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Zetazach wrote: Vcharng wrote: Dude, Surface fleet reaches boss at 6th battle while CTF reaches at 5th. it would cost you dearly on land air wing strike as well.

I've seen lots of noobs insisting to sortie with surface fleet and can't pass this.

BTW why are ppl sortieing CTF with only 200+ fighter? From wikiwiki you should have at least 500. Going through both sub hime node will have no fuel but, it will be technically 4th battle for ammo by the time you get to the boss. Plus, main fleet attacks first to attempt to weaken sub fleets. It also helps at boss where your main fleet takes out as much as possible for your escort to go full anti-installation. The reason why most noobs don't do well is they fear the air raid when you should go full land bomber x torpedo bomber combo and if you run out of land based bombers, use flying boats with torpedo bombers. The thing is this is a very abnormal map, a very abnormal boss, letting the 1st fleet to soften the enemy before the 2nd fleet finishes them off in night battle would be the common sense, but this is no common boss.

The system in E7 is favoring air attacks, including those from land airbase, support fleet, and your fleet. Protecting the 2nd fleet really isn't the most effective way to kill the boss here. In fact on easy difficulty, the 1st fleet kills the boss even more efficiently than the 2nd. My Shoukaku and Taiho each took around 200 HP from the boss, something not possible for the 2nd fleet to do.

Also, having no fuel in the boss node is already bad enough if you want a steady survivability.