Ok, I've been rather busy these last few weeks since I've been working extensively with my team. We've been working on improving the En wiki, talking with Himeuta about various things and just planning out things for this year. So... let me go ahead and get started with covering some of the bases.
I'll start off with the current thing that we've done as of lately is which is completed an overhaul of the front page for the en wiki which can be viewed here:
http://en.kancollewiki.net/wiki/Kancolle_Wiki Please feel free to provide feedback on the front page as we are willing to work on improving it.
Now on to the news:
Kasumi Kai Ni UpdateAs you all probably know by now the
destroyer that served as the flagship in Operation Rei-Go will be getting her Kai Ni on the
19th.
As we all know, this means it'll be
Kasumi is the candidate.
They noted that she will require a
very high level but
will not need a blue print.
I'm going to say the best estimate for Kasumi is to get her between l
evel 70-75....
80 is you REALLY want to play it safe. I'm learning more to the former....
In addition, all the
New Years lines and Haregi Kimonos are to come to an end and the
New Years Quest most likely also come to an end as the New Year Celebration Period in Japan is about to come to a close.
Also new furniture will be placed in on that update in the process.
The Winter EventSo as it has been annouced the
2016 Kancolle Winter Event is coming... and we only know a little about the event so far.
As Rune pointed out, The Event will start around
Early FebruaryIt will be
small scale in size and will have
selectable difficulties.
It should be noted that on
Hard Difficulty, the final map's difficulty will be slightly higher. So expect to be planning and strategist an attack to lead to victory.
To me this sounds like we might be expecting our usualy components to come back.... as in
Combine Fleets and quite possibly
armor reduction.
It should noted, in terms of an event, the last time we had a "Small Scale Event" was when we had the
Arpeggio of Blue Steel Event back in
December of 2013.
That event was only
3 Stages big.So my estimation for this event is to be a
3-4 stage battle.
What could the event be?Well as it's been pointed out be High Zealot,
Operation Rei-Go is a very possible choice!And if this is case here's the run down of how the Operation in a nutshell...
Let's go back to the year 1944 at the Middle of December.
The Battle of Mindoro, American Troops made an advance to the Philippines to managed to take out and eliminate the Japanese forces occupying the Island on December 16th. The American would take control of the island that served as a key point in thier attempt to regain control of Pacific Ocean. They would then establish an Airfield on Mindoro Island on the 20th of December.
Meanwhile after the defeat of Mindoro, Japan made preparation to launch a counter attack against the American Forces that occupied the island. And thus launched a plan to attack by sea!
The crew they would establish would be Kasumi, Ashigara, Kiyoshimo, Asashimo, and Ooyodo for the operation. With 3 Matsu-class destroyers serving as back up.
The fleet would be organized under the commander Kimura and originally planned to launch an attack on the 24th of December. However due to bad weather, the plans to attack Mindoro by Sea was delayed by 2 days. And thus the attack would be done on the 26th in the dead of the night.
At around 4 PM, the Japanese fleet would make thier advance to Mindoro. Eventually the by around 8 PM the fleet will become spotted by the American and thus the American forces attempted to battle the ships by air.
The battles for several hours as the fleet evaded through countless bombing and attacks by American troops smaller torpedo patrol boats.
Ashigara would launch an assault against the airfield while Kasumi, Kiyoshimo, Asashimo and Ooyodo would provide air cover against the planes.
During the fight they also took out 1 American Transport Ship and damaged several torpedo patrol boats and took out a total of 30 American planes out of the 120 they launched in the battle along with damaging the airfield rendering it unusable.
The fight would also result in the loss of Kiyoshimo as she would be struck by two American bombers rendering her unable to move. Asashimo came to rescue the surviving crew of the Kiyoshimo before evacuating. Kiyoshimo would then be taken out by a torpedo from PT-223 thus completly sinking her.
To the eye of the Japanese, they saw this battle as a Victory. And it would be the last organized battle which they would gain a victory within.
From eyes of others in history, especially from America, this was only a minor set back as they would eventually rebuild and repair the airfield within a few days just in time to help aid in the Luzon Invasion around January of 1945.
So yeah, this is an odd part of history, that most people don't cover because it was a very minor battle that in truth didn't really do much but maybe slightly delay the Americans a little bit in thier plans for the Luzon Invasion. But Japan looks upon this moment as an important part in the
Pacific Theater that they view proudly as a victory.
Odds are, this is probably the candidate event of choice. Especially if the information from Comtiq is correct with regarding the fact that
Kasumi's Kai Ni would come in time with an event that'll be tied to her... we'll have to see....
So if we're looking an what to be ready for... I would say be ready for:
some night battles, more
PT imps to punch, and definetely an
Airfield Installation Battle.
Keep in mind though... this is NOT confirmed and is only speculation for the time being.But it's a very likely probabilty. So be ready for this and as more news comes out, I'll try to determine what we'll likely expect for the event. Just don't expect it to be too big.
