Kantai Collection -KanColle-

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Wiki:
EN: https://en.kancollewiki.net
JP: https://wikiwiki.jp/kancolle/

KanColle STAFF Twitter: https://twitter.com/KanColle_STAFF
C2 STAFF Twitter: https://twitter.com/C2_STAFF

Air superiority calculator/fleet builder:
http://kancollecalc.jp/air_supremacy.html
http://kancolle-calc.net/deckbuilder.html

Combat Mechanics:
JP: https://wikiwiki.jp/kancolle/?%C0%EF%C6%AE%A4%CB%A4%C4%A4%A4%A4%C6
EN: https://en.kancollewiki.net/Combat
EN: https://en.kancollewiki.net/Category:Game_Mechanics

Drop and construction statistics:
https://db.kcwiki.org/drop/

Fit gun for BBs: https://wikiwiki.jp/kancolle/?%CC%BF%C3%E6%A4%C8%B2%F3%C8%F2%A4%CB%A4%C4%A4%A4%A4%C6#h7905b57

Equipment upgrade values: https://en.kancollewiki.net/Improvement
LBAS values: https://i.imgur.com/r5gOpqs.png
LBAS simulator: https://noro6.github.io/kc-web/#/

Useful Akashi upgrades table: https://akashi-list.me/
Useful composition/damage set-up too: https://jervis.vercel.app/en

Quest tracking tool (For older quest chains): https://tsunkit.net/quests/#/search

Event Guides and Info:
https://zekamashi.net/
https://kitongame.com/
https://kancolle.doorblog.jp/

Electronic Observer (JP): https://github.com/andanteyk/ElectronicObserver
Electronic Observer (EN): https://github.com/gre4bee/ElectronicObserver


News
-Friend Fleets and the August ranking rewards will be implemented today.
-The Summer 2022 Event, "Large-Scale Counteroffensive Landing! Operation Torch!", is underway and scheduled to last until the first half of October. It is a large-scale event which will take place in Europe and North Africa. The Main Operation consists of 3 maps, with 4 tags across them, and the EO of consists 3 maps with 6 new tags.
-New ships implemented in the MO are Japanese DE Ukuru (E-1 and E-3 drop), Asashio-class destroyer Natsugumo (E-2 and E-3 drop) which completes the Asashio class, and the sixth ship of the mighty Independence-class light carriers: CVL-27 USS Langley (E-3 reward). In the EO, French battleship Jean Bart (E-6 reward), CV-4 USS Ranger (E-5 reward), South Dakota-class battleship USS Massachusetts (E-5 & E-6 drop), and CL-40 USS Brooklyn (E-4 drop) have been implemented.
-New equipment implemented in the MO is the Skilled Deck Personnel, Skilled Deck Personnel + Aviation Maintenance Hands, F4U-2 Night Corsair, and F4U-4. New equipment available in the EO are the carrier torpedo bomber Mosquito TD Mk.33, Land-based recon Mosquito PR Mk.IV, fighter bombers F4U-7 and AU-1, and Toku Daihatsu Craft + Panzer III (North African Spec).
-There is a new reward choice system that has been implemented. Some rewards will be selectable.
-The July ranking rewards have been distributed. The new equipment is the Mosquito FB Mk.VI.
-Haruna will receive her Kai-IIB side remodel some time this year.
-As of the Feb 28, 2020 maintenance, due to critical DDoS attacks, measures have been taken that requires players from certain countries to use a Japanese IP address to connect to the Login servers. After getting to the start screen it's possible to disconnect from the VPN and continue playing without it. If you still encounter connection issues try clearing your cache and changing your time zone to JST. These countermeasures will remain until further notice. EN EO now bypasses the block. Another possible workaround is using https://github.com/Tibowl/KCCacheProxy
-The following ships will receive another remodel at some point in the future:
-->Kai-II: Mikuma, multiple Type A DDs, Houshou
-->Kai-II side remodel: Kirishima; Shigure (could be Kai-III)

[Anonymous No.]

Don’t know if I should post this here, but here it goes. Got me a few new shipgirls. Kagerou, Akigumo, and Makigumo, shame I can’t post all three. also, when can I start collecting more than a 100 shipgirls? It’s getting more and more difficult to collect shipgirls with the 100 limit. Since I have to use dupes for modernization and what not. Really wish I could do something about that.

