The Drydock – Episode 192 (Live Segment) – 4th March 2022



Answering Patreon Alt-History and What-if’s, then general questions

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21 thoughts on “The Drydock – Episode 192 (Live Segment) – 4th March 2022”

  1. 1:19:45 "You know, stuff it, Im gonna sail straight into the harbor, shoot all my guns, launch all my torpedoes, and if neither of those will sink those battlecruisers, Im gonna ram each of my armored cruisers head first straight into their side."
    Yeah, I can see the Royal Navy absolutely lose this battle, if Von Spee didnt lose his courage all of a sudden…

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  2. Good luck with your flights! Year bqy year, they find new ways to make security checks and checking in take longer, and my advice is to have a book to read when you wait in the immigration line in the US.

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  3. Well the reason I did end up getting into ships was because a group of friends made me play kancolle (which is an anime 'g a m e' ),which then sent me to world of warships,and then into yk…books and your channel and uad and such.

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  4. 1:53:39 'magical speakers' for playing a tune…I suggest Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade score, tune "Belly of the Steel Beast" for Eskimo in Narvik. It just keeps heading at the Germans and it won't die.

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  5. Another fun option would be playing Yakety Sax while USS Johnston terrorizes the Yamato and her battlegroup. Unless we can think of something that 1940's Japan would recognize as a taunt.

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  6. Im watching battle 360 and in one of the episodes (cant remember which one) they mentioned how in one action the enterprise scored a hit against a Japanese aircraft, in major fleet actions how could individual ships claim a air kill? With their aa batteries or was it guess work depending on what target was near a particular ship after being hit? Also did avenger/dive bomber pilots have a say in what ordinance they carried?

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  7. ___Patreon What-Ifs and Alternate Histoy Questions___
    7:03 What if all aircraft carriers in the Pacific disappeared after Pearl Harbour
    8:57 Battle of Coral Seas if all five US CVs were ready and available
    10:30 What if the outcome of Tsushima was reversed
    13:21 Would auto-loading 8" guns change the outcome of any battles at Guadalcanal
    16:25 What if the Pacific War had lasted into '46 '47
    19:12 Drach goes back in time to redesign ships for how they were used instead of how they were originally designed
    22:21 Ship evolution if missiles are never invented
    23:53 Could Admiral Fisher really have "copenhagened" the High Seas Fleet
    26:57 Who was more incompetent Beaty at Jutland or the Bureau of Ordnance with the Mark XIV torpedo?
    29:25 Book recommendation for shipbuilding
    33:33 How well would Montanas have compared to other battleships of the time?
    35:26 February 15 1898: What if Spain had pre-emptively declared war before the USA was ready
    38:38 How would the Demologos/Fulton the First fared in the war of 1812?
    41:42 What if at the start of WW1 the British had tried to mollify the Ottomons by redirecting the funds for their capital ships to the US after their seizure
    44:38 What if the US Mark 14 torpedo was fixed before the outbreak of war?
    47:50 Opinion on the disappearance of flight 19
    51:36 What if the Royal Navy had used the clause to replace experimental CVs to build large, armoured flight-deck carriers in the 20s
    55:34 WW1 4" tripple mounts and hypothetical Tribals with 4 tripple 4.5" dual purpose turrets
    58:26 The allies' counters for what they thought the Yamatos would be
    1:02:07 How would a WW2 boarding action been done? Which engagement would have been the most likely candidate?
    1:04:47 WW1: Beaty and Jellico switched
    1:07:29 Weimar Empire is taking the lead in Guadalcanal campaign (Kriegsmarine ships plus two CVs)
    1:09:27 Could Arkensas been a cruiser killer by sacrificing turrets for speed?
    1:10:30 South Dakota and Washington are closeer to Guadalcanal on 13th november
    1:12:43 Pair of Tillman 4-2 get refitted. One with US late-WW2 AA centric and the other a MekBoy kustami… kustamaz…. fixin' job
    1:13:34 If the US had remained split after the civil war, how would that effect the balance of power in the late 19th and early 20th century?
    1:17:18 About odds and possible outcomes of the battle at the Falklands (1914)
    1:21:00 Pacific war if carriers and military aviation didn't exist and Pearl Harbour was done with mini-subs to similar outcomes
    1:25:35 How to handle the transition from Age of Sail to Age of Steam and Steel in a pen and paper game
    1:28:41 Pick 2 of 4 options to change the royal navy pre-ww2: Small-tube QE and R-Class; 4 more Renowns; third Nelson class (lose torps for speed) and Hood converted to CV; two more Arc Royals
    1:31:55 Good mast timbers
    1:32:30 Iron ore purification
    1:33:07 What if Rommel manages to take Alexandria and the Suez Canal entrance in 1942
    1:35:55 If you had a device that allows you to see the moment of a person's death, what would you use it for
    1:37:48 On the way to Denmak Strait Hood suffers engine damage and has to slow down
    1:40:36 If you could go back to pre-Napoleonic war times with just a single item, technology or idea
    1:43:08 At the Washington naval conference, the treaty is ratified, but leads to strained US/UK relations. This in turn makes the UK/Japanese alliance stronger, eventually resulting in the US staying out of WW2 and Japan being in the allies
    1:48:49 1930 Hellenic Navy: How would you rebuild the Georgios Averoff with unlimited funds? Replace the two pre-dreadnoughts with a rebuilt HMS Tiger
    1:53:27 If given a magical speaker set that can only play one song on repeat, which ship, which song and which time in history would you choose?
    1:57:28 Drach in charge of Soviet Navy in 1936
    2:02:10 How many U-Boats would Germany have needed to successfully stifle transatlantic traffic pre-WW2?
    2:03:20 Battlecruiser with Nelson classes guns in Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
    2:06:14 Reactions of people who got ships named after them
    2:07:56 What if the Soviet fleet had sortied in september 1941?
    2:09:57 Do you think Ajax, Achilles and other mythological heroes would be happy with the ships named after them?
    2:10:36 How could such mistakes in the designs be made (in regards to German interwar DDs)?
    ___Super-Chat and Live-Chat questions___
    2:15:22 Do you think shipgirl anime like Azur Lane and Kantai Collection drew people into real naval history?
    2:16:05 How do navies force capital ships of both sides to fight rather than sit in port? How do navies prevent Jutland?
    2:17:59 Theories that the 15"/42 is so accurate due to the shorter relative barrel length
    2:20:56 Best naval prank ever
    2:28:07 Was Belfast with the Arctic convoys?
    2:28:37 Guest appearance on the "well there's your engineering problem" podcast
    2:28:51 Have you considered getting into Gunpla?
    2:29:56 British sneak 5k tonns of TNT into port of Bremen. Could this work and would it be a warcrime?
    2:32:00 Admirals King and Rozhestvensky are swapped
    2:33:37 What would a purpose-built merchant aircraft carrier look like?
    2:35:23 Favourite fictional ship from Age of Sails to WW2 eras
    2:37:14 Reason for USS Maine's loss
    2:37:52 Drach gathers books for 30 minutes and then goes to Jutland together with HMS Hood

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  8. 2:29:56 the problem with that is that the Seaport in Bremen is made up of about 17 basins and riverside quays stretching about 28 km of the river Weser
    the military targets where primarly the unfinished U-Boot pen, the 3 shipyards and the steel mill arrayed along the same stretch of river

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