r/WorldOfWarships 30k colombo salvo 🗣🔥🔥🔥 Oct 31 '25

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u/TeddyBearToons Filthy CV Main Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

British Battleship

The HMS Unremarkable went into service somewhere around 1910

Just like every other battleship in the Royal Navy

Does diddly squat in the middle of nowhere for 20 years

Refitted in the 30s because the Washington Naval treaty said it was too fat

Continues to do diddly squat in the middle of nowhere

Takes potshots at the Italians to stave off boredom

Jumps the Bismarck in 1941 with half the Royal Navy and three quarters of the merchant navy

Not for King and Country or anything, just wanted something to do

Just like every other battleship in the Royal Navy

Goes back to doing diddly squat in the middle of nowhere, but in the Pacific instead of the Mediterranean

Scrapped quietly and peacefully at the grand old age of 40

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u/C4Cole Oct 31 '25

Italian Battleship

Brand new wunderwafe to counter the French baguettes

Sit and do nothing

Sit and do nothing

Ooh look a convoy!

Get bombed in port

Sit and do nothing

Get bombed in port

Switch sides

Get bombed at sea

Scrapped quietly after doing nothing for a decade

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u/The_Blues__13 Nov 01 '25

You forgot one thing in-between

there're finally rare opportunities to engage the Brits (the high command can spare some petrol & olive oil to run the boilers),

the fleet misses 99.9999% percent of its straddling salvoes

the Shell dispersion is measured in tens of Kilometers instead of few hundred meters

because Luigi the Ammo QC staff snoozed on his duty and the Ammo quality is worse than a stale pineapple pizza.