The Last Stand of IJN Takao - Guns vs Godzilla (April 1st) 

have you seen the new film yet?

RoastedOpinions asks: If Takao had managed to repair her fire directors before engaging Godzilla, would the standoff distance make a significant difference to the outcome?

Do USS Walker DD-163 and her exploits in the Destroyermen Series of books.

Where were the carriers? AirPower defeated King Kong so should have been the obvious choice.

How many foia's did you have to submit to get all this information? 😁

Ah yes, Yukikaze and her plot armor...

As soon as I saw her, I knew everyone would live

@@SudrianTalesand everyone else would die

*WAH HA HAH* NOT EVEN A GOD CAN SINK YUKIKAZE-SAMA NANODAH!

Because of the skill of Captain Taylor and the valiant crew.

You beat me to it, sir.

They then welcomed them to join them in eternity and bask in the immortals jubilation and praise for a jolly good fight.

the crew of the Takao will know no shame in the halls of their fathers.

SATNDING FIRM BETWEEN THEM THERE LAY THUNDERCHILD.

Takao, after earning a Detonation medal: "Phew... is it over...?" Thunderchild: "You did good kid, did real good."

That was me, I was so excited to see her so accurately re created

Same for the fishing boats

Godzilla is cool ... japanese ww2 ships are cool ... both together are even cooler ... you are just too narrow minded to see that ... poor idiot ...

Pretty sure the production team also created a replica of the Japanese experimental interceptor. I believe it is currently displayed at a museum in Tokyo.

​@@winddings351 yeah the J7W Shinden. I got way too hyped when it showed up

It is his deadpan delivery, the standard pacing, and battle descriptions unchanged from serious battles, that make this really good.

So how many re-takes after a corpsing, Drach? :) Excellent presentation!

same here. 😂 drack really killed the 1. April joke here😂

I love it. Incredible. Godzilla documentary style nails it. If one woke from a coma after 10yrs and saw this on TV he'd think it was real....good job, fellas...

I know! We should name it after the creature!

Add “minus one” to honor the Takao

I believe that there have been numerous *documentaries* made regarding this creature. Unlike most documentaries, many of these were box office successes.

I already read the book…

It could be a pretty good movie. To be serious, it was a very good movie! Vastly better than the trash Hollywood has been outputting, and apparently about 1/10th the budget.

It's something I really appreciated about the film; the battle is presented as an essentially known outcome, especially with that wonderful music, but they don't make the human side feel weak. Takao's guns pack a punch, and the ship manages to knock Godzilla back and underwater not once but twice, and in a visual/sound/physics sense the guns look and feel impressive, knocking the creature around and such. Ditto for the mechanics' rifles in the opening; they could have easily made them feel like weak peashooters, but no, they did the opposite and gave them blinding muzzle flash and really sharp, aggressive gunshots. Instead of the humans feeling weak, it feels like they really did do their best, and Godzilla was simply more powerful. It's a crucial difference.

Mighty were the dead, and meet was their ending!

Des Moines and Salem vs Big bad evil sea monsters

Check out Reigo King of the Sea Monsters. Yamato's task force fights a kaiju.

Has Drach done the movie Battleship yet?

I loved every second of it!

I cheered like a brat when Takao appeared on screen!!!

Most accurate "historical science-fiction" movie, but aside from that dropped-word-typo I agree whole heartedly. 😁

@@Somewhat-Evil Drachinifel is an historiographer, he wouldn't make stuff up. Therefore it's the most accurate historical movie. 😁

Takao was decommissioned in 1946, but I can forgive the film director for that

高雄はシンガポールの英国製の浮きドックで９ヶ月修理したそうだから、自沈は免れたんでしょう。

Yup, loved the movie. Amazing research and plot line. And all ended up on the same fate to fight off - Godzilla. Love the part, when the crew of IJN Takao fight to the death - firing it's final salvo.

Funny enough, year difference might not be an issue at all, given there have been several months between Operations Crossroads and scuttling of Takao.

The Imperial Inquisition has a similar opinion on his coverage of the Emperor Class Battleship. By the Emperor's will.

My favorite brand to color with green food dye and keep in an after shave bottle in my locker.

We really need to talk about the sheer neglect of not installing Turboencabulators to modernize warships of this era.

it's like when the Intel Report did a video f-14s vs mig-28s : a danger zone in the Indian Ocean a couple years ago

That hidden bottle of single malt, Does not count; Right ?

Godzilla -1 was a much better movies than the big budget "Monarch" monster movies.

​@@user-sh8cl3it2m It had a better story but saying its a better movie is completely subjective

Yamato was sunk by Godzilla's cousin Reigo.

Yamato was preserved to be re-furbished as a spaceship much later.

Kind of sad it wasn't Nagato as she was used in Operation Crossroads and would been a neat reference

​@@lastswordfighter That was a B- movie and a half.

