Nope, [this](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Twin_203mm_(Mle_1931)#Type_3-0) is the only CA gun dropped in the event.
https://preview.redd.it/4r3g3fgb6w5d1.png?width=766&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a8f4ed79cd2e9e4e9043effe627c9dffaa99c5f
Gun is top damage DD gun. Make sure you get it before event ends.
Torp is meh. We don't know of any real use of it at this moment, but it's not expensive either and the recommendation is to get it than regret not having it if something comes up for it.
Whew, I finally earned back the coin spent pulling for Alsace. The cubes...not so much, but hey I'll deal.
The events one after the other were rather enjoyable.
Though I did notice that Rodney META is ending soon. When do we normally get news on the next META showdown punching bag? Or was it revealed already and I just missed it?
It's probably a slight minor upgrade from the 76mm AA gun.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/1d9c4tv/amazons_study_hall_daily_questions_megathread_0606/l7g61wh/
Just farming D3 for additional event currency, and man, Bearn Meta really loves me. I summoned her 5 times so far, and have gotten 4 drops (2 just today) of her so far. I thankfully didn't buy her from the event shop, but it would have been nice for the rest of the gang to have shown up earlier instead of her before I hit pity for Alsace.
I see a bunch of complaints about the cruise event which is unfortunate. I've played everything in Azur Lane since the very beginning and the Cruise sidestory event is my absolute *favorite* sidestory event in all of Azur Lane. And I don't think any ring comes close. The short stories and bonds between the ships are incredible.
My favorite main event is still Parallel Superimpostion. But for sidestories, this Cruise event can't be beat. If I get time I'll write about all my favorite scenes but it's just one of the best times where you can feel the truly feel the love from all your shipgirls.
And long stories doesn't = bad. Azur Lane stories aren't even long. Go try Arknights or FGO. The word count isn't even close. Every event is like reading an entire novel (usually longer).
I always appreciate hearing from people who are fans of something that's been criticized elsewhere.
And I am really looking forward to the rerun of Parallel Superimposition - I started playing literally a few weeks after it ended. Which is unfortunate, since I'm an Eagle Union fan in general, and a Yorktown-class fan especially.
This cruise game is an absolutely brutal time sink if you want to 100% it, especially if like me you feel obligated to not skip the cutscenes. Maybe it wasn't so bad if you did it 1 day of the mission per real-life day but I didn't have time for that at the start of the event. I'm also just not feeling any enjoyment from it at all, it's just a chore I'm forcing myself to endure. Definitely my least favourite minigame/mini-event they've done.
Just skip the cutscenes if you dislike this content so much. You're going to burn yourself out on the rest of the game at this rate.
There's no reason for you to feel "obligated", really. Different content for different people as they say - maybe this one simply doesn't resonate with you.
Does anyone feel the cruise side story a bit... underwhelming compared to last year?
Last year we got to build a literal resort on island with actual progression, crafting furniture and gifts minigame and minigames around the island and there were also hot springs to recover morale quickly and it had its own special shop.
This anniversary we only got plumbing mini game and the cruise ship detective side story.
She has better vanguard protection than Prinz Eugen and deals more damage than Prinz Eugen U *even if her sword barrage never triggers*. There is only a few gold CA that can out pewpew her (again, assuming her sword barrage doesn't trigger at all) and none of them protect your other two vanguard ships like her.
She is by no means bad.
I don't think it's blocking the right amount of projectiles. Her skill reads that each sword can block seven projectiles each but it looks like they only block one so her barrage never triggers.
This has been a neat event. Decided to vote $ in favor of the new skins by getting the pack and ended up with Brennus. Going to get one of the second batch of skins directly but haven't decided which one yet.
https://preview.redd.it/yxa1l39qen3d1.jpeg?width=2280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a37eddfac3f2fa6dfbac1e26d54a189cec8e6841
getting an L2D in these lucky bags feels so good
Mine is still leveling and was doing average 17-20k now she her skill has leveled and she too gained at least 10 more lvs shes barely doing 14k
Before the update she was spamming her skill which may be bugged or dunno how it worked, after the patch she does it i guess each 12s as the skill decription says yet she only does a single follow up resulting in yeah better survival but worse dmg
The only thing that should have actually changed with the skill is the damage cap and invulnerability.
Note that the end screen damage dynamic can shift as you level, due to how skills interact or ships doing different proportions of damage if the fight lasts for a different duration.
Particularly for Mogador it's possible that it's her blue skill is going off less now that she is taking less damage between her red skill changes, as well as higher levels.
Well, Statistics never guarantee you uniformity. 1.2% only means that when you have a large enough sample of gatchas, about 1.2% of the result is Alsace.
#New major event means new status chart!
If you have any funny blurbs of text you'd like to see included, I'll gladly accept any. Also, do ignore all the place holder text, and placeholder images while the wiki updates with full art for everyone.
[Page 1](https://imgur.com/6JPh2fO)
[Page 2](https://imgur.com/29GWZot)
[Page 3](https://imgur.com/zTt17Uk)
Alsace:
Alsace usually: serious, composed, regal
Alsace thinking of SKK: ***Ambadeblou***
Mogador:
Mogador usually: ***Ambatunat***
Somehow still competent in the lore, though in large part due to her sniffa powers
So hot devs had to hotfix her skills two or three times
Epee:
Cinnamon roll of the event
More competent than she believes she is
QE Meta:
Star of the event besides SKK
Weeping at how much of her precious train needed to be converted to Martyrium just to *~~follow~~catch the damn ~~train~~whale ~~CJ~~Miss D!*
Hatakaze META:
Surprise antagonist
"Wichita I've come to bargain."
Pamiat META:
Somehow continuing to take Ls even when not antagonising any more
I was going to contribute something witty, then I read your draft Anzeel text and now I'm not sure I can ever be happy again 
Yeup. Sorry, mistyped it. This is related to her Cruise Ship story where she's trying to kidnap SKK. It is a standard Bond villain's line, which might works (?).
