Talk:Fall 2016 Event/@comment-112.206.84.104-20161201204429/@comment-26082284-20161201213755

You'll do with that what you want, but my advice would be to reconsider heavy fleet. Problem with E4H LD is enormous fighter power. While during chipping runs you could get AS with light fleet, in LD it's simply not possible. And operating without AS means you loose more baux, plane ranks, and are getting taiha constantly, whether by Wos, airstrikes or Rus who can easily one-shot light ships. So in the end it's all about luck - you have to luck out and haul a couple of cut-in ships to boss and hope they did cut-in on boss and not on somebody else.

Heavy fleet allows you to keep constant AS, which means less planes lost and less chance of random taiha (it still happens - but is much rarer) and BBs with AP shells and artillery spotting can one shot Wos and Rus, increasing your survivability in R and S nodes.I've only tried light fleet for a dozen or so sorties before switching to heavy (which finished LD in three attempts), but I'd say that survivability of heavy fleet is about three-four times greater. If you compare res for one heavy sortie and three light sorties, then it's not really that much cheaper. And you loose less planes. As long as you ensure air superiority even in later nodes, heavy fleet works. Light fleet, on the other hand, is all about luck.