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This is a translated version of the experiment reports. Please leave me a message if you notice any error or for anything. The action of translating has been permitted by the original author, and all credits regarding the following test results go to Kuubowokyuu san.

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Effects of Formation during Night Battle
Exp't name: 夜戦陣形と命中回避

Blog / Author: 艦これ-チラ裏検証- / by くうぼをきゅう

Exp't Date: Oct 21 ~ Jan 1 (2014 ~ 2015)

Translation: by Homuhomu123

Explanation:

A series of experiments were done by Kuubowokyuu over 3 months, to verify how formations (Line Ahead, Double Line, Echelon, Line Abreast) will affect night battle accuracy and evasion of your fleet. In this experiment, the attacking ships & the target ships are recorded specifically in chart format. As the author mentioned, the sample sizes are small (100~200) thus please be cautious when drawing conclusions from to the data below.

Test ship condition Enemy condition: Test ship & equipment
 * Test map: 5-3-1
 * Morale were kept at 49.
 * Test ships are beyond moderate damage, otherwise data were not recorded.
 * Each consecutive cut-in or double attack is recorded separately. (i.e. they're regarded as 2 attacks rather than 1)
 * Scratches (1%~14% of the enemy's current HP) are counted as miss.
 * Always line ahead.
 * Yuudachi K2 & Hibiki K2:  Lv99,  evasion stat = 89,  10cm HA x2
 * Kitakami K2 & Ooi K2:      Lv99,  evasion stat = 83,  20.3cm x2 + mini-sub

Original Data
 Terminology 

味方回避率:  Evasion of your fleet

味方命中率:  Accuracy of your fleet

回避側:  The defending side

攻撃側:  The attacking side

単発:  Single attack

カットイン:  Cut-in

連撃:  Double attack

単縦:  Line Ahead

複縦:  Double Line

梯形:  Echelon

単横:  Line Abreast