File: she's ready for night act(...).png (1.27 MB, 1680x2170)

1.27 MB PNG

“What about t-”

“Spare me the modest hero bullshit, Settle,” Thomas says curtly. “I've read the reports. I've read reports you're not authorized to read. I say you're the USN officer with the most intimate experience and understanding of the abyssal threat, so I want your input on our force compositions.” He leans against the table and crosses his arms. “Besides, I've spent my time trying to put 7th fleet back together. I hear you've spent your time familiarizing with the kanmusu.”

“That's a word for it,” you mutter dourly, but bow to the wisdom of the man with the two-star lead. Scowling at the legal pad, you finally set it aside.

“I'd suggest CarDiv 1. I've been with Hornet since she first returned, and if nothing else, she's frikkin *fast* about launching CAP. The only thing worse than a slow shot is a slow shot that misses, as far as she's concerned. As for the surface complement... I suggest we deploy the sub-girls - sub-people? Whatever.”

“Are you suuuure?” Goto asks. “This is a perfect chance to close for night surface action after the day battle.”

File: victory.jpg (1015 KB, 3478x4250)

1015 KB JPG

Victory sails with us!

File: 1433061036771.jpg (455 KB, 889x994)

455 KB JPG

“Well, here's my concern,” you say, picking up a laser pointer off the table and shining it on the map. “This is going down just north of the Bonin islands, right?” You shine your light around. “So here's Yokota airbase, a few miles north of here... and here's Kaneda AFB on Okinawa... and here's Anderson, on Guam. Kaneda is almost 800nm distant, Guam is pushing 1,000, and Yokota is about 450. Unfortunately Yokota is mostly JSDF aircraft right now since we're splitting longer-ranged stuff between Guam, Singapore and Kaneda to try and cover the island chains and the South China Sea. So Super Hornets from Kaneda or Anderson are going to *have* to tank to reach. F-2s from Yokota can just about reach the AO for a strike mission, but they'll have to tank as well if they want to loiter.” You set the laser pointer down. “And we all know how excited the Air Force is about putting their KC-135s up against abyssals.”

Both men frown. The abyssals ability to show up damn near anywhere cost the Air Force two tankers early in the war, which shook everyone's confidence badly - entire doctrines needed to be re-written, and the enemy could always cheat the rules of time and space in some new and awful way. “So, what's your point, Settle?”

“My point is, the tankers will need escort, which reduces the number of fighters we can keep on CAP, so on and so forth - basically, if we screw up and our decks are put out of commission, unable to launch or recover or god forbid, dead in the water -” you shake your head. “It'd be Mikuma all over again; a mad melee to get the hell away from their airpower range. And we just can't throw up enough air cover from land right now, not spread so thin with so many planes in maint cycles. So I figure, we give them as few targets as possible.”

They absorb this silently and thoughtfully.

File: S-13.jpg (7 KB, 572x110)

7 KB JPG

Hey Planefag

If Harder is a bit of a douche

What does that make S-13?

File: 1423622811571.jpg (278 KB, 700x700)

278 KB JPG

“As for ASW, I want the SSNs,” you say flat-out. “We still don't know exactly how these bastards move around, so maybe they'll be kept at bay and underwater poking along at four knots due to constant air patrols... and maybe they won't. Nautilus pursued the Japanese carrier fleet for the whole damn day while they were conducting active air operations and was never spotted. And these crews have been training recently for ASW against Chinese diesel boats, yeah?”

Thomas nods.

“Right. Keep them close, let Harder and the Japanese subs do what they do best. The SSNs can keep up with our surface forces, too.”

Thomas smiles. “I'll accept Settle's decisions, then - Goto and I have been talking each other into and out of these positions all morning.”

“ My experience says differently,” Goto says, “but that doesn't mean spit, since our subs haven't had much chance to operate, so I've got not experience to go on, there. I trust your judgment on Hornet, I'm no career fast-attack skipper and-” he checks his watch. “We're simply running out of time. It'll take us all day to get the girls ready and on the water if we start right now.”

“I suppose...” Thomas begins.

“You could consider...” Goto chimes in.

“The matter settled!” Shoukaku finishes brightly.

File: 1434327105572.gif (7 KB, 60x84)

7 KB GIF

>>40960062

File: Spoiler Image (17 KB, 210x240)

17 KB JPG

>>40960062
SHOUKAKUUUUUU

>>40960062
Unload sidearm into ceiling

Assuming we still have Harder's rubber bullet pistol.

>>40960062
>“The matter settled!” Shoukaku finishes brightly.

lovely shou. Knows whats needed and whats not needed at critical points. Now we need less discussion and more doing.

File: boo.gif (996 KB, 230x138)

996 KB GIF

>>40960062
>“The matter settled!” Shoukaku finishes brightly.
Bad! Booo!

>>40960123
i was just about to post that exact .gif, thank you anon

>>40960062
>“The matter settled!” Shoukaku finishes brightly.

best girl

It would be useful to be able to get our shipsloops to expand to full size so we can be Arizona's skipper properly like the abyss was.

File: image.jpg (15 KB, 201x200)

15 KB JPG

>>40960062
>“The matter settled!” Shoukaku finishes brightly.

File: 1378632323515.gif (2.95 MB, 390x357)

2.95 MB GIF

>>40960062

>>40960147

MY GOD THOSE ARE TERRIFYING!

>>40960062
>“The matter settled!” Shoukaku finishes brightly.

My sides

File: fdr-tub.jpg (18 KB, 320x265)

18 KB JPG

OHOHOHOHO! USS IOWA PLEASES OLD MEN FOR MONEY!

>>40960062
>NEXT TIME ON GIRLS UND PANZER QUEST

there won't be a next time BECAUSE IT'S DEAD! DEEEEAAAD!

>>40960062
>“The matter settled!” Shoukaku finishes brightly.
MY SIDES ARE ORBITAL!

File: 1391228609821.gif (954 KB, 400x300)

954 KB GIF

>>40960062
>“The matter settled!” Shoukaku finishes brightly.

top

fucking

kek

>>40960062
>"I'm going back to bed."

>>40960189
So. Just like your mother?

>>40960062
>“The matter settled!” Shoukaku finishes brightly.

Ahahaha! Perfect. Just perfect.

File: Wotonightyou.png (275 KB, 600x375)

275 KB PNG

>Possible Night Battle
Tonight... you

Geez, it's just a pun.

Settle down everyone.

File: 1431985132269.gif (2.11 MB, 220x190)

2.11 MB GIF

>>40960286

>>40959991

I've been slain

“The matter settled!” Shoukaku finishes brightly.

File: CIpM4fGUwAEB5Y3.jpg (23 KB, 500x329)

23 KB JPG

>>40960286

File: 1378370816860.jpg (60 KB, 299x415)

60 KB JPG

>>40960286

>>40960286
Bad puns deeply unsettle us.

Is this the true power of Spacebattles? The ability to find a pun that's already been made about twenty times in the quest funny?

>>40960321
somebody sounds mad

>>40960321
Is this the true power of the banned? The ability to derive butthurt from a discussion that ended half an hour and a thread ago?

>>40960321
They're pathetic and so can you, it seems

>>40960321

*Theoden.gif*

Can we stop talking about that site already?

>>40960336

I'm the banned guy here, dude above ain't me.

File: 2cdcecff71ea2dfc21cce4d87(...).png (402 KB, 849x1296)

402 KB PNG

After you're done groaning, you all clear off the tables and get to work. Shoukaku stays close by your side, clearing off tables, fetching extra office supplies, placing calls and even running out for food, returning with some take-out curry. Goto and Thomas both watch you carefully from the corners of their eyes when you open yours, so you gird yourself before biting. As expected, it's *incredibly* hot. Unfortunately for your two “allies,” you earned the nicknames “ironbelly” from the crew (and “fucking lunatic” from the ship's doctor) for eating monkey brains on your first cruise to Indochina, so mere agony on the tongue is old hat. After Goto raises his eyebrow a milliliter in silent salute, he pops the plastic lid off his own meal and digs in-

“aaaahhhhoooooooot,” he gasps, stealing Thomas's warm Pepsi and downing it in one go. “Shoukaku, what the hell is that?”

“Hmm?” she says, steadying herself with a grip on your shoulder as she leans over to peer at Goto's dish. “Oh, dear. I must've ordered the same one for all three.”

Goto gives her a lidded-eyed look that whispers “traitor.” Shoukaku lightly trails her fingertips along the back of your neck, sending little electric shivers down your spine, and she turns her profile to you long enough to wink as she walks away to her next assignment.

As you polish off your curry, Yamato bursts into the room with an armful of folders. “I've got them, teikt- oh!” She stops dead in her tracks when she sees you.

Shokaku's name translates literally as "Crane Flying in Heaven" and figuratively as "Happy Crane", so keep that in mind when devising methods of payback.

>>40960062
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

File: HARDER.jpg (45 KB, 500x374)

45 KB JPG

“... who is this?” you ask innocently.

Goto glares dirks and daggers at you.

Hate walks into the room behind Yamato, properly dressed and looking absolutely wired. Goto's eyes widen in horror.

“... who is this!?” Yamato says, turning to Hate with badly-feigned suprise.