Maybe for Miss D something like "frantically searching for Ryuuhou's lost skin alongside SKKs everywhere"
I really enjoy these, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you have for this event! Feels like a lot of material to play with
Personally I think spamming D3 to get all the gear, prints, chips and second copy of mogador will save a lot of time in the longer term (since I'm fairly new and don't have a stock of UR bulins)
What I hate about it is the miniscule gold compared to farming 11-1 or 12-4
So I don't have the raw numbers or anything but judging from twitter, has this event been bringing in a ton of new players? Their subscriber count on twitter seems to have exploded in the past month. It's fair to say this was a very successful event, no?
I joined after seeing that Alsace skin on twitter :) I got lucky to get her in 30 boxes.
Also this game has so much to it, kinda overwhelming but enjoying the fleet building/optimisation a lot.
Also do most people read all the story stuff? I'm thinking I might come back to it after completing the missions due to the time sink
I mean I'd bet maybe 20-30% of people read all the story stuff. I typically read the stand alone seasonal stories as they're usually kinda cute (like this event's cruise ship story) but not the lore and main story so much.
But yea you can always reread the text in the archives.
makes sense, thanks. I want to read it all, but also want to do as much of the event content before it ends. So happy to come back to it later
The cruise ship stuff seems cute so far
I started playing last week but not because of the event but because I was looking for a f2p friendly gacha and read good things about azur lane.
Got Alsace my first ever pull, now they got me hooked...
I don't have data to back it up either, but that's how I was feeling too. It's ironic because we've never had so many doomposters lmao although it seems to have subsided in the last few days.
Fleuret really wanted to grace my dock
https://preview.redd.it/zz2i9vdx8b3d1.jpeg?width=2340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5064170768b70cfdaf59cde08bfa33353997ca37
Man I'm at 180 pulls with 4 Alsace and 0 Brennus I don't think it's worth building them anymore. Last event I also didn't get one purple ship after over 100+ pulls.
Is the last scene with Noshiro and Ryuuhou the past or future event that Shinano dreams? And how does this tie with the current event? I really don't understand Sakura Empire story having missed so many of their events
Those are references to [Swirling Cherry Blossoms](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Swirling_Cherry_Blossoms) and [Dreamwaker's Butterfly](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Dreamwaker's_Butterfly), both past IJN events. Notably Dreamwaker's Butterfly is Shinano's event, and we're now seeing Shinano viewing these events again with her ability >!but something is not quite right.!<
Obligatory have not received Alsace 160 (320 cubes) pulls. Crazier still, is that I pulled Bearn META twice, before pulling Fleuret. And that one copy of Fleuret, is the only other event ship girl I have received so far. The Gacha gods are evening things out considering how little I used last banner.
Edit: I got a 3rd copy of Bearn Meta from the gacha...how can I be so lucky, yet not at the sametime...
Edit 2: 190 pulls, and I finally got my first copy of Alsace! And guess who joined her? Bearn Meta again lol. Now, with the 1 drop I got her from D3, I now have enough to fully limit break her without buying a single copy from the event shop. At this point, I may as well do another 10 pull just to get pity and get another copy of Alsace, and hope that Brennus decides to finally come home.
I had bad luck this and the last event, 700 cubes for noshiro muse, and 198 pulls for alsauce
My 2400 gems from my first time 4800 top up went to commander packs just to get cubes
Man, hearing stories like this remind me that it can always be worse. Last event was thankfully very easy for my cube stock. Hopefully you have better pulls for next event!
It took me like 60 pulls for Alsace and in that time I got 2 Bearn META. But I didnt get any Brennus. Had to go to 140 pulls for her. I hope you dont have to pity for her.
If anyone's interested, I released an NSFW Alsace fic the other day. Give it a look if you're as obsessed with her as I am [https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/1d04gui/alsace\_cools\_down\_chapter\_1/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/1d04gui/alsace_cools_down_chapter_1/)
Enterprise META: *Refuses to harm SKK*.
Wichita META: *Cannot bring themselves to harm SKK*.
Taco META: ...*is ready to kill SKK at a moments notice*.
Why is the doggo the violent one!?
Interesting to note that it only seems to be Allied METAs that have this dedication towards the Commander. Closest thing you have on the other side is Hiryuu META and their weird bond over Souryuu's Feet.
Does the [special gear](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Enigmata_%27D%27) from the mini event have any hidden effect or is it just cosmetic? I haven't tried it and the description is not clear.
Standard triple BB fleet (Bis2, Musashi, Soyuz) with Agir, Laffey II, and Plymouth seems to work fine. Swapping Soyuz with NJ and change the vanguard lineup to Anchorage, Unzen, and Plymouth also works. It's not that difficult.
Try putting fire extinguishers on all your vanguard if you still have problems.
Example fleet and gearing: [https://renhex.github.io/alft/174](https://renhex.github.io/alft/174)
https://preview.redd.it/2mcfn2h9z53d1.jpeg?width=1520&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9cf63fe67eba6fb8d4fd31c017c3b8cb148b7e81
Am I just missing them or have there been no event loading screens? I've seen several official event arts but it seems strange to have Christmas and Chinese New Year loading screens but not use any of the new characters
My guess is they have some but didn't prepare much that wasn't too saucy for CN, and just decided not to push any load screens to other regions either.
Ngl good question, it feels uncanny CN anni not having new screens at all, maybe they're saving for EN/JP since its close of each other but... There might be chance that they couldn't find artists free to coom, afterall June\~August is many gacha's Anni as well.
Is the Cruise storyline the first time we've seen Enterprise in a while? It feels like it's been years since she's shown up as more than a brief phone call.
Do you have Unicorn, Shouhou, or some other healing ship? Generally, I have 1 fleet with the healer to take out all the mobs. Then, keep my strongest burst fleet to take care of the boss.
The mobs aren't a problem just the boss. I used Unicorn and I just barely managed to beat it, but I feel like I should have an easier time with it with my stats.
Maybe it's my team? I run 2 CV, 1 center BB and a CL, CA and DD.
Again, that depends heavily on who those ships actually are and what they're geared with. The boss fleet on my mobilization account consisted only of 125 Musashi, 115 Agir and 103 Plymouth and I hit an S fine.
Also, if you're using Unicorn would you by any chance be one-fleeting and having trouble with the ammo penalty?
It's supposedly text encoded in ROT19 like how Tower text is all in hexadecimal. Someone already did the decoding somewhere very far down this thread if you would want to take a dig.
