adding more non-japanese things in a japanese game isn't, in my opinion, the best way to make it great again (But I understand we can't forever add only japanese stuff...).
Can't agree with them, I demand another French ship! The other country has already at least 2 ships. For Britain, they have Kongou which is half-half, so with Warspite, they're like 1 and a half.
More French warship! Plus de navire de guerre français!
I vote that some of the Fletcher class DD's (Johnston, Kidd, Hoel; maybe even Chevalier)or even and Gato class subs should be brought in next... (Maybe Albacore, Wahoo, Harder or even Dace...)
This is true, here you have this pacific based game yet only have 2 fucking American ships and 1 Brit ship? The game has been out for years already as well. Fuck sake japan, you don't make a pacific based game and have next to no fucking allied ships. Even the Chinese rip offs kick your ass at ship equality.
This is true, here you have this pacific based game yet only have 2 fucking American ships and 1 Brit ship? The game has been out for years already as well. Fuck sake japan, you don't make a pacific based game and have next to no fucking allied ships. Even the Chinese rip offs kick your ass at ship equality.
This is a game by a Japanese company for Japanese players. It's a given that they'd put the Japanese ships first.
This is true, here you have this pacific based game yet only have 2 fucking American ships and 1 Brit ship? The game has been out for years already as well. Fuck sake japan, you don't make a pacific based game and have next to no fucking allied ships. Even the Chinese rip offs kick your ass at ship equality.
Calm your tits, man. If you knew about Kancolle history, you'd know that it was IJN-centric first and never expected to make it that big.
I would like to see some American ships that are not from the USA, like some Mexican ones (though many of their ships were bought from the US and Israel) like the ARM Ignacio Altamirano with abandonment issues, Canadian shipgirls, Brazilian shipgirls...
This is true, here you have this pacific based game yet only have 2 fucking American ships and 1 Brit ship? The game has been out for years already as well. Fuck sake japan, you don't make a pacific based game and have next to no fucking allied ships. Even the Chinese rip offs kick your ass at ship equality.
^ The majority of the earliest posts from foreign kancolle players, on a game forum i frequently go. Well, Kancolle was made for Japanese players in mind at first, so along with the majority of kanmusu comes from IJN, no English language...yet.
If anyone's interested, this image is taken from here . It's an announcement for ko ru ri's booth at the Winter ComiKet (Iowa's board) as well as promotion for his/her new book (Sara's). Tweet / Pixiv .
Btw do we have a tag for altered images like this?
This is true, here you have this pacific based game yet only have 2 fucking American ships and 1 Brit ship? The game has been out for years already as well. Fuck sake japan, you don't make a pacific based game and have next to no fucking allied ships. Even the Chinese rip offs kick your ass at ship equality.
Let's see... I still have to use VPN to login and play the game. I'm basically pirating it, even though I do pay to play. But since this game is still limited to Japanese regions only, I'm still pirating to play it.
Chinese ripoff though, they have many reasons to include more than just IJN, and I think at least 2, 3 of them is not because of profit or game content.
Lunatic6 said: New Ship Classes! Hood and Alaska for startups!
So a fast battleship and a heavy cruiser.
But given how they front-loaded the game with Jap boats (can't really blame them considering that they didn't expect it to get as big as it did) they'll probably have to start to include foreign boats more often and in larger numbers, because outside of DDs, SSs and other even smaller crafts they really only have a handful of Japanese ships left and I doubt that people would get hyped to grind an event in hopes of getting some Minekaze or Momi-class destroyer granny.
This is what I mean when some Americans in their ignorance are all full of themselves (not all mind you). We even have to deal with tourists who have the false belief their U.S. laws apply everywhere and then do little but stupid things like calling local police for lost items or making public scenes like spoiled brats to get whatever they demand.
Even the Republican remark shows how (while humorous) self centered the way of thinking from the artist is.
If we get another US ship, I really want it to be either the Maury or the O'Bannon.
O'Bannon or Laffey would be best, but Johnston would certainly be fine.
O'Bannon and Yukikaze could be friends, since O'Bannon was noted for being ludicrously aggressive (Halsey had praised her for being the first ship to lead every charge) while participating in tons of battles (including charging Hiei, because why not brawl something twenty times your mass in knife fight range?) without ever being struck by enemy fire. (Only damage was, ironically, friendly collision caused by the ship in front of her stopping dead in the water from a torpedo strike.) Plus, she was the "potato incident destroyer", so maybe she'd get along with the Fubukis?
Laffey is the destroyer that took more ordinance than sank the Musashi, and yet still stayed afloat... and still is afloat. Truly, the unsinkable ship.
firechikara said:
Can't agree with them, I demand another French ship! The other country has already at least 2 ships. For Britain, they have Kongou which is half-half, so with Warspite, they're like 1 and a half.
More French warship! Plus de navire de guerre français!
Honestly, it would make more sense to add a Soviet(-built) ship before adding another French ship. The Soviets obviously couldn't field the numbers of the USN or RN, but they did at least have real battles under their own flag, rather than hope they got captured by the Brits before they were captured by the Nazis, and generally get scuttled, refloated, scuttled again, refloated again, then scrapped before doing anything but troop transports because by that time, she was getting kinda soggy.
Laffey is the destroyer that took more ordinance than sank the Musashi, and yet still stayed afloat... and still is afloat. Truly, the unsinkable ship.
Laffey's claims to fame go a lot farther than that, surprisingly. Now, as to how much of those are old salts BSing the young folk, it's hard to tell, but these stories make up the ship's legacy.
