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Tutorial: How to Play
Before You Begin
This page assumes that you are already signed up for Kantai Collection and have successfully joined a server (i.e. you are not asked to select a server upon loading the game.) If you haven't done this, please go to the page Tutorial: How to Register and follow the instructions on it.
You should see the screen on the right when you are ready to begin playing.
Selecting a Starter Ship
The very first thing the game will ask you to do is select your initial ship girl. Click the arrows to either side of the button at the bottom to see your five options.
Don't struggle too much over this decision; the starter ships are all destroyers with fairly similar stats and you will soon have a full navy of other ships that can replace them if you so wish. Feel free to make your choice based on their appearance or voice.
The five starter ships are:
The Main Screen
If anyone has info on the tutorials, please remind me of what needs to be done for them, though I recall them being pretty easy to blunder your way through -Soramawari (talk)
This screen is where you'll be spending most of your time in Kantai Collection. The kanmusu on the right is the flagship of your first fleet and will say things if you click on her.
Buttons
- Fleet - Organize your fleets for sorties and expeditions
- Supply - Refuel your ships and resupply them with ammunition and planes
- Customize - Change the equipment on your ships, modernize them by sacrificing unwanted ships, or refit them
- Repair - Repair your damaged ships
- Factory - Build new ships and items or break them down into materials
- Sortie - Send your fleets to battle or on an expedition to gather materials
Top Menu
- Stats - See statistics about yourself and set your greeting message
- Friends - Not in the game yet
- Library - Read about your ships and items, if you know Japanese
- Items - See your inventory of miscellanious items (not including equipment)
- Room - Change the appearance of the room on your main screen (generally requires cash shop purchases)
- Quests - Complete quests to receive materials, ships and other rewards
- Cash Shop - Buy stuff with real money
- Materials - You need these to resupply, repair and create things in the Factory. They are Fuel, Steel, Gunpowder and Bauxite