Talk:Summer 2014 Event/@comment-82.137.60.56-20140810183648/@comment-1914684-20140810211440

Try read the 2-5 strategies. The way 2-5 works is that you need a certain minimum equipment-based LoS to reach the boss node:

2 x sea plane recon (the actual number regardless number of plane; this number is ZERO if your recon slot has 0 planes left - see notes) + other equipment that gives recon (like air or sea radar) + SQRT(Total LoS of all ships MINUS equipment-based LoS)

The 2-5 requirement is the above equation has to exceed 70 something. For E-1: just bring enough to give you some good margin of safety.

Note: You can get "zeroed" if your recon planes are all shot down - that should not happen in 2-5 nor E-1 unless they are torpedo bombers or seaplane bombers. That is why often people don't bring seaplane bombers for 2-5 (seaplane recon can't get shot down by AA). You don't want seaplane bombers for E-1 anyway; it will cause your aviation cruiser or battleship to attack the troll sub.