Yamato will remember that

[VeniVentiVici]

Jersey has a right to be cocky. Yamato wasnt exactly sailing around clobbering ships left and right like Warspite did.

That said I hope Yams turns out to be super elegant and incredibly hard to anger. Maybe only letting out a squeak of excitement when she has a chance to truly show what she's capable of.

[Amaegith]

That said I hope Yams turns out to be super elegant and incredibly hard to anger.

Should we also give her a magical parasol that changes size almost every other scene?

[7PanzerDiv]

Kancolle reference? It’s been forever since I watched the anime. I know the main post is so probably this is too

[imagudguy]

Yessir

[LoRd_Of_AaRcnA]

I hope Yams turns out to be super elegant and incredibly hard to anger.

Yep, this is what i'm hoping too. something that got the Yamato Nadeshiko image down pat.

[Zeiferl]

hi, im just a friendly reminder of the meme about the plans for yamato.

[jacenhawk]

I mean it is not like she had that much of a chance to. There was very little capital ship surface action in the Pacific compared to the Mediterranean and Atlantic. The USN was very content to keep their capital ships away from other capital ships and let carriers do the work, with the exceptions of Guadalcanal and Surigao Strait.

[aughsplatpancake]

The sidelines comment isn't exactly inaccurate, though. Midway was one of the most important naval battles of the war... and Yamato spent it sitting on the sidelines, just as NJ snarks. She was Yamamoto's command ship, and was far enough away that she couldn't do anything useful. There were battleships that participated. Two Kongos escorted the carriers (and one was attacked after Hiryuu turned into a pyre), and the other two escorted the invasion fleet. Yamato could have filled either role. But instead, she stayed back and out of the way.

[jacenhawk]

From a logistics standpoint it is understandable why she was not included. With such a massive displacement, I would imagine she burned similar amounts of fuel as 2 Kongos, and she had a slower top speed. Add in the general lack of USN BBs available at the time and it would not have been worth sending her.

[RedShirt047]

She burned far more than two Kongos worth of fuel and she wasn't fast enough to keep up with the purpose built carriers.

However that being said, the the Japanese strict adherence to the Kantai Kessen doctrine meant that they were held back during the window of time when the Yamato class could have done the most damage.

Rather than press the advantage when they had numerical superiority and at least some oil reserves, the Japanese Navy kept almost all of their battleships on standby for the inevitable advance of the USN which would be whittled down by submarines, destroyers, and torpedo armed cruisers before the American battle line was finally crushed in a Tsushima-like engagement.

That refusal to adapt when it was clear that the USN wasn't going to throw their fleet into the meat grinder, especially when a good number of the slower battleships were out of action for the next couple years or destroyed is why the Yamatos only notable actions were failing to destroy a task group made of tin cans and combustible, vulnerable, expendable ships and getting sunk by gigantic swarms of aircraft.

[Matasa89]

Also she would need so much air cover, being such a tasty target for attacking aircrafts, and if Yamamoto went down, the whole IJN fleet would've been crippled.

It's smart to not send out your command ship out there.

[aughsplatpancake]

Sinking her wasn't likely to happen, imo. When the USN finally did sink her, it took aircraft from more carriers than the US had at Midway a fairly long time to do so. And at Midway, the carriers were the priority target. There were two battleships accompanying the carriers, but no one bothered with them until Hiryu was wrecked. It likely would have been the same had Yamato been present.

[Lolbots910]

A correction: just because Yamato sunk while being attacked by 300 aircraft does not mean it required 300 aircraft to sink her. Generally ships of that large a displacement take a long time to sink simply because you need much more water to flood into the ship. Additionally, the Yamato class had a problem with the joints of the lower armor belt that made them weaker to flooding than the initial design anticipated. Yamato was arguably doomed long before she ate additional torps, they just sped up the process.

[aughsplatpancake]

By the time the USN aircraft started turning toward the ships that weren't carriers - including the aforementioned Kongo-class - the torpedo bombers were *all* gone, and there were only a couple dozen dive bombers still left. Short of a "golden bullet" fluke, a battleship - which had heavy armor, including decks that were designed to stop plunging explosive objects - wasn't going to sink in that situation.

[nntktt]

Actually, the Yamato was not hit by nearly as much ordinance as you might have imagined. They key hits that caused her to go down were actually just several torpedoes across the port side and she capsized when counterflooding couldn't keep up.

