Lewd edition.
Talk about botes, bote based wargaming and RPGs, and maybe even a certain bote based vidya that tickles our autism in just the right way.
Games, Ospreys and References (Courtesy of /hwg/)
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Guess that the previous one 404'd prematurely, lets see if this one has what it takes to survive.
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Oh my, I can see her torpedo bulges.
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lewd
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British Destroyers 1939–45 (1) Pre-war classes (Osprey New Vanguard 246)
The Royal Navy entered World War II with a large but eclectic fleet of destroyers. Some of these were veterans of World War I, fit only for escort duties. Most though, had been built during the inter-war period, and were regarded as both reliable and versatile. Danger though lurked across the seas as new destroyers being built in Germany, Italy and Japan were larger and better armoured. So, until the new, larger Tribal-class destroyers could enter service, these vessels would have to hold the line. Used mainly to hunt submarines, protect convoys from aerial attack, and take out other destroyers, these ships served across the globe during the war. This fully illustrated study is the first in a two-part series on the real workhorses of the wartime Royal Navy, focusing on how these ageing ships took on the formidable navies of the Axis powers.
Nice find! Thanks for sharing!
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I'm sad that there are very few models of gunboats, at least in the scale I use. I really want an Insect class and the Terrible Twins.
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Naval War update:
The Guadalcanal OOB just released.
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Are there any U-boat themed games about?
The Hunters, for controlling a U-Boat. Steel Wolves, for controlling all the U-Boats. Avalon Hill had a U-Boat game, but I haven't looked at it.
Look in the folder posted in the OP.
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There is also a U-boat Leader in the same series as Apache Leader, but apparently it's nowhere near as good as The Hunters.
>Avalon Hill had a U-Boat game, but I haven't looked at it.
Here's the rulebook!
Would it be too much for people to post what ship they're posting? Not all of us know every ship by sight.
>Steel Wolves
Never played that, but I played a chunk of Silent War once.
I still have torpedo-related nightmares. You launch them and launch them and nothing ever happens...
post battle damage
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I hope it was promptly towed out of the environment.
Nah, she sailed back to port on her own. It actually isn't battle damage, but instead storm damage from a typhoon. Either way, I just want pics of damage in general to ships.
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btw for this guy, , the bote in is USS Pittsburg.
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particularly damage to turrets and waterlines would be appreciated.
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By waterline I also mean side btw. I just want to see holes in the hull, so I can see how the metal bends and all
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>two Iowas but not two Oregons
It's not bloody fair.
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Oregon just doesn't have what it takes to be a good boat name.
Why not? We're wet enough!
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>It's not bloody fair.
The trouble was that USS Oregon was a designated historical relic per the WNT for decades after her active service life. While demilitarized, she was sort of in commission, that is she was listed as a warship in the WNT documents. She was still afloat as a quasi-warships until they decided to partially scrap her and turn her hull into an ammo barge in her 1942.
The 1st Iowa, OTOH, was expended in a sinkex in 1923 so her name was thus available.
Don't fret though. There's a Virginia-class SSN named Oregon building at EB in Groton.
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You just gotta love a coal burning, paddle wheeled, Great Lakes, training carrier.
Bulldog of the Navy, man. It's got tradition. Your bitch-ass state didn't sail all the way around the Americas and then run down a fleeing cruiser at Santiago de Cuba. Can't run from Oregon.
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You know? I fucking hate being able to look at a picture taken in nineteen-fucking-thirteen and KNOWING straight away that it was taken at the head of drydock two...
Motherfucking PSNS hasn't changed, EVER.
Why bother changing something that works just fine?
>implying it works
Boats go there to DIE, man.
A boat slaughterhouse is still a perfectly valid function for a place to have.
My boat went in there with 10 working missile tubes and came out with 3 working missile tubes.
Teddy's Bulldog steaming 'round the Horn with a bone in her teeth. The young squids who will man that newly commissioned SSN hull in 2023 will have a proud name to live up to.