Sarabaa chikyuu yo Tabidatsu fune wa Uchuu Senkan YAAAMAAAATOOOOOOO~

We owe a debt of gratitude to Drach for his commemoration of this event.

Disgraceful! Not a word about the Kamchatka's role in this engagement.

History will remember the name Takao.

Brave men, all of 'em. They were willing to take on a monster more or less unarmed. And they _won._

They performed small miracles in getting their ship in order and underway despite the previous damage. Its too bad they could not have been fully operational for their final battle.

No ... as a USN retiree, I'd rate Battleship the worst military-themed movie ... ever. I'd put a Godzilla vs. IJN battle over that garbage-rated movie any day.

Or the Nimitz off Hawaii on the morning of 7 Dec 1941........

​Old guys ruin things as Always​@@ELCADAROSA

At least CPO Ryback prevented the stealing of Mo's nuclear Tomahawks, as featured in the documentary "Under Siege."

@@Shadooe this is true. His recapturing of the ship ensured that it wasn’t destroyed. By doing that he unknowingly aided in the defense of Earth. A true hero.

What is a Cruiser to a God. And what is a God to a non-believerrrr

You can be the Des moines.

As an Azur Lane Player, our cruisers protect us from the Gods! (timeline loops of shipgirls who have fallen to mindbreak)

Well done, sir. My 15yr son loved it! He loves Godzilla. We both enjoyed it together.

"Why does God need a cruiser?"

I for one, would love to see the footage of the battles between the Nautilus and the austro-hungarian navy at the turn of the century.

Based Godzilla.

Tbh I loved that ginza got fragged its my least liked part of tokyo.

People apparently reallt cheered when the Tokyo metropolitan building got destroyed in thr Heisei or Millenium era films

Ever notice how many times, Tokyo underwent Urban Renewal?

​@@jamessimms415I knew they were hiding something! What's next is getting more info on the state of EVA's development

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Good point as i thought it was the 2nd

Nay! Truly angered unto wrath that seeks the destruction of one’s assailants. This borne out the 1st hand documentation of this incident.

every day when he wakes up, Godzilla chooses Violence

There's a sale at Penney's!

@@paulbriggs3072 LMAO

Sir ! The press is here ! " Get my hairdresser , QUICK ! "

Not to mention the copious amounts of binoculars thrown overboard.

She probably already did drive Godzilla mad enough to think "there would no effing Japanese torpedo boats if there was no Japan" or something like that.

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yamato would have been more than a match for godzilla if ts still around.

@@icetea1455 But if Yamato had survived for this fight it would not be available in 2199 for its decisive role.

​@@steveweinberg462yes it would be beyond repair but it did its purpose and the radioactive lizard either dies or suffers a coma for decades with 18inch shells holes.

​@@icetea1455 18inch guns don't work godzilla is too indestructible

@@Ryuu1010YT well this movie says otherwise.

It's hard to tell too because he's so good at deadpan. 😅

You should have realized immediately. Godzilla never attacked a ship until it was brainwashed by the KGB during the 80s.

Hey you, you're finally awake......You're not making any sense. Pandemic? Ukraine War? Dude it's 1947 and Godzilla just blew up Tokyo. He's headed toward San Francisco now!

For a few moments of the video I was awaiting for a ship nicknamed Godzilla or something.... Then remembered the date. Well done.

@@brandonschwertley2723. San Francisco already was attacked by a giant octopus in ‘It Came From Beneath The Sea’

I do hope they used Shoggoth Material as a power source…..( It will get out and destroy your civilisation).

@@davidbrennan660 I wish I'd thought of that! IIRC, they converted her to nuclear in the 60s. And an Aegis system in the 80s...

godzilla can easily destroyed yamato

Type 4 Chi-To tanks first combat engagement

He will. There's actually a project to fit The Chieftain into a long lance going to be fired from a torpedo launcher set up onto a wharf...

It was then that we realized Godzilla was not infact a radioactive mutant lizard, but actually the Kamchatka!

The Crew of the Kamchatka responds," TORPEDO BOATS FIRE!" and the whole Russian navy proceeds to fire EVERY gun they got towards Godzilla, and manage to hit a passing fishing boat, While Godzilla was fine, having every shot miss him leaving him to wonder "Should I get mad at them for trying to shoot at me or because destroying Japanese fishing boats is my job"? After several minutes of internal debate Godzilla promptly left the area feeling embarrassed for the Russian navy, which later on was completely sunk by a Japanese minesweeper.

Goddamn it, Kamchatka!

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Gold, pure gold

The only thing bigger than Godzilla was MacArthur's ego. Imo, his hubris was way more destructive than the monster could be.

So is Godzilla Minus 1 Minus Color.

@@cwulfe1 yes, brand new movie, a remake of first Godzilla. Its amazing

Best film I watched last year.