“Yamato,” Goto says, rubbing his face. “Come here. Come *heah.*”

You lean back and manage to sail your empty takeout container into the trashcan from halfway across the room. As you're turning to ask Hate to stand in a corner where you can keep a close eye on him, there's a disturbance outside. Hate produces an M9 from his waistband and racks it by shoving the rear sight against a table edge, refusing to relinquish his massive 64 ounce travel mug of coffee.

The door shudders beneath a blow, then pops open as the latch fails, a bruised MP scrabbling across the floor away from the portal. Standing in the doorway is Harder. His eyes are wide and wild, his small hands curled into hard-looking fists. He's breathing raggedly, hunched over, somewhere between a prizefighter and a feral wolf. Thomas backs against the wall, prudently scared of the boy wielding the power of a five-inch gun... at the very least. Goto and Hate just regard him with the emotion you're fast becoming used to - mild interest, in case the same old shit evolves into something novel.

Harder makes a beeline for you, flopping to his knees and grabbing your uniform jacket, beeseeching you.

“SKIPPER.”

“Harder.”

“HELP!”

“... what's wrong, sailor?”

“NAKA. SHE. A THING. EVIL. WITCH. EVIL. EVIL! AMBUSH!” He shakes you desperately; you wave off Hate; your head is rocking on your neck but it's in no danger of whiplash. “A DATE! NO ESCAPE! A FUCKING DATE, SKIPPER!”

“So...?”

“I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GIRL, SKIPPER! TEACH ME HOW TO GIRL!”

And that's when that no good lousy dirty rotten son-of-a-bitch jarhead shitkicker in the back of the room begins to laugh like a lunatic.

>>40960379
BULLY

>>40960402
>“I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GIRL, SKIPPER! TEACH ME HOW TO GIRL!”

God damn it Harder, we already told you they'd legalized that. Just talk to your doctor.

File: direct control.jpg (9 KB, 223x200)

9 KB JPG

>>40960379
>Shoukaku lightly trails her fingertips along the back of your neck, sending little electric shivers down your spine, and she turns her profile to you long enough to wink as she walks away to her next assignment.

Dammit shou. You're getting too best

File: 1373009454925.gif (458 KB, 500x275)

458 KB GIF

>>40960402
>“I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GIRL, SKIPPER! TEACH ME HOW TO GIRL!”

SWEET FUCK MY SIDES

>>40960402
"Well, I assume it has something to do with wearing a dress and putting on makeup, so you might be better off asking one of your fellow ships.."

File: 1434752283776.png (65 KB, 300x300)

65 KB PNG

THAT CONCLUDES SHIP-SLUTS MAINSTORY FOR TONIGHT! Please stand by for another sidestory from our resident 2spoopy intelgeek NAVYFAG!

On Saturday we will give Harder good girl advice or troll him to hell and gone and commence with OPERATION THINGS BLOWING UP BECAUSE THINGS SHOULD BLOW UP! I'll be here to answer questions as coherently as possible while I catch up with last thread!

File: 1413336073924.jpg (13 KB, 192x171)

13 KB JPG

>>40960402

>>40960402
>Harder cannot into women.
>Wants US to teach him.
He is so doomed.

>>40960062

Tell her she's fired.

Wait no. I'll tell her that.

>I'm sorry but who's watching who now? Are you watching us or are we watching you?

>I'm so confused.

You're watching us, we're watching you, the NSA is watching both of us and nobody is watching the watchmen.

File: ZKoKjWR.gif (789 KB, 444x272)

789 KB GIF

>>40960379
>Goto gives her a lidded-eyed look that whispers “traitor.” Shoukaku lightly trails her fingertips along the back of your neck, sending little electric shivers down your spine, and she turns her profile to you long enough to wink as she walks away to her next assignment.

>>40960402
>“I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GIRL, SKIPPER! TEACH ME HOW TO GIRL!”
There goes my side!
>>40960463
Thanks planefag!

>>40960476
>He is so doomed.

HENCE THE HATELAUGHTER

>>40960463
Will you be doing Q&A?

>>40960463
>or troll him to hell and gone
>implying we'll do anything else
Thanks for the laughs boss.

>>40960402
"If you can figure that one out, Harder, the rest of us would love to hear it."

And if Hate and Goto keep giving us shit, tell Harder to ask them about Iowa and Kongou.

>>40960463
Why is Harder such a child?

>>40960463
Is there a doctrinal reason behind the USA not summoning semen schooners?

File: DesDiv 6.png (293 KB, 800x587)

293 KB PNG

The brunch buffet in the O-Club wasn't half bad, Parker decided- for an officer's mess, at any rate. It wasn't as if he disliked an early breakfast, but after his interview with Akagi, he thought it prudent to plan his meals around carrier practice. The Line was before him on a whole new level: one involving girls that could turn into warships and possible scandalous intent. But as he tucked into his bastardized meal of fried eggs, bacon, and fries, he couldn't help but overhear four destroyer-girls at their own table.

“But it's true! Drinking milk really will make you a Lady!”

“Nu-uh! That's just settlebutt someone made up!”

Parker choked with laughter at 'settlebutt'. He had heard of these girls: the infamously cute DesDiv 6, the 'daughterus' of the fleet that don't want no trabble. They turned in his direction at the sound of his distress.

“Hey, mister! Are you okay?”

“It looks like he's choking. We should help!”

The four girls had swarmed Parker's table before he could even gesture that he was fine, gently patting him on the back and fearing the worst. Parker signaled for them to stop as soon as he swallowed the errant piece of food. “I'm fine, girls. Just some bacon aiming for the wrong hole.”

The four girls gathered around him and stared.

“We haven't seen you around before.”

“Most of the other officers stop coming here after eight in the morning.”

“W-who are you, mister?”

Parker looked at each of them in turn, a smile on his face. “I'm Chief Parker, the new intelligence officer under Goto and Settle. Thanks for the assist.”

“I'm Akatsuki! I'm gonna be a lady!”

“I-I'm Inazuma. Pleased to meet you.”

“Hibiki... tovarisch.”

“And I’m Ikazuchi!”

Parker saluted them, each one returning it. “The infamous DesDiv Six; it's a pleasure to meet you all. And for the record, milk alone won't make you a lady.”

File: 1432428768338.jpg (12 KB, 203x209)

12 KB JPG

>>40960379
Shoucuck is coming on way too damn strong for my taste.

No waifus, only man

>>40960476

Gondor calls for aid.

Get shoukaku back into the roooooom. If someone can help with this, she can.

>>40960501

yep! post away~

>>40960379

BEST

GIRL

>>40960505
But Naka isn't stalking him and he isn't part of her crew. Goto and Hate don't have reinvent advice.

>>40960463
As fun as it would be to troll Harder, remember that our secretary is the one he's taking out on a date, and anything we tell him that fucks up the date, fucks it up for Naka and her intended purpose of making our job easier to handle.

File: 1433378421289.png (77 KB, 1235x767)

77 KB PNG

>>40960514

“See?! I told you! It's settlebutt!”

Akatsuki fumed as one of the other girls spoke up.

“Hey, Chief! You're from America; do you know any good cowboy stories?”

All four girls quieted at this, inquisitive looks on their faces. Parker looked away, calculating. It had been such a long time since he had fresh meat for the grinder...

“Well, I don't know any about cowboys, sadly. But I do have a few spooky sea stories... Would you like to hear one?”

He rose, grinning, to a chorus of affirmatives and pleases. He looked back at the girls as he went to deposit his half-eaten meal for cleaning. “You girls will have to come back to my office if you want to hear one, then. Last thing I'd want to do is scare the pants off some greenhorn ensign.”

The five of them headed for the door, the girls taking up position around him almost like an escorting flotilla. Right as Parker reached for the knob, however, a small figure burst through and ran into him. “Buh.”

“Oh! It's Willie-chan!”

“Hey Willie-chan, wanna hear stories with us?”

Parker just stared at the girl, the infamous William D. Porter, as the girls of DesDiv 6 surrounded her. Willie looked up at him, a terrified look on her face. She squeaked out a small “s-sorry” at him.

“Well, Miss Porter? Would you like to hear some old sea stories?” asked Parker.

“W-Willie-chan, you're our new best friend! You should tag along!”

“Yes, please join us, tovarisch.”

Willie, eternally on the edge of tears, but now smiling slightly, sniffled at him. “S-sure...”

>>40960517
>doesn't like flirting with sexy women
You're so beta it hurts.

>>40960511
>Is there a doctrinal reason behind the USA not summoning semen schooners?

Nothing more than terror and an urgent desire to avoid the tightrope that Goto and Settle are currently walking. With the most numerous and powerful Navy in the world, the US had the luxury of avoiding it for a while.

That time is fast coming to an end.

>>40960517
>No waifus, only man

Well this thread did prove that Hate is best waifu.

>>40960543
Yeah and troll advice would only result in her getting the brunt of it and you don't do that to fem-bros.

>>40960463
How do ships resupply, Shoukaku?!

>>40960483
No bully, she's great.

