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Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9giment_de_la_Chaudi%C3%A8re

Citizens in Normandy were surprised to find that soldiers of the Chaudière spoke a type of French very close to that spoken in Normandy, but were puzzled by the regiment's name. In French, chaudière is the word for a water heater or boiler. The regiment was named for the Chaudière River, itself named for the "boiling" of a waterfall on the river.[7]

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...I like my explanation better. ; )

All- (primarily The Selkie, expect delayed replies this week, will be busy.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/579304314225426448/1222482127820689418/image.png?ex=66166033&is=6603eb33&hm=02cfd5c063be3975e79438ac17d453053b121c63acbce710ca71f5016fdf011e&
Excuse the screencap from Facederp rip

What's pictured: How Queen Liz and co delayed the Tokaidō Shinkansen (probs for the first time in its history) by 5 mins in 1975
200 items of luggage and a hundred JR workers working as porters

The Selkie wrote:

Well, there is a first time for everything! : D

https://youtu.be/zvyJ1nmLAHA?&t=25s
Chairman Deng would take the same line 3 years later and I wonder how long his entourage delayed it for

i acquired new glasses rip
I now see all the dirt on my plastic cover thing on my laptop in HD

Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:

i acquired new glasses rip
I now see all the dirt on my plastic cover thing on my laptop in HD

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Mervay wrote:

So... Searching for a battleship for the last century should I ever need it, I found an interesting ship from a Kaiserreich Mod, apparently the germans in their wisdom decided to throw the house out of the window and build an 88.000 tons behemoth of a dreadnought. Considering in that world both the Washington and London Naval Treaties never happened, I can only imagine certain trends going unbounded as the naval arms race heats up.
Then again the Syndicalists in Britain had an supercarrier that could hold 100 aircraft and was far bigger than Shinano.

...wasn't Kaiserreich the HOI4-Mod, where Germany won WW1 and was the only superpower, but struggling on all ends because everyone wanted a sequel?

Mervay wrote:

Yeah that one, and where syndicalism replaced communism as the dominant ideology.

But digressing that, I also found by curiosity this when scrolling back a bit.

https://t-s.fandom.com/wiki/Eyckenbaum-class_Battleship

I've honestly find the ship interesting, if being honest. I'm just a bit puzzled by the size, since that type of work certainly required a lot of renovations to the ports and dockyards

It's basically a Yamato-class with WW1/Interwar-Technology. Also, look at the other battleships of the Imperial Navy - it is not that much larger. ; )

Mervay wrote:

Considering the size of the battlecruisers, fair point. Not like I can complain when I have a battleship of that same tonnage in the late 40's, when carriers already proved their worth... Well maybe two battleships.

*Nervious Chuckle*

HMS Vanguard. ; )

Mervay wrote:

Yeah that one, and where syndicalism replaced communism as the dominant ideology.

But digressing that, I also found by curiosity this when scrolling back a bit.

https://t-s.fandom.com/wiki/Eyckenbaum-class_Battleship

I've honestly find the ship interesting, if being honest. I'm just a bit puzzled by the size, since that type of work certainly required a lot of renovations to the ports and dockyards

https://t-s.fandom.com/wiki/Modell_24_Fd._25_Gun
>With its caliber of 25 Faden (or 45.5 centimeters), it is the largest gun installed on any battleship of the Imperial Navy and, due to unsatisfying results of practical application, it is likely to be be the only one of this caliber,
Meanwhile in the uh... 20-inch electric railgun... lobbing a... *checks notes* ... 16-inch subcalibre projectile...

There was another fusonese project that involved 8 20-inch guns actually lobbing 20-inch 2 ton AP projectiles...

The Selkie wrote:

"Likely" does not mean "ever". ; )
Besides, that's a WW2 Battleship, no railguns there.

The 20-inch battleship project was... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cWPijS0HUUrZzqSXVIh1I450IorTsT1Rju-MK4XmbO8/edit?usp=sharing

im still undecided if i should end the sentence "The project, born of..." with "stupidity", "megalomania", "hallucinogenic drugs", "huffing gunpowder" or "Fujimoto and Kaneda being in charge".

The Selkie wrote:

"...born of someone going 'Hey, I have a cool idea' and the wrong people taking it too seriously."
; )

And that someone would've been Rear Admiral Kikuo Fujimoto, the head of IJN's Technical Department’s Basic Design Section irl.
Well... was the head before cruiser Mogami nearly fell apart in full speed trials... and then the Fourth Fleet ran into a typhoon... (http://www.combinedfleet.com/Fourth-Fleet-Incident.htm)

Guy was well... https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryWarships/comments/15f1nhu/one_of_fujimotos_battleship_designs_in_the_1930s/ insane...

Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:

The 20-inch battleship project was... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cWPijS0HUUrZzqSXVIh1I450IorTsT1Rju-MK4XmbO8/edit?usp=sharing

im still undecided if i should end the sentence "The project, born of..." with "stupidity", "megalomania", "hallucinogenic drugs", "huffing gunpowder" or "Fujimoto and Kaneda being in charge".

The Megalomania or Fujimoto and Kaneda being in charge sounds good, unless someone in the admiralty decided to try some Opium and came with the idea that way that is.

The Selkie wrote:

Wonderful. Coincidentally, "Hey, I have a funky idea!" and the wrong people taking it seriously was, how the Maighdean-class Cruiser Proposals (https://t-s.fandom.com/wiki/Maighdean-class_Cruiser_Proposal) nearly got a sequel in the 50s or 60s, which was... questionable.
You just have to go for a bit more insanity and drop the RL-References no one cares about when consuming media containing pantless witches with animal ears and tails. ; )

Eh which of the three proposals nearly had a sequel?