The 18th-century pirate frigate Royal Fortune will seem in Azur Lane. The cell recreation’s Japanese and English Twitter accounts launched the brand new shipgirl, which can arrange a brand new faction named Tempesta and add Sailing Frigate as a brand new ship sort.

Commanders will have the ability to receive Royal Fortune throughout the “Halloween Hijinks” occasion, which is slated to run across the 2022 Halloween season. This occasion may even add the World War II-era destroyer HMS Janus to the playable roster.

Despite having an analogous identify, there isn’t any relation to the World War II-era F-class destroyer from the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy, HMS Fortune. Royal Fortune was some of the most popular ship names from Bartholomew Roberts, a famed Welsh pirate from the early 18th century. The ultimate ship to obtain the identify Royal Fortune was a frigate initially named Onslow, which the pirate then outfitted with forty cannons. She was the flagship when Roberts fought his final battle at Cape Lopez in 1722.

While Azur Lane primarily options personifications of warships from World War II, the builders have often added shipgirls from different intervals. The cruiser Avrora and battleship Mikasa from the early 1900s Russo-Japanese War appeared inside a 12 months of the cell recreation’s launch in 2017. The Spring 2022 occasion “Rondo at Rainbow’s End” added World War I-era ships from the German Empire.

Azur Lane is offered worldwide on iOS and Android cell units.