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
>>44762537
>[ ] You don't believe the son of a bitch, and you think this is just damage control to stave off more serious repercussions - complete with throwing the cut-outs under the battleship, as it were. Tell him he's going to need to offer much better reasons to keep the USN from coming down on him with everything they've got - does he know what a SEAL is?
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
KEEP OUT! NAVY BUSINESS!
>>44762515
>Yandere Yamato
....Fuck....
>>44762537
>[x] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
>[X] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
Actions speak louder than words. After we bring the fist of an angry god on the responsible yaks, that should be more than enough sign that fucking with us is a non starter.
>>44762537
>[ ] You don't believe the son of a bitch, and you think this is just damage control to stave off more serious repercussions - complete with throwing the cut-outs under the battleship, as it were. Tell him he's going to need to offer much better reasons to keep the USN from coming down on him with everything they've got - does he know what a SEAL is?
Cultural sensitivity be damned, something needs to be done.
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
Let's try being subtle-ish for once instead of just going in guns blazing. We might be able to talk him into actually being on *our* side if we don't just try to play the heavy.
>>44762537
>[ ] Other?
Ask about the Yak who bothered Naka
>>44762537
>[X] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
>>44762537
[x] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
>>44762601
>Montana vs. Iowa duel
>>44762537
>[X] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
Imperial Japanese fascism prizes acting on instinct and not wasting time thinking about things through, so theres very little he can actually do to reign in the stupid especially since its probably Mid-level people doing it. Also we dont have time to waste purging massive amounts of yakuza given the level of corruption in Japan.
Boss Taro is probably fingering the guys he just named as a way to get some of his own personal annoyances out of his hair. He might think he can use Settle's obvious anger and the US's inability to do anything in small amounts to his favor, and wipe out an entire opposing family without raising a hand himself.
We need better intel than some random boss who got our number on speeddial. Politely explain as much to him, and call Goto, now. We need to leverage every bit of weight we can on these sons of bitches, but we do not want to act via the word of one of their own.
REMOVE SUSHI
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
>>44762456
>Get silent hunter 4
>Second patrol in Porpoise stumble across IJN carrier group consisting of three escort carriers, the Soryu and Hiryu
>Sink the SoryuIn mid January 1942 fuck you history
>Slip away into the night twirling my american mustache despite getting 2 of the 4 fucking torps I launched at them being duds because LOL mark 14's and the other two in the rear tubes somehow missing the CVN behind me by inches.
I feel something akin to giddy excitement thinking I might get to sink both Shokaku's with a better sub...
>>44762684
>>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
That and what this guy said. I'm changing my vote to that.
>>44762684
Oh hey, that's a good point...
Except we never got the full picture of that incident from Goto, so I'm not comfortable using it as a zinger
>>44762537
[x] REMOVE YAKITORI
you want reconciliation
too bad
here fulminating wrath
fuck you
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
We punch abyssals. Other guys deal with the people problems.
>>44762695
Nuclear shells and missiles would make it pretty anticlimactic.
>>44762731
Weren't most old cowboy gun fights done in moments?
>>44762695
Montana would win unless the Iowa gets a Golden BB.
Montana has more armor plus better underwater protection
Three more guns so a better throw weight to boot.
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
Yeah, I think we should follow our brains.
>>44762537
>[ ] You don't believe the son of a bitch, and you think this is just damage control to stave off more serious repercussions - complete with throwing the cut-outs under the battleship, as it were. Tell him he's going to need to offer much better reasons to keep the USN from coming down on him with everything they've got - does he know what a SEAL is?
>>44762695
It's only fair if it's modern Iowa.
>>44762537
>[x]What's your opinion of Space Battleship Yamato?
>>44762537
The Yaks are businessmen. So make a business deal. Their support (and the support of their political puppets) for bringing Yamato into the fight, and his word that no Yak comes within a league of any of the shipgirls (USN or otherwise) or your personnel -- and you'll leave cleanup of the previous incidents to them as a 'purely internal matter'.
>>44762745
Most of them took place over a saloon table between two drunks after a bad hand of cards.
>>44762537
[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
We can always waste the rest of them afterwards.
>>44762785
I'm going to the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy museum tomorrow, any planes you want pictures of?
I assume the kanmusu get paid, but what sort of pay reading do you give a personified warship? Is it just
>take anything, just please don't go abyssal
?
