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Thanks, but no thanks.

I won't be ponying up any account info for Russkies with servers as secure as a two-cent hooker's lips.

Gaijin (that is, War Thunder's team) is bad enough (Want to win? Use Russian garbage) but despite their transparent chauvinism, they run a secure business. World of Whatever Isn't Warcraft? Pfffffffffft, tough luck pal.

To be fair Wold of Stuff has a much larger subscriber base than Gaijin and therefore would be a much bigger target. I actually recently converted to War Thunder from Wold of Tank and keep meaning to do a write up on their difference, though I never played World of Planes.

Jericho941 wrote:Thanks, but no thanks.

I won't be ponying up any account info for Russkies with servers as secure as a two-cent hooker's lips.

...which lips...

She was sold for scrap in 1947. Storied warship, but long deceased.

Yogimus wrote:

Jericho941 wrote:Thanks, but no thanks.

I won't be ponying up any account info for Russkies with servers as secure as a two-cent hooker's lips.

...which lips...

I dithered over which ones I should specify to drive home the comment and ultimately decided to leave it up to the reader. I think it works either way.

PawPaw wrote:She was sold for scrap in 1947. Storied warship, but long deceased.

Doesn't stop "what-if" games. It's all for fun. It's why you can drive a Panzer IV alongside a Sherman and a T34 against a similarly-comprised enemy team, with top cover from a Ki-84 and a Wellington. And this is from a series that takes its "realism" semi-seriously, as opposed to the more ridiculous offerings out there.

Take Kantai Collection, for example. It's a Japanese game where you command a fleet of girls who are also IJN ships circa WW2 against the demonic Abyssal Fleet in an alternate history setting where WW2 never happened, because these weird monster ships showed up and started sinking everything in sight. It's not-so-subtly hinted that the Abyssal ships are USN; the bosses are usually named after locations like Midway and Henderson, for example, and one of them (Northern Princess) has the Akutan Zero. It persistently hits the uncanny valley, as this is an alternate universe setting with humanoid warships, yet all of their personalities are based on historical references, andthey seem at least subconsciously aware of their real-world fate, with a large number of them apprehensive about Savo Sound for some reason.

Nice cutaway graphic, but Ranger was a dog. An experiment that didn't work out.

USN was (IIRC from what I've read) never happy with her, thought she was too small, too slow, too fragile, to be used as a fleet carrier. I believe she spent the war as an aircraft transport, and Atlantic convoy escort.

She was an object lesson in the greater cost-effectiveness of larger carriers.

There may have been a couple of others, but the Ranger (CV-4) is the only carrier I know of that had a u-boat surrender to it. Admiral Gallery (sp) had a storied cruise with her.

Rich wrote:There may have been a couple of others, but the Ranger (CV-4) is the only carrier I know of that had a u-boat surrender to it. Admiral Gallery (sp) had a storied cruise with her.

IIRC, the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal was the carrier in Adm. Gallery's hunter-killer group when they captured U-505, not USS Ranger.

Captain Wheelgun wrote:

Rich wrote:There may have been a couple of others, but the Ranger (CV-4) is the only carrier I know of that had a u-boat surrender to it. Admiral Gallery (sp) had a storied cruise with her.

IIRC, the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal was the carrier in Adm. Gallery's hunter-killer group when they captured U-505, not USS Ranger.

Must have gotten connected in my mind, though I think I remember reading that in a magazine as a child, possibly the Saturday Evening Post.

My apologies.