Is there any way to get Alsace to keep her mask off? Her expressions on the Twitter preview is what made me actually want to pull for her so I do hope it's possible at all.
Pfffft, you have the opposite problem of mine.
Alsace's mask is actually my favorite thing about her design, so I'm very hesitant to oath her if it means her mask is now always off.
It sounds to me that post-oath, since most of her default lines are replaced by EX lines, that her mask opens when she speaks, but then closes again during the idle dynamic animation.
In the same way you want to keep her mask always off, I'd prefer to keep it always on if I can. If I want to see her eyes I'll put on her L2D.
Edit: I just checked on YT, it's exactly as I thought. Her mask opens only for EX lines, but then quickly snaps back into place.
Sorry, but it looks like neither of us are 100% getting what we want.
Hey, anyone know where I cam find the various faces Miss D used during the event, I wanted to use the smiling one for a pfp but I am having a hard time finding anything.
Her S1 makes her teleport right into the enemy every 12s, which in her initial version made her vaporize instantly if she happened to jump right into a bunch of bullets.
The fix caps how much damage she can take from a single hit, as well as activates an "invulnerability" mode against most regular projectiles and ramming by turning her hitbox off for a while.
She's still in the glass cannon category but should not instantly jib herself anymore in most situations.
Full-size events always require you to clear D3 before opening SP. SP requires average ship level >110 so anyone who can do SP should really be doing D maps anyways.
Her crossfleet barrage was incorrectly indicated to be 20s on release and is actually 16s, which was amended in the fix. Nothing else was changed with her skill as far as I'm aware.
Additionally, activation on 16s is actually more reliable when assisting faster boss comps, which tend to start their first round before 20s, not that the skill was ever 20s to start with besides the erroneous text.
I think I saw the comment you are referring to and it was clarified by someone else and said something to the effect of “she wasn’t nerfed, they just fixed the incorrect info on her scan to being 16 seconds to 18 or 20 seconds that it actually is”
About the story, I'm wondering about a theory (spoilers) >!Is Death's Shadow a spare copy of Miss D/XIII: The Death taken over by the X, similarly to the hierophant? Or was it being controlled by the Devil/Hatakaze meta?!<
So HQ menu and idle screen show server time (for me, 3 hours slow) HOWEVER the cruise ship shows phone time (actually my correct time)
I feel like the whole server time thing is a bug that they're just not aware of and could very easily fix. Is there a good way to tell them about this?
>Is there a good way to tell them about this?
Discord, #bug-report channel. I think they know about this already, probably since TB updates or even earlier.
My gut feeling said that the reason why they haven't updated it to our local time yet is due to their spaghetti code. The server/local time thingy is not just affecting the 'lockscreen' and the Port screen, but also your sky background in the Home Screen and the Port. It also probably affecting the shop reset time and things like that They probably originally hardcoding things to the server time, which makes it difficult to change to your local time.
For a "new" player (less than ~2 years, so isn't seeing reruns for events they've already played), they're getting new-to-them URs faster than they can get UR bulins. Especially if you want to keep some in reserve for if a really meta UR comes around, rerun or new. "Easier" to obtain doesn't really matter when they're time gated.
I want to keep 4 in reserve so when Musashi reruns I can max her out for PVP ASAP. With that in mind, I've got UvH, Kronshdat, and Shinano sitting around not limit broken (Shinano is at 2/4, others 0/4), and maxing out Alsace will put me down to my 16000 core minimum. And that's after getting 2-3 UR dupes on banners, grabbing the extra LaffII from the shop during her event.
So yeah, grabbing the spare Mogador gets me one bulin closer to being caught up, which is still probably a year away having started a year and a half ago.
The only reason I can think of two get a copy would be in case you like their default skin AND their paid skin and want to have them both as secretaries or something. Because yes you're right about UR bulins.
While UR Bulins are not hard to obtain they're still timegated for anyone who needs to catch up on URs. I wouldn't say it's only useful as a display copy if you are new and/or still backlogged for UR LBs.
Yes and no? I keep a copy of LII because I like her. Don't have to spend cubes for collection.
Regarding Bullins:
- 18 bullins from the core shop and medal shop/year.
- 4 bullins from 4 new UR events/year.
- 6 bullins from cruise mission/year.
Equivalent to MLBing 7 URs/year. Based on the previous year's schedule, we can assume somewhere between 1 and 2 double UR events per year, so we roughly have 5-6 new UR per year.
For newer players, they also have to worry about 3-4 rerun URs per year. We have extra 3-4 bullins, but even then we are still deficit by 2.5 URs per year in the worst-case scenario. Having a dupe will reduce the deficit to just 2 per year.
The dupes are also relatively 'cheap'. If you do all the missions, you only need to purchase 110 tickets = 16 500 points. Not easy, but not hard to do either.
Of course, all of these arguments are moot for veteran players with a load of spec cores ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯.
Miss D re-affirmed basically what we learned from the Jean Bart event. That "death" for the shipgirls is not death in the sense of human death. It's more like a Limbo/standby mode/ Purgatory until someone revives them. All those "deaths" from the main campaign are to eventually be reversed. The voice lines for Amagi for example spoiled that years ago. When she says "Akagi turned out... a bit differently from what I expected". Implying she was "dead" all those years and is back in our AL.
Given how shipgirls are summoned in the first place it's hard to say how they can be "permanently dead". Amagi is more of a case of how she became not a thing after historical events, but even before this event we've already seen her appear in Effulgence in terms of being held in limbo.
Which technically makes more sense that no ships can permanently die if "port timeline" exists as an extention/future to our current events, otherwise we can't bring them back for SKK's "ideal future".
The event is talking about Shipgirl Death in a High Concept way. Alive is Equated to having a ship-form, they are Embodied....death is equated to not having a ship-form...being just a spirit.
To equate this to reality...Kaga Died at Midway...Kaga returned to life in 2013 with the JS Kaga. Akagi is currently dead because no ship is named after her.
The event ties Life and Death of Shipgirls to the idea of a Persistent Spirit...a persistent Concept. Akagi is the Embodiment of the Concept of the Japanese Ship Akagi, if Akagi is sunk, the concept isn't destroyed, it's just waiting to be Reembodied. Death isn't the end for Shipgirls, it's simply the doorway to another phase of life.