>>44762456
>>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
>Yeah, I think we should follow our brains.
This, plus the Naka thing. Also, at this point, getting intel on the situation is probably a good idea, just so we can figure out who to "deal with" in the future.
>>44762783
This guy isn't stupid - he know the result of his breaking his word is a SEAL team knocking gently on his door. Use the leverage while we have it.
>>44762807
Yes. (Most of them don't realize this)
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
WARRANTY VOID IF SEAL DEPLOYED
>>44762805
Enola Gay, Shinden and Geo
>>44762783
We aren't remotely authorized to offer such a thing
>>44762515
>I'm sure you understand I have my own people to answer to before I can say anything. Thank you for calling, Mr. Taro.
The one case where having superiors is a good thing
>>44762807
Didn't Naka figure this out early on with the shades?
>>44762785
Since the previous thread was archived before I could post this, I'll do it here. Anyways.
Planefag, if you had to choose between 2 of your most favorite alcohols, and both had poison, which one would you die drinking?
>>44762807
More or less. Naka said that anything she requested she got.
>>44762805
P-61
>>44762805
Space Shuttle
Preferably from a view that has it looming over the SR-71 from the background so I can slap a SOON on it.
>>44762537
>[X] Other? Accept Taro's apology, and then "Politely" explain to him that this war is a war for the survival of civilization as we know it, not just another political bitch fight. If he is truly apologetic, than he will direct his organization in a way that will not only aid our fight, but keep them out of our way.
>>44762537
>other
You want a meeting face-to-face. Anything we hash out over the landlines is being recorded. With Arizona as muscle.
What could possible go wrong?
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
If this Sumiyoshi family is one of the major forces behind the Nationalists then this is *exactly* the sort of justification we need to break their knees. If we can maneuver Boss Taro's Yakuza Proper into staying out of it, so much the better.
>>44762805
Nothing in particular. Go wild!
>>44762833
rge, as well as the Dornier Do-335 A-0 Pfeil on display and the Seiran. A lot of the Axis airplanes there are the last of their kind. Also, German stealth wing in pieces in the restoration facility. As an afterthought, P-61 because bounce.
>>44762860
>With Arizona as muscle.
>What could possible go wrong?
Given the fact that right now Arizona doesn't want to be around us after we ripped out her heart?
>>44762857
Your wish is my command.
Stand by, random anon is finding and processing your request...
when
>>44762537
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
There will be consequences. This is one of them.
In the current climate, I'm sure there's an Ogami or two who will do a job for the traditional 500 ryo.
>>44762839
>>I'm sure you understand I have my own people to answer to before I can say anything. Thank you for calling, Mr. Taro.
>The one case where having superiors is a good thing
Actually, you're right. We can delegate this UPWARDS and let the boss deal with this.
We can always send an expedition on our own account later if needed. And by expedition I mean 14 inchers.
>[X] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
>>44762783
This is also an idea.
The Yaks can soothe the Nationalists for us... or at least convince the nationalists that it's more... profitable on everyone's side to shut up and let it happen.
>>44762898
never
>>44762898
When you get rid of her bandanna top?
>>44762891
You say that as if it is a bad thing.
>>44762846
>Planefag, if you had to choose between 2 of your most favorite alcohols, and both had poison, which one would you die drinking?
>two most favorite alcohols
I don't even have one favorite alcohol, really. I don't drink nearly enough to really know the difference between them.
All I know is, that moonshine you buy in those mason jars? That shit will fuck you up fast.
>>44762898
Is she a midget? I'm going to give this a hard pass
>>44762709
>LOL MARK 14S
I feel your pain.
I want to follow in Barb, Tang and Harder's footsteps and sink many boatwaifus. How do I git gud at Silent Hunter? I didn't even know the IJN had active sonar until a few days ago.
>>44762860
>What could possibly go wrong?
Snipers trying to kill us. Promptly followed by a city block being leveled as Arizona removes yak.
Or surprise L.T. Hate and the corgi horde causing half the city to be levelled in a much cuter remake of the Hiroshima bombing.
>>44762828
>>44762890
Seconding the Pfil.
>>44762924
short stack. like her sisters
>>44762923
Hm, ok.
>moonshine
OHHH GOD. THE HANGOVER I HAD WHEN I TRIED THAT SHIT.
>>44762828
S H U T T E R S H A D E S
>>44762537
>[ ] Other?
