Akashi's Improvement Arsenal

Notes

• 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: "Touch" the factory icon and wait for the Improvement factory icon to pop up - don't click on the factory icon)
• To use this new factory, you need Improvement Materials. You can get them from Quest, or exchange them w/ medals (4 materials per medal), some new quests will have their reward as Improvement Materials.
• You can also buy Improvement Materials from the in-game cash shop, the price is 700 DMM points for 10 Materials.
• To improve your current equipment, you will need resources, development materials and Improvement Materials. The equipment that has been improved will have a ★ beside them. If the improvement level is low, then you will have a higher chance of success, and vice versa.
• If you reach the maximum improvement level of your equipment, you can improve your equipment into a better, and a higher ranked one. However, your improvement level will be wiped once you do this. Also, if the new equipment after renewing is something you can develop from the normal factory, the improvement level will automatically be +3.
• After you have reached +6 for any equipment improvement, you will have to spent a certain amount of unmodelled equipments that have the same type (name) in order to gain +7 up to +10 ★.
• Tip from Official Twitter: For everyday in the week, the equipment you can improve will differ.
  • And, when Akashi is at your first slot, certain ship girls in the second slot will bring changes to the equipment you can improve.
  • More info: There's no visible stat difference between a +0 equipment and a +10. But you can renew a +10 equipment for a better one only if there is a better variant existing in the latest game patch.
  • If you want to improve a equipment with a high improvement level, Akashi Kai has a higher success rate than Akashi herself.
• The only things you lose if you fail to improve equipment is resources, DevMats and ImproveMats.  Your equipment will remain as it is, and will not be lost or weakened.
• Japanese sources are currently studying the effect of stars (see http://akankore.doorblog.jp/archives/40926394.html updated as of 10/28)
  • 1-3 stars: +1 bonus to firepower/torpedo
  • 4-8 stars: +2 bonus to firepower/torpedo
  • 9-10 stars: +3 bonus to firepower/torpedo

Possible Improvements

Type	Name	★	Resource							Day							2nd Ship
										Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
	12.7cm Twin Gun Mount	0	10	30	60	0	1/2	1/2	-	O	O	O			O	O	-
		6					1/2	1/2	1	O					O	O
		10					2/3	3/6	2	O					O	O
	12.7cm Twin Mount Type-B Kai 2	0	10	60	100	0	2/2	2/3	-	X	O	O			X	X	Yuudachi Kai-2 Ayanami Kai-2
		6					2/2	2/4	1	X	O	O			X	X
		10					0/0	0/0	-	X	O				X	X
	14cm Naval Gun	0	10	50	80	0	1/2	1/2	-	O	O	O			O	O	-
		6					1/2	1/2	1	O	O				O	O
		10					2/3	3/6	2		O	O			O	O
	14cm Twin Gun Mount	0	10	60	100	0	2/2	1/2	-	X	O	X			X	X	Yuubari
		6					2/4	2/3	1	X	O	X			X	X
		10					?/?	?/?	?	X		X			X	X
	20.3cm Twin Gun Mount	0	10	90	120	0	1/2	2/3	-	O	O	O			O	O	Aoba Kinugasa
		6					2/3	2/3	1	O	O				O	O
		10					2/5	4/10	2						O	O
	20.3cm(no.2) Twin Gun Mount	0	10	100	130	0	2/3	2/3	-	O	O	O			X	X	Myoukou
		6					2/4	2/4	1	O					X	X
		10					4/8	4/11	2	O					X	X
	20.3cm(no.3) Twin Gun Mount	0	10	110	140	0	3/4	2/3	-	X	X	O			X	X	Mikuma
		6					3/5	3/5	?	X	X	O			X	X
		10					0/0	0/0	?	X	X	O			X	X
	35.6cm Twin Gun Mount	0	20	240	300	0	2/3	1/2	-	O	X	X			O	O	Fusou
		6					3/4	2/4	1	O	X	X			O	O
		10					3/?	3/?	2	X	X	X			O	X
		10					5/12	6/12	3	O	X	X			X	O
	61cm Quad Torpedo Mount	0	70	100	70	20	1/2	1/2	-	O	O	O			O	O	-
		6					2/3	1/2	1						O	O
		10					3/5	3/6	2						O	O
	61cm Quad (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount	0	80	120	80	20	2/3	1/2	-	O	O	O			O	O	Ooi Kitakami
		6					4/8	2/4	1		O				O	O
		10					5/10	5/11	2	O	O				O	O

Possible Upgrade

Type	Starting Equipment	Upgraded Equipment
Light Guns	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	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	35.6cm Twin Gun Mount	Prototype 35.6cm Triple Gun Mount
Torpedo	61cm Quad Torpedo Mount	61cm Quad O2 Torpedo Mount
	61cm Quad O2 Torpedo Mount	61cm Quint O2 Torpedo Mount

Improvement Material (Quest Rewards)

Quest Type	Quest ID	Quest Name (JP)	Description		Note
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
	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	1	Consumes
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.