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| 7 | [[center: [- [[Characters/KanColle Main Character Page]] | [[Characters/KanColleOne Destroyers (Kamikaze-class to Shiratsuyu-class)]] | [[Characters/KanColleTwo Destroyers (Asashio-class to Matsu-class)]] | [[Characters/KanColleThree Light and Heavy Cruisers]] | [[Characters/KanColleFour Battleships and Aircraft Carriers]] | [[Characters/KanColleFive Rest of Imperial Japan's Ships]] | '''Axis Fleet Ships''' | [[Characters/KanColleSeven Allied Fleet Ships]] | [[Characters/KanColleEight The Abyssal Fleet]] | [[Characters/KanColleOtherOfficialWorks Other Official Characters]] -] ]] |
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| 10 | |
| 11 | ![[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Kriegsmarine]] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | The naval arm of Axis-era Germany, the Kriegsmarine (literally ''War Navy'') historically focused much of its operations in the Atlantic Ocean, and barring commerce raiding in the Indian Ocean by U-boats of the ''Monsun Gruppe'', had little to no overlap with its allies in the Imperial Japanese Navy. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Three of its ships are the first non-Japanese ship personifications introduced to the game, added during the March 14, 2014 White Day update. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * AuthorAppeal: The first batch of Kriegsmarine ships were designed by Fumikane Shimada (of ''Anime/SkyGirls'', ''Manga/StrikeWitches'', and ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' fame), and as such display a distinct lack of skirts or pants of any kind. |
| 18 | * GenderFlip: In contrast to most other countries in the world, Germany calls their ships as male (a "he"), thus their portrayal here is a case of this trope. |
| 19 | * GermanicDepressives: Zigzagged: Bismarck, Z3, and Graf are portrayed as being stern and serious. U-511 plays it straight at first but averts it after being remodeled. Z1 and Prinz, by contrast, are portrayed as being more open and emotional. |
| 20 | * GratuitousGerman: Mostly averted, due to the difficulty of finding voice actors bilingual in Japanese and German; they speak less German than I-8. U-511 even drops most of it after becoming Ro-500. |
| 21 | * NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Currently all but one of them are named after someone famous - though not necessarily famous in Germany. Prinz Eugen is named after Prince Eugen of Savoy, a field marshall serving under the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy in the late 17th and early 18th century. As Austria had been annexed into Germany at the time, famous Austrian figures like Eugene were retroactively considered German. |
| 22 | * NoSwastikas: Instead, they have the German Ritterkreuz on their uniforms where the former would have been placed. |
| 23 | * OutOfFocus: For one reason or another, Kriegsmarine hasn't had a new ship added into the game for the longest time even though it is the first foreign force added into the game. |
| 24 | * PhenotypeStereotype: All of them but Z3 have blue or aqua eyes and varying shades of blonde, going from U-511 and Z1's platinum blonde to Prinz Eugen's medium strawberry blonde. |
| 25 | * TeamPet: They are sometimes drawn with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_Sam Unsinkable Sam]], a ship cat what was on board three different ships and surviving after all three of them sank, one of them being ''Bismarck''. Bismarck adopted a black cat which she named Oskar in the 4koma and he also appears in Z1's Autumn 2015 artwork. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | !!Destroyers (DD) |
| 28 | |
| 29 | [[folder:The ''Zerstörer 1934''-class]] |
| 30 | |
| 31 | The first class of destroyers built by the German navy after World War I, these ships were fraught by design problems by virtue of being built in a hurry. From engines that required excessive levels of maintenance, to limited operating range (half of that of contemporary British Royal Navy destroyers), to limited ammunition stores, it's no wonder that most of the class did not survive to the end of World War II. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * BornUnlucky: Have the lowest Luck scores of any Destroyer, at least when unremodeled. A reference to the ill-planned way they were designed and the embarrassing circumstances behind their sinking. |
| 34 | * NecessaryDrawback: Both have above-average durability, three equipment slots from the beginning and a base ASW rating of 69, which is equal to those of both Yuudachi and Shigure Kai 2, and joint-second only to Verniy's 74. However, their other stats are lacking and they have the lowest evasion amongst the Destroyers. In their "zwei" (German ships' equivalent of Kai 2) incarnations, besides a minor upgrade to most stats, their AA stats become second and third only to Shigure Kai 2's. |
| 35 | * ThemeNaming: All named after ''[[GenderBlenderName male]]'' Imperial German Navy personnel who were killed in action during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. In the case of Z1 and Z3, they shorten these names to something more manageable for the admiral. |
| 36 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Sea mines, to be specific, which contributed to their sinking. [[PlayedforLaughs Played for]] BlackComedy in [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kancolle/images/9/96/Z3_Summer_Full_Damaged.png Z3's damaged art for the summer event]] where she's getting harassed by an Abyssal version of a sea mine... which has tentacles all over it. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | !!Z1 Leberecht Maass (1st) |
| 39 | !!!'''Artist:''' Shimada Fumikane |
| 40 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaEndo |
| 41 | [[quoteright:174:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/z1_leberecht_maass.png]] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | -->''"Guten Morgen. I'm Leberecht Maass. Lebe is fine, yep."''\ |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Z1 Leberecht Maass a.k.a. Lebe is the personification of the German destroyer Z1 ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_destroyer_Z1_Leberecht_Maass Leberecht Maass]]''. She particularly dislikes mines, as her historical counterpart ran into and was sunk by mines after having her steering gear knocked out from friendly-fire damage by a Heinkel He 111 bomber. |
| 46 | ---- |
| 47 | |
| 48 | * BornUnlucky: 8 luck pre-remodel, due to the ill-planned way she was designed, as well as how she sank, though can possibly be mitigated due to having 60 survivors while Max sank with all hands. |
| 49 | * BoyishShortHair: It doesn't go below her ears, adding to the confusion about her gender. |
| 50 | * CultureBlind: If the Admiral pokes her. |
| 51 | -->'''Lebe''': ''"Admiral, what is it? Is this one of this country's greetings? It's going to be difficult until I'm used to it."'' |
| 52 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: If she gets sunk. |
| 53 | -->'''Lebe''': ''I'm sinking, once again, huh. But, this time... it was in a real battle...'' |
| 54 | * HappyHolidaysDress: She has new CG for Autumn 2015. Unlike the Japanese shipgirls, who are dressed in yukata, she is dressed up for Oktoberfest instead, wearing a dirndl and "equipped" with beer and German food. |
| 55 | * NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She is named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leberecht_Maass Leberecht Maass]]. |
| 56 | * PoorCommunicationKills: How her historical counterpart was sunk. The Kriegsmarine had failed to notify its destroyers that the Luftwaffe (the German air force) was making anti-shipping patrols at that time and had also failed to inform the Luftwaffe that its destroyers would be at sea. |
| 57 | * UnfriendlyFire: Got bombed by a Luftwaffe plane after she shot at it- neither party knowing the other was also German. This didn't kill her- but the mines she drifted into ''did''. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | !!Z3 Max Schultz (3rd) |
| 60 | !!!'''Artist:''' Shimada Fumikane |
| 61 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaEndo |
| 62 | [[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/z3_max_schultz.png]] |
| 63 | |
| 64 | -->''"Guten Tag. I am the Destroyer Max Schultz. But, Max is fine. Pleased to meet you."''\ |
| 65 | |
| 66 | Z3 Max Schultz a.k.a. Max is the personification of the German destroyer Z3 ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_destroyer_Z3_Max_Schultz Max Schultz]]''. Like Lebe, she also dislikes mines, due to her historical counterpart being sunk by the same mines that may have sank Z1, in the process of trying to rescue survivors from the latter. |
| 67 | ---- |
| 68 | * BornUnlucky: Like Lebe, due to the ill-planned way she was designed, as well as how she sank. However, her pre-remodel luck is lower at 6, possibly due to sinking with all hands while Lebe had 60 survivors. |
| 69 | * BoyishShortHair: Just like her sister ship Lebe, but with longer hair in the front, making it easier to identify her for a girl. |
