Last panel: the sound of Kashima's heart breaking.

Just because she's a training cruiser doesn't mean she's also meant for sparring training, ya silly dread.

you choosen wrong opponent, this muscle head can not train!

Dammit, Nagato! Not the face! What'd we tell you about hitting a girl's face!?

It was at that moment that Kashima knew, she was gonna die.

Knowing the training cruisers' stats, I'm surprised Katori isn't sunk.

Poor Kashima... Where is the admiral, we need an intervention! And Katori-nee too...

Kashima will teach Nagato how to hold coffee cup with boxing gloves.....just like a certain boxer~

KageMahotsukai said:

It was at that moment that Kashima knew, she was gonna die.

Knowing the training cruisers' stats, I'm surprised Katori isn't sunk.

Luckily they can't sunk in PvP training..

TunaMayo said:

Luckily they can't sunk in PvP training..

that'd be more painful? I mean pain so bad you wish you'd rather die.

lol Katori rekt

thug life of training cruiser

welp, this is a true story.
in PVP, they're too fragile against enemy fleet.

About that, how did training ships work actually, in real life.

Especially the gunnery/torpedo target training ships.
IINM, Houshou had her time training subs, and Taigei also help with gunnery training (and Ashigara or Hiei got shot instead from misidentification).
Do they actually got shot by the other ships ?

Seika said:

About that, how did training ships work actually, in real life.

Especially the gunnery/torpedo target training ships.
IINM, Houshou had her time training subs, and Taigei also help with gunnery training (and Ashigara or Hiei got shot instead from misidentification).
Do they actually got shot by the other ships ?

Training ships are just ships used for crew training, not target practice.

The ones getting shot at are called Target Ships. They're usually obsolete ships that are either not sea-worthy anymore or can't be further upgraded to keep up with the arms race. Naturally, they're supposed to be uncrewed at the time of their... "fated end."

AdventZero said:

Training ships are just ships used for crew training, not target practice.

The ones getting shot at are called Target Ships. They're usually obsolete ships that are either not sea-worthy anymore or can't be further upgraded to keep up with the arms race. Naturally, they're supposed to be uncrewed at the time of their... "fated end."

Yeah, "target ships" like Nagato as nuke-testing-on-ship.

Panzercracker said:

Yeah, "target ships" like Nagato as nuke-testing-on-ship.

Indeed, along with Prinz, Sakawa and a whole flotilla of ships from the USN.

An example of a modern Training Ship would be the JS Tenryuu (ATS-4203) which is currently in service with the JMSDF.

Let's spice things up with some roleplay. You be your big sister, I'll be USS Iowa.