it was confirmed yesterday that haruna is indeed getting a kai ni along with kirishima, also considering haruna's luck stats(highest luck of kongou sisters), she might end up having huge luck like yukikaze or shigure, since she lasted till the end of the war, and even then she didn't even sunk completely.
she could end up becoming the best kongou sister due to this(imho she already is the best one).
it was confirmed yesterday that haruna is indeed getting a kai ni along with kirishima, also considering haruna's luck stats(highest luck of kongou sisters), she might end up having huge luck like yukikaze or shigure, since she lasted till the end of the war, and even then she didn't even sunk completely.
she could end up becoming the best kongou sister due to this(imho she already is the best one).
Consider that she was taken out of mission capability by 3 destroyers and 3 destroyer escorts (and a few planes). Then realize that the same team rendered Nagato out of mission capability (albeit slowly). (After the war, the US determined that much of Nagato's underbelly damage must have been caused by Depth Charges... and were flabbergasted as to how that could have happened [this was before they were aware of the details of Taffy 3's fight]) Realize also that Nagato and Haruna both had the same overhaul into Floating AA platforms. Compare Nagato Kai's stats with Kongou Kai Ni. Relate differences to Haruna Kai Ni. Yeah, you could be close. Fast battleship with Yamato's AA platform and Nagato stength Firepower, and just a little less luck than Nagato (who actually survived the war).
(Nagato eventually wound up being used as target fodder for nuclear weapon tests.)
Farran said:
Nagato actually survived the first test on it, which is also contributes to why she has large luck ingame.
Technically speaking, Nagato survived both nukes, but sunk 5 days later because her Pagoda-style tower required immediate correction upon listing (which was caused due to the damage that she had already sustained during the war [specifically, verses Taffy 3] collapsing in the underwater explosion, and not the explosion itself), but this couldn't be done because she was too radioactive to enter.
So, she by all means survived two nukes and stood proudly in defiance until the very end, sinking on her own terms and not those of the Americans. In samurai terms, she committed seppuku after having a laugh on the American's expense, proving that even their mightiest weapons could not defeat her in body or in spirit.
So, you tell me, was that really a 'bad end' for the last samurai of the Imperial Japanese Navy?
Any story about New York ? The list here mentioned it took 8 hours attack to scuttle her.
Yes, actually... but it's not much. She was sunk as part of what eventually became known as 'the Battleship's Last Hooyah'... which was an American (Wargame Study) take on Operation Ten-go to see what would have happened if it had been the Iowa and American ships instead of the Yamato.
She was the stand in for the Iowa, since they weren't going to fire on a active battleship.
She took fire from everything we had, about four times the punishment that the Yamato got according to some reports (and, considering that she was sitting still and nearly impossible to miss, it isn't that hard to believe)... and it still took 8 hours to sink her. I'd say that was a stand up job for a WW1 BB.
So, you tell me, was that really a 'bad end' for the last samurai of the Imperial Japanese Navy?
That's quite the romantic spin. Frankly, I do think your version makes for a better Hollywood ending, but to me it felt more like she was requisitioned by the enemy, used for target practice, and succumbed to her wounds in the end.
Not exactly the proudest way for the "last samurai" to go.
Seppuku was a way for warriors to die honorably by their own choice rather than at the hands of their enemies. Quite the opposite of what Nagato experienced, really.
Surviving ships from the US Navy, the government break their leg. Too poisonous to be scrapped either.
Another one I'd like to see story (and introduced to KanColle) is Prinz Eugen. She survived the two bombs, mostly intact. Got dragged to exile, and choose to die by herself, arse raised up to the sky.
Another one is USS Nevada BB-36, a 32 and a half year old battleship which two nukes aren't enough to sink her (even though she was put at the ground zero), after the experiment she became radioactive so they towed her to Pearl Harbor and become a target ship for the Iowa.
That's quite the romantic spin. Frankly, I do think your version makes for a better Hollywood ending, but to me it felt more like she was requisitioned by the enemy, used for target practice, and succumbed to her wounds in the end.
Not exactly the proudest way for the "last samurai" to go.
Seppuku was a way for warriors to die honorably by their own choice rather than at the hands of their enemies. Quite the opposite of what Nagato experienced, really.
Look, at this point this is just going to fall to a matter of interpretation.
I know full well what Seppuku is, and I used it in the correct context. I claimed that she died by her own choice and not her enemies'. That's the way that I felt about it. The Americans were actually quite upset that she sunk, since she lasted so long they were hoping that they could keep her around for more tests.
