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Chapter 553 Checking Homework

[Special Christmas Gift: Santa's Gift *3 days, Special Christmas Paint Job *3]

[Santa's Gift: For the next 72 hours, your combat rewards will be increased by 800%, and combat will not consume ammunition or fuel.]

[Christmas Special Camouflage *3: Can be used on one warship or a temporary fleet at a time, disappears after battle.]

[Christmas Supply Crate: During the 72 hours following midnight, you will receive one Christmas Supply Crate for each warship sunk or 1 million potential damage taken.]

Ice and Snow Combat Buff Skills:
Gain buff skills during combat in the next 72 hours: -
Destroyer: Speed ​​+50% (Effective time 30 minutes, cooldown 30 minutes); -
Cruiser: Ammunition reload time -50% (effective time 30 minutes, cooldown time 30 minutes);
Battleship: High-speed smoke generator. When used at full speed, the warship is enveloped in smoke, increasing speed by 25% and affecting accuracy under artillery fire and observation range (effective time 30 minutes, cooldown time 30 minutes)

Most of the information prompts in his mind were the same as last year, but Tang Wen still keenly noticed a new page-turning option at the bottom. After clicking it, he saw the newly added content:

[The average combat power in the current version has exceeded the limit. This issue has been fixed.]

[1. In battles prior to upgrading to version 14.3, captains of rank 6 and above will receive a special skill buff: -]
Adrenaline: For every 1% of health lost, the reload time of main/secondary gun shells in combat is reduced by 1%.
Skilled Gunner: After hitting an enemy warship 10 times consecutively with the main guns, the main/secondary gun range increases by 100% and accuracy increases by 25% during combat.
Full Power: When taking potential damage of 20, secondary gun reload time is reduced by 50% and firing accuracy is increased by 50% during combat.

2. Aircraft-related repairs:
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After launching the reconnaissance aircraft, the main gun range increases by 20%.
The countdown timer for reloading the aircraft will be adjusted, and the time may increase slightly depending on the aircraft's technical complexity and weight.

After reviewing the familiar yet slightly modified skill list, Tang Wen couldn't help but cheer:
When World of Warships arrived in this timeline, many changes occurred, one of which was the removal of the captain's special skill buffs, which were replaced with a uniform fuel consumption reduction.

It now seems that after a year of battles, big and small, the game developers are finally willing to strengthen their own faction.

Each of the three skills is very useful. The first one, Adrenaline, is the easiest to use. Reducing health by 50% means a reduction in reload time—how powerful would a battleship's main guns be with a 13-second salvo?

A skilled gunner has prerequisites, but once achieved, it means that the Bismarck's 380mm main guns could reach a range of approximately 66 kilometers, and with the addition of reconnaissance aircraft, the range would reach 80 kilometers.

In addition, given the inherently terrifying accuracy of the system's warships, they could probably be used directly as tactical missiles.

Full power is a skill almost exclusively designed for German warships, whose ships have a large number of secondary guns and very strong firepower.

With the addition of the "Adrenaline" skill, this means that Tang Wen might be able to see the crazy secondary guns with a 1-second reload time. Under the terrifying firepower that is almost like a machine gun, it might even be able to intercept a few anti-ship missiles.

However, it just so happens to coincide with the implementation of the Sea Lion Project around Christmas. Tang Wen strongly suspects that the planner also dislikes Dai Ying and is aiming to kill her.

Tang Wen's consciousness returned to reality, and Lüteyans, standing before him, also shone with an unusual light in his eyes. Clearly aware of his special abilities, Lüteyans unusually offered him a suggestion:
"Commander, perhaps we can modify the latter part of our plan and simply rush back to the North Sea and head straight for the mainland."

"agree."

Tang Wen was also very dissatisfied with Dai Ying always sneaking around in the shadows, and after thinking about it, he added:
"When the power is switched on, add another slogan: Return to Wilhelmshaven, rebuild the High Seas Fleet!"

"As ordered!"

The surface ships are scheduled to depart at 12 noon on the 24th, 18 hours later than the submarines. This is mainly to allow time for the latter due to their lower speed.

