Ship:ARP Kongō

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ARP Kongō

Battleship | Japan | Tier V

Tech Tree Position

General

Purchase priceSpecial

Hit Points54,100

Main Battery

356 mm/45 41st Year Type in a twin-gun turret4 х 2 pcs.

Rate of Fire2 shots/min

Reload Time30 sec

Rotation Speed3.3 deg/sec

180 Degree Turn Time54.5 sec

Firing Range21.2 km

Maximum Dispersion236 m

HE Shell356 mm HE Type0

Maximum HE Damage5,100

Chance of Fire25 %

Initial HE Velocity805 m/s

HE Shell Weight625 kg

AP Shell356 mm AP Type91

Maximum AP Shell Damage9,200

Initial AP Shell Velocity775 m/s

AP Shell Weight673.5 kg

Secondary Armament #1

152 mm/50 41st Year Type on a casemate mount14 х 1 pcs.

Firing Range4.3 km

Rate of Fire6 shots/min

Reload Time10 sec

HE Shell152 mm HE Type4

Maximum HE Shell Damage2,500

Initial HE Shell Velocity825 m/s

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell9 %

Secondary Armament #2

127 mm/40 Type 89 on a Model A1 mount4 х 2 pcs.

Firing Range4.3 km

Rate of Fire12 shots/min

Reload Time5 sec

HE Shell127 mm HE Type0

Maximum HE Shell Damage2,100

Initial HE Shell Velocity725 m/s

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell8 %

AA Defense

13 mm/76 Type 93 on a twin mount4 х 2 pcs.

13 mm/76 Type 93 on a quadruple mount2 х 4 pcs.

25 mm/60 Type 96 on a twin mount6 х 2 pcs.

127 mm/40 Type 89 on a Model A1 mount4 х 2 pcs.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed30 knot

Turning Circle Radius770 m

Rudder Shift Time14.9 sec

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range15.7 km

Air Detectability Range9.4 km

Battle Levels

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V

Special

ARP Kongō — Japanese special premium Tier V battleship.

A Battleship of the "Fleet of Fog". Modeled after the lead ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Kongo-class, Kongo. As the flagship of the "First Oriental Fleet", her Mental Model "Kongō" honors the Admiralty Code above all else. She seeks to eliminate the submarine I-401, who chose to deviate from the Code. This warship has been specially designed for World of Warships, and is modeled after Kongo as she appears in "ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL -ARS NOVA-".

Modules

	Rate of Fire (shots/min)	180° Turn Time (sec)	Maximum Dispersion (m)	Maximum HE Shell Damage (HP)	Chances of HE shells causing a fire on target (%)	Maximum AP Shell Damage (HP)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
356 mm/45 41st Year Type in a twin-gun turret	2	54.5	236	5,100	25	9,200		0	0

	Hit Points (HP)	Armor (mm)	Armor (mm)	Main Turrets (pcs.)	Secondary Gun Turrets (pcs.)	AA Mounts (pcs.)	Torpedo Tubes (pcs.)	Hangar Capacity (pcs.)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
ARP Kongō	54,100	13	254	4	14/4	4/2/6/4				0	0

	IDS_SHIP_PARAM_SUO_INCREASE_DIST (%)	Maximum Firing Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Type5 mod. 2		0		0	0

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 136,000 hp	30		0	0

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3

Player Opinion

Performance

While ARP Kongo is a great reproduction of Kongo as she appears in the anime series Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova-, she unfortunately (and fortunately for every-ship else) does not come with the overwhelming firepower, blistering speed, submergence ability, matter destroying corrosive warheads, annihilating super-graviton cannon, and impenetrable wave force armor of Kongo in Ars Nova. In other words, in the game she is a standard Kongo, and will have to resort to intelligent tactics like any other warship to gain an upper hand.

As she performs exactly like standard Kongo(C), see the article on Kongo for her performance appraisal.

Pros:

• All the pros of the standard Kongo.
• Comes with a number of free Commander Skill points (varies by region and event).
• Special unique announcer (voiced by her voice actor from the Ars Nova series).
• Captains can be transferred to and from other ships of IJN.

