Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)

[MK1D]

1 hour ago, Marblehead_1 said:

Finished Event in KC but after E-3 I felt like morally and mentally burned out after.

 

I returned to AL after few months of KC mandness and so many has changed. Different is almost everything.  

 

I have question, in example I hunt for Fusou and Yamashiro ( First get from 6-4 during third run in Boss ) - I know they are poor in battle but I like them very much ( Strange, I have one Ring from Quest obtained long time ago and get another from strange message in in-game mail - is that game suggests me something?   ) I read that I can get Yamashiro from Worlds 6-2 to 6-4 as AL Wiki says. Is that says that I can get her only from Boss Battle?  I use full RN BB fleet for Monarch grind and from 6-4 I see nice exp gain.

You can get Yamashiro from every enemy fleet that has at least 2 triangles in its icon.

[Historynerd]

I got both Fusou and Yamashiro, and even though every place I checked yelled at me not to, I retrofitted them both. I don't know why, I just wanted to show some love; I was impressed by that I read in that damn book about Surigao Strait... both ladies put up a great fight and held on for far longer anyone would have expected them to do...

[LOZFFVII]

I've retrofitted both, mainly because I don't intend to use either.

That, and I want to complete my retrofit collection. Currently I'm missing York, Exeter, Jintsuu and Sendai.

York and Exeter are both Level 85, and waiting for the final upgrade to change their art. That damndable Sandy retrofit bled my gold cruiser blueprints dry.

Jintsuu I'm currently grinding 10-4 for, using my Iron Blood cruiser fleet to grind EXP for Roon, and when she drops I will be rushing my main story-mode fleets through chapter 11 to 11-3 to try and get Sendai.

[Marblehead_1]

4 hours ago, Historynerd said:

I got both Fusou and Yamashiro, and even though every place I checked yelled at me not to, I retrofitted them both. I don't know why, I just wanted to show some love; I was impressed by that I read in that damn book about Surigao Strait... both ladies put up a great fight and held on for far longer anyone would have expected them to do...

You mean Anthony Tully book? I read that book too but my deep sympathy for them is much longer, from times when I was teenager and I read brochure/mini-book about Battle in Surigao Strait and few days ealier I watched documentary film about it battle. Thats why I want them, I got both of them remodelled in KC but I can't look at KC from last event. I'm not sure about retrofitting them, especially when it's trap-refit.

[Panocek]

11 hours ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

I've retrofitted both, mainly because I don't intend to use either.

That, and I want to complete my retrofit collection. Currently I'm missing York, Exeter, Jintsuu and Sendai.

York and Exeter are both Level 85, and waiting for the final upgrade to change their art. That damndable Sandy retrofit bled my gold cruiser blueprints dry.

Jintsuu I'm currently grinding 10-4 for, using my Iron Blood cruiser fleet to grind EXP for Roon, and when she drops I will be rushing my main story-mode fleets through chapter 11 to 11-3 to try and get Sendai.

So far Sendai search takes longer than Jintsuu one to the point I might as well use her for search of her missing sister. And that's merely "rare" ship that can drop from all fleets, not just boss

 

And speaking of Jintsuu, she finally got retrofit of hers. Or shall I say retrothicc? Not as severe as in FurryKako case tho

[Historynerd]

11 hours ago, Marblehead_1 said:

You mean Anthony Tully book? I read that book too but my deep sympathy for them is much longer, from times when I was teenager and I read brochure/mini-book about Battle in Surigao Strait and few days ealier I watched documentary film about it battle. Thats why I want them, I got both of them remodelled in KC but I can't look at KC from last event. I'm not sure about retrofitting them, especially when it's trap-refit.

Yeah, that's the book.

Can I ask you the title of the documentary you've seen? I'd like to check it out if possible.

[Marblehead_1]

7 hours ago, Historynerd said:

Yeah, that's the book.

Can I ask you the title of the documentary you've seen? I'd like to check it out if possible.

