User:Ninnin/Sandbox/1

This is a collection of questions that are frequently or hypothetically asked. This page is always being expanded as new issues pop up.

Newcomer / Beginners

I keep getting an error message with a girl and a cat!

That is the Error-musume indicating you have some kind of problem, most likely a connection error. Here are the most common reasons for the connection error messages. This is not an exhaustive list.

1. Weekly server maintenance: Go and do something else until maintenance is over. Check the official twitter for news as to when server maintenances are held. You may also get a different error message of a girl and tools instead of the standard error cat message if you try logging in during maintenance.
2. System clock out-of-sync with Japan Standard Time (JST): Change your system time and date to match JST. A leeway of ~1 hour difference from JST is allowed. Also make sure the date is correct with respect to JST.
3. Incorrect API link: If you are using API links, log in to DMM to get a new one. Make sure it is correctly copied.
4. Outdated cache files: From time to time, cache issues may cause connection errors. Cache issues may also cause other problems, such as new features not showing up. Completely clear your browser cache to solve this. This is your Internet Explorer cache if you are using the Flash Projector or KCV.
5. Mundane connection problems: Your server may be under high load. Ask other players on the same server as you if they are experiencing similar issues; otherwise, it might be a connection issue on your end.

What browsers are supported for this game?

The game can run perfectly on any modern browser. However a chromium based browser is needed to use KC3.

Is this game translated/Is there an English patch?

There is no official translation patch. However, there is a third-party translation patch with most of the game translated. Take caution when using these apps, as they are not endorsed by DMM (the game publishers). In some of their official tweets, they openly prohibit the use of macros. Understand that by using these, there is a possibility of being banned for violating the game's policies.

How do I get in?

You first need a DMM account and a VPN to register for the game. The following wiki links address this topic:

1. Tutorial: Proxy Connection
2. Tutorial: How to Register

I notice lots of terminology used (DD, CA, CV, etc.). What does it mean?

KanColle Wiki uses American hull classifications to represent the Japanese ship classes within the game, with a few slight modifications for classes that are not available within the original classification. See the Glossary for the complete list of classifications.

What does the w/x/y/z mean when people talk about crafting and what not?

The four values represent the quantities of the four resources required for crafting or construction:

Fuel / Ammo / Steel / Bauxite

How do resources work in this game?

There are four base resource in the game: fuel, ammo, steel and bauxite. Fuel and ammo are generally used for resupplying your ships, while fuel and steel are used to repair your ships. Bauxite is used for planes: it is consumed to craft and resupply planes for your carriers.

In crafting, different amounts of resources will be used for different equipment; planes will require lots of bauxite, some guns require lots of ammo. Refer to the Development page for more information and specific recipes.

There are seven ways to gain more resources:

1. Just wait it out: Below the resource regeneration cap, fuel, ammo and steel regenerate at 3 per 3 minutes, while bauxite increases at 1 per 3 minutes.
2. Expeditions.
3. Dailies/Quests/Missions.
4. During Sortis, there are nodes that grant you resources.
5. Scrapping ship girls or equipment items.
6. Exchanging a Medal, or another similar item
   
   Valentine's Chocolate, for resources.
7. Purchasing them directly from the [[]]store with DMM points.

I heard about a resource cap. What is the limit? Can't I gather resources exceeding my limit?

There are two caps for your resources:

• The natural regeneration of resources (fuel, ammunition, steel and bauxite) limit called "Soft cap". Above the soft cap the natural genration of resources stop. To look for your soft cap, go to your admiral's page and look at the right panel, last row: it is in blue. The formula for calculating it is:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Resource Regeneration Limit} = 250 \times ((\text{HQ Level}) + 3) }[/math]

• The absolute cap for resources, called "Hard cap" is 350,000 while the cap for items such as Instant Repairs, Instant Constructions, and Development Materials is 3,000. Once you reach this limit, you will not gain any more resources even if you do expeditions or hit supply nodes in sorties. Note that this is different from the resource regeneration cap.

Other item in the Inventory are capped at 99.

Where do I grind for specific resources or items?

For more information on this topic, see Expedition.