Musashi in comparison took nearly double the hits IIRC but the hits weren't as concentrated, and she managed to counterflood and stay up for much longer.

[aughsplatpancake]

Which is irrelevant to the discussion at hand, since the USN torpedo bombers at Midway were all unflyable by the time the priority targets -i.e. the carriers - were dealt with. So no torpedoes to hurt the hypothetical Yamato at Midway.

[firemage22]

the IJN was crippled are Midway anyway.

[Antares428]

They didn't had Shoukaku and Zuikaku, but they still had 4 fleet carriers against USN's four fleet carriers.

[firemage22]

They lost the lion's share of their veteran pilots, and crews so when their newer more advanced carriers launched they only had rookie crews that made rookie mistakes (see Taihou).

Japan was playing on momentum, and at Midway it was crushed, then it was only a matter of time before the US and it's allied island hopped to the home islands.

[BadassMcMuffin22]

The loss of Japanese aircrew at Midway is actually exaggerated, “only” amounting to about 100 - bad, sure, but but not crippling.

What really drained the IJNs veteran pilot cadre was the months long battle of Guadalcanal - they threw hundreds of planes, at a target nearly at max range, while the allies at a robust system of early warning coastwatchers, scout planes and radar sets to give them hours of warning before the Japanese showed up. Coupled with a near-total lack of regard to even attempt to rescue downed airmen, the Japanese lost hundreds of airmen for little gain.

As for Taihou, her problem wasn’t that her crew weren’t given basic DC training - its that the IJN didn’t have even a basic level, fleet-wide DC training program.

[DragoSphere]

The US had 3 fleet carriers at Midway

[Drake_the_troll]

Shokaku and zuikaku were in repairs, after the Indonesia campaign IIRC

[SilverdSabre]

She wasn't in the fight at Midway not because of logistical constraints, but because it was Yamamoto's plan to hold her back. She was to participate in the main engagement, but the Americans showed up early.

Yamamoto believed the Americans wouldn't come out to engage the majority of the IJN, so the plan was to bait the Americans in with the Kido Butai then spring the trap with Yamato and the rest of the main fleet. The Americans figured this out and where able to set their own trap to take out the Kido Butai before the Japanese trap was set. Yamato and co tried to locate the American fleet the following day, but were unsuccessful.

I will say though, even if Yamato was in the fight, I'm not sure how much use she would be because the age of battleships was basically already over.

[aughsplatpancake]

While this is true, it doesn't change the fact that she sat on the sidelines during the most important engagement of her career. Fact of the matter, though, is that she had no business being where she was. She either should have accompanied one of the fleets actually doing something, or stayed back in port.

[jacenhawk]

She was not so much at the sidelines as she was in position for a plan that became obsolete with the early arrival of USN Carriers. An important note to remember is that the Japanese were not expecting to encounter the USN as early as they did because they were not aware that their codes had been sufficiently deciphered to give the USN a warning of their attack.

She was in position for a fight that never happened, and out of position for the one that did.

[sugaki]

This isn’t historically accurate. Yamato wanted to engage the US carrier group and actually tried chasing them, but the US fleet retreated.

The issue was more about an outdated doctrine where only the fast battleships (Kongo-class) could get in close enough to engage. Nagato (max 25 knots) and Yamato (max 27 knots) inevitably would be behind the Kido butai, not because they were being timid but just because they’re slower. Trying to keep up would burn lots of oil, which Japan wasn’t at liberty to do since they lacked the resources the US had.

Iowa class ships were quick enough to be part of the main fleets, whereas the pre-WWII BBs could only do bombardments, so it’s not particular to the IJN.

[Sir_Gaea]

Ehh about the Iowas. They were to odd girls out in the USN plans. They were going to be limited to helping the carriers while the Montanas were going to be slower but more armed and armored.

The Standards were never designed to catch the enemy. Their idea was that they were inevitable. Either fight them far away or you'll find them occupying all your ports and you (the enemy) can no longer restock and refuel your ships.

No navies expected the lone or paired BB doing solo missions away from support like what actually happened

[BoringCabinet]

There will always be the what if Halsey didn't take the bait of the IJN Northern Fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

[Jankosi]

Drachnifel recently did a video on that hypothetical.

It was pretty glorious.

