Comments by "Not shaped for sportive tricks" (@notshapedforsportivetricks2912) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. What a pity no one ever whispered the words "Gattling gun battleship" into Fisher's ear as he slept.
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  2. Say what you like, but it takes a impressive degree of confidence to name a warship after your country. Not as much as to name one HMS Invincible, but impressive none the less.
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  3. The phrase "inconvenient cessation of existence" is a usage worthy of the most polished mafia Don. Well done , Drach. 👍
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  4. So THAT'S what a Tallboy looks like when it goes iff underwater. Definitely worth the wait.
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  5. Hi Drach, if you're going to make a sequel to the much-loved "When hotels go to war", might I suggest the title "When the concierge calls"?
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  6. With a maximum range of 7 1/2 miles, I think that the idea of cross-channel operations might have been a wee bit optimistic.
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  7.  @kalinmir  Ah, but if you give it a couple of wing turrets as well, a broadside might be enough to roll the ship 360 degrees. That would bring you back to where you started and likely kill your opponent's spotting officer from shock.
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  8. What charming little warships. Especially the Enterprise. "Does this twin turret make me look a bit busty?"
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  9. U63 crewman: Captain, is that aircraft trying to dive bomb us? U63 Captain: I'm ... not ... sure.
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  10. I strongly suspect that the real reason that the Japanese army was building up a carrier force was that they were planning a Pearl Harbour type sneak attack on their mortal enemy, the Imperial Japanese Navy:
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  11. The fact that the target was made of unseasoned timber probably would have affected the results as well.
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  12. The ships I would choose were I so filthy rich as to be acle to afford a warship as my personal yacht. Put 'em in victorian paint scheme: lovely!
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  13. And if she ever asks "Does this awning make my quarterdeck look big?", the correct answer is "No".
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  14. The more one hears of the Kaiserlich und Königlich Kreigsmarine, the more admirable a little force it seems to be. I think that it definitely deserves its own Rum Ration at some point in the futture.
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  15. "In a slight nod to Health & Safety they actually had let the turret crew leave before they actually shot at them" Bloody soft I call that. Back in my day ...
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  16. I like the way in which the 3D models were used. They really help viewers to understand how the action went.
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  17. Not what you'd call a well-balanced design, the Narviks. On the bright side however, you could probably coax a few extra knots out of the things by simply loosing off X and Y guns at regular intervals.
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  18. Just finished the admirable quadrology on Captain Johnny Walker and this pops up. Truly, a Saturday night with too much Drach is barely enough! Viva!
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  19. Didn't Switzerland have one of those?
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  20. I wish that there had been a class of RN destroyers named after weather systems. It could have featured HM Ships with names such as: Alright For This Time of Year, Nice Weather for the Ducks, Good for the Garden and Not Bad Once You're In. Designig the ships' badges might have been a challenge though.
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  21. Sounds like a conversation between a parent and a teenager who has just got his battleship licence... "Care to explain what happened to the USS New York?" "Sorry Dad. I think that I might have run-over a submarine."
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  22. "An abomination unto Cthulhu" That's a keeper.
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  23. "I tend to divide reaction videos into four broad categories ..." must be the most engineer-y way to comnence a response to such a question. 😊 Thanks so much for all of your work though the year. It has been appreciated.
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  24. Technically true, but as the penguins maintained a strictly neutral stance in both World Wars, the Southern Ocean can be practically discounted.
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  25. Acter that long at sea in a u-boat, the only things that would remove the smell from the laundry would be a few gallons of petrol and a lighted match.
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  26. Admiral Popov: Attend! I am the weirdest looking warship ever designed. Behold me in awe. Henri IV: Hold my calvados.
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  27. Just sail out into the biggest bastard of a storm that you can find. But don't worry. You can take some less-experimental ships out with you to pick up the survivors ... if any.
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  28. 70,000 yards! Good Lord, what was the target? Apart from, you know, Vietnam?
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  29. ​ @suburbanbanshee  Well, only once, to be fair. Her Majesty was once at a function for senior naval officers when she overheard an admiral complaining about the names of the Duke class frigates. "Why do we have an HMS Lancaster? There isn't a Duke of Lancaster." he opined. At this point, HM interrupted him with "I am the Duke of Lancaster." 😇
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  30. I suspect that Drach is slowly working his way up to a 1:1 scale model of Warspite.