• Fuel: expeditions 5, 21, 38; map 1-3 and map 7-4.
• Ammo: expedition 2, 37.
• Steel: expeditions 37; the northern route of map 3-2?. Be advised that the enemy fleet you encounter after the resource node is strong; the steel you just got might not be enough to cover the subsequent repairs.
• Bauxite: expeditions 6, 11, and 15; map 7-4 with submarines in your fleet.
• Bucket: expeditions 2, 4, and A2.
• DevMat: expdedition A2
• Screw: Quests mainly weekly, monthly and quaterly.

Alright, I built my ship and kicked some butt, but I noticed the orange faces. What gives?

For more information on this topic, see Fatigue.

Fatigue is accumulated when you send your ships to sortie, and increases during subsequent sorties. How much fatigue accumulates depends on performance in battle. When you see the face icons, let your ships rest for a while (for orange, 10-11 mins; for red, 21-40 mins). Docking helps as well. Fatigued ships have lowered accuracy and evasion. Refer to Morale/Fatigue for more information.

My ship is sparkling/glittering!

The inverse of fatigue is the "sparkle" effect which boosts a ship's stats and lasts indefinitely until the next sortie/practice/expedition (or its morale otherwise drops below the threshold).

Sparkle effects:

• Evasion is boosted exponentially based on a ship's Morale.
• 16.5% increase in the chance to achieve Great success in expeditions per ship with =>50 Morale (this increases the resources gain to 150% for that particular expedition and guarantees the second expedition item (on the right) if it has one).
• The Morale of all the ships in your fleet (Route Support, 16.5% per ship with >=50 morale) or Morale of the Flagship(Boss Support, 100% if Flagship morale >=50) determines whether the support expedition shows up.

Refer to Morale/Fatigue for more information.

I notice there are heart-shaped locks in the ship selection screen. What do they do?

Click the lock, and the designated ship will not appear in the modernization material list, and will not be able to be scrapped. Useful if you don't want to accidentally lose that ship.

What are expeditions?

Expeditions are a mission that gains you resources. To embark upon an expedition, you require a second fleet. You must complete certain quests before :

• Complete A3 and A4.

Remember to check the quest to fulfill it and gain your rewards!

How can I prevent my ships from sinking?

To avoid sinking your ship, make sure they are not heavily damaged (大破) before a battle. A ship will never sink if she enters battle in good condition (no damage / minor damage [小破] / moderate damage [中破]).

When ships in good condition receive excessive damage they will be left with 1 HP, which can be repaired to full health. If you choose to advance (進撃) with your ship heavily damaged, she will be at risk of being sunk.

If you accidentally chose to advance when you have heavily damaged ships, close the game before you choose the formation for the next battle, so you can still retreat your fleet.

Sunken ships are lost forever and not retrievable. If you need to risk your damaged ships to proceed to the next battle, make sure to equip some form of damage control equipment. It allows your ships to be revived if they are sunk by the enemy.

A subsequent night battle after a day battle is considered the same battle, so ships which are brought to "heavy damage" during the day battle can participate in night battles without fear of sinking (and vice-versa).

How does damage control work?

Ships equipped with Damage Control will be revived upon sinking and become invulnerable throughout the battle. There are two types of damage control:

1. Repair Team (応急修理要員, Repair Team^?):
   • Revives your ship to 20% of max HP after being sunk.
   • Allows you to repair a heavily damaged flagship to 50% of max HP before moving to next node.
   • Consumed upon activation.
2. Repair Goddess (応急修理女神, Repair Goddess^?):
   • Repairs your ship to full HP after being sunk.
   • Allows the option to repair a heavily damaged flagship to 100% HP.
   • Fully resupplies the ship.
   • Consumed upon activation.

Damage control equipment can be obtained by completing quests or by purchasing it from the cash shop. One damage control item will be consumed immediately after the ship sinks, reviving it and preventing your ship from sinking during that particular battle. If you advance to the next node (進撃) with the same ship heavily damaged again, you will need another damage control item for protection. If an additional damage control item is absent, the ship will again be at risk of being sunk.

What are buckets?

Instant Repair ( 高速修復材) is an item used to repair ships incredibly quickly (often less than 10 seconds). Repair time increase with level and remodel, soon you'll understand their importance.

