Now Viewing: taihou_(kantai_collection)Tag type: Character 大鳳 ("Great Phoenix") The Armored Carrier Taihou in the game Kantai_Collection. She has a medium-length, brown hair with brown eyes and uses a semi-automatic crossbow. Her character design was also conceived by Shimada_Fumikane, the character designer of Strike_Witches. Taihou is, appearance-wise, either the youngest or the smallest of the fleet carrier ship-girls –even younger looking than most of the light carriers– despite the actual ship being actually somewhat larger than a Shoukaku-class. She appears to be only some 4,11 to 5,2 feet tall and is very petite (and just as flat as Ryuujou_(Kantai_Collection)). This is because of the historical carrier's somewhat limited hangar capacity and extremely short lifespan; she had only been afloat for just over two months before she was sunk by the USS_Albacore_(SS-218), and only participated in a single battle –The Battle of the Philippine Sea. She also has the lowest luck stat in the game (2, 4 remodeled), having historically been destroyed by a single torpedo due to several design flaws and some of the most soberingly awful damage control to ever be put into action. After the Albacore's torpedo struck the ship's side and flooded the hanger with extremely flammable aviation gasoline, the captain did not want to stop flight operations to dredge out the fuel; instead he had the hanger sealed over with crew member's mattress and bits of tables. The captain apparently never realized that in a enclosed steel ship with no air conditioning sailing through the equator, the gasoline would heat quickly and evaporate in to vapor –which possesses explosive qualities four times more impressive than TNT– and if that vapor found an open spark, the ship would be set alight, a spark which was rather easy to find on a ship that was actively under direct aerial assault. The vapor was ignited by what was either fire from the torpedo, the internal combustion engines in the planes, gunfire from the sailors or any other source that could produce a spark, and the the ship was bracketed by a monumental explosion that neatly dissected its top half from its bottom half, leaving bits of machinery, planes, armored flight deck and people all over the ocean, and the Taihou very much useless. She sank two hours later. See also:* Historic Taihou: < en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Taih%C5%8D > pixiv tags: 大鳳, 大鳳(艦隊これくしょん), 大鳳(艦これ) From < danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_pages/51248 > Other Wiki Information Last updated: 01/07/16 8:48 AM by surveyork This entry is not locked and you can edit it as you see fit. |
     
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