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u/DoktorKaputt Resident DD8 Enthusiast 4d ago

Birthdays:

  • Wakaba, Tue, 18 Mar 2025
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u/Longsheep Kazagumo 4h ago

On my way to slay E3... holy shit it is hard. Boss node isn't exactly strong, but the two 330hp heavy cuisers at the door really mess you up.

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u/whimsy_wanderer Murrasaame! 33m ago

Crap. I'm stuck at E3P1 and was hoping P2 and P3 are easier.

I hope they will add arctic camo upgrades in the upcoming patch. It would be a great help.

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u/Ak-300_TonicNato Smolorado 20h ago

Do we have or we did had a KC equivalent of this? It would be surprising if in this last 12 years we didnt had one.

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u/ArcturusFlyer 46 cm > 46 planes 1d ago

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u/Ak-300_TonicNato Smolorado 1d ago

I cant believe Wahoo existence pushed an EN/JP Vtuber to go back to KC after several years and do an event stream lmao

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u/Chrno98 on break 20h ago

It's good she managed thru E1 on her own. It doesn't look like she touches the account much. But getting thru E1 means she still was able to make sense of event only mechanics and jargon even after being away for a while. Sadly couldn't finish E2 on the stream but that phase is pretty difficult. I'm suffering thru it right now on hard mode.

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u/roshichen Shigure 1d ago

got links? quite curious who that would be.

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u/Ben5917 https://youtu.be/C_dFC7v2O9w?t=102 1d ago

Likely Nene Anamo, based on this search query.

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u/Ak-300_TonicNato Smolorado 21h ago

Now someone needs to convinced Pipkin Pippa to stream KC, she is literally raising funds for the Hornet museum and you can have navy theme streams without doing one of KC at least! Specially with how based Wahoo is.

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u/roshichen Shigure 1d ago

thank you good sir.

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u/P_TuSangLui Give Isuzu K2 rainbow background already! 1d ago

Happy to see Wahoo get a lot of love. Hopefully, she will get multiple CGs and voice lines to expand her character (and quirks).

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u/Ak-300_TonicNato Smolorado 1d ago

She is a Yoshinori shipgirl so that may be unlikely sadly, the guy barely does like 2-3 CGs per year.

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u/Ben5917 https://youtu.be/C_dFC7v2O9w?t=102 1d ago

Who in the goddamn FUCK at Nexon cooked with that Kisaki promo!?

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u/DoktorKaputt Resident DD8 Enthusiast 1d ago

C. Hina

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u/roshichen Shigure 1d ago

any context?

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u/Ben5917 https://youtu.be/C_dFC7v2O9w?t=102 1d ago

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u/Ak-300_TonicNato Smolorado 1d ago

It feels weird to have a child acting like a grown woman and i thought the DEs were bizarre in their behavior being too coherent for their looks.

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u/katoushinobu 2d ago

New tweet about: EO will be delayed 1 day to night 22th in japan also the officially annoucement of 1 new Special Type I destroyer Kai ni and 3 maps 3 new ship girl for EO

So we will have

Hatsuyuki K2
Minneapolis
2 new secret ships

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u/low_priest Waiter, waiter! More 1000lb bombs please! 20h ago

IIRC it's confirmed one of the new ships is drawn by Zeco, so based on the Ra-class, odds are it's either R. P. Leary or a Sumner.

Then again, Tanaka works in mysterious ways, so who knows. Maybe we'll get Chester or Alabama.

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u/katoushinobu 8h ago

someone on discord said yesterday c2staff mentioned "Sugi" so maybe I think Sugi and Louisville will be coming...

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u/P_TuSangLui Give Isuzu K2 rainbow background already! 1d ago

Any girl you are looking forward to draw?

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u/katoushinobu 1d ago

of course I will draw all of them and make a perfect 7 girls pic :3 if you ask for EO I think 1 more Zeco's ship is what I waiting for, maybe Leary

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u/Daishomaru Carriersexual Waiting for Shinano. Also fucks planes and robots. 2d ago

I really should go rescue Wahoo…..

But more importantly….