| 70 | * HolidayMode: Gains a very skimpy two-piece bikini during an update for the Summer 2016 event, shared with Lebe. |
| 71 | * NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She is named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schultz Max Schultz]]. |
| 72 | * TheStoic: And truly icy at that. |
| 73 | [[/folder]] |
| 74 | |
| 75 | !!Heavy Cruisers (CA) |
| 76 | |
| 77 | [[folder:The ''Admiral Hipper''-class]] |
| 78 | |
| 79 | !!Prinz Eugen (3rd) |
| 80 | !!!'''Artist:''' Shimada Fumikane |
| 81 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AriOzawa |
| 82 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prinz_eugen.png]] |
| 83 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to view her Kai art]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/princeeugene.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | -->''"Good morning! I'm the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Nice to meet you!"''\ |
| 86 | |
| 87 | Prinz Eugen is the personification of the German heavy cruiser ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Prinz_Eugen Prinz Eugen]]''. |
| 88 | ---- |
| 89 | * BigSisterWorship: Despite not being an actual sister, she treats Bismarck as if she was one. This goes together with her rigging being designed similarly to Bismarck's, which, as her artist points out, is a reference for ''Prinz Eugen'' (the ship) being mistaken for ''Bismarck'' once by the British. Ironically, the only time she sortied with Bismarck (Operation Rheinhubung) is also where Bismarck sank. |
| 90 | * BloodKnight[=/=]GenkiGirl: She get's pretty excited when entering battle, cheerfully shouting "FIRE! FIRE!" in German when she attacks. |
| 91 | * BornLucky: Contrast to the other German ships who appeared before her, she starts with high luck. In her case, she survived sortieing with the ''Bismarck'', the Channel Dash, and ultimately the war. She even made it through Operation Crossroads, only sinking because she was too radioactive for a minor leak to be repaired. |
| 92 | * GenderBlenderName: Perhaps the most glaring case among the Kantai Collection characters, as she is named after an Austrian prince complete with the masculine title. "Eugen" is exactly what it sounds like, the German equivalent to Eugene. |
| 93 | --> (4koma chapter 77) "I'll just get this out of the way: I'm not a boy." |
| 94 | * MistakenIdentity: In the 4koma chapter that introduces her, Fubuki thought "Bismarck got smaller" when she sees Prinz Eugen for the first time, as a HistoricalInJoke to the time the British did the same thing (they expected the Bismarck to be in the lead with the Prinz Eugen following, but Prinz Eugen was in fact leading Bismarck because the latter's radar was damaged). |
| 95 | * NecessaryDrawback: Like the other German ships however, she has excellent durability but a lower maxed base AA compared to comparable Heavy Cruisers. |
| 96 | * RareRandomDrop: Finally added as an obtainable drop for the Fall 2015 event, but as it was on a non-boss node it was not a guaranteed drop regardless of result. While she was discovered to be obtainable on Easy, enterprising admirals soon discovered through experimentation that she only drops on a specific enemy formation (line ahead), which spawns very rarely on Easy (where resource consumption would be the lowest) unless specific conditions were met (the boss being in the killzone). |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[/folder]] |
| 99 | |
| 100 | !!Battleships (BB) |
| 101 | |
| 102 | [[folder:The ''Bismarck''-class]] |
| 103 | !!Bismarck (1st) |
| 104 | !!!'''Artist:''' Shimada Fumikane |
| 105 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaEndo |
| 106 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bismarck.png]] |
| 107 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to view her drei art]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/biscuit_drei.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 108 | |
| 109 | -->''"Guten Tag. I am Bismarck, the nameship of the ''Bismarck''-class battleships. You should remember it well."''\ |
| 110 | |
| 111 | Bismarck is the personification of the German battleship ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck Bismarck]]''. A dutiful and prideful girl. |
| 112 | ---- |
| 113 | * AchillesHeel: For a battleship, Bismarck has a ridiculously low AntiAir score. To give you an idea of how low it is, Akigumo, a destroyer, has a higher AA score than her, at least until her zwei form, and even then Z1 and Z3's zwei forms, generally regarded as relatively weak destroyers, have better AA than hers. The real-life Bismarck did indeed have unimpressive anti-aircraft armament, and was also crippled in a torpedo attack by hopelessly obsolete ''biplanes''. |
| 114 | * BoisterousBruiser: Very proud of her own abilities, and shows it in her quotes. |
| 115 | * BornUnlucky: Initially at least; she starts with below average luck due to being sunk in her first operation. On the other hand, her zwei remodel gives her ''above'' average luck, presumably due to her being able to sink the world's largest battlecruiser HMS Hood during said operation. |
| 116 | * HistoricalInJoke: |
| 117 | ** PhenotypeStereotype is played even straighter when you realize that this is supposed to reference Hitler's requirements for being part of the MasterRace, which is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race#Aryanism Aryan race]] (blonde, blue-eyed, and "pure" German). In fact, the only thing Hitler may have been iffy about is the fact Bismarck here [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking is also a girl]] (at least her commanding officer, Capt. Ernst Lindemann would) [[note]]the Germans always referred to the ship as 'he', not 'she'[[/note]], but she's otherwise the perfect representation of what Nazi Germany truly wanted. |
| 118 | ** The 4koma has her being haunted by "swordfishes" in her dreams. It's a reference to how she was crippled by a torpedo strike from a British [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Swordfish Fairey Swordfish]] biplane bomber. This gets even more pronounced when Ark Royal - the one who launched said Swordfish - gets added to the game. |
| 119 | * LightningBruiser: Has a listed speed of "Fast", like the ''Kongou''-class. Furthermore, her health when remodeled (94) is third only to the ''Yamato''-class (96 and 97) and second only to Musashi (97) with her zwei and drei remodels (96). Her third remodel further extends the Bruiser aspect of her by giving her the ability to launch (relatively weak) torpedoes. Since night battle firepower is calculated by adding the Firepower and Torpedo stats together, the relatively weak torpedo combined with her higher than average luck gives Bismarck night battle power only slightly behind that of the ''Yamato''-class. |
| 120 | * NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: She is named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck Otto von Bismarck]]. |
| 121 | * PhenotypeStereotype: Played straight, as she's drawn as tall, blonde, and busty. |
| 122 | * TookALevelInBadass: She is the only ship with a third remodel (aside from ''Chitose''-class seaplane carriers, and later Kasuga Maru/Taiyou), which gives her torpedo stats that boosts her night battle firepower. |
| 123 | * TraumaButton: When she takes major damage, she freaks out over the state of her rudder, because during her sortie, she took a torpedo to the rudder that locked her into a hard turn, meaning that she couldn't reach Luftwaffe air cover before the Royal Navy caught her. Ark Royal's lines show that this also applies to Ark Royal herself, as the carrier whose planes delivered the fatal torpedo. Bismarck runs away immediately upon spotting Ark Royal, despite being on the same side- though it probably didn't help that Ark Royal deployed her Swordfish squadrons to catch her for an explanation. |
| 124 | * VanityIsFeminine: She talks in a feminine way and takes care of her appearance. |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | !!Standard Aircraft Carriers (CV) |
| 128 | |
| 129 | [[folder:The ''Graf Zeppelin''-class]] |
| 130 | !!Graf Zeppelin (1st) |
| 131 | !!!'''Artist:''' Shimada Fumikane |
| 132 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriHayami |
| 133 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/graf_zeppelin.png]] |
| 134 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to view her Kai art]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/countzep.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | -->''"Guten Morgen. I am the carrier, Graf Zeppelin. You are the Admiral overseeing this fleet, yes? Is that so? Roger!"''\ |
| 137 | |
| 138 | Graf Zeppelin is the personification of the German aircraft carrier ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_aircraft_carrier_Graf_Zeppelin Graf Zeppelin]]''. She's introduced as the drop for E-4 and E-5 of the Fall 2015 Event. |
| 139 | ---- |
