(A comedy of errors in the 1/144 WCC)
from Greg McFadden,WCC
Three Fleets converged for battle, intent on maximizing
the damage to the
Opposing fleet.
Fleet A consisted of Phill (Mutsu), B consisted of Kieth
and Kara?? (Fleet unknown), and fleet C consisted of
George and Greg
(Yamashiro and Yamato).
The Mutsu converged in the
and waited for her enemies to show... and waited...
and waited...
The Yamato and Yamashiro prepped and ready for battle
arrived on the scene
prepared for them and discovered that the south pacific
had been filled in
and made to look more natural. They muttered their displeasure at not
finding the warm water waiting for them... They waited for a bit and then
decided to see if anyone had shown up at Midway. They made a brief stop off
on the way for some Asian food and some Krispy Kreme
Doughnuts. Apparently
around this time, Kieth and
fleet B arrived and discovered the same thing
and left. Arriving at midway and still not finding
anyone to battle, the
treacherous Yamashiro
turned on her admiral's flagship.
Luckily, this had
been foreseen and all but the
two aft guns were disabled.
After about 45 minutes of setup and with barley 1/3 filled
co2 tanks the two
ships departed port and engaged
each other. Yamato had misfiring trouble
on
her starboard sidemounts (later determined to be debris in the piston)
which resulted in her port sidemounts being available along with the triple
sterns. Yamato also noticed an interesting design
flaw... the wake well
right behind the ship is high
enough that at Flank speed the sterns hit the
well, (this will be corrected
before the next battle) instead of going on...
(the well is higher than the main
deck, what a wake) Yamashiro
had
discovered that she only had
sterns... and that the Yamato while not
having
quite as tight a turning circle
at speed, could make a 180 degree turn much
faster. With this, the only thing left for the Yamato
to do was to chase
the enemy...
Needless to say, Yamato emptied her triple sterns with
some good hits on the
Yamashiro, but the additional
experience of her captain and ship along with
the blood lust on the part of
the Yamato and her new hull (as opposed to a
holed and unpatched
hull that made counting impossible on the Yamashiro)
insured that while neither ship
was in danger, it was the Yamashiro that
would officially win the day.
Now onto the technical details. Yamato is getting her sidemounts
changed,
Yamashiro is being
decommissioned to be replaced with the Musashi. The new
***************CENSORED************ sheeting method,
consisting of
***************Censored************** worked flawlessly and no gashes were
made in the Yamato despite many
off angle hits. This new method resulted
in
a less splinterable
balsa. Details to be
shared with all axis captains.
The new cannon design is now in revision 2 , the Yamato has revision 1a guns
which work fine but revision 2
makes for easier tweaking and lower tolerance
requirements on the breech. Yamato is being refit with revision 2 cannons
on the sidemounts
(the triple sterns are fine and work so they will be left
alone).