Comments by "josh thomas-moore" (@joshthomas-moore2656) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Could Jelicoe not have used his connections to send or just sent Beatty to take command of forces in Australia after Dogger Bank and make it slound like a promotion?
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  2. Assuming everything else remains the same during the day should the Japanese have carried on attacking pearl harbour or did they break off at the right time
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  3. If Hms Repulse is a battlecruiser and HMS Hood is a Fast Battleship, where does HMS Renown fit in?
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  4. Was Seymour (Beatty's signals officer) a relative of the ill fated Admiral Seymour in the Boxer rebellion?
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  5. How do you rate Admiral Fletcher seeing as he was in all early major pacific carrier battles he must have been doing something right?
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  6.  @bkjeong4302  You forgot the Yuudachi.
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  7.  @bkjeong4302  I was more thinking of the whole trying to sail out the combat area with the crews beds incident. Also the Amatsukaze wasn't on your list.
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  8. Assuming that Admiral Somerville wasn't put on the clock with "Settle matters quickly" message plus other pressures do you think that like him he could have got away with not having to open fire all other factors remain the same
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  9. Was their a reason world war 2 destroyer captains seemed to take on much bigger ships like taffy 3 and HMS Ardent, Acasta and Glowworm and could the Ardent ,Acasta and Glorious have escaped and survived the battle with the Scharnhorst's
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  10. How effective were the Merchant raider's that Germany used during the world wars
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  11. next year can we have video on worst navy officers for april fools day
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  12.  @marcusfranconium3392  You lost me
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  13.  @marcusfranconium3392  Ah thank you for clarification
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  14. For D-Day how was the combined forces of the allied navies hidden or placed so as not to give away the target was Normandy, we've heard a lot on how the Army was hidden but nothing on the Navies side i imagine if a German scout plane few by and saw Warspite, Texas, Nelson etc building up in a port in front of Normandy it might have given the game away?
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  15. Which two Second World War British capital ships would you preserve as a museum ship ignoring cost, struggles to where to place them so long as they survived the war?
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  16. How much training to fire small arms and fight without the ship armaments did sailors and marines have?
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  17. If the Japanese had decided to ignore the risk to large ships they thought there was and sent the actual battleships in the two parts of fifth battle of Guadalcanal not just the two Kongo battlecruisers which of the battleships would have been most useful to them?
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  18. Are there any examples of naval officers giving orders along the lines of "All guns keep firing till they glow" (In the words of one un-named Imperial Guardsman)?
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  19. Drach in your USS Alaska question you didn't mention the Kongo's i mean we have Haruna for an example for a 1945 example now while they are inferior to Renown they are a contender surely unless i'm missing something
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  20. Bit of a spiritual question but do you think ships have souls as i've heard a fair few sailors even to this day that they do whats your opinion?
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  21. If HMS Campbelltown was so bad at turning how the did she pull of the rapid turn for Operation Chariot skills of lieutenant tibits or was one of those moments all vehicals can have
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  22. The Japanese Tenryuu class were used as training ships between the wars would this have helped them in their actions like the Savo as they would presumably been well maintained for training also how likely was it that the IJN Yuudachi could escape with her bedding sails
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  23. Was their anything Karl Doorman could have done differently to make Java Sea less terrible or was he doomed to disaster the moment he set off?
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  24. Ah congress and the presidents office they seem to have a real knack for annoying Drach from history and today
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  25. Drachinfel i have seen on a couple of mercheant ships in World War One carrying cargo called "Governement Materials" what does this mean?