Laffey's claims to fame - or "Sailors' Yarns about the Laffey"
1) Legendary Toughness
Obvious, is obvious, via 'hell from the skies', but most people don't know that she actually ate a direct hit German 11" shell and shrugged it off as it it was nothing. (The crew actually only realized they were hit after the battle when they noticed an electrical flaw, resulting from the shell destroying wiring.)
2) Legendary Gunfire
As a Double Gun 5incher, the expected rate of fire was only 16 rounds per minute, but that was not good enough for the iron hand of the 'Demon Commander' Frederick Becton, who demanded only the best, declaring "I've had one ship shot out from under me, I will not have a second done the same!" As a result of training from hell, the gunners of the Laffey managed to drive her guns to their mechanical limit - 22 rounds per minute - making her Double 5s some of the few that pulled off this feat.
But not only were Laffey's guns known to be fast, they were known to hit what they aimed at. The Laffey is one of only a handful of ships that is confirmed to have pulled off a 'perfect hit' with a 5in gun - a nose on kill - against a Kamikaze. Admittedly, it was a Kamikaze heading straight towards the ship, but for twitch aiming of a massive gun like that, it's still impressive.
On top of both of these, her record in Shore Bombardment is unmatched. The Legend goes that her gunfire was considered so potent and powerful that the US Navy actually withdrew a Light Cruiser (USS Manchester) from the Laffey's active gun line on the 10th of May, 1942 (right after a major ship-to-shore battle, and right before another one), with the reasoning of 'The Laffey has you covered' (and they needed the Manchester elsewhere). That being said, I've been told this story from more than one old salt, but I can find no official record of this. However, I have found legend with bits and pieces of provable aspects which claim that April 30th, 1952 the Laffey was, together with fellow Sumner USS Maddox, engaged in what would go down as the longest Ship-to-Shore duel of the Korean War, herself expending over 1380 shells (highest estimate) over the 6 hour duel. Over this 6 hour period, the Laffey apparently destroyed up to 8 Coastal Guns, 3 Artillery Batteries, and 4 Bunkers while simultaneously suppressing a 'heavy artillery bunker' for that entire period until the USS New Jersey arrived to silence it permanently (leaving it as an 'assist' for Laffey), earning Laffey her second Presidential Unit Citation and a kill board that would make most CAs jealous (it's a shame her publicized kill board only includes WW2 kills - although the German 'Super-Heavy Coastal Battery' kill mark is a nice trophy). The legend goes on that from this day on until her retirement, the USS Laffey was functionally utilized as a Destroyer Leader (a small, weak Cruiser comparable to what Tenryuu was designed to function as... really just a big destroyer). I can find no data to dispute this particular claim, but note that during the above incident she was serving as Flagship of DesRon 26 - with a Full Captain in command.
3) Legendary Bravery (read as 'Insanity' by most)
During D-Day, as part of the 'Texans' at Omaha Beach, Becton would guide Laffey to within lunatic distances of only 300 yards of the shoreline to provide accurate fire. Other Destroyers would soon follow her example. Upon arriving the the Pacific, the Laffey would put the Lessons of D-Day to use, repeating the same insane stunts at Ormoc Bay, Lingayen Gulf, Kerama Retto, and the initial bombardment of Okinawa before the obvious incident took her out of the war.
After Reactivation for Korea, she would again resort to the same tactics. In the above mentioned event, I read that she apparently at points pulled to within 100 yards of the shore line just to reduce her shell dispersion. for some reason, despite being bracketed the entire time, she was not hit.
Although her tactics (I guess the captains decided to use the same hardline approach after reading the previous captains' logs) worked, the near insanity of them were not lost on the Navy - during her Cold War service, her Tactical Voice Radio Call Sign was simply 'WILD BULL'.
4) Legendary Speed
Probably her greatest claim to fame aside from her near-immortality was her speed. As a side effect of having almost the entire aft half of her hull destroyed and the US Navy's desire to bring her back to fighting shape 'whatever the cost', she ended up with a unique, one of a kind stern and oddball boilers/turbines that fixed many of the problems discovered in the other Sumners, both short and long hulled (Gearings). As a result, on speed trials during August 25-30th, 1945, off the coast of Tacoma, Washington, she was (apparently) clocked at 42.8 knots when under full power and light load - making her the single fastest US Major Surface Combatant in history (Hydrofoils, Destroyer Escorts, Frigates, and LCS are Secondary Combatants and therefore do not count). Her service (loaded) speed was apparently approximately 40.8 knots, although by her retirement she was showing her age and struggled to break 39 knots.
Truly, a great ship-fu for great tastes. And I would bother writing all of this up - I must be bored.
During D-Day, as part of the 'Texans' at Omaha Beach, Becton would guide Laffey to within lunatic distances of only 300 yards of the shoreline to provide accurate fire. Other Destroyers would soon follow her example. Upon arriving the the Pacific, the Laffey would put the Lessons of D-Day to use, repeating the same insane stunts at Ormoc Bay, Lingayen Gulf, Kerama Retto, and the initial bombardment of Okinawa before the obvious incident took her out of the war.
After Reactivation for Korea, she would again resort to the same tactics. In the above mentioned event, I read that she apparently at points pulled to within 100 yards of the shore line just to reduce her shell dispersion. for some reason, despite being bracketed the entire time, she was not hit.
From what I've heard, Johnston was just as insane.
Was. After that business at Leyte Gulf, "insane" got upgraded to "suicidal".
Her service (loaded) speed was apparently approximately 40.8 knots, although by her retirement she was showing her age and struggled to break 39 knots.
"She's an old ship, she can only be swift AS Shimakaze."
