Comments by "Karl von Gazenberg" (@karlvongazenberg8398) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Oh, well, they could add Austro-Hungarian Tier 10 carriers by this amount of speculation.
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  2.  @TheTrueOrion  This is a Zumwalt class destroyer. Honest.
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  3. Almost 3 and a half hours... getting a BIG mug of coffee..
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  4. Nah, the Falcon is your average whaler with two quad .50 HMG. And a few underwater torpedo tubes, in German commerce raider style.
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  5. I wonder Jules Verne ever saw this vessel and what he thought of it, if so. :)
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  6.  @rpm1796  "A Republic for a rudder!" - Warspite got her rudder jammed too and waltzed round and round before the Hochseeflotte at Jutland. Having the Grand Fleet behind her prolly helped a lot to get out of the situation.
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  7. Press like, get coffee, extend lunch break :)
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  8. 27:30 "A Different time when they had the time to take care of the fine details" - Reminds me a line on a memetic cleaning liquid flask: "You only read this, because you went to the toilet without a smartphone" :) But also, may the proverbial drunken sailor might want to stick an 8" shell into the breech. You never know.
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  9. 31:00 Swordfish and dive-bombing - it WAS certified for dive bombing, maybe more exactly shallow angle dive/glide bombing and there are pictures of Stringbags actually divebombing.
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  10. 0:55:55 - Here comes the honorable mention of Rear Admiral Miklós Horthy, the last commander of the K.u.K. Kriegsmarine.
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  11. Drydock at 1 hrs for 1hour. All coffee machines, full steam!
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  12. 3:40 re: Kamikaze - There is the (actually two) joke: Instructor: Pilot, you take off with craft loaded with the biggest bombs we can cram in! Pilot: Hai! I: You evade all American fighters and flak! P: Hai! I: And in the name of the Emperor, you fly into the biggest ship you see. Watch carefully, I will show it once! Any question? P: ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!
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  13. AFAIK up to 1950 or so - for later periods however, Drach contributes to the Bilge Pump podcasts. Also, maybe look up Dr Alexander Clarke's channel. https://the-bilgepumps.simplecast.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2x09tU0GwAGiSbFPEhIwQ
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  14. "like, cofee, lay back and enjoy"
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  15. 4 steam boilers and a backup coffeee machine :)
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  16.  @dwgray9000  "HMS Vanguard recently hit a underwater container." Ever wondered why cloaked Klingon ships look beaten up? :P
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  17.  @PaulfromChicago  You can only take a breath because you are manning the floatplane's tailgun.
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  18. MUCH better place to serve than the open AA batteries on some ships on the bow, just before the lower of superfiring main turrets. But - as Drach pointed out in one of the Drydocks - these guns were placed in the hope, that your bucket does not have to fight torpedo boats/destroyers, other capital ships AND some aircraft all at once. So, when the main guns were fired, the guncrew could be sheltered somewhere under deck.
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  19. Besides when Horthy was captain and later Rear Admiral, e wanted to fight the Italian Navy but usually only found Royal Navy and the French. Almost never the Italian. Which is a tad embarrassing in the Adriatic :)
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  20. Why, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet just rolls off from your tongue... :)
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  21. Drydrock at 13hrs... Raise steam.. 6+ horus? Raise steam in all coffe machines and tea kettles... :)
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  22. 14:24 "Rather than just being a pinata for anything that comes along with a gun bigger than 6-inches." - actually it was "XP Pinata"
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  23.  @BotanixB  And to ice that cake Lviv, Lwów was Lemberg before. Welcome to Central-East Europe.
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  24.  @waszkreslem9306  Lwów also spent like a century or so in the Habsburg Empire. hence Lemberg in German. Also Ilyvó in old Hungarian.
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  25.  @Drachinifel  Poke with a flamer. A heavy flamer :)
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  26. Rum Ration: 1h24mins Mr O'Hara "fanboying" TO Drach - priceless (no pun intended) :)
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  27. Warning! Explosive content!
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  28.  @AdamMGTF  and the Huns are also written with capital H. Its insulting enough that the British propaganda called the Krauts Huns, instead of us, Hungarians ;) And we receive the Drydock after diner, hence my lust for coffee...
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  29. 0:12:00 - KMS Bismarck vs 10 Leanders - I would throw in at least one year of shakedown costs in fuel, crew pay and ammo, plus the outlook of such theoretical engagement the loss of - say - 2 blown up CLs and a further crew worth in dead on other, damaged ships. And you have to tell it to the govt and the press. Plus also there is the outlook of a fast BB turning tail and running and picking off more, than 2 cruisers before the rest can close in to 6" and later torpedo range.
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  30.  @jimtaylor294  Maybe consult your local Wickers salesman, he might have some 14" available off-the-shelf. After all, British flats are a tad smaller than US ones :)
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  31. 42:00 Also, the Italian Benedetto Brin also exploded in warm Mediterraen weather.
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  32. Steampunk at its best :)
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  33. About a four dozens of them, sailing towards Ancona. :)
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  34. 0:11:00 I guess the first ship named Enterprise sailed on Ferenginar.
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  35. Feels like X-Mas... Oh, wait :)
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  36.  @wolfsoldner9029  Unfortunately, the A-H fleet did suffer coal shortage.
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  37. I would jave compared the Mogadors to the Didos, as the 5,25" gun is more in the league of the French 138mm (cca 40 kg shell weight, instead of the cca 50 kg for the 6" guns) but otherwise agree.
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  38. 3:40 Drach: Food, fuel, ammo and spare parts Altmark: wounded crew, prisoners, prize crew...
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  39.  @sundiver137  I was just half joking when mentioned Budapest. In WWI a few submarines WERE built there. Namely SM U27,28,40 and the U48 (unfinished)
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  40. BZ, its always nice to praise your enemy, it makes your victory sweeter and defeat more tolerable.
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  41. And all events which happened with Ottokár Prohaska actually happened, albeit with different, real people.
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  42. Yeah, one can preserve a tank by smearing thick grease over it, an put it in a shed. Ships do not fit into most sheds.
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  43. I was sipping on my coffee, but "meanwhile in Russia"...
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  44.  @jonathanhill4892  Maybe not authentic French brie, but some German knock-off kase ;)
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  45. 1:24 As for the Norvegian invasion, even a seemingly small factor (Drach even discussed that earlier) like properly working German torpedoes, would have changed the outcome massively. The German player at the table rolled several 1's on many dice...
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  46.  @raulduke6105  You keep the ammo separate from propellant charges, obviously :)
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  47. Thank you for these personal(ish) details, albeit the SMS Sankt Georg "revisited" Rimini in 1915, on the 18th of June, with SMS Szigetvár.
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  48.  @Drachinifel  Once you confessed that you are enacting as a Károlyi (if memory serves).... :)
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  49. Praise be!
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  50. @UNSCForwardontodawn Albeit he fonds of absynthe too.
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