Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "The Drydock - Episode 092" video.

  1. Best Sci Fi cinematic space combat? Iron Sky, hands down.
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  2. Oh geeze. The Cambletown. St Nazaire. "Ramming speed, mister Briggs!" "But captain! That's a drydock!" "Not for long."
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  3. My thought (the redesign of the Kreigsmarine is an ongoing item of discussion with two of my WW2 focused mates) as follows: Replace all secondary armament on KMS with the navalized 12.8cmFlaK40/L56 in doppellafette. Replace all of the twin 3.7cm/L70 with single 5cmFlaK41/L65 (longer range, higher ROF, and who cares about flash or smoke when you're moving at sea and directed from off mount). Place a 2cm FlaK(v) at each corner of the citadel. Remove all torpedo tubes from cruisers and use the weight savings to reinforce deck armor aft. Why? A navy of small size will fight a lot of running battles. Better armor over the steering gear is a must for that. Finish Flugzeugtragers A und B and, for goodness' sake, replace the Me-109T with a navalised Fw-190(G serie?). For a torpedo bomber buy off all those British Swordfish they're about to replace with the vastly superior Albacore. If they won't sell them, then adapt the Stuka D serie. Short range, but a better performer overall than many contemporary torpedo bombers. Your point about the "Cruiser armed Destroyers" is a telling one. All DDs need Dual Purpose Main Battery weapons. Replace the 15cm SK with the 12.8cm FlaK40 for DDs as for all larger schiffen. Seetakt (or Gufo, depending on size) all 'round. More than that, an RWR like Metox might be very useful for surface units, especially against night attacks by allied (i.e. Coastal Command) patrol bombers. Spend effort producing the Gabbiano class ASW trawler in large numbers. I agree with the more Scharnhorst > fewer Bismarck paradigm. Two or Three Scharnhorsts accompanied by a single Graf Zeppelin would make a formidable raiding group. Use them to draw allied attention away from your wolf packs. If you really want to warp the weave, why not replace all capital ship catapults with larger models, politely ask the Nihonese emperor for volunteers, and launch a barrage of MXY7mod22 aerial kaiten as you approach the Grand Fleet? "There seems to be something wrong with the bloody sky today." Replace Goering with a navy man, or, at least, a global strategist, rather than a continental one. We need maritime patrol bombers and we need them NOW! Take Malta. At all costs. Oh, and "Raeder to all U--Flotte: do not radio acknowledgement of orders received".
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  4. U-505?
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  5. "We plan to rename Deutschland to KMS Donnerkind. Has a certain ring to it, does it not, Herr Wells?"
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  6. I might suggest Two Ocean War as a fundamental work.
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