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  26. Oh boy this is going to be ugly whichever way look at this incident
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  27. Was the Imperial German Navies plan to draw out small parts of the Royal Navy and destroy it a plan that could have succeeded or was it just the best plan in a bad situation
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  28.  @gusty9053  So if your right the you could fit that in where the ships magazine is
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  29.  @silverhost9782  i'm not so sure it is so clean cut, as i might appear. Because looks at what the ships they would likely be facing, its mostly Cruisers, which both can kill very easy if they get into fight but Prince of Wales would struggle to get into a fight, she's not slow but she is slower then the cruisers the Japanese have so the Japanese can refuse the battle if they don't want to. Repulse as a Battlecrusier is much faster and if i remember correctly she's a bit faster then most of the possible crusiers she'd face so she could just run them down. Now if the Japanese decide to send a Kongo or two that would be intresting as Kongo has more guns but Repulse has bigger guns and Repulse is slightly better armoured then a Kongo so it'd be close. Prince of Wales i'll give you she can easy kill a Kongo or two, but given the Japanese doctrine with their carriers and their want to give them a surface escort all the time i'm not to sure the Japanese would detach them unless they felt it was absolutely nessecery, but even in the worst case for Repulse where she goes down in a fight with Kongo she'd put it in dock for a while for repair and given how intwined the Kongo's are for Kido Butai, that would still do a lot of hurt.
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  30.  @silverhost9782  (I did reply to this but seems to have gone) You do raise a fair argument, however i think Repulse can do the same, she has the firepower and protection to deal with anything the invasion forces have that are covering the landings at Malaya, however with the added option of being able to run them down if the Japanese do run for it. Now i will grant you Prince of Wales can handle any single battleship or Kongo (I say those are Battlcrusiers not Battleships) the Japanese have with the exception of the Yamato, though Repulse can outrun the Japanese battleships so they would still need to tie the battleships to the invasion in order to make sure Repulse doesn't attack them so she could still tie major resources, the only ships the Japanese have that can catch Repulse are the Kongo's and in that situation i'd say its a coin toss who wins, Repulse as few guns but hers are bigger and its only 8 to 6 so not to big a gap and Repulse does have a marginal advantage over a Kongo in protection but both ships guns can penetrate the other, were as Prince of Wales can comfortabily take on a Kongo or two. Now i will agree Prince of Wales has much better AA defence then Repulse so if the Japanse Carriers arrive Prince of Wales is in a much better posistion than Repulse. However i feel regradless of which of the two ships is holding Malaya, if the Japanese are in the posistion of thinking of sending Kongo's, Battleships and Carriers, they would be using at least part of the Kido Butai to bring overwhemling firepower to sweep the seas clear and in that situation either ship would have to retreat as i don't think either ship could stand up to that. I think it comes down to weather want you a ship to scare and/or fight off what the Japanese had at the time (Which i think is Repulse given she can fight and catch them if they do run) or what they might bring in reponce to that ship attacking the invasion fleet (Which i think is Prince of Wales due to better AA and better protection).
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  31. Where would Thunderchild have rammed the Martian fighting machine? In art of the scene Thunderchild is hitting about halfway up the leg, yet the chapter says the fighting machines supports are almost submerged, so is the Thunderchild ramming into the cockpit of the machine.
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  32.  @lordredlead2336  See as a destroyer player the way to beat that is for the teams destoryers to hunt the enemy destoryers you will be amazed how many times enemy destroyers have paniced when i charge them down instread of running away. Or maybe they should add a bit more radar into the game to make it harder for destroyers. But because the destroyer captians want the big points they just hunt the battleships who are the ones moaning the most i find, adding carriers won't solve their woes it will just add to them.
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  33.  @magisterrleth3129  Same for me i do the exact same thing and i find it just as fun but some people just want to one shot Battleships
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  34.  @bloodrave9578  If your getting shot for one direction and planes coming from the other then how and where do you dodge?
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  35.  @bloodrave9578  That kind of negates the point of being in a destroyer they want to be up front scouting taking points and attacking enemy destroyers if their stuck the cruisers and battleships they're usless might as well not be there
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  36.  @bloodrave9578  I have seen some carriers do that this is true and those games do tend to be intresting at least, but a depressing number aren't those players, in fact in one extreme case i saw a carrier keep dropping his fighers consumable on himself dispite his whole team begging him for help claiming to be under constant attack and needing them. He wasn't under attack, he was the only one to survive and he took no damage and while he is an extreme example not everyone are these good CV captians. I wish they were believe me. But carriers are such a powerful force in a game that's more suited in gun lines, theirs a lot of issues with ship AA some and really powerful mechanics for carriers that need to be toned down like the planes not being shot down while on the way back to the carrier. I don't think carrier players are evil its just the tools they have are to strong. For example say non-carrier players are using muskets while carriers are using assault rifles thats the power gap, yes the muskets can still do damage but not as well as assault rifles and that the problem carriers as they play are very powerful and other ships classes were not give suitable counters by themsleves to survive against carriers, the other ships need a buff to AA or the carriers need to have some aspects changed or toned down.
