Käpt'n Korky

Where did you find the character sheet?

>We picked out a another piece of music for a different victory condition- something a bit more somber bittersweet, for when you win, but lose a Belle permanently. It's too bad it will *never* be heard because it's a lovely piece of music. You guys *are* going to take care of your Belles, right? Right? - Yeah, as long as she's connected to Eurasia I will take the utmost care. >Voila, you mean? - Wichita has to up her French, walla(h)! >Smell it. SMELL IT. I’ve never smelled anything so heavenly. I'd put it, mmmm, a close second to aviation gas. - Wichita sniffs kerosin? That might explain a thing or two.... like the one she promptly demonstrates with cinnamon. While the choices are again "choices" (I would've agreed with her, the player can't do that here), I very much like what Algérie offers here. I think I like her even more. Yep, definitively different.

Direct matches: none INPF 1: Conte and Leni circulate undisturbed on the top, while Moskva was able to gain some ground on LMP. Augusta, while championing the start of the season last year, now has three zeros in a row. Which naturally gets her nowhere and ruins her prospects for the catch-up calculation. That way Perth and Chiyoda are gonna put her even into the lower half of the table rather sooner than later. Pola btw managed a remarkable draw against the Croatian super power... but it still only got her one point. Wichita and Tenryuu also got valuable points in the fight against relegation, while the others drifted further into the danger zone. I.e. Saguenay lost the Canada Derby. And Kumano finally came back, but also picked up where she left with losing. INPF 2: Canarias crashed her winning streak spectacularly with two times zero. Most other teams gained points, but due to the big gap in points between Nürnberg and Kaga, nothing changed, except Nagato closing the IJN block by surpassing Axum. The exceptions can be found at the bottom. Nevada and Kitakami scored nothing and thus stay where they were. The most interesting action will probably be, if the IJN keep close formation in the end. No new teams ended their season.

Overall the results are wild. Some Walküren had their seasons broken off, like the French ones and Algerie, others a big or a small break and some will restart only about now. So I will check after August 11th (end of the US Walküren tournament) how many matches were played by each team and then decide how to end the INPF season. One certain thing is my problem of handling teams with comparatively low match score. Some Walküren didn't even reach my 30 matches mark. So, I'll cut it probably at a point where I can have the actual result of roughly half of the Walküren on a table and those with less matches will get some points boost, based on their performance in the last 10 matches. Also I saw some teams with cut off season have matches scheduled, so I check on Day X, if they had any since today. If anyone has a better idea, feel free to share. Direct Matches: Saguenay 0-1 Lexington Aoba 2-0 Nagato Tenryuu 2-1 Nagato INPF 1: 5 Walküren already had a lot of matches: Pola, Köln, Moskva, Leni and Conte. Conte and Leni put it to very good use, putting themselves very firmly into 1st and 2nd place. Moskva could not yet pass La Motte-Picquet, but she has a few matches ahead of herself. Köln and Pola, while not stellar, used the opportunity to put some points between them and the nether regions. Belfast, La Motte-Picquet. Algerie and Verdun all have the problem of a broken off season. They got no more points and will get no more points. Everyone else has just restarted, with Houston and Kumano having their first match under the belt next week. Among thse Augusta, Wichita and Saguenay blew it and started with 0 points. Everyone else at least scored something. This means our new relegation group is Lex, Kumano and Houston, with all three having less than 20 points. INPF 2: In the lower leagues attached to the INPF 2 table, cancellations were much more common. Also a lot of season have ended by now. Active are only the Japanese Walküren, Canarias for a little while and the US Ladies. The German Walküren got the biggest boost out of it, with the notable exception of AGS, whose team plays in a different country and Argentine cancelled. Exeter was allowed an English playoff and thus gained even more matches. Nevada will only join next week. With Tenryuu being in INPF1, but her team playing in the same league as most of the INPF 2 IJN ships, I really have to watch out for those direct duels. Anyway it's a mess. Canarias had a good run and still a few opportunities left. She bombarded herself right into 3rd place, for now. She will not be able to overtake Hood, since she can only score around 10 points at best and already has one match more. So there will be no boost involved at the top. While the beautiful sisters were able to make "something" out of their run, Nürnberg pretty much blew it and had a lot of matches, but not a single rank to climb.... against defenceless opposition. Arizona was helped by the fact to be back in action slightly before Nevada. Of the low lying pack of Japanese Walküren, Nagato truly had the worst start. She was not even able to overturn Axum amd lost both direct matches. Kitakami picked up where she left and only gained one point in three matches, staying firmly where she was. Season ended for: Belfast; La Motte-Picquet, Algerie, Verdun and Köln in INPF 1 and Exeter, Hood, AGS, Bearn, PK, Dunkerque, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nürnberg and Axum in INPF 2

