Why did everyone spergout about the bismarck? It was a big and modern ship sure, but it's just a single ship, the entire royal navy is bigger and meaner than it.
Why did everyone spergout about the bismarck? It was a big and modern ship sure, but it's just a single ship...
Michael Roberts
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Lincoln Jones
It was more a panic about what it could do to a supply convoy.
Ian Rogers
>Why did everyone spergout about the bismarck?
They wanted to sink it before it could slam some merchants.
Cooper Gutierrez
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Jose Hernandez
Donitz should have known that raw Swordfish would give him botulism.
Aaron Wright
This was before everyone realized that Battleships were obsolete. The way they understood it, the Bismarck was a massive threat to merchant shipping (the only thing keeping Britain in the war). And the fact that one of the first things the Bismarck accomplished was to sink the Hood, really cemented it's position as enemy number one to the Royal Navy.
Jaxon Evans
If the Bmarks guns out ranged the Brits it could sink every fkn ship on the ocean. Fortunately Hitler had no carriers
Christopher Johnson
>It was a big and modern ship
Not particularly. It was a well-designed and engineered treaty battleship, not some kind of new superweapon. Thing is, it was fast. That made it a merchant ship killer from hell, *potentially.* Which freaked the Brits the fuck out.
Jeremiah Russell
Except American battleships of the time
Jaxon Campbell
It's continued existence threatened British supply lines, made impossible a naval landing in Germany or Scandinavia, and threatened to violently annihilate any British capital ships caught alone or without sufficient backup, as with the Hood. It also compromised antisubmarine or mine sweeping operations, being able to sink lone or small groups of minesweepers or destroyers with virtual impunity. This also applied to the Tirpitz, which is why the British went to such lengths to sink her even though the Germans were wary of using her operationally.
That and vengeance for the Hood, in Bismarck's case.
Another thing to consider is that they wanted to destroy Germany's surface fleet as quickly adn as efficiently as possible, and Bismarck was the centerpiece of it. Jutland had been a British victory in that their blockade was not broken, but that victory had come at the cost over roughly 200% more ships and men lost than the Kaisermarine. The British understandably wanted to avoid such a Pyrrhic victory against the Kreigsmarine.
Tyler Gonzalez
>laughing pacific battleships
Parker Sanders
SINK THE BISMARCK
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Gavin Taylor
Bismarck sank their pride and joy so bongs wanted to sink theirs, which was the Bismarck. Also the merchants ships thing.
Carson Jackson
And what would those US ships "of the time" (aka may 7th, 1941) be?
Ignoring the fact that the US was practicing the ostrich policy at the time and didn't took part in the war.
You could have said Littorio or Richelieu, but those aren't 'murrican...
You fucking wankers are worst than wehraboos. It may be shitty wunderwaffen fiction, but at least the sturmcucks do read from time to time.
James Hernandez
If we were actually in the war then? 2 north Carolina's and 2-3 south Dakota (assuming a slight increase in build time to get the ships out) else just the 2 Carolinas.
Lincoln Brooks
Woops plus 8 other ww1/inter war bbs so quiet a few battleships
Leo Long
Shows up sinks a British capital ship apparently easily (Bismark 41,000 tons The BC Hood 46,000 tons). The response dial goes up to 11. The idea is if it gets out into the Atlantic most of the fleet will have to find it and sink it. At that point the the channel is cross-able by Germany with simple methods like Dunkirk since pretty much every major Brit ship will have to go hunting. If they don't every convoy is at risk, if they do then they have no channel presence. They had no idea how useful air power was at the time. The concept that airplanes alone could sink a battleship was considered unlikely. (The Fairey Swordfish managed to damage the Bismark enough to let surface forces catch up and engage it.) With crippled steering gear it could not really get away but it still managed to survive versus 2 Brit BBs and 2 Hvy CA. Even out numbered they literally pounded it till the deck was awash as a tribute to how tough a well built battleship was. It was designed originally to the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty 35,000 tons but ended up at 41,000 tons ultimately.
Charles Davis
> US ships "of the time" (aka may 7th, 1941) be?You know North Carolina was commissioned April 9th, so technically...