| 140 | * BornUnlucky: Has a luck of 4 (7 when remodeled), only above Taihou and Mutsu, for a good reason - at the time of her introduction, she was the only fleet girl whose real-life counterpart was never even completed! [[note]]Despite being on the verge of completion when UsefulNotes/WorldWarII began, from that point onward seemingly everything that could go wrong for the ship did.[[/note]] |
| 141 | * CardsOfPower: [[WordOfGod According to Fumikane]], she stores her planes within metallic cards inside her waist pouch which then can summon the plane once inserted into a slot behind the deck elevator. |
| 142 | * GenderBlenderName: Not as quite glaring an example as Prinz Eugen (Zeppelin is her namesake's ''last'' name and thus gender-neutral), but she still has the ''male'' title Graf (Count). The female equivalent would be Gräfin. |
| 143 | * MasterOfNone: Frankly, she doesn't do much well. Her pathetic plane capacity means any other standard carrier and even some light carriers are better at the air superiority/opening airstrike role. While she can attack at night, giving her two guns for double attacks just means depleting that already poor air wing even further, meaning she can't be good at direct combat either. |
| 144 | * MustHaveCaffeine: Her hourlies shows this. |
| 145 | -->''"0300. Right! You desire coffee? Leave it to me. Be ready to taste the greatest of coffees. I am quite confident when it comes to aroma and flavor of coffee."'' |
| 146 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_von_Zeppelin Ferdinand von Zeppelin]]. ''Graf'' was von Zeppelin's noble title, which roughly translates to "Count". |
| 147 | * NecessaryDrawback: She has strong stats, being offensively on par with Akagi and Kaga while also having a base range of Medium (previously only available on the second remodels and armored forms of the ''Shoukaku''-class) and having guns which allows her to attack at night. However, she also has a paltry 43 plane capacity (56 when remodeled - even lower than some light carriers or the already pathetic ''Unryuu''-class). |
| 148 | * OddballDoppelganger: The 4koma (her introduction chapter) notes that, even though she was made by studying Akagi's design, the two don't really look like each other. |
| 149 | * PhenotypeStereotype: Like Bismarck, she's the Aryan ideal of beauty, albeit even paler. |
| 150 | * ProperTightsWithASkirt: Wears pantyhose, unlike the socks of the other Krigesmarine surface girls. |
| 151 | * RareRandomDrop: She was only available as a drop at the boss node in Fall Event 2015 E-4, at least when she was first introduced. The devs have all but explicitly [[https://twitter.com/KanColle_STAFF/status/692872046842241024 confirmed]] that she will be a drop again for the upcoming Winter 2016 event. |
| 152 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: Despite her cold exterior as can be seen from her in-game art and a strict attitude not unlike Bismarck's, she is far from an IceQueen in need of a defrosting once you listen to her voiced lines. She will be wary about you poking her a bit too much as well as using a fiercer tone when in sorties, but in the rest of her secretary lines she speaks in a soft, soothing tone of voice. Being voiced by Creator/SaoriHayami certainly helps in that aspect. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | !!Submarines (SS) |
| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:U-Boot ''Type IXC'']] |
| 158 | !!U-511/Ro-500 (41st) |
| 159 | !!!'''Artist:''' Shimada Fumikane |
| 160 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiKayano |
| 161 | [[quoteright:330:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3589503d2f82bb84fde1c91e065a1eb7.jpg]] |
| 162 | [[caption-width-right:330:Left: U-511, Right: Ro-500]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | -->''"Submarine U-511 of the German Navy, please call me Yuu. I've come a long way, so I'll be in your care..."'' |
| 165 | -->''"Submarine Ro-500, formerly U-boat U-511. I'm Ro, formerly called Yuu! Admiral? I will be in your care."''\ |
| 166 | |
| 167 | U-511, a.k.a. Yuu, is the personification of the German Submarine ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-511 U-511]]''. Originally a stoic girl who is trying to adapt to her new surroundings, her second remodeling turns her into Ro-500 or simply Ro, a cheerful girl who reflects the name change she received once she was transferred to Japan. |
| 168 | ---- |
| 169 | * AnimalMotif: A wolf pup. Her initial uniform's radio headset resembles dog ears, and when remodeled, she sometimes growls like a "little wolf". |
| 170 | * AscendedMeme: One of her hourly lines has her asking if she's going to visit Orel or Bashi. [[note]] Orel Bay and the Bashi Islands, aka Maps 2-3 and 2-2, are very commonly farmed for experience and daily quests using a fleet of 3-6 submarines, due to being fairly easy to complete at minimal resource costs.[[/note]] |
| 171 | * BornLucky: Indeed, she had to travel from France to Japan, ''and'' she survived the war. |
| 172 | * CharacterDevelopment: As U-511, she's very quiet and shy, and struggles with her Japanese a bit. Once she's remodeled to Ro-500, representing adapting to her new home, her Japanese is fluent, her personality is much more cheerful and outgoing, and she seems to have become very good friends with the other submarines. |
| 173 | * IHaveManyNames: Is referred to "Yuu" or simply "U" as U-511, Satsuki #1 [[note]]She was given the name Satsuki #1 when she arrived at Kure Naval Arsenal on August 7, 1943 as a temporary codename. However, it also refers to the flower that is attached on her head in her Ro-500 portrait. In Japanese, the flower means "gained trust". This gets lampshaded by [[Characters/KanColleOne the other Satsuki]] in the 4koma.[[/note]] as an alternate name when remodeled, and "Ro" or "Ro-chan" as Ro-500. |
| 174 | * GoingNative: Her transformation into Ro-500 is heavily implied to be this. |
| 175 | * ImColdSoCold: If she gets sunk as Ro-500. |
| 176 | -->'''Ro-500''': ''No... Nooo... It's cold... So cold... And dark...'' |
| 177 | * SchoolSwimsuit: Exchanges her uniform for the requisite swimsuit of the Japanese sub-girls with the addition of a cropped German-style sailor uniform (similar to Z1 and Z3) as Ro-500. |
| 178 | * TanLines: Ro-500 has these around the edges of her swimsuit. |
| 179 | * TookALevelInCheerfulness: After being remodeled to Ro-500. While still quiet and soft-spoken, she also becomes confident and cheerful. |
| 180 | * VerbalTic: She tends to end her sentences with "-tte", which is mainly used as a form of Japanese case-making particle. |
| 181 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: Her design and personality suddenly change after her conversion, from being an unemotional pale girl in a uniform-like wet suit to a cheerful girl with a tan who looks far more like her Japanese submarine peers (but without denying her actual roots). |
| 182 | [[/folder]] |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[folder:The ''Marconi''-class]] |
| 185 | !!Luigi Torelli/UIT-25/I-504 (4th) |
| 186 | |
| 187 | See her entry in Regia Marina section for more details. She's listed here for her service to Germany as UIT-25 after Italy depose Mussolini and signed Armistice with the Allies, which resulted in Germany capturing her. |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[/folder]] |
| 190 | |
| 191 | ![[UsefulNotes/NewRomanLegions Regia Marina]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | The naval arm of the Kingdom of Italy, who were allies of Germany during the Second World War, the majority of the Regia Marina's operations were centered in the Mediterranean Sea, which Mussolini infamously declared "Mare Nostrum" (literally "Our Sea"). It had limited operations in the Atlantic, the Middle East, and the Baltic, before Italy eventually surrendered to the Allies in 1943. |
| 194 | |
| 195 | The first Italian ships were added on April 2015, during the 2nd-Year Anniversary of the game, as rewards for the Spring 2015 event. |
| 196 | |
| 197 | * AuthorAppeal: Jiji, the artist who drew both Littorio and Roma, is a regular contributor of lolicon or mecha musume art (the former showing in the design of the ''Maestrale''-class, alongside Luigi Torelli), but when he ''does'' draw adult women, he draws them busty and plump, with the most blatant example in Duca degli Abruzzi. He ''also'' has a thing for Mami Tomoe of [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka Magica]] fame, who Littorio oddly reminds people of... |
| 198 | ** Another AuthorAppeal point reveals itself with the increasing number of Italian ships: exposed armpits. ''All of them'' wear outfits that expose their armpits, either by having armpit cutouts (Aquila, the cruisers) or by being sleeveless to begin with (the ''Maestrale''-class and the ''Vittorio Veneto''-class). |