"I will extend your sentiments to my superior with a recommendation. He, and his superior, were quite clear about how this was to be handled. And very, very upset. I'm sure that I will be able to send you their response quite soon."
>>44762935
>a much cuter remake of the Hiroshima bombing.
And nothing of value was lost.
>>44762923
A good batch of shine is a wonderful thing. A bad batch will mess you up. Or kill you.
>>44762948
So are all the standard-types shortstacks, then?
>>44762898
>mfw actually from South Dakota
>mfw everything about this makes perfect sense except the giga-tits
seriously, people have no fucking clue how many cowboys we got here
>>44762924
SoDaks are short and fat
SoDak herself had to lose two 5" turrets so she could act as a flagship. They were so god damn compact that there wasn't any space left without losing something.
>>44762948
Alabama was actually the shortest of them, at about three quarters Iowa's size with the slimmest figure with about three quarters the fuel tank capacity.
>>44762984
Don't fuck with ethanol poisoning.
>>44762985
I guess you could say all those survivors of the war met at a Crossroads, huh?
>>44762805
The P-61 Widow
And the Nakajima J1N
>>44762898
I'd tap that so hard it'd cause a power outage.
>>44762923
Hey, Deme, you know there's like five places you can get *legal* versions of that shit right in your town? Corner General, Country Acres, Kroger, Busch's, and the Party Store. Look for "Junior Johnson's Midnight Moon." Good old-fashioned Virginia moonshine but distilled legally. And sold in the Mason jar.
>>44763024
Umm, the picture I posted was an atom bomb test on land, but.... Funny joke none the less.
>>44763012
You what was the funny thing was?
The squat SoDaks got better fuel economy then the slim Iowas so they had about the same range.
>>44763051
>Hey, Deme, you know there's like five places you can get *legal* versions of that shit right in your town?
The fuck did you think I was talking about? The brand I always see is literally sold in a bottle made to look like a mason jar.
That shit will STILL FUCK YOU UP
>>44762839
Exigencies of the service. We're a flag officer in command of an independent detachment in a time of war -- we can make it work.
>>44762925
I'm not gud myself but I basically watched a few LP's to see just what I was fucking up.
First off, don't fucking get spotted. IJN boats have active sonar only in the front and it's relatively shit - diving to 200 feet or so and moving at 1/3rds speed on silent running will keep you relatively safe even if they're directly over you - you won't make much noise and the thermal layer will keep you safe.
Mark 14's are shit but use them anyway, the longer range can give you a nice punch at night, and the high speed option can be useful - I used it against the carrier because it was close enough that I wanted it dead and I wanted it dead fast.
Oh, and if you're spotted, you can't outrun the enemy you need to dive deep. The Java Sea is a death trap. A tempting shipping filled death trap. You can't get below what, 100 feet or so? No where near the thermal layer. If you can't get below the thermal layer kiss your ass goodbye.
>>44762807
This is why Naka is so terrifying. She understands how to fill out requisition paperwork.
Just imagine what will happen if the shipsluts start asking for boytoys instead of shutter shades. Are you gonna tell them no?Would the Admiralty tell them no?
>>44763012
>that fucking beam to length ratio
HIGH TEST SHIP COMING THROUGH
>[ ] You appreciate the sentiment, but disciplining the group amounts to little more than sending their wife to sweep up the busted glass in the USN's broom factory. If they really want to demonstrate respect for tradition and proper dealing, he'll keep his syndicate out of it- this is between the Navy and the Sumiyoshi family.
VOOOOTES CALLED
>>44763076
What he said. You CAN get away with some shit, here.
What would Abyssal Naka requisition? Besides the ingredients for pipe bombs.
>>44763076
Yes, we probably could. I'm saying to use it as an excuse to bail the fuck out of this phonecall because we are not a diplomancer
>>44763061
They were about the same width too. Alabama: 679' 5.313" length overall, 108' 1.500" max beam, with 6,974.9 ton fuel oil tanks that were reduced after the war to 6,635.0 tons.
>>44762948
>>44763012
The problem is her posture and some of her body lines are what you would see in someone suffering dwarfism. The Bama picture looks fine, actually like a busty short person.
>>44763088
Don't Fucking Get Spotted, gotcha. How do I find shipping?
>>44763071
Sorry, forgot this was 4chan, not 420chan...