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  31. A tricolour pin with the legend "when hotels go to war" would sell like hot csces. Or maybe one with a red star and the slogan "the workers fail to control the means of propulsion". C'mon Drach, you must have a million of them.
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  32. Yep, it must have been frustrating for men raised on the wooden walls. "What do you mean she's obsolete? She hasn't even been bloody finished yet!"
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  33. Ah, so that's what Mrs. Drach sounds like when she's not floating underwater waiting fo ships to pass by so she can give them a nice, big hug and blow them to kingdom come. A lovely speaking voice, incidentally.
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  34. Much Maru about something? Ow! It hurts. It hurts.
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  35. I bet that Barb got her own ice cream machine.
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  36. This is one of the most informative documentaries on Trafalgar I've ever seen. Simple in concept and brilliant in execution. You've excelled yourself. I commend you and everyone involved in this video. 💯
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  37. Yeah, the blimps were surprisingly effective escorts, even without radar. They had great visibility and could loiter around a convoy for a long time. I feel a bit sorry for their aircrews, mind. Imagine the scene., a Pensacola bar. An attractive blonde approaches three naval aviators. Girl: So, flyboy; what sort of plane do you fly? Pilot 1: I fly an F6 Hellcat, miss. The plane that wiped out the Zeros at the Turkey Shoot. Girl: What about you, tall, dark and handsome? Pilot 2: I fly an F4U Corsair, miss. The plane that drove the japanese out of the Solomons. Girl: And you, hot stuff? Piĺot 3: I fly the Goodyear blimp, ma'am, and we've never lost a collier
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  38. If the Royal Navy had acquired nuclear weapons in 1945, I absolutely guarantee that someone would have found a way to strap one to a Swordfish. I doubt that the temptation could be resisted.
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  39. I believe that there was a sort of Christmas truce on the Rufiji River in German East Africa in 1914. The cruiser Konigsberg was holed-up in the upper reaches of the river and a small RN squadron was trying to dig her out. On Christmas Day, a british aircraft flew reconnisance over the Konigsberg and dropped her a Christmas greeting in a bottle. Captain Loof apparently sent return greetings via a native messanger
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  40. "Drawing pretty ships kept people out of gulags." "Not so fast, comrade" replies a generation of soviet engineers.
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  41. You can imagine the reaction of the defenders in the adjacent pillbox ... "Mein Gott, Heinz! What sort of gun have they put in that Sherman?"
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  42. HMCS Oakville and her crew remind me of Sir Maurice in the opening credits of the cartoon, The Big Knights: "Sir Boris, the greatest sword fighter in the world, and his brother, Sir4 Maurice. NOT the greatest sword fighter in the world, but the most enthusiastic."
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  43. Our host answered this in a recent drydock. According to him, it came down to optics and loading speed. While a 13,5" gun could be expected to have a longer range than a 12" gun and a bigger punch, the limitations of optical range finders and fire control at the time meant that a 12" gun represented the longest effective range for ships of that era.
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  44. Calm down, Jeremy. Calm down.
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  45. The moral of this story? Beware any weapons system prefaced Happy Fun Times Spicy. For example: * Happy Fun Times Spicy .457 Magnum. * Happy Fun Times Spicy Kosher Main Battle Tank * Happy Fun Times Spicy first wife. Great start to the show, sir.
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  46. I've always liked the broad-brimmed straw hats that the sailors of some navies wore around the turn of the 20th century. Practical, stylish and they kept the sun off your nut.
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  47. Actually the USN used to regularly send its monitors over to the Phillipines in the 1900s. I once saw a photograph of the USS Monterey transiting the Pacific in somewhat iinteresting sea conditions for a ship with zero freeboard.
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  48. I agree. The West Virginia was by far the prettiest rebuild; even more so than the Cavours. Apparently she was regarded as even better at shore bombardment than the Iowas. Pity they couldn't add a few knots to her.
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  49. Unlikely. The US Ambassodor to the UK until late October 1940 was Joe Kennedy, and I certainly can't imagine him bad-mouthing the Nazis.
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  50. As an anthropomorphised ship, I would imagine Warspite as Helen Mirren. Venerable, still a beauty (with a damned fine set of pins); but don't you dare cross her. Victory and Constituton, by contrast, I picture as Statler and Waldorf, sitting in a balcony and raining contumely down upon unfortunate younger ships.
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