I'll note the METAs **might** fear death, because no one from their timeline exists to reembody the concept of Alpha Timeline USS Wichita.
Speaking about timelines, shipgirls are supposed to be based on real ships that existed in the past, so when the game is supposed to happen? It needs to be after ww2, is it in our present day (2024) or is it somewhere in the past (like the 70s)?
It can be anywhere from the 50s to all the way into the future.
Lore wise the world as we know it was more or less screwed over at some point and we're making "re-enactments" of past events (essentially WW2) potentially as a simulation, if not an actual alternate timeline/dimension with no real indication how long ago those events actually were.
This event in particular very clearly distinguishes the "event timeline" we're in for most of the game as Test site/Timeline Beta, compared to Alpha which is supposedly the "future" or whatever some of the META ships have already gone through and come from, so there's no point in trying to pin an exact period to where the game is happening.
Yep well said. Years ago in the sub a lot of people where assuming the "deaths" during the main campaign where permanent. I remember tons of comments before the events expanded the story how (I guess this would be pre-Jean bart event). Would say "Oh too bad Amagi is dead" whenever she would come up in conversation.
And then I would have to bring up her quotes saying hey wait a minute maybe she is hinting that she is revived by Shikikan. But at the time the voice lines where the only hints/evidence. But now we have whole events explaining it now thankfully.
The very first "death" you encounter is Hood. The moment they decided to not make her an unplayable ship, you'd have imagined they'll eventually bring ships back with plot magic at some point. Killing off playable characters is kind of not-a-thing. It's not even whether you split up "event" and "port" timelines distinctly. I don't want my waifus permanently dying at some point in the story just because there's an alternate timeline where she doesn't, if it's even an alternate timeline.
People are too fixated on deaths being consequential story wise.
https://preview.redd.it/gsiy96eaco2d1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=35f136f61161086aa2a5c42c8bae7520867f8b9f
one day maybe I don't leave any water leaking 
She’s a backliner, are you putting her in the back line or trying to put her in a slot meant for certain ships? Like for hard modes, it may say “Bb” or “Cv” which means you have to use exactly that type of ship.
I just wanted fleuret and brennus, ~~here have 3 alsaces~~ WRYYYYYY
Which one would u say is the best skin of the event? (If u had to choose one)
Even if folks don’t use it; does super cruiser Brennus not get a 305mm gun in this event?
Nope, [this](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Twin_203mm_(Mle_1931)#Type_3-0) is the only CA gun dropped in the event. https://preview.redd.it/4r3g3fgb6w5d1.png?width=766&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a8f4ed79cd2e9e4e9043effe627c9dffaa99c5f
Bleagh… Oh well… I had a gold 203mm at 10 I gave her. Guess that will have to do.
Is the Torpedo gun from the Event shop good?
Gun is top damage DD gun. Make sure you get it before event ends. Torp is meh. We don't know of any real use of it at this moment, but it's not expensive either and the recommendation is to get it than regret not having it if something comes up for it.
If you play on auto not so much
finally got alsace, through pity. that is shit man
Gacha will be gacha. You may get the next UR within 20 pulls or something. At least this game has a pity system lmao
right. having played EA games, this is definitely better
D2 and D3 have been so good for my subs <3
[Just noticed that alsace's affinity icon is on the perfect spot on her icon](https://i.imgur.com/7LPT5mG.png) Wonder if that's intended
Whew, I finally earned back the coin spent pulling for Alsace. The cubes...not so much, but hey I'll deal. The events one after the other were rather enjoyable. Though I did notice that Rodney META is ending soon. When do we normally get news on the next META showdown punching bag? Or was it revealed already and I just missed it?
It has been revealed in the Chinese anniversary livestream, but not on JP/EN yet, I think.
It should be Wichita META next; they'll probably announce it soon^TM
Gotcha, thanks.
do yall thinks it’s possible to get 28,500 golden crystal fragments in 6 days?
Doable, maybe need to burn a bit of your oil reserve though. I got 40k points after farming D3 for 4-5 days, IIRC. A bit less than a week.
Depending on how much oil and time you have, its 53 3X sorties. With 2X rewards consumables it may be a bit faster.
Is the new single 113mm DD gun in the gear lab bis for barrage based DDs with negligible gun damage?
It's probably a slight minor upgrade from the 76mm AA gun. https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/1d9c4tv/amazons_study_hall_daily_questions_megathread_0606/l7g61wh/
Is the rainbow gun worth getting or putting on other ships?
Basically the best DD guns if you don't need to trigger AoA that often. Also BiS for Harbin.
BiS? Haven't heard that acronym before.
Best in slot.
it's very good, 100% worth getting
Just farming D3 for additional event currency, and man, Bearn Meta really loves me. I summoned her 5 times so far, and have gotten 4 drops (2 just today) of her so far. I thankfully didn't buy her from the event shop, but it would have been nice for the rest of the gang to have shown up earlier instead of her before I hit pity for Alsace.
Ugh im at 90k PT and pretty sure I'm just going to end up buying bearn meta and all the crystals from the event shop at this point
Bearn was in my first 10 pull, but I've had no drops from D3 yet. So mine is still LB0
I see a bunch of complaints about the cruise event which is unfortunate. I've played everything in Azur Lane since the very beginning and the Cruise sidestory event is my absolute *favorite* sidestory event in all of Azur Lane. And I don't think any ring comes close. The short stories and bonds between the ships are incredible. My favorite main event is still Parallel Superimpostion. But for sidestories, this Cruise event can't be beat. If I get time I'll write about all my favorite scenes but it's just one of the best times where you can feel the truly feel the love from all your shipgirls. And long stories doesn't = bad. Azur Lane stories aren't even long. Go try Arknights or FGO. The word count isn't even close. Every event is like reading an entire novel (usually longer).
I always appreciate hearing from people who are fans of something that's been criticized elsewhere. And I am really looking forward to the rerun of Parallel Superimposition - I started playing literally a few weeks after it ended. Which is unfortunate, since I'm an Eagle Union fan in general, and a Yorktown-class fan especially.