>>44763090
>Hey Mac. I think we landed on the wrong boat.
>>44763088
>Oh, and if you're spotted, you can't outrun the enemy you need to dive deep. The Java Sea is a death trap. A tempting shipping filled death trap. You can't get below what, 100 feet or so? No where near the thermal layer. If you can't get below the thermal layer kiss your ass goodbye.
My general procedure is to attempt to dodge the enemy for maybe 15 minutes before I lose patience and just sink the fucking escorts.
FUCK'EM
>>44763091
WAAAAIT. I SEE ONLY FOUR DUAL 5" ON STARBOARD SIDE. THAT BB IS A SPY.
>>44762898
>>44763012
>>44763061
>Shortstack shipslut
I'm from South Dakota as well and I approve. Visit the memorial if you're in Sioux Falls sometime. It's pretty impressive how much the South Dakota was the ship that could have been.
Rolled 6 (1d8)
>>44762935
>Snipers trying to kill us. Promptly followed by a city block being leveled as Arizona removes yak.
Come to think of it, if somebody's willing to die to make a point that'd be one hell of a way to cast suspicion on the shipsluts. "Look, she'll kill bystanders with 5in shells just to make sure she kills a criminal before the police can arrest him!"
>>44763137
No just Battleship X .
>>44763126
It's not like they have helicopters to pin you down, after all
>>44763126
>My general procedure is to attempt to dodge the enemy for maybe 15 minutes before I lose patience and just sink the fucking escorts.
>FUCK'EM
>American Sub Captains.png
>>44763160
Autogyro's, they (or at least the army carriers) had 'em.
>>44763137
see
>>44763012
>SoDak herself had to lose two 5" turrets so she could act as a flagship. They were so god damn compact that there wasn't any space left without losing something.
>>44763161
I used to think what I did was insane shit you would only dare attempt in the vidya with no lives on the line.
Then I read about USS Growler.
Holy SHIT.
>>44763126
>lose patience and just sink the fucking escorts
If I recall correctly this was actually a fair bit of problem for late-war submariners. They wound up sinking all the goddamn freighters but none of the escorts so the ratio of escorts-to-freighters became crazy high. It wasn't uncommon for Tang to spot two or three escorts alongside a 7000-ton singleton skirting the coast.
>>44763071
>Ethanol content ranged from 10.5% to 66.0% with a mean value of 41.2%.... Methanol was found in only one sample at a concentration of 0.11%. No samples contained detectable concentrations of acetone, isopropanol, or ethylene glycol.
yer modern moonshine just ain't got dat special somethin somethin
>>44763156
Even if its BBX, it still had....
Hold on.....
Ok I stand corrected.
>>44763188
>Insane Shit
Does that top Barb bagging a train with their scuttling charges?
>>44763188
Between american Destroyer captains and American sub captains, I'm starting to think they added some sort of berserker super-soldier serum to navy meals
>>44763190
>They wound up sinking all the goddamn freighters but none of the escorts so the ratio of escorts-to-freighters became crazy high.
That's fucking hilarious, oh my god
>>44763188
Read about the USS Barb too, Eugene Fluckey was insane.
http://www.historynet.com/hell-and-high-water.htm#prettyPhoto
>>44763115
Radio updates, and hydrophones. Hydrophones are your primary detection method and unlike the Germans (the only other nation in the war that had submarines that weren't absolute garbage and/or irrelevant) yours work on the surface, so you can just cruse around in a search pattern until you hear something, then move to vector to intercept to see if it's worth your time visually.
>>44763126
While satisfying I prefer saving torps for targets that aren't 1000 or so tons. Not that I haven't hunted escorts down before but it's just more realistic to run - >>44763188
Well fuck me I stand corrected.
>>44763219
Well, it meant they were doing their job damn well.
>>44763222
Will do!
VOTES CALLED REALLY CONCLUSIVELY, WRITIN WOOT
>>44762923
I saw a program about that once. Moonshine is just corn alcohol made by people who don't pay their taxes. When making corn alcohol legally one of the important steps is to "skim the top" and throw out the first batch because it has all the poisonous compounds and other dangerous things in it.
Moonshiners sometimes don't do that out of ignorance or muh profits, so if you happen to drink one of the early jars with all of the bad chemicals in it you will get messed up in a hurry.
