Winter 2015 Event

Introduction
The Winter 2015 Event, 【Counter-attack! Assault on Truk Anchorage】 will begin February 6th, ending two weeks later on February 23rd.

It is based around Operation Hailstone

Patch Notes
See Recent Updates for more info.


 * 1) New Ships
 * 2) * U-511 (E-3 clear reward)
 * 3) * Katori (E-4 clear reward)
 * 4) * Amagi (E-5 clear reward)
 * 5) * Asashimo (E-? boss drop)
 * 6) New Enemy Vessels
 * 7) *Light Cruiser Demon (軽巡棲鬼)
 * 8) *Battleship Water Demon (戦艦水鬼)
 * 9) New Equipment
 * 10) * Prototype 51cm Twin Cannon (E-2 Hard only clear reward)
 * 11) * WG42 (Wurfgerät 42) (E-3 Hard and Normal only clear reward and U-511 stock equipment)
 * 12) * Prototype FaT Type 95 Oxygen Torpedo Kai (Ro-500 (aka U-511 Kai Ni) stock equipment)
 * 13) Voice and other Updates

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) Combined Fleet (E-3 and E-5)
 * 2) Line of Sight requirements on some (all?) maps.
 * 3) Choosable difficulty
 * 4) * This event has 3 ranks: easy (丙), normal (乙), hard (甲).
 * 5) * You can choose the difficulty in each map separately.
 * 6) * Different difficulties give different medals, equipment and materials when clearing the maps.
 * 7) * Ships rewards (U-511, Katori and Amagi) will appear regardless of the difficulty.
 * 8) * Difficulties probably affect drop rates, but ships still drop in any difficulty.
 * 9) * When the difficulty is changed, the boss's health bar will be reset.
 * 10) * Once the map is cleared (boss HP bar is depleted and killed), you CANNOT go back and change the difficulty.
 * 11) There is no ship locking for this event.
 * 12) The boss HP gauges does not regenerate over time in any map in any difficulty.
 * 13) Support Expeditions are available. Expedition 141 Focuses on Support for Normal Nodes, Whereas Expedition 142 Focuses Support on Boss Nodes. The Expeditions DO REQUIRE that you have 2 DDs in your fleet. Do take note that their expeditions will end early after you finish one sortie, so try to make the most use out of them.

Tools

 * Air Superiority Calculator(Japanese version. English version in works)
 * KanColle Calculator and tools by no1244 (in Japanese)
 * Air Superiority Calculator (in Japanese)

Discussions

 * Before and After Resource Checks
 * Reports and Results: E-1
 * Reports and Results: E-2
 * Reports and Results: E-3
 * Reports and Results: E-4
 * Reports and Results: E-5

Player Live Streams

 * KanColle U.S.A. Streamers
 * Zak提督's stream: twitch.tv/bl2w (will be playing every day from 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST / 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM JST)
 * Yamato_kai2000's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/yamato_kai2000 (schedule 7:30 PM - 9:20PM PST (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays) / 12:30 PM - 2:20 PM JST Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays)
 * Totaku's stream: Totaku's Livestream (will be playing on weekends from 1:30 AM - 6:00 AM CST / 4:30 PM - 9:00 PM JST)
 * DS4's stream 1: twitch.tv/deltasierra4 (will be playing on weekends from 9:00 PM - 3:00 AM CST / 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM JST. More stream announcements will be made on the wiki chat)
 * DS4's stream 2: DS4 on Livestream
 * Remi_Scarlet's stream: twitch.tv/remi_scarlet
 * NikaidoAkiBro's stream: twitch.tv/nikaidorumibro
 * HandgunOtonashi's stream : twitch.tv/handgunotonashi EST 1200 onwards.
 * SlashZero's stream: hitbox.tv/JenXIII (main) twitch.tv/jenxiii (mirror)
 * Kevadu's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/kevadu/ (will be frontlining, staying up all night to try and clear the event as quickly as possible after maintenance finishes)
 * Sekronashi's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/sekronashi
 * Crescentia's stream: http://www.hitbox.tv/crescentia (main) twitch.tv/crescentia (backup)
 * Gensui Hime's Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/gensuihime (All day Friday after 5PM, based on CST)
 * c0mpl3x1ty & DeepDFantasy: http://twitch.tv/c0mpl3x1ty (Friday at 9:00PM EST)
 * keemeef~'s stream http://www.twitch.tv/keemeef/ (6:00pm PST onwards; usually late hours)
 * Kancolle E.U Streamers
 * jeftai's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/jefferytai (will be playing randomly)
 * ArcticaFrost http://www.twitch.tv/SaberFrost
 * Naikon http://www.twitch.tv/naikon86
 * Kancolle S.E.A. Streamers
 * dragonjet's Twitch (be one of the first to see, watch event maps, new ships and seasonal CGs get ripped first-hand)
 * Lolibunny's twitch (GMT +8 2100- 0100) (Not available on feb 7 and 8) I need resources
 * TempestaMkII's Twitch  (Watch me fail horribly at this event GMT+8 2000 - 0000(?))
 * Kancolle E.A. Streamers
 * pcp8p67's Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/pcp8p67 (W.G. Forum mainstream, Korean base.)
 * Xie's stream: http://twitch.tv/xiei (Live from Japan, random times)