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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 7:15:02 PM   
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In our second semi-final we have:

Hood vs Scharnhorst


HMS Hood … obviously.



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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 8:08:32 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 8:36:47 PM   
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Dunkerque vs Alaska

My vote goes to USS Alaska.




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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 8:44:09 PM   
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Hood vs Scharnhorst

My vote goes to Scharnhorst.

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 9:41:47 PM   
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Hood vs Scharnhorst

My vote goes to Scharnhorst.












Not to be a nitpicker. But a ship that can swap between 3 x 3 turrets and 4 x 2 is pretty damn cool


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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 9:46:05 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 9:52:11 PM   
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Hood vs Scharnhorst

My vote goes to Scharnhorst.












Not to be a nitpicker. But a ship that can swap between 3 x 3 turrets and 4 x 2 is pretty damn cool


Scharnhorst is indeed so cool that she can easily be camouflaged to look like Bismarck.

Thank you for noticing that I had uploaded the wrong picture.

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 10:03:35 PM   
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Not to be a nitpicker. But a ship that can swap between 3 x 3 turrets and 4 x 2 is pretty damn cool


I think this was one of Germanys most secret weapons of WWII. Being able to swap turrets within 24hrs or if the need arose during the night using all the available crew. The original plan was devious. It was hoped the allies would think they had a larger enemy fleet opposing them, thus forcing the allied fleets to stay in port rather than facing a stronger foe. It was also meant to decive allied float plane pilots into giving different radio reports on enemy ships sighted, thus creating a chaos in the Admirality.

The major flaw to this weapon was the enormous storage space needed for such guns and turrets. In the end the decission was made to sent the ships to sea with a traditional set of guns and turrets. A genial plan was scraped because German ships were just too small for the extra weapons.

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My vote goes to the Hood and Alaska.

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 10:25:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		Swapping turrets was Raeder's brilliant idea. But Hitler insisted that the ships also be able to launch V-2 missiles, and Werner Von Braun got seasick on the trials.

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 10:34:37 PM   
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A genial plan was scraped because German ships were just too small for the extra weapons.

They tried to overcome this issue by storing the extra weapons on land.




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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/5/2012 10:43:39 PM   
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A genial plan was scraped because German ships were just too small for the extra weapons.

They tried to overcome this issue by storing the extra weapons on land.






Had to laugh at the above comment.

Orm you might be right, the coast of Western Europe was a massive storage area for the German Fleet.

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/6/2012 12:06:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		well during a storm etc it wouldn't have mattered whether it had carried 3 or 4 turrets - as I believe A turret was always under water... a truly ingenious design..... (I hope I remember it correctly - might also have been the aft turret - so I stand corrected if so...)


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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/6/2012 7:19:38 AM   
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Time for an update. No change to the battleship competition. Sadly a few peeps have voted on other threads, ignoring my requests to vote here so..... Oh well, I've flogged that horse to death - think I'll give up on that .

Right then where are we chez battlecruiser semi-finals?

Most Beautiful Fast Battleship of WWII

Group 1

Bismarck (7) Orm, fodder, MAurelius, Empire101, parusski, bradfordkay, th1207
Vittorio Veneto (6) Chickenboy, cohimbra, borner, oldman45, geofflambert, Jimm
HMS King George V (5) warspite1, redcoat, british exil, sprior, jeffK

Group 2

USS Iowa (8) warspite1, Orm, parusski, Chickenboy, MAurelius, british exil, JeffK, geofflambert
Yamato (7) fodder, cohimbra, Empire101, borner, bradfordkay, th1207, oldman45
Richelieu (3) redcoat, sprior, Jimm

Most Beautiful Battlecruiser of WWII

Semi-final 1
Alaska (7) fodder, Chickenboy, MAurelius, parusski, bradfordkay, Orm, british exil
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Dunkerque (3) Empire101, warspite1, redcoat

Semi-final 2
Hood (7) Empire 101, MAurelius, parusski, warspite1, redcoat, bradfordkay, british exil
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Scharnhorst (3) fodder, Chickenboy, Orm

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/6/2012 12:32:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Getting back to Battleships, there was a very good Aussie series (I think) on them that is on these DVDs. Check out the ratings...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-History-Battleship-Dreadnoughts/dp/B00005Q64W/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1354796216&sr=8-4&keywords=Battleships+dvd

http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-History-Battleship-Present/dp/B00005Q64X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1354796216&sr=8-2&keywords=Battleships+dvd

Cheers, Neilster

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/6/2012 2:55:40 PM   
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Alaska

Hood

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/6/2012 3:57:48 PM   
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Hope I am not too late,

Alaska

Hood
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No, not too late oldman45 - and thanks for voting

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/6/2012 4:51:22 PM   
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Tirpitz for BB

group 2 Richelieu

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/6/2012 11:28:13 PM   
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Alaska and then Scharnhorst.