I suggest you bugger off, since opening completely new stuff takes time and effort away from getting the game done and I don't like that. We already got the dev corner and BCS only less than 6 months to deliver. That said, I kinda expect new interviews either after the beta came out, to figuratively level the field for the then "unknown" Walküren or if BCS blows the promise and comes crawling out from under the Weihnachtsbaum admitting nervously the beta/game won't be happening in 2020. Because then compensation truly is in order.

After I've succeeded in making Germany (and me) a bit less liked on discord, for good reasons, I really should elaborate on these two parts. Especially after I decided in late May to drop the act and be nice again. But so much to do, so little time..... First off: The critique I formulated truly is the only negative stuff I could find. Some stuff is even pulled out of the text by hairs. Me exempting two whole parts in general from all the negativity and the sea fight completely just shows in how much trouble I was. I only did it btw because Mr. Wells kept asking for any sort of review. You all (on discord) could've prevented this, as I publicly announced my act. I just wanted to fulfil his request, because no one else did. If it got you into emotional trouble over my exaggerated criticism (some might call it a bluff), my sincerest apologies. I assume otherwise you got the memo as well. Your entry is really nice. You hit me as a reader without "warning" and immediately I got the urge to find out more about her. Adding a Turkish Captain into the mix is also a nice tone and seriously a character challenge for your protagonist and his lancer. Excellent writing there. And despite me saying otherwise: It is plausible. I could only construct the "forced in" negative concept, because what I like with the sudden appearance and all, other reader actually might feel irritated. And my Turkish is extremely limited. But I checked over it. If there had been any major flaw I would've hanged you for it. As you might've noticed I exempted the fight completely out of my response. Guess, because it is a thrilling read and you had the advantage of being in a scene you could basically do whatever the frak you wanted. Trust me I tried to pin you on something there, but it was so good and so enclosed in total (believable) fiction..... no chance. And I had the ambition to give at least plausible negativity, so a defence would've taken at least some effort. Completely baseless BS would've maybe blown my act. And tbh I really like Manc after that fight. The third part, in Portugal, is a nice epilogue to the drama which happened in act one and two. The heroes (all of them) get to cool down, again your protagonist faces a challenge, but one the reader knows will not kill him. And seeing the protagonist "out of his water" quite literally is always good for delight. And you tread the line between "delight" and "silly comic relief" very well. Since you seem to have laid out your captain as a sincere character and leave the little "light hearted" stuff you put in to more lively characters like Manc this was basically him "going in" without any backup. And it was lovely. You took the scene seriously and handled it nicely. Two things though: The Canarias + Swiss Captain question really bugs me, but in a good way. Dory is a puritan t***, for reasons I stated above and uphold here. But that's not your problem as a writer, but my problem as a reader for not liking her. So yeah. It is not only a nice, but an excellent read. Well done Wells.

Lebi! 😍🥰 Worum geht's?