| 199 | * TheBattlestar: As of 24th February 2016 live update, the Italian battleships and heavy cruisers can now equip seaplane bombers and fighters post-remodel, effectively [[LoopholeAbuse turning them into aviation battleships in all but the official classification]]. They are not classified as true aviation battleships or cruisers for a reason though, as they were unable to send their seaplanes for anti-submarine warfare and their plane slot capacity were [[DownplayedTrope nowhere as spacious as that of an aviation cruiser]], let alone the actual aviation battleships such as the ''Fusou'' or ''Ise''-classes, which puts them at significant risk of being depleted in an aerial engagement. |
| 200 | * GratuitousItalian: Similar to the Kriegsmarine shipgirls, they speak very few Italian and the little they say usually makes sense considering the context they are used. |
| 201 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: On some levels, all Italian ships (except Libeccio and Luigi) are this, since currently they are the only ones that have alcoholic beverage appear on Anchorage Bar Counter furniture after 5am. Pola is the only one who has alcohol appear on counter 24/7, however. |
| 202 | * InSeriesNickname: "Land of the pasta" (パスタの国; lit. pasta country) for Italy, in the description of the Italian equipment and in Littorio/Italia's library intro line. |
| 203 | * LethalJokeItem: The Ro.44 Seaplane Fighter. First introduced as January 2016 ranking reward, it's a seaplane that was intended as a fighter aircraft. However, true to their [[TheAllegedCar historical plane]], they comes with a very poor stat, to the point that even a regular Zuiun is comparatively far superior. It was initially regarded as a JokeItem as they behaved similarly to seaplane bombers, until the next update reclassified it as proper fighter planes and allow it to be equipped on the ''Nagato'' and ''Yamato''-class. Still a poor aircraft nevertheless, but they no longer participate in air bombing phase, thus increasing their survivabilities [[DiscardAndDraw at the expense of their functionality as artillery spotters]], allowing your fleet to reliably secure air supremacy and enable artillery shelling in maps that [[LoopholeAbuse otherwise denied any air power to both sides]]. |
| 204 | ** It gets better during the Spring 2016 Event, as proficient seaplane fighters now gain the same air power bonus as fighter planes. In fact, one of the event maps would be much easier if you were CrazyPrepared enough to upgrade one of the seaplanes into a seaplane fighter. |
| 205 | * PhenotypeStereotype: Averted as much as they are the most diverse foreign shipgirls in the game. Many of them (those with reasonable hair colors) can plausibly pass as Italians of different regions. |
| 206 | |
| 207 | !! Destroyers (DD) |
| 208 | [[folder:The ''Maestrale''-class]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | * ThemeNaming: All 4 of the ''Maestrale''-class are named after the intercardinal winds of the Mediterranean, Maestrale herself being named after the north-westerly winds or what is more commonly called the Mistral in English. Grecale is named after the north-easterly winds, Libeccio is named after the south-westerly winds, and Scirocco is named after the south-easterly winds. Lampshaded in the 4koma where Libeccio is excited at meeting Japanese destroyer girls with "wind" on their names. |
| 211 | |
| 212 | !!Maestrale (1st) |
| 213 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 214 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkariKitou |
| 215 | [[quoteright:195:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_maestrale.png]] |
| 216 | [[caption-width-right:195:[[labelnote:Click here to view her Kai art]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_maestrale_kai.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | -->''"Buon giorno♪ I'm of the ''Maestrale''-class destroyers! Eldest daughter, I'm Maestrale! Admiral, here I am! Please treat me well! I'll do my best!"''\ |
| 219 | |
| 220 | Maestrale is the personification of Italian destroyer ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_destroyer_Maestrale Maestrale]]''. She's introduced as the E-4 reward of the Early Fall 2018 Event. |
| 221 | ---- |
| 222 | * MustHaveCaffeine: Several of her hourlies mention on serving cappuccino to the admiral. |
| 223 | * ShownTheirWork: Anchor hair clips on both sides of her head, although they're more noticeable in her damaged art. It's a reference to how after her stern was destroyed by mines in 1943 (something she mentions several times), prompting her crew to use two anchor chains to form a longer chain so as to reach deeper waters and to prevent her from drifting towards any more mines. |
| 224 | * TanLines: Unlike Libeccio, who appears to be naturally dark skinned; she has a swimsuit tan similar to Ro-500. |
| 225 | |
| 226 | !!Grecale (2nd) |
| 227 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 228 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yurika Moriyama |
| 229 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_grecale.png]] |
| 230 | [[caption-width-right:200:[[labelnote:Click here to view her Kai art]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_grecale_kai.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | -->''"Buon giorno! I'm the second of the ''Maestrale''-class destroyers, Grecale. Admiral, am I cute too? Ufu, you're cute!"''\ |
| 233 | |
| 234 | Grecale is the personification of Italian destroyer ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_destroyer_Grecale Grecale]]''. She's introduced as a drop for the E-2 and E-3 maps in the Summer 2019 Event. |
| 235 | ---- |
| 236 | * BornLucky: Shatters all Luck caps introduced until now by sporting a hefty capped luck of '''120''' at Kai, surpassing Colorado and Jervis' previous records by 10 points. Her luck likely owes to the fact that she is the SoleSurvivor of her class and served in the Marina Militare long after the war, partly as a temporary command ship for Duca degli Abruzzi, but even with some other ships that had far heftier war involvement, participated in far more dangerous battles and are also the only survivors of their class (say, ''Kagerou''-class' Yukikaze), such luck levels are questionable. |
| 237 | * GratuitousItalian: Not much on her dialogue lines, but more on the inscriptions written in some of her special [=CGs=]. And both emphasize her [[TheTease flirty behavior]]: |
| 238 | ** Her [[https://en.kancollewiki.net/Grecale#/media/File:414_Ship_Grecale_Valentines_2020.png Valentine CG]] reads "Baciami / carina piccola fata" (Translation: Kiss me / Cute little fairy) |
| 239 | ** Her [[https://en.kancollewiki.net/Grecale#/media/File:Grecale_Halloween_2019.png Halloween CG]] has "[[OurDemonsAreDifferent Diavolo]]" written on her spaghetti blouse. ItMakesSenseInContext. |
| 240 | * SoleSurvivor: Of the ''Maestrale''-class. |
| 241 | * TheTease: Constantly sweet-talks the Admiral, invites him for kisses and ''flips her skirt before him'', to name a few. Due to that, she's genuinely surprised at the Admiral's Marriage line, not actually expecting him to like that kind of behavior. |
| 242 | |
| 243 | !!Libeccio (3rd) |
| 244 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 245 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkariKitou |
| 246 | [[quoteright:195:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/libeccio_9.png]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | -->''"Good morning! I'm Libeccio, a ''Maestrale''-class destroyer! Just Libe is fine. Nice to meet you Admiral!"''\ |
| 249 | |
| 250 | Libeccio is the personification of Italian destroyer ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_destroyer_Libeccio Libeccio]]''. |
| 251 | ---- |
| 252 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: Her skin is noticeably darker than Italia and Roma's, and she doesn't appear to have any tan lines like similarly dark ships Ro-500 and I-401. |
| 253 | * BigSisterWorship: She and Roma aren't sisters, but Libeccio admires Roma and wants to become a battleship like her, much like how Kiyoshimo admires Musashi. [[CommonalityConnection Naturally, Kiyoshimo and Libeccio become friends.]] In her Kai form's [[http://www51.atpages.jp/kancollev/kcplayer.php?c=347v47&fp=1 1700 hourly]], she thinks that Warspite is the strongest battleship. [[note]]''Warspite'' wreaked havoc against the Regia Marina during [=WW2=], and ''survived'' two hits from the same Fritz-X bombs that sank Roma.[[/note]] |
| 254 | * GirlishPigtails: A pair of long ones. |
| 255 | * HappyHolidaysDress: Gains a special Halloween costume during early November 2015 along with Roma, apparently for trick-or-treating. |
| 256 | ** HolidayMode: She also gains a two-piece bikini for Summer 2016. |
| 257 | * NecessaryDrawback: She has tremendous ASW and above average AA but overall weaker Torpedoes. Her other stats are otherwise similar to an average destroyer. |
| 258 | |
| 259 | !!Scirocco (4th) |
| 260 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 261 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyanaTaketatsu |
| 262 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_scirocco.png]] |
| 263 | |
