Overview

Friend Fleet, Friendly Fleets, or just FF, is an Event-only mechanic that was implemented during the Winter 2018 Event. They are NPC fleets that generally appear to attack the boss during Night Battle before the fleet engages. Because the exact FF details vary from event to event, please refer to the current event page for more information. To activate the Friendly Fleet Menu during the event, there is the (Friendly Fleets) button in the Home Port screen.

NPC Friendly Fleet mechanic, as seen in map E-7 of the Winter 2018 Event, when the International Fleet makes their entrance into battle.

In the current implementation:

They are only available on specific nodes, and may be implemented at any time from event startup to after several days after the event start, or even never be added.
- They are typically implemented as the event progresses to give players a higher chance to beat a map.
- They typically appear on Boss Nodes at Night.
- In some longer events, two batches of FF may be added, the second one being stronger and/or going deeper than the first one.
- During Summer 2021, some FFs appeared for the first time:
  - On nodes other than Boss ones.
  - On day battle, before the main battle.

Only NPC fleets are available.
- The devs have mentioned that player fleets may be added at some point.
They will engage the entire enemy fleet.
- This means they will fight both fleets of an enemy combined fleet.
The determination of which fleet of an enemy combined fleet the escort fleet will engage in night battle is calculated after the FF attack.
Which FF appears is random, but odds can be manipulated.
- By having a member of a FF in the sortied fleet, all FFs that she is a member of will not appear. This is referred to as "blocking" a Friendly Fleet.
  - Some fleets are "unblockable", and may appear even if sorting a member that is present in it.
The stats, level, remodel, luck, equipment, and damage state in which the FF ships appear are completely arbitrary.

Using Friendly Fleets

Click on the Friendly Fleet (友軍艦隊) button on the Home Port screen.
- The button will be greyed out if FFs have not been implemented yet for that event.
In the menu that pops up, changing the toggle to Request "Friendly Fleet" (「友軍艦隊」要請) will activate FFs in maps that have them.
- Take note that you cannot pick and choose which maps where the FF appears. You'll need to deactivate FFs by toggling it to Support Unnecessary (支援不要).
The Request Strong Friendly Fleets (強力友軍支援要請) toggle will activate "Strong" FFs.
- These fleets are tagged as "Strong" in the event pages.
- They cost 6 Instant Constructions when they appear.
  - The will not be consumed if a Weak FF appears.

Past Friendly Fleet List

Aerial Combat	Anti-Air Fire · Anti-Air Cut-In · Carrier Cut-In Attack · Jets · Land-Based Air Squadron · Plane Proficiency

Day Battle	Anti-Submarine Warfare · Artillery Spotting · Battle Opening (Opening Anti-Submarine Warfare · Opening Torpedo Salvo)

Night Battle	Night Cut-In

General Combat	Anti-Installation · Cut-in · Evacuation · Map Mechanics and Nodes (Air Reconnaissance · Maelstrom · Resource Node) · Special Attacks · Support Expedition

Combat Calcultaions	Accuracy, Evasion and Criticals · Damage Calculations · Drop · Line of Sight · Shooting Order and Targeting

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2014

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2015

Winter (Counter-attack! Assault on Truk Anchorage) · Spring (Order! Operation 11) · Summer (Counterattack! The Second Operation SN) · Fall (Breakthrough! Maritime Transport Operation)

2016

Winter (Sortie! Operation Rei-Go) · Spring (Deployment! Land-based Aerial Division!) · Summer (CounterAttack! The Second Battle off Malaya!) · Fall (Announcement! The Third Fleet Operation Act)

2017

Winter (Reconnaissance Force Emergency Deployment! Operation "Hikari") · Spring (Sortie! 5th Fleet to the Northeast!) · Summer (Crossing through the West once again! The European Rescue Operation) · Fall (Showdown at Operation Shou-Gou! Battle of Leyte Gulf (Part 1))

2018

Winter (Showdown at Operation Shou-Gou! Battle of Leyte Gulf (Part 2)) · Early Fall (Set Sail! Combined Fleet, to the West)

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Hinamatsuri 2020(mini) · Summer (Stop the Invasion! Island Defense Fortification Operation) · Fall (Escort! Fleet Transport Operation)

2021

Spring (Clash! Night Battle off Lunga) · Summer (Reinforcement Transport Operation! Battle of the Mediterranean) · Fall (Return of the Saury Festival / Maritime Escort! Defend the Seas of the Mainland)(mini)

2022

Winter (Announcement! Operation Sho-Go 3 Alert) · Spring (Fierce Battle! R-area Operation) · Summer (Large Scale Counter Landing! Operation Torch!)

2023

Early Spring (Absolute Defense Line! "Okasawara Crops" Rescue!) · Summer (Fleet Escort! Transport Route Defence Battle/Counter Landing! Normandy Landing Operation!)

2024

Early Spring (Commence! Operation Tatsumaki!) · Summer (Operation Menace/New Operation MO)

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Pumpkin Festival	2022 · 2023 · 2024

Spring Food Collection	2018

Christmas Mini-Event	2014 · 2015

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 * They are only available on '''specific nodes''', and may be implemented at any time from event startup to after several days after the event start, or even never be added.
 ** They are typically implemented as the event progresses to give players a higher chance to beat a map.
-** They typically appear on Boss Nodes for Night
+** They typically appear on Boss Nodes at Night.
-** During [[Summer 2021 Event#Friend_Fleet|Summer 2021]], some FFs appeared for the first time :
+** In some longer events, two batches of FF may be added, the second one being stronger and/or going deeper than the first one.
+** During [[Summer 2021 Event#Friend_Fleet|Summer 2021]], some FFs appeared for the first time:
 ***On nodes other than Boss ones.
 ***On day battle, before the main battle.
 * Only NPC fleets are available.
-** ''The devs have mentioned that player fleets may be available at a future date.
+** ''The devs have mentioned that player fleets may be added at some point.''
 * They will engage the '''entire enemy fleet'''.
 ** This means they will fight both fleets of an enemy combined fleet.

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