>>40960543
Also it'd be good for Naka to have someone she can unwind with

>>40960554
(lol couldn't find a good picture)

With Willie sucked into their wake, now five destroyers followed Parker back to the HQ building housing his office. At he opened the door to his office, he gestured for the girls to enter. They all came to an immediate halt on the other side. Parker looked over them to see what the holdup was. There, sitting in his chair with a smug look on it's face, was a corgi.

He had heard of them: much like the shipgirls themselves, the massive fleet of US PT boats had started to come back to serve once more. This time, though, as derpy little dogs.

“What,” started Parker, “The f—,” there were girls present, “—fig are you doing in my chair.”

Willie chimed up. “PT-73, w-what are you doing out of your kennel? You know Hate will be mad at you!”

Parker walked around the girls and approached the errant PT-Corgi. He stooped down and stared the dog in the face, not once breaking eye contact with it.

“PT-73.” The corgi didn't flinch away as Parker raised his hand towards it. He brought his hand to its head and slowly lowered it. A smile appeared on both their faces as he began petting it.

“I'm gonna call you McHale,” he said to it with mirth in his voice.

The four girls of DesDiv 6 instantly crowded around the dog, taking Parker's place and petting it.

He rose and chuckled at the newly rechristened PT boat. “I suppose you also want to hear a story, then.” He got a 'wuff' of an affirmative in response.

>>40960534
Abyssal SSBN when? I'm pretty sure the Russians lost at least one.

>>40960510
>Why is Harder such a child?

A combination of his innate nature (he was captained by a legendarily aggressive and gung-ho skipper) and his very, very recent return. He's handling it much like Kaga and many other shipgirls do - by reverting into himself.

Arizona only appeared about a week before the quest started, but she's proven to be a much more reserved and calm kind of person. Just how she is.

>>40960534

see

>>40960047

>>40960463
So general questions.
What the the exact status of the various navy's around the world?
What have the various European nations called back up?
How does the Army fair in trying to get an effective defense method?
Just how hosed is the Middle East with the transportation situation?
What's happening in the Mediterranean?
Does anyone give a shit about Africa?

>>40960534
So we've seen abyssal attacks around the world,

but have there been any actual landings? Like, march and occpuy, rather than just raze to the ground?

File: Mk_38_25mm_Machine_Gun_System.jpg (480 KB, 2100x1500)

480 KB JPG

>>40960587

Parker walked back around his desk and faced his now larger audience. “Where do I begin? It was back in... late '06 or '07. We were on our way down to Australia for a joint exercise with their navy. After a week or two of quiet steaming, our skipper decided that the gunnery teams should get some practice in. As an Amphib ship, we were lightly armed: six M2 .50 cals and two 25mm guns; all crew-served. I was the lead shooter for one of the 25's, I loved shooting that thing. Well, we had set everything up for a fun-filled day of shooting the water when the weather started to change. The reports had called for clear skies, but an old salt like me knew the warning signs of an approaching squall.”

Parker paused at this, looking for any reaction from the girls. They were all taken in, even the corgi.

He continued. “We were already all manned up; myself slung in the 25—” Parker demonstrated a modified boxer's stance, his arms held out like a grappler, “—when the squall hit us. The skipper put out the call for everyone to batten down the hatches, but we were all stuck; we were tied in and didn't want to get blown over the side. We had to ride it out.”

His audience, even the corgi, were all leaning closer, mesmerized by his words. “I noticed it as the storm worsened: an eerie greenish glow from between the rainfall. I called it up to the bridge on my mount's sound-powered phone, asking for confirmation of the contact. They told me there was nothing else out there with us. I could see the glow moving closer; I told them we were not alone.”

>>40960593

What happened at Mikuma?

I don't recognise whats being referenced.

>>40960517
>implying it's a cuck
Where've you been, man? This is what we're aiming for.

>>40960542
The point isn't to give Harder advice, it's to fuck with Hate and Goto.

>>40960556
>How dare you not like mai waifu!
m8, I'm not saying your taste is shit, I just don't share it

File: NOW ADD MOAR SPOOPY.jpg (237 KB, 580x408)

237 KB JPG

>>40960612

They were all on the edge of their seats, now. Time for the first crescendo. “That's when I saw it clearly. An old ship-of-the-line sailing straight at us.” Gasps from DesDiv 6, and a slight whimper from Willie. “I can still see it now: that hellish green glow, the sea life draped along its hull, the torn and tattered sails with a full wind up against them...”

“What did you do then?!” gasped Ikazuchi.

Parker looked her straight in the eyes. “I called it out to the bridge.” He looked at all of his assembled audience again. “They still didn't have it on radar. By the time the bridge crew could get its act together, that ghost ship had pulled along side us and matched our speed. We weren't going very fast because of the storm; they still managed to pace us. I could see its old cannons jutting out from the sides; they were obviously setting up for a broadside. Then, CRASH!” He slapped his hands together as fast and as loud as he could, making the girls jump.

“They had opened fire with the lightning and thunder! Their cannonballs just... faded into our hull, but the intention was clear: they were attacking.” The girls all made small squeaks at this.

“A-and then?”

>>40960620
Oh okay, so you're gay. Ain't nothing wrong with that, bro.

File: Like this, but with his h(...).jpg (709 KB, 1182x802)

709 KB JPG

>>40960628

“The skipper had had enough at that point; he gave us the all-clear to engage. As I began to hear our ma-deuces start to light off, I aimed down my 25... flipped off the safety... and started to fire twenty-five millimeters of pure hate at that ghost. I kept it to controlled three-round bursts. THUD THUD THUD as it fired. I traced its fire up and down the cannon holes and the topside; I was actually able to start making out faint figures on the decks and rigging. They started to swing in closer, preparing for another broadside. That's when I saw him and knew: Davey Jones Himself, head wreathed in the flames of hell, standing at the wheel to that most legendary of ghost ships: we were fighting the Flying Dutchman.”

Quiet gasps came from the girls; a faint growl emanated from the corgi. They all knew about the Dutchman, cursed by God Almighty to sail the seas for eternity. Parker leaned back and continued, “I could see ol' Davey calling out orders; they were getting ready to fire. I aimed right for his mean old face. Right as I was about to fire, though, I got a good look right at his face: he was staring right back at me. He started to point at me; getting ready to call me out for the Locker. I wouldn't let him, though, so I fired. I fired right into him.”

Dead silence from his audience. “That was it. I fired into him continuously. I meant to bleed my ammo belts dry, and make the barrel glow red. I wouldn't give mean ol' Davey Jones a chance to call me or anyone else out that day. Eventually, though, my belts ran dry and the haze of battle left me. I looked out to see clear skies. The storm had vanished as quickly as it had appeared.”

Willie finally piped up. “W-what happened to the Dutchman?”

>>40960534
HOW FAT IS LEX'S STACK

>>40960593
What does Goto look like?
I need to know. For reasons.

Image reference preferable.

>>40960615
Oh, that was more just for the joke than a serious accusation

Hey Planefag, how hard is Admiral Thomas losing his shit at Harder's girl problems?

File: Running like a little bit(...).jpg (169 KB, 1024x724)

169 KB JPG

>>40960647

Parker smiled softly at her. “It disappeared with the storm. I haven't seen Davey or his ship since; I like to believe my fighting spirit scared him off. I'm not gonna let some mean ol' ghost or his ship get the better of me!”

The four girls of DesDiv 6 bounced up as he finished.

“That was so cool!”

“Y-you were so brave!”

Parker just smiled at all of them. “Thanks girls. That's all for today, though.” A chorus of “Awwws” followed his proclamation.

“Well, I suppose if you girls are good, I'll tell you more later. I'll have to get status reports on your behavior from the admirals, though.”

DesDiv 6 popped to attention. “W-we don't want no trabble, Chief!” “We won't let you down, Chief!”

As Parker watched the four girls file out, a dark thought clouded his mind. He thought back to that day. Sure, sea stories like his were bound to carry a small degree of bullshit, but he actually HAD engaged the Flying Dutchman that day. With the Abyssal problem as his newest concern, he couldn't help but think that, maybe—MAYBE—the myths and legends surrounding the Dutchman had more truth to them. Maybe the Dutchman itself was one of them. Maybe they had been around a lot longer than just “Day Zero”.

A quiet sniffle broke his train of thought. Willie was still in the room. He looked over to her.

“Willie? Is something wrong?”

Willie looked up at him, her slightly puffy eyes on the verge of tearing up again.

>>40960604

I'll give you the two I fucking know.

>How does the Army fair in trying to get an effective defense method?

Fucking poorly. They re-instituted shore batteries, lots of them. Rumor has it LA's up near the top of the list for the hardened purpose built shit, but right now most places have fucking 155 parks using some new round adapted from the excal round they had in the sandbox.I mean, that's among other fucking shit, but... it gives ya an idea.

>Just how hosed is the Middle East with the transportation situation?

That place was fucked long before the bitches showed the fuck up.

>>40960593

Well Arizona was also 25 years old when sunk, and a Battle ship.

She was through WW1, the roaring 20's and the great depression. Her ship life was likely more rounded then someone like Harder.

She likely had a lot more of a variety of people walk through her.

Soooo... Shoukaku is still VERY interested and Settle is not unresponsive.

And Harder... *laughter of an ancient Unbound* it should be very interesting.

