Spring 2016 Event

Introduction

The Spring 2016 Event, "Deployment! Land-based Aerial Division!" is planned to start on May 2nd, 2016. The entire event will be a "What if" Operation that will involve constructing an Airfield Land Base which will be used to launch Land Based Planes. The event is expected to be about 3 weeks in length and will be large scale operation which will consist of 7 stages that will be divided up into 3 different operations, a main operation, a later operation, and an extra operation.

The event plans to introduce the new "Land Based Plane" System which will introduce new Land Based planes such as the Type 1 Land Bomber and the the Type 96 Land Bomber.

In addition, the event will be the first time an event will branch into two separate operations which can be done at the same time once you complete the main operation.

Information

New Ships

A minimum of 5 or more new ships are expected to appear in this event, including the US Battleship Iowa, two ships that are the per-coursers of the Mutsuki-Class DDs, along with a minimum of two other kanmusus that are .

New Equipment

Currently from the tweets that have been provided, players will be expected to earn land based attack planes to be used during the event once construction of the installation is completed. These include the Type 1 Land Attacker and the Type 96 Land Attacker.

Completing the Latter Operation will reward you with a new type of "Flying Boat"

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Type 96 Land Attacker
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Type 1 Land Attacker

Mechanics

Participation requirements

Must have a 75% sortie win ratio.
Must have 5 empty ship slots for new ships.
Must have 20 free equipment slots.

Special Mechanics

The difficulty system first used in Spring 2015 Event returns: you can choose between Operation A (甲, Hard), Operation B (乙, Medium) or Operation C (丙, Easy).
- Choosing A or B requires certain HQ Level (HQ Lv 35 for B / 80 for A in Spring 2015 Event).

Event Maps

Quick Info Table

The Upcoming event will feature a new branching mechanic which will allow players to branch off from the main operation once it is complete. This will lead to players being able to access the both the Latter Operation and the Extra Operation. Players will be able to choose which operation they want to play. The following example listed below is a rough speculation and will be changed once the event goes live.

Classification	Map	Tag Condition & Deployment Restriction	Difficulty Restrictions	Notes
Main Operation	E-1	Tagging: Ships not already color-tagged will be tagged with the color associated with the map when deployed. This tag exists on all difficulties and is not reset on remodel, etc. Deployment Restriction: Normal or Hard: Must have either the same-colored tag or no tag. Easy: No restrictions.	No restrictions. All difficulties OK
	E-2		In order to play these maps on hard, you must complete the previous map on either normal or hard. (e.g., to do E-4 on hard, you must complete E-3 on normal or hard.)
	E-3
	E-4
	E-5			Complete Main Operation to unlock
	E-6			Complete Main Operation to unlock
	E-7			Complete Main Operation to unlock