User blog:Setakat/Spring 2015 Event - Personal Report

First event attempted due to joining a month earlier.

Event was rather nice, and a good warmup. I had heard how difficult they were, so I didn't set my expectations very high - I only really planned on clearing E1 and E2 and getting a few rare ships due to low drop rates, but I managed to greatly exceed all my expectations, and walked away with a lot of good ships and some nice equipment.

This post is rather late, but I've decided to move my event reviews into separate blog articles so I can come back later and reminisce about the early days without having to maintain a monolithic page.

E1 - Begin preparation, operation no.11!
My first foray into an event, and ended with a badly beat up torpedo squadron at the first node. Didn't do much for my morale, but I decided to get revenge on the subs in 1-5 with the force that would become my E1 attack force.

After clearing E4, I came back here and spent a few days hunting for rare drops and inflating my HQ level something bad, which I have now come to regret as it means EO maps had been upgraded, and I hadn't even run any of them once for medals.

E2 - 2nd Curry Ocean Operation
And this is where I learnt to hate Combined Fleets.

TODO

E3 - Disruption of the Bay of Bagel trade route
After E2, this was a nice break and was probably my favourite map out of the whole event. Didn't have enough CAs event ready (seriously neglected them) so had to run Kongou Class in their place. Even managed to kill the Light Cruiser Demon once during day battle.

It was my hunting spot of choice for drops during E7 after E1 hunting was complete. Was mainly after the subs, with I-8 being the last once found. Grabbing several Agano's and Takanami while doing so was nice as well.

TODO

E4 - Decisive battle! Ri-Ranka Island Tactical Operation
Despite Being another Combined Fleet map, this was actually the easiest map out of the lot when using my CTF. In reflection, I probably should have tried to complete it on medium, but given I'd had only hoped to clear E1 and E2, reaching and clearing E4 definitely felt good. I would have had to have done some serious levelling on duplicate ships if I wanted to clear on medium, but I still got Littorio (who is still my hardest hitting BB) and a Medal.

Only took me 6 runs, with 3 Night Battles at the boss with no retreats.