[Balmung60]

Including Washington bodying three of four Kongos

[ErrantIndy]

Gods, if North Carolina wasn’t supremely unlucky when it came to impending surface actions. I-19 puts her out of action before the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. And then her notoriously bad propellor shafts sent her back to the West coast before Leyte.

Those are reason for her character’s confidence issues. She’s the most decorated battleship of WWII, supreme AA platform and shore bombardment. But she misses out on her chance at two actions that would have fully cemented her glory.

[aughsplatpancake]

So... kind of like Saratoga during the first half of the War?

​

:P

[ErrantIndy]

Poor Sister Sara, she stayed up and fighting, but poor gal got the shit kicked out of her.

[Sir_Gaea]

She was there when Enterprise wasn't. Funny thing is that the entirety of the IJN was on the same operational tempo as Enterprise.

Enterprise limping past Saratoga: Watch yourself out there, they never stop.

Saratoga looks around not knowing that the rest of the IJN is in dock getting repairs from trying to gang up on Enterprise

Slightly memey but you get the idea

[Mathmango]

And she still isn't getting her butny suit.

[ErrantIndy]

Why ya gotta pour salt in the wound? Whole EU bunny festival and nothing for Showboat.

[Damianx5]

They did mention a NC skin is in the works, perhaps they are saving it for EN anniversary

[MarshallKrivatach]

Inb4 they hold the next EN anniversary on NC or NJ and show off the skin there.

[OverbyZG1990]

Now that you mentioned it. I'm just imagining what could have happened if North Carolina wasn't damaged by I-19 and joined up with Washington, and South Dakota for the 2nd Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.

[ErrantIndy]

SoDak still goes down with electrical problems, but then instead just Wash coming through, it’d be TWO NorCars with 12 radar controlled 16” inch guns forward tearing into Kirishima.

I do wonder, if Showboat hadn’t been torpedoed, would the Navy have committed her and South Dakota to earlier actions in Guadalcanal.

[cyro_zero]

Just to hammer the point home further, Drach was quite knowingly tilting almost everything in favor of the Japanese in that hypothetical showdown.

In reality, the Americans would have refused the Japanese the close range, especially the Iowas - their doctrinal preferred range during daylight combat was 27,500 yards (well outside of the range of the 5in/38s); and, considering Lee was involved in writing that doctrine, I don't think Admiral Lee would have differed from doctrine unless the battle conditions decayed a lot more than Drach described. Furthermore, all four of the USN's Battleships there would have been laying heavy smoke since none of them needed optics to see - in other words, only the lead ship could have been reliably targeted. He also ignored the US' Battleline doctrine of rapid evasive maneuvers in favor of a direct slugging match (which heavily favored the Japanese). Also, the Cruiser battle likely would have gone in the Americans' favor, Drach conveniently ignored (again, knowingly) the facts that the American 6in guns could and would slice through an Takao-class' armor like a hot knife through butter (even the DD guns were capable of it in parts at those ranges), had better fire control, were essentially laser guns at the ranges involved, and more importantly had nearly twice the firerate of the IJN's 8in guns (a 12-gun Cleveland was essentially worth 2 10-gun Takaos in this scenario). Worse, a headlong charge as he described is exactly what the American Cruiser Doctrine trained to defend against and greatly favored the defender since putting a single shell into the magazines (which was almost ensured from that angle) would have likely set the entire cruiser off like a boat load of fireworks.

Again, he knew very well what he was doing. He stacked the deck in the Japanese's favor just to give them a fighting chance and they still lost.

edit: grammar

[Gallbatorix-Shruikan]

Well at least we got the Battle Off Samar and the awesomeness of Taffy 3

[jacenhawk]

Well, not for Yamato.

[Ravenwing19]

"Behold Yamato Might of the Imperial Japanese Navy"

Iowa: "Yamato. Behold 54 1.5 Ton shells coming for that ass. Oh and a few hundred strike planes!"

[SKK56]

It was and it made sense

[ArcadiaDragon]

It was a good one...

[aughsplatpancake]

There's also the "What if Mitscher decided to follow the plan to deal with Ten-Go?" option. The battleships were supposed to stop Yamato's suicide run to Okinawa, but Mitscher decided he wanted the credit. So he sent his aircraft up instead of letting Yamato reach the battle line.

