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Harder draws a seat and hurls himself into it as Tatsuta wraps her arms around Tenryuu's middle from behind and drags her towards the door, clucking her tongue quietly. Hate leans forward for a better look as Tenryuu's swimsuit-clad figure slides through her sister's arms till her bosom's hoisted most enticingly.

“I would hit that so hard,” Hate murmurs, “the JMA would issue an earthquake warning.”

Tatsuta pauses by the door as the guard opens it for her. She flicks her violet eyes back to your table, giving Hate a wink and a small, knowing smile before she drags her mumbling sister out, keeping eye contact with Hate the whole way.

Hate swallows. “Uh, did she... hear me?”

“Do you really not know, or do you just want to rub in how hard she eyefucked you just now?” you mutter. Hate gives you a massive, crazy smile and takes his seat like a king alighting upon his throne. You follow suit, studying Harder carefully as you sit. The French Toast is barely lukewarm now, but you begin chewing on it absently for something to do as the boy - or very young man - before you reclines in his cheap plastic chair, one arm dangling over the back. Within a few seconds he's leaned forward, elbows on the table, peering over his clenched-together hands. His head tilts forward to rest on them - then he smacks his forehead into his knuckles a few times, *hard.*

You decide to buy a vowel. “Naka?”

“No it's the motherfucking Rockettes giving me trouble,” he snarls, “they were high-kicking around base earlier and security's real torn up about how they got in. Of course it's that bitchy bollio bint brawtwurst-sucking giggletard fucksling, who else would it be?”

“So what happened, sailor?”

“I walk into the CIC not ten minutes ago,” Harder says, “and Naka's sitting next to Shigure.”

An awkward silence grows as he waits for you to react. At last, you tilt your head and spread your hands inquisitively.

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“Shigure? The nutty little nip that almost blew your fucking head off? That tried to frag herself and beat a Marine like a red-headed step - ugh redundant. Ring a goddamned bell?”

“But, uh... she got better,” you point out.

Harder's hands part, balled fists slamming into the table hard enough that it bounces, drawing every eye in the room till Hate brooms them off with one sweep of his Knife Eyes. “Is that why she put a hole in Naka's shoulder the other day?”

“What?” you say stupidly.

“She paid little miss Drizzle Dyke a social. Something loud goes off in the cell and Naka walks out with a fucking hole in her shoulder. It's been base scuttlebutt for days now, what the hell is wrong with you?”

You shoot a dark look at Hate, who shrugs. “I've been too busy to chat and get my hair did, asshole, don't look at me!”

“Let me guess,” you say quietly. “You called Shigure out on it?”

“No shit, Nostradamus,” Harder snaps. “Fucking security risk that's already put a shell into Naka and there she is, cuddling up to the bitch.” His voice is a mere hair above a a growl, the guttural rumble disconcerting in his usual tenor pitch.

“Harder?” You lean in, elbows on the table. “You said this in front of Goto?”

“And just why should I give a fuck about that?” he rumbles back, his expression mean. “Because he went MOLON LABE FOAD KTHXBYE while a fucking real security risk is clinging to his god-damned arm? I got bombed so many times by our own fuckhead flyboys I lost track but THIS bitch gets a free fucking pass?”

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>>45239485
>“Guess that one was Fat Man.”

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You stare at him as you mentally count off the days since Harder first returned. “Where the hell are you picking this shit up!?”

“Energy swords are fucking bullshit and Sammy watches screenwatches like a motherfucker that's not the fucking point,” Harder mutters.

You stop yourself before asking if he just came here to have an audience for his grunting as he worked to expel Goto's boot from his asshole - from the way he backed Tatsuta down you can see he's not angry - he's bordering on homicidally fucking furious. And that points squarely at - “Naka.”

“Yes,” Harder growls. “Fucking Naka. Goto didn't get a word in edgewise before she opened her steam whistle and shrieked us all fucking stupid.”

“What happened?”

“Naka happened,” he replies. “What do you fucking think?”

“She defended Shigure.”

“Of COURSE she did,” Harder spits with disgust. “Her precious little destroyers.”

“She was purpose-built to shepard them,” you remind him gently. “They're her comrades.”

“Not mine.”

“They are no-”

“NO,” Harder snaps. “Idiot! Those girls of hers? They were purpose-built to destroy ME. It's even in their fucking name, skipper - destroyers. Destroyer-killer Harder. It's like Jack the Giant slayer, man - the exception that proves the rule.” Harder catches his head in both hands, holding it tight as he stares through the table. “I show up and the Fleet sticks me right into nip destroyer central. I'm a fucking cat in a doghouse, skipper. I *sank* some of these girls. That's personal.” His breathing grows labored, fingers trembling as they dig into his skull. “They're weapons. We are weapons, Settle. Even you and Hate, here. I don't care how cute they look. I didn't get much sleep my first few days here.”

You digest that for a moment before noting his silence. “What happened, Harder?”

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“We argued.”

“In the CIC?”

“Might as well have gone around posting flyers,” Harder mutters.

“What'd she say?”

“Oh, she just wanted me to see them as ~people~,” Harder lilts mockingly. “You know, not as the fucking warships that put me and all of my boys on the bottom before most of them'd had their twenty-fifth birthday. So she waved her ass at me and acted like she gave a fuck about me...” The boy seems to deflate as you watch, his arched spine sinking as the muscles relax. He coughs out a mouthful of air, probably feeling his stomach sinking by the second - you know the feeling. “She never thought about me, Settle.”

“That's not-”

“It is,” he says, his voice hollow and weak. “I was just a problem to deal with the way she deals with everyone. That... that fakeness. You know what I'm talking about.”

You do.

“Harder, no. No. I know that girl-”

“I don't think you do.”

You lean in a little more and hiss as low as possible, to prevent any eavesdroppers. “I know all about her condition.” Harder's arms tense, but he stays silent. “I *know* her. She puts everyone else before herself. You were tough and brash and struttin around like Billy the fucking Kid just daring someone to draw down on you and you did it so well she bought it, grapnel, charge and line. She thought the destroyers were vulnerable, not you.”

Harder's chin snaps up, his wet eyes wild with sudden surging anger. “That's bullshit,” he says with quiet heat. “She doesn't get to do that.”

