Honorverse favorite one-liners

Warnecke swallowed, eyes wide as he realized he'd finally met a killer even more deadly than he.

Yow wrote:

cthia" Changer of Worlds. Perhaps it wasn't really Dunecki's fault. The range was insanely short for modern warships, dropping towards one which could be measured in hundreds of kilometers and not thousands, and no sane naval officer would even have contemplated engaging at such close quarters. Nor had either Dunecki or Bachfisch planned on doing any such thing, for each had expected to begin and end the battle with a single broadside which would take his enemy completely by surprise. But whatever they'd planned, their ships were here now, and no one in any navy trained its officers for combat maneuvers in such close proximity to an enemy warship. And because of that, Anders Dunecki, for all of his experience, was completely unprepared for what War Maiden actually did.

[quote="cthia wrote:Ok, RFC, this I don't understand. I realize that this situation is unique in that it is rare, but it seems inevitable. Sometimes the only tactical maneuver available is to close with the enemy ship, as Honor did in her deathride.

In all of an officer's training, and all of the class instruction and simulations driven into students, I can't imagine that these type maneuvers wouldn't be pre-requisites. It's akin to studying chess to become a grand master but ignoring the 'end game.' These such in-close proximity maneuvers should be freshman year Tactics 101. Intuitively, they seem the same type maneuvers as Top Gun--The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program. Has the edge been lost?

SWM wrote:I know others have already answered, but I'd like to add a bit.

Sure, all navies teach graser-range tactics. But this wasn't graser-range, or even close range. Graser-range is 400,000 km (500,000 km now). Close range is maybe half that. A few thousand km is knife-fighting range. This is like suddenly turning to fire a cannon broadside at boarding range against a South Seas pirate.

"I'm well aware of the sorts of rumors which have been circulating around the fleet," Tourville said. "Some of them have been so wild as to be outright ridiculous. For example, the one that says we're going to launch a direct attack on the Manticoran home system in response to Lovat. The very idea is preposterous."

Amaroq wrote:

"I'm well aware of the sorts of rumors which have been circulating around the fleet," Tourville said. "Some of them have been so wild as to be outright ridiculous. For example, the one that says we're going to launch a direct attack on the Manticoran home system in response to Lovat. The very idea is preposterous."

Now, let me brief you on a little something called Operation Beatrice . To have been a fly on the wall when Tourville's officers received their new orders...

The female glow was the stronger of the two, of course. It almost always was, and yet it had to be very powerful to be stronger in this case.

The People were less concerned about measuring things like the passage of time than were the two-legged humans with whom they shared their world, but Branch Leaper judged that no more than two or three hands of the human's "minutes" could have elapsed before the pair upon whom he waited came into sight.

It was not unheard of for a mated pair to travel through a strange clan's territory, but good manners usually required that they warn that clan of their presence. Not that the People took such journeys amiss—except, perhaps, he admitted, during times of great famine at the very end of the cold days of a turning, when even a single pair of additional hunters might make the difference between life or death for the clan's kittens. But that was rare, and usually it was simply a matter of courtesy.

Rakhmamort wrote:"I always like to see my people stay in shape... and I like to think they can take careof themselves if they want to."

Gotta love the not so subtle message to go ahead and bash some heads.

Amaroq wrote:From HAE:

Warnecke swallowed, eyes wide as he realized he'd finally met a killer even more deadly than he.

Gotta love Honor's aggressive negotiations with a .45 automatic.

saber964 wrote:
Dueling Grasers at twenty paces, turn, Fire!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

cthia wrote:

Rakhmamort wrote:"I always like to see my people stay in shape... and I like to think they can take careof themselves if they want to."

Gotta love the not so subtle message to go ahead and bash some heads.

Can anyone identify this bogey? Transponder not broadcasting.