Talk:Early Fall 2018 Event/@comment-25289497-20180930193728

With the month of September just having ended, I returned to E-5 for some more farming. With success! On my second sortie, I finally obtained my second Prinz Eugen! ^-^ Time to grind her for my third FuMO radar! Also, I got a duplicate Gotland on the 9th sortie today as well! (My first Gotland took me more than 100 sorties to obtain.) Though this event is almost over, I wanted to share my latest fleet composition just one more time.

Now, with Gotland also among my roster, I was able to even further optimize my E-5 node Z2 farming fleet. Ooyodo got replaced by Gotland, who also has 4 equipment slots. This allowed me to drop Z3 (with AACI equipment) in favour of having Zuihou in the escort fleet. However, that would also mean moving Prinz Eugen to the main fleet and equipping for daytime double attacks instead of nighttime TCI. Zuihou has two night fighters equipped as that also enables her to have an opening ASW attack, albeit a horribly weak one. Equipping the Iwai fighter-bomber instead would leave her shy 1 ASW stat for opening ASW. Moreover, Zuihou rarely gets the chance to participate in daytime shelling, thus rendering daytime CVCI somewhat useless for her. With more air power from the combined fleet, one of the CVLs in the main fleet can drop a fighter for another bomber or a SCAMP. I did not opt for another bomber because the remaining slots are already quite low in plane count.



In terms of performance, I have not witnessed any noticeable improvement upon previous iterations of my farming fleets. Rather, the lack of AACI rendered performance at airstrike node Z3 somewhat worse, though that node remains relatively docile.

Although not possible for me due to locking, this fleet can still be further optimized (slightly) by having Kumano replaced with Zara or Pola, Kiso with Kitakami, Ooi or Myoukou with TCI equipment setup, and Ayanami with a more powerful TCI DD, most notably a luck-modded Yuudachi.

As always, my replays can be found in my imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/zMp1TMq