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“What'd she d-”

“I'm alone,” Harder breathes, “I'm all alone and I don't know what the fuck is going on or which way is up and I'm trying to sort my charts and there she is, talking to me and suddenly she's *everything.* The only one that *talks* to me, really *talks* and now, now she just wants to push me away?” The guttural wrath underlining his tone is beginning to quaver. “What did I do wrong, Settle? What did I do to her, to deserve this?”

You fall back in your chair, your vision going blurry as his words sink into your gut like ballast weights.

“You talk to her more than anyone,” Harder continues. “Please. *Please.*” His pleas grow fainter with each repetition, till his last words sound like little more than a whispered prayer. “I don't want to be alone again...”

Your tongue sticks to the roof of your dry mouth. “Harder.” Your head seems to be swimming with vertigo; understandable since the floor dropped out of your stomach. “Naka... what she's struggling with...” you shake your head, trying to expel the wooziness. “Only she can forgive herself. Nobody can do it for her. But you can support her. Stand by her side. Catch her when she stumbles. Don't... don't give up on her because she hurts you. She's... she's drowning, Harder. You know about drowning rescues, don't you?”

“They panic,” he breathes. “They don't listen to you. Don't reach for the life ring you throw. Don't let you carry them to safety.” His head slips a little lower in his hands. “If you're not careful, they'll... pull you in with them.”

“You have to decide right now, Harder, if you want to keep reaching out to her anyway. I won't bullshit you about the odds, either.”

Harder lifts his leaden head with visible effort. His eyes are dull, but he focuses on you slowly - acknowledging receipt of message.

“I'm not as hungry as I thought,” you tell Hate as you rise. “Workday's almost over - I'm going home.”

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***

Bad news does not always come galloping in on the lips of a frenzied messenger, nor in the flash and spectacle of a news feed. Sometimes it arrives in a simple text message.

Having finally tapped the “send” button on that letter to Mare Island, you're killing time as you lounge on the sofa in your apartment, shirt unbuttoned and tie loosened. You had just reached the Oracle and begun the ritual busting of the pinata statues, looking for that delicious colored plus-sign loot when the notification appeared at the top of your screen - a message from Goto.

“nitoda + ishinomaki attacked. Unexplained violent riots in ishinomaki following reports of singing woman. Nitoda bombarded with mortars; widespread firestorm consumed town, apparently lava bombs. First responders made no contact, SOSOUS tracks gone in 30min. Casualties TBD.”

You let the phone slip to the carpet as you sigh and close your eyes. Mortars.... that looked like lava bombs. Terror. Of course. The Rockets Red Glare, come once again to visit its ills upon humanity. The multiple little goblins nested in past morning briefings are now dancing all together on your brain. The inexplicably far-wandering icebergs, transgressing shipping lanes hundreds of miles south and many months early of where they ought be. The heavily-guarded freighter that was destroyed right under the nose of a dedicated escort, without any indications of torpedo attack, surface or submerged enemies present.

Your thigh is aching like a bastard again. The pill bottle is close to hand, but instead of popping one and drifting off to sleep, you toss it from hand to hand, staring at the slow revolutions of the ceiling fan.

Something doesn't fit.

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Terror *talked.* Full sentences, In English. No abyssal has ever, ever, *ever* done that before. You suspect the only reason you didn't get a call from God today is because he's too busy trying to out-scream the Joint Chiefs of Staff at this very moment. Even the ones that hissed in Goto's ear - and then yours - didn't speak words so much as *suggest* them in vile ways that seeped through your ear to trickle cold and clammy into your soul. This one... this one is *lucid.*

And yet they are the least ship-like of them all - less even than the ugly amalgamations of body parts and chitin that define the bulk of lighter abyssal forces. Even their humanoid members can morph between their hulls and their bodies fluidly and easily; something your own perfectly-sane shipgirls need incredible measures to prompt. Terror - and its probable accomplices - seem to have decoupled from their physical natures almost entirely. Even their conventional weaponry now resembles naturally destructive phenomena. Some have theorized that the body-horror beasts are distinct from the humanoid monsters due to their age. Naka's not the first to suggest that they're purely spiritual entities - under that paradigm, the older an abyssal, the less sense of “self” it retains. Their visible hull shapes are simply memories; memories that fade with time and yield to a more direct and true manifestation of their dark nature. The Navy's reluctance to indulge hypothesizes so far removed from tangible science - or even the furthest extensions of the framework of such - are understandable, but it hasn't stopped people from theorizing.

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It also means Naka might be right. Hell, Naka herself proves it, with every inch closer to the abyss she slips - shipgirl to siren is more a spectrum than a binary. It goes against everything you've ever felt when facing them down - it flies in the face of that deep, sure *knowing* you felt creep out of the Id when you first matched gazes with one at LA.

And yet there's Naka herself, she of the steel hair and iron nails, with the elderitch eyeglow that so thrilled and terrified you upon first contact... and you are once again preparing to trust her with everything.

Perhaps she was right, that night she slurred out her theories in your office as she helped you kill a fifth of bourbon. Perhaps they can be saved.

Everyone but her.

The pills rattle and clatter as the orange RX bottle flies from hand to hand, the memory of Naka's tear-stained face vivid in your mind, the confession on her lips. A warship that can't make war, she said. Unable to help everyone... unable to serve her country the way she was built to do.

Goto gave a fine speech about seeing them as girls, not just girders and gangplanks. He's a fine commander - finer than you in many, if not most ways, truth be told - but he was years removed from the sea. He thought Naka needed rest, when what she really needed was front-line action - a chance to prove herself, even if it came at the ultimate cost. A possible fast death is superior to a guaranteed lingering one, rusting away in a scrapyard...
... or mouldering in a nautical museum somewhere, kids dropping candy wrappers on her decks as they visit the empty steel shell, a footnote of the first battle with the abyssals, the Close Action at LA.

“You wish you had died on the Higgins.”

A groan escapes as Naka's soft, knowing words echo in your mind once more.

Of course you do. You miss her terribly.