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>>41347044
You pay up.
That or you start aggressively culling. There's probably some quest guide somewhere to tell you what's essential and what's not.

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>>41348160
If you buy 30 slots now, you have a 5% chance to get another 30 slots for free!

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Time to dong all these annoying night battle quests.

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Show me your warface, rankeks.

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>>41349284
I ranked for this?

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>>41349284
Fuck me, I missed top 100 by literally 2 ranks since I thought I had a big enough lead of the last day before cutoffs. I'm a bit salty about this month because its one of the rare times I do try to rank, and wasted so much effort to fail getting into the top 100 cutoff. Shit radar, but at least the sanshiki might help with e6 installations.

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>wait for frens
>yura
>akigumo
>kazagumo
wow it is fucking nothing
I wasted 1week for this

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>>41349465
You won though.
They gave good luck.

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>>41349493
Now I gotta rush E4 E5 E6
Hopefully they are easier than E3

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>>41349502
E4 is just TP and some boring sub boss.
E5 is cancer all the way through.
E6 I did the Yamato sub so I don't know how bad NagaMutsu would be. Then again I cleared with a major NB snipe on red T so it's probably not that bad.

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>>41346662
I don't make the threads anymore, the last time I made one was June? May? With work and a set sleep schedule it's far easier to just update the paste and let someone else do it.

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>>41349502
E5 is a harder version of E3, where you bring a CTF instead of STF & 1100+ fighter power required to get AS at LD (I went AD instead). E5's US & Italian FF had good damage output, but the French/German one was hot steaming garbo.

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>>41349940
>Burgers and Pastas are good
>Frogs and Krauts are shit
KC in a nutshell.

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>>41349978
Italy had legit good ships but utterly trash admirals.
An Italian KC version where Mussolini has all of them shot and replaced with random newbies would make plenty of sense, if you think about it.

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>>41349354
Pretty sure I have that. It was a prize for hard on Momo’s event.

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>>41346662

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Damn, C68 is a requirement for the later Sammy quest. I was thinking of holding off until I find what I need between the TBF and SG radar.
Guess I'll go for the SG radar then.

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Why is she laughing at me.

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Why does everyone put Musashi as FS instead of Yamato?

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>>41350976
Because no one wants to look at silicon tits.

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>>41349940
what kind of support do you used for the route? I mean, the sub nodes are something and the dong node is annoying.

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>>41351031
D/a but I did mixed ASW/Airstrike, because that's the only thing it could do.
Seems kinda pointless at normal nodes though, maybe full ASW is better since it's anti-sub performance is okay at best.
It's SBR and CVLs with ASW helis/planes and torp bombers with +6ASW on the CVs with iirc a few DBs mixed in, but you could go full torp I think. But the key is SBR I think, because otherwise your DDs are basically padding, at least SBR can bring ASW planes.

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>>41350991
That's what happens during a games fall sadly. Art quality drops like a rock since no one cares anymore. Kancolle isn't even in the top searchs for pixiv anymore.

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>>41351031
>>41351043
Oops. Forgot to mention why it seems pointless, it had a couple 0 damage hits that's why. Literally throwing resources down a well.
Maybe I just don't know how to fit it out properly, though the ASW strike does work out okay, it's the airstrike that's shit.

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Why even shill like this? Does the ccp really think that having more people play a shitty chink mobagay will be an important strategic asset?

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>>41351064
Just admit that you're playing a dead game anon. These threads would hit hundreds of posters a few years ago. Now it struggles to hit 30.

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>>41351043
>>41351059
Thank you, I guess it's better if I risk one of the lbas for asw purporses.

[Anonymous No.]

Alright, let's see how long it took for various things to get their lastest 1000 pics on danbooru.
>GI 5 days
>BA 8 days
>AK 9 days
>KC 11 days
>AL 16 days

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>>41350655
I want to press my head against Zuikakus chest and let out a disappointed sigh

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>>41351106
Oh nonono, ALsister, how do we cope?

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>>41351106
Many works do not get put on banbooru. Kancolle is probably closer or below AL on pixiv.

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>>41351064
It's cultural warfare.
Like I'm more inclined to like the Japanese after consuming so much of their media.