*insert laughing CV's.jpg*
>>44762546
>>44762571
Weeks of being told that he thinks of you like a sister cause he's a retard.
>>44763217
>I'm starting to think they added some sort of berserker super-soldier serum to navy meals
This claims we drugged are soldiers, especially the navy:
http://www.tofugu.com/2012/04/10/japan-land-of-the-rising-crystal-meth/
But not as much as Japan drugged their own, especially their pilots.
>>44763222
>>44763237
Seconding the recommendation of Thunder Below! - Sub-to-shore rocket attacks up north, nailing sampans with the deck gun and minefield tag with escorts. Lucky Fluckey passes off his crazy badassery with humble words and an even tone.
>>44763231
Hydrophones extend past visual range? Really? Maybe in a storm or poor visibility, sure, but during the day as well?
>>44763281
>especially their pilots
Considering that they had to fly the zero, going in methed up could improve morale.
>>44763111
Iowa: 887' 2.750" length overall, 108' 2.063" beam, 8.624.3 ton fuel tanks as built with a nominal endurance of 18,000 NM @ 12 knots while SoDaks could go 17,000 NM @ 15 knots
>we will never get a fast battleship in quest because we have Arizona, and Deme would just complain about character bloat.
>Iowa is just going to be AWOL forever
>no that anybody fucking likes Iowa anyways
>>44763222
>http://www.historynet.com/hell-and-high-water.htm#prettyPhoto
This motherfucker gave no shits. I really admire Sub Skippers. They're every bit the scalpel that cripples and it always impresses me
>>44763292
Like they say a ship is only as good as her crew. The Submarine service would not have been half as effective without skippers like Dealey, Morton, Fluckey, O'Kane and many others along with a number of well trained crewmen.
>>44763256
No that's Planefag.
>>44763117
Speaking of 420, I'm always suprised by how few people here have, uh, danced with Mary Jane.
>>44763292
>http://www.historynet.com/hell-and-high-water.htm
>>44763237
>>44763222
Holy fuck. *HOLY FUCK*
WHY IS THERE NOT A MOVIE ABOUT THIS GUY?and why isn't the Barb summoned yet Harder needs a wolfpack
>>44763319
You forgot that both Iowa and SoDak could use the void spaces in their TDS as extra fuel tanks, which bumped the Iowas up to over 10,000 tons of oil. That's the most ever carried by a warship EVER.
TLDR: Iowa can and will drink you to the fucking ground, and still be sober enough to fuck you silly.
>>44763364
noice
>>44763322
It would be awkward as hell trying to deploy a 30+ knot battleship alongside a 21 knot girl. Iowa can outrun Ari with half her boilers cold.
>>44763315
Yep. Sound travels far in water. You've also got to remember that they simulate the curve of the earth in this game as well, it's not flat.
>>44763322
Would you settle for an aviation battleship?
>>44763352
Tried it a couple of times. It's fun enough. Not enough to make it worth the hassle for me
>>44763409
Mac: hmmm, Ben?
Ben: yes Mac.
Mac: did we ignore a banzai zero.
Ben: yeeeep.
>>44763409
If we modded New Jersey, Missouri, or Wisconsin, maybe. Probably have the same problems with the Ise-Class
>>44763409
>Would you settle for an aviation battleship?
Why? Why would you do that to an Iowa? What's she ever done to you?
Here I thought I wouldn't be able to post my own stuff tonight. At this rate I'll still be able to vote when I get home.
battleships breastfeeding DD's when
>>44763409
Sparky get out
>>44763409
Which come the first good squal will sink cause the Iowas are bow heavy as is. Removing the rear turret will make that worst.
>>44763409
What is that, the retarded lovechild of Enterprise and Yamato?
>>44763440
She was late.
>>44763434
I recant my previous statement.
>>44763445
Awww that is adorable.
>>44763445
Well given that our BB is as flat as Ryuujou not any time soon.
>>44763445
Thats lewd, arousing and cute all at once
>imagining it with Iowa and Willy
Why isn't there more Montana-class art?
