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The battle at the wormhole is huge. There would be lots of cool missions and objectives to do in it, including some that were made for heros.
 
The broadside, with regards to a warship, is the one from where most of the batteries can be brought to bear... the Midway isn't a battleship, it's a carrier.
 
The term 'broadside' is not limited to certain classes... it can be applied to pretty much any ship. So, if the Midway can bring most of its batteries to bear on a target, it can give it a broadside. How effective a carrier's broadside would be, of course, is another matter entirely.
 
I would say broadside came from the naval battles of old where, cannons were on either sides of the side. The broader sides were the port and starboard sides, thus broadside :)
 
The term 'broadside' DOES apply to carriers. This is a fairly ancient term (well, probably around 15th century), which has NO such limitations, because it was NOT conceived as something that would refer to a particular type of ship. Naturally, nobody ever used it in reference to a real carrier, since real carriers a) have no weapons, and b) do not engage in naval combat. WC carriers are different. They have guns, and they frequently are seen fighting against other capital ships. Indeed, we see in the WC Movie a carrier engaging an enemy ship, and... "Give them a broadside, Mr. Gerard!"
 
Dang, you stole my line... :)

Anyway, as everyone already said three times, broadside usually refers to firing the port or starboard guns, typically the heavies and most numerous (has anyone EVER heard of a ship wider than it is long? :))
 
Tiger's Claw *did* have a broadside, as a strike carrier -- her side was specifically designed for fighting other capships... Midway or a Concordia *don't* have such a point... there's no one area on a Vesuvius or a Durango that you have to face during a battle.
 
But common sense tells us that there's bound to be a particular part of the Midway (or any other capital ship), on which it can target the enemy with more guns than on any other side. For example, its flanks would have more guns than its rear. And its top/bottom would probably have even more guns. Now, since there's no such thing as a strict technical definition of what a broadside is or isn't, I say that anything that fits the basic defition (a salvo fired from the side with the most guns) is acceptable. So yes, the Midway can fire off a broadside.
 
Originally posted by Quarto
...since real carriers a) have no weapons,
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And from whence does this bit of misinformation hail? Indeed, carriers throughout history have always been armed, even modern vessels.

Originally posted by Quarto
and b) do not engage in naval combat.
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Typically, no. BUt talk to veterans of Taffy 3, from WWII. Escort carriers taking on the Japanese battle fleet. :)
 
I just think you're twisting my words in an utterly semantic manner -- carriers don't have broadsides in the sense that battleships and such do today, which further translated directly into the cruisers and destroyers of WC...

Anyway, carriers *today* have the same sort of weaponry as carriers in WC do -- defensive, anti-fighter turrets and such...
 
Uh oh, people a re trying to prove LOAF wrong, i feel a fight comming.. *sidsteps away* :D

youd think only vessels that were made to ATTACK things with big guns would have broadsides, like destroyers cruisers dreadnaughts and the almighty transport(ok maybe not) not a carrier.
 
There's nothing wrong with trying to prove LOAF's point wrong...there is something wrong with trying to prove LOAF wrong for the sake of putting him down.

I'd think that any ship that could be in a combat position would have broadside guns. Besides, broadside just means your side is facing the enemy.
 
I usually consider a broadside to be a firing of heavy guns (i.e., battleship or cruiser) to port or starboard.


Broadside (The New International Webster Student's Dictionary of the English Dictionary defintion): (brôd'sîd)
n. 1 a Aall the guns on one side of a man-of-war. b The simultanious firing of such guns. 2 An abusive attack or denunciation. 3 A ship's side above the water line. 4 A large sheet of paper printed on one side.
 
A broadside volley is when a ship pulls along side of another and opens up with all of the guns on that side of the ship. As Bob Said, it is either to the Port or Starboard side.
 
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