User blog comment:FlammeumDraco333/Tales From the Not so Blocky Seas/@comment-5889313-20150626044533

Well, I have a story to tell as well, so, why not share it?

I was commanding the IJN Kirishima - a Kongo Class battleship. Keep in mind the Kongo only has 4 dual gun turrets, I removed the secondaryry artillery for more armor.

Anyway, I entered an online match, my team was compromised by a New York Class battleship, an Iowa Class, an Ise Class, a heavy cruiser and some destroyers.

We were outgunned by 2 Yamato Class battleships, one of which had the 53cm guns installed, the other one had 46cm guns, a Montana Class and a Soviet battleship, which, by the way, looks Derpy, along with a Portland Class heavy cruiser and some destroyers.

So, the battle started, the main bulk of my team went to face the enemy head-on, that means the battleships, excluding myself. I, along with the heavy cruiser and a couple of destroyers reached out for a more, strategic approach.

As we started to press the flank, the heat of battle made itself present by the battleships heavy artillery fire. Their destroyers, along with the Portland and one Yamato (the one with 46's) sank, at the expense of our New York and our destroyers.

We managed to pull a flanking maneuver on the remaining Yamato, as it was busy with the Iowa and the Ise, the latter fell victim to one of the Soviet battleship's salvos.

Our remaining destroyers rushed the Yamato launching wave after wave of torpedoes, crippling it. However, one of them was not so lucky and sank.

Our heavy cruiser began to give chase to the Portland Class, the enemy heavy cruiser was ganging up on the Iowa, sinking it and sealing it's fate as he ventured forward, the destroyer followed. Leaving me to provide covering fire against the Soviet battleship.

The destroyer was able to fire some torpedoes before being sunk by a full broadside of the Portland. As the heavy cruiser went forth and began to fire upon the Soviet battleship.

By this time, most of my ship's armor was not well, for I received 3 full salvos from the battleship. However, I could still maneuver and keep my 30 knot speed.

The cruiser left the Soviet battleship heavily damaged, with my assistance, the ship went straight to the bottom, not before receiving another barrage of cannon fire from it.

My engines were done for, and my armor was gone on one side, as the ship started to slow down, I steered the ship so I could face the remaining ship with my less damaged flank.

Now, It was only the Portland against a crippled Kongo Class battleship, what could possibly go wrong for the cruiser?

Overconfidence struck the Portland's captain. And instead of preparing a broadside, he gave me the opportunity of 'Crossing the T'.

My ship was barely keeping it together, but it would not go down without a fight. I began to be more thoughtful about timing my shots, making the rate of fire being consistent. Instead of dealing full broadsides at once.

As the heavy cruiser was closing in. I keep on firing, some shots landed on target. Others didn't. As I could finally see the cruiser slowing down and being on the crippled state as I was. I wanted to fire another shell. But I was reloading, and one more salvo from that ship would have sealed the fate of the battle. But it didn't, he took more thank usual to fire. He gave me enough time to reload and fire away.

When the shell was coming about to land on the crippled ship. He managed to fire yet again. However, the outcome of the battle was settled. And victory made itself present, to the IJN Kirishima.