Talk:Winter 2015 Event/@comment-24978536-20150206195502

Breezed through E-1 hard mode, it really was surprisingly easy. I was expecting a bit more difficulty, but honestly SS maps would be such a huge pain if they would be too difficult, so I'm glad how the map ended up being like. It would not be fun to pray that a opening torpedo salvo by an enemy SS fleet in Line Ahead formation misses your fleet...

Anyway, I had my first few attempts at E-2 hard mode - it seemed quite easy too, though I did have somewhat of a rough start, getting attacked by a error cat straight away after clicking the "start sortie" button... Second sortie was a succesful one.The double Ru-class combo in double line formation is somewhat of a problem, but nothing what my fleet has not experienced before (6-2 is the most recent experience of such). Other nodes in the route my fleet went by were rather safe, and the boss node was not too bad either even though my fleet did not win Air Superiority. Diamond formation is such an unthreatening formation most of the time, though it can be annoying when you have to sink the boss and there are some great walls guarding the boss...

I also scouted the map a bit with my SS fleet (after the error cat attack), but the fleet went straight to a maelstorm and a dead end... I wish they'd at least make it possible to scout the map with a SS fleet. It really defeats the usefulness of the SS in events for them to not even be able to do some scouting due to branching rules...