User:Transporange/Sandbox/L'Art du chargement

Foreword

Tanaka has never given any tutorial on the topic of Loadout. All initial loadouts, ship girls and Abyssals alike, are misinforming players on how to do proper loadouts.

To keep players from an overpowered start, all initial ship girl loadouts are fragmented. For certain Abyssals, their raw stats are so insane they can reach FP cap regardless of crap loadouts. Abyssals can do Triple Gun Cut-ins and Gun-Torp Cut-ins and dish out maximum damage.

However ship girls cannot achieve this. We cannot blindly copy what the Abyssals do. This is however observed in many new faces and even some intermediate players. They lack the knowledge to get themselves out of the pit of wrong loadouts. This following paper is a detailed guide on proper loadout.

Note that Friendly Fleets sometimes contain silly loadouts. Don't try this at home.

这个游戏，田中从来不会告诉玩家什么场合用什么配装。 相反，所有舰娘的初始配装，以及敌方配装。事实上都在极大的误导玩家思路(注意 事实上 这三个字，无论田中 主观上 是否有此用意)。 所有舰娘的初始配装基本是残缺不全的，这是因为田中不希望玩家拥有一个强大的初始阶段。 部分深海敌军则因为基础火力极高，几乎瞎鸡吧配都能达到火力上限，因此玩家可以看见敌方各种三炮杂技，炮雷杂技横行。 可是舰娘配装却不能如此照抄。但是，很多初阶玩家甚至不少中期玩家却因为缺乏思考，把自己带进坑里，或者说被田中带进坑里。 此外，活动地图的友军舰队也存在一部分有悖于玩家常识的配装，请勿模仿！

Principles

Before we go into the details, we present five principles for loadout.

Her Role

Before one decides how to cook, one decides what to cook. In Kancolle you must also first decide what role does this ship fulfill before deciding on her loadout. With this in mind, we cannot list every possible loadout. We state instead what roles can a ship class fulfill and what her loadout should be based on this role.

Fixed and Free Equipments

TODO. This example has expired. Create new one.

In order to serve a certain role, some equipment are fixed. For example, you need 2 Torpedoes (not mini-sub!) to proc TCI. These are fixed equipments. The remaining slots one can carry sonar, starshell or another torpedo. This is a free slot.

Substitution

During events players will directly copy equipment loadouts from guides. TODO. Check if this is real for Western players. When they lack the hardware to paste a direct copy, they resort to substitution. This may lead subpar or even failed setups.

If one lacks high-tier equipment, please read TODO. Je sais remplacer or a Wiki equivalent . For unusual cases, e.g. replacing anti-installation (DLC) DDs with non-DLC DDs, one must know what role does every ship fulfill. When in doubt, ask game advisors; don't fancy yourselves and make things up.

Caps and Formulae

You have tried to evade me for all those years. Where have this brought you? Back to me. --- Mathematics

Formulae are everywhere in Kancolle. However most of the heavy lifting are already done for you if you utilise JervisOR, Noro6's Aircalc or even KC3 properly. As long as you understand the concept of Cap and addition/subtraction you are save to go.

Cap

Box?

Know you Girls

Sure date them whenever, but maybe you should also try to understand their roles well, so that you can also deploy your girls reasonably. TODO. Find Wiki equivalent articles on ship/equipment description. .

The Body

CV

This part is hard to write and summarise: CV loadouts are varied and every player has their own perceptions.

The basics are simple rules: Saiun and fighters to small slots (not always true: see Kaga Kai's 46-slot), Bombers and Attackers goes to the first slot and the largest slot, try to set up for FBA CVCI.

There is no set rule for CV loadouts. The following is a bare guideline that applies to any situation.

BB(V)

Basic Properties

Battleships have the highest Firepower and Armour in the game. However they generally have no Torpedo stats, and hence they have lower