>>44763363
Wait till you hear about O'Kane and Tang. He figured out that a convoy was running high-speed by day to leapfrog from bay to bay, spending the nights in sheltered, shallow water. So he estimates where they're going to be in a few nights and moves ahead with Tang. Sure enough, convoy shows up at evening and shelters in the bay at night. The problem is, this bay is about a two-hour run inside the ten-fathom curve and the safety of deep water. So, in order to get to them, he's got to make a two-hour surface infiltration and Metal Gear his way through unlit rocks and past patrolling escorts. He even pulls this clever trick, replying to a signalling escort with his own blinker to make them think he's a friendly. But when he gets in, it all pays off. He's got the perfect shot - Ten large freighters, all overlapped, the whole convoy blobbed up, all right next to each other.
He takes the shot. Flushes all his forward tubes, spins around, flushes all his rear tubes. As soon as the last fish is in the water he's going to flank speed and getting the fuck out of dodge because now he's got a whole convoy's worth of subchasers beating the water for him and no depth to hide in.
>>44763495
She must have other ways to feed them
>>44763409
Aviation Battleships are literally the dumbest goddamn thing.
"Lets take a battleship that is already highly flammable and explosive, and add more things to it that are flammable and explosive, while making it worse at its original role across the board, while adding a capability to it that is already filled by ships better designed for it from the keel up."
>>44763516
There isn't enough art of USN ships in general, least of all southern ones.
>>44763409
Of course!
>>44763495
There's a very easy way of inducing breast growth anon.
>>44763516
Cause she a paper ship. She was order but never lay down.
Hell you get the USS United States, that carrier which the Air Force killed, easier then her.
But since the Air Force killed her on the slips she more likely to be an Adyssal.
>>44763542
Or Sodak. (We're southern in name only tho)
>>44763522
And he survived?
>>44763440
>Why? Why would you do that to an Iowa?
You want to make her more MARINE!
That variant is more marine in particular because it can deploy marines by helicopter. This was seen as a very useful feature by the Marine force in the early 80s, and since they were the ones most interested in keeping them around, well, it was seriously considered.
To put this another way, don't trust Marines to design warships, that isn't part of their skill set.
>>44763553
What is it?
>>44763546
unf
I'll be in my bunk
>>44763555
What is USS US supposed to be? A late war carrier class? A supercarrier?
>>44763557
Well he wrote the book y'know, so you tell me.>you will never read sam dealey's book
>>44763522
Oh holy fuck. That's fucking brilliant, if almost suicidal.
>>44763555
So she'd be all goth and leathery while spouting yo momma jokes?
>>44763553
Give her a kid?
>>44763568
get her pregnant
>>44763572
Take Ise with you.
>>44763573
The first super carrier. Design to launch twin jet engine nuclear bomber in the late forties, early fifties.
The Chair a Farce of course didn't like it.
>>44763604
cutest BBV's
>>44763556
>tfw people always expect us to have a south-western accent
>tfw you realize that North and South Dakota have no real business being separate states
fukkin nerds
>>44763589
>>44763597
Ding ding ding.Shokaku should come first though
>>44763589
Yes
>>44763445
Here's another.
>>44763616
>tfw people don't realize there are two Dakotas.
>tfw we're only famous for a horrible masturbation joke in a PSA video and Mt. Rushmore
>>44763555
But at least she wasn't cancelled to build more of an inferior class.All I want is an abyssal Montana going liquid snake on Iowa
>>44763609
Have we ever got a superbomber to launch off a carrier? Except Doolittle?
>>44763589
>>44763597
But we can't lewd her now, she's going to be our newest daughteru like Willie and Sammy.
>>44763648
The navy did launch a C-130 off a Forrestal in the sixties.
>>44763641
please help me escape this state
>>44763418
Which is yet another reason Washington state is the best.
>>44763676
At least your state doesn't induce the most amount of people to flee the earth.
>>44763562
Funny thing is that at one point they wanted to make the Iowa's bigger Burke's. Take off all the guns and leave solely missiles. The corps opposed it, wanting the guns. It would have 20 helicopters and accomadation for 700-800 Marines while also providing fire support. had two takeoff points in case the 16 inch guns were in action. turbulence apparently was the main reason they didn't go through with it.
>>44763654
Is Hayashimo for lewds then?
Also let's give some love to the Brit Subs, especially the ones based in Malta during the Seige.
Specifically this guy:
Lieutenant Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn
The King has been Graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross for great valour and resolution in command of His Majesty's Submarine Upholder to Lieutenant Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn, DSO, Royal Navy.
