Talk:World 4/@comment-24978536-20150926183412

Used a CV heavy fleet for this month's 4-5:

It worked fairly well, with only couple retreats at node H and a single boss kill failure. I wouldn't recommend it over a heavy BB composition or a light fleet through the middle route (during pre-boss kills) though, since the bauxite costs for this composition were horrible... Every sortie where I kept a track of for the bauxite cost, it was always over 600 for a sortie. I was running a very large amount of bombers though, mostly torpedo bombers with couple dive bombers mixed on couple CV, but with such a fleet why wouldn't you equip many bombers? Anyway, I think this composition is easier to reach the boss node with than with a heavy BB fleet, but.it can be difficult to get a boss kill. Two times, I only got a boss kill through sheer luck. That is another reason why I recommend a BB fleet instead.

For practical purposes, I had Yamashiro as the flagship for the first few clears earlier this month, as with this composition you really need the BB to survive into night battle in the boss node. However, after Shoukaku received a Kai Ni, I put her as the flagship instead for exp, which is not as practical in combat.

I didn't need the medal, but I got exp which is what I wanted and a Maruyu, so that was all worth it.