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Please use them, especially if you're a new player. We have Question, Gacha, and Dorm megathreads. Being salty and/or targeting and harassing other players by saying nonsense anyhow is not allowed. Tone down the toxicity regarding new ships being released and what factions they are under.īeing salty in the comments is okay. That means no revisionist history/justification of war crimes, no slurs/nazi salutes, and no brainless kancolle hating that everyone's heard before. Regardless of their server choice, ship choice, spending habits, or use of free time, respect your fellow players.

Navy Musashi while participating in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, as part of Admiral Takeo Kurita's Center Force, lost to American carrier aircraft the still incomplete Shinano was torpedoed ten days after her commissioning in November 1944 by the submarine USS Archerfish and Yamato, also ravaged by carrier planes, in April 1945 during Operation Ten-Go.1 No harassment, hate speech, or circlejerking.

The class carried the largest naval artillery ever fitted to a warship, nine 460-millimetre (18.1 in) naval guns, each capable of firing 1,460 kg (3,220 lb) shells over 42 km (26 mi).ĭue to the threat of American submarines and aircraft carriers, both Yamato and Musashi spent the majority of their careers in naval bases at Brunei, Truk, and Kure-deploying on several occasions in response to American raids on Japanese bases.Īll three ships were sunk by the U.S. A third hull laid down in 1940 was converted to an aircraft carrier, Shinano, during construction.ĭisplacing 72,000 long tons (73,000 t) at full load, the completed battleships were the heaviest ever constructed. The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up to World War II and completed as designed.

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