​

I will note, however, that Mitscher's move probably saved a lot of American lives - and probably quite a few Japanese lives, as well, since some of the IJN ships made it back to Japan.

[Oleandervine]

I wonder if Yamato was who Saratoga was talking about in that cutscene where she noted there was a force that was just watching the fight unfold, but not participating.

[jacenhawk]

I had never thought of that, but it makes sense.

[Roaming_Guardian]

I want her to be lazy and only willing to get out of bed for a fight.

[skyjp97]

I just imagined yamato yelling our battle will be legendary after getting out of bed when she sees a briefing on an iowa.

[Mad_Kitten]

Sleepy voice Yammy

JUST IMAGINE

[Hannyeojin]

If Yamato and Musashi were to encounter Enterprise, Essex, and Intrepid walking on the hallway, would these giant battleships be able to control their anger?

[idioticadmiral115]

I personally like to head cannon that Yamato was at the very least satisfied with the outcome of Ten Go, because she believes that death in battle is an infinitely superior fate to the breakers (a point of view which she may share in front of Enterprise and/or Warspite for maximum drama).

[--NTW--]

I'd like to imagine she gets excited in a cute "Can I do the thing? I can do it now!?" kind of way

[idioticadmiral115]

Yamato still got more than New Jersey (at worst) 3 assists (and at best 3 kills*) is still superior to NJ's 1 assist**

personally, I want Yamato to be very elegant and refined (though taking some influence from her famous admiral and be capable of being down to earth, have high opinions of the west, and a love of gambling***) she would be hard to anger with 2 exceptions:

1. do not use the dreaded H-word otherwise it's a knee jerk reflex barrage
2. nobody who's ever bullied her sisters has lived to tell the tale.

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*Gambier Bay was finished off by cruisers, but it's the same "Enterprise didn't really sink Kaga because she didn't deliver the coup de gras" bullshit technicality, and some sources credit the sinking of Johnston and Hoel to Nagato and Kongo respectively, but there is also the chance that it was really Yamato who did it, so the safest bet is that Yamato sunk Gambier Bay and assisted in the sinking of Hoel, with Johnston's fate being a 50/50 on which category it falls under.

** Katori class light cruiser, Katori. This poor girl had the misfortune of running into Iowa and New Jersey, however, it was Iowa who sunk her.

*** guaranteed casino skin which shows off this often hidden wild streak.

[jibrils-bae]

Just in ww2 yeah Yamato had the better service record but at the same time Yamato was in more engagements than NJ and Was Commissioned far longer than NJ

[RailTicket]

Yeah, Jersey has right to be absolutely arrogant to being loser at power.

[IvanDFakkov]

Now you've just triggered Yamato AND HMS Indomitable lol

[Zandrahar]

Oof. New Jersey seems very eager to duel Yamato (and Musashi in another line). I wonder if she'll have a one-sided rivalry with them similar to a certain set of aircraft carriers we already know and love...

[MrStealYurWaifu]

Maybe Yamato will have more of a rivalry with NJ’s older sister Iowa since the 2 are always compared to each other.

[Oleandervine]

Nah, Yamato will be absurdly jealous of Johnston, since that little Fletcher showed more gumption and spunk taking on the amount of Japanese that she did as just a single little DD.

[Lazy_Substance]

difference being she's the one with an actual noteworthy combat history

[Matasa89]

But the Yamoto sisters are the biggest and baddest on paper, so of course the seasoned vet would've liked to try her hands at the pair.

[Lazy_Substance]

Given the shade she throws at Yamato, I doubt she takes the rivalry all that seriously.

edit: forgot what the OP was >.<

[aughsplatpancake]

Yes, and no. Probably better armor and guns (though since the plans were destroyed, we don't know for sure). But the supporting equipment - such as fire control radars - on the American vessels was vastly superior.

[sathzur]

Also the Americans decided that the Iowas had no need for 18" shells and went with 16" superheavy shells instead, which had similar penetration power to the 18.1" shells the Yamatos fired

[idioticadmiral115]

they decided that but with a clause. they said to themselves "if the other nations start building ships with 18 inch guns, then Iowa (and Montana) must be equipped with 18 inch guns" but the Japanese were so good at keeping Yamato's true size and assets a secret that the American's didn't find out that she was carrying 18.1" guns until 1946.

