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Originally Posted by Olefin
Their areas arent that tiny - MilGov controls a big piece of Colorado, plus a lot of Kansas and down into Oklahoma, from Cairo IL down to Memphis TN, a good piece of Louisiana and a pretty big piece of CA, plus the big areas in the Northwest - thats a lot of territory when you add it up, bigger than most European countries in peacetime - and now they have the Ozarks as well
and I dont use HW and Kidnapped as canon (most likely most dont actually) -
and one place they could get manpower is from all the sailors who manned the Omega evac fleet plus guys who can get retrained from Omega - between all of them (and a good amount of them had to be sailors stranded in Europe when their ships either were sunk, damaged beyond repair or just plain out of fuel) you could easily man a battleship
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Also the museum BBs North Carolina, Masschussets and Alabama do not share the same main armament as the Iowas due, however all of the other spares including the secondary armament is the same. Some parts were taken from them to refit the Iowas in the 80s and frankly, although I could see looters boarding the ships to take some limited machinery, a lot of it is useless to them. For example, turret rings, breech blocks, 5" barrels... there are piles of scrap metal everywhere, why go through the aggravation of trying to carry away a 90 ton gun director?