Favorite Destroyer

[marky]

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

I just received my Christmas present from my brother (yes, I know it was late but he got me what I wanted ). It is Norman Friedman's U.S. Destroyers an Illustrated Dsesign History. Do any of you have a favorite destroyer (U.S., Japanese, allied).

One af my all-time fave books. Friedman is a research machine.

DMS Aaron Ward took a licking off Okinawa and kept on ticking. Er, well, sorta.

USS Johnston DD557. If you do not know why you should find out. You did not ask the class.

Yeah! GQ Johnny! A little one-on-one with Yamato, anyone?

1 on 1 with yamato?

u mean a DD against the yamato?

i did that once, well with a squadron of 7 DD, me in command at the front of the line of course

i was playing a game called Destroyer Command

it was near the end of the war of course, near okinawa

the yamato was heading out on her 1 way mission to attack the USN/allied forces at okinawa, the plan was for her to beach herself and hammer away with her guns till she ran out of shells

anyway, i arrange my DDs in a line ahead formation, like a rake, with about 4000 yards distance to make the most of radar scanning

and we pick her up heading SW

i rearrange em into a column formation with about 500 yards distance, we engage her about 2400 hours may 7th (45) and we let off a HUGE salvo of torps, just about all of em towards the escorts and yamato herself

most of the escorts get blown out of the water, the rest are pciked off by gunfire

then all thats left is the big monster herself

i shoot off the rest of my torps, and have all my DDs start shootin their 5 inchers

i turn them so they can all give her full broadsides

and i make kind of a hook run around her bombarding her the whole time, then i let off the rest of my torps


and their shooting and shooting, and despite having radar i decided to light her up with starshells to get a good luck and see how shes rendered, and she looks pretty good

and finally, shes "declared sunk" at around 0100 i think

i sit around and watch her, and she finally goes under stern first seemingly in defiance around 0124

i lost 1 maybe 2 DD i think, and i think they gave me the Navy Cross for it[:'(]

as for MY favorite DD? ill have to think about it[:'(]

[Tankerace]

I loved Destroyer Command.... except I found out Allen M. Sumners are Kamikaze magnets.... in 1 mission (last or next to last in the campaign) I lost 3 to kamikaze Bettys... Shot down like 30 of the buggers.

[madmickey]

It and the 2 other destroyer in it task group took on more than the Yamato.

[marky]

ORIGINAL: Tankerace

I loved Destroyer Command.... except I found out Allen M. Sumners are Kamikaze magnets.... in 1 mission (last or next to last in the campaign) I lost 3 to kamikaze Bettys... Shot down like 30 of the buggers.

[:D][8D]

u mean the radar picket mission north of okinawa?

i didnt lose any on that mission

i aloways ordered all my DDs to concentrate their AA[:'(]

i got like 3 silver stars 3 bronze stars and 2 navy corss in the atlantic campaign, tho i didnt gtew to finish it

i think i shot down around 20-25

u ever hear iof this site? -

http://207.44.164.159/phpBB_subclub/index.php

they play silent hunter 1 and 2 and soon 3

and DC, along with a game called sub command

[mlees]

Any DD with twin-gun type turrets just looks mean!

[afspret]

Don't know why, but for some reason I've always been partial to the Wickes/Clemsons class (aka 4 pipers) DDs.

[LargeSlowTarget]

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

Porter [:D]

8 5" guns, whats not to like?

They were not of the DP variety - no AA value.

Favorite DD: 'lucky' Shigure - participated at Coral Sea, Midway, numerous Tokyo Express runs in the Solomons, first Battle of Guadalcanal, sole survivor of the Vella Gulf disaster, Battles of Vella Lavella, Horaniu and Empress Augusta Bay, damaged at Truk but escaped, naval battle at Biak, present at the Turkey Shoot, sole survivor of Nishimura's force at Surigao Strait, and well - finally sunk by SS Blackfin 60 years and three days ago.

[Hornblower]

USS O'Bannon.. The history of the Pacific war,” wrote Admiral Halsey, “can never be written without telling the story of the USS O’Bannon,” 17 battle stars earned. I'm pretty sure she was tied for 2nd place with the San Fran, only behind the Big-E.

[Sardaukar]

USS John D. Ford

http://www.domeisland.com/flushdeck/puc228.html

That one has already sunk 3 Japanese subs on Australian east coast in my campaign game against AI. [:)]

Cheers,

M.S.

[RevRick]

USS Laffey - DD 724.. The one which replaced the can lost at Guadalcanal. Read up on that one. Talk about a kamikaze magnet. Then again, I like the pre-war little boys who held the line before their bigger brothers came on line.

[Tiornu]

The older Laffey had a story to tell, too--trading broadsides with Hiei at tater-throwing range.

[Roger Neilson]

1st January 1942 I just sunk it off Port Moresby - 40+ shell hits from BBs, CAs and DDs. It was the last ship of a 3CA, 2DD TF that was caught there by a large bombardment TF of mine. I was glad to see it go as it looked a naty opponent.

Historical start, 1 year campaign on PBEM.

Roger
[:D]

ORIGINAL: BossGnome

Me, the WITP destroyer: Le Triomphant. It's a big destroyer (13 vps) with great AA capability. In my campaign as Japan, I have not yet managed to hit it with anything, while in my campaign with the allies, it fought valiantly at Rabaul, and was one of the few ships there to avoid great damage (took only 13 sys damage!) It also helped to stop the japanese from taking Rabaul Early.

[RevRick]

If they name one of the Arliegh Burke's the USS Laffey - it might be a good ship to take into action... or to stay away from depending on ones willingness to stand into harm's way.