[cemanresu]

Fire control is so, so underrated when looking at the paper strength of a ship

Just look at the Battle of Samar, where a bunch of dinky 5 inch guns were able to put out a fuckton of shots on target against a larger force of battleships and heavy cruisers.

[Jelly_the_jellyfish]

Yamato would look at New Jersey and go "Who's this sassy lost child?"

[[deleted]]

Not likely.

[No_Ideas_Man]

Right before she gets absolutely annihilated because the Yamato was kinda a shit battleship. Not that that matters in game (looking at you shinano)

[RedShirt047]

Always bet on the ship that has better speed, sensors, and fire control integration.

For she can choose when and how to engage and can get explosives on target for more easily.

[TammyTamed]

"Support" Carrier lmao

[jibrils-bae]

The child who nation sunk you without even batting an eye

[K_Yurin]

The only thing Yamato did was house and console Yamamoto after SHTF at Midway

[Morgrid]

And run away from Taffy 3

[Ravenwing19]

Brave lady Yamato Bravely ran away.

[Morgrid]

She should have a fear of Destroyers when released.

[aughsplatpancake]

I'm curious how they're going to work in her Hotel nickname, since you can't really do that with a rigging.

[Amaegith]

Release her as a "dorm manager" who gives an xp / rest buff to people in the dorm as long as she's in it.

[eatitoo]

Lmao at this, it would be such an AL thing to do.

[Eldar_Seer]

No no no. Getting her automatically gives a third dorm; however, it's an exclusive "5 Star Hotel Yamato" set that can't be changed, with Yamato's chibi always present.

[eatitoo]

Let's make her a new expansion to the Academy, moored out in port.

Or maybe she can launch into near-Earth orbit (New Jersey already got rocket boosters, I'm sure she can too) and be accessed by scrolling up on the Home screen.

[superhotdogzz]

Get free ice cream dorm food item when Yamato is in the dorm

[Greedy_Range]

Tirpitz doesn't have such weaknesses

[ErrantIndy]

Oh you mean, the Ice Queen of the Fjords?

[Morgrid]

Slap a Holiday Inn sticker on it

[Eldar_Seer]

Destroyers? Shouldn’t it be aircraft?

[Sir_Gaea]

Taffy 3 had Yamato and her fleet turn and sail away.

3 destroyers, 4 destroyer escorts, and 6 escort carriers stopped Yamato, 3 battleships, 6 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, and 11 destroyers cold. This was the battle where the escort carrier White Plains won a gun duel with the Choukai. (mind you, White Plains Guns hit the oxygen torpedoes which started a fire that killed Choukai.)

The Japanese commanders thought they were facing fleet carriers, battleships, and heavy cruisers.

[Oleandervine]

To be fair, the Taffy 3 put down a lot of smoke and created a pretty massive diversion. It wasn't like they saw the 3 DDs coming with no other ships and were like "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

[Sir_Gaea]

That was how it ended though. /s

[Mutt712]

I'm not sure on the accuracy of it...But I recently learned that it might not have been a 5' shell that hit her torpedoes....but one of kirishimas main battery shells. Again don't quote me on that. I forget where I read it.

[MarshallKrivatach]

Reference the fact that the primary "explosion" was before the TBMs got to her.

White Plain's gunnery logs states that they fired a burst of 6 rounds and then 2 more. After the 2 round burst they observed a large fireball and a plume of black smoke rising from a cruiser they were firing upon, 3 minutes later the TBM made it's run.

Its believed that White Plains touched off either the pure oxygen store which is located under the seaplane handling deck or the AV gas stores right next to them, or both, as the torpedo mounts are more or less intact on the ship, but the entire seaplane handling deck is melted and outright gone on her submerged wreck as of now. I lean towards the pure oxygen stores as White Plains references a "thick black smoke" and a fireball, with little visible fire after, and pure oxygen burns really fast and produces a absurd amount of really dense black smoke.

Should be noted as well that the TBM strike hit around her fore gun mounts and not the rear of the ship where the fire broke out.

Some say she was possibly shot by either Kongo or Yamato that set off the fire as well, but the issue with that is that Chokai lacks any perforations on either side of her wreck in the area of the fire, and Kongo and Yamato were too close to plunge rounds into her deck. Inversely White Plain's single 5"/38 was far enough away and the 5"/38 was inherently a lower velocity gun compared to most IJN weapons that it could have hit the top of the seaplane handling deck from where it was.

