Post by BathTubAdmiral on Jul 7, 2019 12:02:25 GMT -6
DD support div under AI control:
"We are the best DD div in the world! Fastest ships, biggest guns, best torps! Let our whole fleet run from the British Home Fleet(*), we stay here in front of Harwich Harbour and show the brits what real men can do!"
"But ..."
"No, no, there's that land target we came to shoot at! Someone has to do it! And we have the biggest guns!"
"Yes, of all DD classes we know, but the fleet admiral thought it would be suitable to bring 15in a... "
"Oh shut up, we have the 4" as backup, and we are 5 DDs in this division, we surely blow up some ***** huts on that oversized island there!"
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"Sir, there's an unidentified ship close to land!"
"A ship? Oh, yes, there's a ship! Yeah! Let's send it to the bottom! Attack course! Ridiculous speed ahead!"
"Oh no, it's a CL! Our nemesis! How could that happen! How can the brits have CLs? Turn away, turn aw..ait! It's only a lonely DD! Attack! Attack!"
"Sir, we won't catch her, she turns into the harbour area!"
"Damn the minefields, full speed ... back to the bombardment target, let's lob more shells of doom at it!"
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"Oh, folks, hurry, hurry, there's a CL going into port, if she sees us, we are doooomed! Hurry!"
"But, wasn't that a D ..."
"Damn the cloaking devices! The brits tried to fool us, and we nearly fell for it! Shell the land target!"
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"There's an unknown ship coming out of the harbour!"
"Ship? Out of the harbour? Catch it! Pounce on it! Let's tea ... alarm! It's the CL again! Turn around! Insane speed ahead!!"
"Sir, I'm pretty sure it's only a DD. And a TR is coming in from the south!"
"A DD? Kill it! Kill it! South? No we are not going there, that's too dangerous!"
"Sir, speaking of danger, Sir, wasn't our fleet heading 54°, with the whole british home fleet in pursue? What if the brits turn around and come back, and we are still here in front of the harbour?"
"Arrr! No matter what, we will ... shell that land target again! Shells of doom, fly high, fly far!"
"Sir, didn't the admiral hoist the "disengage!" signal?"
"What? When?"
"When the fleet turned around, 2andahalf hours a ..."
"Why didn't you tell me? Turn around! Turn around! Course ... you said 42, didnt you? Course 42, maximum rate of strokes! We are going home!!"
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"Sir, unIDed ship portside! It's pretty dark already, I'm sure they haven't seen us, we could set an interception course and drop our torps at them? Sir, you remember, those big explosy thingies in those tubes?"
"No, we won't do anything! We won't even look! If we don't look, they won't see us! It's that CL of doom again! Straight ahead, ahead!"
"Yes sir!" ... "Might have been the scout CL of the brits home fleet ... maybe it was better not to attack ..."
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"Are we home already? We must be close to home port right now, right?"
"Ah, Sir, course 42° will bring us to the north coast of denmark, n ..."
"Yes, Denmark, that's nice, 'was there during my last vacation, really nice coastline. Yes!"
*sigh*
(*) more on that in another thread ...