From this same publisher I know "Battle in the Otranto Strait" and was also nice (  different authors ) but unfortunately my book ( Otranto ) didn't have maps ( I think it was second edition )

 

I was 12 years old when I watch this so I really didn't remember too much - it was more than 15 years ago. It was for sure part of bigger series on Discovery Channel or National Geographic about important battles - this was about Leyte ( Intro showed flashes of the warship gunfight in night beyond horizon and during this documentary I first time heard about "Crossing the T" and from that time as I remember I have strong respect for the dark determination of Nishimura ) In similar time I started to lend books from library about naval warfare.

 

Finnaly after about 50 runs in 6-4 I got her. It's funny because I got acidentally Yuudachi ealier which is Super Rare and few Saratogas and Lexingtons ( it will be for limit breaking ) - I'm not complaining because 2 fleets of 6 RN BB's farm Monarch's exp very fast.

 

I am happy!

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[LOZFFVII]

Spoiler

Sauce.

 

 

Also, did anyone else notice the title of the thread changed?

[Panocek]

Stumbled upon this blog post of someone trying to consolidate AL "story" and its quite a wall 'o text

https://harperanimereviews.com/how-much-lore-does-it-take-to-justify-cute-ship-girls-a-prelude-to-azur-lane/

[Robber_Baron]

3 hours ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

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Sauce.

 

 

Also, did anyone else notice the title of the thread changed?

Oklahoma is a cutie. That's the main reason why I want to retrofit her. That, and the low oil cost. But speaking about oil cost, if my calculations are right Dark Chocolate will also be cheap in oil consumption.

And yes, I did. A good change, after all it's mostly Azur Lane what's been discussed lately I think.

 

Speaking about changes: Taihou's Forbidden Fruit skin got some additional lines. However, if she gets MVP, to me her voice seems lower-pitched than the other quotes.

[Zemeritt]

24 minutes ago, Robber_Baron said:

Speaking about changes: [...] additional lines.

 

Not related to Taihou. but I realized that Littorios bikini skin has different lines on the JP/CHN Server as on the EN.

 

I hope they'll fix that if they add her VA. (pls do that soon tho, I don't like mute secretaries)

[LOZFFVII]

2 hours ago, Robber_Baron said:

But speaking about oil cost, if my calculations are right Dark Chocolate will also be cheap in oil consumption.

Max limit break, South Dakota's oil cost is the same as all other max limit break SR BBs at 15oil.

Compared with Nevada's 12, she definitely still costs more.

 

2 hours ago, Robber_Baron said:

And yes, I did. A good change, after all it's mostly Azur Lane what's been discussed lately I think.

Which is kinda a given when the game actually has an English localisation with events going on.

I mean, Kan Colle has an event going on, but absolutely no-one besides those actually playing the game are discussing it. Why would anyone else discuss it? Besides new shipfus.

 

Speaking of which:

Janus is cute, but a part of me likes her abyssal version (Anzio Hime) a little bit more. Must be the way she pops her arms out of her outer shell to scare you. Obligatory Hugh Janus joke.

Mikura is a cinnamon roll kaiboukan, which means I wanna adopt her. Must protecc. Also, pudgy Mikura is my headcanon.

Duca degli Abruzzi is...a thing. With big things. REALLY big things (might be bigger than AL Zara's).

Grecale is dangerous to pious Teitokus. Approach with caution. Godammit Jiji.

[El2aZeR]

I'm starting to get the feeling that Luigi drop on E3 J node is a friggin' lie. I'm over 80 runs in at this point.

*checks drop chance*

0.9% on easy. Ah, that explains it.

 

Also I made a meme in my spare time in gulag.

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[Marblehead_1]

6 hours ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

 

I mean, Kan Colle has an event going on, but absolutely no-one besides those actually playing the game are discussing it. Why would anyone else discuss it? Besides new shipfus.

 

Speaking of which:

Janus is cute, but a part of me likes her abyssal version (Anzio Hime) a little bit more. Must be the way she pops her arms out of her outer shell to scare you. Obligatory Hugh Janus joke.

Mikura is a cinnamon roll kaiboukan, which means I wanna adopt her. Must protecc. Also, pudgy Mikura is my headcanon.

Duca degli Abruzzi is...a thing. With big things. REALLY big things (might be bigger than AL Zara's).

Grecale is dangerous to pious Teitokus. Approach with caution. Godammit Jiji.

