Akashi's Improvement Arsenal
- This system is made for Akashi and Akashi Kai. Now if you have her as your secretary ship, you will be able to use Akashi's Improvement Arsenal. (Tip: At the home screen, mouseover the factory icon and wait for the Improvement factory icon to appear)
- Using Improvement Material, development material and resources, equipment can be given improvements and upgrades.
- Equipment that can be improved depends on the day of the week and the ship in the second slot.
How to Enter
- Have Akashi or Akashi Kai as your secretary.
- At the home screen, hover your mouse cursor over the factory icon (do not click).
- Improvement Arsenal Icon will appear next to it as shown.
- Move your cursor to that icon and click.
How to Use
- To use this new factory, you need Improvement Materials. (icon is a screw)
- You can get them from Quest, Some new quests will have their reward as Improvement Materials.
- or exchange them with medals (4 materials per medal).
- or buy Improvement Materials from the in-game cash shop, the price is 700 DMM points for 10 Materials.
- There is a chance to fail when doing improvements and upgrades
- If the improvement level is low, then you will have a higher chance of success, and vice versa.
- Akashi Kai has a higher success rate than Akashi herself.
- On failure, resources, DevMats, ImproveMats and any extra equipment used will disappear. Equipment being upgraded is left unchanged.
- There is a slider for guaranteed success that increases the required DevMats and ImproveMats.
- Equipment that has been improved will have a ★ beside them. Improvement ranges from ★+1 to ★+10. ★+10 appears as ★max.
- Starting from ★+6. you will have to spend a certain amount of unimproved equipment that have the same type (name) in order to gain ★+7 up to ★+10.
- There's no visible stat difference between unimproved and improved equipment.
- Japanese sources are currently testing the effect of stars. preliminary results are (as of 10/31):
- ★+1~3: +1 bonus to shelling/torpedo/anti-sub damage
- ★+4~8: +2 bonus to shelling/torpedo/anti-sub damage
- ★+9~10: +3 bonus to shelling/torpedo/anti-sub damage
- Japanese sources are currently testing the effect of stars. preliminary results are (as of 10/31):
- If you reach the maximum improvement level ★max of your equipment, you can upgrade your equipment into a better, higher ranked one. However, your improvement level will be wiped once you do this. Also, if the new equipment after upgrading is something you can develop from the normal factory, the improvement level will automatically be ★+3.
Possible Improvements
Equipment that can be improved depends on the day of the week and the ship in the second slot of the first fleet. changes midnight JST.
| Type | Name | ★ | Resource | Day | 2nd Ship | ||||||||||||
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12.7cm Twin Gun Mount | 0 | 10 | 30 | 60 | 0 | 1/2 | 1/2 | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - |
| 6 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 2/3 | 3/6 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 12.7cm Twin Mount Type-B Kai 2 | 0 | 10 | 60 | 100 | 0 | 2/2 | 2/3 | - | X | O | O | O | X | X | X | Yuudachi Kai-2 Ayanami Kai-2 | |
| 6 | 2/2 | 2/4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 0/0 | 0/0 | - | ||||||||||||||
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14cm Naval Gun | 0 | 10 | 50 | 80 | 0 | 1/2 | 1/2 | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - |
| 6 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 2/3 | 3/6 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 14cm Twin Gun Mount | 0 | 10 | 60 | 100 | 0 | 2/2 | 1/2 | - | X | O | X | X | O | X | X | Yuubari | |
| 6 | 2/4 | 2/3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | ?/? | ?/? | ? | ||||||||||||||
| 20.3cm Twin Gun Mount | 0 | 10 | 90 | 120 | 0 | 1/2 | 2/3 | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | Aoba Kinugasa | |
| 6 | 2/3 | 2/3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 2/5 | 4/10 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 20.3cm(no.2) Twin Gun Mount | 0 | 10 | 100 | 130 | 0 | 2/3 | 2/3 | - | O | O | O | X | X | X | X | Myoukou | |
| 6 | 2/4 | 2/4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 4/8 | 4/11 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 20.3cm(no.3) Twin Gun Mount | 0 | 10 | 110 | 140 | 0 | 3/4 | 2/3 | - | X | X | O | O | X | X | X | Mikuma | |
