Talk:General Discussion/@comment-24840157-20150608223134/@comment-25260032-20150609024438

^I disagree. Getting S-rank gives 100% of the exp for both ship and HQ, A gives 80%, B gives 50% while C below gives you nothing at all. If you want to get a lot of points for ranking, you need to get S-rank on all nodes (especially on the boss node) as much as you can since more HQ exp equals more points for ranking.

As for the fleet compo, I can suggest you bring only fast ships, 2 CVs and a drum carrier (preferred to be a CAV) for branching, another CV to get AS+ on all nodes, the rest FBBs or CA/Vs for firepower. You can also bring CLTs for their pre-emptive torpedo attack or DD/CLs with AACI setup.

A sample compo would be 1 FBB 2 CAs 1 CAV (drum carrier) 2 CVs is usually enough to get S-rank on all nodes. You might want to change the CAs into FBB if you want extra firepower.

Lastly, you can also try the 6 SS compo although you won't get S-rank most of the time using it.