Personally it shouldn't suprise me. New KanColle Event is very medicore and new characters beyond Duca degli Abruzzi are not memorable, Duca degli Abruzzi is very memorable for sure ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Again selection of new characters is very suprising for me, again majority are nonames or warships which are not so recognizable. Also E-3 is very specific map which is very annoying, not very difficult but annoying due to this all phases.

 

I got extremely bored form KC and I returned to AL. Probably farming in E-3 was main cause when after few days of farming ( map is costful and run is long ) I recived only very common ships like Inazuma, Ikazuchi or Naka. This new Italian Event look very nice for me. From first build ( I farmed unconsciously about 100 cubes due to in-game unreaded mails ) I get Zara and few other interesting builds. It's so pleasurable and nice in playing in contrary to the typical bullsh.ttery on KanColle maps. It ended that I feel very bad for defending KC for so long. 

[Historynerd]

13 hours ago, Panocek said:

Stumbled upon this blog post of someone trying to consolidate AL "story" and its quite a wall 'o text

https://harperanimereviews.com/how-much-lore-does-it-take-to-justify-cute-ship-girls-a-prelude-to-azur-lane/

...Well, that helped me understand what the heck was going on. Having missed lotsa events, and not having done some questline (never even knew you could farm Akagi and Kaga as carrier on 3-4! ), I was feeling a bit lost around here. Now I think I got the hang of it.

 

What makes me sad, having understood this, is that this makes me realize that the events of Empyreal Tragicomedy are nothing more than a tiny experiment on the Sirens' part. They basically show up just to precipitate things in the Mediterranean, forcing the Royal Navy to get there to take a look, and spurring the Sardegna Empire to take the chance for a showdown, only to realize halfway there that they were being played, not just by the Sirens (about that, get in line, it's helluva difficult to say no to them, right?), but by the Ironblood as well.

Even in the end, after Punta Matapan (that's what I call the battle in 'Jewel of Calabria', since it seems situated near Punta Stilo and has battleships, as the battle in 1940, but it seems to be a defeat à la Matapan), the Sirens just comment on how the Sardegnian fell victim to their own demons and "losing sight of their original goals".

So, long story short, the Sirens played around because they were bored, Sardegna now is between a rock and a hard place (they kinda have to rejoin Azur Lane, but the Ironblood is at their door glaring at them), and the Royal Navy... is having a tea party.

Have I forgotten anything here?

[Panocek]

9 minutes ago, Historynerd said:

Have I forgotten anything here?

You've forgot to invite QE to the party

 

What bothers me, AL is becoming increasingly time consuming with "daily" shenanigans. Daily event map clear, daily challenges, daily hard mode because blueprints, SOS missions because lacking decent sub torp blueprints, all done with ships to push PR ship grind forward. And its not even time that bothers me, but fuel costs for these shenanigans even with Leander trio and underage Fuso/Bogue/whatever is cheap to run, leaving very little for searching torpedo floof no.2 at 11-3

[Historynerd]

28 minutes ago, Panocek said:

You've forgot to invite QE to the party

How can they have tea without the Queen? In the event the Illustrious sisters were scolded for that! 

[LOZFFVII]

7 hours ago, Panocek said:

SOS missions because lacking decent sub torp blueprints,

You actually bother with those?

I haven't bothered since the supply disruption daily weekly was added. You get plenty of purple/gold blueprints so long as your subs are capable of doing the level65/75 versions.

8 hours ago, Panocek said:

What bothers me, AL is becoming increasingly time consuming with "daily" shenanigans.

I do it all on auto. I can get all of the daily stuff done during my lunch break, so about 40-50minutes?

I'll take screenshots of my routine tomorrow and upload them so you can see what I do.

8 hours ago, Panocek said:

And its not even time that bothers me, but fuel costs for these shenanigans even with Leander trio and underage Fuso/Bogue/whatever is cheap to run, leaving very little for searching torpedo floof no.2 at 11-3

I stop playing for a few hours whenever my oil drops to 9000. Set my commissions going focused on the ones that award lots of oil and give it a rest until they are complete. If necessary, I will log back in when they're done just to set up more comissions and leave them going for another couple of hours.

