Combat/Anti-Installation

Installations are an enemy-type representing "land-based installations", and are characterized by high armor and high HP. They are difficult to handle using normal anti-ship setups and require specific setups in order to be destroyed. Installations are typically found as bosses or as boss escorts.

General Characteristics

• Installations cannot perform or benefit from flagship protection.
• They have different damage statuses instead of the normal ones used for ships.
  • These statuses are merely cosmetic in nature and have no gameplay difference.

Ship Damage Label	Installation Damage Label
Lightly Damaged (小破)	Confused (混乱)
Moderately Damaged (中破)	Damaged (損害)
Heavily Damaged (大破)	Broken (損壊)
Sunk (撃沈)	Destroyed (破壊)

Installation Classification

Installations are classified by two categories: Ship Type (BB, BBV, or CV) and Toughness (Soft Skin or Hard Skin).

Installations Glossary

Here is a list of all "Installation type Abyssals" ever encountered in the game.

• Are listed the base forms of those installations, most coming in many variations often depending on the map difficulty, the map state (last-dance), and the event itself (most events bringing new variations).
  • Some installation sub-forms of interest are also listed, those forms having special variations like a different type than the main form, of some special abilities.
• Note that some toughness characterization may be erroneous, since most of those installations were introduced before this system was defined.
  • Some event-only installations might not fall in one of these categories.

Installations Glossary
Type	Hard	Soft	Soft (Supply Depot)
BB	6-4
BBV		3-54-3 & 4-5	6-4
CV	6-4
"Installation-Like Warships"
			Mod CMod C
	Those Abyssals are still considered surface ships, but receive bonus damage from anti-installation equipment, see here.

Ship Type

Type	Characteristics
Battleship (BB)	Uses the surface shelling formula for calculating damage. Uses the shelling attack animation in day and night battle. Can continue attacking when moderately damaged.
Aviation Battleship (BBV)	Uses the carrier attack formula for calculating damage. Uses the shelling attack animation in day and night battle. Cannot attack during the day if moderately damaged or if there are no planes left. Forced to attack submarines if they have equipment with Anti-Submarine stat.
Carrier (CV)	Uses the carrier attack formula for calculating damage. Uses the carrier attack animation in day battle and the shelling animation at night. Cannot attack during the day if moderately damaged or if there are no planes left. Do not enable the 2nd shelling phase if there is no battleship present.

Skin Toughness

Type	Characteristics
Soft Skin	Takes a lot of damage from AA Shells and less from other Anti-Installation equipment. This weakness allows battleships and heavy cruisers to easily deal with these installation types. Still takes a decent amount of damage from other anti-installation equipment.
Hard Skin	Takes more damage from Anti-Installation equipment like Landing Craft, Special Amphibious Tank and Anti-ground Artillery

Notes

• The Northernmost Landing Princess is not immune to the Torpedo  stat.
  • This means that during a Night Battles, the full "Night Battle Power" is used to calculate damage against her.
  • She is still immune to torpedo-based attacks, which does not include airstrikes.
• The Harbour Water Demon cannot attack during day battles when "moderately damaged" (like carriers).
  • Standard Night Battle rules still apply (she can attack even if moderately damaged).
• Supply Depot Princesses have extra "Post-Cap modifiers", and can launch torpedo attacks.

Attack Behavior

The targeting of installation follow some special rules.

Support Expedition

• Shelling Support expedition can attack installations.
• It's unknown if torpedo support and ASW support will target installations or not.

Air strike

• Normal dive bombers can not attack installations during the air strike phase.
• Only Anti-installation Dive Bombers can target installation.
• It's unknown if ASW plane will prioritize Submarine or installation.