>>41351080
Lol. You're talking about E5? I don't know how good the FF is now but I don't think that's a good idea.
Imo you want to hit AS for that anyway, and giving up a base for it is probably going to make it impossible.
Besides, the thing that makes me saltiest on that map is the preboss air raid taiha. Sub node isn't really too bad, ime you either get turned back at the 1st node or more likely pass the 2nd sub node. Surface nodes are annoying, but not too bad. It's that fucking boss level preboss air raid that's really annoying.

But yeah, the boss is tough enough that you really don't want to get there and then fail. Otoh, I did it pre-FF, so maybe it's easier now.
I got a lucky daytime head-on S-rank iirc. But I set up for AS. You really want those bonused CVCI.

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>>41351132
Even on pixiv I don't think any of the new girls have gotten much art other than the DE.

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>>41346641
>male Zui
Huh.

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>>41347874
Aside from memestats sansiki kai was useless.

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>>41350976
Because they may have Sushi as higher level than Yamato, which is a big factor in how much the Touch triggers.
I remember reading some broken english at zkms about how there was a benefit to having Yamato with anti-installation equipment be the sub instead of main, but I couldn't understand half of it.

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Got a Fritz X from lanking. Does it have a special chance to target BBs more often or is it just a damage bonus against them?

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>>41351469
Both zkms and this guide has their Yamato at a higher level but still puts Musashi as their flag. Understandable for anti-installation I guess but makes no sense otherwise.

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>>41351548
Oh, doesn't flagship get a bonus chance to do whatever they're equipped to do?
No ducks or Atlanta, guess they want Sushi to do the AACI.

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>>41351548
I always assumed it had something to do with equipment, like the kind of seaplanes Yamato carries instead of something else makes her less good at Touch or something. But afaik only shell and radar affects Touch multipliers.

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>>41351132
Chinkshit has never won KC so far even on chinkxiv

[Tanaka !Bucky8I/Q. No.]

Fubuki is cute.

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>>41351716
Proof?

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You guys ready for the anime to be dark and edgy, all the while watching your favorite shipgirls to die? I can't wait to see Fusō and Yamashiro dying in the opening minutes of the first episode during the battle of Surigao Strait.

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did kancolle finally drop flash? does it means no more cat bombs? i used to play a long time but cat bombs during events made me rage quit at some point

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>>41351758
Fuck off shitgureshitter.

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>>41351775
Yes. And they apparently strengthened their reconnecting thing a couple days back.

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>>41351775
>finally
Anon, where have you been for the past 4 years?

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Remember to pat your ro

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>>41351802
i played this for like 3 years from day 1, then quit a few years, got busy with life and work and thought of kc again today after years.
>>41351801
oh nice

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>>41351118
That would probably be the moment when Shoukaku would grab you from behind and treat to break your neck if you continue to bully her sis. Very politely, of course.

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>>41351020

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>>41351548
>I guess but makes no sense otherwise.
Putting Yamato as "helper ship" give the third shot a slightly better multiplier.

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Souryuu/Hiryuu FF was a tad disappointing, but they cleared enough to let me have it.

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What do we call the Sub Mafia now they include Ranger?

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>>41351685
Pixiv is a Japanese site.

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>>41352436
These are all gonna be 5K in the aftermarket huh

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>first try on E5 LD
>AP
>yamato gets chuuha'd so no touch
>ships gets kek'd like a bitch
>pasta FF but they can't do any shit
>c rank
so this is the E5 experience, reminds me to the last event

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Arare just sank the E3 boss barehanded.
How?

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>>41351775
For some reason I keep getting catbombed if I'm afk for about an hour or so, is this a cache problem or something?
Only started about a month ago

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>>41351548
I haven't even started massa farming but I'm already dreading it, it's going to drain so many resources

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>>41352927
Never had that issue. What do the logs say?

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>>41352958
I'm guessing it's "Socket error Error: read ECONNRESET"
Kind of nondescript

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My Ark has yet to launch a single plane at the boss, but has managed to decheveron all the planes equipped on her. RN doing lots of work.

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>>41352436
d-do you have a full sized image of race queen ranger?

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>>41353091
It was ripped from https://zuiunfes.com/img_common/goods01.jpg so no other official full size exists

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>>41353122
People are already posting merch they bought on twitter so you just need to wait.

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>>41353151
Cute retard

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>>41353147
My cute wife.

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You're going to cause a crash

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>>41353147
I thought it was gotland for the thumbnail.

