Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-27678539-20160126220854

Valkis wrote: I don't expect to see Missouri or Iowa herself since they're still afloat. Remember, the girls supposedly have the souls of those old battleships, so how could they exist of the ship itself never died?

If we get anything other than Iowa-class ships I'd actually like to see how they handle West Virginia and California. Those ships were sunk at Pearl Harbor, raised, rebuilt, and deployed in the Pacific. They might want to have a chat with the CVs that ambushed them. Hell, West Virginia was in Tokyo Bay when Japan surrendered, so she witnessed both the very beginning and the very end of the war. She's got some shit to say.

And then there's DD-579 William D. Porter, who would probably have to have a negative luck stat. Anybody want a DD with a chance of accidentally launching a torpedo at your own fleet?

Edit: Oh right, all of the completed Iowas are preserved. I guess they're gonna have to rewrite that bit. Not like the story ever mattered anyhow, I suppose. I tend to imagine Nevada looking like a genderbent Punished Snake.

As for retired vs sunk or scrapped ships... I don't think you need a clear "death" for a ship's "soul" to necessarily manifest elsewhere. Museum ships are generally floating husks of their former selves. No live weapons, maintained by a skeleton crew of volunteers, unable to move under their own power. If they're not "dead" they're at least in a vegetative state.