| 6 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 0/0 | 0/0 | - | ||||||||||||||
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35.6cm Twin Gun Mount | 0 | 20 | 240 | 300 | 0 | 2/3 | 1/2 | - | O | X | X | X | X | O | O | Fusou |
| 6 | 3/4 | 2/4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 5/12 | 6/12 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
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61cm Quad Torpedo Mount | 0 | 70 | 100 | 70 | 20 | 1/2 | 1/2 | - | O | O | O | X | X | O | O | - |
| 6 | 2/3 | 1/2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 3/5 | 3/6 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 61cm Quad (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount | 0 | 80 | 120 | 80 | 20 | 2/3 | 1/2 | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | Ooi Kitakami | |
| 6 | 4/8 | 2/4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 5/10 | 5/11 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 61cm Quint (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount | 0 | 100 | 150 | 90 | 30 | 3/4 | 3/5 | - | X | X | X | O | O | X | X | Shimakaze | |
| 6 | ?/? | ?/? | ? | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 0/0 | 0/0 | - | ||||||||||||||
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Type 94 Depth Charge | 0 | 10 | 60 | 20 | 20 | 1/2 | 1/2 | - | X | X | X | O | O | X | X | - |
| 6 | 2/3 | 1/3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 3/6 | 3/8 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Type 3 Depth Charge | 0 | 10 | 80 | 20 | 30 | 3/3 | 2/3 | - | X | X | X | O | O | X | X | Isuzu Kai-2 | |
| 6 | 3/5 | 2/4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 0/0 | 0/0 | - | ||||||||||||||
Possible Upgrades
| Type | Starting Equipment | Upgraded Equipment |
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| Light Guns
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12.7cm Twin Gun Mount | 12.7cm Twin Mount Type-B Kai 2 |
| 12.7cm Twin Mount Type-B Kai 2 | Impossible to upgrade | |
| Medium Guns
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14cm Naval Gun | 14cm Twin Gun Mount |
| 14cm Twin Gun Mount | ??? | |
| 20.3cm Twin Gun Mount | 20.3cm(no.2) Twin Gun Mount | |
| 20.3cm(no.2) Twin Gun Mount | 20.3cm(no.3) Twin Gun Mount | |
| 20.3cm(no.3) Twin Gun Mount | Impossible to upgrade | |
| Heavy Gun
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35.6cm Twin Gun Mount | Prototype 35.6cm Triple Gun Mount |
| Torpedo
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61cm Quad Torpedo Mount | 61cm Quad O2 Torpedo Mount ★+3 |
| 61cm Quad O2 Torpedo Mount | 61cm Quint O2 Torpedo Mount | |
| 61cm Quint O2 Torpedo Mount | Impossible to upgrade | |
| DepthCharge
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Type 94 Depth Charge | Type 3 Depth Charge ★+3 |
| Type 3 Depth Charge | Impossible to upgrade |
Improvement Material (Quest Rewards)
| Quest Type | Quest ID | Quest Name (JP) | Description |
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| Once | A45 | 改修工廠を準備せよ！ | Have Akashi as flagship in your main fleet. | 5 | |
| F17 | はじめての「装備改修」！ | Do equipment modernization 1 time | 7 | consumes
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| A44 | 「西村艦隊」を再編成せよ！ | Organize the Nishimura Fleet | 3 | ||
| B33 | 「西村艦隊」南方海域へ進出せよ！ | Deploy the Nishimura Fleet to 5-1 and obtain S-victory at boss node | 5 | ||
| Daily | F18 | 装備の改修強化 | Do equipment modernization 1 time (failure OK) | 1 | Consumes
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| Weekly | Bw5 | 海上護衛戦 | Sink 15 submarines. | 1 | |
| Bw7 | 敵北方艦隊主力を撃滅せよ！ | Defeat 5 bosses in the Northern Sea (3-3, 3-4, or 3-5). | 3 | ||
| Bw9 | 南方海域珊瑚諸島沖の制空権を握れ！ | Sortie to 5-2 and get S-rank at the boss node 2 times. | 2 | ||
| Bw10 | 海上輸送路の安全確保に努めよ！ | Sortie to 1-5 and get at least A-rank at the boss node 3 times. | 3 | ||
| C4 | 大規模演習 | Get 20 victories in practice mode within the same week. | 1 | ||
| D11 | 南方への鼠輸送を継続実施せよ! | Complete Expedition 37 or 38 a total of 7 times in a week. | 1 | ||
| Monthly | Bm3 | 「水雷戦隊」南西へ！ | Deploy a Torpedo Squadron to 1-4 and win S-victory at boss node. | 3 | |
| Bm4 | 「水上打撃部隊」南方へ！ | Deploy a Battleship Squadron to 5-1 and win S-victory at boss node. | 4 |
Trivia
- Akashi is animated on the Improvement Arsenal screen, blinking her eyes and occasionally looking towards the options on the left.
- She also has two separate sprites for her basic and Kai forms, reflecting her headband and heftier rigging. See here.
