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A bow wave kicks up from your toes as you lean into the charge, tucking your sword back in a trailing guard - aerodynamics might not help much, but they can't hurt, either. An intense heat flares in your chest, growing with the labored pounding of your machinery, your pistons, your *heart* as you bypass the safeties and push yourself for everything you're worth. In the last war you were old, obsolete, and worn - but now?

Now you're *young* again, with a body to match the spirit you always had - and you intend to use it to the fullest.

You catch your first glimpse of the enemy around nine-thousand yards - just a hint of masts glimpsed as the star-shells fall and fade, throwing long rays of light lengthwise through the mists. You hear the distant thunder of aircraft engines above, and then a string of flares burst into brilliant incandescence above; a sparkling line that draws your eyes right to the target. The abyssal cruisers are tacking north-west to unshadow their broadsides against Kitakami and Ooi - from the dueling reports over the water, you doubt Sendai and Jintsuu have reached the fight just yet.

[ ] Open fire now - draw some flak off the green bints.
[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

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>>45906898
Awww yeah, time to ruin a battlebitch's day!

First for fairies!

>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

Whoa there, Chuunibote, let's use some caution.

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>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.
Close in for the kill

Also, wtf is that banner?!

>>45906907
[X] Hold fire, get closer.

>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.
The torpedosluts can handle a bit of punishment. We gotta make this count.

>[X ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

This kind of brawl, you can't afford to swing wildly. Get in where you can verify position to the best of your ability and waste as little of those precious torpedos as possible.

>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

>>45906907
>Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.
Maybe tell the dykes over radio that you're almost in position.

That banner is amazing

>>45906907
>[o] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

Press in close and show no fear. A close press is where the Imperial Japanese Navy shows its spirit!

>>45906907
[X] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

>>45906907
>[ ] Open fire now - draw some flak off the green bints.
>[] hold torpedoes til you're closer

>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

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>>45906898
>Hellcow and corgi
>REEEEEE
Nice desu ne.

Also you should have added some witch pantsu somewhere in there.

>>45906907
[x] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

>>45906898
>Three 14 inch turrets
AYYYYY

>>45906907
>[x] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

Need to make this count, and announcing our presence at this range would only cost us our element of surprise.

>>45906898
Who made that flag for you Fap Angel? It fits you perfectly!

>>45906987
>Also, wtf is that banner?!

Voleron made me a flag... for me. Planefag coat of arms.

>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

Not just caution, but an optimal position for our attack. This'll give the Abyssals something to think about.

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>>45906898
>>45907058
>Not simply calling it the Planeflag.

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German superbattleship when?

>[x] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

Time to get this shit down.

>>45907068

... I am not a clever man

>>45906907
>[X] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

>>45906907
>[X] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.
Probably heavy cruisers, so we'll need the torpedoes.

>>45906898
>pillow fort
Destroyers making it when?

>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

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>>45906898
ITS TIME

>>45907078
At least you are honest.

>>45907073

my smile literally FELL off my face. It made a heartbreakingly delicate little "crickle" as it shattered pon the floor.

look

look at what you have done

>>45906907
>[X] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

Make shit count.

>>45907068
You get a like.

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Who Divegrass manager here

>>45906907
>[x] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit

You know, a thought occurs to me. Peorth is a newly-returned shipgirl like Houston, but she's Australian. The Land Down Under doesn't have any other shipgirls, right? So who's got command jurisdiction after this battle? Will Australia have her "on loan" to allied forces based in Yokosuka? Will they ask for her back once they get their own shipgirl program up and running?

Say planefag, have the Lekir and her gunboat used their missiles against Iowa yet? I wouldn't be surprised if she survived them, but just wondering

>>45906907

[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

Where's that fast air at, anyways?

>>45907073
Aviation battleships a shit.

Especially because the nazis were shit at making both.

>>45907073
The everlasting fuck is that?

>>45907135
Wondered that myself, I don't thinks its been said that they were fired, so I'm guessing they still have them.

>[x] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

The torpedosluts already shot their load. The biggest threat to them (unused torps on deck) is gone

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This girl when?

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>>45906907
>[x] Open fire now - draw some flak off the green bints.
might as well start spamming your popguns, squinting into the gloom with your one good eye hardly counts as 'fire direction'
what the hell. new or old you're a tinfoil tiger, you'll probably lose your guns before you run out of shells.

>>45906907
>[X] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

>>45907130
Given that ANZAC got the short end of the stick every time someone else was in charge, I sincerely doubt they'll be okay having their shipgirl(s) under another command...

>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

>>45907130
Betcha they're both gonna end up in Australia after this. Planefag probably wants to keep the number of characters down.

>>45907209
And what was Gallipoli then? Most of the generals in charge there were Australian, if I remember correctly.

>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

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>>45907173

>>45907068
>>45907078
Read it's filename carefully.

>>45906907
>[ ] Hold fire, get closer - where your guns are more likely to penetrate, and torpedoes more likely to hit.

