THE THREAD

[Historiker]

Our nice battleship... [:(]

[DuckofTindalos]

Yeah, gets no respect...[:D]

[BrucePowers]

Hit the decks a running boys and swing those guns around

[DuckofTindalos]

Play that funky music, white boy,
Play that funky music LOUD...

[Historiker]

*snief*
We germans really had no luck with our battlefleet...

The first one went down in the Home Fleet's harbour and the other one... One went down because of the stunning incompetence of its commanding admiral, the other one waited long enough in the fjords to be finally sunk by planes, another one did a fair fight and sunk like a battleship should sink and finally the last one was put out of action with a single bomb hit and awaited the end of the war in harbour...

[:(]

I will have to make a battleship-only mod for AE. Every single ship is replaced by a BB - I really love them! [&o]

[BrucePowers]

Stop those guns as big as steers and those shells as big as trees

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Hit the decks a running boys and swing those guns around

The Bismarck was the fastest ship that ever sailed the sea!

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

*snief*
We germans really had no luck with our battlefleet...

The first one went down in the Home Fleet's harbour and the other one... One went down because of the stunning incompetence of its commanding admiral, the other one waited long enough in the fjords to be finally sunk by planes, another one did a fair fight and sunk like a battleship should sink and finally the last one was put out of action with a single bomb hit and awaited the end of the war in harbour...

[:(]

I will have to make a battleship-only mod for AE. Every single ship is replaced by a BB - I really love them! [&o]

Same here.

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Stop those guns as big as steers and those shells as big as trees

Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?

*SHAFT*

You're damn right...

[:D]

[BrucePowers]

The Hood found the Bismarck and on that fatal day
the Bismarck started firing 15 miles away

[Historiker]

I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing
Till they got a hold of me
I opened doors for little old ladies
I helped the blind to see
I got no friends 'cause they read the papers
They can't be seen with me
And I'm gettin' real shot down
And I'm feelin' mean

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

*snief*
We germans really had no luck with our battlefleet...

The first one went down in the Home Fleet's harbour and the other one... One went down because of the stunning incompetence of its commanding admiral, the other one waited long enough in the fjords to be finally sunk by planes, another one did a fair fight and sunk like a battleship should sink and finally the last one was put out of action with a single bomb hit and awaited the end of the war in harbour...

[:(]

I will have to make a battleship-only mod for AE. Every single ship is replaced by a BB - I really love them! [&o]

I generally prefer cruisers.

Edited so that the post is about an actual ship type [;)]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Historiker

*snief*
We germans really had no luck with our battlefleet...

The first one went down in the Home Fleet's harbour and the other one... One went down because of the stunning incompetence of its commanding admiral, the other one waited long enough in the fjords to be finally sunk by planes, another one did a fair fight and sunk like a battleship should sink and finally the last one was put out of action with a single bomb hit and awaited the end of the war in harbour...

[:(]

I will have to make a battleship-only mod for AE. Every single ship is replaced by a BB - I really love them! [&o]

Same here.

Remember Palembang![:D]

[DuckofTindalos]

No offense, Historiker (Torsten, right?), but Germany should never have built a battlefleet in the first place. It only came about because the Kaiser had such a massive inferiority complex towards England.

Germany could have been a great power without a single battleship to its name, although I would have to say that it was good for Europe and the world (in the end) that she diverted so many resources towards shipbuilding.

Sort of like the old saying that Hitler was working FOR the Allies in the second half of WWII.

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Historiker

*snief*
We germans really had no luck with our battlefleet...

The first one went down in the Home Fleet's harbour and the other one... One went down because of the stunning incompetence of its commanding admiral, the other one waited long enough in the fjords to be finally sunk by planes, another one did a fair fight and sunk like a battleship should sink and finally the last one was put out of action with a single bomb hit and awaited the end of the war in harbour...

[:(]

I will have to make a battleship-only mod for AE. Every single ship is replaced by a BB - I really love them! [&o]

I generally prefer cuisers.

A type of umbrella drink, IIRC...[:'(]

[BrucePowers]

But when the smoke had cleared away the mighty Hood went down

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Historiker

*snief*
We germans really had no luck with our battlefleet...

The first one went down in the Home Fleet's harbour and the other one... One went down because of the stunning incompetence of its commanding admiral, the other one waited long enough in the fjords to be finally sunk by planes, another one did a fair fight and sunk like a battleship should sink and finally the last one was put out of action with a single bomb hit and awaited the end of the war in harbour...

[:(]

I will have to make a battleship-only mod for AE. Every single ship is replaced by a BB - I really love them! [&o]

I generally prefer cuisers.

A type of umbrella drink, IIRC...[:'(]

Well, drinks with umbrellas are classy [:D]

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers


But when the smoke had cleared away the mighty Hood went down

They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother...

*SHUT YOUR MOUTH!*

I'm just talkin' 'bout Shaft...

*WE CAN DIG IT*

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Dixie




I generally prefer cuisers.

A type of umbrella drink, IIRC...[:'(]

Well, drinks with umbrellas are classy [:D]

If you're a girl...[:'(]

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

No offense, Historiker (Torsten, right?), but Germany should never have built a battlefleet in the first place. It only came about because the Kaiser had such a massive inferiority complex towards England.

Germany could have been a great power without a single battleship to its name, although I would have to say that it was good for Europe and the world (in the end) that she diverted so many resources towards shipbuilding.

Sort of like the old saying that Hitler was working FOR the Allies in the second half of WWII.

Mahan, ol' northern neigbour, Mahan!

His majesty adored Mahan's book...

Well, a nation with colonies needed ships, but Germany wanted too much. You can't have an army to compete with both france AND Russia while building a battlefleet big enough to be a risk for the RN...


The BBs in WW2 might have been a nice fleet in being, if used properly (and the air threat wasn't in existance).
Imagine Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Graf Zeppelin, Admiral Scheer, Lützow, Prinze Eugen and Admiral Hipper in Brest (and in a BB-bunker, if you want so).

A recce flight over the harbour without finding ships would've ended all shipping in the atlantic immediately...