How do you exchange medals for rewards?

How to exchange your medals for resources

Medals can be exchanged for the following rewards by accessing the Item page (アイテム) at the top menu bar of the main screen.

• 1 medal can be exchanged for Fuel x300, Ammo x300, Steel x300, Bauxite x300 and Instant repair item x2.
• 1 medal can also be exchanged for Improvement Materials x4.
• 4 medals can be exchanged for 1 x remodel blueprint (改装設計図).

Why do I have negative timers (-XX:XX:XX) or why do I get incorrect timers (2 hours for DD, etc) in Construction?

This happens when you do not set your system clock to Japan Standard Time (JST). (Note: this does not happen to everyone) To fix this, go to your system clock on your taskbar, click it, and set to Osaka/Sapporo time. Restart the game, and this should fix the issue. It is also possible to add a 2nd clock to your taskbar so you are aware of your local time.

I want ship X, Y, Z, etc.

You can potentially get it via:

• Drops from maps: see the Drop List.
  • Some rare ship can be available in Limited Drop
• Crafting: see the Crafting Recipes for each ship.
  • Some ship can be only bluid in LSC
• Many ship are still Event drop only.

Why am I going through resources so fast?

It goes without saying that you don't have an unlimited number of resources. Running CV and BB-heavy fleets is going to eat through your resources faster than you can generate them. Make sure that you use light fleet as much as possible.It's also a good idea to identify the most expensive ship to sortie for each category. If it's specificaly the steel that are being consume fast then remember that heavy ship consume a lot of steel to repair. Or maybe you are using jets which consume steel each time they sortie. If it's specificaly the bauxite that are being consume fast then your plane are being shut down. To limit this put bomber on the highest plane slot and use plane with anti-air resist.

Does level or type of your flagship matter in crafting?

It depends.

• Building ships seem to be only dependent upon the amount of resources you spend. However, when constructing for certain foreign ship, you must have specifics ship as your flagship.
• Crafting equipment may depend on the amount of resources and type of your flagship.
• Some crafting receipe require more specific secretary (like Daihatsu Landing Craft).

Is it important to craft equipment?

HQ level 20 is required to craft rare equipment. But once this level is reach crafting is the main way a new player makes the base equipment needed to advance further into the maps and quests.

I cannot rename my fleets/Land Base Squadron!

To write something in the game when using KC3 press F10. Copy paste should be used because it workd only for a few seconds.

Note: Fleet name length is capped at 12 characters (including spaces).

How do I unlock the third and fourth fleet slots?

• 3rd Fleet: Complete Quest A14
• 4th Fleet: Complete Quest A16

When does the daily/weekly/monthly reset commence?

Quest/Mission:

• Daily: 05:00 JST
• Weekly: Monday 05:00 JST
• Monthly: Every 1st day of the month 05:00 JST

Daily PVP roster: 03:00 and 15:00 JST

What is Modernization and Remodeling?

• [[Modernization is the process whereby ships are sacrificed to increase certain stats of another ship. See the Modernization page for more details.
• [[Remodeling is the process whereby a ship is upgraded to its next model. The new model usually comes with increased stat caps across the board. Certain ships also get a new card art and library entry, and some ships will change classes. Remodels usually come with the cost of consuming more either fuel or ammo (or both), though there are exceptions, such as first-remodel destroyers and I-168, which maintain the same consumption rates, or aviation cruisers/battleships, which receive a decrease in ammo consumption (though their fuel consumption still increases). Keep this in mind when managing your expedition fleets.

You can remodel a ship to its next model at any point after it reaches the required level, and the ship will retain its level upon remodeling. Be aware that any modernization stat bonuses will be lost upon remodeling. Stats that cannot be increased via modernization (evasion, anti-sub, line-of-sight) will be recalculated to match the level upon remodeling, so you don't need to worry about potential permanent stat losses due to remodeling at high levels. Modernizable stats (firepower, torpedo, AA, armor) will revert to the ship's base stats (plus stat gains from its level).

Unlike modernization, any equipment on the ship to be remodeled will simply be placed back into your inventory and replaced with the new model's stock equipment. Also unlike modernization, remodeling only costs ammo and steel.

