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"YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/9/2005 2:46:09 AM   
Titanwarrior89


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Status: offline 		Mine just happened. Forgot too set home port for Napa and the ai decided to send them all too TOKYO BAY (All most-while enroute to SF) Next thing I know i've got sinking ships everywhere.

CA Sunk, CL sunk, 5 AK's sunk, and 4 limping too Napa. Dog still hiding in the bedroom from the "Loud words" of grief.

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/9/2005 4:48:45 AM   
Dutchgy2000


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Status: offline 		So it used half your taskforce as artificial reefs to block the entrance to Tokio Bay? WOW... now thats inovative, never knew the AI to be THAT good in comming up with new tactics

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/10/2005 1:35:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		The Allies did it at St. Nazaire (sp) in France in 43. Scuttled an old CA in the mouth of the port to shut it down. Just tell the Admiral that this was your plan all along and you will get a medal instead of a court martial.

< Message edited by RUPD3658 -- 2/9/2005 6:35:12 PM >

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/10/2005 1:58:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		Actually they used an ex-US four-piper DD stuffed with tons of high explosives to ram the lock of the Normandie dock and blow it to pieces, in March 1942.

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/10/2005 2:21:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		Don't forget all the French and British WWI dreadnoughts scuttled at Normandy as a breakwater.

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/10/2005 3:14:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		A Brit DD (HMS Campbelltown) was used to ram the dock.

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/10/2005 3:21:01 AM   
RUPD3658


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ORIGINAL: Tankerace

Don't forget all the French and British WWI dreadnoughts scuttled at Normandy as a breakwater.


And all the French ships scuttled by the British at Oran......well sort of scuttled.

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/10/2005 1:27:54 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

A Brit DD (HMS Campbelltown) was used to ram the dock.


Which was an ex us 4 stanker...

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/10/2005 1:47:35 PM   
Delphinium

 

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/10/2005 2:17:08 PM   
tsimmonds


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an ex us 4 stanker...


<sprayin' coffee>

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/10/2005 4:16:16 PM   
Freedom205

 

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RE: "YOUR WORST FLOAT BY's" - 2/10/2005 8:54:48 PM   
mikemike

 

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Status: offline 		I think he mixed in the Zeebrugge/Oostende raids from WWI, where the RN sank some old cruisers to block the German subs in their base in Brugge.

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