Glossary
- not in alphabetical
| 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 | |
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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. |
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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. |
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RJ
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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.
Fatigue
See Alright, I built my ship, kicked some ass and I noticed the orange faces. What gives?
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.
Phases of Battle
- Day Battle
- Reconnaissance (Stat boost, avoid being T-crossed)
- Initial airstrike (opening bombing, air superiority)
- Support fleet attack
- Opening/initial torpedo strike (see Type A Ko-hyoteki (甲標的甲型))
- Shelling/artillery phase (regular airstrike happens here)
- Post-battle torpedo strike
- Night Battle
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
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
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.
Rensouhou-chan (連装砲ちゃん)
A Danbo-like robot which appears with Shimakaze.
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, Junyou
Sumire Uesaka -- Souryuu, Hiryuu, Fubuki, Shirayuki, Hatsuyuki, Miyuki, Murakumo, Isonami
Ayane Sakura -- Nagato, Mutsu, Shimakaze, Kuma, Tama, Kiso, Sendai, Jintsuu, Naka
Nao Touyama -- Kongou, Hiei, Haruna, Kirishima, Takao, Atago, Maya, Choukai, Ayanami, Shikinami
Aya Suzaki -- Mogami, Houshou, Aoba, Akatsuki, Hibiki, Ikazuchi, Inazuma
Risa Taneda -- Myoukou, Nachi, Ashigara, Haguro, Shouhou, Samidare, Suzukaze
Motoko Kobayashi -- Hatsuharu, Nenohi, Wakaba, Hatsushimo, Oboro, Akebono, Ushio, Shiratsuyu, Murasame, Yuudachi
Rina Hidaka -- Ryuujou, Mutsuki, Kisaragi, Satsuki, Fumizuki, Nagatsuki, Kikuzuki, Mikazuki, Mochizuki
Iori Nomizu -- Shoukaku, Zuikaku, Kinu, Abukuma
Megumi Nakajima -- Mikuma, I-168, 1-58, Kinugasa
Ayana Taketatsu -- Yamato, (Akigumo and Yuugumo unconfirmed)
Sarah Emi Bridcut -- Maikaze, Yuubari, (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, Ooshio, Michishio, Arashio, Arare, Kasumi, Kumano, Zuihou, I-19, Hatsukaze