User blog comment:CDRW/2013 November Event/@comment-24069965-20131112120054/@comment-141749-20131112125410

Choose ships with high luck, especially destroyer, sometimes they can dodge enemy cut-in. Don’t keep retrying when you ship always get critted, but keep an eye which ships always badly beaten by enemy, put her to another position, or even replace her with another ship and see if better or not.

Sometimes I will “spark” my destroyers at 1-1, but usually let the team go without sparking. With correct setup and formation you can survive a few cut-ins, ships except BB can take at least one cut-in, retreat when the girl goes red, that’s fine as long as the victims are not your BBs, which cost you awful amount of fuel and steel to repair. Like what I said before, change the order of your fleet and see that can help your BB to take less hit, and put the most expensive BB(e.g. Kongo Kai 2) to flagship. You will notice some position like 2nd or 5th took more hit than others, in that case, put a high luck destroyer can greatly increase your chance of success run. Pick KTKM(30luck) or CA(can take some punch) if you have no high luck destroyer on you hand.

You don’t need more than two BB or many CA when you are draining the boss’s healthbar, put DD/KTKM/Ooi, that will save you resources and time. And when the time came (bar depleted) pick more CA or BB, arm with repair team/goddess so you can still process if one of yours goes red just before the boss node. But keep in mind, red ships cannot attack at night, you should give up if more than one go red.