Talk:Winter 2015 Event/@comment-25033430-20150216161047/@comment-24894280-20150216204650

Personally I did E-5 with constant pre-boss node support. I think you would need it as well for you to reach the boss on a consistent basis. But to use a any form of support expeditions, I would think that you lack the ships for it.

You would need about

4 to 6 BBs

4 CV / CVL

4 DDs

You should have enough for the rest of the composition.

I find the boss pretty easy to kill once I reach it. The hard part for me is reaching it. The pre boss expeditions are there to ease the pain. Which means you need a 2BB/2CVL/2DD support expedition.

As for your 2nd fleet, I think... you can go with 1SSV (you can keep your katori at home, you dont need both katori and SS(v)), 2DD, 1CL (Your Sendai K2) and 2 CLT (altho the level is really low)

So your 2nd fleet should look something like this

Sendai K2 - main gun x 2, night recon

Ooi - Gun + midget sub

DD - Gun x 2, star shell

SS(v) - Torp

DD (Yukikaze) - Torp x 2, star shell

KTKM - Gun + midget sub

For your first fleet, do you have enough BBs to run 4 BBs? If so throw the 4 strongest here. Select the next 2 CVL based on the number of planes. I placed extra emphasis on their evasion tho. Do you have FCF? If so equip it as well. The boss is really not very hard if you reach it.

The next 2 strongest BB would end up in your support exp fleet. Your 3rd and 4th strongest CVL / CV (rank them in terms of no of planes and Firepower) would be in your support exp fleet as well.