Springfield?

MajorAmiruddin said:

Springfield?

Yep, looks like one.

All I can say is 'wow, she's absolutely stunning'... and that she's probably not wearing anything underneath that. ;)

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Please clean up my translation. I know at least some of the historical information is inaccurate (24th Air Flotilla was mostly land based and reported to the 4th Fleet, and also did not include Shoho, Shoukaku or Zuikaku) but I don't have time to fact check or translate fully.

Ignore the strikeouts, resolved below.

Minimin said:

Please clean up my translation. I know at least some of the historical information is inaccurate (24th Air Flotilla was mostly land based and reported to the 4th Fleet, and also did not include Shoho, Shoukaku or Zuikaku) but I don't have time to fact check or translate fully.

I take my research quite seriously, so apologies if this comes across as terse (I really don't mean it as such, and it's super hard to convey tone through text!). I've read your comment very carefully and could not find the historical inaccuracies you speak of. If you could clarify for me what you mean, that would be helpful.

Nowhere in my text did it state the 24th Air included Shoho, Shokaku, or Zuikaku, nor was there there any mention of the 4th fleet. I did not write about Shoho in Lexington's profile. The only references to Shokaku and Zuikaku are in the context of Coral Sea's influence on Japanese strategy, two paragraphs later.

The text simply states that her air groups engaged the 24th Air and gained valuable experience, leading into a general comment that these encounters provided a basis for further developments in US tactics.

As it stands, USS Lexington engaged the 24th Air Flotilla prior to Coral Sea. First-hand accounts from individuals such as Lt. Gayler note rather explicitly that they were encountering new Japanese planes (and found that they blew up rather easily), and the battle on the 20th was what got O'Hare his MoH.

tincancarrier said:

Oh, misread the timing on the "during 1942 [etc. etc.]" section then, I was under the impression that the last sentence in the paragraph lead into the Coral Sea battle which was described more fully in the next paragraph. I forgot about the early carrier raids that the Lex did, my bad.

If I may ask, where did you get information on Lex from? I have books on Hornet, Enterprise, Maury and such, but there's hardly any one-stop books for the Lexington class.

Eh... blue hair. the design mostly great but blue hair? I don't know.. just didn't met my criteria of what I expected of What kanmusu version of Lexington look like.

I still prefer to say that the Warship Girl's Depiction of Lexington is better (gray-ish hair ftw). Anyway, it's the matter of taste. don't take it personally.

EDIT: Words.

So, when're we getting art of both this Lex and Warship Girls Lex together?

I kind of get the feeling that Jeanex jumped a bit too far ahead in American Guns. Maybe get a double-barreled shotgun for the Lexis and Ranger and Lever-Actions for the Yorktowns and Wasp while Enterprise starts using a Mare's Leg later on (only proper for the best gol-dang cowgirl in the Pacific) and Hornet can occasionally be seen with a trapdoor single-shot rifle (possibly with a scope). Only when we get to the Essex classes do I feel that bolt-actions would be proper.

EDIT: Although maybe just get Lever-actions for all pre-war carriers since all the Japanese pre-war carriers have the same kind of bow, except Houshou.

MajorAmiruddin said:

Springfield?

That would make the most sense, since she is a U.S. ship. And the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of the U.S. ships using rifles instead of bows and arrows.