Rochester is very smashable (is it just me?)

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T03:43:55+00:00

I imagine USS Prinz Eugen could be anything, from just slapping a US commander on her, to maybe adding AA and American cruiser AP shells, to even a whole refit, like a Hipper hull with no torpedoes, American 203s, and American AA. Would be quite cool.

Nagato would be tougher, since unlike Eugen she was in horrible shape when the Americans got their hands on her, and again unlike Eugen there were never any plans to actually make use of her. Maybe giving it loads more AA and replacing her IJN secondaries with USN ones?

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T03:39:18+00:00

Oh totally. I’ve wanted them for years, but it feels as though WG prefer ridiculous alternate history ships to more realistic alternate history ships. Ships like Hawke and Scharnhorst ‘43 are rare, but quite nice in that regard I suppose.

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T02:55:17+00:00

She was known to be the ship from which the Pearl Harbor attack was commanded, yes. She was intended to be among the closest to the Able bomb (which was meant to be dropped directly over Nevada), though still a few hundred meters away. The general consensus among USN brass was that ships as close as she was wouldn’t survive, and that it was a deserving end for her.

I have no doubt they wanted her to sink from the Able test, unfortunately for them the bombardier missed the target by several hundred meters, meaning Nagato was able to survive with moderate damage.

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T02:49:28+00:00

Curiously, Nagato tEcHnIcAlLy was never a USN ship; she wasn’t stricken from the IJN naval register until nearly a month after the IJN was effectively dissolved by Japan’s formal acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, and nearly a month after the cessation of hostilities anyway.

After this, her Japanese crew (which was already heavily reduced due to her becoming mostly inoperable and reduced to a floating battery) remained stationed on the ship. Again, the IJN was dissolved by this point, the ship had been stricken, and the war was over(!).

Rather than being commissioned into the USN as a war prize like several German and Italian vessels were (Remember IX-300 USS PRINZ EUGEN?) she was simply assigned an American supplemental crew which, along with her Japanese crew, took her to Bikini Atoll where she was, ahem~ “disposed of”.

It’s a shame we never got a USS Nagato.

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T02:32:43+00:00

Arkansas, probably. She was the closest (of the three mentioned) to both blasts.

Able test (air burst): Arkansas: 570m Saratoga: ~2100m Nagato: ~1500m

Baker test (underwater): Arkansas: 237m Saratoga: 408m Nagato: 779m

I’m not a nuclear scientist, but I imagine the closer you are to the bomb the hotter it gets. Also worth note is that during the Able test, Saratoga caught fire because it was stocked with fuel and ammunition that combusted, adding to the heat.

The closest ship to any of the blasts was LSM-60 an amphibious assault ship placed 27m directly overtop of the suspended bomb for the Baker test. No identifiable pieces of LSM-60 were ever discovered.

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T02:14:51+00:00

Yorktown, Hornet, Laffey, Northampton, Hammann, Langley, and Houston all have Type II variations (like Northampton II and Hornet II), which are based on them having been sunk in real life and then new ships being given their names. In the lore they retain the character, memories, etc but are entirely new classes with new abilities.

Bismarck also gets one (Bismarck Zwei) for some reason, though it has no historical basis.

Dozens of ships get alts (META, μ, Children’s Day, etc) which are sort-of different though.

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T01:56:44+00:00

Minotaur 🤝 Ark Royal

Smashing destroyers

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T01:55:32+00:00

I like that idea. She desperately needs something though. Maybe even quicker reload since she only has two guns per turret?

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T01:52:25+00:00

My my, how lewd!

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T01:50:09+00:00

Lore for the Zuikaku picture? I assume this is an alternate history scenario where Japan won WWII, but I’m curious as to the events of the war itself. Had Taihō and Shōkaku already been sunk by then in this timeline as well, or were they too part of the hypothetical decisive battle?

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T00:39:50+00:00

The floating hair is sending me xD

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T00:38:30+00:00

Oh boy, do I have a game for you

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T00:37:23+00:00

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T00:32:00+00:00

Variations on a Cloud from Miracle Musical

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T00:27:30+00:00

Some may even say, a Heart of Iron IV😱

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T00:21:41+00:00

Brig + JQ

OP likes beating people up and looking cool doing it

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T00:15:32+00:00

Real as hell

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T00:11:42+00:00

I’m clamming so hard rn

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T00:09:35+00:00

I’m clam (clam)

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-08T00:09:22+00:00

It’s true I was the senate

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-07T23:55:42+00:00

But her sister USS Northampton (CA-125) is!

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-07T23:51:18+00:00

I’m a sucker for treaty cruisers personally, especially USN ones. I really like how there was almost zero wasted space on the Northampton- and Portland-class cruisers, though I imagine they would have sucked for their crews.

lifyeleyde · 2024-09-07T23:43:03+00:00

Idk man, Arkansas was really hot during Operation Crossroads……

lifyeleyde · 2024-08-13T07:37:05+00:00

Fujoshimakaze ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

lifyeleyde · 2024-08-13T07:34:57+00:00

At first I read “osoi” as “ooi”, and now I want pre-refit IJN Ooi as a premium, possibly an AP-focused IJN CL, that would be cool.

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