Special Attacks

"Special Attacks", or "Touch", are special combats mechanics involving specific ships combination in a fleet, in order to trigger a powerful attack, involving a unique animation and sometimes a unique "Touch CG" for the involved ships.

There are 3 main types of Touch currently in the game, the "Big Seven Touch", the "Kongou Touch", and the "Submarine Touch".

Big Seven Touch

"Big Seven" refers to the firsts 7 battleships built to carry the biggest naval gun (> 40 cm) allowed by the Washington Naval Treaty, namely, the Nagato-class, Nelson-class, and Colorado-class.

Nagato Touch

Nagato gains a special attack on Kai Ni called "Full broadside... Sounds exciting!" (一斉射かッ…胸 が熱いな！), that targets 3 enemies at random.

• Nagato Kai Ni must be the flagship.
  • She must not be more than lightly damaged (小破).
• Another battleship must be in the 2nd position.
  • She 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 retreated via FCF
    
    during sortie causing remaining < 6. Ships in escort fleet not affect.
• Echelon needs to be selected in a single fleet OR Cruising Formation 2 for a combined fleet.

If triggered, Nagato will do two attacks and the other battleship will do a 3rd attack.

Equipment	Mutsu		Mutsu Kai Ni		Nelson		With Other BB
	Attacks 1 & 2	Attack 3	Attacks 1 & 2	Attack 3	Attacks 1 & 2	Attack 3	Attacks 1 & 2	Attack 3
No Bonus Equipment	1.61	1.62	1.68	1.68	1.54	1.50	1.40	1.20
Radar Only	1.85	1.86	1.93	1.93	1.77	1.72	1.61	1.38
AP Only	2.17	2.18	2.26	2.26	2.07	2.02	1.89	1.62
AP + Radar	2.49	2.51	2.60	2.60	2.39	2.32	2.17	1.86

• The attack will consume extra ammo from both participating battleships when triggered. The total ammo consumption will be x1.5 of the original ammo consumption of when the attack is triggered , hence:
  • If it is triggered in day battle, it costs 10% extra ammo.
  • If it is triggered in a night battle node, it costs 5% extra ammo.
  • If it is triggered in a night battle in a normal node, it costs 15% extra ammo.

• Can be triggered even if you fail to activate artillery spotting.
• Can only be activated Once per sortie.
• Has a chance to trigger every time Nagato takes a turn at shelling. If it fails to trigger in day battle, there is a chance to trigger it in the followup night battle.
• Trigger rate is affected by Nagato's luck.

Kongou-Class Touch

Only Kongou-class 3rd remodels can trigger this touch (namely Kongou Kai Ni C and Hiei Kai Ni C).

Kongou Touch

On Kai Ni C, she gains a night battle special attack that targets 2 enemies at random:

• Kongou Kai Ni C must be Flagship.
  • She must not be more than lightly damaged (小破).
• Hiei Kai Ni C, Haruna Kai Ni or Warspite are the second ship.
  • She must not be heavily damaged (大破)
• Line Ahead or Echelon needs to be selected for a single fleet.
• Cruising Formation 2 or Cruising Formation 4 needs to be selected for a combined fleet.

It can be activated twice per sortie and in the same battle with another separate special attack.

	Attack 1 (1st Ship)	Attack 2 (2nd Ship)
Base Multiplier	1.9x
Green T Engagement	1.25x (2.375x)
Red T Engagement	.75x (1.425x)

• The attack will consume extra ammo from both participating battleships when triggered. The total ammo consumption will be x1.2 of the original ammo consumption of when the attack is triggered, hence:
  • If it is triggered in a night battle in a normal node, it costs 6% extra ammo.
  • If it is triggered in an night battle node, it costs 2% extra ammo.

• There is a significant increase in trigger rate if she has a Surface Radar equipped. The higher the LoS, the bigger the trigger rate bonus.
• There is a small increase in trigger rate if she has a Type 96 150cm Searchlight equipped.

Hiei Touch

On Kai Ni C, she gains a night battle special attack that targets 2 enemies at random:

• Hiei Kai Ni C must be Flagship.
  • She must not be more than lightly damaged (小破).
• Kongou Kai Ni C, Kirishima Kai Ni are the second ship.
  • She must not be heavily damaged (大破)
• Line Ahead or Echelon needs to be selected for a single fleet.
• Cruising Formation 2 or Cruising Formation 4 needs to be selected for a combined fleet.