Too bad it is going to be a while before it is released on DVD or for streaming! 😢 I'm glad I saw it when I did! It's easily the best movie I watched last year!

Easily one of my all-time favourite films, and I'd never seen a Godzilla film before. It's a wonderfully human story about rebuilding after a horrible war, has cool, well-modelled, and historically appropriate military vehicles, and also has a giant lizard to fight.

godzilla was being too indestructible and warships were big targets

This is the product of exhaustive research

But the tongue is now permanently embedded in cheek.

That was (probably) at Howard Hughes’ intervention.

Because King Kong is in a city full of people.

They certainly used ballistic missiles when that Impostor Godzilla appeared in 1998. Smh.

Alternate Godzilla, my friend.

I imagine USN did not feel like shelling Manhattan.

Oh, no. There goes Tokyo, go, go, Godzilla!

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound he pulls the spitting high tension wires down.

Helpless people on subway trains scream, bug-eyed, as he looks in on them

History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men!

He picks up a bus and he throws it back down As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town

I take it he didn't get to see Godzilla Minus One yet then.

This event takes place in Godzilla Minus One. In this film, Godzilla appears almost immediately after WW2 in 1946. Traditionally, Godzilla appears in 1954 in most other movies. My grandparents always took me to rent classic Godzilla movies as a kid, your comment gave me a big smile

@@Godzilla00X most excellent. I am constantly getting a Godzilla education … and I like it.

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What curse

@@jacobcave1587Yukikaze had been in countless major naval engagements with it surviving with little to no damage compared to other Japanese destroyers

@@TheRandCrews and all the major capital ships she escorted had a tendency to have a sudden loss of buoyancy

⁠@@rickyfrax5602loss of buoyancy . . . . . You mean sunk

I enjoyed how "science-y" it was. Enveloping it in freon gas to prevent buoyancy, crushing it with increasing water pressure, and should that fail killing it though decompression by bringing it back up rapidly. And it respects the audience's intelligence by both explaining it clearly but also not dumbing it down.

He's already done a couple Thunderchild vids.

true, but godzilla fans had no interest of military

Because all such are very USA-centric. If the US didn’t fight in a war then it didn’t happen. Just like WW2 started on Dec 7 1941.

Where was Carolina? I thought that was just an Arleigh-Burke with a pair of triple 16s tacked onto the bow.

@@Augment_Failure The battleship Godzilla cut in two was the North Carolina. Official mechandise says so.

Don't forget the aircraft carrier the two turned into a super smash bros stage

isn't U.S.S. Lawton the ship arleigh Burke class superstructure with iowa class hull?

THE WORLD WONDERS!

Thats the godzilla nest 😂

Nah, G will just go underwater and there won’t be much the Takao can do

The atomic breath would just come out sooner.

Not likely but it would give the ship perhaps more time to escape. Godzilla would regenerate any wounds inflicted and the range of his atomic breath is likely farther than any navy weapon.

The question you should be asking is, what if they'd found some reloads for Takao's torpedo launchers, and how the big G would've fared against a spread of Long Lances ...

@@froobas I doubt the torpedoes could kill him considering he survived a naval mine exploding in his mouth They probably could have hurt him but probably not kill him

A blood fight, for sure, but not something Godzilla will survive from.

Imagine if they got a big budget as big as Holywood movies', 1945 US Navy might not be farfetched.

To be fair, we did get to see that in Godzilla vs Kong.

They have a huge stock of “oxygen destroyers” to deploy for sure.

​@fabianzimmermann5495 It was a meh scene at best. you could see the shells curve and that was just cursed

Honestly that plot point becomes weird with Hibiki being deployed, though history could be different. Hibiki became war prize for Soviet Union. So either history changed on when she's taken, or the Soviets were like "Here, have your ship back to deal with Godzilla".

​@@A7XFan800 To be fair, Godzilla movies never were big on backstory and plot to start with, so I am not going to fault the latest one for continuing to be weak on story in favor of giant monsters making mayhem. :)

@@A7XFan800 A quick wikipedia check (English and especially Japanese) says that she wasn't given to the Soviets until after the end of the film, thus also well after test Baker and following Godzilla attacks which prompted reactivating Takao. Specifically, test Baker was July '46, and Hibiki continued to be a repatriation ship until at least October '46. English wikipedia says she was given to the Soviets in April '47, however JP wiki says July '47 and after a lottery to decide who got what; reading between the lines it seems likely the April '47 date is when the lottery took place, with the actual transfer happening in July '47. Test Baker is of course the same date within the film (July '46), while the protagonists find the wrecked Liberty ship and are rescued by Takao in March '47. We know that in the time between these dates Godzilla was attacking USN ships and this is what prompted reactivating Takao and everything else. So not only was Hibiki in reality given to the Soviets after the film's finale is set, but due to most of a year of different events leading up to it, the splitting of war trophies would have been called off well before it actually happened.