Cons:

• All the cons of the standard Kongo.
• Voice notifications of unique commander are in Japanese. (Not a problem for players who can understand or learn the Japanese however)

Research

ARP Kongo comes fully upgraded, with the same upgrade slots found on Kongo and a captain which may or may not have free Commander Skill points, depending on the event and region.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

As this ship is basically a copy of the tech tree Kongo, the recommended upgrades are the same:

• Slot 1: Main Armaments Modification 1 *
• Slot 2: Damage Control System Modification 1 
• Slot 3: Aiming Systems Modification 1 *

Slot 1 provides players with the first option in choosing a desired role. Typically, Main Armaments Modification 1 is recommended to provide additional survivability to the main battery, but players who desire to specialize in the secondary or anti-aircraft armament should choose Auxiliary Armaments Modification 1 .

Slot 3 allows for further specialization. Generally, Aiming Systems Modification 1 is recommended because it reduces shell dispersion of the main and secondary armaments. To increase the effectiveness of the anti-aircraft armament, mount AA Guns Modification 1 . Players wishing to specialize for secondaries should mount Secondary Battery Modification 1 .

Commander Skills

As this ship is basically a copy of the tech tree Kongo, the following recommended commander skills for maximum effectiveness are the same. However, as it is a copy, players can experiment with different commander skill builds.

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack			Defense
1	Gun Feeder -40% time to switch shell type. ★★	Demolition Expert +1% chance of main and secondary HE shells causing a fire +15% to the fragmentation damage area of HE ordnance when firing at submarines.	Consumable Specialist −7.5% cooldown time of all Consumables except:  Damage Control Party ,  Repair Party . ★	Emergency Repair Specialist -3% cooldown time of Damage Control Party  and Repair Party . ★★	Incoming Fire Alert Receive a warning about a salvo fired at your ship from more than 4.5 km.	Preventive Maintenance −30% chance of main armament, engines, steering becoming incapacitated +15% to HP of secondary and AA guns. ★
2	Grease the Gears +20% main turret traverse speed. ★★★	Inertial Fuse for HE Shells +25% armor penetration of HE shells. Base fire chance reduced by half.	Brisk So long as the ship remains undetected: +10% ship speed. ★	Vigilance +25% detection range of enemy torpedoes +7% damage reduction of Torpedo Protection System. . ★★	Priority Target The detection indicator will show the number of enemies targeting you with main battery. ★★	AAA & ASW Expert +15% continuous AAA and flak damage . +10% damage inflicted by depth charges. While AAA is active: −40% ship consumables reload time..
3	Super-Heavy AP Shells +7.5% AP shell damage −10% fire and flood damage received +25% fire and flood duration.	Long-Range Secondary Battery Shells +20% secondary battery firing range.	Adrenaline Rush -0.2% reload time of all armaments per 1% HP lost +0.2% AA continuous damage per 1% HP lost. ★★★	Basics of Survivability -15% repair, fire, and flooding duration. ★★★	Improved Repair Party Readiness −0.8% reload time of Repair Party each time your ship receives potential damage equal to 100% of the ship's base HP. After receiving 2M HP potential damage: +1 charge of Repair Party ..	Focus Fire Training In an active priority AA sector: •  +1.5% (to 5%) immediate damage. •  +25% continuous damage. •  +1 flak burst per salvo. −10% aircraft preparation time. −15% reload time of Airstrike armament..
4	Furious 1st fire / flood   −10% Main battery reload time 2nd etc. (up to 5), each   −5% Main battery reload time	Manual Secondary Battery Aiming −10% secondary battery reload time. −10% secondary battery dispersion. When firing at a manually selected target: dispersion gradually improves from -25% to -50%.	Close Quarters Combat -10% reload time of main battery if an enemy ship is spotted within secondary range.	Emergency Repair Expert Damage Control Party  and Repair Party : +1 charge (each). +10% action time . ★★★	Concealment Expert -10% detectability range of the ship. ★★★	Fire Prevention Expert -10% risk of fire. Three fires maximum. ★★★
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Just like the tech tree Kongo, players have access to the following consumables on ARP Kongo:

• Slot 1: Damage Control Party 
• Slot 2: Repair Party 
• Slot 3: Spotting Aircraft 

Camouflage

Mounts the ARPEGGIO- ARP Kongo camouflage

Signals

As this ship is basically a copy of the tech tree Kongo, the following recommended signals for maximum effectiveness are the same. However, as it is a copy, players can experiment with different signals combinations.

