Special Attacks/Colorado-class Touch

Colorado and Maryland are able to perform a special attack:

"Touch Helpers"
Any FBB, BB, BBV

• 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.

• Bug: The attack cannot trigger in CTF versus a single fleet.(?)

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 Surface Radar Only	1.73	1.72	1.75	1.50
Surface 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 + Surface Radar	2.33	2.32	2.36	2.02
AP + Surface 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 %

• Costs are rounded up.

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{%} = \Biggl\lfloor \text{V} \times \sum_\text{Ships} \sqrt{\text{Lv}} + \text{W} \times \sum_\text{Ships} \sqrt{\text{Luck}} + \text{X} + \text{Y} \Biggr\rfloor }[/math]

With

• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Lv} }[/math] the Level of the participating ships,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Luck} }[/math] the Luck of the participating ships,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{V & W} }[/math] some yet unknown bonus factors,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{X} }[/math] some yet unknown bonus variables,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Y} }[/math] some yet unknown base rate.

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 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!
Maryland 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!