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Ships might not talk - but they do speak. You spent years on that ship, first as her XO, then as her commanding officer. Ships creak, especially the older they get - and Higgins was pretty old. After a while you learn to read the vessel. You can tell the sea state by how her frames creak; tell the speed she's making by the faint thrum of the deckplates. Many a time you woke in your bunk or your chair in time to meet the midshipman sent to fetch you halfway down the hall, some subtle change in the atmosphere stirring you from slumber. It's not just steel and water that speak - it's also the sailors. Even without a single one in sight, the air itself reverberates with their living, breathing lives - the murmur of mirth from the mess deck, or the tense and deep silence that creeps through every companionway after the clangs of hatches closing for Condition Zebra finish echoing from stem to stern. You always knew where you stood with Higgins, literally and figuratively - she told you, every second of every day, what the score was, and you always knew how to react to it. A ship is a world unto itself, and you were at the center of it, as close as possible, where a Captain ought to be. It was natural and unconscious... and you'll never know its like again.

Especially not after what you did to Arizona.

The pill bottle sails through the air and bounces off the wall with a clatter, hot on the tail of a half-formed impulse to swallow the whole thing in one go; to treat the disease at last instead of just numbing the symptoms.

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>>45239798
Fuck. FUCK.

You done with the wall of text yet faggot?

Your prose ain't getting any better

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You remember the day you first met Arizona. You came tottering in on that damed ugly loaner cane, biting back any grimace of pain. Sammy was busy giving the Marine guarding the door a noogie on “matters of general principle,” and Hornet was staring at her lap, turning that damned black arrow over and over in her hands, a distant look on her face. Arizona was cleaning her revolver, the parts spread out on a card table someone had brought her. You remember how her eyes glided right over your face to the store-fresh insignia on your hat. The transformation was all in her eyes, all clear and composed within seconds. Then she stood, saluted and awaited orders. You remember the relief - for reasons you only understand just now, her demeanor was reassuring to you. It *felt* familiar, it felt right - a return of that presence you'd missed so dearly in the hospital.

She was no shade or spirit. She was no waif nor woman of any sort.

She was everything you'd lost.

She was a ship.

Your ship.

Yours.

The only one that really talks to her. Her commander. Her conduit to discharge the duty that defines her very existence. And now the one that pushed her away.

You wonder where she is now. Crying herself to sleep in bed somewhere? Wondering what she did wrong to deserve her rejection, like Harder was a few hours ago?

You drift off, your guilty regrets pursuing you into darkness.

[ ] Forgiveness.
[ ] Mercy.
[ ] Love.

goddamn son

>>45239882
>[ x ] Forgiveness

>>45239882
>[X] Forgiveness.

>[x] Forgiveness.

>>45239676
>“I don't want to be alone again...”
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

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>>45239882
[X ] Forgiveness.

I blame Nip AP bombs.

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>>45239485
>>45239505
>>45239533
>>45239629
>>45239650
>>45239676
>>45239712
>>45239731
>>45239777
>>45239798
>>45239882
Goddamn it, Settle...

>>45240029
>filename

ahahahhaha

I always name my catalysts #rekt

>>45239882
>[X] Love.

>>45239882
>[ ] Love.

So the idea of telling Arizona that Settle can't get into a relationship with her seems to have been a bad one.

Also, what Harder did is he:
Barged into the CIC with incomplete knowledge of what happened, made a fool of himself in front of everyone after Goto had given a speech that Shigure would be protected and not handed over to the Abyssals, and further failed to see the hypocrisy in his own words.
If he's a weapon, then he needs to take orders and shoot the targets that his user points out, and his own feelings don't matter.

>>45240029
Saved. Thanks, anon.

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

failing that,

[x] Love

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>>45239882
[x] Love

>>45239882
>>love

Oh, and awesome lead in -- gonna be a good thread! Even if the foreshadowing of shipgirl!higgins is just wishful thinking in my part.

>>45239882
>[ ] Mercy.

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

>>45240106
Locus, Red vs Blue: When a true soldier is told to kill, he kills. He does not question why, he does not mourn the fallen; he fulfills his role and moves on to the next.

Perhaps more to the point: A weapon does not question the orders it has been given, it does not wonder of the person it is being used to kill, it simply executes its job. To blame the weapon is a fallacy, for if there is blame to be thrown, it should be to the one firing the weapon than to the weapon.

>>45239882
[x] Forgiveness.

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

As much as I want the Admiral to have someone, being able to stand himself is more important.

>>45240232
A failed weapon is the responsibility of its owner.

>>45239882
>[X] Forgiveness

>>45240025
Seconded! Harder has exceeded the emotional range of a teaspoon and it fucking hurts.

Also: ship side and human side clashing again - we need to be taking notes each time this happens so we can be better at helping them work though it. It's not a choice, it's a continuum which means they're going to have to reconcile their ship and human aspects -- not favor one to the exclusion of the other.

Perhaps an abyssal is a ship soul that has abandoned its humanity or (like terror maybe) embraced only negative human emotions like hate and anger and become a twisted physical representation of a soul with nothing but negativity within it.

That would explain why Naka gets more abyssal the more negative emotions (and the less positive ones) she has.

>>45239882
A little vague on the voting prompt, I think.

If it's what I want Settle to try to get,
>[X] Forgiveness.

If it's what I want him to try to give,
>[X] Love.

The first, because he's a fuckup and he knows it. He needs someone stepping in and giving him that push to keep on keeping on.

The second, because fuckdamn if it isn't him being a cold shit to some of the folks on base that's causing him so much grief.

It is good to see people are actually thinking on this one and trying to figure out which leads to the best possible outcome.

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>>45239882
>[x] Love.

>>45240106
Actually, he did exactly what a sub would. Frontal attack against superior odds and then run for it as soon as he'd emptied the tubes.

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>>45240106
>If he's a weapon, then he needs to take orders and shoot the targets that his user points out, and his own feelings don't matter.
i disagree with your conclusion here

>>45240232
what the fuck are you even talking about weeb

Forgiveness needs to come before love, because without forgiveness, their can be no love.

>>45239712
Typing Nitoda into Google Maps gives this as a result:
38.292473, 141.424694

There is another result - also in Japan:
>Nitoda Chiyodacho Shimosai, Kanzaki, Saga Prefecture, Japan
33.255503, 130.348410
But I am sure we can rather safely eliminate that as the mentioned area.