Think of remodeling as evolutions. For ships that have multiple remodels (Chitose/Chiyoda, Kitakami/Ooi, Yuudachi, etc.), you will have to go through each remodel to get to the subsequent one regardless of level (i.e., you cannot skip all the remodels before the final upgrade even if your Chitose is level 55). Example: Chitose [math]\displaystyle{ \longrightarrow }[/math] Chitose Kai [math]\displaystyle{ \longrightarrow }[/math] Chitose A [math]\displaystyle{ \longrightarrow }[/math] Chitose Carrier [math]\displaystyle{ \longrightarrow }[/math] Chitose Carrier Kai [math]\displaystyle{ \longrightarrow }[/math] Chitose Carrier Kai 2

Note: Remodeling resets damage, fatigue, and supply status. You could take advantage of this by remodeling just after a sortie or two. However, as remodeling resets fatigue, it also removes the sparkle status if the ship has it.

What does the admiral stats page show?

The Admiral's page.

1. The number of fleets you currently own.
2. The number of construction docks you currently own.
3. The number of docking docks you currently own.
4. The number of ships you currently own.
5. The number of equipment you currently own (including those equipped on your ships).
6. The number of furniture objects you currently own.
7. The server you belong to.
8. The maximum number of fleets you can have (second fleet, third fleet and fourth fleet can be unlocked through quests).
9. The maximum number of ships you can have (this can be increased by purchasing the [Port expansion item/母港拡張]; each expansion will increase your maximum ship cap by 10).
10. The maximum number of equipment you can have (this will be increased by 40 when a [Port expansion item/母港拡張] is used).
11. The resource regeneration limit. (this is not the real resource cap. Reaching the maximum resource storage will stop resource regeneration. You can still gain resources through sorties, quests and expeditions. The absolute resource cap is 300,000 regardless of admiral level.)
12. Your sortie results (Sortie win rate was a requirement for the past events).
13. Your expedition results.
14. Your PVP results.
15. Your admiral level (current EXP/EXP required for next level).
16. Comment box (This will be shown in the ranking list).

What is this blinking icon in my Organize menu?

Mamiya's food icon.

This button uses [[Mamiya's food, a consumable that restores the fatigue value of the ships in that fleet. It blinks when your ships are below a certain Morale value.

Why do some kamusu say 'Shireikan' & other kanmusu say 'Teitoku'?

In almost all modern large navies, destroyers are captained by officers with the rank of Commander. They are stationed on capital ships with over 9,000 tons displacement such as Japanese & US guided missile destroyers, special-purpose ships, cruisers (WWII light cruisers & heavy cruisers), & large submarines (nuclear submarines & ballistic nuclear submarines).

Additionally, in the IJN, destroyers in a Destroyer Division (DesDiv) were led by the commander of the lead ship.

Admirals command battlegroups centered on large capital ships with over 12,000 tons displacement, such as missile cruisers, WWII battlecruisers & battleships, aircraft carriers, & landing platform docks. As such, a typical ship would very rarely get issued commands directly from admirals.

Note that smaller navies may have admirals commanding corvettes. This is known as rank inflation and is unavoidable if all ships in a fleet are basically corvettes.

Why are the IP holders restrictive with game licensing?

DMM is not the only party involved in restricting access to Kantai Collection; rather, this is due primarily to Kadokawa Games and Sega, the holders of the KanColle IP. DMM is only the publisher.

The KanColle core IP is the game itself, held by Kadokawa Games, from which Kadokawa Group Holdings's (KGH) derivative IP comes. Since KGH is a publishing house equivalent to DMM, they don't produce their own derivative content. Established and amateur authors make derivative content, often in the form of doujinshi, and if KGH approves the content, they can cross-license and KGH will also publish those. In fact, that's basically the story behind the anthology comics. In other words, the doujins are not direct competitors to the core IP.

Fan games are different because the core IP is the game itself. However, the legal reason for eliminating fan games is that a lot of fan games employ sound clips and music from the core game, which are registered IP of the companies that produced them. Companies are quite sensitive about their IP being used in this way. The same applies to applications, such as KanColle Clock.

