Medal

The Medal is an item obtained primarily via Extra Operations and Events. They can be exchanged for certain rewards.



Usage
Medals can be exchanged for rewards by going to the Item (アイテム) menu on the naval base UI. There are three options available for exchanging: Blueprint, Improvement Materials, and Resources.

1. Blueprint 2. Improvement Materials 3. Resources
 * 4 medals can be exchanged for a blueprint
 * This is currently the only way to obtain blueprints ingame.
 * Each medal can be exchanged for 4 improvement materials.
 * Each medal can be exchanged for 300 of each resource, and 2 buckets.


 * More information can be found here

Extra Operations
Every month, players can obtain a medal for depleting the health bar of most extra operation maps. Currently 1-5, 2-5, 3-5, 4-5 and 5-5 provide a medal upon depleting their health bar, giving 5 medals in total if all are cleared within the month. The bars reset to full at the start of every month, allowing for medals to be obtained again.

Events
Starting from the Spring 2014 event, medals are rewarded for the completion of some event maps. Note that not all event maps will reward a medal upon completion, and some maps may require clearing on a harder difficulty to obtain one, while some maps may even reward two medals for clearing on a harder difficulty.

Quests

 * Quest B33 gives one medal upon completion.

Blueprint Usage
Blueprints are needed by some ships in order to remodel. As of July 2015, there are 14 remodels which require a blueprint, thus requiring 56 medals in total.

List of ships form requiring blueprint to remodel into:
 * 1) Tone Kai Ni
 * 2) Chikuma Kai Ni
 * 3) Choukai Kai Ni
 * 4) Bismarck zwei
 * 5) Bismarck drei
 * 6) Fusou Kai Ni
 * 7) Yamashiro Kai Ni
 * 8) Italia
 * 9) Roma Kai
 * 10) Ryuuhou
 * 11) Unryuu Kai
 * 12) Amagi Kai
 * 13) Katsuragi Kai
 * 14) Abukuma Kai Ni

First Class Medal
Starting from the Winter 2015 event, the First Class Medal (Also known as the Class A Medal) is rewarded to players who have cleared the final map of the event on 甲 (Hard) difficulty. While this medal is held in the inventory, it is shown to others when they see your profile in ranking, along with the amount the player is carrying.

First-Class medals cannot be exchanged for the same rewards as a regular medal, but can be exchanged for all of the following:
 * Fuel.png 10,000 Fuel
 * Screw.png 10 Improvement Materials
 * Devmat.png 10 Development Materials
 * Furniture_box_large.jpg 10 Large Furniture Boxes

However, keep in mind that if the medal is used/consumed, the medal marker on the profile will disappear. Given its rarity, players may prefer to keep it instead.