Hm, I wonder if the birthday cake had something to do with the reduced velocity. If there's no room in the program of the Goebbelsschnauze..... there is no one stopping me to listen to Italian radio once at sea. They want me to appear in a radio show with a Brit, who led their propaganda bureau in the great war and admires the UdSSR? Hah! "Stormy Friday" is what they call it in the states? *chuckles* I doubt the Poles will be so trivialising. >I don't know if you've seen the human version of USS [Redacted], but that's what I'm thinking here. Blonde, moxie, legs from stem to stern, if you get my meaning. - No, I don't, but that's probably my problem. All the ship educated yankii still reading sure know which ship redacted is right away. >we want an actress whose voice sounds like straight whiskey. - Can't think of anyone fitting the bill. Nope. Not a clue. >I don't know, throw a dart at a map and get back to me. - Knock yourselves out. (Might need to switch settings to work.) >I'll put together a bible[...] - Like... a tihuana bible? I'm sure someone is working somewhere on one already On a sidenote, do you think "Kapitän Siegfried Eisenhammer und die Walküren der Gerechtigkeit" could get past Dr. G.?

Instead of an answer... 😂🤣 You Anglos and Yankii and your superficial goals. 😘

> Beauty is a morale booster in times of war and peace, and there’s no better way to enhance one’s natural beauty than with the proficient use of a makeup brush. > You'll thank me once the rationing sets in, and you have to become creative. Remind me, what age rating are you aiming at again? > Hood: Hold on a minute, Captain. Laborer… YOU, laborer! Is that the English as his majesty uses it, HMS Hood?

With even MLS and J1-League restarting soon I'll probably pick up the INPF League early July and continue it until August 11, which is the end of the MLS tournament, if I'm not mistaken.

Art. 435 has two side agreements between France and the Swiss Confederation yes and calling 1919 "medieval diplomacy" is interesting. The main point however is the third written guarantee of the neutrality of Switzland (after 1648 and 1815), but the first Italy signed, because it didn't exist the previous two times in its entirety. And somehow she got those puppies from St. Bernhard directly, so she claims. And St. Bernhard is located fully on Swiss territory. So the Savoy neutral zone has nothing to do with it.

Über den Deutschen Wäldern liegt Ruh and we're pretty much back to normal. Yay, my favourite Italian valchiria. Even when it could be debated, if she violated Art. 435 of the treaty of Versailles. Keep in mind she is Duce d'Aosta, not Valle d'Aosta... and the hospital is only half in the valley anyways and fully not in Italy. Violating the treaty is sexy in 1939 Germany. *schmacht* Here a puppy for distraction.

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Interesting update. I think my captains sidejob is the right idea. And U-29 should be careful, she just spilled some water on the SSs mills. A thing I remember her of not being fond of. And I'm glad she found a new hobby. Everyone should have at least one. Y'know, to ease the mind.

Ja, bitte.

Would never have guessed Mahan would mug Wichita one day. But I remember old conspiracy theories from a long, long time ago, when we theorised Mahans reappearance would mean beta would be imminent. But since we allegedly lack a dev update or two on the way to it.... let's see what the next two weeks will bring.

Yeah, but who's counting? Witch made us watch seals as well.

It not loading is interesting to say the least. That song should be well out of copyright. It's the 1932 German Version of the US song "Yes! We have no bananas!". So listen to that as comfort.

Ignore the first second:

In case anyone wants the complete reprint of Kapitän Mors adventures -and the first science fiction series of all time- in all its 165 episodes: 700 € and it is yours only until 05.05. That's 290 € off. It was all the rage in 1908-1912 and prohibited in 1916 by the military governour of Berlin! And a picture of the Weltenschiff. And whoever thinks, bah, Humbug, much too old. Care about another Sci-Fi legend?

