Talk:Spring 2015 Event/@comment-24980562-20150427004410/@comment-128.42.88.33-20150427041804

^ And so therefore, it's absolutely impossible to avoid the E-5 ship lock if you want to clear E-6 on hard.

Instead of going hard all the way, I'd suggest something like:

Hard-Hard-Hard-Easy-Medium-Hard

which should allow you to use much weaker ships at E-4 (and perhaps E-3 too, if it's not too hard on Hard), saving your best 6 ships for E-5 (I believe E-5 is not a combined fleet map), thus saving the most resources and sanity.