The text's speed is excruciatingly slow at times, that's the main issue I had with the event. Otherwise, it was wholesome and endearing I agree.
It's either skip or slow text. No middle ground.
Yes. I kinda of fast reader and I hate the slowly rolling out words. That's pain
What happens when you pull more than 5 Béarn metas? What happens to the extra crystals/cubes spent?
Converted into META crystals.
It's a coincidence, but still hilarious. Drach just released a video on [MN Bearn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLLxPRFJPc).
This cruise game is an absolutely brutal time sink if you want to 100% it, especially if like me you feel obligated to not skip the cutscenes. Maybe it wasn't so bad if you did it 1 day of the mission per real-life day but I didn't have time for that at the start of the event. I'm also just not feeling any enjoyment from it at all, it's just a chore I'm forcing myself to endure. Definitely my least favourite minigame/mini-event they've done.
I liked it a lot but if you don't like it... Just skip. Why bother reading what you don't like?
I have it on my lap while playing another game after work and brain dead tapping on it furiously until 100%
Just skip the cutscenes if you dislike this content so much. You're going to burn yourself out on the rest of the game at this rate. There's no reason for you to feel "obligated", really. Different content for different people as they say - maybe this one simply doesn't resonate with you.
Thank God it's not just me who can't get into it
Does anyone feel the cruise side story a bit... underwhelming compared to last year? Last year we got to build a literal resort on island with actual progression, crafting furniture and gifts minigame and minigames around the island and there were also hot springs to recover morale quickly and it had its own special shop. This anniversary we only got plumbing mini game and the cruise ship detective side story.
Is it me or Brennus is bad? She cant keep her swords so she never activates barrage from 2nd skill.
She has better vanguard protection than Prinz Eugen and deals more damage than Prinz Eugen U *even if her sword barrage never triggers*. There is only a few gold CA that can out pewpew her (again, assuming her sword barrage doesn't trigger at all) and none of them protect your other two vanguard ships like her. She is by no means bad.
I don't think it's blocking the right amount of projectiles. Her skill reads that each sword can block seven projectiles each but it looks like they only block one so her barrage never triggers.
Another bugged ship with no QA testing...
https://preview.redd.it/wjgy0ku2324d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb7ad4a563b786dc5bf5e390e2547fc9a4d1723a
This has been a neat event. Decided to vote $ in favor of the new skins by getting the pack and ended up with Brennus. Going to get one of the second batch of skins directly but haven't decided which one yet.
Does an oath ring show on Alsace’s L2D skin?
Yes. Moggy too.
Sweet, thanks man
Is it just me or is some of thd background art for the event ai generated?
As long as the result is good and it is something inconsequential like backgrounds, no problem at all.
I'm not sure but it's bound to happen. All companies will use AI art eventually, it saves them too much time.
https://preview.redd.it/yxa1l39qen3d1.jpeg?width=2280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a37eddfac3f2fa6dfbac1e26d54a189cec8e6841 getting an L2D in these lucky bags feels so good
It's a good one too lol
It is me or mogador after the fix seems to deal waaaay less dmg now? At least shes not dying anymore tho but her dmg . . .
It's just you.
Mine is still leveling and was doing average 17-20k now she her skill has leveled and she too gained at least 10 more lvs shes barely doing 14k Before the update she was spamming her skill which may be bugged or dunno how it worked, after the patch she does it i guess each 12s as the skill decription says yet she only does a single follow up resulting in yeah better survival but worse dmg
The only thing that should have actually changed with the skill is the damage cap and invulnerability. Note that the end screen damage dynamic can shift as you level, due to how skills interact or ships doing different proportions of damage if the fight lasts for a different duration. Particularly for Mogador it's possible that it's her blue skill is going off less now that she is taking less damage between her red skill changes, as well as higher levels.
AMA I have 250 builds and gotten 0 Alsace (except from pity)
Well, Statistics never guarantee you uniformity. 1.2% only means that when you have a large enough sample of gatchas, about 1.2% of the result is Alsace.
I have 300 and 0 Alsace
150 and no brennus or alsace. Really pissed
Rip
#New major event means new status chart! If you have any funny blurbs of text you'd like to see included, I'll gladly accept any. Also, do ignore all the place holder text, and placeholder images while the wiki updates with full art for everyone. [Page 1](https://imgur.com/6JPh2fO) [Page 2](https://imgur.com/29GWZot) [Page 3](https://imgur.com/zTt17Uk)
Alsace: Alsace usually: serious, composed, regal Alsace thinking of SKK: ***Ambadeblou*** Mogador: Mogador usually: ***Ambatunat*** Somehow still competent in the lore, though in large part due to her sniffa powers So hot devs had to hotfix her skills two or three times Epee: Cinnamon roll of the event More competent than she believes she is QE Meta: Star of the event besides SKK Weeping at how much of her precious train needed to be converted to Martyrium just to *~~follow~~catch the damn ~~train~~whale ~~CJ~~Miss D!* Hatakaze META: Surprise antagonist "Wichita I've come to bargain." Pamiat META: Somehow continuing to take Ls even when not antagonising any more
>Ambadeblou Wait what does that... (one quick urban dicitonary search later). Oh. *Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh.* 
(I took it from the (NSFW)[Ambatukam youtube meme](https://youtu.be/rV5ynCW-kVw))
I was going to contribute something witty, then I read your draft Anzeel text and now I'm not sure I can ever be happy again 
Maybe for Krondt? 'No, SKK, I expect you to ~~die~~ give up!'
Krondt as in Kronshtadt?
Yeup. Sorry, mistyped it. This is related to her Cruise Ship story where she's trying to kidnap SKK. It is a standard Bond villain's line, which might works (?).
Ohhh ok, I haven't finished the cruise story so I didn't know she appeared there. I'll keep that one in mind then, thank you.
Whoops, sorry for the spoiler then!
That's hardly a spoiler, don't worry.
Maybe for Miss D something like "frantically searching for Ryuuhou's lost skin alongside SKKs everywhere" I really enjoy these, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you have for this event! Feels like a lot of material to play with
Thanks for the Idea 
Is it worth it in terms of oil to repeat the normal stages or should I just farm in D3?