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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/7/2012 10:13:02 AM   
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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/7/2012 11:50:09 AM   
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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/7/2012 6:30:29 PM   
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Yamato and Renown class for their impressive superstructures.
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Renown-class?

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/7/2012 6:36:57 PM   
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Yamato and Renown class for their impressive superstructures.
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Renown-class?


Be nice.

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/7/2012 6:43:04 PM   
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Yamato and Renown class for their impressive superstructures.
warspite1

Renown-class?


Be nice.
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I am simply seeking clarification of what icepharmy is voting for.

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/7/2012 6:56:51 PM   
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I am simply seeking clarification of what icepharmy is voting for.


I dunno. I smell a well oiled trap...

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/7/2012 7:00:36 PM   
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I am simply seeking clarification of what icepharmy is voting for.


I dunno. I smell a well oiled trap...
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Not at all, I am very pleased that people can be arsed to come and vote in these competitions.

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/7/2012 7:05:06 PM   
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I am simply seeking clarification of what icepharmy is voting for.


I dunno. I smell a well oiled trap...
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Not at all, I am very pleased that people can be arsed to come and vote in these competitions.


And so am I. I am looking forward to the day this thread is admitted to the Internet Forum Hall of Fame, in the Thread With The Most Views in History.

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/7/2012 7:17:02 PM   
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I am simply seeking clarification of what icepharmy is voting for.


I dunno. I smell a well oiled trap...
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Not at all, I am very pleased that people can be arsed to come and vote in these competitions.


And so am I. I am looking forward to the day this thread is admitted to the Internet Forum Hall of Fame, in the Thread With The Most Views in History.
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Well the Music thread has something of a lead on this one. I would just be satisfied if I can get a good number prepared to vote.....

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/7/2012 9:15:58 PM   
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Less than 24 hours to go before the Fast Battleship contest comes to a close. It looks like an Axis Fanboi's wet dream at the moment with the likely final to be Yamato vs Bismarck

Most Beautiful Fast Battleship of WWII

Group 1

Bismarck (9) Orm, fodder, MAurelius, Empire101, parusski, bradfordkay, th1207, tigercub, John 3rd
Vittorio Veneto (7) Chickenboy, cohimbra, borner, oldman45, geofflambert, Jimm, Dili
HMS King George V (5) warspite1, redcoat, british exil, sprior, jeffK

Group 2

Yamato (9) fodder, cohimbra, Empire101, borner, bradfordkay, th1207, oldman45, John 3rd, icepharmy
USS Iowa (8) warspite1, Orm, parusski, Chickenboy, MAurelius, british exil, JeffK, geofflambert
Richelieu (4) redcoat, sprior, Jimm, tigercub

Most Beautiful Battlecruiser of WWII

Semi-final 1
Alaska (9) fodder, Chickenboy, MAurelius, parusski, bradfordkay, Orm, british exil, oldman45, John 3rd
vs
Dunkerque (3) Empire101, warspite1, redcoat

Semi-final 2
Hood (8) Empire 101, MAurelius, parusski, warspite1, redcoat, bradfordkay, british exil, oldman45
vs
Scharnhorst (5) fodder, Chickenboy, Orm, tigercub, John 3rd


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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/8/2012 4:46:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		And so the voting comes to an end in the Fast Battleship competition. The Grand Final will be between the Axis leviathans - Bismarck vs Yamato.

But that's for later. Meantime we still have the battlecruiser contest open and we begin the next contest:

Most beautiful Inter-war Heavy Cruiser. Two groups of three again for this one - please vote once in each group.

Here comes the draw....

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RE: Australian Beauties - 12/8/2012 4:48:19 AM   
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First out of the hat its..... Algerie (France)






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