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I wonder what ammunition ships would be like? Do they carry ammunition in backpacks, or is it...something else?

>>45907254
Thats 5 times the size of a Nimitz class supercarrier, how exactly did anyone expect to built that monster?

>>45907228
Recurring guest stars possibly?

>>45907294
They didn't. It was basically some /k/omrades spitballing and bullshitting about where Hitler would have gone if he'd kept coming up with new battleship ideas, and someone, somehow, got it into their heads that it was real and it got published.

>>45907286
Breastmilk.

>>45907254
JAESUS H CHRIST

>>45907286
Maybe a bunch of bandoliers strapped all over themselves?

>>45907294
With German DETERMINATION
And possibly the ashes of the Jews

>>45907230
Still ultimately under the command under the British.

>>45907254

Not even a historical napkinwaffe, it was invented wholecloth on a forum that no longer exists when someone asked the question "how big would a ship need to be to carry 800 mm main guns". Someone attached the H-45 moniker on it for fun, it got passed around on other forums for a while, and then a supposedly serious historian included it in his book on the H-series without bothering to figure out where the information came from. The entire story is detailed in the discussion page for the H-class battleship on Wikipedia - by the guy who made the stats up.

>>45907286
Clips

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Heavy lift ships when?

>>45907294
nazi superscience

>>45907385
Already seen them, they brought Bucky and Hayashimo home from Iwo

>>45907286
They hand out sandwiches in battle.

No need to hold our fire. Torp Iowa now. Battleships drive in straight lines.

>https://youtu.be/FNMstH-zqoE?t=760

>>45907404
>>45907376
>>45907323

So basically it was never going to happen. Fair enough.

>>45907309
I was thinking more them coming in with some write up characters just in the nick of time during a later battle

>>45907408
I dont think those were lift ships. Pretty sure they were towed back.

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>>45907385
It'll do as well as Yamato going through panama

>>45907423
The nazis couldn't even build an aircraft carrier, left alone /that thing/.

So yes.

So when will we be getting the USS Porter? She had 8 five inch guns, 8 torpedo tubes and a decent AA suite. Sure, she could only make 34.5 knots, but they had a serious punch for a destroyer.

>>45907421
Not going after Iowa. Going to help torpedocunts.

>captcha has a picture of the Tenryu River

>Fire your secondaries into the air!

>>45907426
Well they already helped pull the traffic cone out of the fire, so they have some experience with that sort of thing at least.

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>>45907286
resupply is one of those things that you probably shouldn't investigate too closely

>>45907286
Well Hayasui is an oiler and she's got her hull turned into a sort of basket bag thing as part of her rigging, so presumably something along those lines. Bandoliers or carry bags.

>>45907457
I am well aware.

Torps will still hit Iowa if we launch now. Because BBs sail in straight lines. :-P

[/joke]

>>45907478
Her and Tagei are prone to say producing things full of calcium.

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Fuso had a fucked up tower.

>>45907455
what the fuck is it with you and the Porter?

>>45907135

Pretty sure she still has'em. Good thing; she'll need them.

>>45907171

waitforit.png

VOTES CALLED

>>45907510
~*Autism*~

>>45907510
Well, she was lost to friendly fire, she had an impressive armament, she was built to counter either the kumas or the sendais, I'm not sure which, and I'd love the confusion possibility with Willie D.

>>45907455
Why not the Helena or Atlanta?

>>45907522
>she'll need em
~oh you~

>>45907505
Damn, that one big ass mast.

>>45907534
well, we've already had two cruisers come back, why not even it out with a destroyer?

>>45907531
None of those things are really unique enough to justify continued character bloat.

>>45907591
maybe not as a main story, maybe in the writeups. I'd love to write it, but I'm too loaded on course work right now.

Dioxygen chlorine trifluoride incendiary bombs when? Now, of course!

http://www.google.com/patents/US3285842

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>>45907505
was it really abnormally tall though? it seemed like everyone was rocking high towers in the 20s

>>45906898
The herald announces the blazon of Sir Planefag the Greek!

>Party per fess, in base per pale, Argent and Sable. In chief, a P-61 Black Widow Sable displayed. In dexter base, an M1911 fesswise Argent, and in sinister base three battleship turrets Sable outlined in Argent. Supported by a Hellcow and a corgiboat statant Argent.

>>45907620
>N-Stoff bombs.
That's a fucking retarded idea.

>>45907615
I've had a couple ideas bouncing around in my head for a while, but I've only just started writing where other people can see it, so I'd like to get a bit more experience under my belt.

>>45907586
Because DDs are shit in combat
CLs > DDs

>>45906898
i just noticed the fucking turrets

>>45907615
I forgot to mention she was one of the ships at King George VI's coronation.

>>45907710
And was also at a Boy Scout Jamboree in 1937. She left Pearl Harbor two days before December 7, and she may have been torpedoed by I-21 or she may have been sunk by friendly fire from a torpedo that had been carried by an avenger that was shot down.

So did anyone else notice that ArmyNurseCorpsfag posted on SB and said his boss saw the Destroyers for lewds vote/discussion?