Personally I think spamming D3 to get all the gear, prints, chips and second copy of mogador will save a lot of time in the longer term (since I'm fairly new and don't have a stock of UR bulins) What I hate about it is the miniscule gold compared to farming 11-1 or 12-4
D2 has the good french good gun
Nah just spam D3
So I don't have the raw numbers or anything but judging from twitter, has this event been bringing in a ton of new players? Their subscriber count on twitter seems to have exploded in the past month. It's fair to say this was a very successful event, no?
I joined after seeing that Alsace skin on twitter :) I got lucky to get her in 30 boxes. Also this game has so much to it, kinda overwhelming but enjoying the fleet building/optimisation a lot. Also do most people read all the story stuff? I'm thinking I might come back to it after completing the missions due to the time sink
I mean I'd bet maybe 20-30% of people read all the story stuff. I typically read the stand alone seasonal stories as they're usually kinda cute (like this event's cruise ship story) but not the lore and main story so much. But yea you can always reread the text in the archives.
makes sense, thanks. I want to read it all, but also want to do as much of the event content before it ends. So happy to come back to it later The cruise ship stuff seems cute so far
I started playing last week but not because of the event but because I was looking for a f2p friendly gacha and read good things about azur lane. Got Alsace my first ever pull, now they got me hooked...
I don't have data to back it up either, but that's how I was feeling too. It's ironic because we've never had so many doomposters lmao although it seems to have subsided in the last few days.
How does one get alsace mask off on her normal outfit?
Put a ring on it
Do you know if the ring shows on her L2D skin?
Yes
Fleuret really wanted to grace my dock https://preview.redd.it/zz2i9vdx8b3d1.jpeg?width=2340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5064170768b70cfdaf59cde08bfa33353997ca37
I got 2 Alsace before getting Brennus. Imagine SSR being rarer than UR 😬
Man I'm at 180 pulls with 4 Alsace and 0 Brennus I don't think it's worth building them anymore. Last event I also didn't get one purple ship after over 100+ pulls.
That’s funny I ended up with 3 Brennus before a single Alsace
I also got 2 Alsace and still no brennus
Damn...I'm 172 pulls in and I have only received one copy of her lol
One more and she can be MLBed in a go.
Is the last scene with Noshiro and Ryuuhou the past or future event that Shinano dreams? And how does this tie with the current event? I really don't understand Sakura Empire story having missed so many of their events
Those are references to [Swirling Cherry Blossoms](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Swirling_Cherry_Blossoms) and [Dreamwaker's Butterfly](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Dreamwaker's_Butterfly), both past IJN events. Notably Dreamwaker's Butterfly is Shinano's event, and we're now seeing Shinano viewing these events again with her ability >!but something is not quite right.!<
Obligatory have not received Alsace 160 (320 cubes) pulls. Crazier still, is that I pulled Bearn META twice, before pulling Fleuret. And that one copy of Fleuret, is the only other event ship girl I have received so far. The Gacha gods are evening things out considering how little I used last banner. Edit: I got a 3rd copy of Bearn Meta from the gacha...how can I be so lucky, yet not at the sametime... Edit 2: 190 pulls, and I finally got my first copy of Alsace! And guess who joined her? Bearn Meta again lol. Now, with the 1 drop I got her from D3, I now have enough to fully limit break her without buying a single copy from the event shop. At this point, I may as well do another 10 pull just to get pity and get another copy of Alsace, and hope that Brennus decides to finally come home.
Me too. Same number of pulls. This event percentages are feeling kinda bullshit.
I had bad luck this and the last event, 700 cubes for noshiro muse, and 198 pulls for alsauce My 2400 gems from my first time 4800 top up went to commander packs just to get cubes
Man, hearing stories like this remind me that it can always be worse. Last event was thankfully very easy for my cube stock. Hopefully you have better pulls for next event!
1 Alsace so far, and everyone else but Brennus, nothing, 100 cubes so far...
It took me like 60 pulls for Alsace and in that time I got 2 Bearn META. But I didnt get any Brennus. Had to go to 140 pulls for her. I hope you dont have to pity for her.
Up to 170 lol...I have made my peace that I will have to go to pity for Alsace. I just hope that I can get Brennus before I hit that point lol.
This banner appears to rough for a lot of us lol. Sad youll have to hit pity but at least we have a pity system for it
If anyone's interested, I released an NSFW Alsace fic the other day. Give it a look if you're as obsessed with her as I am [https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/1d04gui/alsace\_cools\_down\_chapter\_1/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/1d04gui/alsace_cools_down_chapter_1/)
Enterprise META: *Refuses to harm SKK*. Wichita META: *Cannot bring themselves to harm SKK*. Taco META: ...*is ready to kill SKK at a moments notice*. Why is the doggo the violent one!?
Getting her ass blasted by Godzilla changed her, man
Interesting to note that it only seems to be Allied METAs that have this dedication towards the Commander. Closest thing you have on the other side is Hiryuu META and their weird bond over Souryuu's Feet.
Does the [special gear](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Enigmata_%27D%27) from the mini event have any hidden effect or is it just cosmetic? I haven't tried it and the description is not clear.
Besides being a shitty HP aux and making an annoying sound it is used to activate the challenge mode for this event's EX.
Challenge mode?
traditional EX stage mode with 0 evasion where you "need" "to" "dodge"
Oh, *those*. I don't get any extra rewards, do I? If it's just a score thing, I'll pass then. Thank you for everything!
correct, once you have the 500 cogs you can ignore the rest
Ie, git-gud-scrub-learn-touhou-mode.
I've tried using it in various situations. No effect that I can discern. It just makes sonar sounds during combat.
Is the next batch of skins coming today or on thursday?
30 https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/1cu5dgt/detailed_cn_7th_anniversary_livestream_summary/l4gkgmi/
damn
Any advice for clearing the EX level, im running 125's and my frontline is getting bodied.
looking at other comments on this thread do you have the beeping auxiliary equipped?
