Talk:Summer 2015 Event/@comment-8227869-20150818071908/@comment-1914684-20150818113618

Some of the Wos at last few maps at Easy and Medium have buffed-up cat fighters and bombers. To make it worse, some of those are 150 HP Wos, and are not easy to get AS on them. AS/AS+ with AA cut-ins are probably the best way to reduce the risk fighting them. Reducing your own carriers attack ability to make sure you get AS really worth the price. Also I always go diamond (lower left) on Wo nodes - that is the best AA formation you can get.

I rarely sparkle except for expedition support, but I don't do Hard, so I can't comment on how important is sparking for Hard mode. You get a hidden sparkle if you can S on first node anyway.