Talk:Spring 2014 Event/@comment-24377788-20140506205904/@comment-133.11.32.65-20140507080534

I tried E-2 through E-4 and have to agree that E-3 is much better both in terms of reported drops and chances of reaching the boss node safe and sound.

The number one troll-factor for E-3 is probably the subs in the first node so if you got unlucky, it's a quick retreat. For E-2, you are investing in 3 battles until one cut-in send your fleet home. E-4 is not such a bad map since it allows you to spend bucket instead of resource. But my experience and my two other friends' experience suggest that subs have so high chance of dropping in E-4 that getting a Tanikaze is difficult. I got a ha-chan, two goya, two iku, and three imuya from E-4 boss already.... (> 50% S-rank drop from E-4 have been subs for me).

I tried everything from 1-6 CVs, 2-4 BBs, 0-3 CAs, 0-2 CLts to balance between S-rank chance and cost and found that 3 BBs + 3CVs is quite a nice combo between reliable air attack and cleanup capability. With 2 CV, your CVs can't be relied on much due to their lack of attack planes. CA and CLt seems cheap but highly susceptible to RNG-troll factor and could cost you the whole run (which is a lot more expensive than the extra consumption a BB would cost). Using 3 CV also seem to nullify the boss's opening air attack nicely for my runs.

Still no Tanikaze for me.... (and I cleared E-5 since the first weekend).