On the other hand, Kadokawa has been very lenient on fans composing or remixing KanColle music. As a case in point, there's Koi no 2-4-11, which has been sung by both Naka-chan herself in the anime (needs more specificity) and her seiyuu in official events (needs more specificity). Only games and other applications using core game IP are under fire.

Sortie

Why do I keep getting sent to the wrong node?

Different nodes on different maps will have different requirements. Some of the nodes are random in nature, while the rest are dependent on one of three criteria

1. Fleet composition
2. Speed of the fleet
3. LoS of the fleet (it's called a LoS check)

Follow the fleet recommendation on the map page and everything will be fine. If needed then go see the branching rule or use Kcnav.

An 'arc' appears in front of my flagship when it was attacked and another ship took damage instead, what happened?

This is called [['flagship protection.' Ships that have taken less than {{}}light damage (小破) will occasionally protect the flagship from getting damaged. Its cause is unknown but some formations make it more likely to occur than the others. It will occur more often especially in the {{vanguard formation.

What ships are 'counters' against other ships (e.g., destroyers against subs)?

There are not really "counter" in the game. However even if the base capability of the ship can greatly help, what's matter the most is the equipment setup. For each situation you need to have the appropriate equipment setup:

• Against subarine use a ASW setup
• Against Air raid and CV use an AACI setup
• Against installation use nuke setup

I saw red text on my menu before I began my sortie/when I try to construct a new ship, what does it mean?

Error message displayed in the sortie, crafting and construction menus. (Click to enlarge)

You have either reached the maximum limit of ships in your port (the default is 100 ships) or reached the maximum limit for equipment (default to 497). Consider either scrapping a few of them or using some as modernizing material before heading out. You will not be able to obtain new ships if you are at either limit. If you wish to expand your docks so you can collect more ships, you have to buy a port expansion from the cash shop. Each expansion costs 1000 yen, and increases the maximum ship limit by 10 and the maximum equipment limit by 40. Refer to this pastebin for more information on hating your wallet. If it's an event map remember that

What happens if I get disconnected from the game during a battle?

It depends on at what stage the server acknowledges the disconnection. Typically, the game will calculate the battle's results and your fleet will automatically return to base. Whether XP is rewarded / fuel and ammo are consumed depends on when the disconnection happens.

I notice some players are farming X ship, why?

There can be two reasons to farm a ship:

• Use them in modernization
  • especially if they can do HP, ASW or Luck modernization
• Obtain the stock equipment

How to kill Submarine, Pt Imp, Intsallation

These three types of enemy need specialized equipment setup to be killed.

• See ASW
• See Installation
• See PT Imp Pack

What is this weird warning screen showing my flagship after the battle? Why did I get sent back to the base?

If your fleet's flagship gets {{heavily damaged (大破) during a battle you'll be forced to retreat unless she is equipped with a Repair Team or Repair Goddess and you choose to consume it.

Naval Exercise/Practice Battle/PVP

For more information on this topic, see Exercises (PvP).

How come the other admirals have significantly higher-leveled ships?

Naval exercises yield low admiral experience (20 exp) but high ship experience (up to 1k exp, maybe more). Compound that everyday, and the experience gap grows. Overall, ship level isn't the only factor in determining victory; the right preparations can help you win battles against higher level ships. See Exercises (PvP) for details.

The other admiral uses a fleet of low-level ships. Why would he do that?

It's easier to get the Sparkle buff. See Morale and Fatigue for more details.

To help other admirals (and hopefully yourself as well), please make sure your main fleet consists only of two high level ships when you will be offline for a while.

Please note that two high level ships does not mean a fleet composed of one level 1 ship.

How do I get an S-rank against a submarine fleet?

Anti-submarine damage is highly depend on equipment ASW stat. Equip your CLs and DDs with Sonar and Depth Charges while using the Line Abreast formation.

Equipment, Stats and Remodels

What does each stat mean?

