Sadly, I assume Mutsu is in Hel, as sinking due to alleged sabotage doesn't count, but she might get to Return, since Hel is under new management these days. But then there wouldn't be cute Mutsu/Nagato interactions.

Fleet of Fog Kongou vs. WWII Kongou would be amusing. ("BURNING LOVE!")

Mutsu gets some credit for actually staying float long enough for even 300 people to escape her when an explosion powerful enough to tear her in half went off.

We actually kicked this around for a while in the studio not long ago, and eventually reached the conclusions that:

a) Matters were very much disorganized in Valhalla and Fólkvangr at the end of the war, since it was such a busy time for them and they were in the midst of a transition of authority (Skuld was just coming into office during the war), and there may have been a few dropped balls;

b) The I-400s' disposal was rather less eh... public than those of Nagato, Saratoga, Sakawa, Prinz Eugen, et al.;

c) Don't investigate this too closely.

:)

--G.
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Tanking TWO nuclear bombs and sinking only due to incomplete pre-bombing maintenance is a pretty metal way to go.

(Something SEVERAL members of Team Crossroads can claim.)

True! And very satisfying to those of us who can't help but think, years later, that the whole business was kind of pathetically petty.

(Although those who survived Able were probably helped out somewhat by the fact that the drop was, to use the technical parlance, a wild-ass miss.)

--G.
You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
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Sadly, that really wasn't comprehended until the, ummm, mistakes of Castle Bravo.

-VR
You miss one little reaction chain and everyone loses their minds...
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."

The detonation of the Able bomb occurred 490 yards (450 m) above and slightly to starboard of Sakawa's stern. The blast caused Sakawa to burn fiercely for twenty-four hours; the force crushed her superstructure, damaged her hull and breached her stern. After the test, a tug boat, USS Achomawi, tried to tow Sakawa toward a beach to prevent the latter ship from sinking, but failed. Sakawa started sinking almost as soon as towing began, and, with a tow cable connecting the two ships, Achomawi started to be dragged down, too. After a number of attempts, sailors cut the tow cable with an acetylene torch. Sakawa sank on 2 July 1946 in about 200 feet (60 m) of water, with a portion of the tow cable still attached.

The second weapons test, Baker, was an underwater shot about 500 feet (150 m) away from the sunken Sakawa.

--Wikipedia, Japanese Cruiser Sakawa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Sakawa#Post-war_operations

You soon will.

I think the original assumption was that she'd be throwing them, but that's not always how it looks.

(She's not the only one who gives that impression.)

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Once upon a time, there was a tabletop RPG called "Torg" (look it up; they're doing a rewrite). In the list of explosives was the common torpedo (as much as there is such a thing). It listed a staggering amount of damage... and no burst radius (due to a typo). This led players of said tabletop RPG to determine that torpedoes could, in fact, be used as melee weapons, provided you could lift it. It might have even been attempted by one of the playtest teams (or at least suggested and then 86ed by the GM).

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

Meanwhile, in the "personal equipment" section of the BattleTech Technical Readout 3026, someone felt the need to include the caveat, "Each grenade may be used only once."

Ah, '80s game manual editing.

Also, the first edition of Teenagers from Outer Space stipulated that a Popcorn Grenade would fill the space in which it was employed, without specifying an upper bound if, for instance, it was used outdoors. Therefore, logically, using one outdoors would destroy the universe.

--G.
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"A character feigning unconsciousness may take no other action."

"A dead figure can take no action of any kind."

Peter Eng
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Murphy's Rules. Proof that it's only a simulation.

I do believe I must have had a set of defective players for my TFOS campaign back in the day -- none of them ever tried that. <grin>

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

If she'd gone full Age of Sail or been like this in person, it would have been off, but this works nicely for a letter, particularly since she's writing to somebody who would be a superior officer if not for the whole Admiralty Code problem.

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

Not sure, but I'll say this: In the anime, her nonstandard weaponry was her supergravity (Super-Graviton? Seen it said multiple ways) cannon. I can't help but think if Touga had any idea she had that he'd have been tempted to use it.

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Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

In a completely speculative, non-canonical sort of way, I invite you all to pause for a moment and join me in admiring the image of Akio being held completely off the ground, by the throat, by HMS Warspite.

You are impertinent, sir.

I have to admit I'm not sure which I like better, that or the version with Hibiki.* The latter is in some ways more amusing, because she's shorter than he is and that's always gold, but nobody does the requisite "I'm not more disgusted with you than I am solely because it isn't worth the effort" vibe better than an Edwardian Englishwoman.

--G.
* «Uncultured pig. You're lucky I'm not my baby sister. She would have drydocked you with a torpedo by now.»
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But she CAN stand and CAN walk and HEAVEN HELP YOU if she deems in necessary to do so.

OPERATION WELL CARRIED OUT X THERE IS NO QUESTION WHEN THE OLD LADY LIFTS HER SKIRTS SHE CAN RUN

(Also, I think the wheelchair thing is fanon only, though it does make logical sense. Pretty sure the only official intention was that it resemble a throne. Queen Elizabeth-class, you know.)

--G.
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Many people assume it because her cutins are all seated. Would've been nice to have her with some standing art in game.

On the other hand, Akagi doesn't start with three flight decks, two of which are not very useful, and open-cockpit, fixed-gear fighters. It's all over the place, since it's all about the artists' whims. But then that's one of the beauties of KanColle, I suppose, is that there is so much room for interpretation. If you don't like one artist's insanely possessive Ōi, keep looking until you find one who's just cheerfully lecherous. And so forth.

As an aside, I suspect Warspite and Utena would at least have the opening for a conversation; one of the former's sister ships was called Valiant.

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Appropos of something.. two there must be...

Akatsuki doesn't always come out of her encounters with Warspite so pleased, alas.

--G.
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That look of pure heartbreak. "R... rehdi."

"My Warspite can't be such a troll," as I believe the current trend in phrasing puts it.

--G.
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I can't help but think that Akatsuki wouldn't be all that thrilled to go out again. :)