Dive-Bombers that can attack installations
Carriers will only attack installations in the shelling phase if equipped with Torpedo Bombers or Anti-Installation Dive Bombers. Additionally, carriers will attack installations if equipped with non-special dive bombers AND one of the special dive bombers below. Any other dive bomber will completely disable shelling against installations even if the carrier has a torpedo bomber equipped. This can be very useful to manipulate the targeting mechanic so the carriers attack important targets.
Ju 87C Kai Prototype Nanzan F4U-1D FM-2 Ju 87C Kai Ni (w/ KMX) Ju 87C Kai Ni (w/ KMX/Skilled) Suisei Model 12 (634 Air Group w/ Type 3 Cluster Bombs) AAR Suisei Model 12 (w/ Type 31 Photoelectric Fuze Bombs) AAR Type 99 Dive Bomber Model 22 Type 99 Dive Bomber Model 22 (Skilled) SB2C-3 SB2C-5 F4U-4 AAR

Shelling

• Submarines can only attack installations during the shelling if equipped with Special Amphibious Tanks.
  • They will only target installations during the shelling phases.
  • They will be able to attack installations at night regardless of equipment.
  • Their low firepower makes them poor anti-installation ships.
• Carriers are unable to perform CVCI on installations, even if equipped with anti-installation dive bombers.
  • Ise-class Kai Ni can still perform the Suisei-CI against installation.
• Special Attacks behave like normal against installation.

In general, using dedicated "Landing Equipment" or other "Anti-Ground Equipment" is recommended to deal the most dame against installations:

Torpedo

• Both opening and closing torpedoes can not target installations.
  • Opening and closing torpedoes will fail to trigger if only installation targets remain.

Night Battle

• The Torpedo stat is ignored when calculating night battle damage against installations. Please see Night Battle for more details.
  • This makes destroyers, light cruisers, and heavy cruisers much weaker unless equipped with anti-installation equipment.
• When targeting installation the Cut-in choice will ignore any equipped torpedo.
  • Except Special DD Cut-in that include a main gun (torpedo stat is still considered equal to 0).
• Night shelling Carrier Attacks will deal damage like they would to ships.
  • This include Ark Royal's night swordfish attack.
• Air night attacks ignore all anti-installation bonus
  • The attack can target installations even if no anti-installation dive bombers is equipped

Damage Calculation

• During day, damage is capped at 220 so any ship with a proper anti-installation setup will be able to hit the cap.
  • When facing hard-skinned installations, it is better for battleships to have AP shells instead of Type 3 because they will hit the day cap anyway.
• Anti-installation is very important during night battle when the cap is raised to 360.
• Torpedo stat is always counted as 0 when attacking installations. This applies to both airstrikes and night battles.
  • However improvements that provide damage during Night Battle is taken into account during such.
• Supply Depot Princess is the only known installation that takes post-cap damage from anti-installation equipment.
  • This makes her vulnerable to getting one shot by nuke setups. See below for details.
• While dive bombers have a post-cap bonus during the air-strike, the low base damage means it is of limited effectiveness against high armor installations.
• The Armor Piercing modifier (post-cap) is effective against installation.

Calculation

Installations generally have a lot of HP and/or armor. But multiple different cumulative bonuses exist against them, allowing for massive damage when using the right set-ups. These bonuses are divided into 5 groups and are calculated in the following order:

1. Ship type bonuses
2. General multiplicative bonuses
3. Specific equipment bonuses:
   1. 11th regiment bonuses
   2. M4A1 bonuses
   3. Ho-Ni bonuses
   4. Landing craft synergy bonuses
4. General Flat bonuses
5. Post-cap bonuses against Supply Depot Princess

• The bonuses' exact order is still under investigation and may be subject to changes.