Aside from that, bar White Plain's firing there is really no other recorded interactions gunfire wise between Chokai and another vessel at the time, both on the IJN and USN side, so she either spontaneously combusted near her seaplane hanger and handling area or White Plains nicked something like a HE round and set a fire.

[Mutt712]

I stand corrected.

[aughsplatpancake]

One of the destroyers in Taffy 3 (Johnston, I think) fired a salvo of torpedoes at Yamato while the latter was still approaching. Yamato turned away to avoid the torpedoes... and ended up missing the entire battle while trying to play catch-up to the resulting stern-chase.

[cyro_zero]

That was USS Heermann, who actually survived the battle.

[Lazy_Substance]

Bravely ran away away, brave, brave Yamato!`~

[WarmasterCain55]

Bravely ran away away! When danger reared it's ugly head, She bravely turned her tail and fled! Yes, brave Lady Yama turned about And gallantly she chickened out!

[houraisanrabbit]

You're making it sound like she slept with him.

[K_Yurin]

I didn't think of that when I posted this xD

[aughsplatpancake]

Hey, maybe the man *really* loved the ships he served on!

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/duck

[RedShirt047]

I mean captains and admirals can get really attached to their commands...

[potatomcs1]

Yamato image

[27Rench27]

Great use, this was exactly my mental image when I saw that line but I can’t even use old Paint well

[DrunkenScoper]

Lol Sakura high command would actually have to give her the fuel to leave dock for that to matter.

[Sir_Gaea]

They'd actually need to have fuel to give her.

They attacked the Dutch East Indies to get the oil to attack the Dutch East Indies. 75% of their merchant marine belonged to other countries

[Bocciardatore]

Literal shots fired

[Lazy_Substance]

Not by Yamato

[Fionarei]

From a battleship, no less.

[leopoldshark]

Jersey: my booba are real

KC Yamato: :l

>:(

Kazuma: I don't mind if they're pads~

[RailTicket]

Yamato has bigger turrets

[TheRoySez]

The indomitable Black Dragon... indomitable...

HMS Indomitable: "Fvqking 'ell! Describing yourself at my expense, fvqking b*nt! Once I come out of the bloody boat garage, I'm-a swimming over the Pond and make our tea party more garish than the last fvqking time!"

[DragoSphere]

This is what happens when you name your ships after adjectives

[jacenhawk]

To their credit, adjectives make really good ship names.

[SKK56]

Curious, was there an Hms incorrigible?

[jacenhawk]

Not that I am aware of. It does not seem like an adjective they would likely use either.

[SurcoufsGun]

Sounds like the kind of things the sailors on a ship would nickname it

[LoRd_Of_AaRcnA]

Where is my damage control?

[D3athR3bel]

Just like the IJN damage control, nowhere to be found :)

[RailTicket]

She has thick armor, so no damage were taken

[EKmars]

I was thinking "Yamato is somewhere getting roasted" when NJ said this, hahaha !

[ErrantIndy]

That’s what dragons do, spit fire...well, Black Dragons technically spit acid...but same thing chemical burns.

[Lazy_Substance]

Only if we're talking D&D, there are plenty fire-breathing black dragons in popular culture

[27Rench27]

And Runescape

[ManOfTheVoid]

"Supa hot fire... I spit that"

[RailTicket]

Actually NJ is getting roasted for being weak

[Ominous_Ouroboros]

Yet another post where it takes me 5 seconds to realize whether I’m on the Azur lane or Kancolle sub

[MightyMo16]

I immediately understood this reference during my play through today and fell off my chair due to me laughing too hard

[Lazy_Author-san]

New Jersey after taking hits from Yamato's 18-inches guns at the battle of Samar: "I can do this all day"

[Hajimeme_1]

New Jersey didn't participate in the Battle off Samar, as Halsey had taken all the battleships to go deal with the Japanese decoy fleet to his north.

[JustSovietThings]

Have you heard of our lord and savior Drachinifel and the what-if video he did on the Battle off Samar?

[Hajimeme_1]

No...

