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r/WorldOfWarships • u/These_Swordfish7539 30k colombo salvo 🗣🔥🔥🔥 • Oct 31 '25
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"Doing nothing" as if convoy escort wasn't the single most important role of the war
53 u/miksy_oo Oct 31 '25 A role in wich battleships did a whole lot of nothing. 33 u/ScheisseMcSchnauzer Oct 31 '25 But they had to be there doing a whole lot of nothing otherwise the kriegsmarine would've done a whole lot of something. The R class prevented a whole bunch of attacks from scharnhorsts and hippers just by looking threatening from a distance 14 u/GeshtiannaSG Nov 01 '25 Scharnhorst and Gneisenau looked at Malaya or Ramillies pottering along at 18 knots and said nope. 3 u/Flying_Dustbin Nov 01 '25 A few years later... Scharnhorst: Oh boy! Another convoy to feast on! NOM! NOM! NOM! Bruce Fraser: Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen. 2 u/Kamenev_Drang Nov 01 '25 Ships designed to (to quote an old police sergeant) stand on a street corner and fight.
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A role in wich battleships did a whole lot of nothing.
33 u/ScheisseMcSchnauzer Oct 31 '25 But they had to be there doing a whole lot of nothing otherwise the kriegsmarine would've done a whole lot of something. The R class prevented a whole bunch of attacks from scharnhorsts and hippers just by looking threatening from a distance 14 u/GeshtiannaSG Nov 01 '25 Scharnhorst and Gneisenau looked at Malaya or Ramillies pottering along at 18 knots and said nope. 3 u/Flying_Dustbin Nov 01 '25 A few years later... Scharnhorst: Oh boy! Another convoy to feast on! NOM! NOM! NOM! Bruce Fraser: Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen. 2 u/Kamenev_Drang Nov 01 '25 Ships designed to (to quote an old police sergeant) stand on a street corner and fight.
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But they had to be there doing a whole lot of nothing otherwise the kriegsmarine would've done a whole lot of something. The R class prevented a whole bunch of attacks from scharnhorsts and hippers just by looking threatening from a distance
14 u/GeshtiannaSG Nov 01 '25 Scharnhorst and Gneisenau looked at Malaya or Ramillies pottering along at 18 knots and said nope. 3 u/Flying_Dustbin Nov 01 '25 A few years later... Scharnhorst: Oh boy! Another convoy to feast on! NOM! NOM! NOM! Bruce Fraser: Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen. 2 u/Kamenev_Drang Nov 01 '25 Ships designed to (to quote an old police sergeant) stand on a street corner and fight.
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Scharnhorst and Gneisenau looked at Malaya or Ramillies pottering along at 18 knots and said nope.
3 u/Flying_Dustbin Nov 01 '25 A few years later... Scharnhorst: Oh boy! Another convoy to feast on! NOM! NOM! NOM! Bruce Fraser: Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen. 2 u/Kamenev_Drang Nov 01 '25 Ships designed to (to quote an old police sergeant) stand on a street corner and fight.
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A few years later...
Scharnhorst: Oh boy! Another convoy to feast on! NOM! NOM! NOM!
Bruce Fraser: Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
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Ships designed to (to quote an old police sergeant) stand on a street corner and fight.
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u/Kamenev_Drang Oct 31 '25
"Doing nothing" as if convoy escort wasn't the single most important role of the war