We already discussed your Eden mistake in private. I notice the fix. While the second and third part fit okay into your whole story, I'm a bit irritated by the sudden Turkish Virgin (by name at least) in the first part of the story. Your explanation is: So the yankii and the Anatolian captain have a yelling match - which in my head means yelling at each other on roughly equal terms. But the next sentence makes it look like the yankii was in the process of being humiliated. And the Limeys saved the yankii, but became drinking buddies with the Turk, for the yankii never to be mentioned again? Oh and she commands the RN Ostro... which was for what reasons in the vincitiny of Turkey? All in all that scene feels forced in. Dory is a bloody idk by all to me known European standards. She jumps on compliments even a German could pull? And next time please use this or comparable lists, if you employ known people in your plots. Or give at least a hint, why you dispose of the OCs. For INPF people this is obviously unnecessary, but you write "British ambassador", not "British INPF liasion". So you mean "INPF ambassador" (and you better do or why should you call a Português diplomat in his own country ambassador?)? But it obviously IS the proper ambassador to Portugal, since he answers back to Halifax. Also you can't have an ambassador to the INPF, except it has exterritorial status in its own rights by late 1940, which is a huge deliberation you're taking here for now. But the INPFs is explicitly a neutral, supernational force. So why should they turn down INPF requests? Especially with Morganas clearly in the waters? I totally get why they turned down a solely German request. Which btw implies there is an independent German Walküren fleet beside the German INPF forces, which also must exists as the continuing talk reveals. Why do they need our cooperation in the first place? And where is Mr. Pell? Okay. Why of all ships Canarias? What special kind of Franco loving fascist Swiss was able to get Canarias attention? Why not Velasco? Why the one Walküre that openly emits love and devotion for her Caudillo basically from the first moment we met her? Apart from that, appealing to the Bloco Ibérico is clever. But then "bringing it before the parliament" and saying they might allow this..... wasn't the parliament pretty much not in the position to decide such things in the Estado Novo? Who (formally) decided to give the US and UK bases on the Azores and Madeira in the 1940's? Parliament or Prime Minister? Apart from that, nice read I guess.

My artist definitively needs more practice. I'm on it.

Is it just me or is Belfast getting more vulgar? Sidenote: You'll have a hard time finding a German actually named Jerry, but a lot of Brits actually called Tommy. That's Tokubetsu Keisatsutai for you, island monkey! On the one hand it is preposterous to demand proof of a ship to be deutschblütig, on the other hand.... Nazis. Also I credit it to the fact, that Belfast is relaying the information, that said information is not really hieb- und stichfest. I guess they have made up a certain type of certificate for Belles, because it's hard to get an Ariernachweis (even a small one), if you're not born from lineage, but built. So I guess said Belle did not turn out very Aryan by definition of appearance. And thus she has or wants to get her stern under § 2 I RBG, but technically that would be a problem from the start, so I guess the legal vector to attack her Deutschtum is the BBG which asks for an Ariernachweis again, but she's a member/asset of the Wehrmacht and thus probably has soldier status, so she would fall under § 1 III WG, because she's a woman and that would require her to be a GERMAN woman so we're back in the RBG and that means we have to get into bloody details unknown until we know who she is and what casts the apparent shadow of doubt over her Deutschtum (appearance, creators, material?)..... but quite frankly it's a non-problem. If the top brass says she's German, she's German. That's actually the law. And even if she isn't, she's still owned by Germany and subject of the Führer. And as Nürnberg will happily confirm: Every German Walküre should have a legal status comparable to the defined one in the RBG. More interesting question: Do they have to take the oath? Yay, we captains are shiny beacons of hope. Well, well that Theseus thinking at the end is a bit cut short, if you keep in mind Walküren have memories of their former incarnations. So if you build a new ship from old material of the same heritage those memories should at least be so present as if they were the "old" ones to a point it becomes pointless to argue if the "new" Walküre is actually "new" or a transferred "old" one. A much clearer indication could and should be her physical appearance "before" and "after", which can naturally only occur after the 1st of September 1939 in this world. The most "fun" approach to this I can think of is taking parts and distributing them throughout the INPF and then building 7-XX ships with the same heritage in mind. And suddenly U-29s research gets a boost I guess. Kaga is right, oyasumi.

Wichita = Mary Sue confirmed. Verdun is as grim as expected. I also miss a "Good, carry on option". I talked before about options and real options iirc. I will not repeat myself. Repetitio non placent. Please thank the team for the kind and caring words on my behalf, most honourable one. An regarding possible testers, if I consider posts in here and discord members over there.... we wouldn't even need a full Centurion to lead us. So a few is actually a few.