Henry Torres
This.
Look at the resources the Tirpitz tied up just being anchored in Norway.
Blake Gutierrez
>Why did everyone spergout about the bismarck?
propaganda
like literally everything else the british did in WW2, it was an overblown lie intended to spook the public into supporting the war
Nathan Diaz
>At that point the the channel is cross-able by Germany
Lol no. The British would not devote enough resources to catch a lone commerce raider that they would lose control of the Channel. The Bismarck always has to come back to occupied Europe once it's expended its ammunition and fuel.
Joshua Wilson
>At that point the the channel is cross-able by Germany with simple methods like Dunkirk since pretty much every major Brit ship will have to go hunting.
Jeremiah Lewis
It had guns big as steers, and shells as big as trees.
Isaac Phillips
Noah Ramirez
We gotta sink the bismark to the bottom of the see!
Andrew Reed
In May of nineteen forty-one the war had just begun
The Germans had the biggest ship, they had the biggest guns
The Bismarck was the fastest ship that ever sailed the sea
On her deck were guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees
Cameron Mitchell
Out of the cold and foggy night came the British ship, the Hood
And every British seaman, he knew and understood
They had to sink the Bismarck, the terror of the sea
Stop those guns as big as steers and those shells as big as trees
Cooper Hernandez
We'll find the German battleship that's makin' such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismarck cause the world depends on us
Hit the decks a-runnin' boys and spin those guns around
When we find the Bismarck we gotta cut her down
Matthew Myers
The Hood found the Bismarck on that fatal day
The Bismarck started firin' fifteen miles away
"We gotta sink the Bismarck" was the battle sound
But when the smoke had cleared away, the mighty Hood went down
For six long days and weary nights they tried to find her trail
Churchill told the people "put every ship a-sail
'Cause somewhere on that ocean I know she's gotta be
We gotta sink the Bismarck to the bottom of the sea"
Nicholas Price
We'll find that German battleship that's makin' such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us
Hit the decks a-runnin' boys and spin those guns around
When we find the Bismarck we gotta cut her down
The fog was gone the seventh day and they saw the mornin' sun
Ten hours away from homeland the Bismarck made its run
The admiral of the British fleet said "turn those bows around
We found that German battleship and we're gonna cut her down"
Colton Bell
This along with the fact that it blasted the Hood back to the Bronze Age.
Robert Wright
The British guns were aimed and the shells were comin' fast
The first shell hit the Bismarck, they knew she couldn't last
That mighty German battleship is just a memory
"Sink the Bismarck" was the battle cry that shook the seven seas
We found that German battleship been makin' such a fuss
We had to sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us
We hit the deck a-runnin' and we spun those guns around
Yeah, we found the mighty Bismarck and prepared to cut her down
We found that German battleship been makin' such a fuss
We had to sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us
We hit the deck a-runnin' and we spun those guns around
We found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down
Jayden Cruz
In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in a town in New Orleans
We fired our guns and the British kep a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
We looked down a river
And we see'd the British come
And there must have been a hundred of'em
Beatin' on the drums
Justin Wright
They stepped so high
And they made their bugles ring
We stood by our cotton bales
And didn't say a thing
We fired our guns and the British kep a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't fire our muskets
'Till we looked 'em in the eyes
We held our fire
'Till we see'd their faces well
Then we opened up our squirrel guns
And really gave 'em - well we
Alexander Johnson
Fired our guns and the British kep a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Yeah, they ran through the briars
And they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes
Where the rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast
That the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind
Lincoln Brooks
We fired our guns and the British kep a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Yeah, they ran through the briars
And they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes
Where the rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast
That the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Hut-two-three-four
Sound off, three-four
Hut-two-three-four
Sound off, three-four
Hut-two-three-four
Hut-two-three-four.
Logan Rodriguez
Bump
Cooper Anderson
Every British seaman knew and understood, user
Zachary Collins
Not to mention the fact that once they started shitting out Jeep carriers, they probably would have started attaching them to convoys as well. Maybe sending over a couple Essexes to make the big blue swinging dick bigger, bluer and swingier
Blake Hughes
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