It can be activated twice per sortie and in the same battle with another separate special attack.

	Attack 1 (1st Ship)	Attack 2 (2nd Ship)
Base Multiplier	1.9x
Green T Engagement	1.25x (2.375x)
Red T Engagement	.75x (1.425x)

• The attack will consume extra ammo from both participating battleships when triggered. The total ammo consumption will be x1.2 of the original ammo consumption of when the attack is triggered, hence:
  • If it is triggered in a night battle in a normal node, it costs 6% extra ammo.
  • If it is triggered in an night battle node, it costs 2% extra ammo.

• There is a significant increase in trigger rate if she has a Surface Radar equipped. The higher the LOS, the bigger the trigger rate bonus.
• There is a small increase in trigger rate if she has a Type 96 150cm Searchlight equipped.

Submarine Touch

Also called the "AS Touch", it is a Special Attack involving a Submarine Tender leading a fleet of at least two submarines.

• The flagship must be a Submarine Tender (AS) at Lv 30+,
  • She must not be more than moderately damaged (中破).
• The 2nd and 3rd ships must be Submarines (SS) or Aircraft Carrying Submarines (SSV) and not evacuated via SFFCF,
  • The 4th ship may optionally be a SS(V), but does not affect the above requirement,
  • At least two SS(V) among the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ships must not be more than lightly damaged (小破),
  • If all 3 ships are SS(V), the 2nd and 4th ones will attack; if one of the two is moderately damaged (中破), the 3rd one will attack instead.
• The fleet must be a single fleet or a Striking Force Fleet,
• The formation needs to be either Echelon or Line Abreast,
• At least one Submarine Supply Material must be available in the inventory.

• Two SS(V) will launch torpedo strikes.
• The attack power of each strike is postcapped and unaffected by formation, engagement, or damage cap.
• A rough damage formula per Submarine attack is:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{DMG}_\text{day} = \text{TP} \times ( 1.2 + 0.04 \times \sqrt{LV} ) }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ \text{DMG}_\text{night} = ( \text{FP + TP} ) \times ( 1.2 + 0.04 \times \sqrt{LV} ) }[/math]

With

• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{DMG} }[/math] the damage result for day and night battle respectively,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{FP} }[/math] the submarine's Firepower stat,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{TP} }[/math] the submarine's Torpedo stat,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{LV} }[/math] the submarine's Level.
  • [math]\displaystyle{ 1.2 + 0.04 \times \sqrt{LV} = 1.6 }[/math] at Lv 100.

The number of attacks per Touch ranges from 2 to 4.

• Each submarine will trough either 1 or 2 torpedo strikes.
  • Only Lv 75+ submarines can trigger 2 strikes,
  • If a Lv 75+ submarine does not carry any Submarine Radar, it rolls between 1 and 2 strikes randomly (exact rate unclear yet),
  • If a Lv 75+ submarine does carry any Submarine Radar, it is guaranteed to roll 2 strikes.

One Submarine Supply Material will be consumed for EACH battle the Touch triggers in.

• If the Touch triggers twice in a battle, only a single will be consumed for this battle.
• If the Touch triggers in multiple nodes, one will be consumed for each node it is triggered.

It does not consume any extra ammo. If the game is refreshed before the battle ends, then no material will be consumed even if the touch triggered.

Trigger rate is affected by the Level and luck stat of the participating ships.

• Submarine Radars affect the trigger rate, each increasing the trigger rate by about 10 %.

It has a chance to trigger every time the AS takes a turn at shelling.

• It can trigger in both day and night for the same battle.
• It can only trigger once during day battle.
• If it fails to trigger during the day battle, there is still a chance to trigger it in the follow-up night battle.
• If all enemies sunk, then touch stops early.

The attack order is always (where amo,g the attacking submarines, 1 is upper one and 2 is lower one):

• 1-1-2-2 for 4 attacks,
• 1-1-2 or 1-2-2 for 3 attacks,
• 1-2 for 2 attacks.
  • If touch stops early, then attacks can be just 1-1
  • Also note that the actual order may be different from client animation of who shoots torpedoes, which always assigns attackers alternately like 1-2-1-2 or 1-2-1 or 1-2, so you may mismatch the real attack.

The touch can be activated multiple times per sortie.

When attacking a fleet, the usual Targeting rules apply.

• The torpedoes fired target ships independently,
• When facing a Combined Fleet, if any ship is present in the escort fleet on day battle, then all torpedoes will be fired to the escort fleet.

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