| 264 | -->''"*Yawn*, Good morning. I'm a ''Maestrale''-class destroyer. Yes, the youngest sister. My name is Scirocco. Yeah, pleased to meet you~"''\ |
| 265 | |
| 266 | Scirocco is the personification of the Italian destroyer ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_destroyer_Scirocco Scirocco]]'', introduced in the Fall 2020 Event as a drop in the E-1 map. |
| 267 | ---- |
| 268 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: Like her sister ship Libeccio, Scirocco is tanned. Unlike Libeccio, Scirocco has tan lines if you look at her palms and her damage art shows tan lines on her feet. |
| 269 | * ReallyFondOfSleeping: A lot of her lines mention about taking naps. |
| 270 | * TanLines: Noticeable on her palms as well her feet in her damage art. |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | !!Light Cruisers (CL) |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[folder: The ''Condottieri''-class]] |
| 277 | * ThemeNaming: All of the ''Condottieri''-class cruisers were NamedAfterSomeoneFamous, that being historical Italian military commanders (''condottieri''). |
| 278 | |
| 279 | ! ''Duca degli Abruzzi''-subclass |
| 280 | * NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Abruzzi was named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Luigi_Amedeo,_Duke_of_the_Abruzzi Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi]], while Garibaldi's namesake is Italian general [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi Giuseppe Garibaldi]]. |
| 281 | * JackOfAllStats: Both sisters have incredibly high firepower (Abruzzi's even being equal to Jintsuu Kai Ni, who's already known for being a heavy hitter among the [=CLs=]) and they are the most durable Light Cruisers introduced until now, making them the queens of surface combat. Even their middling ASW is barely an issue, as they have 4 slots like Ooyodo, allowing them to abuse ASW synergies easily; And their non-zero aircraft stat allows them to perform Artillery Spotting as well, further enhancing their combat abilities. |
| 282 | * OverlyLongName: Both sisters abbreviate their names for the admiral's convenience. While Garibaldi's full name is reasonable enough ("Giuseppe Garibaldi"), it's less snappy than simply "Garibaldi". On the other hand, Abruzzi's full name is "Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi" (literally "Luigi of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi") and on her card, this is abbreviated as "L.d.S.D.d. Abruzzi". As she is fully aware of how unwieldy this is, she asks the Admiral to simply call her "Abruzzi". |
| 283 | |
| 284 | !!Duca degli Abruzzi (1st of the ''Duca degli Abruzzi''-subclass) |
| 285 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 286 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yurika Moriyama |
| 287 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_duca_degli_abruzzi.png]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | --> ''"Buon giorno! The up-and-coming light cruiser from Italy, I am Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi. A bit long, isn't it? You may call me Abruzzi. Admiral, please guide both my sisters and I."''\ |
| 290 | |
| 291 | Duca degli Abruzzi is the personification of Italian light cruiser ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_cruiser_Duca_degli_Abruzzi Duca degli Abruzzi]]'', introduced as the E-2 Map reward in the Summer 2019 Event. |
| 292 | ---- |
| 293 | * BornLucky: She starts out with 20 at base and 30 at Kai before maxing out to 88 at base and 98 at Kai. Fitting as she survived an aerial torpedo in 1941, and served post-war until her scrapping in 1972. |
| 294 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Her 2100 to 2300 hourlies involve her getting drunk, to the point of seeing Grecale ''triple'' and outright passing out a while later. |
| 295 | |
| 296 | !!Giuseppe Garibaldi (2nd of the ''Duca degli Abruzzi''-subclass) |
| 297 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 298 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Haruna Asami |
| 299 | [[quoteright:255:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_giuseppe_garibaldi.png]] |
| 300 | [[caption-width-right:255:[[labelnote:Click here to view her Kai art]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_giuseppe_garibaldi_kai.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | --> ''"Buon giorno! State of the art light cruiser from Italy, I'm Giuseppe Garibaldi! Too long? That's true. Garibaldi's fine. Take care of me!"''\ |
| 303 | |
| 304 | Giuseppe Garibaldi is the personification of Italian light cruiser ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_cruiser_Giuseppe_Garibaldi_(1936) Giuseppe Garibaldi]]'', introduced as the E-3 Map reward in the Spring 2019 Event. |
| 305 | ---- |
| 306 | * BornLucky: Sort of while starting with 20 at base and 30 at Kai, she maxes out to 89 at base and 100 at Kai. Part of her luck was surviving past the war, being reconstructed into a guided missile cruiser in 1957 before her scrapping in 1971. |
| 307 | * JackOfAllStats: Of the light cruisers. Her Kai remodel has equal firepower as Jintsuu's Kai Ni (though less torpedo stat), equal base luck to Ooyodo and Sakawa, and the highest HP and armour of all light cruisers, on top of being one of a very few four-slot [=CL=]s. |
| 308 | [[/folder]] |
| 309 | |
| 310 | !!Heavy Cruisers (CA) |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[folder:The ''Zara''-class]] |
| 313 | * AwesomeButImpractical: They are Long ranged by default, which allows them to be chosen to fire in the first shelling round in the same turn as most battleships. However, this also means that they might end up being chosen to fire over a battleship. Given that battleships usually have higher firepower, this could well cost you an opportunity to cripple or sink a foe, which might have happened if a battleship got to go first instead. |
| 314 | * LocationThemeNaming: All four are named after cities which were taken by Italy from Austria-Hungary in the aftermath of [=WW1=]: Zara, Fiume, Gorizia and Pola. Of all of them, only the city of Gorizia wasn't given back to Croatia. |
| 315 | * NecessaryDrawback: To compensate for the class' ''very'' low torpedo stat [[note]]Historically, the ''Zara''-class weren't equipped with them, like the USN Heavy Cruisers of the era. The difference, however, is that unlike USN cruisers, who either had their torpedo tubes removed or were not equipped with torpedos in the first place due to doctrine, the ''Zara''-class weren't equipped with torpedos due to Italy wanting to create a heavily armored heavy cruiser while staying under the limit set by Washington Naval Treaty, which forced them to remove the torpedoes to save weight[[/note]], they are the only Heavy Cruisers with Long range by default. Their main guns also gives Long range to any ship that is equipped with it but, like the Italian battleship guns, it comes with lower accuracy. In addition, they are the only standard Heavy Cruisers capable of fielding Seaplane Bombers and Fighters, though it is still ill-advised (at least for bombers) due to the pitiable capacity of their equipment slots. |
| 316 | * OverratedAndUnderleveled: The real life ''Zaras'' were the best-armoured heavy cruisers in the world until the late/post-war American ''Des Moines'', but their armour and HP value in-game falls short compared to Prinz Eugen when they're first released. The Due (second) remodel gives significant boost to their armor that allows them to live up to their reputation, but they required a very high level and a blueprint for said remodel. |
| 317 | |
| 318 | !!Zara (1st) |
| 319 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 320 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChinatsuAkasaki |
| 321 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zara_v2.png]] |
| 322 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to view her Due art]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zardar.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | --> ''"Buon giorno! I am the first of the ''Zara''-class heavy cruisers, Zara! "Tenacity" is my motto. Please to meet you, Admiral!"''\ |
| 325 | |
| 326 | Zara is the personification of the Italian heavy cruiser ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_cruiser_Zara Zara]]''. She was introduced in the Winter 2015 Event. |
| 327 | ---- |
| 328 | * BigSisterInstinct: Towards her younger sister Pola, who she often worries about due to Pola's drunken antics. |
| 329 | * CatchPhrase: She frequently mentions her tenacity, and she outright states in her introduction that "tenacity" is her motto. This is due to the real Zara ship's motto being "Tenacemente" (Italian for "tenacity"), which was displayed prominently on her Y turret. |
| 330 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She's the responsible one to Pola's foolish. |
| 331 | * LiquidCourage: Zara in the 4-koma takes a leaf from Pola's book and gets drunk in an attempt to steel herself for Warspite's arrival. Sort of works as she's too busy trying to not puke to be afraid when she finally greets her old killer. |
