Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171230021318/@comment-30501447-20180102181846

Cosmic Penguin wrote: Seeing that the New Year's 5-5 quest can be attempted at the same time with quest B105 (Sara K2 5-5 quest), I want to see if this fleet has any problems. I tried back in October to clear B105 but had to stop after 22 failed attempts (of which I got into the boss 4 times, all which resulted in A ranks), though I blamed myself for not using the (then newly added) Aircraft Carrier Cut-In system (I used a traditional torpedo bomber layout for the CVs back then) for the failure. With most resources being tied for future Taihou attempts I don't want another bauxite bleeding incident again, so please feel free to help. Thanks! :)

I think you simply lack luck, because my fleet is roughly the same, and I only need 4 tries...

But I do think you don't need TCI on Abukuma, everything is weak enough for a DA to do its job, or if you struggle with the sub you can do sonar + depth charge + minisub on her.

I also use a duck for AACI, but this is maybe not important.

If you can, equip Asashio with Type 4 sonar + type 3 depth charge + type 2 depth charge. My Asashio one-shotted the sub at the boss with line ahead in parallel. This can miss however so your set up is still fine.

Now we have both normal support exp and ASW support exp so choose one for the boss (you may not need it though, I don't, but I used node support)