Talk:Summer 2017 Event/@comment-30285531-20170902151559/@comment-32059407-20170902180027

I'm going to add on to what others have already suggested. You should set all fighters/interceptors to LBAS #2 that you sent to node Q since you should be taking down enemy bombers and their air powers to help you survive the opening phase and the shelling phase. Adding one bomber doesn't really help much since they will not destroy nor disable any hard hitters from the enemy fleet most of the time anyway.

Let Ayanami hold the Searchlight and set her asflagship, so that she is guaranteed to fire first with a high chance to be a cut-in torp. If you're lucky, she will hit the boss hard to start you off. Abukuma's role is only for opening torp and OASW, so you can move her to the 5th slot

Replace Bismarck's Searchlight with AP shell. Since you will always get at least AS on every node, and Bismarck always fire first in the 2nd fleet, AP shell helps increase the chance for Bismarck to take out any enemy's small-or-medium ships. Sometimes she could even taiha or destroy enemy's hard-hitter ship too.

For chipping run, you might need one more ship to perform OASW to consistently reach boss node. Try swapping Yuudachi for other DDs that can perform this role.

For LD, you can consider using Hayasui in the 2nd fleet since you will need every FP at boss node there. Good luck! :)