| 332 | * OfCorsetsSexy: In her Due remodel, emphasizing her larger breasts with being the strongest heavy cruiser in shelling firepower and armor. She even have a torpedo bulge as one of her stock equipment. [[note]]apparently as a subtle AscendedMeme where bulges is an [[UnusualEuphemism euphemism]] for large breasts[[/note]] |
| 333 | * PluckyGirl: Comes with her tenacious personality. |
| 334 | * ProperTightsWithASkirt: She has this look in her standard form. After being remodeled, she no longer wears tights and has a single leg garter instead. |
| 335 | * TookALevelInBadass: The 28 February 2016 update introduces her second remodel which gives her ''the'' best shelling firepower [[note]]at 87, her firepower is 2 point higher than Choukai in her second remodel, and can be further boosted by 10 with the Skilled Carrier-based Aircraft Maintenance Personnel[[/note]] and armor [[note]]Her armor value is 88, which is 10 points higher than her previous remodel and 6 points higher than Prinz Eugen. Her HP was increased as well, though it was capped at 1 point lower than Prinz Eugen[[/note]] among the heavy cruisers, Her anti-air stat receives a significant boost as well as increased her plane slots to usable levels and enable her to equip Skilled Carrier-based Aircraft Maintenance Personnel while [[LoopholeAbuse retaining her heavy cruiser classification]]. To top it all off, she gets an ArtEvolution. That said, she has a '''very''' high level requirement for a heavy cruiser, requiring Level 88 [[note]]equivalent to the conversion remodel for Shoukaku Kai Ni A[[/note]] '''and''' a blueprint for the remodel. |
| 336 | |
| 337 | !!Pola (3rd) [[note]]Actually the fourth to be laid down (Gorizia was laid down exactly one year earlier than her), but because she was completed 2 days earlier than Gorizia, Pola is categorized as the third Zara-class cruiser in-game.[[/note]] |
| 338 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 339 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChinatsuAkasaki |
| 340 | [[quoteright:233:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pola_v2.png]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | --> ''"Buon giorno. I'm the third ship of the ''Zara''-class heavy cruisers, Pola. I'm at an age where I want to challenge myself with everything. I'll do my best."''\ |
| 343 | |
| 344 | Pola is the personification of the Italian heavy cruiser ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_cruiser_Pola Pola]]''. She was introduced in the Spring 2016 Event as the E5 reward. |
| 345 | ---- |
| 346 | * TheAlcoholic: Many of her lines are about her wanting to drink and some of her hourlies actually has her drunk. This was also implied from Zara's lines even before making her in-game debut. In fact, she is the ''only'' ship to have the Bar Counter furniture filled with booze 24/7. In the 4-koma, her meeting with a fellow alcoholic Junyou has been described as "a meeting of destiny" (and they proceed to drink together). |
| 347 | * BornUnlucky: She has slightly below average luck both before and after remodeling. This likely has to do with the circumstances of her getting sunk during the Battle of Cape Matapan [[note]] 1) Pola gets hit by a British torpedo at dusk and is left dead in the water, without power or lighting. Some of the crew panic (Pola's crew included some 400 green recruits on her last mission) and jump overboard. 2) As the ship is not sinking, they are taken back on board. The night is freezing cold, and to fight hypothermia they strip off their wet clothes and start to drink alcoholics from the ship's liquor stock to warm themselves. The immobilised Pola calls for a tow and the entire 1st Cruiser Div (including her sisters Zara and Fiume) come to her aid. RN radar spots them as they move in. 3) Pola mistakes incoming Royal Navy battleships for friendlies, fires off a recognition flare and helps the enemy confirm the identity of their radar contacts. 4) As Zara and Fiume are obliterated, Pola's crew resign themselves to their fate and descend into total anarchy. Most of the crew abandons ship by jumping into the sea. British boarding parties find no resistance from the 250 men left aboard, and notice that several of them are visibly drunk. Her remaining crew is evacuated and Pola is sunk by Royal Navy destroyers. The initial British plan was to tow her to Alexandria as a war prize (arguably even more embarassing, as it would've made her the largest ship ever captured in battle), but they realized dawn would come soon and slowing down the fleet to tow a captured ship would subject them to attack by Italian bombers.[[/note]] |
| 348 | * ClothingDamage: Downplayed; though her skirt is slightly ripped, none of her other clothing appears to be torn due to the strong implication that she actually stripped off most of her clothes before they could be damaged at all. This is, of course, a reference the HistoricalInJoke that her crew took off their clothes after they abandoned ship during the Battle of Cape Matapan. |
| 349 | ** Averted with the damaged version of her Fall 2016 seasonal art, in which Pola's clothes are completely intact but her wine glass is empty. It is completely in-character that Pola would consider running out of alcohol to be "heavy damage". |
| 350 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She's the foolish one to Zara's responsible one. |
| 351 | * HistoricalInJoke: Her drunken and stripping characteristics are a reference to what her crew did during the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941. The crew had abandoned ship, drinking enough wine to get drunk beforehand to keep warm in the icy waters, and stripped off their soaked clothes. |
| 352 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: A couple of her lines indicate that she sometimes strips when drunk. |
| 353 | * ToplessnessFromTheBack: The result of removing her top in her damaged portrait. |
| 354 | |
| 355 | [[/folder]] |
| 356 | |
| 357 | !!Battleships (BB) |
| 358 | |
| 359 | [[folder:The ''Conte di Cavour''-class]] |
| 360 | |
| 361 | A trio of dreadnoughts that was completed during World War I for the Regia Marina, none of them saw actual action - ''Leonardo da Vinci'' sunk due to a magazine explosion in 1916 before being sold for scrap in 1923, leaving behind ''Conte di Cavour'' and ''Giulio Cesare''. Both would later be extensively reconstructed to include stronger guns, better armor, and faster speed in the interim. |
| 362 | |
| 363 | !!Conte di Cavour (1st) |
| 364 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 365 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Hikaru Iida |
| 366 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_conte_di_cavour.png]] |
| 367 | [[caption-width-right:280:[[labelnote:Click here to view her Kai art]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_conte_di_cavour_kai.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 368 | [[caption-width-right:280:[[labelnote:Click here to view her Nuovo art]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_conte_di_cavour_nuovo.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 369 | |
| 370 | -->''"Buongiorno! Mi chiamo Conte di Cavour. So you're the Admiral? I see. Well, happy to work with you."''\ |
| 371 | |
| 372 | Conte di Cavour is the personification of the Italian dreadnought battleship ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Conte_di_Cavour Conte di Cavour]]'', introduced as the reward for the E-2 Map in the Summer 2021 Event. |
| 373 | ---- |
| 374 | * NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Count [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo_Benso,_Count_of_Cavour Camillo Benso]] of Cavour, one of the leading figures on unifying Italy and the first prime minister of Italy. |
| 375 | * PintsizePowerhouse: Less so at base form (starting at 53, maxing out at 75), but more so in her Kai and Nuovo forms, maxing out at 91 and 95 respectively. As of her introduction, she's the shortest of battleships with a length of 176 meters (577-ft, 5-in), beating out the previous record holder Gangut. |
| 376 | * ShownTheirWork: Her Docking Major line mentions about being running aground again, which actually happened to her in real life after being captured by the Allies in 1943 - after capsizing, she was finally scrapped in 1946. |
| 377 | |
| 378 | [[/folder]] |
| 379 | |
| 380 | [[folder:The ''Vittorio Veneto''-class]] |
| 381 | |
| 382 | Built as a response to the French-made ''Dunkerque''-class of battleships, the ''Vittorio Veneto''-class (also known outside of the game as ''Littorio''-class [[note]]''Littorio'' and ''Vittorio Veneto'' were laid down on the same day. ''Vittorio Veneto'' was the first ship to be launched but ''Littorio'' was the first to be completed, thus the ambiguity as to which should be considered the older sister.[[/note]]) ships were some of the most modern for their time. Unfortunately for them, their tours of duty were cut short at the capitulation of Italy to the Allies. |
| 383 | |