Moreover, there are significant differences between fast fleets and landing fleets:

With the buffs, the fast fleet's battleships can maintain a steady speed of 37 knots, while the destroyers average 59 knots. These two types of ships will advance to intercept the attack group, while the cruisers and the aircraft carrier HMS Zeppelin will be surrounded by the convoy at the rear.

The disguised battleships of the slow-moving fleet were directly identified by the system as "level 0 warships" and almost lost their ship registration. Naturally, they did not enjoy any buffs and continued to linger at a speed of 20 knots, slowly dragging their way to the rear and attracting the main force's attack.

Tang Wen did a quick calculation and realized that the distance between the leading destroyers and the civilian ships at the rear could be tens of kilometers. However, the time left for Dai Ying was extremely limited.
It's only 810 nautical miles from here to northern Dalmatian. If all goes well, the timetable is as follows:

The forward fast fleet will see the coastline 20 hours later, between 7:00 and 9:00 on the 25th. Only U2501 and U4501 will be able to catch up and provide some support.
The slow-moving fleet and outdated U-boats are mainly concentrated near Iceland, having only made it halfway and will not complete the journey until the early hours of the 26th.

The 72 hours on Christmas Day are more than enough to complete all the performances; it's just a matter of what surprises they will bring.

However, Tang Wen had already given Dai Ying a chance, which was those 80 old U-boats.

A full 80 old submarines were sailing at full speed, and the noise was probably enough to deafen the sonar listeners.

During the Cold War, in order to prevent the Russians from causing trouble, Europe set up many listening posts in the northern seas, and submarines occasionally patrolled the area.

Now, Mr. Hans is going to do a surprise check to see if the students in Daiying have fallen behind in their studies because of Ms. Katyusha's resignation.

……

Iceland, Grindavik Base
As one of the many bridgeheads in the construction of the empire, Grindavik base gradually lost its value after the giant bear collapsed.

After 50 consecutive years of inhuman days with the wealth tax reaching over 90%, the conglomerate mobilized the parliament to desperately demand cuts to the Prism Building's spending, and many overseas bases inevitably had to be laid off.

Iceland's population is not much larger than Greenland's, and because of its small population, it has no decent supporting industries.

Even the arrival of the celestial soldiers at Grindavik base, along with the service industry they stimulated and the imperial benefits they provided, allowed the Icelandic authorities to live comfortably.

Although there's no word on the Grindavik base being shut down, downsizing is inevitable. The celestial soldiers who came here are just taking a break, and they've even ignored the giant fleet's rampant illegal fishing a few months ago, staying in their own little corner without making a fuss.

However, at least basic combat readiness is maintained, and Captain Aiden is one of them—he is the head of the sonar monitoring station at Grindavik base and one of only two people currently on duty.

In the past, to guard against Russia, the monitoring stations here could detect the movements of nuclear submarines 300 kilometers away. Now, they are often too lazy to turn them on. After all, Russia doesn't have the resources to continue sending submarines to the Atlantic. What's the point of sending them?

However, with the reappearance of the Type 685, the Imperial Navy demanded that they continue their surveillance. But heaven knows how complex such an advanced and massive surveillance system is; routine maintenance alone is a major headache, and nobody wants to maintain the equipment in this awful weather.

"Beep beep—beep beep—"

The piercing alarm hadn't sounded in a long time, and when Aiden heard it, he thought there was a fire somewhere. He frantically searched for a while before realizing it was the sonar system sounding an alarm.

A quick glance at the information revealed that there are more than 70 high-density noise sources 210 kilometers to the north, distributed over an area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers.

Without a second thought, Aiden first turned off the alarm, then connected to the main control room.

"It's a minor problem. The machine may have a sensor malfunction that caused it to mistake the storm for a target. I'll go and repair it now."

It was the early hours of the morning, and the major in charge of the actual control room had also slipped out to indulge in revelry, leaving an assistant to keep watch.

Upon hearing the explanation, the latter immediately hung up the phone, scribbled a few lines on his journal, and then fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)