>>45907741
That had to be a fun conversation.

>>45907620
HEY MOTHERFUCKER
Remember the thread you stole this idea from?
Remember how the poster of such got raked across the coals?
It's a bad idea.

>>45907741
he also said that in here

>>45907741
>his boss saw the Destroyers for lewds vote/discussion?
Well it's a great thing that I voted that they are not for lewds.

Now, a moment of silence for our brothers who will be taken by the party van.

>>45907741
Direct from a Rear Admiral (RDML or RADM?), DDs ain't for lewds.

>>45907660
I can never memorize all the parts of a flag.

>>45907774
RAdm, and yeah, DD's ain't for lewds.

>>45907755
Given the work environment, and employers, I would think any coversation between ArmyNurseCorpsfag and his boss about KCQ would be interesting.

>>45907774
Did his boss vote? Do we know what his vote was?

>>45907771
someone hasn't seen Hamakaze

>>45907620
No.

>>45907787
>RADM
>a friggin two-star

>>45907674
N-Stoff?

>>45907781
I can't either, that's why I google and wiki up some references whenever I want to blazon.

Took me a bit to figure out how to handle that division, since it's not just a simple ordinary. To say nothing of straight-up bullshitting how to blazon the turrets. (Rule of tincture, dammit!)

>>45907682
He's missing a turret though.

: ^ )

>>45907838
>N-Stoff?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-stoff

>>45907845
Well, Vol's custom planeflag is pretty much heavier than a typical ship pennant, anyway.

>>45907838
I was saying what I read the rank is, not that Iwas one.

>>45907620
>incendiary bombs when?
pretty much instantly upon synthesis.

designing explosives and propellants isn't just picking the densest fuels and meanest oxidisers, dumping them in a bucket and lighing them with a sparkler.

Hey, which Admiral Thomas is in this quest anyway?

Destroyers are for lewds, especially Fubuki, Murakumo, Isokaze, Nenohi, Yuudachi, shigure, Yamagumo, Naganami, Hatsuyuki, Hatsuharu, Shigure, Kagerou, Hamakaze, Ryuujou, Murasame, Hatsushimo, Amatsukaze, Akiducky, Hatsuducky, Shiranui, Asashio, and any other particular semen demons I forgot

>>45907892
Former commandant of 7th Fleet.

>>45907838
>N-Stoff?

Also known as ClF3. See here:
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time

>>45907789
he said on SB that his boss said
"Destroyers are not for lewding, they're for "gentle loving and, depending on their age, hearty pats on the back for encouragement of a job well done."

>>45907904
Have fun with the party van.

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>tfw your best ally in the crusade for flat and destroyer lewding is Crix
FLAT REMAINS JUSTICE.

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Has planefag finally seen how beautiful and perfect Arizona can become by embracing darkness?

I'm very sure that with Settle's choices thus far, that 'her' making an appearance in the quest is now just a matter of "when?".

>>45907904
>Destroyers are for lewds
>Ryuujou

No Bully.

>>45907934
Amen to him, amen to him.

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>>45907904
>Crix
>posting opinions

Brace for rage.

>>45907230
It was Winston Churchill's plan.

>>45907867
it worked they just didn't have enough of it modern day facilities are more advanced we could produce more

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>>45907904
that's because you're a paedophile tho

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>>45907286
>>45907378
>Slightly-off-kilter, twitchy shipgirl
>During UNREP she stares dead into your eyes and pushes handfuls of stripper clips into your arms
>When resupplying bases she'll come ashore and pluck cartridges from each clip and plant them into the ground like dragon's teeth, from whence materialize full-sized pallets of munitions
>Stakes out a space in the Slutworks warehouse between Hate's armory and the Kerbal Shimakaze Program, where she fudds around with a reloading press and shitposts on /k/

>>45907838
>N-Stoff?
Highly volatile Rocket fuel.

The absolute WORST thing to make a bomb with.

>>45907938
Forgot your chris hanson image

>>45907975
Beautiful

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>>45907904

>>45907904
Oh my, looks like Crix is about to get vanned.

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>>45907934
Well, the "gentle loving" line doesn't clear up anything, given that the height of perversion around here is hand holding.

>>45907973
Normalfags please go

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>>45907904

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>>45907904
I spy shit taste.

>>45907904
Good man.
>capcha: EDGEWAR

>>45907904
You forgot Urakaze

>>45907928
I know what ClF3 is (advanced science class is FUN), but I've never heard it referred to as such before.

Also, DARPAfag suggested dioxygen chlorine trifluoride, which provokes a 'oh fuck no' response from me.

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>>45907975
>Kerbal Shimakaze Program
kak

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>>45907975
>She found a strange fixation with the pistols owned by Chirico Cuvie and Gene Starwind

>>45907904
I would say a not-insignificant minority of DDs (most notably, but not limited to, DesDiv6) is not for lewds. But I can't find fault with that particular list.

