What era had the coolest naval combat?
>>65146432Its split between the battle for jutland amd the battle of midway for me
>>65146432Ironchads, no contest
>>65146483This. The Battle of Lissa was peak naval kino.
People have a big hard-on for battleships, but it kind of sucks when you're not at the "bird's eye cinematic" level >OK we'll fling shells at each other from 15km away and first one to get a solid hit wins
>>65146432The next oneAny other answer is the retreat of a coward
>>65146467How do you paint so well on a boat?
>>65146432Going to agree with >>65146467 that Jutland was the single greatest naval battle of all time. The Grand fleet took twice the casualties and tonnage sunk than the High sea's fleet but won a strategic victory as they denied a breakout into the Atlantic and confined the High seas fleet to the North Sea for the rest of WW1. As far as coolest goes, I liked the cold war gone hot scenario in Red Storm Rising and think a naval battle in the era of Sea Skimming ASM's, Electronic warfare, and Airborne Early Warning would be interesting to say the least.
>>65146432Predreadnoughts.
When both sides fought so close to each other they could look themselves in the eye.
>>65146577>Jutland was the single greatest naval battle of all timeAnd yet it was a massive blueball cocktease.
>>65146432You already posted it, broadsides, raking fire, and boarding actions were peak fucking kino, the combat was chaotic and brutal, and sailing the world required balls and skill.
>>65146601Did those ancient trireme really had no any railings?
Nothing gets closer, than Hood vs Bismarck
>>65146432I'm most interested in the present.I really want to see a full naval battle with modern ships and modern aircraft. It's a practically unexplored dynamicAll these ships and vessels that never get to do the job they were built for.
>>65146801>I really want to see a full naval battle with modern ships and modern aircraft.was the demoloshing of iranian navy not enough for you? that's basically it.
>>65146432No idea, but the best battle was Galeas per Montes, where Venice carried a bunch of warships up mountains so they could then lower them into the Garda Lake and fight Milan to help Brescia break out of her siege.
>>65146801Wouldn't it just be a spam of antiship missiles from BVR?
What was that Portuguese warship that held off hundreds if not thousands of vessels in the Indian Ocean
>>651464322nd and 3rd century BC trireme ramming and marine boarding action. All downhill ever since
>>65146859la banheiro
>>65146432for me, its the battle off Samar
>>65146820That’s just shooting fish in a barrel, they couldn’t even fight back. Two carrier groups against each other is what he means
>>65146432Falklands War
I'll put another vote towards WW1. Pinnacle of heavy surface action, submarines play a role, airpower is limited to observation and some daring light attacks. Battleships and battlecruisers were the result of an arms race to build the strongest ships and find the best way to let crews of men send tons of steel to the horizon.
>>65146432The relief of the second Siege of Leidenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZoYpEki-c
>>65146801it'll be gay and retarded missilespam from over the horizonnaval kino is over im afraid
>>65146432The Battle of Lepanto.
>>65148616As power levels get higher the possibility of an even fight gets lower and lower
>>65146432East Asian medieval naval combat. Where the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese just tossed army generals into the water who had 0 clue how to naval warfare, so they all just built floating castles and had siege battles on the water.
>>65146432The war in the pacific was pretty kino.
>>65146577Saying jutland was better than the 5 minute miracle at Midway is retarded. Literally the only thing amusing or interesting about Jutland was multiple britcuck battle cruisers realizing, with horror, that they had britfag sailors on board and then voluntarily exploding out of sheer embarrassment
>>65149085>so they all just built floating castles and had siege battles on the waterSome day you might learn why the fo'c'sle is called that in English...
>>65148870>The Battle of Lepanto. Fun fact, most of the Christian League's ship artillery was produced by Beretta.
>>65146494"I say... look at those Chappies go! Quite enthusiastic for the Hun aren't they, Williamson?"
>>65149162BASED HULL MOUNTED 92FS SI GLORIA ROMA!
>>65146494Why do they look like planet of the apes extras with slightly less hair?>>65146582Shame we didn't get many, and before anyone says Tsushima no that wasn't a battle but more like bullying the special needs kid.>>65146699It really was like a football match where the teams did everything in their power to fuck things up resulting in a very boring nil-nil draw.>>65148259That wasn't cool, that was just complete comedy with destroyers bullying battleships and pilots strafing the decks with their sidearms.>>65148870Probably one of the most important battles nobody really talks about.
>>65148259The most over-mythologised naval battle in history
>>65146494Lissa had everything a sea battle connoisseur can wish for, from salamis to trafalgar with some ironclads as icing on the cake.it happened in the period when we went from sail to paddle to screw and from wood to iron to steel, with lissa the only big battle to
>>65146785which salvo is the one that blew up the hood? 2nd or 3rd?
The Battle of Lissa was somewhat marred by Italian blunders.
>>65148870>>65146494how come these austrians knights without a port fight an age setting sea battle evey half of a millenium? do they have sea horses or smth?
>>65149360Any battle involving Austrians and Italians is always going to be entertainment.
>>65149373>Battle of LepantoThe mediterranean members of the Holy League provided all of the ships and the majority of the soldiers and sailors. Still out of the 30.000 soldiers of the Holy League 7.000 were Germans.>Battle of LissaThe Austrian Empire had shipwrights in what are now Slovenia and Croatia.