We won't be giving him bad advice, won't we lads?

File: 1358949388529.jpg (52 KB, 400x296)

52 KB JPG

>>40960534
Have you ever read the Black Company by Glen Cook?


Its just i've always had this silly fantasy of a battletech/black company crossover whereupon the company wanders through the glittering plain and end up in the BTverse around 400 years before the clan invasions. fast forward and they continue doing what they do best, ass kicking, while trying to uncover their past and find the legendary "magic" their archives insist are real. You should totally somehow magically find time in your schedule and write it. TOTALLY.

File: Spoiler Image (2 KB, 100x100)

2 KB PNG

>>40960660

“Y-you were so brave back then...” Parker nodded for her to continue, “I-I'm just a screw up who can't even s-shoot straight...”

Parker stooped down to her level and gently patted her on the head. “Do you want to know a secret, Willie?” She nodded. “I was scared the whole time. Scared for my ship, scared for my shipmates, and especially scared for myself.” He pointed over to his boxing photo. “I was the Seventh Fleet boxing champion; I was also scared every time I entered the ring. But I couldn't let my fears override my desire to put on my best. I HAD to be strong; if not for myself, than for my friends and loved ones.”

Willie stared up at him, eyes now only misty with wonder. “Willie, do you want me to teach you how to be brave?” She nodded. “Then let me teach you how to fight.”

She got a scared look on her face at that. “Y-you mean like boxing?” Parker nodded.

“It'll build courage and discipline, and help you stick up not only for yourself, but for your friends.”

“I-I don't know... It sounds dangerous...”

Parker knew Willie needed this. She sounded like she was about to make a break for it, though. So he pulled out one last trump card.

“Willie, let me talk to your prizefighter.”

One of the photos down in Parker's Secret Squirrel Nest was of a kanmusu fighter plane. It had looked, for all intents, like a Second World War-era plane; save for one detail: it's pilot. A lot of questions had been raised by this photo; a lot of questions and very few answers that would never see the light of day. Parker had heard of these 'faeries' or 'Little People' that seemed to appear and disappear around the ship-girls; one theory said that they represented the very sailors that had once gone to war.

Willie froze up at Parker's order. “Y-you know about them?”

File: 1423635478769.jpg (595 KB, 1000x1412)

595 KB JPG

>>40960654
Like this, maybe?

>>40960628
LET NO JOYFUL VOICE BE HEARD

LET NO MAN LOOK UP AT THE SKY WITH HOPE

AND LET THIS DAY BE CURSED BY WE WHO READY TO WAKE... THE KRAKEN!

File: Parker rolls for SAN Loss.jpg (128 KB, 1280x1231)

128 KB JPG

>>40960685

Parker simply gazed at her, no intensity in his eyes. “Willie, please let me talk to your prizefighter,” he asked again.

“C-close your eyes, please...”

Parker closed them.

He started to sweat when he heard the tiny grunts of someone or someTHING opening a hatch. He shut his eyes tighter. He closed them even tighter when he heard the rusty squeal of said hatch swing open. He could feel the blood rushing to his head when he heard the hatch close. The faeries were real. Holy shit the faeries were real. They WEREREALTHEY'REREALHOLYSHITISTHEREATINYMEOUTTHEREOHGODWHATPOKEDMEINTHEGALLEY—

His slow descent into madness was abruptly halted when he heard a high-pitched yet gruff cough for attention. He forced his eyes open to behold...

It stood roughly six inches tall. It wore the old-style of navy dungarees, with the sleeves crudely cut off. On its horribly oversized head sat a stained Dixie cup hat, tipped at a jaunty angle. Its bare, muscular arms were covered in various tattoos: Parker could just make out an anchor, mooring line, and even a tiny hula-faerie. At one of its wrists dangled a pair of tiny little handcuffs. Boxing tape covered its tiny hands. A perpetual scowl was on its face, a ragged little cigarette held in its mouth.

Parker could feel his vision fading and his brain beginning to melt at the sight of the faerie. It had made eye contact. He slammed his eyes shut and forced them open again. The prizefighter merely “hnf”'d at him.

That's right; he had a task. He had to ask this faerie—

Parker had just found a whole new Line; but this time one side led down a rabbit hole, the other to a straightjacket.

“I take it you're the William D Porter's resident prizefighter?”

A snort in response.

“Don't give me that shit, sailor; I'm your new Chief. I take it you're from engineering?”

The Faerie nodded.

>>40960705

Parker pointed to his boxing photo, the pintsize prizefighter following his hand. “That was me less than a decade ago. Now, Willie here wants to learn how to fight and be strong. I'm going to need your help with that.” This got the wee fighter's attention. “Starting tomorrow, I need you to make sure Willie is up at zero-six-hundred and at the Rec Center. I'm going to teach her how to fight. Can you do that for me? Make sure she's there and ready to train?”

It signaled its affirmation of Parker's orders with a tiny-yet-gruff “hnf”. The faerie stood to attention and saluted.

“Very good, sailor. Carry on.” Parker's eyes slammed shut as the faerie turned away. He heard the sound of a tiny hatch open and slam shut before he opened them again. There were just some things no man was ever meant to see. He stood up and opened his eyes. Willie looked up at him with a defeated glimmer in her eyes.

“Be there at zero-six, Willie. I'll make a champion out of you yet.”

Willie slumped at this, tears once more forming in her eyes. “Y-yes, Chief.” She made for the door.

As she left, Parker went back to his chair and slumped down into it. Memories of that fateful day against the Dutchman made him begin to question the nature of the Abyssals. The sight of Willie's very own prizefighter made him question his own sanity. The nearly-forgotten corgi jumped up into his lap and Parker began petting automatically.

“Holy shit, I've really stepped in it this time, McHale.”

>>40960653
Phat.

>>40960705
>six inches tall
What the christ

>>40960724
Oh god Parker. I dunno what this is gonna do, but it can't be good.

>>40960593
>Is it possible to equip Japanese Ships with American Hellcats or wildcats?

But Harder was maned by a crew of 18-20 somthing year old, I thought he has an idea given how guys trade stories.

File: 1421813087189.png (72 KB, 265x294)

72 KB PNG

>>40960705
>>40960724
>Willie boxing with Parker
adorable
>More fae bullshit

>>40960746
Variable size, presumably.

>>40960724
>hatches
Dear Christ, what?

>>40960705
>6" tall fairy
Wow, that's a lot bigger than expected. I'd have thought an inch tops, given the size of planes compared to the shipgirls.

Do the fae change size? What happens if a fae leaves its ship? That 12" shell in Arizona returned to normal, what about the fae...

>>40960748

Just gonna have to wait and find out~

>>40960762

>one of willie's eyes swing open to let a farie out from the bridge.

>>40960755
Are you telling me kids that age know how to girl?
They can blindly work through things, but they don't know

>>40960766
Same with the notion of Akagi wanting your flagstaff?

>>40960593
What category would Oklahoma fall under?

Sunk at Pearl, raised via juju magic, and sank again in a freak storm somewhere between Hawaii and California?

File: MISSILES COMETH.jpg (158 KB, 1131x1600)

158 KB JPG

>>40960653

p h a t

>All that stuff in last thread about the mod drama on SB
>"NSFW content in suptg links"

/tg/ is a blue board. What the hell?

>Being upset that I'm called "planefag"

I just don't know what to say. A quest that involves stories about soldiers and sailors suffering violent deaths is okay, but my nickname is so terribly offensive? This, right here, is why I've never registered a SB account. I guess they can use my other handle, Demetrious - I ran AWiY under it, after all.

My silly-ass story is available on suptg and the archive.moe archive; of course. Whoever's taking the time to parse the threads and paste them up (complete with select relevant non-story posts and replies that add useful context - that was really nice) could always compile them into an archive document - maybe a google doc? Bottom line is, I'm glad I'm making people happy with this silly shit, and I hope they find a way to read it that they find convenient, whatever they end up doing.

>>40960776
I was thinking either skin flaps or crawling out the mouth.

I'm not sure what the worst of the three is

>>40960755
They're 18-20. They know how to bed, they do not know how to girl.

>>40960724
>McHale
well, there goes the navy

>>40960776
Oh god, I did not need that mental image before heading to sleep.

>>40960786

Oh dear god, I'm a dead man.

>>40960755
You mean lies, faint hopes, and info on prostitutes, right?

Just saying, most of what his crew might have said back in the day is gonna be worse than useless.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>40960705

>>40960681

Can't say I have!

>Writing battletech

JIHAD FLASHBACK AAAAA

>>40960658
>Hey Planefag, how hard is Admiral Thomas losing his shit at Harder's girl problems?

He's scared, period. He knows Harder could murder every human in the room without breaking a sweat.

Well, "knows." He doesn't know about Hate.

>>40960813
Well Chief, look at it this way.
We've been doing a lot of theorizing on the roles the Faeries might play in..ah..ship-on-human relations.
You can study this and further our understanding of the shipgirls!

>>40960802
PLANEFAG

S-13 WHEN?

YOU CAN'T KEEP AVOIDING THIS QUESTION FOREVER FAPANGEL

>>40960802
You mean you will run AWiY with it again. Soon.

*cough*

Desperate hopes aside, SB is a strange place nowadays. Well, it always was.