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>>45239882
>[x]Hate

>>45240048

What!? He's finally realizing how stupid he's been this whole time. Isn't that what you were hoping for?

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

>>45239882
>Wondering what she did wrong to deserve her rejection, like Harder was a few hours ago

>girlfriend is shot by friend, no idea why
>see girlfriend with shooter friend
>barge in to obvious command room mid-operation
>loudly demand that shooter friend be locked in a cell, executed
>girlfriend defends shooter friend
>continue ranting
>get dumped
Now, I understand that he didn't know that Naka let Shigure shoot her in order to show Shigure that she doesn't want to be Abyssal, deep down, and that it was to save Shigure.
Or that Goto had just shut down the Abyssals hard to defend Shigure.
Or that the entirety of the CIC generally accepted said defense.
But is he going to understand that he did do something wrong here, or is he going to pile it on Naka and Shigure again?

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

>>45240372

It's the former.

[X]Forgiveness

The pain must continue, this is not a grave.

It's the path we chose.

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[X]Forgiveness

ITS TIME

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>>45240404

You won't have long to wait to find out.

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>>45240385
Yeah. It still hurts to see.

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Now that we know Shoukaku's clingyness and ugly social side, Naka and Shigure falling apart, and Settle's worship/professional working relationship with/of Arizona...

It's high time that Ryan Settle finds love in other places. Settle needs a somone more stable, someone who can be a relationship equal, keep up with him, someone to drink the night away with and a shoulder the cry on.

Of course, I am referring to the obvious choice here:

Hayashimo.

Ryuujou is an acceptable alternative, aka that off-mentioned odd girl wearing a red coat and a metal ballcap

>>45239882
>[X] Forgiveness.

>>45239882
>[ ] Love.

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

>>45240464
>Not going for Junyou

wat

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>>45239882
>[ ] Love.

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>tfw I'm not sure what the vote is about and what people are voting on
Can anyone explain what they think the vote is about exactly? I'm sure it's vague on purpose.

>>45240464
>Hayashimo
>stable

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

>>45240372
Oh, it's better than that. Typing *just* "Nitoda" into Google Maps gave me
24.6912215, 72.8823351

Which we can EASILY eliminate!

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

>>45240502
What does Settle want the most.

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>>45239629
>Sammy watches screenwatches

>>45240495
RJ is actually the eldest of all the CVL sisters.

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

>>45240414
As I suspected.

If Terror had turned the latter into a volcanic hellhole...

>>45239712
>Ishinomaki

38.439870, 141.286950
>town had population of 145,805 as per September 2015, population density of 263 persons per square kilometer

>>45240372
...that Nitoda is just up the coast from Fukushima. How long before Terror starts shelling the Daiichi reactors?

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.
or
>[ ] Love.

I feel that Settle needs Love but he needs to forgive himself too.

>>45240340
Harder called himself a weapon.
A weapon that doesn't fire when given a fire order is not a good weapon. A weapon that shoots at allies instead of the enemies it's pointed at, is not a good weapon.
A weapon that refuses to function properly because it has certain feelings on the matter, is not a good weapon.

>>45239882
>[x] Forgiveness.
Seems like everyone on this base needs this, but they don't think they deserve it.

It seems like everyone knows what they're voting for. Am I the stupid one, or is everyone voting with their gut?

>>45239882
>[ ] Love.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/43208043/#p43209321

OH LOOK THAT POST I APPARENTLY NEVER MADE

>>45240531
>switch to different tvs and play online
>she's watching the reflection in the glass doorwall

Harder might suck at halo but he's not stupid

>>45240464
>he thinks Hayashimo is stable and sane

tippity toppest fucking kek m8

Calling votes in a few minutes.

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>>45240502
>stable

Hayashimo's no stranger to Man's other, other Best Friend ( tm).

>>45239882
[x] Forgiveness.

>>45239676
>“If you're not careful, they'll... pull you in with them.”
Only if your fucking incompetent.

>>45239882
>[X] Love.

Talk them into a break down and then bear hug them.

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>>45240600
Can you abandon a friend?

>>45240509
>Which we can EASILY eliminate!

Unsure if anon is Abyssal or not... there is a body of water (although isolated from the ocean) near the area...

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>>45240593

VOTES CALLED

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>>45240593
>OH LOOK THAT POST I APPARENTLY NEVER MADE
I'm not sure why you pointed this out.

>>45240657
Well, there's also the fact that it's in, y'know, INDIA, and thus Goto likely wouldn't hear about it until it hit CNN.

>>45240582
i voted assuming that settle's about to get A Christmas Carol'd, and we were picking which ghost would be holding the yaoi paddle

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just gonna leave this here...

Here we go!

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>>45239881

OH ALMOST FORGOT

here's your >you

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>>45240705
>Picking which ghost will be holding the Yaoi paddle

>>45240665
>>45240690
>A great many documents are various things from Your Staff, the unseen crew of pencil pushers that filter a great deal of this shit before it even reaches you. You haven't even gone to visit them, something you'd have never imagined you doing before, but with... well, the constant rain of fuckups, disasters and combats that have marked your short tenure at Yokosuka... yeah. Yeah, you're sure they understand.

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>>45240593
When will Aoba make a debut and resolve the whole grandson thing with Goto?

>Hayashimo

Perhaps starting a relationship with The Washboard being on the table is not so bad anymore, no?

>>45240690
To point out that we do, in fact, have staff available and able to do shit in our absence.

>>45240705

also disturbing how strange you managed to make that analogy and still keep it accurate

well done sir

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>>45240564
...Jesus Christ.

Would Fukushima even still be operational by this point, though?

As I was saying before....we need to bring in a shrink

>>45240732
RIP Kee Bird

>>45240791
He'll commit suicide after a week of this insanity.

>>45240774
Doesn't have to be. All she has to do is rupture one containment building, then get one lava bomb to asplode the core... yeah, she could thoroughly ruin people's day with that.

>>45240750
We have a staff? cause we never visited them

>>45239882
>[X] Trust
>In that things will go wrong, but
>You are still a decent person and will try to make amends.
>And who's to say the girls won't do the same?

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If they have the museum ships reactivated, I wonder if they're going to do this to the Iowa's?

>>45240687
Fuck, and as always I'm too late with my write-ins.