>Motherfucking PSNS hasn't changed, EVER.
Same with NNS and PNS, user. Norfolk is still using the using the fucking drydock where they rebuilt the Merrimac into the Virginia. Portsmouth's #1 drydock was used in the 1880s and the yard's commander lives in a house dating to the 1820s in which Farragut died.
The yards are fucking museums.
>drydock photos
More battle damage for user.
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Kinda new here - does anyone know where to get some naval PBEM games running ? Can't manage to find any players in my area and would love to play some Close Action or Frigate.
There's youplay.it with a nice interface, but it only offers Wooden Ships and Iron Men.
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I was thinking about doing an alt-history Kaiserreich inspired navy for my brother and figured I'd need to see my hand and converting 1/3000 ships beforehand.
IJN Chitose (or possibly Chiyoda) and a wip hypothetical carrier mogami in 1/3000
C&C appreciated.
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Looks pretty nice overall. The only thing I'd comment on is the White and red striping. You might see if you can find a red fine felt-tip pen, paint the whole section to be striped white, and block your white stripes with the pen, and then fill with paint. I'm guessing it's probably not noticeable at TT level though. Camo looks really nice. Makes me wish I could get my painting mojo back, but I've got the same five Fubukis staring me in the face, and I just don't want to finish them for some reason.
Thanks man, appreciate the feedback, probably going to be starting my Communist French Navy soon, will post pictures of that if I ever do do it.
Finish the Fubukis, or alternatively buy a ship and promise yourself you'll paint it only after the Fubukis are done, maybe something exciting like a US ship with camoflage or a Japanese carrier.
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Honestly I feel pretty bad for building some of these early dreadnoughts; they're these ungainly horrible cripples that will be almost instantly scrapped/sent to reinforce some distant naval stations that see action once in a blue moon once something better is available in decent numbers.
What is the smallest you guys typically make cruisers in RtWs? I'm temptedto tinker with Tenryu style cruisers that are basically just cruisers in name only. Anyone else done this and if so how did it go?
Mostly about 5000 tons+, up to the maximum. I tend to lean heavy for light cruisers to get the most main guns on it I can, with the idea of being able to reasonably expect to fight and beat other nation's smaller light cruisers and seriously bully destroyers.
I feel the same about most of my 20k~ish tonnage ships, especially when their main guns are not even that great. Yet they're very much needed to dominate the old Bs (I tend to refit my Bs into ACs or scrap them because they just become a liability) during that window where a single decent early BC or BB can really mess with shit.
2100t is the lowest CLs can go and with 1906 tech I was able to get one up to 30knots carrying seven 5in guns with nothing but 1.5in belt and 1in turrets. I'd say thats pretty capable of deterring or running down DDs. Don't think they'd do well against other CLs though...especially since they have no torps.
No torps is a no-go for me. Gotta have dem tubes.
Does anyone know a place that sells 1/2000 f-toys kancolle series in a reasonable price?
They seem to be the best models for ship combat, surpassing the detail and quality of even other f-toys series and various 1/1800 models.
>1:2000
reeeeeeee
1:1800 or 1:2400 only pls
On a sorta related note, does anyone know of a model for that other Yamato that would fit with 1/1800 or 1/3000 stuff?
But ghq and shapeways sell them at Gamesworkshop tier prices. And 3d printed models dont look good.
Personally I've never really felt the need to mount secondaries on CLs and have found 2 inch belts to make them way too fragile for my taste.
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I've been playing a slow research game so wall of shells was somewhat needed early on just connect with something, and I've hung onto it because my enemies have held on to a LOT of destroyers.
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1:1250, the one true scale
Man up and try to fight in 1:700 than.
Good luck in hiring a tennis field and covering it with blue sheet.
My oldfag eyes cannot distinguish between 1:2400 and cardboard counters.