>>40960832


BEE ARR BEE hitting the booze locker. Hitting it hard.

>>40960831
>He knows Harder could murder every human in the room without breaking a sweat.
I know that Harder's torpedos are shit when you fire them, but is there any risk of a premature detonation without firing them at all?

Also, in this world where Strike Witches exists but Kancolle does not, has that in-universe fap angle finished SWQ?

>mfw this means the girls can switch between girl and ship at will.

>yfw banging and then CLANG.

>>40960534
Questions:
>1:
Can ship-girls be summoned of they were scrapped? Or do they have to die in battle.
>2:
If a ship sank while carrying aircraft that were not part of it's assigned squadrons (suchas british carriers that were sunk when recovering aircraft), are these aircraft "usable" if the ship is re-encarnated/reborn as a ship girl.
>3:
If a ship girl operated aircraft that were modified land-based aircraft (some british carriers were able to operate hurricanes by placing loaded sandbags in the aircraft's tail, allowing full brakes to be applied immediately) Then would these be counted as part of the ship's aircraft roster when sunk.
>4:
Are corgi's confined to coming back as PT boats or can some of them comeback as other equivalent boats (motor torpedo boats for instance?)
>5:
Can a ship fitted with a well deck launch ship-girls?
>6:
If a ship that was treated badly when floating comes back as a ship-girl, are they capable of defecting to other countries?
>7:
If an anon was to do a side-story, how much freedom would he have for adding in new things (such-as a single new modern ship)
>8:
Can a museum ship that became active Iowa style eventually transform into a ship-girl? Can they jump straight from inactive museum ship to active ship-girl immediately?
>9:
How much in terms of abuse must a ship take in it;s original hull before it can only come back as an abysal? What's the specific turning point?

>>40960669
So what about existing batteries that have been built over, government buyout of the land?

Can't imagine people want a house on the coast these days.

>>40960831
>Well, "knows." He doesn't know about Hate.

No one here truly knows about Hate either.

>>40960561

I guess this shit has made a mockery of the Cold war 'Peace dividend' and the fact that the US does not have the production yet to resupply its fleet or even properly keep the air wings in the air.

>>40960831
Well if you're ever looking for a read, I recommend it. The Black Company is seriously approved /tg/ literature i'd say. Beyond that its just good in general and is really quite excellently done fantasy military.

>>40960856

(Also, for whoever has been transplanting Deme's stuff to SB; you can toss all my Parkertime shit in there if you want. Deme's calling it canon, might as well go full retard with it.)

File: something like this.jpg (43 KB, 470x600)

43 KB JPG

>>40960654
>What does Goto look like?

I've always imagined (and IIRC, described him) as looking a bit like a star from an old black-and-white Samurai movie; eyes capable of a real hardassed stare, hollow cheeks, strong jaw, a thin beard running along the jawline and up to meet the sideburns, etc.

But judging from the pictures hanging in his office that Anon declined to ask about, he probably looks a bit like this, too.

>>40960854

Bitterness at the mods aside, I loved SB too once upon a time. I'd hoped that the Athene debacle and a lot of the staff either getting the boot or jumping ship for SV would make things better, but if anything the new mods are even more partisan.

Such is life in the net, I suppose.

Planefag

has Olympia made any noises?

>>40960860
Unfortunately, he died during an Abyssal attack.
His neighbors report finding him curled up in the bathroom of his house, still clutching a Glock and a knife, despite his head having a piece of his sink in it.

>>40960893
He really does look like he can pull of a mean "I've had enough of this bullshit" stare.

>>40960893
is yamato after the goto dick as well?

>>40960906
his sister was an abyssal toilet glock did nothing

Planefag, do we get to be smug to Kaga next thread?

>>40960921
night battle

>>40960920
Better question: does Goto have an interest in 'mounting her cannons'

>>40960860
Fap Angel was kidnapped by Abyssals early on, they're forcing him to finish SWQ and they're not allowing anyone to see the ending.

>>40960802
Wait what happened?

>>40960974

Fap Angel.

Abyssal Admiral.

>>40960724
Great sea-story, Chief!

>>40960802
SpaceBattler here, Planefag. I follow your quests and those of Ghostdivision and Merc Command. The Anons know me as the guy who did that spate of WAFF stories for SWQ 89 a while back.

Death By Chains, the SBer who approached you last time for permission to post this there, is doing that as we speak. Currently he's preparing to post the date with Shoukaku so that your SB audience can enjoy the entire story in near-real-time.

So far SB's reactions to your stories are quite positive. You're popular there, dude. It's just the SB mods being stringent about offensive stuff.

Anyway, keep up the awesome work, Planefag.

>>40960974
Pretty sure Fap Angel is the Abyssal Admiral-

>>40960981

DAMN YOU

File: 025.png (804 KB, 1134x1600)

804 KB PNG

>>40960893
This should happen every day (minus the sex).

>>40960802
>>Being upset that I'm called "planefag"
>I just don't know what to say.

It could be a mix of "chan behavior/culture", as well as the people deciding that no matter what it might mean on 4chan "fag" isn't going to be an acceptable word.

I don't understand why some cultural things -- such as green-texting or over-use of reaction images -- are things that got put on the "do not do" list... but then I was also surprised to find that using smilies and emoticons on 4chan will get people yelling at you.

So... I guess some things are just prohibited... just because. On SB it's using the word fag or posts that only contain a picture (probably related to spam rules); on 4chan it's stuff like not using smilies.

I guess every imageboard or forum has its own quirks and rules and culture.

>>40960893
Kind of thought he looked younger.

Kind of imagined him looking like https://danbooru.donmai.us/data/32cd9698573ba1000a67e800417ce497.png

>>40960831

Let's fucking keep it that way, too. The less the brass know about me, the fucking better.

>>40960893
What does Settle look like then?

Also when will he get his five bucks fro mKaga.

File: sample_d95c5aa16c9ad18dc4(...).jpg (589 KB, 850x638)

589 KB JPG

>>40960724

>>40960802
Cheers for the thread, by the way

>>40960833

literally who

>Can ship-girls be summoned of they were scrapped? Or do they have to die in battle

Nobody knows for sure~ But several extant Japanese shipgirls survived the war only to be scrapped after their service lives were over, so probably not.

>If a ship sank while carrying aircraft that were not part of it's assigned squadrons...

Let me put it this way. Hornet can launch B-25s, if she really wants.

>If a ship girl operated aircraft that were modified land-based aircraft

See above!

>Are corgi's confined to coming back as PT boats or can some of them comeback as other equivalent boats (motor torpedo boats for instance?)

Reports are a bit sketchy due to traditional German embarrassment about their wartime misdeeds, but it's pretty much confirmed that the Germans have at least two dozen weiner dogs running circles around a base somewhere. Draw your own conclusions.

>Can a ship fitted with a well deck launch ship-girls?

Ship"girl" cutoff is Destroyer Escort sized. Anything smaller comes back as a Corgi or other ruff tuff little animal. So girls, no... but PT boats? Yes.

> If a ship that was treated badly when floating comes back as a ship-girl, are they capable of defecting to other countries?

Sure... assuming their current country lets them leave...

>If an anon was to do a side-story, how much freedom would he have for adding in new things (such-as a single new modern ship)

Pretty wide leeway; if someone wants to do the story of DDG Whateverthefuck in X Sector during The Abyssal War - go for it! I can't promise storyline integration, main quest cameos and such - but as far as I'm concerned, people can consider sidestory stuff canon unless it clashes with something I've strongly established in my own writing, or the writing of my "primary" writefags who've been here since the beginning and give me a great deal of help and aid in coming up with ideas for the quest.

>>40960982
>It's just the SB mods being stringent about offensive stuff.

Their idea of "offensive" is literally a "I'll know it when I see it" thing. What counts as "offensive" is never explicitly identified and changes depending on what mod is on at the time. Even if they had a list they'd not abide by it, as evidenced by all the posters in NSD breaking the "no genocide" rule on a daily basis and only getting called on it if the mods don't like them or their politics.

The userbase can be ok, types like Avernus and MisterMackey aside, but SB's mods are asshats and always have been.

>>40960860
Kancolle exists yo, Kongou found doujins of herself on the internet.

File: 1399190159355.jpg (26 KB, 400x489)

26 KB JPG

>>40961036
>Hornet can launch B-25s, if she really wants.

Fap Angel, Glorious BBV master race when?

>>40961036

Wilhelm Gustloff and General Steuben ring any bells?

>>40961052
Based on herself, the manifested shipgirl after the abyssals attacked, not based on the mad imagination of the japanese

>>40961052
she found porn of herself because she exists

File: Like, tears in the rain, scoob.jpg (23 KB, 242x206)

23 KB JPG

>>40960802
>I ran AWiY under it, after all.
>ran AWiY under it
>ran AWiY
>ran

AWiY CONFIRMED FOR ABANDONED!

>>40961036
so what about coast guard ships and gunboats with names and what about giving hornet the naval version of the B-25

>>40961036
>> If a ship that was treated badly when floating comes back as a ship-girl, are they capable of defecting to other countries?Sure... assuming their current country lets them leave...

