Fleet Command Facility

Introduction

洋上において艦隊を指揮する前線司令部です。
司令部施設を開設できるある一定以上の大きさの艦に設営可能です。同司令部を旗艦に設営した艦隊は「連合艦隊」として出撃している際に、随伴艦隊の健在な駆逐艦を「損害の大きい艦」の護衛につけて、戦場から退避させることが可能です。

Notes

Stock equipment of Ooyodo Kai.

The Fleet Command Facility allows a destroyer in the second fleet of a combined fleet to escort a heavily damaged ship in the first fleet away from the sortie.

• Must be equipped in the flagship of the first fleet and needs a DD not heavy or moderate damaged for it to give the option to escort the ship.
• Can only trigger only once per sortie.
• The screen will show up after [Results], and before the [Continue/Retreat] screen. The heavily damaged ship and another DD will show up, with green sentences. Left button will remove the damaged ship and a DD from combat and they will lose 25 morale. Right button will continue without escorting.
• Since the combined fleet mechanic only appears during events, the Fleet Command Facility currently has no use other than stats for the majority of gameplay.

See this video for better explanation. (Credits to Nekomahjong)

• Escorted (and escorting) ships cant participate in combat and cant be targeted.
• In the Summer 2014 event, escorted ships count as sunken ships in the battle rank calculation. (So, even sinking all the enemy ships will only grant a B rank at max.)
• However, in the Fall 2014 event, escort ships merely count as gone, allowing you to get an A or S rank.