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  1. kalvasflam
    you know, I actually mistook that picture for an F-35B for one brief second until I noticed the flag on the back. YAK YAK YAK
  2. kalvasflam
    You also have to wonder why the hell do the latest and greatest (Andromeda class) have older versions of the astro fighters. It wasn't as if the newer versions didn't exist in quantity already, I would assume there were plenty of those types still available on the moon. I can't wait till the subs come out.
  3. kalvasflam
    Nice, skipped through it, can't wait until we get a subbed version.
  4. kalvasflam
    Neat images, thanks. I haven't seen the latest ep yet, definitely looking forward to it. Hmmm, those are old style fighters, right? Wow, that's a lot of fighters those things can launch all at once. Very nice. 48 fighters at once; or almost at once. The image seems to indicate those carriers have multiple storage sites for the fighters. Oh, one other thing I noticed, the sides of the carriers extend out when launching, so those launch tubes on the side of the ships are not normally uncovered
  5. kalvasflam
    I hope to see the Andromeda carrier class in action, I mean I hope those ships live up to the hype, and inevitably when the fight begins with the Andromedas and the DNs, they don't forget about the fighters.
  6. kalvasflam
    A pregnant whale that can whoop butt... I don't know about you, but I'd rather let it be known that I was beaten up by a lean mean fighting machine than a pregnant looking ship... can you imagine the embarrassment? Ship 1: Wow, what happened to you, look at all those bruises. Ship 2: I got beat up by this ship that looked like it was pregnant. Ship 1 ROFL. Ship 2: It was the Yamato, dammit, it was the Yamato. Ship 1 (after ten minutes): you got beaten up by a pregnant Yamato... snickers, and then falls back on the floor laughing. I wonder how and where those fighters are stored, and how they are launched. 36 fighters are a lot of fighters for a BB, is the Andromeda supposed to be modeled after the Ise and the Hyuga.... well, why not, after all, the Yamato is like that, just no flight deck.
  7. kalvasflam
    If we take real life example for a moment, the 18.1" guns of the Yamato was t not considered that much of an advantage compared to the 16" mounted on the USN battleships. But that was due to a variety of other reasons including the availability of radar, better crew, higher speed, superior damage control, etc, pretty much everybody thought that the New Jersey would've wiped out the Yamato if they ever went head to head. I'm sure the ghost of Ching Lee is still sad at the fact that Halsey took his fast battle ship group out of San Bernardino straits, and robbed the gunline of the last great battleship fight in history. But that said, I did quite like the rapid fire on the Andromeda. And I would venture to guess if a similar battle of Saturn were to happen, the Andromeda's main guns would rapidly rip apart the Galatantis Dreadnoughts. After all, logic and consistency has no place in anime. By the way, did the Andromeda have fighters? Was there a reason they weren't launched?
  8. kalvasflam
    40 cm is just so.... small. Can't even feel it. That was essentially the message Yamato was giving out. Wait until you see the 48 cm, or the 18 incher, it will just make you squeal. You don't understand until you are on the receiving end. Just ask that dreadnaught that saw the 48 cm bad boy. I like the subtle historical nod though, if they only named the Andromeda New Jersey or Iowa, it would be fitting irony.
  9. kalvasflam
    Well Kyp, thanks for the interesting stats. You know, you just helped resolved a minor plot hole I saw on the first episode. Remember how that Gatlantis dreadnought shook off the two shots from Andromeda and went to warp, then simply getting blown away by the Yamato's main guns? You basically explained why: Andromeda: 40.6 cm triple-barrel convergent compression type shock cannon x 4 Yamato: 48cm triple-barrel positron shock cannon x 3 Position shock cannon > convergent compression shock cannon, and if that didn't convince you... Yamato is at 48 cm vs tiny Andromeda (only 40.6 cm) No wonder, Yamato's are bigger.... so big... But I wonder if may be the Andromeda is only designed around the WMG, and the shock cannons were an afterthought, not designed particularly to engage directly in ship to ship combat. WMG the mess, then send in a different set of ships (smaller) to clean up the mess. "Extensive remodeling by Sanada was pushed forward by this stressful decision, including refurbishment of the Wave-Motion Gun." Ah ha, so Sanada was the bastard that was key in breaking the promise to Starsha... he figured, "I never liked that bastard Okita anyway. And as for Starsha, she's in another frigging galaxy, forget her."
