Everyone's had this teammate but could it happen in reallife?

[Mamo74]

We have all had a teammate we just watched in horror and could only facepalm.

Well guess what it's happened in real life too.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19637_the-5-craziest-war-stories-all-happened-same-ship.html

So when you see a bad player just call him William D. Porter and run for cover.

Enjoy

[ajapanzer5]

The Facepalmage is epic.

[BnaditCorps]

lol i remember the porter

 

[Strike_Witch_Tomoko]

We have all had a teammate we just watched in horror and could only facepalm.

Well guess what it's happened in real life too.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19637_the-5-craziest-war-stories-all-happened-same-ship.html

So when you see a bad player just call him William D. Porter and run for cover.

Enjoy

 

i read this comment.  

 

 

wow, now i really can't w8 to see how bad the russian ships will be when they get put in game.  if they are halfway decent, they will be so unhistorical it will hurt. and WG wont be able to put the "partially historically accurate" title on it.

 

To be fair, the Willie D does have a serious competitor for the title of dumbest warship ever. The Imperial Russian fleet repair ship Kamchatka's role during the Baltic Fleet's "Voyage of the Damned* to Tsushima is breathtaking.

So, it begins the Baltic Fleet (redubbed 2nd pacific Squadron) just left harbor for its voyage and is still in the Baltic Sea when Kamchatka makes a distress call to the flagship that she's under attack by japanese torpedo boats. Eight of them, coming from all directions. Japanese torpedo boats. In the Baltic Sea. Yeah.

Then the Doggerbank Incident happens and while the entire russian fleet is busy trying to (and failing) to sink a few very distressed british fishing trawlers they mistook for japanese cruisers, Kamchatka kinda wanders of and gets lost.

A while later, she manages to catch back up with the fleet at Tangier, reporting to have survived a battle with three japanese ships in the North Sea, during which she fired 300 shots from her guns. Japanese ships - definitely not a swedish merchantmen, a german trawler, and a french schooner, none of which suffered any actual damage despite the large numbers of shells expended.

Her next joke is at the coast of nagola, during a storm, where she for some reason decides to send an absolutely innocent question to the flagship: "Do you see torpedo boats?" Cue the entire fleet losing its s**t again and going into mass hysteria until the Kamchatka hurriedly clarifies that there had been a little mix-up in signalling. What they actually wanted to say was "Everything alright over here."

Then, while the whole fleet is waiting for more reinforcements at Madagascar and suffeirng from several disease outbreaks, Kamchatka decides to give a few sailors lost to these a funeral including a gun salute. She promptly loads a live shell and manages to hit the cruiser Aurora, which had already been hit by friendly fire at the Doggerbank and was generally the butt of all the funny situations 2nd Pacific Squadron got into.

A few days later, the fleet is holding an improptu gunnery exercise (and failing to hit the towed target - they did get the towing boat, though!) when Kamchatka suddenly signals that she's sinking. It turns out to be a cracked pipe in the engine room.

The rest was smooth sailing, except around India when her crew almost mutinied. She (alongside most of 2nd Pacific Squadron) was then summarily sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy at Tsushima.

 

 

 

and i found the story   (theres ALOT MORE TO IT. wow....russians in ships.  worst idea ever)

http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/l-20c/disaster/dogger-bank/voyage-of-dammed.htm

[WulfNose]

Just to put them out of their misery. A mercy, really. Wulf

[Mettie7]

The 40s were incredible

[Sabrechien]

The Porter now stands as one of the most successful assassins of WWII, if only because it had come so close to striking and sinking the battleship the U.S President happened to be standing on.

[ajapanzer5]

 

i read this comment.

 

 

wow, now i really can't w8 to see how bad the russian ships will be when they get put in game.  if they are halfway decent, they will be so unhistorical it will hurt. and WG wont be able to put the "partially historically accurate" title on it.

 

To be fair, the Willie D does have a serious competitor for the title of dumbest warship ever. The Imperial Russian fleet repair ship Kamchatka's role during the Baltic Fleet's "Voyage of the Damned* to Tsushima is breathtaking.

So, it begins the Baltic Fleet (redubbed 2nd pacific Squadron) just left harbor for its voyage and is still in the Baltic Sea when Kamchatka makes a distress call to the flagship that she's under attack by japanese torpedo boats. Eight of them, coming from all directions. Japanese torpedo boats. In the Baltic Sea. Yeah.

Then the Doggerbank Incident happens and while the entire russian fleet is busy trying to (and failing) to sink a few very distressed british fishing trawlers they mistook for japanese cruisers, Kamchatka kinda wanders of and gets lost.

A while later, she manages to catch back up with the fleet at Tangier, reporting to have survived a battle with three japanese ships in the North Sea, during which she fired 300 shots from her guns. Japanese ships - definitely not a swedish merchantmen, a german trawler, and a french schooner, none of which suffered any actual damage despite the large numbers of shells expended.

Her next joke is at the coast of nagola, during a storm, where she for some reason decides to send an absolutely innocent question to the flagship: "Do you see torpedo boats?" Cue the entire fleet losing its s**t again and going into mass hysteria until the Kamchatka hurriedly clarifies that there had been a little mix-up in signalling. What they actually wanted to say was "Everything alright over here."

Then, while the whole fleet is waiting for more reinforcements at Madagascar and suffeirng from several disease outbreaks, Kamchatka decides to give a few sailors lost to these a funeral including a gun salute. She promptly loads a live shell and manages to hit the cruiser Aurora, which had already been hit by friendly fire at the Doggerbank and was generally the butt of all the funny situations 2nd Pacific Squadron got into.

A few days later, the fleet is holding an improptu gunnery exercise (and failing to hit the towed target - they did get the towing boat, though!) when Kamchatka suddenly signals that she's sinking. It turns out to be a cracked pipe in the engine room.

The rest was smooth sailing, except around India when her crew almost mutinied. She (alongside most of 2nd Pacific Squadron) was then summarily sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy at Tsushima.

 

 

 

and i found the story   (theres ALOT MORE TO IT. wow....russians in ships.  worst idea ever)

http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/l-20c/disaster/dogger-bank/voyage-of-dammed.htm

 

lol. By the way, there is a minor typo in the 5th paragraph, I'm assuming you meant to say Angola? Though I still say almost assassinating the president, on accident of course, is still a greater fail.

[Sabrechien]

Meh, "accidental assassinations" shouldn't faze us WG players. After all, most of us have played WoT at some point, haven't we.

[ajapanzer5]

Meh, "accidental assassinations" shouldn't faze us WG players. After all, most of us have played WoT at some point, haven't we.

 

"I'm sorry, you were just in the way of my shot"

[Sabrechien]

 

"I'm sorry, you were just in the way of my shot"

 

"Fagcarrot, why don't you scout like all the other heavies. Heavies are scouts. Scout or I shoot you."