Talk:Early Fall 2018 Event/@comment-32901253-20180916132028/@comment-85.76.16.36-20180916160704

I had a lot of trouble at E2H last dance, just managed to finally take her down after changing my fleet and strategy several times. Here's my final setup if it helps:

Nagato K2 (2xTriple 41cm, Type 3 shell, tank)

Two CAs (both same setup: 2x21.3cm mod.3, Type 3, plane)

Asashio K2b (sonar + dc launcher, wurf)

Yuudachi K2 (2 red guns, wurf)

Kaga (Reppuus only)

Land base set all fighters, sent to the air battle node and the boss. I noticed that the boss has insanely high AA which makes land based bombers highly ineffective (they usually just damaged one imp if even that) and also routinely destroys them, resetting veterancy, so it's better to use the land base for helping to get through the aerial node or M. Asashio takes care of the troll sub with OASW and can at least heavily damage the arty imps with her wurf. Yuudachi can take an imp out in a single hit and also deal some hefty damage to both himes, although wurf damage is as unpredictable as always. I only have a single tank, but if you have several, it's probably a good idea to replace Yuudachi with a tank-equipped DD.

Make sure to set up the nastiest, meanest shelling support fleet and send it to the boss - preferably sparkled. With some luck they can take out the escorts and damage or destroy the imps. Nagato can smash the boss' face in during the night phase, you just need all the luck in the world to make sure the airfield hime isn't there to tank it. It's down to the survivability of the CAs as they can destroy the airfield hime with double attacks during the day phase provided they aren't knocked out or distracted with small fry. Easier said than done: CAs getting taiha'd off the bat turned out to be the biggest problem I faced in the boss node. Take this with a grain of salt, but it seemed that shooting down the boss' planes in the aerial phase reduced her firepower, which is why I sent the second land based wave to the boss node rather than M.

They've changed the game a lot from the days when you could still do event maps on hard with 60's fleets and without much gimmick hard to obtain equipment, as long as you had patience and some luck. Unfortunately that isn't really true anymore. But keep at it.