>>45240839
We are an Admiral so yeah, we have a fucking staff.

Who do you think makes sure every one of Naka's requisition requests goes through and that Hate hasn't accidentally'd the whole base yet?

>>45240025
Everyone is alone.

>>45240774
Depends on how far the national decommissioning got before everyone went WELL SHIT SURE WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE BASELOAD THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE IMPORTING MEGATONS OF FLAMMABLE MATERIAL OVER ABYSSAL-INFESTED WATERS

>>45240839
Yes, we never visited them

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Bayern wann

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>>45240693
As the posts directly beneath me indicate, Goto does indeed have a support staff. I'm sure at least one of them is glued to a EvE-Online corporation multibox command center displaying nothing more than constant news feeds from all around the world in order to stay on top of everything.

Also, was thinking about another attack happening later on. Which is why I typed out 'not sure if anon is Abyssal or not'.

(captcha is boats)

>>45240791
No, this brand of nautical crazy needs is Gibbs, his rules, and his god-tier dope-slap.

>>45240839
The best staff is the one you never see, but gets shit done anyway.

>>45240864
Iowa's already back, and it wasn't due to any action on our part.

>>45240774
>Would Fukushima even still be operational by this point, though?
The Kyushu Power Company kept the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant running in spite of Mt. Sakurajima volcano going active within 30 miles; I think they'd keep it running.

>>45240885
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rm5gRN9KDc

0:50 is the relevant point, though 0:42 is very true as well.

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>>45240764
oh man, is shit gonna get p. spoopy

>>45240920
True enough, I just wonder if they're going to go through with this this time.

>>45240905
what if Gibbs was admiral Settle?

>>45240942
None of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors were ever brought back online. I can't recall if any of the Fukushima Daini ones were or not.

>>45240889
Huh. Wouldn't it be better to construct a replacement further inland, though? Outside of shelling range?
>>45240942
>Sendai Nuclear Power Plant

Does our resident night-battle expert know about this designation?

>>45240710
fucking japan

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>>45240953
>if they took porn of the internet there would only be one website left called bring it back

>>45241000
Nuclear power plants require massive volumes of cooling water. As far as I know, there's only one in the entire world that's not built on an ocean, lake, or large river shoreline, and that one's in Arizona.

>>45239731
So this means Wooden era ship girls and Abyssals could either look like normal humans or outright Zombies.

And cast their attacks like spells

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>>45241023
>and that one's in Arizona.

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>>45240902
Now THAT is a motherfucking dreadnought right there.

>the massive hulking shape of the hull that exudes power
>sides bristling with canon
>the towering tripod mast
>the massive 38cm guns that belch forth death

Fucking sex, Kaiserlichemarine built the best ships, cheap Royal Navy whores need not apply.

>>45240992
Things would probably be a lot less FUBAR, and the Yaks wouldn't dare fuck with him.

>>45240905
Gibbs?

>>45241058
It's real! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_Station

>evaporates water from local towns' sewage treatment plants
>literally a shit-cooled nuclear reactor

>>45241095
Fuckawesome head of an investigation team from the show NCIS. Former marine sniper and total badass.

I don't understand why everyone who still reads this story hated about the Enterprise snippet last time? It seems a logical extension of what Planefag has been claiming this whole time.

If you don't like it, go read light and fluffy stories like this:
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1780930?pool_id=8946

>>45241095
from NCIS

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If only thing were as simple as a Planefag VN.

>>45241023
...Well... crap. And building elaborate piping from the coastline to the reactor doesn't solve the problem in the first place.

>>45241077
Now, now. The Yakkity Sax would still fuck around with Gibbs... they just wouldn't last long either.

(captcha is food)
(NO AKAGI NO)

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The dark water reflects the leaping flames like a smooth obsidian mirror. The screams of the dying and drowning echo through the night all around, fading into incoherent suggestions of speech as you stride through the pyres that mark slain vessels; the burning oil slicks that mark the place they last sipped the free air. Against the pitch-black night you see the clean white bow of a cutter, backlit by the fires burning across her deck. The shell-scarred pennant number on her nose is visible: 720.

You look down at your hands. They're yours, all right, big and broad-fingered and strong. With a start, you realize you're dreaming.

With a greater start, you realize you're *still* dreaming, despite the revelation.

Not a great surprise, when you think about it. The waking ones are the same story in lower definition, after all.

[ ] Board the ship.
[ ] Look for Higgins.

>>45241147
It pretty much is.

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I wonder if Titanic might get Olympics fit out. They actually armed her fairly well. Image was the only one I found that had all the guns shown. 12 pounders and four inchers. It would also be interesting if she got to beat an Abyssal to death with her bare hands like Olympic rammed and sank that U-boat.

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>>45241132
Author here, I did say I wanted to let it die with that thread, take my lessons learned, and move on.

>>45241171
>[x] Board the ship.

>>45241171
>[ ] Board the ship.

>>45241130
Had his world shattered in the most recent season, though.
>>45241171
[X] Board the ship.

(captcha is food again)
(AKAGI NOOOOO)

>>45241171
>[ ] Board the ship.

>>45241063
>cheap Royal Navy whores need not apply.

what

>>45241171
>[x] Board the ship

I want to chat with spoopy skellingtons

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>>45241173
>gun positions 4 and 5 set up kitty-corner to each other to allow for cross-deck fire and a greater total number of guns in each possible broadside

That's... literally how I always design my CLs in Rule The Waves.

.... Huh.

>>45241171
[ ] Look for Higgins.

>>45241171
Settle wat r u doin.

I can't help but feel we've lost control of the situation.

>[o] Board the ship.
We're seeing this ship for a reason.

>>45241171
>>Board the ship

>>45241198
Again?
Goddamn.

>>45241171
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjRL1_9kCyw

Also, I believe this would be relevant at this moment.

>>45240454
>TTK: "You shouldn't be working at a place like this, Naka-chan."
>Naka: "But... if I don't, how am I supposed to pay back my student loans?"
>TTK: "You just quit doing this stuff. Let me worry about the money."
>Naka: "Th-thank you so much... but, um... why are you naked...?"

>>45241171
>[ ] Look for Higgins.