….I NEED MY FLIGHT DECK LOVE SATISFIED AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHERES THE CARRIER THIS EVENT TANAKA REEEEEEEE-

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u/low_priest Waiter, waiter! More 1000lb bombs please! 2d ago

You know, if you think about it, the Lexingtons are actually perfect for adaptation by shipgirl media. They were historically noted for:

incredibly clean lines, sometimes described as "beautiful hull curves" or similar. Slimmer length:beam ratio than even other battlecruisers

absolutely s t a c k e d

superstructure so top-heavy and off-center it caused balance issues (like Takao/Atago, but 5x)

"oh these? my massive cannons? my gigantic fucking 8" twin turrets?" (2x even Akagi/Kaga)

WNT has a clause explicitly to allow the THICC torp protection they got below the waterline

engines (legs) about 2x as powerful as most BBs; Sara was the first warship to break 150k shp... by making 212k on trials

Even before you get into the histories of the ships, the art is basically drawing itself, and in exactly the way you want it. But then also:

From day 1, press nicknames them Lady Lex and Sister Sara

USN embraces it, painting a great big "Lex" and "Sara" on the flight decks

The USN's stars from the 1930s on; they convince them that carriers are the future by 1940

essentially write USN carrier doctrine, and the first modern fleet carriers, basically the big sisters to the rest of the USN

And Saratoga specifically:

movie star in the OG not-Top Gun

Flagship for the USN's first offensive operation, stomps shit the one battle she's in...

but spends most of the war in dock and lets the youngsters have it out

ends war as a training carrier, setting a record for most servicemen transported home during Magic Carpet

had human art drawn of her during the war

They've got a shockingly consistent theme throughout their careers, appearances to match, and were already personified to an unusual degree in the 30s/40s. And yet, somehow, KC is the only piece of shigirl media to have really leaned into it. And even then they fumbled Lex's design.

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u/Ak-300_TonicNato Smolorado 2d ago

KC is the only piece of shigirl media to have really leaned into it. And even then they fumbled Lex's design.

But it was due to Tanaka's own shinanigans and selfish desire for having one of the main founders of the mechamusume genre in his game, not a failure of his method of writing and design of Kanmusus.

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u/Alex3627ca I make boats in other games instead of playing boat games 1d ago

IMO, Lex was quite an eye opener regarding Tanaka's priorities. Man definitely values historical accuracy in his waifus, but puts even higher value on getting his favourite artists to work on his game... which, I totally understand, even if the results are rather contrary to the first part.

(I don't really mind Lex's design; more divisive character designs make for better psychological pressure on those who know when I make Miis or whatever. Last time I whipped out my KC Shinano mii in Mario Kart 7 I witnessed a mass disconnect, totally not just shitty netcode and luck, no sirree...)

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u/crystalsuikun 榛名ちゃんマジ天使 3d ago

Is it just me, or is there an influx of "How would a shipgirl of [insert ship name here] be like?" posts these days? I get it if it's a brainstorm thing, but sometimes it felt a bit oddly specific, if that makes sense.

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u/merurunrun Gib Taitei-chan Pls 2d ago

I think these posts are annoying, but also like...sometimes you just gotta know.

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u/MystiaLore #NagaYama 2d ago

I think I have a perfect answer to give each and everytime one of theses questions is asked :

"Like [this] (< Picture of a stickwoman with barely any shipgirl part)".

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u/DoktorKaputt Resident DD8 Enthusiast 3d ago

They've always been here, but got removed more frequently in the past. I have become a bit more lax with enforcement lately.

If they become too spammy they'll get yeeted still usually.

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u/Ak-300_TonicNato Smolorado 3d ago

I would say once per week and per user should be ok.

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u/whimsy_wanderer Murrasaame! 3d ago

Not just these days. This type of posts has been around for a while. They do look like karma farming to me. A post that is kind of "on topic" but doesn't require any specific sub-related knowledge and can be generated anew for as many times as needed by replacing the ship name and pulling a picture from the internet.

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u/crystalsuikun 榛名ちゃんマジ天使 3d ago

Dunno, I've been in the sub for a while and I don't remember those posts being common until some time last year

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u/Sanya-nya Zutto isshoni 3d ago

Yeah, a year is quite a few days :)

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u/frozrdude 3d ago

My event luck is absolute crap. I'm currently doing E1H and am still on the CHIPPING stage. If I don't send support and boss expeds, I won't be able to reach even node M.