| 384 | * AwesomeButImpractical : The [[https://en.kancollewiki.net/381mm/50_Triple_Gun_Mount 381mm/50 Triple Gun Mount]], which was initially available as one of March 2015 ranking rewards, and are the default equipment of the ''Vittorio Veneto''-class battleships, is regarded as this. It is very powerful [[note]]equivalent to 41cm guns at +20 firepower compared to Bismarck's 38cm main guns at +16[[/note]] and long-ranged for its modestly-sized 381mm caliber [[note]]Has its range listed as "Very Long", a range equivalent to the 46 cm main guns historically equipped on ''Yamato''-class battleships[[/note]]. However, the gun itself comes with a ''significant'' loss of accuracy and slight reduction of evasion despite being less than 16 inch (40.6cm in metrics) in caliber, making it all the more impractical in the Combined Fleet due to the huge accuracy penalty imposed for mobilizing such a massive fleet, meaning that this already inaccurate gun is unlikely to hit enemy ships with reliable accuracy. Since there are no in-game restrictions up to 46cm for the caliber size of the main guns for fast battleships, many players have regarded it as a [[JokeItem joke armament]] and opted to replace the stock Italian BB guns with more accurate guns. The gun itself is upgradeable into its Kai version, fortunately, though the gun remains somewhat inaccurate [[note]]Pre-upgraded version has -3 accuracy loss, whereas upgraded version has -1 accuracy[[/note]]. |
| 385 | ** [[TruthInTelevision This is pretty much what the Italian 381mm guns were like in real life]], which fires very high-velocity shells (muzzle velocity of 870 meters per second, a good 50 m/s faster than the ''Bismarck'''s guns and indeed faster than any other battleship's main guns of any size) which resulted in a theoretical maximum range on par with the 46cm guns equipped on ''Yamato''-class battleships, but also resulted in excessive barrel wear and poor accuracy. Even brand new barrels had extremely variable accuracy, because only some of the Italian munition factories were actually producing quality shells that matched the design specs, with the rest producing absolute garbage. When the ships were unlucky enough to receive the bad ammo, the best that could be said about it was that it could fit into the chambers of the guns. |
| 386 | * LightningBruiser: True to their historical counterparts, they are classified as fast battleships and they have both excellent firepower [[note]]The ''Vittorio Veneto''-class battleships have higher max firepower than the ''Bismarck'' and ''Nagato''-class battleships, with Roma in particular having higher max firepower than Kirishima Kai Ni by one.[[/note]] and durability as well as decent AA. |
| 387 | * NecessaryDrawback: In exchange for such impressive firepower, range and speed, they are fairly resource intensive to maintain, having a much higher fuel and ammo consumption rate than the ''Nagato''-class battleships. They also require a blueprint for their (single) remodel as well. |
| 388 | * OfCorsetsSexy: And used to accentuate the ''Littorio''-class' impressive... fuel tanks. |
| 389 | * VocalDissonance: Despite being battleships, Littorio and Roma have very high-pitched voices, in the same range as the high-pitched ''destroyers''. |
| 390 | |
| 391 | !!Littorio/Italia (2nd) |
| 392 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 393 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MisakiKuno |
| 394 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/littorio_2.png]] |
| 395 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to view her remodeled art]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/italy.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 396 | |
| 397 | -->''"The second ship of the ''Vittorio Veneto''-class battleships, Littorio. [[note]]Italy actually considered Littorio to be the lead ship of the class. But she and Vittorio Veneto began construction simultaneously and her older sister was completed one week earlier, so outside Italy the latter is more often than not considered the lead ship.[[/note]] I have confidence in my speed and firepower. Nice to meet ya ~"'' |
| 398 | -->''"I'm Italia, the second ship of the ''Vittorio Veneto''-class battleships and previously known as Littorio. Nice to meet ya ~"''\ |
| 399 | |
| 400 | Littorio is the personification of the Italian battleship ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Littorio Littorio]]''. |
| 401 | ---- |
| 402 | * BornLucky: She starts with above average luck due to having survived the war. |
| 403 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to Roma's responsible. This applies to both in-game and 4koma. |
| 404 | * HappyHolidaysDress: Has two so far; first in the Summer Season where she wears a swimsuit and in the Christmas Holiday where she wears a Santa outfit, complete with a snowman looking like Roma. |
| 405 | * MeaningfulRename: She was originally named after the Lictor, which were symbolized with the fasces. As the fasces was a symbol and namesake of fascism, when Mussolini was kicked out of power, she had to be renamed to something else. Thus "Italia", a name that would be considered acceptable to all Italians. |
| 406 | * SupremeChef: Strongly implied to be this with all food she cooks. |
| 407 | * WeightWoe: Implied in her resupply line as Italia, possibly in reference for her weight being well beyond the Washington Naval Treaty's limit for capital ships. |
| 408 | |
| 409 | !!Roma (4th) |
| 410 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 411 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MisakiKuno |
| 412 | [[quoteright:285:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roma_0.png]] |
| 413 | |
| 414 | -->''"I'm the fourth battleship of the ''Vittorio Veneto''-class, Roma. [[note]]Only three ships of the class actually entered service with the Regia Marina. Roma's older sister Impero was launched 7 months ahead of her, but had the misfortune of being built at a shipyard within easy bombing range of France. Moving Impero's hull to a safer location caused a series of delays that meant she never actually got completed.[[/note]] Nice to meet you. What? Please don't stare at me, okay?"''\ |
| 415 | |
| 416 | Roma is the personification of the Italian battleship ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Roma_%281940%29 Roma]]''. |
| 417 | ---- |
| 418 | * BornUnlucky: She's the first major warship to be sunk by a guided bomb attack after one of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_X Fritz-X radio guided bombs]] launched by the Germans struck one of her magazines. The force of the explosion was so powerful it blew her number 2 turret clear off its mountings off the ship, which is why her damaged artwork is missing a turret. |
| 419 | * DontLookAtMe: She seems to hate being stared at as her quotes seem to indicate. |
| 420 | -->'''Roma''': I'm going to need a little repair. What? Don't stare at me. |
| 421 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible to Littorio's foolish. This applies to both in-game and 4koma. |
| 422 | * HappyHolidaysDress: She gains a Halloween-themed sprite along with Libeccio for November 2015. In her case, it's a CuteWitch costume complete with Jack-o-Lantern cannons. |
| 423 | * RareRandomDrop: Unlike her sister, who was a reward for clearing map E-4 of the Spring 2015 event, Roma can only be obtained as a random drop after getting [[HarderThanHard an S rank on the boss node of E6 (or on a node along the way, for a much lower chance) for the same event]]. She's such a rare drop that many frustrated admirals have declared that Roma is a myth. [[MarathonLevel After often more than a hundred runs]], many admirals have also spent a multitude looking for her than they did on the entire event combined. If you hardly had any resources left to begin with, the hunt for Roma gets all the more difficult since you also have to carefully manage your resources and are often forced to pause to let your resources recover a bit which costs valuable time. |
| 424 | ** For the Summer 2015 event that followed, where Roma was not only a drop at a map that had guaranteed routing, even admirals playing on Easy difficulty had a chance to get her, but she was still a very rare drop. |
| 425 | ** It only got harder in the Fall 2015 event. Roma isn't a drop at the boss node this time, she's on a dead end node, which has an installation boss and several PT Imp Packs. S-ranking on a node that isn't the boss doesn't guarantee a drop, so it's possible to go through a perfect run ''and not get any sort of drop whatsoever''. |
| 426 | |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | !!Standard Aircraft Carriers (CV) |
| 430 | |
| 431 | [[folder:The ''Aquila''-class]] |
| 432 | !!Aquila |
| 433 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 434 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChinatsuAkasaki |
| 435 | [[quoteright:197:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aquila_v2.png]] |
| 436 | |
| 437 | -->''"Buon giorno! I'm a Mediterranean born aircraft carrier, Aquila! I am battle ready... supposedly~ But do look forward to it!"''\ |
