Smack Thread

Discussion in 'North Atlantic Battle Squadron' started by Chris Easterbrook, Jan 23, 2009.

  1. Jay Jennings

    Jay Jennings Well-Known Member

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    I always found that if you put a strong magnet in the stern of an Allied boat and another in the bow, they can tow each other in after they break down...hey another name for these Allied boats is a Garbage Scow!!!!!!!!! :woot::woot::woot:
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  2. Kotori87

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    With Gascan's and my engineering in it? There's a very good reason why ships built by us are in such high demand in our club. They're all top-quality ships, and most of them have at least a year of successful fighting on their resumes. Alas, the SoDak is an Allied boat, and so will not get the year's battling, de-bugging, and reputation-building before we deliver it, but it'll still work better than those garbage scows the Allies are driving right now...
     
  3. Chris Easterbrook

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    Building axis ships seems like the thing to do as the allies have already lost. Of course they will deny this but we all know this to be true.
     
  4. bb26

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    The Axis ships should not be hauling garbage but they should be hauled away as garbage. Just more boat envy from the "tiny" Axis fleet. Fleet enlargement by building more ships does not work. The Allies will keep smacking the Axis down. Smack Smack. The Allies are the best there was, the best there is and the best that there ever will be.
     
  5. crzyhawk

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    "Do you Allied guys use that same math when tabulating Allied victories???"

    Same math that Yamammoto tried to sling when he lost 4 CV and a CA at Midway in exchange for 1 CV and 1 DD when he claimed a great victory!
     
  6. Chris Easterbrook

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    Allies somethings never change....
     
  7. bb26

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    Is that all the Axis can retort with/
     
  8. Jay Jennings

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    You mean Axis, who is Kipper at heart!!!!! :) ;) :) ;)
     
  9. bb26

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    Kipper. It is Yanks all the way.
     
  10. Chris Easterbrook

    Chris Easterbrook Well-Known Member

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    Don't get me started on the Yanks.
     
  11. Kotori87

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    Oh, but you SHOULD get started on the Yanks. That's what this thread is for, after all :)
     
  12. crzyhawk

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    Other then the fact that the Yanks laid the smack all over the Axis navies, there really isn't much to say.
     
  13. Chris Easterbrook

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    Really I don't recall any major engaements in the atlantic for the us navy the british and Candain navies did the majority of the work.
     
  14. crzyhawk

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    That's because the Germans were busy hiding in the fjords. They were willing to come out and play when it was only the RN out there. USN 16" superheavies put the fear of god and deadnought into the huns.
     
  15. Chris Easterbrook

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    Yes the us had good guns but the triple turrets had a slower rate of fire than the british and german duals. Hiding in the fjords kept many allied capital ships busy for most of the war. Such fear for only one battleship. That alone proves axis ships are better.
     
  16. Jay Jennings

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    Quite a good plan actually. A ship that sits burns no fuel, expends no ammo and costs very little $ and yet managed to keep sooooooooooooooooooo many Allied units tied up. Brilliant!!
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  17. crzyhawk

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    They didn't quite keep enough tied up it seems!
     
  18. bb26

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    What do you call an Axis warship hiding in a Fjord? A dock.
     
  19. Gascan

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    The Germans started the war with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and built Bismarck and Tirpitz. The British started with five QEs, five Rs, Hood, "Repair" and "Refit," two Nelsons, and built five KGVs and Vanguard during the war. Some would call their wartime accomplishments a miracle, considering the 4:20 odds. I say the British were lucky Hitler was not a navy man and didn't allow them to flaunt the superiority of the Axis.
     
  20. Chris Easterbrook

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    I would agree the allies were paraniod about axis capital ships 5 to 1 odds in favor of the brits and the us scap heaps would proobly push that to at least 8 to 1 odds, again when did it take so long for the allies to win the battle of the atlantic......incompitance. It is the only answer.