Combat/Battle Opening

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Battle Opening Breakdown

Battle Opening is one of the daytime combat intermediary phases, taking place immediately before the First shelling starts. In this phase, allied and enemy fleets launch attacks with the intent to disable or remove enemy targets before the combat proper starts. This grants either fleet substantial advantages by possibly disabling key ships on the opposing side.

Battle Opening has the following structure:

  • Opening ASW Shelling (OASW)
  • Opening Torpedo Salvo

In case neither fleets meet the requirements, the sub-phase will be skipped.

Opening ASW Shelling (OASW)

Commonly referred to as OASW (opening ASW). All eligible ships will perform a regular ASW Shelling attack, following range order in the same fashion as the First Shelling Phase. As these opening attacks happen before the Opening Torpedo Salvo, they may disable or even sink enemy submarines before they have a chance to attack.

OASW has the following trigger conditions:

  • The ship must be able to perform ASW shelling.
  • Meet their specific ASW stat threshold and requirements:
OASW Ship ASW Stat Required Equipment Required Notes
Any Destroyer/Light Cruiser/Torpedo Cruiser/Fleet Oiler/Training Cruiser 100+ ASW   1 Sonar Equipped ASW Stat Required does include
visible equipment bonuses
Any Coastal Defense Ship 60+ ASW   1 Sonar Equipped
75+ ASW Total of 4+ ASW from equipment. ASW Stat Required does include
visible equipment bonuses

Visible equipment bonuses
don't count as equipment ASW.
 
 
 Kai Ni D
 
 
 
 
 
Can OASW innately N/A
Any Light Aircraft Carrier 50+ ASW   +      
Sonar + Any with 7+ ASW
ASW Stat Required does include
visible equipment bonuses

Visible equipment bonuses
don't count as equipment ASW.
Escort Carriers (CVE):
 
 
 
 
 Kai Ni B
 Kai Ni/E
65+ ASW      
Any with 7+ ASW
100+ ASW   +        
Sonar + Any aircraft with 1+ ASW
ASW Stat Required does include
visible equipment bonuses
 
 
 
 Kai Ni Go
N/A        
Any aircraft with 1+ ASW
  N/A   2 Autogryos 
 
 

-or-
 1 Helicopter 
 
.
 
 
 
100+ ASW   +  Bomber  
Sonar + Seaplane Bomber or Autogyro.

See the list of Anti-submarine Weaponry and ASW Aircrafts to better see what can help achieve OASW on a given ship.

Abyssals

Abyssal ships do not follow these rules. The following may perform OASW unconditionally:

Other abyssals cannot perform OASW.

Opening Torpedo Salvo

Commonly referred to as oTorp (opening torpedo). Eligible ships will fire an Opening Torpedo attack. This attack behaves similarly to the Closing Torpedo attack, with the difference that it will be launched regardless of the ship's damage state. Opening Torpedo salvo has the following trigger conditions:

This phase follows the same rules as Closing Torpedo Salvo, with some exceptions:

  • Ships at Moderate or Heavy Damage can still fire torpedoes.
  • If there are no surface ships on the opposing fleet, torpedoes will be shown targeting randomly chosen submarines. This however will never deal damage and will always display as a "miss".

After the Opening Torpedo Salvo, the Day Battle Shelling starts (if there are any remaining ships on either side left).