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Garrus said:

I have NO idea what they're doing here. Can someone a bit more versed in these matters weigh in?

Well, one of Musashi's secondaries got knocked out but Akagi's aircraft are marking the positions of the Zumwalts with smoke clouds for Friedrich der Grosse to spot since they can't radio back spotting information for various reasons (including a lack of radios and enemy comms jamming).

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    Eboreg said:

    Well, one of Musashi's secondaries got knocked out but Akagi's aircraft are marking the positions of the Zumwalts with smoke clouds for Friedrich der Grosse to spot since they can't radio back spotting information for various reasons (including a lack of radios and enemy comms jamming).

    This is a perfect summary, thanks.

    This story arc worked out a lot better in my head than it did formulated to a 4-koma classic newspaper strip format. And I might be a Marine and thus part of the Navy proper, maybe I bit off a bit more than I could chew when it came to coordinating a surface battle from two disparate eras. So far nobody has come to me telling me my terminology (or math!) is way off.

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    CplEthane said:

    This is a perfect summary, thanks.

    This story arc worked out a lot better in my head than it did formulated to a 4-koma classic newspaper strip format. And I might be a Marine and thus part of the Navy proper, maybe I bit off a bit more than I could chew when it came to coordinating a surface battle from two disparate eras. So far nobody has come to me telling me my terminology (or math!) is way off.

    I have seen three problems with the tactics here although two of them may just be a matter of not being discussed by the characters since it was too obvious.

    1) The Zumwalts' maritime reconnaissance helicopters didn't play any role whatsoever which is odd since they're incredibly useful for gaining targeting data from beyond the horizon although the fact that Akagi-chan's fighters are in the air would have made them easy prey which may explain things a bit.
    2) Modern-day anti-ship missiles would just go splat against the belt armor of WWII-era battleships with minimal damage but again, it may just have never been stated that they received the appropriate modifications.
    3) and this is the big one, the Zumwalts still aren't shooting at the enemy aircraft. I'm having trouble figuring out why that could be although there could be a number of reasons why they can't or won't shoot them down.

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