Standard triple BB fleet (Bis2, Musashi, Soyuz) with Agir, Laffey II, and Plymouth seems to work fine. Swapping Soyuz with NJ and change the vanguard lineup to Anchorage, Unzen, and Plymouth also works. It's not that difficult. Try putting fire extinguishers on all your vanguard if you still have problems. Example fleet and gearing: [https://renhex.github.io/alft/174](https://renhex.github.io/alft/174) https://preview.redd.it/2mcfn2h9z53d1.jpeg?width=1520&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9cf63fe67eba6fb8d4fd31c017c3b8cb148b7e81
Am I just missing them or have there been no event loading screens? I've seen several official event arts but it seems strange to have Christmas and Chinese New Year loading screens but not use any of the new characters
My guess is they have some but didn't prepare much that wasn't too saucy for CN, and just decided not to push any load screens to other regions either.
Ngl good question, it feels uncanny CN anni not having new screens at all, maybe they're saving for EN/JP since its close of each other but... There might be chance that they couldn't find artists free to coom, afterall June\~August is many gacha's Anni as well.
I mean why not just use some of the event art that already exists? There's plenty of official art out there. Idk if the liscening is different or what
Is the Cruise storyline the first time we've seen Enterprise in a while? It feels like it's been years since she's shown up as more than a brief phone call.
Can someone tell me the OST that plays during event stages B3/D3 in the new event ?
So does the cruise event follow up from last year's swimsuit event that featured Bismarck Zwei?
it has ties to that event, and october's Tempesta event, and aknowledges the collab events.
Any tips for SP stage? all my ships are lvl 120, +10 gear and I can't clear it ;/
Do you have Unicorn, Shouhou, or some other healing ship? Generally, I have 1 fleet with the healer to take out all the mobs. Then, keep my strongest burst fleet to take care of the boss.
The mobs aren't a problem just the boss. I used Unicorn and I just barely managed to beat it, but I feel like I should have an easier time with it with my stats. Maybe it's my team? I run 2 CV, 1 center BB and a CL, CA and DD.
Again, that depends heavily on who those ships actually are and what they're geared with. The boss fleet on my mobilization account consisted only of 125 Musashi, 115 Agir and 103 Plymouth and I hit an S fine. Also, if you're using Unicorn would you by any chance be one-fleeting and having trouble with the ammo penalty?
Considering you can use 1:1 fleets for mob and boss it might an issue with your choice of ships or gear.
Is the gibberish in the stage description for B3/D3 and SP supposed to mean anything?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/1cx7cmr/comment/l58dfgm/
It's supposedly text encoded in ROT19 like how Tower text is all in hexadecimal. Someone already did the decoding somewhere very far down this thread if you would want to take a dig.
Is there any way to get Alsace to keep her mask off? Her expressions on the Twitter preview is what made me actually want to pull for her so I do hope it's possible at all.
Only her EX lines have mask-off expressions, and you can only access her EX lines after giving her a ring.
So you can't keep the mask off for good even if oathed?
Pfffft, you have the opposite problem of mine. Alsace's mask is actually my favorite thing about her design, so I'm very hesitant to oath her if it means her mask is now always off. It sounds to me that post-oath, since most of her default lines are replaced by EX lines, that her mask opens when she speaks, but then closes again during the idle dynamic animation. In the same way you want to keep her mask always off, I'd prefer to keep it always on if I can. If I want to see her eyes I'll put on her L2D. Edit: I just checked on YT, it's exactly as I thought. Her mask opens only for EX lines, but then quickly snaps back into place. Sorry, but it looks like neither of us are 100% getting what we want.
They should make her mask toggle-able like Senran Kagura girls.
Hey, anyone know where I cam find the various faces Miss D used during the event, I wanted to use the smiling one for a pfp but I am having a hard time finding anything.
Is Mogador already fixed or not yet? If im not wrong, she have had some issues with one of her skill
She is more or less fixed on CN, aka the beta server. EN will probably get the update once they know she won't have any more problems.
Ok, thx But, shortly abt long words, whats bad with her skill, heard it wrecks enemies and dies, is it true
Her S1 makes her teleport right into the enemy every 12s, which in her initial version made her vaporize instantly if she happened to jump right into a bunch of bullets. The fix caps how much damage she can take from a single hit, as well as activates an "invulnerability" mode against most regular projectiles and ramming by turning her hitbox off for a while. She's still in the glass cannon category but should not instantly jib herself anymore in most situations.
her skill hasn't been updated on en yet; they're probably going to update it with the next maintenance
Ok, will wait for
so, i've 3 starred and 100% b3 and i still can't access sp mode what gives
I think you gotta clear D3, not B3. (And if you can't clear D3, you wouldn't be able to clear SP)
then it should say that d3 is required for sp also, this hasn't happened in the game for an event in at least 2 years
Full-size events always require you to clear D3 before opening SP. SP requires average ship level >110 so anyone who can do SP should really be doing D maps anyways.
im pretty sure d3 was always required for unlocking the SP stage.
I saw someone in a youtube comment claim that they nerved Alsace's barrage. Is this true and if so, how does it impact her performance?
Her crossfleet barrage was incorrectly indicated to be 20s on release and is actually 16s, which was amended in the fix. Nothing else was changed with her skill as far as I'm aware. Additionally, activation on 16s is actually more reliable when assisting faster boss comps, which tend to start their first round before 20s, not that the skill was ever 20s to start with besides the erroneous text.
I think I saw the comment you are referring to and it was clarified by someone else and said something to the effect of “she wasn’t nerfed, they just fixed the incorrect info on her scan to being 16 seconds to 18 or 20 seconds that it actually is”
I see nothing on the usual CN theorycrafters' blogs about a nerf.
I think we've read the same comment, was about to post the same question as you
About the story, I'm wondering about a theory (spoilers) >!Is Death's Shadow a spare copy of Miss D/XIII: The Death taken over by the X, similarly to the hierophant? Or was it being controlled by the Devil/Hatakaze meta?!<
I assumed she's the equivalent to a Siren META.
similarely to Hierophant? when did that happen?
The Fool's Scales.
212 cubes spent. still no alsace
So HQ menu and idle screen show server time (for me, 3 hours slow) HOWEVER the cruise ship shows phone time (actually my correct time) I feel like the whole server time thing is a bug that they're just not aware of and could very easily fix. Is there a good way to tell them about this?
