Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. My favorite part is when the last remaining cruiser of the class loses a gunfight to a US destroyer.
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  2. The destroyer USS Johnston and the rest of taffy 3 taking on half of the Japanese navy and winning...
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  3. The actual battle off Samar was 3 Fletchers, and a handful of escorts with air support. vs. the entire Japanese center force. It ended with a American victory and very heavy casualties to the Japanese cruiser force, with light to moderate damage spread among the surviving cruisers and battleships. That was 3 Fletchers. Now imagine what more than 10 times that many could do, backed up by a cruiser and battleship force not significantly inferior to that of the IJN forces. Kurita's fleet is in for a battering of the ages.
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  4. I mean, I'm a DnD player. I'm used to there being a 1 in 20 chance of failing a perception check spectacularly.
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  5. It actually surprises me how loose the tolerances are on a lot of machinery on these battleships is. I'm a machinist by trade, and even on large diameter bar grinding which is the loosest tolerance stuff we do, I can't recall ever having 1/100th of an inch tolerance on any job I've ever run, and you're saying that malfunctions were occurring because having 1/32nd of an inch was too tight due to flexing of the material in rough seas. I don't know if I could make a setup bad enough on purpose to not hold 1/32 of an inch. I suppose when you're dealing with a vessel of that sheer size with components weighing several tons and dozens of feet in length, the stresses of a rough sea demands a high degree of flexibility of the components, especially of the moving parts.
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  6. If tenacity alone could keep a ship afloat, the Johnston would be unsinkable. It was an angry little ship, and neither it nor it's captain understood the concept of retreat. Whenever a challanger appeared on the horizon, no matter how big, or the caliber of her guns, the Johnston merrily charged into battle against it, guns blazing.
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  7. I'm sure they could have gotten the standards up a few knots, but I suppose in America you can't accept any loss in firepower. After all, you have the second ammendment rights of the crew to consider.
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  8. If Razee frigates were really that good, were any ships built to those specifications from the start, in order to create a sort of 'super frigate'? The only one I'm aware of that seems close to that is the USS Constitution and its sister ships, but even these were more heavy frigate than a light ship of the line.
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  9. https://youtu.be/4AdcvDiA3lE?t=982
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  10. It's very easy to argue either way, I lean more towards them being large cruisers, but I have to admit that from a doctorine perspective, they very closely fit the role of battlecruiser. Also, if you're less strict about what counts as a battlecruisers to where things like Detusland, Dunkerque and Scharnhorst are battlecruisers due to being designed as fast cruiser killers and cruiser killer killers, then the Alaska would fit nicely into that niche. They had near-battleship firepower, but had the speed to hunt down cruisers and evade larger, more conventional battleships.
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  11. It's not just you, I love my lever gun. I plan on buying another one at some point.
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  12. I might be a year late, but you should look into this game called 'Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnaughts'. It's a cool game about designing and building naval vessels of the first World War, inter-war and World War Two eras. It's still in development, but it's already surprisingly in depth.
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  13. josh fritz Was there a reason why navies didn't generally use torpedo boat tenders to extend the range and endurance of torpedo boat squadrons? I would think that large torpedo boats capable of operating effectively at sea, supplied with fuel, ammunition and torpedo reloads from a dedicated supply ship could make an effective raiding force.
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  14. Lexington class battlecruiser vs. HMS Hood Alaska class battlecruiser vs. Scharnhorst class battlecruiser
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  15. The USS Johnston was a Fletcher class battleship
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  16. Well, three american destroyers and four escorts sunk a third of the Japanese fleet, I don't see things going any better for the Japanese when you give the Americans several cruisers and battleships of their own.
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