Talk:Recent Updates/@comment-130.180.251.87-20151215114036/@comment-130.180.251.87-20151227023003

Ship locking essentially means that during events every ship that enters an individual event map gets stamped for that map. Stamped ships are thus unable to enter other event maps more or less. Ultimately what that means for the player is that they need to have more than the usual amount of ships prepared and also carefully plan out their fleets so they don't lock out ships that they might need later on some other map. For example, if there are 5 event maps, it might be that all maps individually lock ships out, or it could be something like E-1, E-2 and E-4 can use the same group of ships, and then E-3 and E-5 require another group.

Now, couple that with combined fleet (2 fleets worth of ships sortie as one combined fleet because why not, both fleets get stamped of course) and you've unleashed the salt mines indeed. Though to be fair, compared to KanColle, Touken Ranbu has a lot less characters so horrors like these are unlikely to happen. I think we might get just the combined sword team for this event.