Aside from the fact that it's missing Hayashimo, Kiyoshimo, Asashimo, and Akebono.

>>45907916
*googles*
Oh, so that's why I couldn't find his Wikipedia article-
Oh. He's dead. So much for that plan.

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Where did all these normalfags come from, for christ's sake.
I've never been more disgusted.

>>45908034
She only gets a pass because shes a funny talker like Kuroshio

I don't appear to have missed much. That's a cool coat of arms.

>>45907904

Careful, Crix. We have a Rear Admiral glancing this way these days, and you're still in the Air Force. Do you really want to walk into work one fine morning to find your Sergeant handing you orders to re-take sexual harassment training with a little post-it note, "DESTROYERS ARE NOT FOR LEWDS" attached to the top?

One e-mail. That's all it'd take. You know it's true.

>>45908075
Yeah. Unlike in the past, the range of destroyers has expanded to have girls who could be mistaken for cruisers with their figures.

That being said, Usiho is not for lewd.

>>45908094
>He's dead
U wot? He's the director of the Navy Staff now.
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=454

>>45907975
>She will always criticise your weapon choice.
>"Sword? Stop trying to be cavalry you boot."
>"18 inch cannon? Are you trying to compensate for something?"
>Her choice of weapon is unknown, but she can be seen carrying a new conventional weapon each day.

>>45908046
>Also, DARPAfag suggested dioxygen chlorine trifluoride, which provokes a 'oh fuck no' response from me.

Yeah, that's right up there on the 'oh fuck no' scale, maybe a step or two under hydrogen sulfide - dioxygen difluoride.

Whoever that Dr. Streng was, he must have had history's most massive set of roasted, scarred cojones.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeuVrA9FsdA

You hold fire as your compatriots begin their uneven duel - the lousy visibility will favor IJN night optics far more than the enemies, and it offers an unparalleled chance to get stuck in close, where all the armor in the world will avail them nothing. You wring the leather-wrapped grip of your sword eagerly - at long last, no more ASW patrols, no more coastal escort - this is gonna be a stand-up fight!

You catch their battle-line meandering eastward as the range closes to five-thousand yards. There's a flash, and then the familiar boom whistle - punctuated by the thunderous sound of an HE shell slamming into the water to your left. They've finally noticed you.

You heel hard to starboard, unshadowing your own turrets as you reply in turn. Tatsuta swings out behind you, her leading toe parting your wake neatly down the middle - crisp, precise and perfect as usual. Your 14-centimeter guns are light and handy, and they fairly crank out the shells, lobbing a fresh one downrange every eight or ten seconds. You take on the lead abyssal and Tenryuu focuses on the laggard, so neither of you will misread the other's salvos landing as your own and misrange - but with Kitakami and Ooi firing at high rate as well, it's hard to tell who's shots are whose. But at these ranges, it almost doesn't matter - just keep slamming away, and something's bound to hit, sooner or later.

>>45908130
Implying the navy gives a fuck

>>45908130
>Crix is chairforce
Well that explains a lot

>>45908094

Oh god, Admiral Thomas is gonna come in and find that folks thought he was dead at some point.

>>45908141
>EVERYTHING WILL BE FIRE.webm

>>45908130
Poetry
>Captcha is the US Naval Research Lab
wat

>>45907975
>Kerbal Shimakaze Program
Fund it.

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Through your night optics you can see the cruisers firing to the northeast, their two twin-gun turrets belching fire and smoke, the passage of their mighty shells ripping long swirling contrails through the mists as they loft away on flat trajectories. This, here, is your kind of fight - no long, steady slugfest at long range, lazily second-guessing enemy evasives and trying to drop a salvo right on top of them. No, this is all sound and fury, a no-holds barred rapid-fire shootout at close quarters - victory or death.

Another heavy shell lands near you, the splinters slashing across your side and putting one of your light AA guns out of action. You squint at the enemy again, your night optics serving you well - and manage, despite the flashless powder, to catch the flash of something big and ugly pointed right at you. Scant heartbeats later you hear the scream of heavyweight shells whistling past your ear; the force of their passage rustling your hair.

It must be an older ship - half its armament seems to be in wing turrets. You've caught them in a crossfire, but they're able to bring every gun they've got to bear at all. You grit your teeth and give your enemy a savage smirk - they'll give you a brawl to remember.

There's only one thing to do - fight harder, and fire faster.

>>45907789
They're always fun.

No he didn't vote, but I know his vote.

>>45908137
Googling 'USN seventh fleet Thomas' got me this fellow.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Kinkaid

This other guy, he have a wiki page?

>>45908130
>Crix
>Airforce
>ArmyNurseCorpsfag
>Army
>RAdm
>Navy

We're two service branches away from the most awkward national security hearing ever.