• 耐久 (Taikyū, Endurance) - Ship's Health or HP. Ship banner will show 小破/中破/大破 (Lightly/Moderately/Heavily damaged) after your HP is reduced to a certain level (75%/50%/25% of Maximum HP or less, respectively). Ships entering a battle with 大破 (Heavy Damage) are at risk being sunk.
• 火力 (Karyoku, Firepower) - Affects the damage a ship's guns/bombers do during shelling phase.
• 装甲 (Sōkō, Armor) - Damage reduction against incoming attacks.
• 雷装 (Raisou, Torpedo) - Affects the damage a ship inflicts with a torpedo attack, and stacks with firepower to determine night-time shelling damage.
• 回避 (Kaihi, Evasion) - Affects the chance of having enemies "miss" an attack.
• 対空 (Taikū, Anti-Air) - Reduces damage from aerial attacks. See below for explanation on AA guns.
• 搭載 (Tōsai, Aircraft) - Total plane capacity for each ship. For capacity in each slot, see this.
• 対潜 (Taisen, Anti-submarines/ASW) - Ship's capability to conduct anti-submarine warfare; higher chance of inflicting damage to submarines.
• 速力 (Sokuryoku, Speed) - Divides into High Speed/Fast and Low Speed/Slow. The mechanics are not clear but it is said to give bonus to evasion if all ships are at fast speed. Affects the sortie route in certain maps.
• 索敵 (Sakuteki, Reconnaissance/LOS) - This stat determines the success of the detection phase at the start of the battle. The higher it is, the higher the success rate. Also affects branching for certain maps (such as 2-5).
• 射程 (Syatei, Range) - Determines the firing order during the start of the battle. See here for details.
• 運 (Un, Luck) - Affects cut-in chance in night battle.

Generally if the stat is 0, it means the ship can't do anything pertaining to that and there is no way you can increase it. There are exceptions (Ooyodo's Torpedo and ASW stat, Maruyu's Torpedo stat are a few examples).

Hidden stats

• 爆装 (Bakusō, Dive bombing stat) - Initial value is 0 for all ships; it is increased when dive bombers/seaplane bombers are equipped. The stat is used to determine attack power damage during shelling phase (for CV/CVLs) and Aerial Combat (for all ships carrying bombers).
• 命中 (Meichū, Hit rate) - Accuracy. Affects the chance of hitting an enemy. Can only be increased through leveling or equipment.
• クリティカル (Kuritikaru, Critical) - No equipment directly increase this, but any attack can be a critical attack, resulting in an additional 50% increase to the base attack power (not just a 50% increase in damage). Explanation here.

What do the stars underneath the ship's level mean?

They signify close the ship is to their max stats.

If I can raise stats through modernization, what's the point of leveling up?

• Firepower , Torpedo attack , Anti Air and Armor stats can be increased using Modernization.
• Anti Submarine , View Range and Evasion stats will only improve from leveling ships up, though repair times also increase.
• Trigger rate of various mechanics increase with the level.
  • Note that special DD mix cut-in make 2 hit only when the DD is above level 80.
• A ship need to be lv.99 to be married.

It is certainly worth it to level up the ship.

Is it worth anything to turn Fusou, Mogami, etc. into aviation battleships/cruisers?

It is certainly worth it.

The use of CAv and BBV is to have air power when CV(L) are unavailable. which is far more important than loosing a little firepower.

Does the slot position of equipment matter?

No the position of the equipment doesn't change anything. However, this is not the case for warships that can equip aircraft (fighters, recon planes, seaplanes, etc.), because each slot has a different aircraft-carrying capacity (see below). Keep this in mind when equipping planes.

Is there any equipment that will do preemptive strikes?

Torpedoes and bombers can attack before the shelling phase. Ships or submarines equipped with midget submarines (Type A Ko-hyoteki, 甲標的 甲) are also able to launch an opening torpedo attack. Submarines level 10 or higher can launch an opening torpedo attack regardless of their equipment. The accuracy of torpedoes greatly depends on fleet formation: using line abreast will cause midget submarines to nearly always miss, while line ahead gives the greatest accuracy.

What do the green and yellow guns do? Also, I really hate fighting carriers, which guns help me shoot planes?

• are high-angle guns; generally they have higher AA stat than other guns of its class (main gun or secondary gun), possibly at the cost of firepower.
• are also anti-air equipment; however, they do not count as either a main gun or a secondary gun.
• are secondary guns; they were originally designed to be more accurate against secondary targets, but the in-game implementation simply makes them more accurate. Historically, they were meant to fire faster and track fast ships more quickly, hence the accuracy boost.

