Talk:Spring 2016 Event/@comment-116.87.19.230-20160507190400/@comment-27265134-20160507193807

Depending on the difficulty you pick, and which boss version you happen to encounter you will need different setups. This is the best way to figure out how you should load your groups.

Take a look at the AP/AS/AS+ requirements of the boss. For the first squad you will want enough AA to reach at least AP. I have found AS is the best for maxing your damage. For referenace one Reppu at rank7 is about 60 AA.

When your first wave hits, Aerial combat is calculated and number of the enemy planes die. This will change the AP/AS/AS+ scores on the boss depending on the amount you take down. Thus, you will need less and less fighters as down your squads.

Taking the last dance for example on hard mode  AP/AS/AS+ is 71/159/318. You will want 3 fighters and 1 bomber in your first squad for roughly180 AA. What should happen is you kill off about 50-80% of the planes on the first pass. The second pass should get AS+ and kill off 90% of the remaining planes. This will drop the AP/AS/AS+ to at worst 10/20/40. So for your second squad you will want 1 fighter and 3 bombers. You should get AS+ on all of these killing off the majority of the remaining planes. For the last group all you need is 4 bombers (I put the land base bombers here) if they have any significant ranking they will pull AS+.

Note: that there is a chance for the diamond formation boss so you might want to load up 4 fighters in your first squad when you are doing your clearing runs.