Talk:Spring 2019 Event/@comment-32040169-20190622123826

My Japanese wife has been playing this game for at least four years, and I decided to play it because of her, but even after two years I still haven't been able to clear hard mode not even once. I probably should have gone at it harder last event, since it was much easier than it is now. I'm at last dance E5H but I can't even make it to the boss and I have 2k fuel left and two days or so. My wife cleared E5 relatively pain free, I guess there is a massive difference in having an average ship level of 90ish (she has a pile of ringed ships) compared to my 70ish. She also has a pile of 46cm guns for her support shelling that I don't have. The other big difference is she used Kitakami, where I stupidly locked her in E4. She also has a pile of sub ships to deal with shiplocking as well. With Abukuma/Kitakami/Ooi the path to the boss just gets that little bit easier. I see so many people easily clearing hard mode, I guess if I just buy a bunch of extra slots, rings and screws I could clear the next event...It feels like I'm always one step behind.