roma (kantai collection)
The Kantai Collection version of the Italian Regia Marina battleship Roma. Fourth and final ship in the Littorio-class of battleships, her name is the Italian spelling of Rome.
Roma has medium-length wavy dark brown hair with blunt bangs. She has brown eyes with pince-nez glasses that have a chain on them. In terms of clothing, what she wears is virtually identical to Littorio, except that she wears a capelet over her shoulders, and an kerchief instead of a necktie. Things in common include a sleeveless shirt with additional detached sleeves, red skirt with a white under-skirt, and armored waist area with anchors hanging down. She has white thighhighs with red striping that are held up with garter straps. She wears a white bicorn-like headdress.
Her combat gear includes a split-hull design with three large triple-cannon turrets that have orange liferafts lying on them. The decks of the hull are covered in a white-and-red striped pattern which, unlike Littorio, doesn't change with the kai.
For Halloween 2015, she wears a witch costume, with a frilled dress, witch hat and one of her turrets inside a pumpkin.
For a promotion with Nakau, she was drawn in casual clothes, with a white sweater, a black skirt, pantyhose and a fashionable pair of boots while keeping her usual headdress and pince-nez. She is holding a serving of Nakau's oyakodon and beside her, a trolley bag with one of her turrets attached to it, liferafts and all. When damaged, the bag lies on the ground with a smoking hole punched through it, revealing Libeccio's fire-director hat inside.
Upon heavy damage, Roma notably has an entire turret destroyed, with fires visible within the hole of the turret. This is likely a reference to the historical sinking of the Roma, which involved the detonation of the magazine of her no. 2 turret. The force of the resulting explosion blew the turret off its mounting clear of the ship.
Historically, Roma was sunk by the Luftwaffe as she, her sister-ships and other units in the Italian fleet attempted to sail to Malta to surrender to the British. Because of her real-life counterpart's fate, she is often portrayed as having a grudge toward German ship girls, with Bismarck bearing the brunt of this animosity due to her size and type match with Roma.
Her combat history involves almost no actual missions, as she was completed late in the war, at a point when Italy was desperately low on fuel oil. As such, her service history almost entirely consists of being attacked by Allied or Luftwaffe aircraft in multiple bombing raids.
Notorious for her very low drop rate in the spring 2015 event where she was a drop instead of a ensured clear reward like her sister ship Littorio, only dropping in 2 nodes in the E-6 map at very low rates 1.5% for one and 5% on the E-6 boss node.