>>45241171
>[x] Look for Higgins
so we can get out of the line of fire lol

>>45241171
>[x] Board the ship.

Sherman is the real ghost in Settle's closet, not Higgins.

>>45241171
>[ ] Board the ship.

>>45241211
stop making wing turreted battlecruisers you meme

>>45241171
>[ ] Board the ship.

>>45241171
>[ ] Look for Higgins.

>>45241222

... very nice, anon.

>>45241211
The name for this is en echelon, and the French also found it effective.

>>45241171

Poor Sherman (http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcsherman/)

On the other hand, the ship was named for the guy who wrote the Sherman anti-trust act -- so some irony given the trust issues in this quest.

>>45241171
>[X] Imagine yourself up a cane
>[X] Board the ship

Higgins will show up when she feels like it. There's no need to look for her.

>>45241171
>[X ] Board the ship.

>>45241171
>[ ] Look for Higgins.

>>45241171
>[X] Look for Higgins.

>>45241221
>Kid's parents are killed by a terrorist group
>Agent Dorneget is killed by the same group
>kid moves in with Gibbs for a while
>Gibbs and the kid go to Afghanistan to identify the recruiter
>kid shoots Gibbs in the back at least twice, walks away - Gibbs is actually fucking bleeding here, the vest didn't stop everything this time

(FOOD. AGAIN. THREE TIMES.)
(Akagi. You win. Eat up.)

>>45240705
I'm hoping for a cross between Higgans and Arizona.

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>>45241260
>battlecruisers
>CL

I'll use wing turrets as much as I want bru it's the only way to get around this fucking WOW PUTTING A GUN MOUNT ON THE *CENTERLINE* WHAT SORCERY IS THIS NOBODY EVER THOUGHT OF THIS TILL 1925 SOMEONE FUCKING HOLD ME

>>45241270
I imagine Settle would be quite disturbed to hear the song, considering how accurately it describes him.

>>45241278
>The name for this is en echelon

No shit? Thanks. It's an effective way to reduce the "broadside problem" in early game. Actually, pretty much your only option in that regard.

>>45241171
>[x] Board the ship.

>>45241306
GODDAMN.

>>45241171
>[X] Look for Higgins.

If we ever needed her to tell us we're a stupid Fuck, nows the time.

>>45241310
Not having wing turrets and dealing with the firepower loss is better than having them at all.

VOTES CALLED

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

Gonna have to forgive yourself at some point, Settle.

>>45241370
you're a vote behind, bro

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>>45241362
>turrets
>CL

Of that era not so much actually

>>45241335
>not covering your first CLs in 5" guns.

22knt, 2" belt, 1.5" deck. ~5500 tons. I Dont have to broad side when I've got guns pointing everywhere

>>45241391
Unf, dat hipcheck. Never going to get tired of it.

>>45241398
Wasn't there an old age of sail ship that was so overloaded with guns that she capsized even as she sailed from the harbor?

>>45241391
>CL

For you battlecruisers.

Take the extra weight saved from not having them and invest in a thicker belt and a heavier secondary battery. You're supposed to be using them to shit on cruisers anyways.

>>45241419
Vasa.

>>45241335
Also the name for an attack moving in that offset fashion. Lee tried it on the second day at Gettysburg but got held up my Sickles and ruined the effect.

>>45241391
>>45241408
Dem hips tho, amirite?

>>45241419
Vasa is the closest. Hilarious.

>[X] Look for Higgins.

>>45241171
>[ ] Look for Higgins.

>>45241444
St. Louis is best sealclubbing bote

>>45241390
Fuck, this thread is moving faster than usual.

>>45241438
>>45241470

Well, we salvaged her and put her in a museum, so she probably won't come back as an Abyssal... right?

Dat leveling effect though. I'm sure we could get her design to work properly now, right? Failing that, she'd make for one hell of a shore battery.

>>45241479
Is this meant to be taken literally?

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>>45241132

>>45241507
She's a rotting mess who got fucked up by anchors and sulfur.

So basically she's modern Sweden.

>720

Oh shit. Brain just finally kicked in. That's the Coast Guard cutter that got sunk in the battle for LA.

>>45241510
St. Louis is a tier 3 ship in WoWs. She has a twelve 6" gun broadside at the same tier as things like Tenryu, and as much HP as a battleship.

>>45241544
Settle's former command. Yes.

>>45241544
Oh, fuck, so it is.

>>45241560

uuuuuuh.

i don't think that's correct.

>>45241560
no

>>45241479
Just set your rudder hard over at flank speed, spin circles and shit HE on everything

>>45241560
Nope, Settle commanded USS Higgins, DDG-76

>>45241550
I have no idea what you just said.

>>45241560
No, that's Higgins, DDG-76

>>45241560
Naw man, it's the ship he missile massacred to kill the ship it had rammed.

>>45241560
Nope, the cutter Settle alpha strike'd to kill the torp boat. Basically had to shoot through/into friendlies.

>>45241560
that was Higgins. Settle was never a Coastie

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>>45241391
unf

>>45241560
No, Settle's former command was Higgins, not Sherman.

And we voted to get on the Coast Guard Cutter, not look for our own ship.

>>45241592
A playstyle that carries to Omaha
Kberg is more fun though

>>45241581
>>45241590
>>45241601
>>45241606
>>45241611
>>45241615
>>45241620
So it is. Wow, completely forgot about it.

I am a heartless monster.

>>45241630

We need absolution for the blue-on-blue before we seek absolution from our own command.

After all, there were still men aboard when we dumped our cells into them.

>>45241639
THE CARACOLE OF DEATH!

>>45241560
settle used that coastguard cutter as a NARC beacon
rip in piss brave little toasterboat

>>45241604
Big ship many gun early game make other early game ship go boom boom

>>45241659
They knew what they were doing in this case though. This wasn't an accidental cold heated decision by Settle, this was something the Cutter Captain realized and CHOSE to happen. Lose the ship to save the Higgins and make it even stronger.

>>45241652
Perhaps.
>>45241659
They gave their lives for the cause. They were delivered to the gates of Valhalla. There is no absolution needed.


(captcha is food again, well what a surprise)
(Akagi, Bat-Lead is in the hospital. Eat him, not my screen.)

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I heard something about dreadnoughts.