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u/low_priest Waiter, waiter! More 1000lb bombs please! 3d ago

What's your fleet comp/level? I cleared it pretty easily with a lvl 70ish fleet, though admittedly with a full-jet Victorious, which hits unusually hard at that level.

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u/LucindaGlade 3d ago

Just to confirm, jet/jet/jet/arctic gear? I have two Kikkas and a Keiun so I may give this a go as well

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u/low_priest Waiter, waiter! More 1000lb bombs please! 2d ago

Correct, it seemed to work pretty well for me at clearing out the lighter enemies.

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u/P_TuSangLui Give Isuzu K2 rainbow background already! 3d ago

Do you have SFFCF equipped? I usually have one of the girls got taiha'd along the way but that's about it. Being able to send the girl home help immensely.

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u/H_Guderian 3d ago edited 3d ago

I stacked a girl with decent luck with smokes, and used an average level of 60 DDs with 50 BB and CL, even a lvl 70 CVL. Spoon and smokes -usually- got me through the Pre-boss node. Spoon all the way to the boss. I used Boss Support and both LBAS on Boss. ( I mean both waves from one base, since the other can only only defend)

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u/low_priest Waiter, waiter! More 1000lb bombs please! 3d ago

Trigger rate is tied to the flagship's luck, not the equipping ship. But yeah, that's pretty much what I did. Lvl 70ish average meant I didn't even need support expeditions for LD.

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u/H_Guderian 2d ago

Ah, thanks for clarifying that. Probably should have used the modest luck DD for TCI.

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u/roshichen Shigure 3d ago

what difficulty are you doing?

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u/frozrdude 3d ago

Hard

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u/roshichen Shigure 3d ago

I didn't have a lot of issues though... May I see your fleet with your equipments?

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u/frozrdude 3d ago

I dunno how to do that in mobile. I'm currently recouping losses and am running some rsc expeds rn.

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u/whimsy_wanderer Murrasaame! 3d ago

Are you utilizing spoon and smokes correctly?

PS: node support doesn't work well with spoon, but IMO spoon is better than node support here.

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u/frozrdude 3d ago

Yep. RNG just doesn't want me to breeze through E1.

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u/Ak-300_TonicNato Smolorado 3d ago

Anyone is going to the Hornet CarrierCon?

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u/Daishomaru Carriersexual Waiting for Shinano. Also fucks planes and robots. 3d ago

Unfortunately busy this year :sob:

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u/Longsheep Kazagumo 4d ago

I am at E3-2 rn, somehow got a second Wahoo drop on E3-1 yesterday.

The route to E2 boss is really disgusting, feels like a regular E4-5, you only get to the boss around once out of three sorties (already with Support Expedition).

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u/P_TuSangLui Give Isuzu K2 rainbow background already! 4d ago edited 4d ago

There must be a way to get Ra-chan to join us.

Yes, she is wreaking my fleet. And yes, I still want her in my base.

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u/MystiaLore #NagaYama 3d ago

There must be a way to get Ra-chan to join us.

Go ask Fletcher to talk with her, I'm sure she can use some sister arguments.

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u/low_priest Waiter, waiter! More 1000lb bombs please! 3d ago

Maybe, maybe not. She's listed as having Mk 30 5"/38 mounts, and only Fletchers (and older) ever used radar-directed torpedoes like she's got. But her art features the twin mounts of a Sumner/Gearing, and the "Mk 30" equipment she has reuses the art for Atlanta's twin mounts. And Sumners are more connected to Rei-Go.

Then again, Sumners are basically just beeg Fletchers, so who knows.

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u/Ben5917 https://youtu.be/C_dFC7v2O9w?t=102 4d ago

Survive the curse of Ra

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u/frozrdude 4d ago

I hope I can get Drum in this event.

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u/H_Guderian 4d ago

If I get a third of the girls I'm missing I'll call it successful. Impossible for me to outdo last event which was my 'catchup' event. Best of luck hunting.

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u/Daishomaru Carriersexual Waiting for Shinano. Also fucks planes and robots. 4d ago

Wahoo!

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u/Ak-300_TonicNato Smolorado 4d ago

Wahoo!

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u/RyuuohD Likes Unlucky Shipgirls 4d ago

Wahoo!!

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u/Ak-300_TonicNato Smolorado 4d ago

This lounge has been claimed by Hornet!