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
 * 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 Medium 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 all maps.
 * 3) Selectable and changeable difficulty
 * 4) * This event has 3 ranks: easy (丙), medium (乙), hard (甲).
 * 5) ** HQ Level 40 unlocks medium, HQ Level 80 unlocks hard.
 * 6) * You can choose the difficulty in each map separately.
 * 7) * Different difficulties give different medals, equipment and materials when clearing the maps.
 * 8) * Ships rewards (U-511, Katori and Amagi) will appear regardless of the difficulty.
 * 9) * Difficulties probably affect drop rates, but most drops are possible on any difficulty.
 * 10) ** Isokaze has not been reported to drop in E-5 easy
 * 11) * When the difficulty is changed, the boss's health bar will be reset.
 * 12) * Once the map is cleared (boss HP bar is depleted and killed), you CANNOT go back and change the difficulty.
 * 13) * The First Class Medal symbol (the one that appears beside your name in your Admiral page) is given, along with the medal item (the one in your inventory) the moment you clear E-5 on hard, regardless of the difficulties chosen for previous maps.
 * 14) There is no ship locking for this event.
 * 15) The boss HP gauges does not regenerate over time in any map in any difficulty.
 * 16) 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.
 * 17) Enemy fleet composition and formation available HERE. Data collected and compiled by Fujihita.

Tools

 * Air Superiority Calculator by Ofi123(Not 100% translated.)
 * KanColle Calculator and tools by no1244 (in Japanese)
 * Air Superiority Calculator (in Japanese)
 * Effective LoS 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)
 * Ok1n´s stream : http://www.twitch.tv/ok1n
 * 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) (finished standard operations E1-3; 4-5 cancelled due to insufficient open slots)
 * 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) finished
 * keemeef~'s stream http://www.twitch.tv/keemeef/ (6:00pm PST onwards; usually late hours)
 * Blizzie's stream: twitch.tv/blizzietv (Speedrun attempt -- Sat, Feb 7 @ 1 PM PST)
 * 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
 * Lolibunny's twitch (GMT +8 2100- 0100) (Snowballing on feb 13)
 * TempestaMkII's Twitch  (Watch me fail horribly at this event) (GMT+8 2100 - 0000(On weekdays and weekends) / 1000 - 1200 (On weekends))
 * Kancolle E.A. Streamers
 * pcp8p67's Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/pcp8p67 (W.G. Forum mainstream, Korean base.)
 * Xiei's stream: http://twitch.tv/xiei (Live from Japan in English, Event Finished)