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>>41352436
>>41353147
>>41353151
>>41353153
>>41353232
I swear to god, this kusoge is gonna give me a race queen fetish

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>>41353237
Gott also got a new one.

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>>41353252
And what’s wrong with that?

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>>41351548
The 3rd hit of the hotel touch gets a higher multiplier if Yamato is the 2nd ship instead of Musashi.

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>>41353151
But 物販 hasn't even started yet.

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I've been stuck at the preboss so long all my planes have fully recheveron'd. Send help.

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>>41353385
maybe post your setup instead of crying

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>>41353402
>>41353402
It's the fuggin last dance. I have had 1 sortie where Ark didn't get instagibbed at the start. I'm at a 50% boss reach rate, evenly getting spitroasted by node O and Q. Gonna drop to easy in a few hours because I don't feel like doing this much longer.

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>>41353447
This is very suboptimal setup and i dont think you have enough tools to obtain AS at boss and convert ryuuhou to kai ni E

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>>41353478
I have been aiming for AP, was I supposed to be going for AS this whole time?

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>>41353506
>AP
Your only source of damage during day is touch and meager normal shelling no CVCI, spotting etc because AP.
You dont have hotel for big touch damage.
You cant activate night recon

>AS
You have CVCI and spotting in addition to touch during day.
Ark with correct planes plus the new skilled plane crew can deal 300-600 damage with CVCI.
You activate night recon

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>>41353147
This bitch instead of Mass? Lame!

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>>41349284
Feels good. New equips are always a nice reward.

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>>41353163

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>doing E4
>gimmick and unlock phase harder than E4-P1

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>>41353735
A little too soon perhaps. Her turn for a special CG will come. And she will be glorious if her sister is anything to go by.
Cause SoDa has one of the better senses of style in the game.
I think Ranger is the only one there from this event.

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>>41353776
MOMMY

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how many weeks left now?

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>>41354443
1.5

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>>41354145
Damn bro, your mom is pretty hot. She single?

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Nuts that the diff b/w hard and medium is only 69 FP.
>>41353537
Ok I consneed. Seems nuts to only have 3 ships that can deal damage in the main, but I am very desperate at this point.

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>>41354447
damn I don't know if I will have time to clear let alone farm

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>>41354447
Huh, when did they say that?

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Here's your MC, bro

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>>41354797
Punchable cheeks a s always.

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Now THAT is impressive. Even with the extra 250FP I added. Next event they should glass Europe so we never have to go back there again.

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>forget to send support expeditions
>make it to the boss without even a chuuha
>head-on choke
>send everything and route support doesn't show up and die on the pre-boss node
I swear to god this game does this on purpose.

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At least I got the new ship as a consolation prize. Hopefully one day they can implement some racing style event and put all the RQ cgs in game.

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>>41354837
Ranger is so fucking gorgeous.

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>>41351758
>>41354797
Shigure is going to get a happy ending, right bros? That's how all Japanese war dramas ends, with the heroine getting a happy ending. She deserves to get married to the admiral and have children, she earned that much.

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>>41355138

I scrapped her like the fucking noob i am and have spent the last week trying to get her back. Have gotten a shitton onaholes in the process, at least.

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What the fuck, I can't even get AS on easy! How are newfags supposed to clear this shitty ass map? They don't even have reppus or anything!

[Anonymous No.]

Just finished E4
Planning for E5 team right now
What's the consensus on E5-4?
The 4CV fleet or or 2CV 1CVL 1CL fleet?
Zekamashi is recommending the later

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>>41355168
1. Cum inside.
2. Don't take responsibility.

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>>41355254
I went with the latter, AS on chipping & AD on LD. 3 runs to victory.

>>41350976
Yamato has a bigger, exclusive damage bonus that applies to the third shot if she's the 2nd ship.

>>41351031
ASW support kills 2 subs, damages the rest. Yama Maru, Ryuuhou & J-class finish off what's left. I ran AD for LD so my CVs had a stronger opening airstrike vs. dong node. Only got chuuha'd once there. 2 LBAS full of Catalina & max ranked suicide bonus bombers + boss support wiped out the boss' escort fleet every time.

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>>41355336
Good to hear
Maybe I will do light fleet for chipping and use the heavier fleet for LD

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>>41355168
My theory is seven episodes of ships dying exactly as they did in WWII. Then the final episode reveals the past 7 were all just a dream the spirits of ships experience before they reawaken in their girl bodies.