Damage Bonuses Calculations

Pre-cap Shelling: [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Atk}_\text{pre-cap} = \bigg( \Big( \big[ \big( [ ( \text{Atk}_\text{base} {\color{tomato} \times \text{A0}} {\color{DeepSkyBlue} + \text{B0}} ) {\color{tomato} \times \text{A1}} {\color{DeepSkyBlue}} ] {\color{tomato} \times \text{A21}} {\color{DeepSkyBlue} + \text{B21}} \big) {\color{tomato} \times \text{A22}} {\color{DeepSkyBlue} + \text{B22}} \big] {\color{tomato} \times \text{A23}} {\color{DeepSkyBlue} + \text{B23}} \Big) {\color{tomato} \times \text{A24}} {\color{DeepSkyBlue} + \text{B24} + \text{B1}} \bigg) \times \text{Mod}_\text{others} }[/math] Pre-cap Carrier Shelling: [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Atk}_\text{pre-cap} = \Big[ \Big( \big[ \big( [ \text{Atk}_\text{base} {\color{tomato} \times \text{A1}} ] {\color{tomato} \times \text{A21}} {\color{DeepSkyBlue} + \text{B21}} \big) {\color{tomato} \times \text{A22}} {\color{DeepSkyBlue} + \text{B22}} \big] {\color{tomato} \times \text{A23}} {\color{DeepSkyBlue} + \text{B23}} \Big) {\color{tomato} \times \text{A24}} {\color{DeepSkyBlue} + \text{B24} + \text{B1}} +(\text{DB} \times 1.3) + 15 \Big] \times 1.5 +25 \bigg) \times \text{Mod}_\text{others} }[/math] Cap [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Atk}_\text{cap} = \text{Cap} + \sqrt{\text{Atk}_\text{pre-cap} - \text{Cap}} }[/math] Post-cap: [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Atk}_\text{post-cap} = \text{Atk}_\text{cap} {\color{tomato} \times \text{C}} {\color{tomato} \times \text{C1}} \times \text{Mod}_\text{others} }[/math] With: [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Atk}_\text{base} }[/math] the base attack deffined here, A & C the Multiplicative bonuses, B the Flat bonuses, A & B being pre-cap bonuses, C being post-cap bonuses. [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Mod}_\text{others} }[/math] being all other modifiers unrelated to installation (see Damage Calculations for more details) [math]\displaystyle{ \text{DB} }[/math] being the bombing stat of Anti-installation Dive Bomber only [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Cap} }[/math] is: 220 during day, 360 during night.

Bonuses

Ship type bonuses

	Ship type	Target	Bonuses
A0	DD / CL		1.4
	Akagi / Hiryuu / Souryuu		1.25
B0	SS / SSV	All installation	30

General multiplicative bonuses

These bonuses depend on the enemy targeted, as well as the equipment used.

A1
Installation Type		Soft-Skinned		Hard-Skinned
				Isolated Island Princess		Artillery Imp		Harbour Summer Princess
Number Equipped		Single	Multiple	Single	Multiple	Single	Multiple	Single	Multiple
	AA Shells	2.5		1.75				1.75
	AP Shells					1.85		1.3
	WG42 (Wurfgerät 42)	1.3	1.82	1.4	2.1	1.6	2.72	1.4	1.68
	Anti-Ground Rocket Launcher	1.25	1.875	1.3	2.145	1.5	2.7	1.25	1.75
	ASW Mortars	1.2	1.56	1.2	1.68	1.3	1.95	1.1	1.265
Landing Craft Type Multiplier		1.4		1.8		1.8		1.7
Landing Craft Improvement Multiplier		1 + (Average /50) ( 1.2x)
	Toku Daihatsu	1.15		1.15		1.15		1.2
	DLC + T89 tank Toku DLC + Ho-Ni tank	1.5	1.95	1.2	1.68	1.5	2.1	1.6	2.4
	DLC + Panzer II	1.5	1.95	1.2	1.68	1.5	2.1	1.6	2.4
	M4A1 DD	1.1		1.8		2.0		2.0
	Armed Daihatsu Soukoutei ☀ Day Only	1.1	1.21	1.3	1.43	1.3	1.56	1.5	1.65
	Ka-Mi tank	1.5	1.8	2.4	3.24	2.4	3.24	2.8	4.2
Special Amphibious Tank Improvement Multiplier		1 + (Average /30) ( 1.33x)
	Dive Bombers			1.4	2.45	1.5	3.0	1.3	1.56
	Seaplane Bombers/Fighters	1.2				1.5		1.3

Notes

• The Improvement Bonus takes the average for all Landing Craft equipped on the ship.
• The Improvement Bonus takes the average for all Special Amphibious Tanks equipped on the ship.

Specific equipment bonuses

The following multipliers are pre-cap.