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The stench of cordite suffuses the air as your gunnners cram fresh shells into smoking breeches with mad haste; the constant rolling thunder of your salvoes mingling with your sisters to create a hellish cacophony. Starshells drift seaward through the dark sky, sputtering and blazing, the American airplane coming by periodically to slash a blazing string of bright stars across the darkness; your own personal Milky Way to illuminate the hulking and resolute enemy trading blows with you. The sea round their hulls is being churned to foam by the volume of shells landing about them; you espy the bright violent flashes of salvoes finding their mark time and time again on their dark carapaces. Their own starshells blaze to life above your head regularly, throwing your distorted shadow ahead of you through the fog; a dark, vaguely humanoid form with a monkey riding its back, backlit by the ruddy red embers of hell itself. A veritable storm of shot is landing around you, but most of it seems to be something light, smaller than four-inch; it stings your forearms and bites your face, but splatters and pops against your belt armor like the firecrackers they are.

“Tenryuu, Tatsuta.”

You glance upwards automatically. “Go ahead, Settle!”

“Launch your torpedoes and turn away under smoke,” he orders.

You open and close your mouth a few times, almost mystified. Launch... now... and turn away... under *smoke...*

Turn away?

TURN AWAY!?

[ ] Fuck THAT. Press the attack - you're so close - you can finish this with one good shot!
[ ] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

>>45908204
Don't you mean on... Forgot about the coastguard

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Shits about to get real.

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>>45908167
>implying officers don't love fucking with enlisted

>>45908211
>[ ] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

Caution is the better part of valor. Of course, too much leads to the slows. Just ask General McLellan.

>>45908211
>[ ] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

>>45908211
>Launch your torpedoes and turn away under smoke
Remember this man's terrible Magic.

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>>45907904
>Crix

OH HAI THAR.

>>45908200
>Kincaid
And there's your problem, dude.
Also, Admiral Robert Thomas is not on the Wiki.

>>45908211
>[ ] Fuck THAT. Press the attack - you're so close - you can finish this with one good shot!
JUST ONE CHANCE! FIRE!

>>45908204
>The Senate Defense hearing is now in session
>Dems push their agenda immediately: Deploy shipgirl tech to save defense costs
>GOP counters with the unseen costs in resupplying shipgirls

>>45908211
>[x] Fuck THAT. Press the attack - you're so close - you can finish this with one good shot!
Ah, sadism, I need you tonight. Come to me my medical apathy! Let me feel NOTHING!

>>45908211
>[ ] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

>>45907904
Hamakaze is not for lewds. She is for remodelling into a mothership

>[X] Turn away,Have your Sister launch hers but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

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>>45908219
>that picture

I

is that

what

destroyers are for lewds, but only 100% love lewds

>>45908211
>[x] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

I'm hoping this doesn't lead to a disaster as weither way it's going against orders, in a very unsubtle railroading attempt by Planefag.

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>>45908165
>where all the armor in the world will avail them nothing

It will against their shitty 4.5 inch common shells.

>>45908211
[x] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

Settle probably knows something we don't, and it's best we listen to him at least partially. We can launch at another point.

>>45908211
I want to turn away, I really do...
But that's not in Tenryuu's nature.

> [X] Fuck THAT. All in.

>captcha is swords

>>45908264
China.jpg

>>45908211
>[ ] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

>>45908211
>[ ] Fuck THAT. Press the attack - you're so close - you can finish this with one good shot!

>>45908122
They were all invited here by other namefags, who are allowed by the QM.

You can be as disgusted as you want, but they're not going to leave.

Make them feel unwanted if they leak out, no one wants these faggots on the rest of the board.

>>45908211
>[x] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!
We're inclined to listen to the crazy American in the CIC.

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>>45908250
>congress approves the program
>COSTS ARE TOO HIGH, CUT THE NUMBER OF DEPLOYED SHIPGIRLS
>they cut it
>SUPPLY COSTS *PER UNIT* ARE SO HIGH, THEY'RE WAY TOO INEFFICIENT, CUT THEM DOWN!

>>45908236
This. We know better than to doubt this slippery yank.

>>45908211
>[ ] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

>>45908264
>>45908287
Incidentally, the Italians made an Anti-Aircraft Submachine Gun (Yes, SUBmachinegun) that was to be mounted on airplanes during WW1.

>>45908211
>Continue towards the enemy while refusing to launch torpedoes

We RTW now

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>>45908275

Please, anon, these are protected cruisers, not battleships!

>>45908264
One of the first attempts at aircraft mounted air to air weaponry. They rounded up some spare pistols and a bored engineer.

>>45908165
>You take on the lead abyssal and Tenryuu focuses on the laggard

Unless there's suddenly two Tenryuus, shouldn't that be "and Tatsuta focuses on the laggard"?

I'm guessing that following the admiral's orders is not an option?

Are we a naughty shipgirl with authority issues?

>>45908302
>Half ass a program
>complain that the program doesn't work
>cut the program

yup, sounds like the government.

>>45908250
Fuck. Oh well - I guess I can't ask anyone to create a wiki page re: said Admiral?

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>>45907904
Lots of taste here.

>>45908211
>[x] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

Trust in Settle.

>>45908333
Tenryuu wants to be punished sexually by Settle.