>>45241604
She has more guns than any other ship at her tier, and they fire faster, and she's more heavily armored than everything but BB's at the tier.

>>45241604
Imagine a flamethrower
The St. Louis is your closest naval equivalent

>>45241611

What really gets me is that we had the option of NOT shooting at it. All those months ago, in that flashback sequence. That was a hell of a path we took, as a character.

>>45241731
That may be, but it's still a very cold comfort if you were the one who ordered the missile launch.

>>45241694
>early game
>t3
What?

>>45241754
How is that balanced?

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>>45241767

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDaFM1rXuwc

You approach the ship with the firm, steady stride you had before LA; the strong legs that used to ride every swell so easily that your XO once started calling you Gyroscope during a particularly nasty squall. The shell-torn bulk of the USCGC Sherman looms over you, sitting perfectly still on the alleged water. The surface seems slightly squishy beneath your feet, almost like polished marble with oil slicked over it. Looking back you see your own bootprints in vivid white, shimmering just under the surface behind you.

When you look back at the ship, a rope ladder is hanging against the side. It feels nasty in your hand; like that kind of braided steel cable that grabs and pinches at your hands. It, too, is coated in some kind of shellack or preservative; the surface is sticky, and does nothing to smooth out the grabby pinching of the thin wires the cables are woven from.

You look up at the gunwales, expecting to see an alabaster face with glowing blue eyes letting down her steely hair - but there's nothing. You scale the contraption quickly, taking a moment to relish your rediscovered mobility, even if it's only a moment in a nightmare. The deck is abandoned and bare - but for the blood, thick and congealed and crusting on every surface. The sign of fire is everywhere; the white paint cracked and peeled by the intense heat of the conflagration which consumed the Sherman moments before Higgins missile barrage tore her asunder and sent her down, pinning her foe beneath her in a final, mutual embrace.

>>45241771
They were going to die anyway. We just made it less filled with suffering.

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They lay there still, at the bottom of Los Angeles harbor - Sherman's corpse the monster's prison.

The fire damage gets worse as you go deeper into the interior passageways. Without white-painted walls to reflect the meager firelight filtering through shell-holes, you can only feel your way through each pitch-black passage, muscles tense and nerves taut as you wait for an ambush from the dark that never comes. Jagged rents in partitions and bulkheads bite your fingertips as you feel through the murk, finding your way forward.

Towards the bridge.

Flickering firelight is streaming through the jagged teeth of shattered bridge windows; refracting and reflecting in strange ways that make the long shadows strut a danse macabre. You see the hunched shadow in the middle of the deck, just underneath the forward windows - the one you seek.

The skipper you've seen so many times in your dreams; eyeballs popping like microwaved grapes, the vitreous running down his cheeks to dilute the thick putty of his melting, burning flesh as his bare skull screams and screams and *screams.*

[ ] Approach.
[ ] Greet.
[ ] Wait.

>>45241779
its not

>>45241779
It's slow, and a large target.
Other than that, it isn't.

>>45241419
The Mary Rose.
Preserved shit-tons of artefacts from 1545, was raised in 1982, and is on display in Portsmouth.

>>45241779
She isn't. That's precisely why she's so good

>>45241780
>welcome to the US cruiser line.jpg

>>45241813
>[ ] Wait.

>>45241813
>[ ] Greet.

>>45241813
>[X] Greet.

>>45241813
>[ ] Greet.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

>>45241813
>[ ] Approach.
and
>[ ] Greet.

>>45241775
Oh yeah. That's something Settle will carry with him no matter what, because even though it was the right decision and what the skipper of the Cutter wanted to happen, he still killed other friendly sailors due to a choice he made.

He can however, come to terms with it in time. But Settle is a bit of a martyr. That's the problem.

>>45241813
>[ ] Approach.

>>45241813
>[ ] Approach.

>>45241813
>[ ] Approach.

>>45241832
god, the US cruisers are so good from 3 on up (except poor pensacola)

>>45241813
>[X] Greet.

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I'm late to the party, but I really fucking hope the way people voted results in us preventing a modern warship from joining the Abyssals because of some lust for revenge against Settle.

I'm an unrepentant abyssalfag and I know that means that I'll clash with people who think that abyssals are too far gone or have done too much killing/mind rape to ever deserve redemption. Fine, we can have that argument, even if Wo's butt is the cutest.

However, there is one thing we must all agree on, whether we want to redeem abyssals or kill them all. And that one thing is AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE.

If we get the opportunity to prevent a ship from going abyssal, we take it. Period. Even if that means Higgins never comes back as a shipgirl and stays asleep in her drydock. Even if that means we don't get laid.

Naka, Shigure, and everyone like them take priority over everything else. Because preventing them from falling is how we win. Deprive the Voice Below of soldiers.

>>45241813
>[W] Greet.

>>45241858

there are times when doublevotes are funny.

this is not a funnyhaha moment. pick one.

>>45241779
It isn't. Only thing that balances her out is that she's a torpedo magnet and isn't very fast.

>>45241813
>[ ] Greet.

>>45241875
They actually get shit on pretty handily by the IJN, and KMS cruisers in terms of stats.

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>>45241813
>[x] Greet.

>>45241813
>[X ] Greet.

>>45241798

Oh, I agree, but look at the impact it made on Settle's character. From a writing PoV. From a FLASHBACK/dream sequence.

I think it's interesting as hell the way this quest buisness really works from a writing PoV. The interactivity. Like character building done in media res, retroactively.

>>45241813
>[ x ] Greet.

>>45241813
>[X] Approach.

>>45241813
>[x] Approach.

>>45241813
>[ ] Wait.
PATIENCE, SKIP, DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID.

>>45241899
KMS are glass cannons, no armor and really strong AP that if they can't pen or overpen, it doesn't do shit, and HE that's anemic at best.

IJN cruisers have no obvious weakpoints.

>>45241813
[X] Greet.

Face your fears head-on, Settle.
If he tries to bite your face off, bite back.

(ice cream)
(that's food right?)

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>>45241813
>[X] Greet.

Do you fear death, Admiral Settle?

>>45241893
>[ ] Greet.
This is my choice.

>>45241813
>[ ] Wait.

>>45241813
>[ ] Greet.

