Changing Captains and points

[AregoKnight]

What are the advantages of changing captains? Specifically, does a trained captain take as long to retrain in a new ship?

[Grevester]

Retrain is half the xp he requires to level up again. so if your xp to next level is 100k, the retrain would be 50k. further reduced to half again with 200k credits. So it's better overall to bring the same captain with you, unless you had to sacrifice your captain to stay on benson for skirmishes and have a terrible fletcher captain like I decided to do.

 

[Nachoo31]

I moved up my captain to the Shim and retrained in the Fubuki.  Just got the 4th perk but with changes coming.  Don't do any too drastic yet.

[AregoKnight]

Thanks mates

 

[alexf24]

I generally move the captain to the next ship on the line, and assign a lower captain (I have a few in the reserve) if I keep the previous ship. This requires retraining. For important ships, and a well-trained captain I pay the 500 gold. For lower level captains I half-train for 200k credits and finish the training in either Premium ships or the new ship in Coop.

 

One exception for me was Fubuki. I got a 15-point captain finally in Fubuki (my first) with this amazing ship, and the help of Fujin, my main IJN DD commander trainer. As I love Fubuki, I had to leave the captain there. I issued the next best captain (13 skill-points) to Kagero, and retrained immediately. Kagero is now at 14 points and slowly repeating the process with Fujin to get to 15.

 

Besides retraining, you have the issue of re-arranging skills. This costs gold but is needed if the previous ship is of a different type (e.g. BB skills do not match DD-skills). Do not do this now and spend the money to rearrange at this time, with the upcoming 0.5.3 major upgrade of the commander skillset, as all skills will have to be reassessed, and all commanders will get a free retrain. Just wait a few more days.