Message from @Reichtangle
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Lets be real here, the British rarely sank German ships
All the famous British "victories" over the Kriegsmarine were the result of the Germans scuttling their vessel.
Even Jutland was a shitshow for Britain
How they managed to be a naval empire for so long fucking bamboozles me
Because Germany ignored them
And America didn't fight them
IIRC France actually overtook them in the Pre-WWI period
And Japan was too far away
Italy was bottled up
Oh god when the Brits fought the Japanese in WWII
Jesus christ the Japs fucked the Brits so badly
whoops we’re both set up for battleship stuff oh god oh fuck they’re better at it than us
The RM fucking dunking all over the RN in the Med even with a command structure that didn't want to lose anything
Because the RM had magnificent ships with trained crews
Any time the RN fought anybody that wasn't a third world nation they got their asses raped.
Even the French Navy put up a better show than the RN
>gets captured in port
>gets scuttled by the allies
“Better show”
*that's the joke*
Also, lets talk about the retarded French copy of the retarded British H-class submarine
Which is what
Wait it's not the H-class
Fuck which one had the giant spinal gun
Yeah the Germans were set up for a kind of "Fleet In Being" with a focus on Capital Ships, Escorts, and Submarines.
America was a mass focus on Escort Fleets and Naval Air Superiority.
The Brits focused on Capital Ships/Dreadnoughts and only Capital Ships and they didn't know what the fuck they were doing.
The Japs were focused on Battleships and Destroyers ***and actually knew what they were doing***
The Italians focused on almost solely Battleships and actually knew how to build damn good ones for the period.
And the Russians kinda had to focus on Destroyers and Light Cruisers due to their retarded geographical setup
Oh surcouf
Japan basically went “right we like the British idea let’s make it more Japanese”
As the nips were wont to do
They also added so many god damn torpedoes
They literally spammed torpedoes
Mimicking the Germans but then taking it even a step farther
“Hey we like the Mauser let’s make it more Japanese”
>most durable bolt action ever
“Hey we like torpedoes”
>Kitakami
Their dd guns were pretty lit
IIRC there's stories where USN ships would be torp by Type 93's over the horizon and thought they had blundered in to a minefield
You know what is sad
The Germans put Torps on almost everything.
The Japs did the same thing, and then added more
But better torpedoes
The big ass French sub that was basically a destroyer/cruiser type deal but, underwater
Depends on the purpose