Kurogane no Houkou: Warship Commander/Secrets And Gameplay Tips
General Gameplay Hints
Keyboard Hotkeys
- Up/Down Arrow: Increase/decrease speed
- Left/Right Arrow: Turn ship to the left/right
- 1-7: Toggle weapon group state (manual, auto, disabled)
- Numpad 0: Toggle anti-surface or anti-aircraft mode
- Ctrl: Toggle free look camera
- Insert/Home/Page Up: Launch onboard aircraft
- Delete/End/Page Down: Recall deployed aircraft
- F12: Pause the game
Returning to Base
Once primary objective is completed, you must press the red 脱出 (Withdraw) button at the lower right side of the interface when you're near the edge of the map to complete the mission. Leaving the map before primary objective is completed will fail the mission instead. In PS2 port, you only need to move to the edge of the map to complete the mission.
Lifeboats
Rescuing 10 lifeboats grants an consumable repair kit that can instantly restore a few health and fuel. In PC version, sinking a lifeboat deducts score by 5 while in PS2 port lifeboats cannot be sunk.
Transport Ships
Generic transport ships may drop random item that gives extra money. Extremely rare red colored transport ships as well as Superweapons drops P item (aka HLG Part) that contains rare parts that aren't usually obtainable from shop/research.
New Area Data
By loading the game from New Area Data selection, you start over from the beginning of the selected Area while keeping your progression. This can be used as an alternative for grinding/farming rare parts from certain stage or boss.
Persistent Difficulty Increase
The game tracks total time spent during gameplay. Once certain hours is accumulated, the difficulty will be permanently increased which can be observed through enemies having better equipment, fires faster, shoots torpedoes more rapidly and new enemy types may appear during missions.
Rank and Class Pay
Additional mission completion pay is rewarded depending on player rank and ship class used. Higher rank will also increases penalty score from failing a mission.
| Japanese Rank Name | English Rank Name | Score Required for Promotion | Bonus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 二等水兵 | Sailor Second Class | 0 | 500 |
| 一等水兵 | Sailor First Class | 100000 | 750 |
| 上等水兵 | Private Sailor | 200000 | 1000 |
| 兵長 | Commander-in-Chief | 300000 | 1250 |
| 二等兵曹 | Petty Officer Second Class | 500000 | 1500 |
| 一等兵層 | Private First Class | 800000 | 2000 |
| 上等兵曹 | Sergeant | 1000000 | 2500 |
| 候補生 | Cadet | 1500000 | 3000 |
| 少尉 | Second Lieutenant | 2500000 | 5000 |
| 中尉 | First Lieutenant | 4500000 | 6500 |
| 大尉 | Captain | 7000000 | 8000 |
| 少佐 | Major | 10000000 | 10000 |
| 中佐 | Lieutenant Colonel | 15000000 | 12500 |
| 大佐 | Colonel | 20000000 | 15000 |
| 少将 | Major General | 40000000 | 20000 |
| 中将 | Lieutenant General | 60000000 | 30000 |
| 大将 | General | 100000000 | 50000 |
| Ship Class | Bonus |
|---|---|
| Destroyer | 3000 |
| Light Cruiser | 2000 |
| Heavy Cruiser | 1000 |
| Aircraft Carrier | 2500 |
| Battleship | 500 |
| Battlecarrier | 500 |
Secrets
Music Player and Custom Music Option
Unlocked by beating Area H Stage 12. Can be accessed through "Bonus" (おまけ) menu in options, this menu lets you play music from the CD as well assigning custom music by assigning CD drive path containing red book audio CD.
Bonus Area
Area I is unlocked by achieving 100 million score, afterwards Area J is unlocked by beating Area I. These bonus areas contains extremely difficult stages with frequent superweapon appearance that drops high end rare parts that rarely appears on previous areas.
Developer Message
If you browse the game disc through file explorer, there'll be a hidden folder containing text file with developer's message
