Talk:Summer 2017 Event/@comment-33019381-20170902054047/@comment-26082284-20170902115028

I got good to-boss rate on pre-LD sorties, but I built my fleet specifically to target pre-boss nodes, even at the cost of boss damage. I used five (!) OASW ships, FBB in escort fleet, 2 op torp, Akizuki AACI in main fleet, strong node support AND sent fighter LBAS to Q and bomber LBAS to T. That fleet did mostly only scratch damage to boss, but rarely got stopped before and scratch was enough to shave ~350hp per sortie on average. Out of 15 pre-LD sorties I had only 3 retreats.

LD on the other hand... is another story.