Talk:Summer 2017 Event/@comment-29322374-20170831133451/@comment-32840818-20170831173833

Due to the composition nature of TCF, you have to set up the escort fleet with killing the harbour summer princess in NB. The main fleet needs to be able to deal with the rest of the enemy fleet, including the PT imps.

Your situation also complicates matter a bit, as your DDs will not be able to do much.

A few points about planning your escort fleet:

- have at least 2 damage-dealers. In your case, this can only be the 2 CA/CAVs. If you have daihatsus and daihatsu-carrying CL/DD, you have some more. For CA/CAVs, type 3 shells will be mandatory. If you use SPBs on the CAVs, you get more bonus damage on the hime (note: in combined fleet vs combined fleet, escort fleet can participate in opening airstrike).

- consider shelling order. This depends on your usual situation when you enter NB. If you usually have hime and some escorts left, you should place your damage-dealers in the last couple of slots. This is to allow the rest of the fleet to clear the escorts so your damage-dealers can only target the hime. Obviously survivability suffers, but you want S rank, not A rank here. If you usually enter NB with only hime, then you can have one of the damage-dealer in flagship slot.. the others are less important in this aspect.

- get AS/AS+ so that there's a chance for the BBVs in the main fleet to do DA on hime during day battle. LBAs helps to reduce enemy air power. Not recommended to put SPF on the CAVs, but if you have Yura k2, that's one option.

- add night recon for contact chance

- your choice of CL is important. There are a few utility CLs that can be used, depending on where you are lacking. A few considerations:

-- Abubear: opening torp + daihatsux2 (helps with clearing escorts + chance to wack boss)

-- Isuzu: OASW + AACI (OASW is useful for sub node, but I don't think you lack AACI)

-- Yura k2 with expansion slot: 2 of the following: opening torp / air power / OASW / AACI / daihatsu (grabbing AS / mixture of isuzu and abubear)

-- Kinu: daihatsu + AACI (AACI again is not important for you. but full daihatsu on kinu is)

-- Ooyodo: sec gun + AA gun + night recon + star shell/searchlight (help with pt imp + night battle support. I don't usually use searchlight but may be a good idea to draw attack from the CA/CAVs)

Anyway, there's still time to experiment. Good luck farming pudding.