Equipment			Multiplicative bonus	Flat Bonus
Toku DLC Tank Bonus			A21	B21
Toku DLC + 11th Reg Toku DLC + Ho-Ni tank Toku DLC + Panzer III			1.8	25
Sherman Bonus			A22	B22
M4A1 DD			1.4	35
Ho-Ni Tank Regiment Bonus			A23	B23
Toku DLC + Ho-Ni tank			1.3	42
DLC Synergy Bonus			A24	B24
Armed Daihatsu Soukoutei	Group 1	Group 2	Multiplicative bonus	Flat Bonus
Only one	1 of Any		1.2	10
Both	1	0	1.32	12
	0	1	1.44	13
	2 of any		1.56	15

Flat Damage Bonuses

B1
Amount Equipped		1	2	3	4+
	WG42	75	110	140	160
	Anti-Ground Rocket Launcher	55	115	160	190
	Anti-Ground Rocket Launcher CD	80	170	230	260
	ASW Mortar	30	55	75	90
	ASW Mortar CD	60	110	150	180

Post-Cap Bonus

Supply Depot Princess

Supply Depot Princess and its variants are currently the only installations to have post-cap bonuses.

• These bonuses are applied after the damage soft-cap, and can reach the damage hard-cap of 9999.
• Supply Depot Princess is a soft-skinned installation for purposes of Pre-Cap Bonuses.

C
Installation Type
		Supply Depot Princesses
Number Equipped		Single	Multiple
	WG42	1.25	1.625
	Anti-Ground Rocket Launcher	1.2	1.68
	ASW Mortars	1.15	1.38
	Landing Craft Type Multiplier	1.7
Landing Craft Improvement Multiplier		[1 + (Average /50)]N
		N = 1 for any Landing Craft +1 to N for each unique: DLC + T89 tank OR Toku DLC + Ho-Ni DLC + Panzer II
	Toku Daihatsu	1.2
	DLC + T89 tank Toku DLC + Ho-Ni tank	1.3	2.08
	DLC + Panzer II	1.3	2.08
	M4A1 DD	1.2
	Armed Daihatsu Soukoutei	1.5	1.65
	Ka-Mi tank	1.7	2.55
Special Amphibious Tank Improvement Multiplier		1 + (Average /30) ( 1.33x)

Rations Bonuses

The developers have mentioned that Rations

consumed by a girl "affect landing craft's morale".

C1
Installation Type		All installations
Number Equipped		Single	Multiple
	Combat Ration	1.13	??
	Combat Ration (Special Onigiri)	??	??
	Canned Saury	??	??

Notes

• A Landing Craft might be required to be equipped on the attacking ship for this bonus to be applied.
• As it is the only post-cap bonus common to all installations, it has a great potential.
• Due to the limited nature of Rations, this bonus is mostly "Pay To Win", and so is not recommended.

Land Base Bonus

For the damage formula, please refer to the LBAS page. The bonuses work for all bombers on the land base (except maybe jets).

Installation Targeted
		Isolated Island Princess	Artillery Imp	Supply Depot Princesses
Pre-cap	Multiplicative	[math]\displaystyle{ {\color{tomato}\text{Mod}_\text{AIpre}} }[/math]		-
		1.18	1.6	-
Post-cap		[math]\displaystyle{ {\color{tomato}\text{Mod}_\text{AIpost3}} }[/math]		[math]\displaystyle{ {\color{tomato}\text{Mod}_\text{AIpost1}} }[/math]
		1.7	1.55	2.1
	Flat	-		[math]\displaystyle{ {\color{DeepSkyBlue}\text{Mod}_\text{AIpost2}} }[/math]
		-	-	100

Air Strike

We are currently lacking information on how modifiers affect opening air-strikes.

Installation-like warships

This section is for special ships with installation-like behaviors, taking additional damage from anti-installation equipment.

• Those bonuses are post-cap only, meaning none of the "anti-installation bonuses" previously mentioned are applied.
• Be aware that the sample is limited (event only) so the information may be inaccurate and/or old.