Also, how frequently are you doing the 1200oil cost comission? From reddit, it seems those who overuse that one get into trouble with their oil reserves - you don't need to do it on cooldown to keep your ships levelled: the dorm/classroom is for that.

[Panocek]

11 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

You actually bother with those?

I haven't bothered since the supply disruption daily weekly was added. You get plenty of purple/gold blueprints so long as your subs are capable of doing the level65/75 versions.

I usually do them with some lul squad like Jintsu with hydro and Bogue with ASW Avenger, as such duo usually can handle up to 7th map. And I have no need for farming 8-10 as I already have Maya, Niizuki and Jintsu.

 

And "capable of lvl 65/75" is name of the game, as only recently purple U fleet got past 90lvl, still running white metal fishes

14 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

I do it all on auto. I can get all of the daily stuff done during my lunch break, so about 40-50minutes?

I auto most of the stuff, but most of the time I'm fighting with screen lock timer than actual game, retyping password all the time

17 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

Also, how frequently are you doing the 1200oil cost comission? From reddit, it seems those who overuse that one get into trouble with their oil reserves - you don't need to do it on cooldown to keep your ships levelled: the dorm/classroom is for that.

1200 oil commision runs pretty much all the time, because when new ship arrives and I deem them worth something, I want them to be up to standard in no time, which means dorm AND commision. Which also explains dramatic shortage of gold bulins. And then 4x gold subs, SoDak trio, JB, Nagato, Lusty sisters, Yuudachi, Essex and god knows who else wait for LBing

[LOZFFVII]

1 hour ago, Panocek said:

And "capable of lvl 65/75" is name of the game, as only recently purple U fleet got past 90lvl, still running white metal fishes

My sub fleet makes a cakewalk out of '65, and just the other day I was able to push them to my first two wins of '75:

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You don't need gold equipment to succed, you just need enough high-level purples and a good idea how to maximise your damage output without running out of torps.

1 hour ago, Panocek said:

I auto most of the stuff, but most of the time I'm fighting with screen lock timer than actual game, retyping password all the time

Ahahah.

I'm on iPad, so I've probably got a bit better battery than you do. That and my password involves holding my thumb to the button at the bottom, so it might be a little quicker to enter than yours.

1 hour ago, Panocek said:

1200 oil commision runs pretty much all the time, because when new ship arrives and I deem them worth something, I want them to be up to standard in no time, which means dorm AND commision. Which also explains dramatic shortage of gold bulins. And then 4x gold subs, SoDak trio, JB, Nagato, Lusty sisters, Yuudachi, Essex and god knows who else wait for LBing

That is...one hell of a waste of resources. Stop spamming the 1200 comission, you REALLY don't need it.

How I do it:

New ship (regardless of whether I'm gonna use them or not) ->1200 comission.

When that's done, new ship is level 19.

Do I want to use them?

If 'Yes':

If 'No':

Stick them in the dorm or the classroom (whenever I remember the classroom exists) until they hit level 70. Take them out of the dorm. Ship is now finished with until I get the resources to equip them and limit break them. I may occasionally consider sticking them into the Tactical Class to upgrade their skills, assuming they are not all red skills, because I'm running a permanent shortage of those.

Leave them. Use the auto fill on non-oil-costing comissions to give them experience and let them level up on their own. (Auto fill only choses ships that are level 2+, most likely to prevent it choosing enhancement fodder)

The result of this is I have a lot of LMB0 ships sitting around in my port at level 70, most without giving them any equipment, or even levelling up their skills. Then I have a large wedge of ships at level 20-35, all in the same position.

The simple fact of it all is that I know I don't have the resources for everything, so I don't bother. I just keep using the same-old-same-old until they hit the level cap, then consider replacing them.

So far, my plan is working quite well, Tirpitz in my main clearing fleet recently reached level120, so I swapped her out for Alabama due to Alabama's skills all highlighting her as a clearer. The cranes are slowly creeping up from lvl115, so when they reach the cap, I'll probably swap them out for Lusty and Akashi in preparation to tackle world 12 and 13. The vanguard for this fleet is Ning/Ping/Yat Sen, who just don't take damage, so I see no real reason to swap them out even after hitting lvl120.

