Talk:Fall 2017 Event/@comment-25366430-20171209045252/@comment-30709842-20171209072103

@ LanternFlailer

I-14 was designated to be a SPF mule + tank as I needed the other ships to equip enough planes to meet the high LOS requirement to go to Z9 on hard while maintaining fighter power for AS at boss node (SPFs have poor LOS). After a few runs, I found out that the seaplane bombers on the BBVs will not be emptied to 0 by the time I reached the boss, so I stuck with them. There is a risk that it may drop to 0, so that is something which I gambled on, but with this setup I am able to go to Z9 as well as achieve AS at the boss. Figuring that out at the start was very difficult though and I had to mix around with recon planes and zuiuns until I came up with one that means all the requirements.

As the main goal is to ensure that the BBVs are in good condition to kill the boss in the day phase, I used a searchlight on one of the DDs (Shigure for this case) to absorb the hits from the enemy during the night phase. With the exception of node Y, the other night nodes are harmless even with searchlight, so I preferred searchlight over star shell.