in a horrendous french accent…
“Go away or I shall taunt you a second time”
the enemy…“run away, run away, run away”
teeming millions win again - The End
oh I almost forgot, flamethrowers yea!
I suppose you guys will be in uniforms.
Um.
Ok, if not, then you’re pirates, and pirates need wenches.
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**** Bosda* The USH has no “Aegis-class” crusiers, they have ships equiped with the “Aegis” system though… **
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Good calll there, SG, the term “Aegis Class” gets applied to the Ticonderoga class cruisers and Arleigh Burke class destroyers quite a bit, but it is misleading.
After we hit those whaling fleets on our sea trials, I vote we sail to the Med and see how long it takes to get the French to surrender.
Sucre bleu! She is, how you say, how you say, a behemoth, no?
You’re dang right,** Ginger**, we better put a classified ad here on the SDMB…
Former HM2 Bunny reporting for duty, sir. Y’all will need someone to fuss over your blistered trigger fingers, won’t you?
Well, I’m of the female persuasion, does that count?
I think “O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana would be approproriate also.
Being an airpower guy, I was initially dismayed to see that our tactical warfighting craft would be a boat, but you know, pirates are cool, so count me in!
I’ll see what I can do about procuring a really HUGE Jolly Roger that we can fly from the mast. And while beer is definitely a good idea, we also need rum, because all pirates had rum and sang that song about “16 men on a dead man’s chest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum…”
Oh and you forgot a gang plank. Having all these whalers and greenpeace people as prisoners will get annoying after awhile, so we gotta have a plank to walk.
ARGHHH!
Tut-tut, think catamaran and tri-maran…slender at the water line, large deck area.
I really like the idea of rail-guns and the 16-inchers, BTW, but make sure we have room for the 9-hole course and coy-pond.
The aft deck, of course, will have to have mini-sub access and dive deployment capabilities (not that this is hard, just that I want to ensure a SCUBA shop.)
AAAAARGH! Where is all the pirate booty?
Sorry, ** Thinksnow**, but the Aft deck will have the
'Copter pad.
Well, seeing as we’re going with a trimaran, I don’t see that we should rule out the VSV, or something similar. How about pod-hulls? Place our engines, engineering spaces, brigs, holds and galleys in pods, submerge the pods, connect the pods to the superstructure with narrow cross-section risers, and make the superstructure a big flat area for mounting big guns, aircraft, wicked spikey-looking things, large speakers, huge barbeques, beer kegs, and panty-raids on cruise liners… [sub]Oops. Got carried away there…[/sub]
Anyway, that’ll give the best combination of hydrofoil-like ride with displacement hull load capacity, and if we slap enough LM2500’s on the ass of it, there’s no reason the pods couldn’t be designed to rise up out of the water at high speeds like cigarette-hulled racer. Then everyone gets their favorite kind of ride at some point or other. Of course, we’d better be D*mn good at swash-buckling, couse the beer and fuel bill is gonna be murder…
Fuel bill? Fie! This is gonna be a badass nuclear powered hydrofoil, yes?
As far as the beer bill goes, hell, with our armament, we can hold Milwaukee hostage till they make with the goods.
I’m thinking we hold Veracruz hostage until we get some Corona’s…
Then we head up to Northern Europe, and hold Hamburg hostage until we get some dark German beer…
At or below the water-line?! Mayhap I should have said the Aft-section, rather than “deck.”
Wenches?
Did I hear someone say ‘wenches’?
I LOVE wenches! Ginger and BunnyGirl, get in here! You’re hired!
(And we’ve gotta take Italy on our way. Man does not exist on beer alone… can’t forget pasta.)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRHHHHHHHHH!
Aye, maties. No need fer money, we’ll be plundering GOLD, I’ll tell ya! GOLD! <insert pirate laugh here> And RUM, and BEER! Panty raids on Cruise Ships! Hell of an idea. With such lovely wenches as Bunny and Ginger, we’ll be needin’ the panties! To keep our binocular lenses from fogging up!
think, the scuba shop with sub will be BELOW the helo deck. (duh)
Anyone for Harriers?
Some jump-jets? Don’t mind if I do! And yes, I knew the dive and mini-sub stations would be at-or-below the water line, it seemed someone was questioning that, though.
Just wait until the S/VTOL version of the JSF comes out, ** UncleBill**.
also, I figure we can blockade Charlston Harbor as our third cruise, in tribute to Blackbeard the Pirate, res his soul.
<snort> With this beast, all we have to do is pull up next to the harbor mouth. Nothing bigger than a canoe could get around us.
Wait a minute, Bughunter was wondering about bathrooms (heads for the nautically inclined) and Briminator wants a catapult to launch empty beer kegs at the enemy. I think I see a solution to both problems, and a terrifying new weapon besides. Those beer kegs don’t **have ** to be empty…
ohh! ohh!
trash the 16" turrets…
get an Eternity Lance ‘big bertha’ 60" gun, like from FF7! hehhhehehehehehhe…
blast san diego from the gulf of mexico, practically.
and some MAAP* cannons! we need MAAP’s!
personal weapons?
SPINFUSORS AND SHOCK RIFLES!
(does that really irritating hands-moving-in-a-circle dance)
whooo! GOOOOOO spinfusors!
ohhh… stop feeding my dreams of horrible, horrible violence and destruction!
*(Magnetically Aligned Accumulated Plasma)