Then everyone will eat curry and be happy.

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>>41355336
>AS on chipping & AD on LD. 3 runs to victory.
interesting, the AS is a meme after all.

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I'm not getting any friend fleets with it turned on, am I using all the wrong ships so none of the fleets can show up?
All the switches to the left is for requesting strong fleet right?

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E6P4 Hard, NagaMutsu doesn’t seem to be very consistent with Jean Bart Hime.

Would it be worth duping a lvl 1 Yamato for this map? No idea how long it’ll take.

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>>41353630
>2 race queen CGs
Why does this dumb goat get so many CGs?

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>>41355451
Ran out of blow torch?

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>>41355593
No, I've got hundreds. Don't know what it is. Unless friend fleet hasn't been activated for E6. I assumed it was just event wide for the bosses.

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>>41355612
It's only E3 and E5 currently

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Does anyone know the LOS check for E4P1?

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>>41355629
Oh no shit then. I'll just keep waiting for my LD attempts.

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>>41355612
https://twitter.com/KanColle_STAFF/status/1575796296539308037
E3-2 boss, E5-4 boss and E6-3 boss only so far

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>>41355457
Even Yamato touch isn't as much of an "I win" button as I thought, usually multiple enemies going into night as usual. Jean Bart's a real bitch.
And if you save the touch for boss you gotta deal with Y.

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wait so is jets on vicky an e3 strat or was that actually for e5?

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>>41355674
E5 too, though if you're farming Massa Zekamashi's fleet shows that new Mosquito bomber instead of jets due to the bonus, not sure how big of an advantage that is.

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>>41355160
Takes after her older sister.

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>>41352951
Reminder that they need to be all tagged orange if you're using the E3 fleet.
I forgot when I came back to farm and nearly fucked myself over.

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>>41355687
damn I need to clear e3 in the next 2 days and I still have no idea what to use. I guess I will just try things at random. what is the goal air power at least?

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>>41354512
That's why I ran the 4CV comp. Routing is even more cancerous. And actually I think you are muling 2 ships in the escort fleet too so.
But the point is you can get AS. Though if you lack the good planes, you need to actually run the numbers yourself. Like hell, this is the first time I actually ran an air calc.
And as for how good CVCI is, you can daytime clear if your bonused carriers cut in. Even on head-on.

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>>41355910
I already capitulated and cleared on easy. Even on easy AS was a struggle; I got lucky and the lbas sniped the basic carrier, which got me it. I was pretty aghast at how much I struggled with that map ON EASY despite all the ships+equips I had. Gonna take the weekend off to recoup from all that rage.

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>>41355943
I don't blame you honestly. I almost gave in and cleared on medium on my last run before I dropped. I guess the game took pity on me.

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>>41355254
You sure? Last I read before FF was that he says that while the 4CV is a more swingy fleet, it wins more comfortably when it does.
From what I understand it's like S-rank vs. TCI roulette.

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>>41355943
Most cancerous map this event. I struggled, salted and complained every step of the way before I got that one perfect run.
E6H is easier at least.

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>>41355959
I am gonna try the one with Vicky jets since that fleet get AS

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>>41355950
Are you me?
Clear run was head-on daytime S-rank for me. Anti-climatic honestly. But I was so happy when I saw what the battle predictor shown I actually didn't tab out to see how it went.

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>>41355982
I had a really shitty run, decided to go to night battle. I did my ritual thing of getting up to go do something else before seeing the results, and Fletcher being the doll that she is killed the boss managing to ignore both dysons that were alive.

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>>41353147
Washi sure has a thing for paizuri outfits

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Christ the air node's in the first part E-4 is probably the worst parts of the map. Its cucked about 90% of my runs.

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as if tp wasn't bad enough the boss is also cancer

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>>41356108
I was going to run a kill fleet and use the opportunity to farm from Blooklyn

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>2 sorties
>1300tp still
oh boy

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>>41355973
That's the 4CV fleet.
Zkms one also gets AS. Gets it at least if you have the good LBAS fighters.

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>>41356149
As a semi-newfag myself, can you define "good" LBAS fighters are? I've read and heard so many takes I've been in a lock of what I should work on. The only "good" LBAS fighters are 4 Spitfire V +10's.