Last night I had a silly mental image that ended up turning into an even sillier dream. It started out with the thought of KanColle Kongō and Arpeggio Kongō playing a popular children's game, of which the latter would probably completely miss the point, but what the hell, I mean, battleships playing Battleship, you can't go wrong with that.

(Could also be Nagato vs. Mutsu, though I expect that matchup would pretty quickly {advance|degenerate} into a night battle as soon as somebody actually said, "You sank my battleship!"*)

Anyway, that wasn't the dream, more's the pity. The dream was an offshoot of a remark I made to someone on the studio channel at the time of the original image, which was that, with their usual penchant for taking things too far, the fleet girls would probably end up playing, essentially, the Battleship version of the popular Klingon strategy game-cum-contact sport klin zha kinta ("the klin game with live pieces").

The Teams

Task Force Red
••••• Aircraft Carrier - Zuikaku
- Akagi consumes too many resources to be used as a Battleship Kinta piece
••••  Battleship - Haruna
- Haruna is OK
•••   Submarine - I-168
- the judges concluded that I-401 would be a four-dot sub, which is against the rules, so she was disqualified
•••   Cruiser - Atago
- pan-paka-pan!
••    Destroyer - Inazuma
- facilitates the joke that started the whole thing

Task Force Blue
••••• Aircraft Carrier - Kaga
- mysteriously volunteered, since there isn't a foreign aircraft carrier
••••  Battleship - Bismarck
- ja
•••   Submarine - U-511
- not Ro-500
•••   Cruiser - Prinz Eugen
- where Bismarck goes, Eugie follows
••    Destroyer - Hibiki
- I guess the German destroyers didn't get the point of the game

Operative image: Inazuma standing on a gridded floor, with one large red peg (about her own height again) stuck in her backpack rigging and white ones standing in all the squares around her, panicking. Poor Inazuma.

--G.
* "Don't mind if I do!" - Mutsu
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