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Summer 2017 Event

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Introduction

The Summer 2017 Event, Crossing through the West once again! The European Rescue Operation(【西方再打通!欧州救援作戦】) is scheduled to begin on August 10th, 2017. The event will take place in the West and is a hypothetical "What If" Operation. The event will be a Large-Scale Event.

As of current, details regarding the upcoming event note that note that there will be a large and diverse variety of new ship girls which will be introduced within this event which includes Submarines, Destroyers, Aircraft Carriers and Battleships along with several recent rare foreign kanmusu which will be returning as drops over the course of the event.

Additional information regarding event-related subjects and content will be revealed by dev tweets, September's Issue of Comptiq, and the Zuiun Festival.

For additional information regarding event-related subjects and content, please refer to the following links:

Historical Background

Disclaimer: The following information is based upon a summary of World War II history and may not have any influence with the game itself. This is for historical reference only.

(Details will arrive once more information is revealed about the event)

Information

New Ships

It has been confirmed that a new CV, BB, and DD will be available from this event[1].

During the Zuiun Festival, several more pieces of information have been revealed regarding the upcoming event which included the following details:

  1. Many foreign ships such as Warspite, Graf Zeppelin and Aquila are confirmed to be returning for admirals who do not own them and can be found in some of the later operations.
  2. There will be a Japanese Destroyer that will be obtainable in the main operation.
  3. A Foreign Submarine will be appearing as a drop in the event.
  4. Name of the foreign CV was announced, however it was only announced via lip movement. The first part of the lip movement was an "A" or "HA" sound, but the rest is undecipherable.

New Equipment

June's Rank Rewards revealed two planes which served as a hint regarding about one of the ships appearing in the upcoming event.

  1. Swordfish
  2. Swordfish Mk. II (Skilled)

New Enemy Vessels

New Enemy Equipment

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

  1. The difficulty system first used in Spring 2015 Event returns: you can choose between Operation A (, Hard), Operation B (, Medium) or Operation C (, Easy).
    • Choosing A or B requires certain HQ Level (HQ Lv 35 for B / 80 for A in Spring 2015 Event).
    • An important note to all Admirals intending to clear the event on Hard difficulty - further (new) conditions now apply:
      • When switching difficulty from any other difficulty to Hard, the map's debuff mechanism (where applicable) will be reset.
        • Switching between any other difficulties will not reset the debuff mechanism.
  2. The debuff system from Summer 2015 Event's final map, where certain nodes had to be killed to reduce boss armor will return.

Event Map Summary

Quick Info Table

Classification Map Name Combined Fleet? Land-Based Air Squadron? Color of Tag 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
Extra Operation E-5
E-6