Spring 2015 Event

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Introduction
Date for the Spring 2015 Event is April 28th. The approximate length is 20 days. The event should end on May 18th. This event will have CVs as the core, so get your CVs ready!

Spring 2015 Event now in progress!

Patch Notes

 * 1) Event Details
 * 2) * Named "Order! 11th Battle Operation"
 * 3) * Planned duration of 20 days
 * 4) * Difficulty settings, like in Winter 2015 Event. See special mechanics section on this article.
 * 5) * A well-trained aircraft carrier-centric Carrier Task Force is going to be important
 * 6) * Fleet locking restrictions confirmed for E-3, E-4 and E-5 for Medium and Hard difficulties, no fleet locking restrictions on Easy difficulty. No fleet locking restriction on E-6 for all difficulties.
 * 7) * The admiral can choose branching in some places.
 * 8) *E-2 and E-4 use combined fleet.
 * 9) * Possibly related to the Indian Ocean Raid (Easter Sunday Raid)
 * 10) New Ships
 * 11) * Katsuragi CV (E-2 Clear Reward)
 * 12) * Littorio FBB (Remodel: Italia) (E-4 Clear Reward)
 * 13) * Akitsushima AV (E-6 Clear Reward)
 * 14) * Takanami DD (E-3 & E-4 Boss Drop)
 * 15) * Roma FBB (E-6 Boss Drop)
 * 16) New Equipment
 * 17) * Type 2 Large-sized Flying Boat
 * 18) * 381mm/50 Triple Gun Mount Kai
 * 19) * OTO 152mm Triple Rapid Fire Gun Mount
 * 20) * 90mm Single High-angle Gun Mount
 * 21) * Pugliese Underwater Protection Bulkhead
 * 22) New Enemy Vessels
 * 23) * Harbour Water Demon
 * 24) * Anchorage Water Demon

Participation requirements
''' Check if you fulfill these requirements if you can't sortie to event maps! '''
 * Must have a 75% sortie win ratio
 * Must have 5 empty ship slots for new ships
 * Must have 20 free equipment slots
 * Must have formed a Combined Fleet to sortie in E-2, E-4 and E-6, and no combined fleet for E-1, E-3, E-5.



Special Mechanics

 * 1) Selectable and changeable difficulty
 * 2) *This event has 3 ranks: easy (丙), medium (乙), hard (甲).
 * 3) *HQ Level 35 unlocks medium (?), HQ Level 80 unlocks hard.
 * 4) *You can choose the difficulty in each map separately.
 * 5) ** However, this time around you will not be able to jump up the difficulty from Easy -> Hard after a map. To be able to use "Hard" setting, you must clear the previous map either on Medium or Hard itself. Only jumping up two difficulty levels is not allowed, other combinations stick to the old rules.
 * 6) ***【 BAD 】 Easy  >  Easy  >  Hard  (not possible because easy jumped to hard)
 * 7) ***【OK】 Easy  >  Medium  >  Hard 
 * 8) ***【OK】 Medium  >  Easy  >  Medium 
 * 9) ***【OK】 Medium  >  Medium  >  Hard 
 * 10) ***【OK】 Hard  >  Hard  >  Easy 
 * 11) ***【OK】 Hard  >  Hard  >  Medium 
 * 12) *When the difficulty is changed, the boss's health bar will be reset.
 * 13) *Once the map is cleared (boss HP bar is depleted and killed), you CANNOT change the difficulty anymore, but can still farm the map on difficulty used to clear it
 * 14) *Different difficulties give different medals, equipment and materials when clearing the maps.
 * 15) Combined Fleet in E-2, E-4 and E-6

The below is based on and corrected from this table.


 * About ship locking: basically, E-3 and E-4 lock your ships when you use them at least once on these maps, no matter what difficulty you choose.
 * If a ship is locked on E-3, that ship can't sortie in medium/hard E-4 or medium/hard E-5 (easy is still fine). The same way, a ship locked on E-4 can't sortie in medium/hard E-3 or medium/hard E-5 (again, easy is still fine).
 * Easy E-3 and easy E-4 don't lock ships if they are already locked (needs confirmation).

Event Maps
See Enemy Formation report threads for detailed formation on each node.