Recommended Signal Flags
Combat
Charlie Kilo +5% ship HP; +2.5% squadron HP.	Juliet Yankee Bissotwo -20% to flooding duration. ★★★	India Yankee -20% to fire duration. ★★★	Hotel Yankee -20% to damage received when ramming the enemy. +50% to damage dealt when ramming the enemy. ★	Victor Lima +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +4% chance of torpedoes causing flooding. ★★	India X-Ray +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. ★
Juliet Whiskey Unaone +15% chance of causing flooding. ★★	Mike Yankee Soxisix +5% to secondary battery maximum firing range. -5% to maximum dispersion of secondary battery shells. -5% to secondary battery loading time. ★	November Echo Setteseven +5% continuous AA damage at all ranges. +5% damage from flak bursts.	Sierra Mike +5% to the ship's maximum speed. ★★	November Foxtrot -5% reload time on all consumables. ★	India Delta +20% to the amount of HP recovered when Repair Party  is used. ★★★
X-Ray Papa Unaone +10% action time of a Smoke Generator .	Sierra Bravo +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search  -10% reload time of Defensive AA Fire .

Gallery

• Kongo’s mental model, and captain in the game.
  Kongo’s mental model, and captain in the game.
• Kongo as she appears in Ars Nova.
  Kongo as she appears in Ars Nova.
• Kongo in Yokosuka port, modeled after her appearance in Ars Nova.
  Kongo in Yokosuka port, modeled after her appearance in Ars Nova.
• Kongo in Yokosuka port, showing her luminous patterns.
  Kongo in Yokosuka port, showing her luminous patterns.

Historical Info

Kongō (kanji: 金剛, katakana: コンゴウ) The flagship of the Second Oriental Fleet and Yamato's second in command.

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Drama CD) Yukana Nogami (Anime)

Arpeggio of Blue Steel -Ars Nova-

In 2038, a mysterious fleet of warships, who have lurked around the world in the decades decades before, went on the offensive against humanity. Modeled after ships that appeared in World War II, but possessing weaponry far superior to those in humanity's possession and protected by an indestructible barrier immune to whatever we have to throw at them, humanity quickly loses control of the seas and our military forces are annihilated in the desperate battles against them. The result was a world where humanity's presence in the oceans is no more, with communication via the seas cut off and humans isolated from each other, blockaded by the "Fleet of Fog".

In 2054, a change became across the Fleet of Fog. The ships of the Fog, impersonal and faceless, started developing "Mental Models", human avatars capable of thinking in ways similar to human beings, with personalities unique to each Mental Model. One of these was the I-401, or, Iona, who made contact with Gunzō Chihaya to become his ship. Gunzō, with Iona and a small band of friends who now crew the I-401, as Blue Steel now seek to create a balance to this lopsided status quo with the Fleet of Fog, to bring a peace where humanity and the Fleet of Fog can happily coexist together.

Kongō (Kongou), in the Ars Nova anime adaptation of the Arpeggio of Blue Steel (Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio 蒼き鋼のアルペジオ) manga, commands one of the fleets that are blockading Japan. Aware of the I-401's existence, she assigns the heavy cruiser Takao to intercept the I-401’s attempt to reach Yokosuka port. Takao falls victim to the I-401, however, and ends up switching sides so that the I-401’s human commander, Gunzō, might command her. Kongō sees this as blasphemy and in blatant disregard to the Admiralty Code. She also sends the fast battleships Haruna and Kirishima to assault Yokosuka and draw out the I-401. Kongō becomes increasingly vexed as these two ships also fall to the I-401 and her human commander Gunzō. As a result, she devotes all her resources to pursuing Iona and the other Mental Models who joined Blue Steel. She believes to be acting abnormally due to their contact with Gunzō. After several other altercations, a large battle ensues. Will Iona be able to get Kongō to listen to reason, or will she ultimately fall to Kongō's plans?

In the Cadenza film, she returns wearing a different outfit and helps to save I-401 and restore her systems from the Student Council Fleet. She then engages in a fight with her sister Hiei, allowing I-401 to deal with Musashi. Her actions put the I-401 on equal footing in the climax of the movie, but can the I-401 and her human crew exploit the opportunity?

Sadly, Kongō’s role in the manga is more peripheral, often seen as a character who is on the sidelines communicating with the other Mental Models. Her role comes to fruition in later chapters, however.

Historical

Kongō (金剛, "Indestructible", named for Mount Kongō) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. She was the first battlecruiser of the Kongō class, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built, and the last capital ship to be built outside Japan. Her designer was the British naval engineer George Thurston, and she was laid down in 1911 at Barrow-in-Furness in Britain by Vickers Shipbuilding Company. Kongō was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside Japan. She was formally commissioned in 1913, and patrolled off the Chinese coast during World War I.

