Special Attacks/Colorado-class Touch

Colorado and Maryland are able to perform a special attack:

• A Colorado-class must be the flagship.
  • Secretary for combined fleets.
  • She must not be more than lightly damaged (小破).
• The 2nd and 3rd ships in the fleet must be FBB/BB/BBV.
  • They must not be heavily damaged (大破).

• There must be 6 or more surface ships in the fleet.
  • There must be no submarine in 6-ship fleets. In 7-ship fleets, only 1 submarine is allowed.
  • There must be no surface ship in the fleet sunk or evacuated via FCF
    during a sortie, making the remaining total < 6. Ships in the escort fleet are not counted.

• In single fleet, Echelon needs to be selected.
• In a combined fleet, Cruising Formation 2 needs to be selected.

If triggered:

• The flagship will do a 1st attack,
• The 2nd ship will do a 2nd attack,
• The 3rd ship will do a 3rd attack,
• Each attack targets a ship at random,
• If all enemies sunk, then touch stops early.

"Big 7" refers here to Nagato Kai/Ni
, Mutsu Kai/Ni
, Nelson Kai, Rodney Kai^{[citation needed]}, Colorado/Kai
, and Maryland/Kai
.

Attack Multipliers
Equipment	Any Flagship	2nd ship	3rd ship	2nd ship	3rd ship
		is Big 7		not Big 7
	Attack 1	Attack 2	Attack 3	Attack 2	Attack 3
No Bonus Equipment	1.50	1.50	1.52	1.30
Surface Radar Only	1.73	1.72	1.75	1.50
SG Radar (Late Model) Only	1.98	1.98	2.01	1.72
AP Shells Only	2.03	2.02	2.05	1.76
AP + Radar	2.33	2.32	2.36	2.02
AP + SG LM	2.68	2.67	2.72	2.32

• The modifiers are post-cap on day battle, and pre-cap on night battle.
• The equipment bonuses do not stack further than 1 radar and/or 1 AP shell per ship.
  • Only ships equipped with those equipment will get a bonus for their attack(s).

• All three ships involved consume additional ammunition when triggered:

Fleet type	Triggering type	Additional ammo consumption
Single	Day battle (no night battle)	10%
	Day battle (with night battle)	15%
	Night battle (after day battle)	15%
	Night battle Node	5%
Combined	Day battle (no night battle)	0%
	Day battle (with night battle)	10%
	Night battle (after day battle)	10%

The touch:

• Can be triggered even if artillery spotting fails to activate.
• Can only be activated once per sortie.
• Has a chance to trigger every time the flagship takes a turn at shelling.
  • In single fleet, if it fails to trigger in day battle, there is a chance to trigger it in the follow-up night battle.
• The rate is probably:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Trigger}_\text{Rate}\text{%} = \sqrt{\text{Lv}_\text{FS}} + \sqrt{\text{Lv}_\text{2nd}} + \sqrt{\text{Lv}_\text{3rd}} + \sqrt{\text{Luck}_\text{FS}} + \sqrt{\text{Luck}_\text{2nd}} + \sqrt{\text{Luck}_\text{3rd}} + \text{X} + \text{Y} }[/math]

With

• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Lv}_\text{FS} }[/math] the flagship's Level,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Lv}_\text{2nd} }[/math] the 2nd ship's Level,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Lv}_\text{3rd} }[/math] the 3rd ship's Level,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Luck}_\text{FS} }[/math] the flagship's Luck,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Luck}_\text{2nd} }[/math] the 2nd ship's Luck,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Luck}_\text{3rd} }[/math] the 3rd ship's Luck,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{X} }[/math] some yet unknown bonus variables,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Y} }[/math] some yet unknown base rate.

It is notably affected by:

• The Level and luck stat of the participating ships,

It is currently measured around 52~60 % if all three ships are lv.99.

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  Colorado Special Attack

• 

  Colorado Special Attack Kai

• 

  Maryland Special Attack

• 

  Maryland Special Attack Kai

Ship	Japanese/English	Notes
Colorado Special Attack Play	Colorado Squadron, full broadside! Open fire when you've confirmed your targets! We'll destroy them in one broadside. Fire!	Special Attack Line
	Colorado戦隊全力斉射！各個目標に砲撃開始！一気に殲滅する。Fire!

Ship	Japanese/English	Notes
Maryland Special Attack Play	Ready to begin directed fire. All ships, use the following targeting data. OK? ...Open fire!	Special Attack Line
	統制射撃を開始する。各艦、目標諸元入力。OK?……Open fire!