Talk:Winter 2015 Event/@comment-25289497-20150213015215

I did it! E5 (and all previous maps) cleared on hard difficulty! (HQ Level 120)

I managed to clear this map in 14 sorties, of which my fleets encountered the boss 7 times, and scoring a complete kill on the boss itself 4 times. I lost quite a lot of resources in the progress: fuel went from 32.1k to 10k, 31.4k to 10.8k ammo, 50.1k to 36.2k steel, 35.2k to 33.3k bauxite, and 280 buckets to 241. Although, I expected it to cost me much more and was doubting whether I could make it with the initial amount of resources...

The final form is quite the terror, almost like encountering 2 or 3 bosses in a single battle. For the final kill, I couldn't score an S ranking, but luckily pretty much everyone was targetting the boss.

Also, Asashimo dropped for me at node G during the last sortie.

(If anyone is interested, my fleet compositions and equipment can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/pAJJR#0)