Huh. Ominous. Kind of making me wonder about the rumors of brief sightings of an Italian shipgirl again.

>>40961036
If ship girls or abyssal come back from places like Bikini atoll would they have a radioactive signature?

>>40960860
Not that I know of. Subs launch torpedoes with compressed air, the act of blowing them out of the tube and through the water is what triggers them to arm. They also have minimum distance fusing that prevents them from detonating too close, doesn't help with a circular run though.

Destroyer torpedoes have bigger issues because they launch them "dry". If you trigger a torpedo but it doesn't actually leave the launcher it will just burn all it's fuel spinning and spinning until it overheats and explodes from lack of cooling water.

>>40961036
What nationality will our next girl be?

File: brown tewi.jpg (1.25 MB, 1135x1966)

1.25 MB JPG

>>40961036
Those would include Naka-chan, Hateposter, Navyfag, Crix, and anyone I've forgotten becuase it's 2AM and my brain is fried please don't hit me tomorrow please.

In short, it's the arrangement Decu's using for his whole writefag thing - you can consider it an official implementation of Brown Tewi doctrine. My ability to juggle collaborators, characters, ships and stories is sadly finite, but that doesn't mean "canon" is just limited to my own sad scribbling.

> Can a museum ship that became active Iowa style eventually transform into a ship-girl? Can they jump straight from inactive museum ship to active ship-girl immediately?

If you figure it out, call the USN - they'd LOVE to know. Until then they'll keep the "harbor defenses" pointed at the silent, anchored Iowa until they know for sure who's side she's throwing in with.

> How much in terms of abuse must a ship take in it;s original hull before it can only come back as an abysal? What's the specific turning point?

See above! It has everything to do with the cruelty of their fates and relatively little to do with physical damage in their "first" life, though.

>>40961078
>>40961082
It was specifically a doujin that CGRascal translated (badly). Also, it was never said that Kancolle never happened, merely that SWQ did.

>>40961116

There's probably Italian shipgirls, but they're all too busy building pillow forts to fight.

>>40960999
>smilies and emoticons on 4chan will get people yelling at you.
The reasoning behind that is A: That's what people on shitty weeb forums do, and B: We have images for a reason. If you can't express emotion with words, use an actual image instead of a three character or fifty pixel bit of vagueness. You can express SO MUCH with a good reaction image.

>>40961036

So Langley (if she comes back) can fire P-40s! Well better that then the bi-planes she was originally equipped with.

>Reports are a bit sketchy due to traditional German embarrassment about their wartime misdeeds, but it's pretty much confirmed that the Germans have at least two dozen weiner dogs running circles around a base somewhere. Draw your own conclusions.

The SW89 part of me just imagine Statsya and Lilya being snuggled by those two dozen weiner dogs.

>>40961116
>Huh. Ominous. Kind of making me wonder about the rumors of brief sightings of an Italian shipgirl again.

That sounds like quality Italian engineering at work.

More of an issue of probably.

>>40961143
>See above! It has everything to do with the cruelty of their fates and relatively little to do with physical damage in their "first" life, though.

Well fuck, all the ships the USN used as bomb tests and nuke tests.

>>40961155
Also, yelling at someone isn't the same as a moderator forcing you to not do it

>>40961116
A surprising amount of italian bistros are reporting an increase in "eat and run" incidents recently. One bistro owner, who refuses to be named says that the perpetrator was able to "Walk on water!".
Italian authorities are now investigating the recent incidents with an "abyssal angle".

>>40961047
Worse than NS mods then.

>>40961066
>Wilhelm Gustloff and General Steuben ring any bells?

nope

>>40961107
>so what about coast guard ships and gunboats with names

All valid candidates!

>>40961121
>If ship girls or abyssal come back from places like Bikini atoll would they have a radioactive signature?

Prepare for nonstop fucking Fallout/STALKER quotes.

>>40961123
subs confirmed for great at blowing

>>40961136
g'day

>>40961178
>Well fuck, all the ships the USN used as bomb tests and nuke tests.

After a life of honorable service well lived, not much of a problem. Pulled out of retirement as a museum ship to be torn apart for scrap and your hull used as an ammo barge? Uhm.

>>40961195
>italians literally cannot keep their spaghetti

>>40961178
>Well fuck, all the ships the USN used as bomb tests and nuke tests.


Only Saratoga and a few others would actually be angry about it. Most of them knew they were obsolete, so they basically donated their bodies to science rather than just being broken up.

>>40961036
>>40961143
All these answers make planning much easier for me. Thank you planefag, Expect side-stories soon! Maybe 2 weeks including planning, gathering information, writing characters and getting everything sorted

>>40961230
also nagato came back as a good ship. and prinz

>>40961249
In the source material they did, at least.
Planefag probably won't change that, but he sure as hell could

>>40961219
>After a life of honorable service well lived, not much of a problem.

Not too bad then. Also a lot of US smaller ships, like the Fletcher destroyers served a long time after the war.

Never can have too many destroyers.

Scuttling any to be a reef is also not really a bad end. At least you get some divers visiting.

How did Sammy react to seeing the ship that was named after her being recomissioned?

>>40961219
so did Taiwan get shipsloots or China

>>40961219
so since landing question ignored, gonna assume that abyssals have mainly been focusing on pillage and burning, and no reported incidents of landing/occupation/invasion.

No D-day battle with abyssals orz

>>40961036
>Hornet can launch B-25s, if she really wants.
So could Saratoga launch a P-61?

>>40961219
>g'day
PERTH AND/OR CANBERRA INCOMING

>>40961249
That may not apply in Planefag's canon yet.

>
After a life of honorable service well lived, not much of a problem. Pulled out of retirement as a museum ship to be torn apart for scrap and your hull used as an ammo barge? Uhm.


Well shit, anybody fit that description?

>>40961219
>g'day

I'd still like that chat

>>40961121
The radiation most likely acts as Abyssal repellent.

>>40961294
Not an exact match, but Enterprise is a well known point of ire among many.

>>40961219
>nope

Gah, fine.

S-13 was a Soviet Navy submarine operating in the Baltic. It sunk the German refugee ships Wilhelm Gustloff and General Steuben evacuating civilians and wounded from Konigsberg at the beginning of 1945, killing somewhere around 12,000 noncombatants. The Gustloff alone may went down with over 9000 people aboard - records are spotty - which would make it the single greatest single loss of life at sea in history.

The captain expected to get Hero of the Soviet Union and was furious when he didn't.

>>40961219
Hey Planefag if Enterprise came back as a ship girl would she have a faery version of "Bull" Halsey among her crew?

>>40961321
>The captain expected to get Hero of the Soviet Union and was furious when he didn't.
Well what was he expecting, the gigantic ass?

>>40961321
Fucking Russians.

>>40961294
UTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

on top of that, she was pretty much forgotten after Pearl

almost nobody knows of her today

>>40961321
I don't think the Russians would want her to come back, so she's a write in for an Abyssal.

>>40961361
Soviets at the time tended to get medals for doing horrible shit, in general.

>>40961047
>>It's just the SB mods being stringent about offensive stuff.
I'm not going to argue that. There was that hullabaloo way back before I went active about the mods. Things got vitriolic.

Then again I don't go out of my way to court trouble, so I have a better experience and thus a more lenient opinion of mods.

>>40961143

Fucking idiots. If she hadn't thrown in with us, I wouldn't fucking be here. Neiter would LA or the better part of the west fucking coast.

That reminds me if an Abysmal ship can be converted or talked down by a ship girl who worked with them for a time,

I wonder if that is possible or would that work.

Also what did Settle think of seeing BB-2 and BB-2, ships from his Navy coming to kill their younger sisters of sorts.

>>40961361
A bigger, shinier medal than the one he got. Essentially he got the DSC instead of the Medal of Honor and was so pissed that he submerged his boat and went to sea rather than stay in dock and receive the award he'd been given, and when sent back out into the combat zone parked S-13 somewhere quiet and sat out the entire assignment without attacking anything. He wound up getting stripped of his command, busted down to lieutenant, briefly assigned to minesweeping duties and then forced into retirement.

>>40961412
Hate, we know you have had...

CONTACT

with her, but nobody else has seen her

For all they know, one the most modern battleships in the world decided it didn't want to be a museum anymore and instagibbed a flotilla of Abyssals.

You think they aren't scared that those barrels might turn on the harbor in which she was berthed? Especially after BB-3 and BB-4 showed up?

Shit Hate, you're the ship whisperer. Why don't you go do a tour of the country and wake up all the other girls? Showboat needs a man to dress up for after all.

>>40961276
>so since landing question ignored

Sorry, missed that one! Abyssals have never been observed walking around on land or anything, but they aren't shy about going anywhere their draft can take them - and shelling the shit out of anything their guns can reach. The Mississippi is being patrolled regularly for fear of ironclads or flat-bottomed gunboats returning from the Civil War to wreak havoc. The death toll is over a few thousand civilians killed in shore bombardments and attacks in littoral areas since the war began 16 months ago.

And nothing anyone's seen indicates that the abyssals can't go on land - just that they haven't been seen doing it yet.

>>40961279
GROAN

>>40961281
that's not a torpedo

>>40961294
>Well shit, anybody fit that description?

