Glossary

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Terms	In Japanese	Meaning	Note
DD	駆逐艦	Destroyer	USN classification [1]
CL	軽巡洋艦	Light Cruiser
CA	重巡洋艦	Heavy Cruiser
BB	戦艦	Battleship
CVL	軽空母	Light Carrier
CV	正規空母	(standard) Carrier
SS	潜水艦	Submarine
AV	水上機母艦	Seaplane Tender
repair bath	入渠	Docking
bucket	高速修復材	Instant repair item
Practice mode, practice matches, drills	演習	Naval Exercise	Sort-of PvP with no risk of sinking!  Only costs fuel and ammo.  Opponent teams update in real-time, but there is no simultaneous play.  New opponent list appears twice a day.
Expedition	遠征		Missions for sending (usually) destroyers and light cruisers on in exchange for resources.  You don't get to see any combat like in sorties.  One of the main sources of income.
Merging	近代化改修	Modernization	Make a ship eat other ships you don't want.  Pumps that ship's stats.
Upgrading	改造	Remodeling	Often confused with Modernization, will usually result in *ship name*-Kai
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2-4-11 Idol	那珂	Light Cruiser Naka	Very bright.  Very happy.  Very annoying when you're trying to craft a battleship.  Scrap her for 2 fuel, 4 ammo, and 11 steel.
RJ airport	龍驤	Light Carrier Ryūjō	Very flat chest
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General

API link

Method to access the game without having to access DMM. see Play without VPN/Proxy

Crossing the T

Classic naval strategy in which a line of warships crossed in front of a line of enemy ships, allowing the crossing line to bring all their guns to bear while receiving fire from only the forward guns of the enemy.

Docking

See Docking for complete information. Place to repair your ship. Also known as repair bath.

Fatigue

See Alright, I built my ship, kicked some ass and I noticed the orange faces. What gives?.
Shows as orange/sad faces if the ships are too fatigued. Rest them for 15 minutes or so if it happens.

• Return to base: +15
• Going to night battle: +3

Food supply ship Mamiya

Remove any fatigue on your fleet. if you don't use it, it could function as fatigue indicator. See here for the wikipedia entry.

Modernization

see Modernization. for complete information
Process of using unused ships to increase stats(Firepower, AA, Torpedo, Armor) of a single ship. Also known as Merging.

Naval Exercise

PVP-like battle with no risk of repair and sinking. Opponent teams update in real-time, but there is no simultaneous play.

• New opponent list refreshed at 03:00 and 15:00 JST

Phases of Battle

• Day Battle
  1. Reconnaissance (Stat boost, avoid being T-crossed)
  2. Initial airstrike (opening bombing, air superiority)
  3. Support fleet attack
  4. Opening/initial torpedo strike (see Type A Ko-hyoteki (甲標的甲型))
  5. Shelling/artillery phase (regular airstrike happens here)
  6. Post-battle torpedo strike
• Night Battle

Remodel

Often confused with Modernization, will usually result in *ship name*-Kai (改). also known as Upgrading.

Sparkle

See My ship is sparkling/glittering!.

Tracer-fire effect

This occurs when a ship fires any equipped machineguns to defend itself, reducing incoming damage from enemy bombers.  Your lead ship will always do this by default, even without any anti-air stat (will shoot down nothing in that case).

Equipment

Color-coded Aircraft

• Red Plane: Dive Bomber
• Blue Plane: Torpedo Bomber
• Green-
  • Carrier-based Plane: Air Superiority Fighter
  • Seaplane: Uncategorized, recon and bomber seaplane are lumped together in this icon.
• Yellow Plane: Recon Plane

Color-coded Naval Guns

It is based on their roles, not ability.

• Red Gun: Main Gun; Primarily used against ships, but in some cases has the ability to attack aircraft (e.g. 46cm Triple Cannon).
• Yellow Gun: Secondary Gun; could not attack aircraft, but increase the accuracy and AA stats.
• Green Gun: High-angle dual-purpose guns or AA machine guns
  • High-angle guns have the ability to attack both aircraft and ships. This Includes the 12.7cm green gun and the 10cm green gun.  Has a chance to trigger a forward-sliding motion of your ship's card in battle to reduce the amount of aircraft bombing your entire fleet in the initial airstrike phase.  (The 46cm red gun also has this function; see above.)
  • AA machine guns specifically attack aircraft and always trigger tracer-fire effect.  Guns in this category include the 7.7mm machine gun all the way up to the 12cm x30 rocket launcher mount.  These trigger a tracer-fire effect in battle and reduce the amount of aircraft bombing a single ship in the initial airstrike phase.

