Its kind of bizzare to have Houshou visit Mikasa. She´s almost old enough to know her personally.

Darkestvampire92 said:

Its kind of bizzare to have Houshou visit Mikasa. She´s almost old enough to know her personally.

And Kongou is even older than Houshou!

Now I'm interested to see what watanore's Mikasa shipgirl will look like tho.

Darkestvampire92 said:

Its kind of bizzare to have Houshou visit Mikasa. She´s almost old enough to know her personally.

Actually the ship was only struck in 1923 so theoretically there was a tiny period of overlap. All the BB that aren't Yamato are even older and overlapped as well.

Ni_Oxx said:

And Kongou is even older than Houshou!

Kongou is actually the oldest ship in the game by a fair margin. There was another image showing a young Houshou with a biplane that implied Kongou was taking her picture that I found an amusing reminder of the fact Kongou is pretty much a full decade older. Combined with her obsession with the Admiral kind of makes you wonder how she was able to dodge the Christmas cake characterization.

Mikasa was built at the same yard as Kongo, if I recall correctly. Just about a decade earlier.

<Yukikaze> BATTLESHIP MIKASA SPOTTED!

It's a nice place to visit, if you're in the area. You can go through pretty much the entire ship, too. (bar the engines and stuff).

Paracite said:

It's a nice place to visit, if you're in the area. You can go through pretty much the entire ship, too. (bar the engines and stuff).

Seconded this. Had my visit during the anniversary celebration of a war that i forgot, and we had JMSDF band playing music onboard. Absolutely nice.

They had amazake for every visitor when I went, since it was around New Years - got dressed up in a Admiral's outfit, too. And since it's Yokosuka, gotta have real Navy Curry afterwards.

After the translation makes you kind of sad Taiwan had be a dick about Yukikaze. By the the time she ended up wrecking the historic value was seen and Japan wanted her back as a war memorial, but Taiwan was an ass about it out of what looks an awful lot like spite. I'd rate that up there with scraping Enterprise and Warspite as historic travesties involving WWII naval vessels.

From what I remember, It was Admiral Nimitz that saved Mikasa from the breakers after WW2 concluded. Aside from Japan's desperate need for scrap metal, Mikasa also had to deal with the Russians wanting to see her destroyed for her role in the Battle of Tsushima.

Kongou would have all sorts of feelings about seeing Mikasa. After all, Kongou's the last ship purchased from Britain, and Mikasa is her predecessor in almost every sense, as Mikasa was made by Vickers at Barrow.

Tk3997 said:

After the translation makes you kind of sad Taiwan had be a dick about Yukikaze. By the the time she ended up wrecking the historic value was seen and Japan wanted her back as a war memorial, but Taiwan was an ass about it out of what looks an awful lot like spite. I'd rate that up there with scraping Enterprise and Warspite as historic travesties involving WWII naval vessels.

Why would Taiwan ever allow that ship to return to Japanese fold though? Think about it. 1970 was when the diplomatic recognition was switched over to the PRC, and the old wounds among the rank and file of the mostly mainlander KMT party cadre still bore heavy resentment toward Japan and all. The whole 'typhoon wrecked her' proved a convenient way to close the chapter on the ship.

panzerfan said:

Why would Taiwan ever allow that ship to return to Japanese fold though? Think about it. 1970 was when the diplomatic recognition was switched over to the PRC, and the old wounds among the rank and file of the mostly mainlander KMT party cadre still bore heavy resentment toward Japan and all. The whole 'typhoon wrecked her' proved a convenient way to close the chapter on the ship.

Exactly they were being petty dicks, they pretty much destroyed a historic relic out of spite over decisions that really had nothing to do with it. I understand their (stupid) reasons for doing it, but that doesn't make it less of a travesty against history.