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Motherfucker.

HARD Mode

Routes: G-I-J-Boss / A-B-D-F-Boss

Tried both Surface and Carrier task force to see which one my awful bad luck liked better to troll me. One time I clicked the wrong node and went the sub-node way North route. I say stick with the least number of nodes possible before boss and risk it. This said, I am throughly ashamed, after four events and more than one year of playing, to have been so throughly fucked by this joke of a map. Just because I wanted to level some girls I got so many stupid A ranks I am not even giving Sakawa a second thought because I sure as fuck won't be coming back in this hellhole of a map. I even had to use both support expeditions for crying out loud. I'd redo E-1 to E-3 all over again before wading these shitty waters again. Nice BGM notwithstanding.

Number of A ranks: 5

Number of S ranks: 4

Number of retreats before boss: 0

Total runs: 9

Be aware:

35.6cm FBB gun = max

20.3cm (2) guns = +6 each

15.2cm Agano guns = max each

OTO guns = max & +7

10cm Akizuki guns = +6 each

Quintuple torps = +4

AP Shells = +9 each

Searchlight = max

MAIN FLEET:

ESCORT FLEET:

Oh, and I suggest using the Land-based support concentrated in one single aerial battle node. I've seen admirals putting the support at boss node here and complaining that they didn't sink anything. That's because they're meant to help you achieve AS or AS+ and not getting screwed by CV himes and the likes.

I also tried distributing the waves in both the Wo-class node and the CV hime node and that was absolutely not fun to watch, trust me. Study your route, bring at least a good AACI and focus the support on the hardest node of your path.