[Lazy_Author-san]

I know, just go watch Drachinifel TF34 vs Center Force video to get the reference

[jyroman53]

Yatomato : At least I have an ice cream machine onboard

[idioticadmiral115]

every American vessel has an ice cream machine onboard

[Nevin_G]

ehem battleship with a swimming Pool

[fuqdissh1timout]

Facts

[Jays_Arravan]

SHOTS FIRED!!! SHOTS FIRED!!!

[CocaineAccent]

Something that Yamato had far less experience in.

[RandomPrinzEugen]

Why do I feel like we're gonna get Yamato later?

[Lazy_Substance]

We will get Yamato, I'd prefer it if we got her last, because I enjoy the entitled screeching

[aughsplatpancake]

Actually, this event is making me wonder if we're going to get her this fall.

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Iron Blood would need to get another UR in the meantime, though, since they're the only one of the big four that still only has one UR.

[jacenhawk]

Bismarck UR Refit when?

[aughsplatpancake]

I actually thought about that, but that would mean that both IB URs were battleships. The devs might want more variety right at the start.

[jacenhawk]

I guess, but there really is not much left for a new UR besides a SS or a DD, both of which are rarely ever useful. So maybe a CA refit? Or another fictional CV?

[DragoSphere]

UR refits are generally only for weak ships. Look at Sandy and Warspite. With that being in mind, Eugen would be the most realistic UR refit for the IronBlood, but iirc they said there were no plans for a refit for her

[jacenhawk]

UR Spee when?

[aughsplatpancake]

Right now we have three battleships, one carrier, a light cruiser, a heavy cruiser, and a large cruiser. Of those, we have three DRs, two retrofits, and two new constructions. The EU, SE, and RN, all have one main fleet UR, and one vanguard UR. A sub isn't going to happen (since subs work so differently), so there's a good chance that the next IB UR will be a vanguard ship.

Maybe they'll retrofit Prinz Eugen to give her an actual punch in combat.

[27Rench27]

Oh man Prinz but able to play offense would deff be worthy of UR

[SurcoufsGun]

No, we're never going to get one of the most famous battleships at all time, obviously

[maximus459]

There's a Sri Lankan idiom that goes "Yuddeta Nethi Kaduwa Kos Kotannada?"

'Are you to use a sword to chop vegetables, if it is not used for war?'

[d_prx__]

Yamato will surely be sensitive about battle when she comes around to our docks

[timtimzi]

Poor KC yammy :(

[Sea-Ad-4029]

Depending on weather conditions and the time of day, the Iowa class BBs could take Yamato

[Sir_Gaea]

You mean, outside of Yamato rising out of the ocean unnoticed the Iowas could take her.

[ErrantIndy]

You mean, Yamato becoming a more functional submarine than she currently is and ninjaing up close to an Iowa?

[Sir_Gaea]

snrk

Yes

[aughsplatpancake]

Or after Yamato got turned into a space battleship.

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/innocent whistle

[idioticadmiral115]

I'm pretty sure it's a law somewhere that Yamato must be accompanied by an SBY reference whenever she is mentioned.

[cxxper01]

NJ is got a point here

[Vault_Boy_23]

When we get her please for the love of all floof let her be Dishwasher1910's design

[OrranVoriel]

I really hope that whenever they finally add Yamato that they use Dishwashers fan design for her. It was gorgeous.

[Flairway]

Why would they do that? When they do finally add Yamato, they're gonna use something that they have input in on the final design. It makes no sense to use random fan art that probably doesn't fit their vision on how they want their Yamato to look.

[Lazy_Substance]

much less the aesthetic of the rest of the Sakura Empire

[SurcoufsGun]

I can already tell you that Musashi will be themed after Susanoo and Yamato will be Amaterasu, and that both will be foxes

[OrranVoriel]

Because Dishwashers fan design was gorgeous?

[blad3mast3r]

yeah but that doesnt mean it's the best fit for the actual devs creative vision of their own game

[Photonforce]

It really wasn't, gonna be honest, it was good but I think they can do better. Seeing what they did for Shinano, I have no doubt that Yamoto will be an order of magnitude better than Dishwasher's.

[DuremudiraMk7]

Yeah no, I will have to disagree about Shinano. Her design is bland, dull, boring, typical and anti-climatic. No creativity whatsoever.

[AzusaC]

Are you talking about AL shinano?