On the evening of 24th May, 1941, whilst on patrol off the coast of Sicily, Lieutenant Commander Wanklyn, in command of His Majesty's Submarine Upholder, sighted a southbound enemy troop convoy, strongly escorted by Destroyers. The failing light was such that observation by periscope could not be relied on but a surface attack would have been easily seen. Upholder's listening gear was out of action. In spite of these severe handicaps Lieutenant Commander Wanklyn decided to press home his attack at short range. He quickly steered his craft into a favourable position and closed in so as to make sure of his target. By this time the whereabouts of the escorting Destroyers could not be made out. Lieutenant Commander Wanklyn, while fully aware of the risk of being rammed by one of the escorts, continued to press on towards the enemy troopships. As he was about to fire, one of the enemy Destroyers suddenly appeared out of the darkness at high speed, and he only just avoided being rammed. As soon as he was clear, he brought his periscope sights on and fired torpedoes, which sank a large troop ship. The enemy Destroyers at once made a strong counterattack and during the next twenty minutes dropped thirty-seven depth-charges near Upholder. The failure of his listening devices made it much harder for him to get away, but with the greatest courage, coolness and skill he brought Upholder clear of the enemy and safe back to harbour.
>>44763676
You and me both anon.I'm in Madison right now, you?
>>44763626
BB cuddling her kids?
>>44763626
Looks more like she's mugging a teenager and her two little sisters.
What the fuck is with that turret position?
>>44763690
Well she's not a Fubuki class so jury says sure!
>>44763691
Victoria Cross Citation continued.
Before this outstanding attack, and since being appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Lieutenant Commander Wanklyn has torpedoed a tanker and a merchant vessel. He has continued to show the utmost bravery in the presence of the enemy. He has carried out his attacks on enemy vessels with skill and relentless determination, he has also sunk one destroyer, one U-boat, two troop-transports of 19,500 tons each, one tanker and three supply ships. He has besides probably destroyed by torpedoes one cruiser and one destroyer, and possibly hit another cruiser.VC
Dated 16 December 1941.
>>44763690
Yuugumo class is for lewds.
Except for makigumo.
She's for the gallows.
>>44763704
Well if a ships guns is its arms...
Nope still don't know.
>>44763645
Which is why I said in the last thread that the Abyssals are like Outer Heaven. They want endless war to be relevant, not neglected and ignored like they were in their previous lives. A world where all their kin, those still ships and those who returned to stand with the humans are relevant. In other words, Outer Heaven.
>>44763626
...Would the SD class have a nice ass?
>>44763711
>also sunk one destroyer, one U-boat
What.
How.
>>44763731
>LET THE WORLD FEAR US ALL
>>44763709
Fubukis are for lewd.
>>44763739
By hitting them with torps. Duh.
>>44763739
Running on the surface, unless this is the one instance of a ww2 sub sinking another submerged one
>>44763704
I honestly have no idea. And the BB is transferring fuel to the destroyers and the fuel tanker. Or maybe the fuel tanker is fueling the BB, who is fueling the destroyers. Or maybe the tanker is fueling the destroyers who are both fueling the BB, or both the destroyers and the tanker are fueling the BB. GAAAAAAAAAAH WHAT IS IT!?!?!!?
>>44763754
Only Murakumo....dem legs.
>>44763739
It was apparently an Italian submarine not a U-boat. Also remember these are WWII era subs and they spent a lot of time on the surface.
>>44763704
That's got turret #2 turned to uncover the powder loading chute, so they're reloading the powder magazine on turret #2. (Turning it the same distance to starboard uncovered the shell loading chute.)
>>44763737
Yes. Very yes.
So what's going on with the Iwo Jima assault now? Is it already over? Why aren't we paying any more attention to it?Did Essex race off into the sunset before anybody could get her under control?
>>44763805
It's been over for six threads.
>>44763754
Ayanami when?
>>44763754
>>44763775
>>44763739
Submarines in WW2 had to spend most of their time on the surface. A sub in the midst of friendly forces almost certainly would.
It wasn't too uncommon during the war for one sub to see an enemy sub on the surface and tag it with a torpedo.
>>44763786
Makes sense. Still gotta be unnerving for the crew of that oiler
Where's planefag..... We haven't heard from him in an hour or so. I think he's making a BIIIG update. Or maybe he fell asleep. In that case, MEEP MEEP. MEEP MEEP. MEEP MEEP.
>>44763805
She calmed down after her near-death experience and the requisite number of admirals to wrangle her was met without us.