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  37.  @bloodrave9578  See this is probloatic as a good destroyer captian should be going and either takeing or contesting caps or going and hunting down enemy destoryers, they are the best for capturing after all with their speed and stealth and they are the natural counter to another destroyers. This means they are either being spotted in a gun fight or have been spotted because they got to close or whatever reason and the carrier can just keep them spotted for the team to shoot them while lending a hand to. Or they are basically sending a telegram to a carrier where to look, i'm sure you've seen a cap circle being capped went and looked and seen a destoryer in there, now yes they can use smoke but if you have torpedeo planes they can flush them out or drop a fighter squadron nearby to spot them when either smoke the clears or the destoryer moves on. So if i play like this i either have no choice but to give a carrier an idea where to look by capping or i've got pinged by another destroyer and the carrier can rush over and keep the spot going as no matter how fast a destroyer is a plane is faster. The looking at the minimap to avoid the planes works very well till you have to go to a place the carrier will look, usually the cap or near where you got pinged by another destroyer because your trying to hold or stop a cap being taken, also if i am in a gunfight in a destoryer the last thing i will be looking at is a minimap i'm either dodging shells or torps they will be taking up my attention to much, two destoryers fighting it out is a knife fight everytime (Unless the destoryers doing something very out the ordinary) and they tend to be very fast pace and attention absorbing you don't have the time to look at the map till your out and thats usually enough time for a decent carrier player to have got a squadron over there which can usually finish off the usually damaged destroyer if not got over there in the middle of the fight. This is where i would like better AA on destoryers esspecially in the Destoryer fights (As i'm likely damaged and can only take one maybe two good strike and i might have modjules damaged etc.) as it would give the destoryer a better chance, i'm not saying make it impossiable for a carrier to take out the destoryer just harder.
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  38. Whose Navies from which ever era you chose had the worst looking uniforms?
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  39. HMS Bristol going to be scrapped why? i was on that ship as a cadet and while my time wasn't the best mostly due to the poor company i was stuck with i enjoyed being on the ship. Oh well guess we're fighting to save this ship now to, we can't save all the ships that should be saved in the world but we can try damn it!
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  40. I was watching a video reacting to the Sabaton History video on Bismarck and when the video mentioned the Bismarcks Radar had a sudden life failure when the Bismarck fired her main guns and the reactor asked "Did they not test that?" and it did make me think the ship did have trails so how did they not know the Radar could have this sudden heart attack when the guns fired?
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  41.  @johnshepherd8687  The question was more on the shakedown cruise which was meant to find issues like the radar sets failing and the other issue of the fire control cables being interupted by the guns firing
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  42.  @bryansavage5056  I thought that was South Dakota
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  43. I would not have thought that Glowworms last stand would have such implications just goes to show how a small thing in the grand picture of the Norway campaign (NO Offence intend to the Glowowrm or her crew by saying their battle was small) would effectively lose the Norway campaign.
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  44.  @bread3114  This might help you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyzWoGizTiQ
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  45. You've been sent to a alternate universe, were in the 1920's the breeze of insanity has blown through America and the US Navy has been given four Tillman battleships the Tillman 4-2 designs and you've been picked to name the ships what would you name the fours ships? (Serious names and/or humorous names take your pick)
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  46.  thel vadamee  thank you for the information
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  47. What are your personal top five examples of pefectly good ships being forced into roles they never designed for and as a result doing very badly? I'm thinking of ships like the Battlecruiser HMS Invincible being forced into the battleline when she had no real place being there.
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  48. So which ones HMS Warpsite Lord Drach?
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  49. If you could pick a flagship from any of the ships in ww1 that were built in any of navies which would you pick and which would you never use
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  50. I'm kind of suprised the 14 inch didn't rip the ship apart
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