As to what guns help with shooting down planes, it is detailed at the Aerial Combat page under Anti-Air Cut-In and Fleet Anti-Air Defense sections.

What is the function of the green ammo?

Sanshiki, San-Shiki or sanshikidan (lit. "type 3") ammunition is a combined shrapnel and incendiary round for anti-aircraft use, and was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy. It's a good early game anti-installation equipment.

What do the planes with the different-colored icons do?

	Aircraft with blue icons are torpedo bombers. Torpedo bombers can deal very high damage in the opening carrier attack phase, and raise damage in the shelling phase.
	Aircraft with red icons are dive bombers. Dive bombers also attack in the opening phase but their damage is fairly low. They give carriers higher damage in the shelling phase.
	Aircraft with green icons are air superiority fighters. They are a great at shooting down enemy planes.
	Aircraft with yellow icons are used for the recon phase and can help increase damage in the opening carrier attack phase.
	Light green planes with no icon at all are seaplanes. The 零式水上偵察機 Type 0 Recon Seaplane is for scouting only, while the 瑞雲 Zuiun both scouts and participates in aerial combat. Both allow for Artillery Spotting. Note that these are the only aircraft that seaplane tenders (AV), aviation battleships (BBV), aviation cruisers (CAV), and aircraft-carrying submarines (SSV) can launch.

What's the difference between CV and CVL?

Carriers (CV) can hold more planes than Light Carriers (CVL), and a higher plane count means better performance in the initial air combat phase (See the Aerial Combat for more information). CVs also have higher defense and HP, and CVs are all Fast Speed (where as a few CVLs, such as Hiyou, are Slow Speed, which matters for certain maps).

One thing CVs can't do is attack submarines, whereas CVLs can. CVLs also have lower resupply costs than CVs.

What does the number beside my plane stand for?

The number by each equipment slot for a ship that can equip aircraft indicates the capacity of the planes it can hold. Different slots have different capacities and will affect the performance of the carrier in the opening aerial combat phase (See the Aerial Combat for more information).

If the number shows 0, it can mean a few things:

• Either you did not resupply the ship to replenish the plane count, or you have ran out of to replenish the planes; or
• That slot has a natural capacity of 0, which renders equipping planes on that slot useless for the most part.

Will I lose all my equipment if I remodel?

No. The game will automatically disarm your ship before she is remodeled.

What should I equip on torpedo cruisers (CLT, i.e. Kitakami, Ooi and Kiso)?

Any gun, torpedo launcher or midget submarine will do. A midget sub will enable them to shoot a torpedo before the shelling phase. two guns and a midget submarine.

Expeditions

Help! my fleet failed to do an expedition.

For more information on this topic, see Expeditions#Success_Conditions.

Expedition success depend ofsome condition:

• fleet composition
• level of flagship
• number of drum equiped
• sum of stat

I don't have expedition #xx unlocked.

You need to complete earlier expeditions. Don't skip clearing any previous expeditions at least once each. There a tab for the unlocking on the expedition page

What expedition is the most efficient?

For more information on this topic, see Theoretical Hourly Net Earnings.

• Always have all the ships in your fleet sparkling when going into a long expedition (see the sparkle effect).
• Using ships with low fuel and ammo cost optimizes the efficiency of your expedition.
• Remodeled ship may have up to a 27% increase in fuel/ammo usage. While it is not a dealbreaker, please take it into consideration in deciding your expedition fleet.

Are Kitakami and Ooi's first and second remodels (CLTs) considered as CLs for expedition and map requirement purposes?

No, they are not. If you send them out on expeditions, it will fail despite theoretically fitting the stated requirements. They are considered as CLT. The same is true for aviation cruisers (CAV) not considered as CAs.

How to Unlock Large Ship Construction

1. Complete Modernization Quest G4
2. Complete Crafting Quest F10
3. Enjoy Large Ship Construction! Keep in mind that LSC require 4-digit resources (1500-7000 per resource per craft), while only few ships are worth trying using LSC.

Note: To unlock Quest G4, you need the 3rd fleet unlocked; see Quests A7 and A14 for how to do get this.