| 438 | |
| 439 | Aquila is the personification of the Italian aircraft carrier ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_aircraft_carrier_Aquila Aquila]]'', converted from the ocean liner SS ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Roma_(1926) Roma]]''. She's introduced in the Summer 2016 Event as the E-3 and E-4 boss drop. |
| 440 | ---- |
| 441 | * BornUnlucky: Much like Graf Zeppelin before her, she was an incomplete ship that was never commissioned. To make it worse off, her own countrymen (in diving suits) sabotaged her when she was taken over by the Kriegsmarine in dry dock. Notably, while her base luck (5) is a little higher than Graf (4), Mutsu and Yamashio Maru (3), and Taihou (2), she has the second-lowest ''maximum'' luck in base form at 29 (beaten out only by Taihou at 19), slightly lower than Yamashio Maru at 33 and Graf Zeppelin at 39. |
| 442 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: She references her own lack of combat experience, as seen in her Introduction and Library lines. |
| 443 | -->'''Aquila''': I was a passenger and cargo ship converted into an aircraft carrier but, in a large-scale remodeling, my performance is close to an standard aircraft carrier... Supposedly. |
| 444 | * JokeCharacter: She would have decent stats... if she were a light carrier. [[note]]Stats-wise, she is roughly equivalent to Hiyou, but with lower firepower, better evasion, an atrocious max luck, "Fast" speed and somewhat stronger planes.[[/note]] For a standard carrier, it's unbecoming. [[note]]Graf Zeppelin is the only one with a lower plane count than her, but at least Graf has the stats to contend with the rest.[[/note]] The only thing she has going for her is her low resource consumption, which is lower even than the ''Unryuu''-class. |
| 445 | * JokeItem: Her stock planes are not great, all things considered. Re.2001 OR Kai fighter has same AA stat as Type 0 Model 52 fighter, and Re.2001 G Kai torpedo bomber has ''the'' worst torpedo stat in the game. |
| 446 | * OverratedAndUnderleveled: Her stats do not reflect how she would have been had she been completed. She was more armoured than Jun'you and would have had more anti-air mounts than Jun'you or Graf, but her armour, HP and AA stat are inferior in-game. |
| 447 | * RareRandomDrop: As noted above, at the time of her introduction she is only available as a boss drop from Summer 2016 E-3 and E-4. |
| 448 | * RedOniBlueOni: She is the Red Oni to Graf Zeppelin's Blue Oni, her fellow uncompleted European carrier. Aquila is considerably more cheerful and upbeat despite her unlucky history. |
| 449 | * UnknownRival: A couple of her lines indicate that she wants to be a rival to Akagi and Graf Zeppelin, as both were the other 'first standard carriers' of the Axis Powers. However, they don't seem to take her that seriously. |
| 450 | -->'''Aquila''': Hey! Graf, Akagi... Are you listening?! |
| 451 | * VerbalTic: Frequently uses the expression "yoshi yosh" when speaking. |
| 452 | |
| 453 | [[/folder]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | !!Submarines (SS) |
| 456 | |
| 457 | [[folder:The ''Marcello''-class]] |
| 458 | |
| 459 | !!Comandante Cappellini (CL) (10th) |
| 460 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 461 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Yuka Iwahashi |
| 462 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_comandante_cappellini_0.png]] |
| 463 | [[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to view her Kai]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_comandante_cappellini_kai_1.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 464 | [[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to view her as UIT-24]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_uit_24.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 465 | [[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to view her as I-503]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kc_i_503.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 466 | |
| 467 | Comandante Cappellini is the personification of the Italian submarine ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_submarine_Comandante_Cappellini Comandante Cappellini]]'', introduced as the E-5 Map drop for the Summer 2023 event. She was later transferred to Germany and renamed UIT-24, before her final service in Japan as I-503. |
| 468 | |
| 469 | ---- |
| 470 | * BornLucky: Starting from her maxed out 73 at base and ending with 93 in her I-503 form, on the basis that she had survived post-war until she was scuttled by the USN in 1946. |
| 471 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: The devs had [[https://twitter.com/C2_STAFF/status/1694261324388475088 tweeted]] that a Jiji-designed shipgirl would be released. |
| 472 | * NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: [[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Cappellini Alfredo Cappellini]] is her namesake, who had served as an officer with the Regina Marina during Italy's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Italian_War_of_Independence Third War of Independence]]. |
| 473 | * TanLines: Her tan lines are noticeable when looking at her palms, but as I-503 they're more evident when looking at the bottom of her feet. |
| 474 | |
| 475 | [[/folder]] |
| 476 | |
| 477 | [[folder:The ''Marconi''-class]] |
| 478 | !!Luigi Torelli/UIT-25/I-504 (4th) |
| 479 | !!!'''Artist:''' Jiji |
| 480 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HitomiNabatame |
| 481 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luigi_torelli.png]] |
| 482 | [[caption-width-right:210:[[labelnote:Click here to view her as UIT-25]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/uit_25.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 483 | [[caption-width-right:210:[[labelnote:Click here to view her as I-504]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/i_504.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 484 | |
| 485 | -->''"Ciao! I'm Luigi Torelli. That's right, Torelli... Hmmm, just Lui is fine!"''\ |
| 486 | |
| 487 | Luigi Torelli is the personification of the Italian submarine ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_submarine_Luigi_Torelli Luigi Torelli]]''. She was first transferred to Germany and renamed UIT-25, before being moved to Japan as I-504. Luigi's introduced in the Summer 2017 Event as a drop reward in the E6 map. |
| 488 | ---- |
| 489 | * AntiAir: She is notable as the only submarine in the game that has an anti-air stat. This is a reference to how Italian submarines had slower diving speeds compared to other nations' submarines, which led to their crews becoming proficient at shooting at enemy aircraft. As I-504, she was allegedly responsible for last known success of an Axis naval ship in the war, where she shot down a USAAF B-25 bomber over Kobe, Japan. In-game, she can also perform anti-air cut-ins as UIT-25 or I-504 if equipped with any anti-aircraft machine guns. |
| 490 | * BornLucky: Quite high. As Luigi, base stat starts at 25, her Kai at 30, as UIT-25 at 35, and as I-504 at 40. This is due to her historical record of: being part of a Wolfpack attack on sinking multiple Greek, Norwegian, and British ships throughout 1941; surviving heavy damage in 1942 and yet still making back to port for repairs; and survived two air attacks in 1943 before her transfer to the Kreigsmarine to become UIT-25. Then she was acquired by the Japanese after Germany surrendered. ''Then'' she managed to survive the war. |
| 491 | * IHaveManyNames: 3 different names while in services with 3 different navies. In fact, she has a problem choosing a nickname for you to call her (and which language she's supposed to use for greetings) on each name change. For the record, she goes from "Lui" to "Ui" and finally "Go-chan". |
| 492 | * NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Italian patriot [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Torelli Luigi Torelli]], who had participated in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Days_of_Milan Five Days of Milan]] on driving out Austrian soldiers from Milan, the beginning of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Italian_War_of_Independence First Italian War of Independence]]. |
| 493 | * PowerupLetdown: Remodeling Luigi Torelli to her Kai form gives her a base torpedo stat of '''0''', similar to Maruyu, with this state persisting when remodeling to UIT-25, and she only gets her torpedo stat back once she remodels into I-504. This unusual feature is likely based on Luigi Torelli's history: when she sustained critical battle damage earlier in the war, her torpedo tubes were replaced with extra fuel tanks to turn her into a transport ship carrying supplies to and from Japan. |
| 494 | * SchoolSwimsuit: As I-504, she sports a white one. |
| 495 | * VerbalTic: She tends to append "Hanya Hanya~" at the end of her sentences. |
| 496 | |
| 497 | [[/folder]] |
| 498 |
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