Talk:Summer 2014 Event/@comment-25167983-20140826094214

The RNG Goddess put me through hell during what should have been my final run of E-4. After failing to kill Midway-Hime the first time, the sorties that followed were pretty much a humiliating conga line of troll sub crits, bad compass rolls, and surprise crits to red in aerial nodes. I probably failed at least 5 times to reach her again and then when I finally did, I failed to kill her YET AGAIN when she crippled my last healthy CA in the aerial combat phase. Pretty much the only thing stopping me from chucking buckets at my fleet girls in frustration was the fact that I had already run out of buckets during the previous failed attempts to complete the map (getting Akigumo from the second boss attempt was a small consolation though).

At that point, I decided to change up my fleet, switching from the recommended 2BB/3CV/CA 3DD/CL/2CA, to an unorthodox BB/CA/4CV BB/3DD/CL/CA packed with as many AA guns and radars I could carry (I was seriously hurting in fuel and bauxite you see). First node was Node B and after brushing off the single enemy CV's attack quite easily, I then got thrown back toward node C. Luckily troll subs failed to troll and I merely took some minor scratch damage. Having survived I received yet another lucky throw and managed to avoid the dead end followed up by relatively smooth sailing to the boss.

Once I made it to the boss, my attack started off on the right foot, with my aerial attack taking out a DD and crippling one of the fortresses whilst taking a comparably light return. My second fleet made short work of Midway-Hime's escort and I managed to chip a third of her health off during my main fleet's shelling phase but not without her seriously damaging a couple of my ships in the process. Now entering the night battle, my second fleet began the final volley with Yudachi getting a cut-in (a miniscule 42 dmg but still helpful) quickly followed by a few good hits from Kumano and Yubari. However, Midway-Hime still had a good portion of health left (about 160ish) and Shigure and Inazuma weren't exactly equipped to handle her armor (radar mules the both of them lol). So now it was up to my final CA, Atago to finish off the boss.

First hit - 17 dmg, aww crap...

Second hit - 241, YEEEEEEEESSS!!! GOOD JOB ATAGO!!!

Drop - ...Atago, Goddammit Atago.

tl;dr - Welp, I got Tokitsukaze now.