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Bro got called a greenhorn.

He kind of was one. Unfamiliarity with old ships and their exact capabilities was forgivable, but he was too arrogant and too confident in tech advantage. This was a highly nonstandard situation and he failed to adapt due to his preconceptions. Simply too inflexible.

If I were to level one criticism against this guy, it's that he let the enemy vessels get too close. He had a speed advantage over every enemy vessel with the possible exception of Spence and his radars also gave a pretty decisive detection advantage. If he had conducted a fighting retreat, he would have forced the enemy to spread out to chase him down and while Spence might have been able to catch up, Mr. Sea Sparrow and Mr. Harpoon would not have been her friend. He also wouldn't have had to deal with Akagi's aircraft and Musashi simultaneously. Akagi-chan did seriously gimp her striking range when switching to the triple-flight deck loadout so after dealing with Spence and Akagi-chan's aircraft, he could have closed in and either knocked out Akagi-chan with numerous Harpoon strikes or blasted Musashi/FdG with multiple SAM shots to the bridge while staying out of gunnery range, depending on which unlucky sod he spotted first. Instead, he ended up facing all of them at once and paid the price for it.

Eboreg said:

If I were to level one criticism against this guy, it's that he let the enemy vessels get too close. He had a speed advantage over every enemy vessel with the possible exception of Spence and his radars also gave a pretty decisive detection advantage. If he had conducted a fighting retreat, he would have forced the enemy to spread out to chase him down and while Spence might have been able to catch up, Mr. Sea Sparrow and Mr. Harpoon would not have been her friend. He also wouldn't have had to deal with Akagi's aircraft and Musashi simultaneously. Akagi-chan did seriously gimp her striking range when switching to the triple-flight deck loadout so after dealing with Spence and Akagi-chan's aircraft, he could have closed in and either knocked out Akagi-chan with numerous Harpoon strikes or blasted Musashi/FdG with multiple SAM shots to the bridge while staying out of gunnery range, depending on which unlucky sod he spotted first. Instead, he ended up facing all of them at once and paid the price for it.

This is mostly correct, except he and Amagi-chan didn't have the speed advantage. Believe it or not, the Yamato-class can outrun a Zumwalt or Arleigh Burke and that's without even cross-connecting boilers. Certainly the modern-day destroyers could easily out-maneuver Akagi-chan and company, but not outrun them.

It's completely reasonable to simply assume that modern-day destroyers are going to be faster than mid-century battleships and carriers, but that actually isn't the case. Not when it came to the Axis, anyway. They didn't have the access to resources that the Allies had; and the Japanese Empire knew that overtaking the Pacific would require placing a premium on the necessity of speed. Germany had a similar problem -- if they wanted to dominate the Atlantic, they had two choices: through the channel or around Scapa Flow. (If only Bismarck and Eugen sortied with Graf Zeppelin, what a different world we would exist in today.) The only way through or past these two deadly pylons at the time was speed. (Germany tried to disable the threat of Scapa Flow back in WWI. It didn't go well for Germany, but in all fairness, it didn't go all that well for the Royal Navy either. Warspite barely made it back to port from that one intact.)

These days it's not really all that necessary for any sort of ship to haul that much ass, even though America's carriers are (IIRC) quite capable of doing so. Destroyers aren't the up-close-and-personal vanguard they used to be, either.

Grave-tan said:

He kind of was one. Unfamiliarity with old ships and their exact capabilities was forgivable, but he was too arrogant and too confident in tech advantage. This was a highly nonstandard situation and he failed to adapt due to his preconceptions. Simply too inflexible.

something something diesel-electric subs something something winning war games against nuclear carrier group something something

No, but for real -- it does crack me up the US lost 6 war games against sweden's diesel electric submarine

and oh yeah, 40 years ago it happened as well when the NRP Barracuda also defeated the USS Eisenhower.

Revolver Ocelot (Reisen Udongein Inaba)

Looks like a Mateba Unica 6 to me, best visible at 0:12. Any firearm experts feel free to correct.

You know I could turn the other way... or I could be like Terrance Rainer

Gligar being Slavers was not on my list of things I thought I would read today.

I'll admit, the ears and tails make me more inclined for a romp with her.

So true man, it's like I can talk about the deep stuff

Beautiful piece! It's Ling though, not Mostima)

Be sure to check out Hisona's book Idle Talking Idols about Shou and Kutaka's respective religious connections, too.

The separation of gods and buddhas on this page is referring to the Shinbutsu bunri in the Meiji era.

"slams door open" SLEEPING ON THE JOB HUH!?!

abyss_kaiser said:

"slams door open" SLEEPING ON THE JOB HUH!?!

It's about the only way those girls will get enough, and only when Ainz straight orders them to do it. It's probably her day off in rotation, so she's still in her uniform just in case Lord Ainz needs her, but she's resting per his orders. One does not defy the orders of a Supreme Being.

Roxy replaces Reimu while she's on vocation??

Like a spring under tension

Music sounds awfully familiar. Is that the Fallout theme?

djseifer said:

Music sounds awfully familiar. Is that the Fallout theme?

Yes, specifically Fallout 4.

Fubuki_Rena said:

Yes, specifically Fallout 4.

I thought so. Tagging for the music inclusion.

sucker punch of a wedding

"They are rage, brutal, without mercy. But you. You will be worse."

The longer Mima remains in Gensokyo, the stronger she becomes.

Added "number pun" as 962 on the door can be read as ku-ro-ni.