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>>45908320
fuck yoooouuuuuuu

>>45908324
>Prototype in a new feild of combat

Makes me think that thing is far less stupid than at first glance.

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>>45908211
>[x] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!
not firing is less stupid than not retreating
but both are pretty fuckin stupid decisions

obviously tenryuu needs more corrective bullying

>>45908324
>One of the first attempts at aircraft mounted air to air weaponry. They rounded up some spare pistols and a bored engineer.

It is sometimes hard to remember that not everyone had a Lewis gun back then.

Even though they SHOULD have.

>>45908321
Could be a St. Louis with its 4" belt

>>45908211
>[o] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

Settle's the man with the plan... and a sword. If there's really no option to just
>Launch torpedoes and turn away under smoke
Then we'll break off and save our fish for later.

Shhh, you rest well, my darlings. You'll get to bite abyssal hulls soon enough.

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>>45908211
>[x] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!
Tenryuu shall not dishonor the navy.

>>45908302
>forums go into detail why sail-away costs don't matter
>arguments over long-term maintenance costs for shipgirls continue well into the 2020s

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>>45908313
Forgot pic

Made in Italy

>>45908320

AHAHAHAHAHAHA inorite

fuck that game

>>45908313
I mean, I guess that makes sense considering WW1 submarine tech.

>>45908211
>[ ] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

>>45908394
.....
read the post again, carefully this time

>>45908211
>[ ] Fuck THAT. Press the attack - you're so close - you can finish this with one good shot!

>>45908211
[X] Fuck THAT. Press the attack - you're so close - you can finish this with one good shot!

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>>45908390
>fucking magazine fed

italians should just never War again.

Ever.

EVER.

>>45908366
At the time it was just pilots plinking at each other with their sidearms, the idea was that the observer in the rear seat of the plane would shoot at incoming British aircraft when they came close. But by the time that reached the front-line the Brits were arming their observers with shotguns and rifles.

>>45908211
>[o] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

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>>45908211
[x] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

>>45908422
They weren't so bad. Sure the officers were crap, but remember Caporetto, and the frogmen who sank like two British Battleships.

>>45908422
What's better is that it's 9mm and they expected it to shoot down airplanes or pilots!

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Treaty battleship genocide best day of my life.

>>45908211
>[ ] Fuck THAT. Press the attack - you're so close - you can finish this with one good shot!

>>45908211
>[X] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

I'd rather she do what the man says damn it, but her personality won't let her.

>>45908211

[WRITE IN] DO AS THE FUCKING ADMIRAL SAYS HE KNOWS SHIT YOU DON'T

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>>45908445
>lost territory to the Greek army
>the fucking GREEK army

Yeah. They were that bad.

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SM U-35 when?

>>45908211
>[x] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

[X] Follow orders for once in your fuckin' life

>>45908369
Remember that back then there was a special hate for people with lewis guns. If a British soldier was captured as part of a lewis gun team then he would be shot immediately.

>>45908075
>Hayashimo, Kiyoshimo, Asashimo, and Akebono.
Those are definitely in the "not for lewd" list, though.
You pedo.

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>>45908467
>dapper German gentleman mugging abbysal cargo ships at night with a Luger

kek

I LIKE IT

>>45908479

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *FUCK YOU*

VOTES CALLED

>>45908465
>were to follow a coastline to invade Egypt, got lost. Started to run low on supplies, close to starving when found by Italian Airforce. Made fifty miles before getting lost.

Yeah, they bad

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>arizona vs shoukaku

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>>45908264
Welcome to WW1. This is what happens when pilots go "I need to make things dead and have no sanity to get in the way."

Interestingly enough, the Russians never stopped at that phase and carried it all the way to WW2. Here is a Peshka with a bomb bay full of SMGs.

>>45908509
And here we see the average fa/tg/uy in his natural habitat, taking the instinctive approach to any dire situation: grabbing his pistol and shooting it into the ceiling.

>>45908497
If you can't acknowledge the superiority of lolicon you really need to take a long hard look at your life and figure out where it all went wrong.

>>45907904
>Any Asashio class
>Nenohi
>Naganami
>Hatsushimo
The FBI's looking for you.
(Yes I know Naganami has boobs but she's still built like a kid)

>Not Teruzuki
Shit taste.

>>45908509
>Said dapper German's introduction is him trying to rob Settle.
>SUDDENLY WILLIE D!

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>>45908537

YOU NEED TO LEAVE

>>45907868
>>45907845
My entire knowledge of heraldry comes from CK2 and a passing interest in late medieval/reformation history.

tl;dr I made shit up based on whatever looked cool.

Though i'm surprised noone's mentioned the pillowfort.

>>45908534
Apparently this was valid, as the US basically dropped lots of tiny lawn darts in Vietnam to kill whole blocks of forest. Not the same, but similar enough

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>>45908534
>PEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEW.png

>>45908534
Welp. Russians definitely confirmed for pragmatism in early air-to-air combat.

>>45908497
Hayashimo and Asashimo are definitely for lewds. kusoboner is for scrapping or rape.