Kongō underwent two major reconstructions. Beginning in 1929, the Imperial Japanese Navy rebuilt her as a battleship, strengthening her armor and improving her speed and power capabilities. In 1935, her superstructure was completely rebuilt, her speed was increased, and she was equipped with launch catapults for floatplanes. Now fast enough to accompany Japan's growing carrier fleet, Kongō was reclassified as a fast battleship. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Kongō operated off the coast of mainland China before being redeployed to the Third Battleship Division in 1941. In 1942, she sailed as part of the Southern Force in preparation for the Battle of Singapore.

Kongō fought in a large number of major naval actions of the Pacific War during World War II. She covered the Japanese Army's amphibious landings in British Malaya (part of present-day Malaysia) and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1942, before engaging American forces at the Battle of Midway and during the Guadalcanal Campaign. Throughout 1943, Kongō primarily remained at Truk Lagoon in the Caroline Islands, Kure Naval Base (near Hiroshima), Sasebo Naval Base (near Nagasaki), and Lingga Roads, and deployed several times in response to American aircraft carrier air raids on Japanese island bases scattered across the Pacific. The Kongō participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 (October 22–23), engaging and sinking American vessels in the latter. Kongō was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Sealion while transiting the Formosa Strait on 21 November 1944. She was the only Japanese battleship sunk by submarine in the Second World War, and the last battleship sunk by submarine in history.

Miscellaneous

The pagoda mast of ARP Kongō is inaccurate, as the game's model of Kongō (on which ARP Kongō is based); it is actually modeled after Hiei. Hiei sported a mast that was distinct from that of her sisters, which was a prototype of the masts that were eventually given to Yamato and Musashi. Also, ARP Kongō lacks the air search radar that was fitted on top of her range finder, and while there is a fully textured plane on ARP Kongō, the Fleet of Fog ships in Ars Nova never carried aircraft.

Historical Gallery

• 
  A 14-inch gun being installed aboard Haruna, October 1914.
• 
  Haruna at Yokosuka, 11 September 1916.
• 
  Kongō following her first reconstruction.
• 
  Hiei in 1933, as a training ship.
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  Haruna in 1934, following her second reconstruction.
• 
  Kirishima off Amoy, China, in 1938.
• 
  Yamashiro, Fuso and the fast battleship Haruna in the late 1930s.
• 
  A diagram of Hiei as she appeared in 1942, showing her superstructure which differs significantly from her sisters.
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  A diagram of Kongo as she appeared in 1944, showing her late-war enhanced AA protection and reduced casemate guns.

References

1. Japanese battleship Kongō - Wikipedia
2. Kongō-class battlecruiser - Wikipedia

Ship Change Log

• Added to the game in Update 0.5.2 for the ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL -ARS NOVA- event as a reward for completing special tasks.
• Update 0.5.10:
  • Fixed visual effects of the ship.
• Update 0.5.11:
  • The armored model of the hull was refined.
• Update 0.6.2:
  • Corrected the position of the aircraft on the catapult.
• Update 0.6.12:
  • Detectability when firing main guns in smoke changed to 14.17 km.
  • Detection distance of Kawanishi E7K carrier-based aircraft was adjusted to the correct value. Detection by aircraft now 7 km, from ships increased to 8 km.
• Update 0.6.13:
  • Improved display of thin elements.
• Update 0.6.14:
  • Improved display of thin elements. The changes do not affect game balance in any way.
• Update 0.7.1:
  • It became possible to dismiss unnecessary commanders. Please note: after the dismissal of commanders, they can no longer be received on the account.
• Update 0.7.4:
  • Added the option to sell the ship (for 1,125,000 credits).
• Update 0.7.6:
  • Improved display of thin elements on the body kit.
• Update 0.7.11:
  • Armor-piercing shells of 152-mm secondary battery guns were replaced with high-explosive shells.
• Update 0.8.1:
  • Fixed maximum firing range. It now matches the maximum firing range of battleship Kongo with improved FCS.
• Update 0.8.10:
  • The ship's special visual style is highlighted as a separate permanent camouflage with standard combat bonuses. You can also put special upgrades and other camouflages besides permanent ones. When camouflages are hidden through the additional content settings menu, the camouflage is removed.
• Update 0.9.0:
  • Converted into a premium ship. Now it receives increased credit earnings, and its permanent camouflage provides economic bonuses.
• Update 0.9.3:
  • Minor fixes to textures and ship model.
• Update 0.9.6:
  • The value of the in-game turning circle radius was changed to 770 m to correct prior discrepancy.
• Update 0.10.0:
  • The firing range of the secondary battery was increased to 4.3 km.

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