Installation-like warships
C
Installation Type						Mod CMod C
		Anchorage Water Demon Vacation Mode		Dock Princess		Supply Depot Princess C Vacation Mode
Number Equipped		Single	Multiple	Single	Multiple	Single	Multiple
	AA Shells	1.45		1.3
	WG42 (Wurfgerät 42)	1.2	1.56	1.1	1.32	1.25	1.625
	Anti-Ground Rocket Launcher	1.15	1.61	?		1.2	1.68
	ASW Mortars	1.1	?	?		1.15	1.38
Landing Craft Type Multiplier		1.4		1.1		1.7
Landing Craft Improvement Multiplier		1 + (Average /50) ( 1.2x)				[1 + (Average /50)]N
						N = 1 for any Landing Craft +1 to N for each unique: DLC + T89 tank OR Toku DLC + Ho-Ni DLC + Panzer II
	Toku Daihatsu	1.15				1.2
	DLC + T89 tank Toku DLC + Ho-Ni tank	1.2	1.68	1.15	1.3225	1.3	2.08
	DLC + Panzer II	1.2	1.68	1.15	1.3225	1.3	2.08
	M4A1 DD	1.8		1.1		1.2
	Armed Daihatsu Soukoutei	1.2		1.1		1.5	1.65
	Toku DLC + 11th Reg Toku DLC + Ho-Ni tank Toku DLC + Panzer III			1.4
	Ka-Mi tank	2.4	3.24	1.2		1.7	2.55
Special Amphibious Tank Improvement Multiplier		1 + (Average /30) ( 1.33x)
	Dive Bombers	1.4	2.45	1.1	1.21
	Jets	2.45
	Seaplane Bombers/Fighters			1.1
Ship	Nagato-class Yamato-class	1.2

Equipment Setups

Below are recommended equipment setups for anti-installation purposes. The equipment order is illustrative and does not reasonably matter.

As a general rule:

• Regarding :
  • If a ship's base firepower is low, it can be viable to use Anti-Ground Rockets to provide a large flat damage increase to supplement the ship's anti-installation damage.
  • Depending on whether one or more Anti-Ground Artilleries are to be equipped on a ship, it is recommended to use a WG42 for singular purposes, or Shipborne Model Type 4 20cm Anti-ground Rocket Launchers (or CD) if multiple are needed.
  • ASW Mortar
    are inferior substitutes to regular Anti-Ground Artilleries when lacking those.
• Regarding and :
  • These provide a high damage multiplier against Installations. Some specialized variants also provide an additional flat damage increase that is multiplicative with certain modifiers.
  • As Landing Craft and Special Amphibious Tanks have separate multipliers, it is recommended to use them in tandem to maximize the effect.

Nuke Setup describes any setups using anti-installation equipment from multiple categories to multiplicatively amplify damage dealt to Installations.

• Such a setup has a strong anti-installation power against all installations but is hampered by the daytime damage cap.
• Nuke Setups are recommended to be used when dealing with Supply Depot Princess in particular, utilizing the high post-cap side of the bonuses to deal with her generally high HP pool.
• The setup's damage can be further improved by using multiple copies of those types of equipment where applicable.
  • For example, equipping multiple Special Amphibious Tanks or Landing Craft with unique bonuses instead of anti-ground rockets provides better damage output for the ship, however, it is advised to only do so if you have enough available for the other ships in your fleet that require them.

All "surface" anti-installation setups can be further enhanced by using them in Special Attacks, especially Nelson's Touch.