[Nechrom]

10 hours ago, Panocek said:

You've forgot to invite QE to the party

 

What bothers me, AL is becoming increasingly time consuming with "daily" shenanigans. Daily event map clear, daily challenges, daily hard mode because blueprints, SOS missions because lacking decent sub torp blueprints, all done with ships to push PR ship grind forward. And its not even time that bothers me, but fuel costs for these shenanigans even with Leander trio and underage Fuso/Bogue/whatever is cheap to run, leaving very little for searching torpedo floof no.2 at 11-3

I don't feel like it's very demanding on oil.

Even doing event dailies (and the normal dailies) I can choose to either keep doing SOS missions, or slack and just run the 10h commission twice a day instead. With all that I'm still stable on oil.

Only if I go and actively grind something like event or normal stages does my oil actually go down.

[Panocek]

3 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

enough high-level purples

Again, I need "enough high-level purples" in first place

 

4 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

That is...one hell of a waste of resources. Stop spamming the 1200 comission, you REALLY don't need it

Even when throwing 1200 comm left right and center fuel was "considerable issue" only when I was grinding Monarch, as you can't really cheap out when half of RN big gun backline are gold boats and there are only two Renowns 

 

And then I'm sitting on metric jesuston of 95+lvl ships who either "lived their lives" in dorm/commision and have book or two put into skills or did their share of PR grind. And can't get myself to level up someone "properly" to 115+ simply because I get bored of them, though closest to that would be Dork, Roon, iBucky and Saint Louis, with Taiho, Enty, Nelson twins following.

 

Cranes, Bunnies and Foxes being in 90something simply because "twin carriers" are kinda waste - 10 and 11th map so far works better for me with two BBs in backline simply to not get roadkilled by yolo boats in boss fleet with single CV(L) to serve more like screen clear with amount of stuff on the screen than damage output, not mentioning bosses tend to move somewhat fast. Mob requires Akashi+healing CVL+BB/BC, preferably with heavy barrage to dispatch ridiculous amount of battleships these maps throw at you.

 

Though, technically, highest leveled ship would be Akashi at 112, I wonder if it has something to do with her overseeing all PR, Jintsu and Sendai grinds in mob fleet

 

 

[Zemeritt]

Well, I could be arsed and got the medal for the event today.

Not sure if I rly want to farm the designs for the gold 203 tho.

 

3 hours ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

Then I have a large wedge of ships at level 20-35,

 

The majority of my ships got to lvl 70 that way.

Atm I have some SR blocking the commision tab because I don't want to use GB on them.

 

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Also: From daily building on this event I got 5 Formidables so far. I feel bad for those ppl on twitter/discord who spent 300 cubes without getting a single one

[LOZFFVII]

3 hours ago, Panocek said:

Again, I need "enough high-level purples" in first place

I had maybe one or two when I first beat '65. The rest all came from beating '65 twice a week. The blue equipment I used when beating '65 for the first time came from beating '55. And so on.

The rainbow dildo oxygen torpedo is what really boosts your torp damage, and I simply 'borrowed' a couple from Ayaya before I had enough to equip the subs.

3 hours ago, Panocek said:

Even when throwing 1200 comm left right and center fuel was "considerable issue" only when I was grinding Monarch, as you can't really cheap out when half of RN big gun backline are gold boats and there are only two Renowns

My backline when grinding for her was Hood, DoY and QE, none of them cheap; however my frontline was only a lvl120 Phoenix, who is cheap and really good. Total cost per run? About 50. Not super cheap, but affordable.

 

Honestly, I don't really feel that the PR ship grind should be something you try to rush. I mean, to be efficient yes, you do need to build a fleet around what it is you're trying to grind for, but you don't need to spend all your oil everday grinding for these ships. It's not like they're going anywhere.

[El2aZeR]

2 hours ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

Honestly, I don't really feel that the PR ship grind should be something you try to rush.

 

You need a ton of BPs anyway to reach max development level on a PR ship. I think the number was around 350 for regular PR ships and over 500 for Azuma/FdG.

This is why you should always collect the BPs from event exchange. Even in the unlikely event that you have all PR ships at max development level already.

 

Because apparently they announced that PR3 is hitting sometime next year during the anniversary stream. Which also probably means we're gonna see another collab stage in WoWs as well.

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