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>tfw all of the pre-dreads are doomed to be abyssals
>will never have 30 year old wife material, healthy bodied old lady botes trying to do lewd things

>>45908574
>pillowfort

That's what that is. I thought it was a harvest of salt.

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>>45908313
There was also that time the Russians filled the bomb bay of a Tu-2 with PPShs for anti-infantry duty.

>>45908537
But he is a secret lolicon.
planefag likes his women like how he likes his video games.

12 years old, flat boxed, and from Japan.

>>45908428
Reminder that Red Baron Manfred von Richtofen's first aerial kill came as an observer, with a break-action twelve-gauge shotgun.

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>>45908593
>>45908576
>>45908575

And here is them loading the Fuck those Germans delivery system.

>>45908598
How are you so sure about that? Victory and Constitution likely won't go 'byssal.

Aurora, OTOH...

>>45908211
>[X] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

>>45908598
Super dreadnought when? We only had two if I remember correctly.

>>45908537
>>>/a/

>>45908509

>After World War I ended, U-35 was transferred to England and docked in Blyth from 1919 to 1920, then broken up.

>Read: The coppers finally caught up and locked him/her up.

Also, reading the raiding history is pure hillarity.

>>45908598
>Milfboats

Thanks for that new fetish.

>>45908534
>>45908624
serves me right for not reading the fucking thread.

>>45908593
nah, was air-to-ground

>>45908593
>pragmatism

The first Russian aircraft were unarmed. The early pilots devised alternate armaments such as an exploding grappling hook, or taping a knife to the tail to slash zeppelin skins.

When that didn't work they turned ramming into an art form.

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>>45908638
>Harness
>mfw

>>45908211
>[X] Turn away, but don't waste your torpedoes - there might be another chance!

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>>45908557
You seem to be forgetting that you and the rest of the people in this thread are definitely in the minority when it comes to these things, Deme.
How unfortunate for you.

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nenohi dayo

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>tfw no cute flat-as-a-board Ranger girl with rotating smokestacks

>>45908598
I dunno, there was that one German Kaiserliche Marine raider who managed to 'capture' Vanguard? But that's heavily not cannon, as that story also included HMS Campbeltown and well... There can be only one of those and we know she's canonically the USS Buchanan and is currently in the company of our two least favourite pirate radio operators.

Oh god though... The levelling effect applied to HMS Dreadnought... If she's not the final boss, I don't know what COULD be. Then again, she is DEFINITELY remembered, so...

>>45908624
>>45908638
I... Tha- Iy- What the fuck? Ivan, go home. You're drunk.

>>45908655
>exploding grappling hook
JUST CAUSE intensifies

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Every thread

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>>45908651
>not already having a fetish for milf-botes

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>>45908651

>>45908683
>If she's not the final boss, I don't know what COULD be
I have a rough idea as to who the final boss could be.

>>45908683

She also spent her whole life doing absolutely nothing.

>TFW Dreadnought summoned Abyssals so she could shoot at something in anger.

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>>45908648
Maximum Battleships when?

>>45908704
gtfo and stay o orbit

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Jeeesus chriiiist myyyy diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick

>>45908679
rotating?

why?

>>45908709
>>45908713
until now, it was just a gentlemanly appreciation of their classical beauty.

Now its like being told to stay after class.

>>45908728

>Sextuple turrets.

... I HAVE QUESTIONS.

>>45908755
>rotating?
>
>why?
Try landing between the stacks on that deck while in heavy seas and tell me.

>>45908755
Notice how they stick up through the flight deck

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>>45908728
SOON(tm)

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>Admirals thinking DDs are not for lewds

And that's why the Navy is going to shit.

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>>45908731
2d of any kind is not only far superior to 3d, but completely legal in the only nation with free speech viz. the USA.

>>45908727
>Missed Jutland and everything
>Single-handedly made all other ships obsolete
>Re-defined all naval warfare
>Never given a chance to do what she was built for

Yeah, I'd be pretty goddamn pisssed as well. Wait...

There's some parallels there. Most powerful ship ever built in her day? Never allowed to fight?

Final battle will feature Yamato and Dreadnought in hand-to-hand fighting, dueling with parasols and fists aboard the tangled decks of their steel hulls, as main and secondary guns thunder and roar, filling the ocean with fury undreamed-of. The two mightiest ships of history finally locked in battle to determine the fate of all mankind.

>>45908771
Shhhhh no questions now.

Only mute, uncomprehending awe and confusion.

>>45908683
Didn't Planefag make a reference to those writeups during the whole Poi fiasco?

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>>45908675

>>45908728
TILLMAN NO

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something to consider

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>>45908755
>why?
>He doesn't know

they even have a bit of deck attached to them to cover the hole

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>>45908789
The USN doesn't have DDs anymore, only DDGs. Basically the shipbuilding equivalent of Mega Milk

>>45908806
...He did?

Wait... WAAAIT.