Tools

 * KanColle English AS Calculator by ofi123 (original: http://aircalc.net/)
 * Air Superiority Calculator (in Japanese)
 * Effective LoS Calculator (in Japanese)

Discussions

 * Resource Comparison and Medals
 * [E-1] Fleet Composition + Enemy Encounters
 * [E-2] Fleet Composition + Enemy Encounters
 * [E-3] Fleet Composition + Enemy Encounters
 * [E-4] Fleet Composition + Enemy Encounters
 * [E-5] Fleet Composition + Enemy Encounters
 * [E-6] Fleet Composition + Enemy Encounters

Player Live Streams

 * Zak提督's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/bl2w (playing every day of the event from April 28th during 8:00 PM-10:00 PM EST)
 * Shinhwalee's Stream http://www.twitch.tv/shinhwalee (E-6 Hard Breakthrough planned April 29th, 2015 on 7:00 PM EST)
 * ArcticaFrost's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/saberfrost GMT+1 (ArcticaFrost)
 * Dragonjet's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/jetrico (watching live ripping during maintenance)
 * Bryakuma's stream : http://www.twitch.tv/akuma_homura
 * SlashZero's stream: http://hitbox.tv/JenXIII (main) http://www.twitch.tv/jenxiii (mirror)
 * Sekronashi's stream: http://twitch.tv/sekronashi
 * SerialConvort' stream: http://www.twitch.tv/serialconvort
 * Aldourien's stream: http://twitch.tv/aldourien (Completed event, may stream farming for your salty needs later.)
 * Blasterion's stream http://twitch.tv/blasterion
 * Shizen144's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/shizen144 (will start a bit late)
 * HandgunOtonashi's Stream : http://www.twitch.tv/handgunotonashi (Frontlining if no shiplock)
 * EchoHolic's Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/EchoHolic GMT +8 (120% Quality Salt)
 * Yukiechi's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/yukiechi
 * Tommy2806's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/tommy161911 4am EST to 6am EST daily.
 * Raven's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/ravenwentfullham mostly Japan midnight (11PM-7AM JST)
 * Faeriedust's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/zeekcannon often between 7AM and 2PM GMT+9 daily
 * FuuzenKazera's stream :http://www.twitch.tv/fuuzenkazera no specific stream time but will stream every day during event period
 * Daxyn's stream: http://twitch.tv/Daxyn Everyday at 1PM GMT and 11PM GMT (￣▽￣)7
 * Dechidechi's stream: http://twitch.tv/Dechidechi frontlining and will stream until everything is cleared.
 * Knighteo's steam: http://connectcast.tv/knighteo http://www.twitch.tv/knighteo Everyday around 3pm to 1am JST
 * Kevadu's stream: http://twitch.tv/Kevadu Frontlining all maps until event is cleared. No specific schedule
 * astragard's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/astragard GMT +8
 * Joedada967's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/joedada967 8pm to 9pm JST
 * KhelKun's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/skwype Everyday GMT+8 (streaming with TTK uniform on)
 * Gensuihime's Twitch Stream http://www.twitch.tv/gensuihime Watch me try to take in new data as maintenance ends. Also better internet~ :3
 * ArinAensland's stream http://www.twitch.tv/fiamaarin Starting 29th April. GMT+8
 * Xiei's stream http://twitch.tv/xiei Full Cleared. Farming Roma for E-7 after Goldenweek is over.
 * Arkayda963 Stream : http://www.twitch.tv/arkayda963 Everytime just try look sometimes
 * Crescentia: http://www.hitbox.tv/crescentia (primary) http://www.twitch.tv/crescentia (secondary) late evenings and nights
 * Switch_0n/ToHoSpArTaN: http://www.hitbox.tv/touhoucrazyx
 * TsundereWorks' Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/tsundereworks
 * Waterb0x Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/waterb0x
 * bason8's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/bason8 Everyday 2130 GMT+8
 * Ben9309qc's Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/ben9309qc/

Player Playlists

 * Shinhwalee/Death Usagi's Spring 2015 Event Playthrough (E-1 to E-5. E-6 Will be uploaded tonight after Clear. It will also be streamed live)
 * FinnOtaku's Playlist: here (Features at least the first and the last attempt of every map)
 * Arialypse - Kantai Collection Event : Spring 2015

Event Preparation Guide

 * Shinhwalee's Major Event Preparation Guide for Admirals
 * [Spring 2015 Pre-Event]: Some FAQS, Tips and Q&A

Drop Reports

 * Kancolle db. Try access the html page directly if you can't click into event maps
 * wikiwiki
 * MyFleetGirls database
 * Twitter (Not so reliable)
 * Chinese Forum aemedia
 * Comments below (aware of trolls)