Talk:Destroyermen

The destroyers in this series are described as old "four-stackers." Wikipedia shows several sub-classes of four-stack destroyers built for WW I (though none of these ships made into WW II, as in this series. Did the author select one of the actual classes, combine characteristics of several, or make up his own?Jim Stinson (talk) 00:15, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

• Based on the research I've been able to do, USS Walker (DD-163) and USS Mahan (DD-102) were both Wickes-class destroyers (a class which did indeed have four funnels or "stacks"); the only liberty the author seems to have taken is including both of them in the Second Battle of the Java Sea (Walker was slated for conversion to a damage-control hulk in 1939 and subsequently scuttled in 1941; Mahan, meanwhile, was scrapped in 1931. Both of these events took place well before the aforementioned battle). --Special Operative MACAVITY^{Debrief me} 13:29, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

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The Destroyermen series has been classed as "alternate history" by most reviewers, see, for example, [https://www.star-telegram.com/living/books/article82482872.html "North Texas author Taylor Anderson’s ‘Destroyermen’ series continues"] and [https://www.fantasticfiction.com/a/taylor-anderson/devils-due.htm "Devil's Due (Destroyermen, book 12) by Taylor Anderson"]. Recently (July and August 2018) IP user 204.111.103.12 (204.111.103.10) has added "sword & sorcery" to the genre list. Both Timmccloud and I have removed these additions, as being inappropriate classification; as Timmccloud put it in an edit summary: Reverted good faith edits by 204.111.103.12 (talk): Not a valid genre for this series. No spells, mostly firearms not swords. Alternate History suffices. See also [https://abouttogetreal.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/author-profile-taylor-anderson/ "An Interview With Taylor Anderson"]. --Bejnar (talk) 04:22, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

I'm not editing it myself, because I haven't read far enough to be certain, but in the Iron Gray Sea section, it says " It was later revealed in Deadly Seas that Amerika was converted..." - Should that be "Deadly Shore" rather than "Deadly Seas". There isn't a book called "Deadly Seas" (but it may mean something else I haven't come across yet) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pscsuk (talk • contribs) 13:16, 24 February 2021 (UTC)