Midget Submarine

Also known as Type A Ko-hyoteki (甲標的甲型), it's an submarine equipable on Torpedo Cruiser (e.g. Kitakami), Submarine, and Seaplane Tender. Frequently used because of their ability to attack before the shelling phase.

Turbine

An important equipment for Destroyer and other ships with low armor in mid-game. Help ships to evade any incoming attack.

Trivia

2-4-11

The fleet idol, Naka-chan dayo!~ (see number 48 designation).
2-4-11 refers to the fuel/ammo/steel combination received from her scrap.

File:Yukikaze.jpg

A picture of Yukikaze Beaver

Beaver

See Yukikaze and notice the similarities. pic related.

Big Seven

A group of warship built to carry the biggest naval gun (41cm) allowed by the Washington Naval Treaty. It comprise of Nagato, Mutsu, USS West Virginia, USS Maryland, USS Colorado, HMS Rodney, and HMS Nelson.

BURNING LOVE

Notable line from Kongo, a Kongo-class battleship built by Vickers Shipbuilding Company. Loves tea and fond of using English word due to her being built in Britain. Other Example:

• 提督ゥ～、You've Got Mail! Love letterは許さないからネ!
• Wow! Congratulations!
• Tea timeは大事にしないとネー

KTKM

Shorthand for Kitakami.

Melon-chan

Nickname for Yubari due to her uniform color scheme.

Rensouhou-chan (連装砲ちゃん)

A Danbo-like robot which appears with Shimakaze.

File:Chart-Breast.jpg

RJ/Airport

Light Carrier Ryūjō which has a very flat chest. Don't complain about it, the chart agrees.

Slut

a wordfilter for Shimakaze.

Tenryu Kindergarten

A common theme where Tenryu and her destroyers escort was regularly used in expeditions due to her low fuel and ammo cost. The official 4-koma also showed Tenryu as being good at taking care of children (destroyers), hence the name.

Zekamashi (ぜかまし)

Shimakaze's name read backward (in traditional Japanese, characters are read right-to-left).

List of vessels by Japanese voice actresses

Saki Fujita -- Akagi, Fusou, Yamashiro, Kagerou, Shiranui, Kuroshio, Yukikaze
Yuka Iguchi -- Kaga, Tone, Chikuma, Tenryuu, Tatsuta, Nagara, Isuzu, Natori
Yuka Ootsubo -- Ise, Hyuuga, Furutaka, Kako, Ooi, Kitakami, Hiyou, Jun'yō
Sumire Uesaka -- Sōryū, Hiryuu, Fubuki, Shirayuki, Hatsuyuki, Miyuki, Murakumo, Isonami
Ayane Sakura -- Nagato, Mutsu, Shimakaze, Kuma, Tama, Kiso, Sendai, Jintsu, Naka
Nao Touyama -- Kongo, Hiei, Haruna, Kirishima, Takao, Atago, Maya, Chōkai, Ayanami, Shikinami
Aya Suzaki -- Mogami, Hōshō, Aoba, Akatsuki, Hibiki, Ikazuchi, Inazuma
Risa Taneda -- Myōkō, Nachi, Ashigara, Haguro, Shōhō, Samidare, Suzukaze
Motoko Kobayashi -- Hatsuharu, Nenohi, Wakaba, Hatsushimo, Oboro, Akebono, Ushio, Shiratsuyu, Murasame, Yudachi
Rina Hidaka -- Ryūjō, Mutsuki, Kisaragi, Satsuki, Fumizuki, Nagatsuki, Kikuzuki, Mikazuki, Mochizuki
Iori Nomizu -- Shōkaku, Zuikaku, Kinu, Abukuma
Megumi Nakajima -- Mikuma, I-168, I-58, Kinugasa
Ayana Taketatsu -- Yamato, (Akigumo and Yūgumo unconfirmed)
Sarah Emi Bridcut -- Maikaze, Yūbari, (Suzuya unconfirmed)
Kozue Hayasaka -- Sazanami
Possibly Rie Tanaka? -- Stage and Event bosses -- 敵巨大母艦, 鬼, 姫, 戦鬼, 戦姫
Yuki Tanibe (たにべゆき) -- Yura, Shigure
Uncredited -- Chitose, Chiyoda, Asashio, Oshio, Michishio, Arashio, Arare, Kasumi, Kumano, Zuihō, I-19, Hatsukaze