Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "The Drydock - Episode 204 (Part 2)" video.

  1. never underestimate Musilini's ability to screw things up, they would have probably still invaded greece because it was one of his war goals, but ya having a royal navy and a free french navy in the region would have made it much worse (not that it went well for italy anyways)
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  2. it really was a war of stupidity on all sides though the US probably ended up worse for wear with the fighting happening here but better off geographically since we were then free to expand westward along the great lakes unimpeded by the british
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  3. 20:10 How to give a bunch of sailors CTE with this one easy trick!
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  4. The successful lopsided armor ships have to be the US civil war ironclads, they were nearly impervious to almost all ordinance of the day and if they decided to sail one at your fleet of ships, you had to basically find your own ironclad to send out to stop it
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  5. I can summerize the General Sherman's expedition: BEHOLD OUR MIGHTY TRADE SHIP, wait how deep is the river here? What's that fire on the horizon?
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  6. steam turbines are an utter pain in the butt then the gearing for them is worse because you're talking about a very fast heavy spinning mass on one end, and a relatively slow but extremely heavy mass on the other end with water resistance added to it. Turbine blades would have been very difficult to forge back then because they only just had the metalurgy to make it work reliable enough, you wouldn't really get superalloys and heavy forging until the middle of ww2 and thats too late for battleships at that point
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