Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-526759-20171114021912/@comment-26366865-20171114025437

In my experience, these AV-based fleets always end up costing at least a bucket or two every run because of the boss, while my 3-3 fleet rarely uses more than 3 or 4 buckets/week, even when I was running it cheaply with CVLs, so IMO 3-3 vs 3-5 basically comes down to resources vs buckets. That said, I got trolled multiple times by the supposedly invincible AO fleet, which a lot of people swear is the best way to run 3-5 now, so it might just be that the AVs hate me for whatever reason.

Another point to consider: 3-3 provides a lot of ships that are worthwhile to repeatedly grind, like Mutsu for 41cms and the dragons for planes, while 3-5 doesn’t provide anything that’s worth having more than 1 of.