Special Attacks/Nelson-class Touch

Nelson and Rodney are able to perform a special attack:

"Touch Helpers"
Any FBB, BB, BBV, CA, CAV, CL, DD, DE, AV, AS, AR, AO, LHA

• A Nelson-class must be the flagship.
  • Secretary"1st fleet's flagship" for combined fleets.
  • She must not be more than Shouha Lightly Damaged (小破) .
• The 3rd and 5th ships must not be any CV/CVB/CVL/SS/SSV.
  • They can be TaihaHeavily Damaged (大破).

• There must be 6 or more surface ships in the fleet.
  • There must be no submarine in 6-ship fleets. In 7-ship fleets, only 1 submarine is allowed.
  • There must be no surface ship in the fleet sunk or evacuated via FCF
    during a sortie, making the remaining total < 6. Ships in the escort fleet are not counted.

• In single fleet, Double Line needs to be selected.
• In a combined fleet, Cruising Formation 2 needs to be selected.

If triggered:

• The flagship will do a 1st attack,
• The 3rd ship will do a 2nd attack,
• The 5th ship will do a 3rd attack,
• Each attack targets a ship at random,
• If all enemies sink, then touch stops early.

Multiplier	No other Nelson-class present	Other Nelson-class present[1]
		Flagship	Other Nelson-class
Base	2.0	2.32.0 x 1.15	2.42.0 x 1.2
Red T	2.52.0 x 1.25	2.8752.0 x 1.15 x 1.25	3.02.0 x 1.2 x 1.25

• The modifiers are post-cap on day battle, and pre-cap on night battle.
• There is an additional small Accuracy bonus of 1.05 [2].
• Even if the other two ships can attack submarines, they will never target them during the touch.

• It does not cost any extra resources if triggered.

The touch:

• Can be triggered even if artillery spotting fails to activate.
• Can only be activated once per sortie.
• Has a chance to trigger every time the flagship takes a turn at shelling.
  • In single fleet, if it fails to trigger in day battle, there is a chance to trigger it in the follow-up night battle.
• The rate is:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Trigger}_\text{Rate}\text{%} = \Biggl\lfloor 1.1 \times \sqrt{\text{Lv}_\text{FS}} + \sum_\text{Helper} \sqrt{\text{Lv}_\text{H}} + 1.4 \times \sqrt{\text{Luck}_\text{FS}} + 25 \Biggr\rfloor }[/math]

With

• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Lv}_\text{FS} }[/math] the flagship's Level,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Lv}_\text{H} }[/math] the helper ships' Level,
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Luck}_\text{FS} }[/math] the flagship's Luck.

• 

  Nelson Special Attack

• 

  Nelson Special Attack Kai

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  Rodney Special Attack

• 

  Rodney Special Attack Kai

Ship	Japanese/English	Notes
Nelson Play	Nelson Touch. Main guns 1 and 2, one more shot!	Nelson Touch Line
	Nelson Touch。主砲、一番、二番、もう一撃だ！
Rodney Play	Rodney Squadron, charge. We'll divide those enemies. All ships, fire all your main guns! Commence bombardment!	Special Attack Line
	Rodney戦隊、突入。敵を分断する。各艦、全主砲斉射！始め！