The invasion itself is probably still happening because it's fucking Iwo Jima
>>44763786
Huh, neat
>>44763817
>>44763758
>>44763764
>>44763783
Can there be anything more embarrassing then being torpedoed as a sub?
>>44763737
oh course
>>44763839
Yes.Being torpedoed as a sub while underwater
>>44763839
Torpedoed underwater while maneuvering as a sub.
>>44763834
He probably got attacked by wild animals. Nothing to worry about.
>>44763834
If the Greek fell asleep we must start writing Willie lewds.
>>44763817
There were a lot of sub on sub kills in both theatres.
At least one US sub was sunk by a Japanese one in fact.
>>44763217
Caffeine.
>>44763731
Go away, Delta Green.
>>44763839
Usually they're too dead to care either way. Not much room in a sub hull for damage control.
>>44763737
a VERY nice round stern
>>44763692Brookings
“... Boss Taro,” you reply at length. “An attempt was made on my life - the life of a United States Navy flag-rank officer. It's going to take more than empty formalities to properly apologize for this fracas.”
“We are not talking about a slap on the wrist, Admiral. We will ensure they never bother your operations again.”
“They weren't a bother to begin with,” you reply.
Taro chuckles. “Between you and me, Admiral, I wouldn't be talking to you now if that was true.”
“You're right,” you reply. “Because you'd be on a morgue slab.”
The deathly silence that follows is palpable, and you almost swallow despite yourself.
Almost.
“You think so?” Taro says.
“Do you know how those two attack dogs died, Taro?”
“Hand-to-hand combat,” he replies immediately. “Bodyguards are all fine and good for back-alley muggers but-”
“I killed them,” you cut him off.
Silence.
“I trust you can confirm from your own 'sources'. The video's floating around base, and the kanmusu don't really understand modern computer security, so it's just a matter of time. You see, 'Taro,' I was a Captain before I was an Admiral - a war Captain, at that - and the Navy expects their Captains to lead from the front. If one worn-out cripple can do that, what do you think the rest of us can do?”
Silence.
“No. They were no *bother.* The family behind them, however, is. If you wish to express your apologies properly, simply decline from intervening in the conflict the Sumiyoshi family decided to make personal. We'll handle our business, nice and neat, and everyone goes home happy.”
>>44763839
Being sunk with your own torpedo. Or by someone flushing your toilet like that one uboat was.
>>44763860
Ok, he should survive. He is an A-10 after all. *BRRRRT INTENSIFIES*
>>44763877Are you at SDSU? I'm at DSU myself.
If you need more American battleships, the Pacific group has released Volume 2 in Chinese, along with some blog posts in English that go into the history of their fanwork.
“Do you know your Sun Tzu, Admiral?”
Now you remain silent.
“With the few, I can strike the many, for the many with whom I do battle are restricted.”
“You think we won't use our full power-”
“How could you possibly? No Japanese would stand for you marching through the streets in jackboots - again.” The last word betrays the slightest quiver of emotion - a pent-up anger, building towards rage.
“The abyssals are at our doorstep, *Boss* Taro,” you say, putting a little sneer into it. “America's patience with half-measures is past. And even if it wasn't, MINE is - and I've got enough resources to make your day difficult on my own.”
The sound of 'Taro's breathing comes through the line - he's fucking pissed, but containing it so well it barely shivers his voice. “Is that so?”
“Your 'federation' is very useful to you, I imagine,” you return. “I suggest you stand back for now and see how your associates fare. Stand by the ring, watch the duel.”
“And if we don't?”
“I'll send your wife a bouquet.”
There's a muted beep as he hangs up.
You lean over the desk for a minute, sweat trickling down your temples - you couldn't have been more alert had he been standing in the room with you, both of you poised to strike.
“God DAMN,” Hamp says happily from the corner. “I love this job. So exciting!"
>>44763721
>>gallows
You mean the guillotine, right?
>>44763754
fubuki class boring plain girls
murakumo should join shiratsuyu master race
Annnn~d that's it for the night!
THAT'S IT FOR TONIGHT! Pretty good run for the weeknight thread and we've got things set up for some real HABBENINGZ on Saturday, so that'll be fun!
GUESS WHAT FOLKS, WE HAVE
A NEW
GODDAMN
NAWKATIEM WOOOOOO
>>44763891
>So exciting!"
Not now Hamp!