BB-3

>>40961321
totes abyssal

>>40961351
>Hey Planefag if Enterprise came back as a ship girl would she have a faery version of "Bull" Halsey among her crew?

MAAAAAAAYBE

>>40961381
>Soviets at the time
>at the time

>>40961435
>That reminds me if an Abysmal ship can be converted or talked down by a ship girl who worked with them for a time

People arguing against the "terrified knee-jerk reactionaries" that Hate is railing against here >>40961412 have made that same argument - if shipgirls can "turn" and go abyssal, as so many are terrified of, than it stands to reason that abyssals can be "turned" to good. There's even a few efforts to start abyssal advocacy programs here and there; they're generally considered crackpots. Some splinter religious groups have formed as well and promptly repaired to coastal areas to await the End Times. One group even got it in the form of 10 inch shells.

>>40961435
Most people in charge are too scared to think strait regarding the supernatural. When we look back at it in a few decades we will aknowledge it was stupid, but the Brass does not know what it needs to know and is not in a mental condition to make the right choice.

File: 1419319215120.jpg (49 KB, 341x328)

49 KB JPG

>>40961435
>BB-2 and BB-2
Did you mean BB-3 and BB-4?

>>40961435
>Also what did Settle think of seeing BB-2 and BB-2, ships from his Navy coming to kill their younger sisters of sorts.

His reaction was covered in the thread right after the battle. Anon voted o it.

>>40961219
Mmm yes. Aussie carriers with bullwhips and boomerangs. (the boomerangs turn into helicopters when thrown and they simply catch the boomerang when they come back)

>>40961036
>Ship"girl" cutoff is Destroyer Escort sized. Anything smaller comes back as a Corgi or other ruff tuff little animal. So girls, no... but PT boats? Yes.
Hmm. HMMMMM. That's rather restrictive, I was hoping to do some stuff with the smaller less glamorous ships in the fleet.

File: tumblr_mdsm93mArI1rp5mqq.gif (847 KB, 500x281)

847 KB GIF

>>40961487
>that's not a torpedo
REEEEEEEEEEE

>>40961487
But planefag, what about ships that got caught in the halfway house?

I am legitimately worried about zombie Oklahoma attacking shipping between Pearl and the mainland, not knowing what the fuck is going on.


I don't want my state-ship to be an Abyssal ;_;

>>40961487
When did the Abyssals start showing up as girls, and not just as ships? In LA they seemed to be mostly ship, save for abyss gazing back. Did it roughly coincide with Kongou coming back?

>>40961485

Pretty sure those eagle drivers saw her putting a fucking end to the discussion with the bitches that day. I'm gonna go out on a fucking limb and assume that since LA isn't a crater park, she's on our fucking side.

And I didn't wake her the fuck up. I was just in the right place at the wrong fucking time.

File: D_1684.png (132 KB, 300x300)

132 KB PNG

>>40961565
>And I didn't wake her the fuck up. I was just in the right place at the wrong fucking time.

yea, you just woke up in her.

>>40961497
No we voted for Arizona, I think...

>>40961496
Derp....

>>40961565
Hate, I know you spent most of your time in the sickbay, but did you ever happen to get a glance in her magazine?

you see, there's this little issue of some nuclear tipped 16" shells having vanished from the registry

not stolen

simply vanished

almost like Iowas Harpoons and CIWS mounts.

>>40961487
>totes abyssal

Darn, I was hoping to see everyone's reaction if he'd shown up as a Russian shipman. (You just know the Russians are lamenting their naval tradition depicting ships as masculine rather than feminine at this point.)

>>40961543

I don't think they have shown up as girls yet.

>>40961487
Can we give Wainwright a corgi to help with hospital guard duty? I want to see the yakuza run in fear from one.

>>40961598
>I don't think they have shown up as girls yet.
We really need to work on the literacy rates in this quest. go reread the first battle

>>40961542
Are you me? Because I'm an Oklahoman, and I want our girl to come back fighting and #reking cunts.

>>40961578
>yea, you just woke up in her.
Leeewwwddd!

>>40961606
I support this. If Parker can have his McHale, then Wainwright can have his Doggy Howser, MD.

>>40961497
Literally looking for it, we didn't we focused on how Arizona came to be and to not rock the boat.

>>40961543
the whole point is that they're both, at the same time

did you notice that during the Battle of LA, planefag described them as ships but then posted pictures of girls? They're mind bending eldritch abominations that destroy all sense of logic and physics, so at least in my unconfirmed but very heavy suspicion, they're always both ship and girl.

>>40961639
The first battle of the quest was much more outright describing them as girls- looking them in the eye, describing their human movements, basically in the same exact vein as a shipgirl.

>>40961610

It's been almost five months, do you think I still remember what happened then without looking it up first?

File: NH-91903.jpg (556 KB, 2400x1228)

556 KB JPG

>>40961513
>That's rather restrictive, I was hoping to do some stuff with the smaller less glamorous ships in the fleet.

Not really. A Destroyer Escort is basically a corvette - it's even smaller than a destroyer, and a WWII era destroyer weighed in at 900-1500 tons. The Fletcher class destroyers were TINY, comparatively - see this picture with crew on deck for comparison. DEs were even smaller. And destroyers were typically the smallest ships in the blue-water navy. Smaller than a DE but bigger than a PT boat is a narrow range; gunboats and coastal ASW boats, basically.

>>40961639

But weren't they in their ship form during the attack? Hate won't have suggested boarding them otherwise.

Also, Hate heard them scream but settle didnt say anything to that effect....

>>40961670
DE's were pretty much Frigates, size-wise. Corvettes were fucking miniscule.

>>40961543
>When did the Abyssals start showing up as girls, and not just as ships? In LA they seemed to be mostly ship, save for abyss gazing back. Did it roughly coincide with Kongou coming back?

They seem to adopt the form of whatever they're fighting, the same way shipgirl shells seem to expand to full-sized dimensions when fired at a ship-sized target. Re-read the first battle in the quest; you'll note how the abyssal ships change to "shipgirl" form when they close in with the kanmusu, and even when they're shipgirls they retain the radar returns and even visual outline (in rain or mist) of their full-sized hull.

Why Kanmusu don't do this, nobody knows.

>>40961615
Thing is anon, lets look at this closely.

Fucking #rekt at pearl, 9 torps in fewer minutes.

Literally caught with her skirt down, what with her torpedo bulges open for inspection and all.

Rolls over, crew banging on the hull form the inside, some get cut out, other don't. Sentries go insane from hearing the tapping.

So she has trauma for sure.

Later re floated (zombie juju magic for such a damaged ship, she effectively had her entire side blown off) and shipped out to be scrapped.

Suddenly a MYSTERIOUS storm appears out of fucking nowhere and she vanishes beneath the waves, almost dragging her tugs down with her. Her hull was never found.

So what happens? She was killed, revived, and sank again. Where does she fall?

>>40961670
That's a Fletcher class? Doesn't seem too much bigger than the Diamantina, and she's actually a lot bigger when you're standing on her.

I, of course, have never seen a Battleship, so your experiences are probably different to mine.

File: russia very cute and sex.jpg (115 KB, 405x581)

115 KB JPG

>>40961598
>(You just know the Russians are lamenting their naval tradition depicting ships as masculine rather than feminine at this point.)

What's wrong with a Russian shipboy?

>>40961670
So gunboats would probably be something like wolfhounds? That's cool.

File: alcohol is humanity's friend.jpg (140 KB, 1279x960)

140 KB JPG

>>40961709
Fascinating

>>40961722

Shit you negative! The Arleigh-Burkes are called destroyers due to the hull shape, but by mission role, size and displacement they're really heavy cruisers.

>>40961725

The fact that the Russian Navy will never get its very own Balalaika clone?

>>40961670
>A Destroyer Escort is basically a corvette
Frigate. You mean Frigate.

For comparison, a Buckley-Class DE was 1,700 tons.
A Flower-class Corvette was 980 tons.
A River-class Frigate was between 1,300 and 1,800 tons depending on load.
A Fletcher DD was a hair over 2,000 tons.

>>40961711
Hmmm. You might have a point. We might want to get a shaman out to try and talk to her machine spirit, or something. Gotta be better than just letting her rust.

>>40961497
That choice was not picked.We picked "[ ] I almost lost one of my girls. I almost lost Arizona."

>>40961435
I think Hate's crazy idea was the best one, if you want to capture an abyssal you'll need to board her and take her by force.

Spike her guns, sabotage her torpedoes, cripple her engines, and then storm the bridge seeing if there's a human version of herself or a minion of Davey Jones or Cthulhu manning her.

If it's the former, you capture her, if it's the later, you break out the fire power until he's calamari.

>>40961745

Probably. The fucking LCS-1 displaces 3,500 tons, was called a corvette and is now being re-designated frigate based solely on it being made more killy with new anti-surface weapon systems. I think the Navy just makes this shit up as the go along!

>>40961769
>That choice was not picked.We picked "[ ] I almost lost one of my girls. I almost lost Arizona."

Yes, you picked his reaction to the battle. The horror of their own ships coming back ranked secondary to the danger Arizona was in.

>>40961787
To be fair, that was been the actual truth for the entirety of navel warfare.