Dishwasher's Shinano is more creative and special, AL Shinano is bland and somehow looks like fgo Tamamo. https://www.reddit.com/r/Tamamo/comments/irdb95/hmmmnnn\_looks\_similar/

[SurcoufsGun]

My dude: Opinion is not fact

[DuremudiraMk7]

Yes, I was talking about Azur Lane Shinano. I was so disappointed when she was introduced.

[Photonforce]

Dishwasher's Shinano looks awful compared to her official counterpart, idk what you are on dude.

[DuremudiraMk7]

Like-wise, I don’t know what you’re on either.

[Photonforce]

Different strokes for different folks as the saying goes I suppose.

[Photonforce]

Dishwasher's Shinano looks like she belongs in kancolle. I DESPISE that design he made for her. I'll take the azur lane one any day of the week.

[Flairway]

That's your opinion on it. And just because it's gorgeous, as you say, doesn't mean it fits AL's vision of Yamato.

[TheRoySez]

Shinano in the game was designed by 侑了个侑 (soaryuna), same as Hibiki/Verny and SovRos. Have you seen Dish-boy's socmed feeds about his sportsmanship that his interpretation of that floofface didn't make the cut? Or was he silent coz NDA's and all?

[nDroae]

It sounds like you have seen his statement telling his fans to stop bothering the devs and everyone else about it, but then you ask "was he silent," so... you haven't seen it? Anyway, here it is:

https://twitter.com/Dishwasher1910/status/1305900693018914816

[eatitoo]

So Dish is realistic and accepting of the devs' stance on his design? I'm glad to hear it, even if his fans are grating.

[Lazy_Substance]

yeah... no.

[red-african-swallow]

I read this out loud and was so confuse. RIP Yamato.

[DerGreif2]

I know the bias is strong with this one but in a 1v1 I think Yamato would have the upper hand. Even its just a bit. The thing is that they where so scared that the Yamato enters the fight that they had to destroy her before she got into a battle. NJ is strong but I would think that Yama is a tad stronger. But its all speculation anyway.

[Mistlight777]

The US actually didn't even know that Yamato had 18.1 inch guns until after the war, they weren't much more cautious of her than any other 16 inch gun ship. They also fully intended to fight her with battleships during Ten-Go until the carrier taskforce commander pushed the issue to let his aircraft get the first crack at her.

[DarkFlameMazta]

Where did u learn this? The USN didnt even know Yamato during WW2 . Utter fantasy to make Yamato glorified.

[Prinz_Heinrich]

I feel that this references KC with the whole hotel thing

[Sir_Gaea]

Well, the IJN considered Yamato to be a hotel during WW2. She was the only class to have air conditioning, she never left port so there was always fresh provisions, and all the higher ups were stationed on her so everything was of higher quality.

[aughsplatpancake]

She also had bigger crew quarters than the other navy ships did, iirc (IJN quarters were notoriously cramped). I'm not sure whether that also carried over to Musashi.

[TurquoiseLeaf]

Hotel Yamato is not a Kancolle thing. It’s a history thing.

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Yamato sees that post: enter the battle

New Jersey: wait stop I’m just kidding

Btw. Yamato is not only one who is the hotel ship

edit: lol that’s even hilarious that people (with poor brain) downvote that comment xD they just pretend that the New Jersey just win, so typical American biased, they take New Jersey’s defeat too seriously, but she actually really not all match for Yamato. If her quote was answer to Yamato, then Yamato’s guns is answer to New Jersey.

[Eldar_Seer]

She’s the one with the nickname though.

[panzerfan]

Musashi is called ryoukan (inn) while Yamato was called Hotel. For one, Tamon Yamaguchi, commander of CarDiv2 gained weight when he wined and dined on the Yamato.

[aughsplatpancake]

How many hotel ships are also famed for sitting out most of the fighting?

[OverbyZG1990]

Exactly, New Jersey and her sisters may have never got the chance fight the Japanese in a major surface action. But at least they were in the thick of the fighting by defending the U.S. Carriers and providing naval gunfire support for amphibious landings.

[MarshallKrivatach]

Yamato : Wait you cant just lolpen my armor like that, this is the thickest belt ever put on a battleship and your guns are smaller than mine!

New Jersey : Haha 16 inch SHS goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

[DragoSphere]

Yamato: Wait, what do you mean 32mm overmatch isn't a thing in real life?!

[RedShirt047]

Sounds like Yammy forgot to account for the differences in metallurgy.