  10. kalvasflam
    Yeah, was talking about the cinematic universe. That's new there. Wonder how he got to that state.
  11. kalvasflam
    You know, they should just throw Henry Cavil in already, it would only be a surprise if he is a no show.
  12. kalvasflam
    For some reason, I like the first teaser trailer with its song better. Specifically the "I know him..." And a talking Hulk???? What the....
  13. kalvasflam
    Cause he is Captain Kirk, and he must one up the girl. (the one who is thousands of years old) Besides, he was pretty sure he didn't get better with age. Think about geriatric Trevor with Wonder Woman
  14. kalvasflam
    hilarious, Deadpool/Wonder woman crossover, anyone? Wouldn't it be funny if Wonder Woman broke the 4th wall and replied on Twitter... what will Logan and Batman say?
  15. kalvasflam
    Firefox: Thought guidance system, but you must think in Russian.... Clint Eastwood thinks in Russian: "give me a sandwich" --> Firefox blows up a sandwich shop, at low levels, pops open the canopy just briefly for a sandwich to drop in. That would have been cool, and would put Apple, Google, et al out of business.
  16. kalvasflam
    I have long ago lost track of the Flanker family. For me, there are only two main types, the platypus attack version and The mainline fighter version. Nobody can keep track of all those derivatives with canards, and a different camouflage schemes, and such. Basically, it is the same plane with a bunch of different skins, not unlike a lot of these modern day games.
  17. kalvasflam
    It may also be that Andromeda and the rest of Earth's ships were designed to operate in groups, where as Yamato was specifically designed to operate alone. Kind of like a modern battle group, where destroyers and cruisers are there to protect carriers, but the carriers provide the primary offense of punch in the form of its fighter groups. And the Yamato operated more like a fast attack sub, alone and on a mission by itself. Which is what the crux of the series was all about anyways.
  18. kalvasflam
    Desslar can get any partner he wants... except Starsha... apparently. But hey, if this is a simulation, anything can happen.
  19. kalvasflam
    I want to be Desslar. I call Desslar... I'm pretty sure I don't want to be emo Kodai.
  20. kalvasflam
    we'll just have to see if they decide to do a reproduction in another 40 years.
  21. kalvasflam
    Of course the older series look not so great, but it's understandable. Not sure if 2199 would necessarily stand the test of time. Be Forever was not bad, probably some of the better animation for that time. Final was pretty good too, although they shouldn't have dragged Okita back. Dead should be dead.
  22. kalvasflam
    And as for the kid, there was supposed to have been a sex scene between Yuki and Kodai at the end of Final Yamato. I suppose it was a pay off for the series. And bees and birds happen, and all of a sudden, whammmmo, full grown daughter. Kodai gets a beard and go all hermit on everyone, Yuki gets to command an Andromeda class ship, but also has her clothes mysteriously warped off, and so on.
  23. kalvasflam
    Yep, and we'll have a scene; "Sir, the drones have been hacked, and we can't launch any more planes to support Mav and Ice, they hacked our catapults, we can't hook up the planes, and Mav and Ice are runninig on fumes. They are going to be fighting 10 to 1 against the North Koreans and our own drones."
  24. kalvasflam
    All I can think of is episode 4, when they are on that bridge, and the sister was saying something about "for luck" Thanks much, George.
  25. kalvasflam
    May be what they could do is a bit of sci-fi and send Mav back in time so that he is in Nam piloting an F-4, having a dogfight with a historical enemy instead of a made up one. Its a good point that if these fights were real, the F-14s would've slaughtered the Mig-28. There would have been E-2 directing them to shot from BVR.
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