>>45241910
And the character-building options that affected other things, like Batlead's behavior. Shit's neat

>>45241813
>[X] Greet.

>>45241881
Am I the only one who found skullface sexy?

Especially when he takes off his hat and you can so those whatever they are called on his head.

>>45241813
>[ ] Approach.

>>45241944
>t
no, but I fear these goddamn FACELESS FUCKS WHY ARE YOU GODDAMN EVERYWHERE YOU BASTARDS?

>>45241813
>[X] Greet.

>>45241825
That's the one I was thinking of. Thanks.

We left her on the bottom for that long, though. There's likely going to be some resentment there. And with the leveling effect active...

>>45241977
I bet you think Red Skull is a sex symbol, too!

>>45241937
IJN cruisers have no obvious weakpoints, but their only really outstanding point is their torps. US cruisers have generally better volume of fire and ridiculous amounts of AA.

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Washington when.

>>45241875
That depends on who's playing them. People's opinions swing from Jesus on multiple driveshafts to floating target practice

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>>45241977
You are not the only one. But I wouldn't call him "sexy" or "handsome", as he's kind of got a burned hamburger face; but he is very charismatic and charming.

>>45241813
>[o] Greet.

>>45242007
>AA
Definitely after 0.5.3. Which might kill CVs, depending on who you ask

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>>45239485

>>45241944

"I'll take that as a no... nice sword..."

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Big bulges.

>>45242033
>as he's kind of got a burned hamburger face
That is what I mean by sexy.

>>45242002
Never heard that one before.

>>45242007
>AA
>Mattering

Top kek

>>45241813
>[ ] Greet.

>>45241815
>>45241821
>>45241832
Let me guess, you have to pay a ton of money or grind forfuckever to get it?

>>45242077
>Not knowing Captain America's sworn nemesis

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While unrelated to the topic immediately at hand, if Hate ever needs more motivation for capturing an Abyssal, this may help.

Because HOT DAMN.

>>45242105
Nope. You could have shit for brains and get it in an hour

>>45242051
>>45242007

AA is a meme anyways, all that matters is defensive fire fucking up the accuracy of drops. You're never going to actually shoot down all of a high tier CV's planes.

>>45242088
Activate the defensive fire cooldown when an enemy torpedo squadron tries to make a run on you. Not only does it enhance your firepower, but scatters their torpedo drop.

>>45242109
I know about Elrond, I just never heard of him as a sex symbol.

>>45241813
Approach.

Also, caught a live thread woot

>>45242105
You can get it in 5-10 games tops.

Probably less than that.

>>45242105
Nope, teir 3 out of 10. It's literally something you can get in a few hours.

>>45242122
Were my internet not multiple flavors of shit, I would definitely play World of Warships.

Sadly, I am stuck waiting for the Xbox One port.

>>45242124

Say that to the Pensacolas taking down entire flights before you get your bombs on them. A run runs at a pair of cruisers won't be enough to seriously hurt them, but you can certainly lose all of your planes, doubly so if the enemy CVs are halfway competant.

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>>45242058
Wrong size, wrong Touhou.

>>45242168
>XBone port
No time soon, pal.

>>45241179
>Author here, I did say I wanted to let it die with that thread, take my lessons learned, and move on.
When "Lokasenna" made it into the transcription threads on Spacebattles and SufficientVelocity, they don't seem to have been too thrilled by it either. Would you like me to delete it from those transcripts?

>>45242160
Is there other stuff you have to grind forever to get?

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>>45241881
>redeem abyssals or kill them all
nah
i'm not gonna commit one way or the other

>>45242190
World of Tanks got an Xbone port. Why not WoWS?

>>45242207
nah, not for the louis, you might wanna get to the omaha though, it is a terror at t5

>>45242171
>if people play smart, I will lose

Just pick another target.

Also at high tiers, there literally isn't enough time to launch every single plane you have, even if they're all shot down instantly one after another.

t. Hakuryu player

>>45242168
>waiting for the port

ahaha
AHAHAHAHAAHA

No, this is going to stay PC exclusive for a long time.

>>45242217
Because Lesna's focusing on delivering more ships first

>>45242217
it is nowhere near as popular

>>45242207
Grind kicks in at tier 6. But tier 6 is pretty much the best tier, so you don't really notice.

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>>45241813
>[x] Approach.

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>>45241881
Also, adding to this, we should probably make some calls to the world's military leaders to start doing some "morale boosting" with sunken ships.

Like go to where the Kursk or Thresher sunk and maybe do some prayers or read them a letter via underwater loudspeakers (hydrophone? or is that just for recording?) saying that their sacrifice is remembered and that they are missed and we will always await their return, but we on land ultimately wish them a happy and peaceful existence so we respect any desire to remain in the sea and sleep, so long as they do not seek to do harm against us.

It's long overdue that we started talking to the ships we partially had a role in sinking, even if they don't want to talk back. At least wish them sweet dreams and a safe voyage back to port when they're ready.

Because thus far, the advantage the Voice Below has had is easy and thus the potential for first access to all ships. We need to have a Voice Above to counter the message.

>>45239882
>[ ] Forgiveness.

>>45242199
Eh, let it stand. It was written, I'm just not wanting to revive the fight about it.

>>45242225
Can I just make a fleet of shipsluts?

>>45242249
Oh shit, the Cleveland. Closest thing to a goddamn machine gun you can get at that tier.

>>45241813
>[X] Greet

>>45242289
I for one can't wait for the USN CL line if only for it to be tiered up to its proper place.

>>45242229
Then I guess I'll stick with WoT, then.

Probably for the better, anyway. Not that good a player. Prefer to remain close to base with TDs and snipe shit. And unlike arty, TDs can actually defend itself up close.

>>45242266
This. So much this. Maybe also pump rock music into the deep as well, fuck around with the Voice Below.

VOTES CALLED, WRITING

>>45242266
You mean like this at about 1:28:30 on?

>>45242289
Cleveland is pretty much the most OP thing at T6 there is.

Only thing stronger would be maaaaybe the VodkaDD because russian bias.

>>45242336

Try War Thunder. I started with aviation after the disapointment that was WoWP, and never looked back. The tank mode doesn't have any of the things that made WoT akin to an abusive relationship.