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Improving Ship Speed
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Speed represents the speed of a ship. Ship are either slow (低速) or fast (高速) by default. As of the 10 Jan 2017 Update, ship speed can be further increased to fast+ (高速+) or fastest (最速) by using a combination of
Engine Improvements: a Turbine
with one or more Boilers
.
Overview
There are several effects of increasing ship speed:
- Meeting routing requirements:
- Fleet speed affect certain map routing.
- Combined Fleet composition:
- BB/BBV that are fast+ can be placed in the escort fleet of STF/TCF (only fast for Warspite Kai).
- Evasion increase.
- Although this has been stated by the developers to occur, testing has not shown any significant increase in evasion.
- Because Coastal Defense Ships (DE) cannot equip
Engine Improvements, they are the only ship type that cannot be sped up.
Speed Change Charts
It is highly recommended to have a Reinforcement Expansion on ships that are sped up. Ships sped up without using a RE will have severely degraded combat efficiency.
So far, only 2 types of "boiler" exist in the game, and they are referred to as:
- Enhanced Kanhon Type Boiler
= +10 Boiler
- New Model High Temperature High Pressure Boiler
= +13 Boiler
All synergies listed below already include 1 Improved Kanhon Type Turbine because it is an absolute requirement for speed ups.
- Devs claim that higher speed values increase evasion. However, its magnitude/scope/existence is still investigated by players (preliminary tests suggest that there is no significant increase in evasion[1][2]).
Speed and engine synergy | |||||||||||
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+13![]() |
+10![]() |
Group/Speed | Equipment evasion |
Slots required | |||||||
Fast | Slow | ||||||||||
A | B1 | B2 | C | A | B | C | |||||
0 | 1 | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast | Fast | Fast | 16 | 2 | |
0 | 2 | Fastest | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast | Fast | Fast | 26 | 3 | |
0 | 3+ | Fastest | Fast+ | Fastest | Fast+ | Fast | Fast+ | Fast | 36+ | 4+ | |
1 | 0 | Fastest | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast | Fast | Fast | 19 | 2 | |
1 | 1 | Fastest | Fastest | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast | Fast | 29 | 3 | |
2 | 0 | Fastest | Fastest | Fastest | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast+ | Fast | 32 | 3 | |
1 | 2+ | Fastest | Fastest | Fastest | Fast+ | Fastest | Fast+ | Fast | 39+ | 4+ | |
2 | 1+ | Fastest | Fastest | Fastest | Fast+ | Fastest | Fast+ | Fast | 42+ | 4+ | |
3+ | 0+ | Fastest | Fastest | Fastest | Fast+ | Fastest | Fast+ | Fast | 45+ | 4+ |
Simplified table | ||||||
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Required Boiler | Fast A |
Fast B1 Slow A |
Fast B2 Slow B |
Fast C Slow C | |
+1 | Any boiler | 1 | ||||
+2 | Either | +13![]() |
1 | 2 | 2 | N/A |
Or | +13![]() |
0 | 1 | 0 | ||
Total boiler count | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||
+3 (initially-slow ships only) |
Either | +13![]() |
N/A | 3 | N/A | |
Or | +13![]() |
1 | ||||
Total boiler count | 3 |
Speed groups | |||||||
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Initial speed | Group | Ships, classes, types | |||||
Destroyers | Light Cruisers | Heavy Cruisers | Battleships | Carriers | Others | ||
Fast | A | Shimakaze![]() ![]() |
Tone-class![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Taihou![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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B1 | Amatsukaze![]() |
Agano-class![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Kongou-class![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Souryuu![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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B2 | Other DD | Other CL · CLT![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Other CA | Other FBB | Fast CVL · Other CV | ||
C | Samuel B. Roberts Mk.II![]() |
Yuubari![]() |
Kaga![]() |
Fast AV![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
Slow | A | Yamato-class![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Houshou Kai Ni/Sen![]() ![]() |
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B | Samuel B. Roberts![]() |
Yuubari Kai Ni Toku![]() |
Other BB · BBV · Gangut![]() |
Slow CVL | Slow AV![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||
C | SS · SSV · AR![]() ![]() ![]() |
Speed exceptions | |||
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Ships | Speed group | Exception | Notes |
I-201-class![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Slow C | +1 ![]() ![]() |
Not self-stackable |
Houshou Kai Ni/Sen![]() ![]() |
Slow A | ||
Yuubari Kai Ni Toku![]() |
Slow B | Speed set to Fast when equipping a Improved Kanhon Type Turbine![]() |
Not self-stackable Bonus disabled if equipping any "other" variants of
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See Also
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