Board Thread:Special Events/@comment-25730832-20150801135604/@comment-125.253.98.151-20150823005431

CTF going EGJMZ on easy. Easy already drove me insane. I don't even want to entertain the possibility of hard for this map.

The way I see it, this map is grating for three reasons.

· The routing is unreliable. Sometimes RNG decides to throw you south to B right off the bat. And then sometimes it reads the mood after a rare flawless run at J and thinks it's funny to send you to Y instead.

· Preboss nodes hate your guts. Both J and M, and sometimes E. Set someone up for AACI and bring along FCF. And even so, get ready to end your sortie on account of one or two red ships half the time, if the point 1 hasn't yet screwed you over.

· Air Defense Princess. Apparently, she's a destroyer from the future. Whatever that means. She even gets a 400 HP Battleship Princess to complement her already needlessly high armour, so that she can sit atop it and gloat at you for making it thus far. Cut-ins are pretty much the only way you're going to get her, and that's assuming your ships target her instead of that fat 400 HP sack of shit.

And if anyone's wondering, I is a submarine node sentineled by submarines whose torpedoes strike with deadly accuracy regardless of formation. J is really the lesser of two evils here.

After around 30 sorties, my killing blow (A-rank) was done with CTF, because even with all the above points, my opinion was that the CTF route was more reliable as a path to the boss than the godforsaken STF route. I am finally free from this abusive relationship thanks to Tone performing a final cut-in at the correct target. Thank you Tone.

I guess I could have been dealt a worse hand. I've managed two S-ranks, which is a lot for this map, one of which netted me Kazagumo.

Main Fleet

Escort Fleet

I actually advanced with my escort flagship in the red for the last fight, which isn't very honourable I know, but more importantly she didn't sink. The FCF interface didn't come up either. So not only will a red escort flagship not forcefully return you to base, she also inherits the unsinkability of a flagship.