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Medium mode: Grinding for Unryuu

HQLV: 102

Finally found the optimal composition for me:

Yuudachi:   AkitsukiGun x 2, T13.Radar

Hiei:          46cm, 35.6cm, T3.Shell, T14.Radar

Kirishima:   46cm, 35.6cm, T3.Shell, T14.Radar

Tone:        20.3cm, 10cmHA, NightScout, AAFD

Haguro:      20.3cm, 20.3cm, Starshell, T14Radar

Yukikaze      OxyTorpQuint x 2, 10cmHA

- All ships are beyond Lv.96. Only Yukikaze is sparkled (> 52) at the beginning of sortie

- Boss expedition used: Only the flagship is sparkled (> 70), the others stay at morale 49

Pro:

- Takes the easier south route to the boss, which has no BB and includes a transport node (G). The yasen node (I) has nothing formindable except the golden CA could a cut-in to your ships.

- Heavily loaded w/ AA equipment. Even without AACI triggered by chance, this composition guarantees a high % of enemy bombers shot down, thus lowering the chance of being rekt by their opening air strikes.

- Akitsuki didn't do much favor in the flagship position, since she didn't do AACI for more than half of the battles for me (triggered ~9 out of 20). I switched her with Yuudachi who could perform much better in both day shelling & the night.

- Tone (CAV) has a larger slot (9) for the night scout. Although this may not affect the proc rate, it will prevent your scout being shot down (and finally 0 remaining) during the detection phase. I tried it ~10 times and the scout was never shot down.

- Yuki protects herself (and the fleet) with a 10cmHA while not changing her attack mode (150% torp CI) in night battles.

Con:

- Very vulnerable to the CV Hime (well, who is not...)

- Yuki may get rekt at D node. Use DL or Diamond and pray for AACI / dodging the attacks. However, this is still much safer than taking the north route.

- Use echelon at the yasen node, and pray the enemy CA won't wreck your ships (~40% of the time she could chyuuha / taiha one of your ship)..

- Very dependent on boss support expedition. With decent luck, your support still needs to take out at least 2 ships.

- Pray for green T or parallel... Never red T especially at the boss node  (the chance is rather slim though)