Equipment Setup	Notes
BB/FBB/BBV
	The basic battleship setup. Because Battleships are not far away from the damage cap compared to other ship types, they do not benefit much from the high pre-cap multipliers that anti-installation equipment provides. The standard artillery spotting setup will allow them to utilize spotting attacks and AP Shell's post-cap bonuses against the installation, as well as be effective against all other targets in the enemy fleet.
	This is an option when facing soft-skinned installations. Taking an AA shell will slightly improve their damage versus installations, but will also limit the battleship's effectiveness against all other targets by reducing their artillery spotting attack types.
	Yamato-class Kai Ni & Ise-class Kai Ni only. "Best of both worlds" for 5-slot battleships.
	Nagato-class Kai Ni & Yamato Kai Ni Juu only. The landing craft/special amphibious tank will make their Special Attacks deal significantly more damage to installation enemies. Keeping the seaplane allows to still perform artillery spotting to maintain enough effectiveness against other targets.
+ or +	Nuke Setup , Yamato Kai Ni Juu only. A proper nuke setup keeping the Double Attack and artillery spotting, that uses Yamato's ability to carry Secondary Guns in her RE, also taking advantage of her Special Attack. An AP Shell may be used to replace the anti-ground rockets to improve performance against other targets, while improving the damage multiplier of Yamato's Special Attacks and Artillery Spotting types.
CA/CAV
	The standard anti-installation setup for heavy cruisers. It allows artillery spotting and deals decent damage against installations.
or +	This is an alternative setup only for aviation cruisers. It removes the ability to artillery spot for much more powerful anti-installation damage at night. For Mogami-class Cruisers with a Reinforcement Expansion, an option to equip 8cm High Angle Guns in the expansion slot in order to retain a weaker variant of artillery spotting is a viable alternative.
+	Nuke Setup , Mogami Kai Ni Toku only. The last setup uses Mogami's ability to carry 8cm High-angle Guns in her RE, making this a true nuke setup while keeping the Double Attack.
CL
	Nuke Setup
	A setup for 4-slot light cruisers. This preserves their ability to double attack at night while giving them significant anti-installation power.
DD
	Nuke Setup
	Mini-Nuke Setup Substitute nuke setups to use ONLY when lacking Landing Craft or Special Amphibious Tanks.
	Setups that keep the Double Attack while maintaining decent anti-installation power, allowing reasonable effectiveness against installation and other targets at night.
	Tashkent only. Functions much like the light cruiser setup with a powerful night battle double attack.
CV/CVB/CVL
	This is only to be used when having anti-installation dive bombers. It will allow the carrier to still perform CVCI against other targets.
	The numbers of torpedo bombers and fighters in this setup can be varied depending on the amount of fighter power required. This is the standard carrier anti-installation setup. While it does sacrifice CVCI, the carrier shelling formula, and proficiency bonuses, it still ensures that carriers will do significant damage to installations and other targets.
	Gambier Bay Mk.II & Unyou Kai/Ni only. The closest setup to a proper "CV nuke".
AV
	Nuke Setup 4-slot AVs can also either take a 2nd anti-ground rocket, a midget sub, or a seaplane fighter in their last slot.
	Double Nuke Setup are recommended instead of to avoid "Hidden Accuracy Penalties". This setup is for 4 slots AV to utilize the "Nuke" with a "Night DA".
LHA
	Nuke Setup LHAs can carry some of the strongest 4 slots nuke configurations.
+ +	Mega-Nuke Setup , Shinshuu Maru Kai only. Uses Shinshuu Maru's unique ability to carry a Soukoutei (Armored Boat Class) in her RE to further improve the LHA setup. The other Landing Craft should be the Daihatsu Landing Craft (Type 89 Medium Tank & Landing Force) for optimum effectiveness.
	Double Nuke Setup are recommended instead of to avoid "Hidden Accuracy Penalties". This setup is to utilize the "Nuke" with a "Night DA".

Additional Information

Landing Craft/Special Amphibious Tank Capable Ships

Ships that can equip Landing Craft / Amphibious Vehicles
Type	Landing Craft		Both &		Amphibious Vehicle
DD			Kai Ni D Kai Ni D Kai Ni D Kai Ni D		Kai Ni
CL		Kai Ni D Kai Ni Toku
CAV		Kai Ni Toku
(F)BB(V)		Kai Ni Juu	Kai Ni C
CVL		Kai Ni Sen
AV		Kai Ni Toku
AO
LHA
SS(V)			All
RE	Soukoutei (Armored Boat Class): Shinshuu Maru Ka-Tsu tanks : I-36  · I-41  · I-47 Kai · I-58 Kai
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Attack Animation

Some anti-installation equipment will add attack animation when targeting installation. There is no relation between the presence/absence of animation, and the presence/absence of anti-installation damage bonuses.

Equipment	Animation
Artillery /Other
Anti-ground Rocket Launchers Other ASW Mortar
Landing Craft / Special Amphibious Tanks
M4A1 DD
Toku DLC + Ho-Ni tank
Toku DLC + 11th Reg
Soukoutei	(round trip)
Armed Daihatsu	(round trip)
Special Type 2 Amphibious Tank
DLC + Panzer II
DLC + T89 tank Transport DLC (by default)
Toku DLC + Panzer III (Untested)
Unused (Transport DLC)

Notes

• The animations for "artillery", "landing craft", and "airstrike", are compatible.
• If multiple landing craft are equipped on the same ship, only one animation will be shown (the above table is sorted in priority order).
• The animation of the Armed Armed Boats
  is also played against PT-Imp when equiped.
• These animations will be overridden by:
  • Artillery spotting,
  • Night cut-in.

See Also

• Abyssal Land Bases List
• Anti-Ground Equipment