Commissioned does not mean complete. Musashi didn't get most of her AA armament until September. And then trained the rest of the year. Because why would you send your fancy new battleship into one of the worst battlefields with only a third of her guns, no radar and a green crew?
Commissioned does not mean complete. Musashi didn't get most of her AA armament until September. And then trained the rest of the year. Because why would you send your fancy new battleship into one of the worst battlefields with only a third of her guns, no radar and a green crew?
Those are all good points, but they just didn't have the fuel, so they are also moot.
Yamato and Musashi feel like when I play an game and get a specially item or weapon and I am like ok lets save this for later and the game basically ends with it still in my inventory or in the case of Musashi by the time I use it its no longer as effective.
Commissioned does not mean complete. Musashi didn't get most of her AA armament until September. And then trained the rest of the year. Because why would you send your fancy new battleship into one of the worst battlefields with only a third of her guns, no radar and a green crew?
Because it's the make or break campaign of the war and you'll never get another chance where deploying her might actually matter strategically and she wouldn't have really needed most of her AA guns for a night surface action? Anyway even if you can excuse Musashi to an extent the Hotel's, Big Seven, and even Misfortune Sisters inactivity is pretty damning, even if the fuel situation was pretty bad. It's kind of amusing that for all the talk of Japanese "aggressiveness" all throughout the Solomon it was the US basically going "Send. Fucking. Everything! CHAAAARGE" while the IJN is all like "We might need this stuff later, use the least possible forces so we can slowly be bled dry via attrition."
Because it's the make or break campaign of the war and you'll never get another chance where deploying her might actually matter strategically and she wouldn't have really needed most of her AA guns for a night surface action? Anyway even if you can excuse Musashi to an extent the Hotel's, Big Seven, and even Misfortune Sisters inactivity is pretty damning, even if the fuel situation was pretty bad. It's kind of amusing that for all the talk of Japanese "aggressiveness" all throughout the Solomon it was the US basically going "Send. Fucking. Everything! CHAAAARGE" while the IJN is all like "We might need this stuff later, use the least possible forces so we can slowly be bled dry via attrition."
The Japanese were waiting for the expected decisive battle as predicted with Plan Orange, and what the American would normally do against the Japanese....had the American battleship fleet not been crippled at Pearl Harbor. But since the old battleships were out, invading Africa and Europe were the priority, than the Pacific Fleet had to island hop its way from the south instead of head right up the middle from Hawaii, to Wake, to Guam, then the Philippines, than up to Japan after retaking the area.
The Japanese planned for the US to sail right to them with the whole fleet plus transports, and they would be waiting with all their battleships for the Americans. It would be glorious....and was the American plan in Plan Orange. Japanese figured they could use their ships and torpedoes to cripple the US Fleet on the way in so that whatever was left would be ineffective, followed by the Americans suing for peace because the war was too costly and it take too many years to rebuild for another offensive without leaving California open to invasion.
The Japanese were waiting for the expected decisive battle as predicted with Plan Orange, and what the American would normally do against the Japanese....had the American battleship fleet not been crippled at Pearl Harbor. But since the old battleships were out, invading Africa and Europe were the priority, than the Pacific Fleet had to island hop its way from the south instead of head right up the middle from Hawaii, to Wake, to Guam, then the Philippines, than up to Japan after retaking the area.
The Japanese planned for the US to sail right to them with the whole fleet plus transports, and they would be waiting with all their battleships for the Americans. It would be glorious....and was the American plan in Plan Orange. Japanese figured they could use their ships and torpedoes to cripple the US Fleet on the way in so that whatever was left would be ineffective, followed by the Americans suing for peace because the war was too costly and it take too many years to rebuild for another offensive without leaving California open to invasion.
So, if I'm reading this right, Japan's initial attack on the US forced the US into a strategy the Japanese hadn't planned on.
It seems like, however you look at this, the Japanese shot themselves in the foot.
So, if I'm reading this right, Japan's initial attack on the US forced the US into a strategy the Japanese hadn't planned on.
It seems like, however you look at this, the Japanese shot themselves in the foot.
Yeah, that pretty much sums up how the Axis Powers screwed themselves. You could say the same about Germany when they went and pissed off Russia/the Soviet Union, despite them having a partial mutual "don't fuck with" relationship during that time. Italy didn't help in the matter too much either.
In the end, the entirety of the Axis Powers' downfall really just come down to pride, biting off a bit more than they could chew (as with most Regimes throughout history). Like an obnoxious nerd that watched too much superhero cartoons and proceeding to challenge the resident Jock after taking one class of Karate, thinking that they could take them since they were able to beat their little brother, while they're also fighting against someone else. Then their friend went and pissed off the other Jock.
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WHAT!?DecemberApparently there is a great crisis in the Solomon Sea, I'm going to war!After Musashi was commissioned, she never had any battle in the rest of 1942Keep working up in Seto Inland SeaAugustNo slacking around! Go to your training!Aug.5 1942No! Musashi, you are a secret weapon! You are not going to be revealed!The second ship of Yamato class Battleship, Musashi, is commissioned