Could there be two? Ships CAN be re-named (just look at Hibiki), but the story USS Buchanan could be somehow fundamentally separate to the legend of the HMS Campbeltown. Their actions might yet have set them apart, split their soul and created two distinct shipgirls!

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>>45908824

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>>45908809
YES

>>45908803

>Ironically for a vessel designed to engage enemy battleships, her only significant action was the ramming and sinking of German submarine SM U-29, skippered by K/Lt Otto Weddigen (of SM U-9 fame), on 18 March 1915. U-29 had broken the surface immediately ahead of Dreadnought after firing a torpedo at HMS Neptune and Dreadnought cut the submarine in two after a short chase. She almost collided with HMS Temeraire who was also attempting to ram. Dreadnought thus became the only battleship ever to sink a submarine.

>Dread sees sub.
>"AT LAST. LET ME AT HIM."
>Fucking ramming speed.

>>45908809
TILLMAN YES

>>45908859
WHATTT AREEEEE YOUUUUUU

>>45908211
OBEY YER OFFICER SOLDIER

XD

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>>45908755
>Now its like being told to stay after class.
>getting told to stay after class by a milf pre-dreadnought battleship so she can tell you how they used to do things in the old days

yes

>>45908824
>All the world's carriers
>No DDH-184

>>45908808
False. It's Wednesday.

>>45908869
HMS Dreadnought is now a master of DYNAMIC ENTRY. I can see her no other way. Thank you, Anon.

>>45908851
That picture triggers me.

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Those chuunibote bitches need to learn to follow orders for once.

Oh well.

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>>45908878
>XD

Stop that.

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You swear a blue streak as you turn to starboard, your sister following suit to paralell your retreat. You tack south-east - you were almost out of the narrow part of the Strait, where Sangiang island splits it in two - and now you've got to sail right towards it to keep your guns unshadowed enough to engage your pursuer. You begin generating smoke reluctantly, slashing your blade through the foam by your toes as you swear and swear and *swear.*

“Can I help you, Tenryuu?”

“You can let me turn back and KILL those bastards!” you snarl, turning the little camera on your shoulder 'round to face you. You point for effect, then glare into it, imagining Settle's dour old grumpy gaijin mug somewhere in the little fisheye lens. “Look. LOOK!” The cruisers are reversing course, tacking into an S-turn - Tatsuta's fish are in the water, but they're unlikely to hit a wary and cagey foe, which well describes this pair. “They're slow as hell and we must've knocked out all their secondaries by now - lemme get in there and KILL those bastards!”

>>45908869
>Dreadnought cut the submarine in two after a short chase
Ahahaha jesus
>She almost collided with HMS Temeraire who was also attempting to ram.
>FUCK YOU I SAW HER FIRST

>>45908910

That doujin series is the best

>>45908824
Nigga thats old and outdated. The first three american carriers are already decommissioned and the french canceled the Richelieu

>>45908859
>Casemates.

U WOT.

>>45908824
My freedom boner is at full mast

>>45908683
>>45908721
I pin it on being the Argo. The ship used by Jason to go retrieve the golden fleece. While there is ships of legend that are older. The Argo in particular has a number of interesting legends about it.

There is also the ship Odysseus used, but it has no name.

>>45908912
>Stop that

Sorry.

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>>45908869
>GET ME CLOSER
>I WANT TO HIT IT WITH MY HULL

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“Tenryuu, Kitakami and Ooi just got the h-” The rest of his reply is lost as a full-weight salvo of 8-inch shells lands about you.

When you emerge from the cacophony, water shedding off your head, there's nothing but a loud ringing in your ears. You glance over your shoulder to see the abyssals taking to starboard once more, their main battery turrets trained on you. With the two wing-mounted guns, that's six eight-inch guns - at very close range -

- the second salvo lands just behind you, bracketing your sister. She jerks, her eyes flying wide open as a gaping hole appears in her middle.

“... oh,” she says quietly, staring at you unguardedly. “... oh...”

You whip about like a cobra, fast and responsive on the helm as always, screaming with rage as you unleash another salvo in their direction - looping 'round to ring your sister in concealing smoke. Your battle-cry is cut short as something lances through your hip like fire - looking down, you find a small, neat hole in your skirt; five inch, or six - and you can feel the spreading heat of injuries beneath the belt. Your breathing grows labored as you struggle to maintain speed - the burst damaged your updates a bit.

“Tenryuu, NO!” Tatsuta cries - but you pay her no heed. She's already slackening her pace; at least two boilers offline, maybe more. The abyssals are turning hard, their full profiles presented in broadside - they're coming full 'round, coming to finish you two off at close range. You cut loose with another salvo, laying a ladder right 'cross the bow of the lead cruiser - and blink as you watch it detonate in air above the deck; a ricochet off the belt.

Off the *extended* belt.

[ ] Take her under tow - it's going to be nigh suicidal to try while under fire, but its your only real chance to clear the area before they hammer you both.
[ ] This is what you saved those torpedoes for. Punch them hard enough, and they'll fuck off.