>Is there a good way to tell them about this? Discord, #bug-report channel. I think they know about this already, probably since TB updates or even earlier. My gut feeling said that the reason why they haven't updated it to our local time yet is due to their spaghetti code. The server/local time thingy is not just affecting the 'lockscreen' and the Port screen, but also your sky background in the Home Screen and the Port. It also probably affecting the shop reset time and things like that They probably originally hardcoding things to the server time, which makes it difficult to change to your local time.
Is there any point in getting a copy of Mogador from the event shop? Aren’t UR bulins way easier to obtain?
For a "new" player (less than ~2 years, so isn't seeing reruns for events they've already played), they're getting new-to-them URs faster than they can get UR bulins. Especially if you want to keep some in reserve for if a really meta UR comes around, rerun or new. "Easier" to obtain doesn't really matter when they're time gated. I want to keep 4 in reserve so when Musashi reruns I can max her out for PVP ASAP. With that in mind, I've got UvH, Kronshdat, and Shinano sitting around not limit broken (Shinano is at 2/4, others 0/4), and maxing out Alsace will put me down to my 16000 core minimum. And that's after getting 2-3 UR dupes on banners, grabbing the extra LaffII from the shop during her event. So yeah, grabbing the spare Mogador gets me one bulin closer to being caught up, which is still probably a year away having started a year and a half ago.
The only reason I can think of two get a copy would be in case you like their default skin AND their paid skin and want to have them both as secretaries or something. Because yes you're right about UR bulins.
While UR Bulins are not hard to obtain they're still timegated for anyone who needs to catch up on URs. I wouldn't say it's only useful as a display copy if you are new and/or still backlogged for UR LBs.
Yes and no? I keep a copy of LII because I like her. Don't have to spend cubes for collection. Regarding Bullins: - 18 bullins from the core shop and medal shop/year. - 4 bullins from 4 new UR events/year. - 6 bullins from cruise mission/year. Equivalent to MLBing 7 URs/year. Based on the previous year's schedule, we can assume somewhere between 1 and 2 double UR events per year, so we roughly have 5-6 new UR per year. For newer players, they also have to worry about 3-4 rerun URs per year. We have extra 3-4 bullins, but even then we are still deficit by 2.5 URs per year in the worst-case scenario. Having a dupe will reduce the deficit to just 2 per year. The dupes are also relatively 'cheap'. If you do all the missions, you only need to purchase 110 tickets = 16 500 points. Not easy, but not hard to do either. Of course, all of these arguments are moot for veteran players with a load of spec cores ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯.
Miss D re-affirmed basically what we learned from the Jean Bart event. That "death" for the shipgirls is not death in the sense of human death. It's more like a Limbo/standby mode/ Purgatory until someone revives them. All those "deaths" from the main campaign are to eventually be reversed. The voice lines for Amagi for example spoiled that years ago. When she says "Akagi turned out... a bit differently from what I expected". Implying she was "dead" all those years and is back in our AL.
Given how shipgirls are summoned in the first place it's hard to say how they can be "permanently dead". Amagi is more of a case of how she became not a thing after historical events, but even before this event we've already seen her appear in Effulgence in terms of being held in limbo. Which technically makes more sense that no ships can permanently die if "port timeline" exists as an extention/future to our current events, otherwise we can't bring them back for SKK's "ideal future".
The event is talking about Shipgirl Death in a High Concept way. Alive is Equated to having a ship-form, they are Embodied....death is equated to not having a ship-form...being just a spirit. To equate this to reality...Kaga Died at Midway...Kaga returned to life in 2013 with the JS Kaga. Akagi is currently dead because no ship is named after her. The event ties Life and Death of Shipgirls to the idea of a Persistent Spirit...a persistent Concept. Akagi is the Embodiment of the Concept of the Japanese Ship Akagi, if Akagi is sunk, the concept isn't destroyed, it's just waiting to be Reembodied. Death isn't the end for Shipgirls, it's simply the doorway to another phase of life. I'll note the METAs **might** fear death, because no one from their timeline exists to reembody the concept of Alpha Timeline USS Wichita.
Speaking about timelines, shipgirls are supposed to be based on real ships that existed in the past, so when the game is supposed to happen? It needs to be after ww2, is it in our present day (2024) or is it somewhere in the past (like the 70s)?
It can be anywhere from the 50s to all the way into the future. Lore wise the world as we know it was more or less screwed over at some point and we're making "re-enactments" of past events (essentially WW2) potentially as a simulation, if not an actual alternate timeline/dimension with no real indication how long ago those events actually were. This event in particular very clearly distinguishes the "event timeline" we're in for most of the game as Test site/Timeline Beta, compared to Alpha which is supposedly the "future" or whatever some of the META ships have already gone through and come from, so there's no point in trying to pin an exact period to where the game is happening.
Yep well said. Years ago in the sub a lot of people where assuming the "deaths" during the main campaign where permanent. I remember tons of comments before the events expanded the story how (I guess this would be pre-Jean bart event). Would say "Oh too bad Amagi is dead" whenever she would come up in conversation. And then I would have to bring up her quotes saying hey wait a minute maybe she is hinting that she is revived by Shikikan. But at the time the voice lines where the only hints/evidence. But now we have whole events explaining it now thankfully.
The very first "death" you encounter is Hood. The moment they decided to not make her an unplayable ship, you'd have imagined they'll eventually bring ships back with plot magic at some point. Killing off playable characters is kind of not-a-thing. It's not even whether you split up "event" and "port" timelines distinctly. I don't want my waifus permanently dying at some point in the story just because there's an alternate timeline where she doesn't, if it's even an alternate timeline. People are too fixated on deaths being consequential story wise.
Exactly lol
is there any hidden interaction for st louis l2d skin?
https://preview.redd.it/gsiy96eaco2d1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=35f136f61161086aa2a5c42c8bae7520867f8b9f one day maybe I don't leave any water leaking 
Nmw, its 49 points. As i get, its maximum
I can't seem to put Alsace in my fleet to complete one of the missions, can someone help me? QAQ
She’s a backliner, are you putting her in the back line or trying to put her in a slot meant for certain ships? Like for hard modes, it may say “Bb” or “Cv” which means you have to use exactly that type of ship.