File: 1433486406215.png (8 KB, 592x308)

8 KB PNG

>>40961781
I don't doubt for a second that there's not a blacker-than-black team on standby to attempt exactly that, given the opportunity

>>40961742
Man I'm really disappointed I didn't get to see the George Washington while it was docked, I bet that would've been a fucking experience in the power of AMERICA.

File: 1429998581357.png (14 KB, 211x211)

14 KB PNG

>>40961781
>I think Hate's crazy idea was the best one, if you want to capture an abyssal you'll need to board her and take her by force.

good job bolstering rape culture asshole

this will be posted in spooky in under 20 minutes with the implication that I meant that seriously

>>40961804
So in other words that choice was more 'which do we feel most strongly', not 'which do we feel at all'

Hey guys?

Did we ever deal with the fact that several nuclear armed subs have sunk over the years?


Are we just not worried at all about that?

>>40961833
>So in other words that choice was more 'which do we feel most strongly', not 'which do we feel at all'

Right. Settle had one overwhelming reaction at the time. The many nuances of the moment were not lost or ignored or absent; that was just his gut reaction.

>>40961834

ahaahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA *AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*

>>40961834
Those are probably not quite old enough to come back as abyssals.

Planefag hasn't gone past WWII yet, so we should be safe.

For the moment.

>>40961858
>>40961849
Or not.

>>40961849
So after thinking about it or after the initial gut reaction what did he think of these american shops coming back as abyessmal?

>>40961709
What do their carriers look like? Are they actual ships classes or are they mash ups. Historically, there haven't been all THAT many.

File: 04010562.jpg (57 KB, 858x720)

57 KB JPG

Soon.

>>40961834
We're probably scared shitless, but there's not much we can do about it besides what we're already doing
>>40961849
gooby pls

>>40961849
Have any shipgirls been sunk yet, in these 16 months?

File: I have seen death itself.jpg (6 KB, 400x342)

6 KB JPG

>>40961834
>giving planefag ideas

>>40961849
>ahaahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA *AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*

No

No you stop that I'm not going to be the cause of a fucking SECOND plot point in the same goddamn night. It was just an innocent question.

Oh god what have I done.

File: 1410748019532.jpg (148 KB, 800x800)

148 KB JPG

>>40961781
>capture if girl
>dakka if dude

>>40961670

Treaty destroyers start at 1500, which is the same ball park that DEs were in. Wartime Destroyers were in the 2000-2700 ton range, except for late war Japanese ships built to slow the American Advance.

My question is, do 1000 ton vessels, like the American 4-stackers, come back as girls or animals?

>>40961883
You're not allowed to ask questions ever again anon. Stop asking questions.

>>40961883
Are you the guy that called Iowa coming back as a mix of actual ship and grille?

>>40961878
>Have any shipgirls been sunk yet, in these 16 months?

Nope. But there have been some mighty close calls and girls put out of action for whole months. If they were real ships, they'd be fit only for the scrapyard, but due to Spoopy Magicks they had the opportunity to heal.

>>40961881

What this guy said.

>>40961883

HE REALLY DOESN'T LEARN DOES HE

>>40961886
>Cthulu or Davy Jones at the helm
>obvious symbols of patriarchal domination

>>40961597

Don't ask about those.

>>40961888
You know, speaking of the 4-stackers, I had the idea of them being called up to serve as experimental test beds/labs.

>>40961858
Hibiki served passed WW2 if I recall so she has the longest? Career out of all the ships

>>40961888
>My question is, do 1000 ton vessels, like the American 4-stackers, come back as girls or animals?

Oh good Christ son, definitely as girls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Edsall_%28DD-219%29#Last_engagement_of_Edsall

This girl is pretty much Sammy's long-lost twin sister.

File: 1435802698318.gif (2.03 MB, 300x380)

2.03 MB GIF

>>40961897

ehehehehe

ehehe....

Uh, something I just noticed.

In thread 3, Settle introduces himself as Russel T. Settle.

But in Thread 36 he introduces himself as Ryan Settle?
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/40871673/#p40873638

Which one is it?

>>40961911
Not counting the USN's ghost fleet, likely

File: 1400531274737.png (14 KB, 800x600)

14 KB PNG

>>40961905

Naaaw, why can't he ask about those? Lets ask planefag all about those. I'm in the mood for storytime, aren't you, corporal? I've got some hot cocoa and a fluffy robe and WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO

>>40961876
Their fighters match their canon look.

So...

Just an idea but I think Settle and Goto should get a suggestion, maybe from Parker, to capture an Abyssal. No better possible source of information about them. As to how to do it - maybe have all four Kongous dog pile on one and haul her back with their bare hands.

Also, not waifuing here but listen, we need to build a relationship with one of hte girls. Kind of like the Abyssal idea, we need information about them. And there are no better sources. I would say Shoukaku, simply because she seems to be the one most interested in us right now (though Naka's internal monologue suggests she might be too), you know establish trust.

As for "resupplying" the girls, from watching the anime (which was kind of shit) don't they just eat regular human food and somehow transform that into their ammunition, fuel, replacement planes, spare deck timber, and so on?

>>40961927
STOP ASKING PERFECTLY LOGICAL QUESTIONS

>>40961916
anon you need a trip

"bad idea anon" should work

>>40961927
Obviously he's Rear Admiral Ryan Russel T. Settle.

>>40961911

Actually, that's Yukikaze.

Served as the ROCS Tan Yang until a typhoon took her out in 1970.

BUT THEN AGAIN, THE PHILLIPINES WAS STILL OPERATING WW2 CUTTERS IN 2015

>>40961883
stop asking questions damn you

File: 1332805921693.jpg (19 KB, 300x300)

19 KB JPG

>>40961945
>Ryan T. Settle
>RTS

>>40961487
>it stands to reason that abyssals can be "turned" to good.
You'd think that the horrible chitin and monstrous maws and shit would put a damper on that notion.
There's marked physical differences between shipgirls and Abyssals- they might be spiritual and reversible, but who the hell can say

>>40961940
Commander Yvonne Swanson beat you to it, Anon. Let her do her thing while we do our thing.

>>40961927

Character story behind that. Somewhat similar to "Ulysses S. Grant"

File: 1433732739104.png (98 KB, 588x376)

98 KB PNG

>>40961940

File: hahahahahahanooooo.jpg (35 KB, 640x480)

35 KB JPG

All in favor of Iowa mechanical spirit and "where are the sunken nuclear submarines?" anon adopting the trip of "bad idea guy", say aye.

We need to know who he is so we can shut him the fuck up ahead of time.

>>40961876

Nobody's seen one yet

>>40961966

There's a reason the opinion doesn't have wide support!

>>40961987
Aye

We also need a counter for all the Bad Shit he has done.

>>40961967
Yvonne isn't in this canon, since the USS Enterprise is almost certainly an Abyssal this time.

>>40961967
Did I miss a post? Can you share a link?

>>40961951
BRP Rajah Humabon is a Cannon class destroyer escort.

The Coast Guard cutters we recently got (like the lunatic one who supported Naka against the Abyssal cruisers) are Hamilton class (i.e. USS Sherman).

>>40962013
He did something last thread that gained a "REMEMBER THIS POST" from planefag

>>40961996
which one was it planefag?

also admitted responsibility for propositioning Iowas current state (and by extension, all museum ships)

and now the Abyssals might have nuclear subs because of him

>>40960802
SB's mods are always going to take the "Shoot first, ask questions never" route with anything that even remotely looks NSFW.

>/tg/ is a blue board. What the hell?

But there's risque images on the thread. So nope. Cant post link.

Because its da rulez.

>>40962035
>(like the lunatic one who supported Naka against the Abyssal cruisers) are

PINOY PRIDE WORLD WIDE

>>40961987
Aye.

But its a "good" bad idea. So he should take the name "MSTAnon".

>>40962019
You can't take a joke. Oh, well. I guess having Parker come up with it here is good, too.

>>40962031
No, you didn't miss anything. I'm referring to someone else's Kancolle story, where they are attempting to do exactly that.

>>40961886
Go back to playing Halo with Sammy Vivian.

>>40961987
Aye

he needs to be stopped by our collective "NO NO NO NONONONO SHUT UP SHUT UP RIGHT NOW OH GOD IT'S TOO LATE WHY DID YOU POST AAAAAHHHHHHHH"

Armed Merchant Cruiser shipgirls or abyssals when

>>40962035
>>40962051

Seriously though, the captain of that cutter is a ballsy mofo and we totally owe the crew drinks.

>>40962044
>which one was it planefag?

it_is_a_mystery.png

>SB's mods are always going to take the "Shoot first, ask questions never" route with anything that even remotely looks NSFW.

So murder is okay, but god forbid we see pictures of cartoon girls in swimsuits.

Jesus fuck.

>>40962044
>He did something last thread that gained a "REMEMBER THIS POST" from planefag
He asked if Iowa would be showing up. Lo and behold, she did.

>>40962069
USS Colorado when

>>40962072
They also winched Naka out of the drink, if I recall correctly

>>40961996
At this rate the first turning of an abyssal will be carried out by some nutter with a jet-ski, a grappling hook, and a sword