The art of war might lie in glory, but the science of war lies in distance.

Battleships would have had similar thoughts to the idea of carriers, had their opinion been sought.

elgee said:

The art of war might lie in glory, but the science of war lies in distance.

Battleships would have had similar thoughts to the idea of carriers, had their opinion been sought.

Actually, they did. The strategy-makers scoffed at the idea of aircraft carriers and submarines originally, believing that the era of battleships would never pass.

They all learned painful lessons during World War 2.

"Some soulless blip on the radar"? She does realize that at that range, radar will get blocked by the horizon and you're going to need aircraft on scene to guide the projectile in?

Roon being Roon, keeping all that crazy semi contained has to be a full time job...

I mean, we got almost a dozen carriers with nuclear reactors with no issue, so I don't know what Hood is complaining about.

darkspire91 said:

I mean, we got almost a dozen carriers with nuclear reactors with no issue, so I don't know what Hood is complaining about.

How many of those carriers actually took hits?

Eboreg said:

How many of those carriers actually took hits?

If the range of those railguns are anything to go by, battleships won't either.

darkspire91 said:

If the range of those railguns are anything to go by, battleships won't either.

True...

Then again, Hood may be a little biased due to some memories of getting an incredibly unlucky hit in a critical area that made her go boom.

Also... am I the only one who realizes that this rigging would be perfect for Battleship Kaga to get along with Akagi-chan?

Eboreg said:

"Some soulless blip on the radar"? She does realize that at that range, radar will get blocked by the horizon and you're going to need aircraft on scene to guide the projectile in?

This is regarding Hood mistaking Prinz Eugen for Bismarck. This actually happened at the Battle of the Denmark Strait, and what I was referencing here. This is why Hood looks away in that panel (several of the folks on reddit caught this.) Hood's in-game quotes reference this is well.

I've been a very serious student of WWII history for a long, long time and nothing makes me happier than after adding an obscure (to the casual) tidbit of historical truth to my work here and within seconds of posting a new comic, several folks post replies with "I know what that is!" Good stuff.

Eboreg said:

True...

Then again, Hood may be a little biased due to some memories of getting an incredibly unlucky hit in a critical area that made her go boom.

Also... am I the only one who realizes that this rigging would be perfect for Battleship Kaga to get along with Akagi-chan?

Just throwing this out there, as I'm a bit of a proponent for nuclear power, but a nuclear reactor doesn't go 'boom' when bad things happen. It can't go boom, the fuel isn't enriched enough.

Armathos said:

Just throwing this out there, as I'm a bit of a proponent for nuclear power, but a nuclear reactor doesn't go 'boom' when bad things happen. It can't go boom, the fuel isn't enriched enough.

nuclear reactors CAN go boom just look at chernobyl

blaze6909 said:

nuclear reactors CAN go boom just look at chernobyl

Chernobyl was using a flawed reactor and one can look to SEVERAL other examples of Nuclear power that did not explode (the reactors aboard the russian submarine Kursk being a perfect example.)

Most reactors in a military setting are built with the intent to make them manageable in the event of damage or possible melt down, or so I would hope