Talk:Summer 2017 Event/@comment-29621957-20170905212407/@comment-33073635-20170905233716

It's likely that the boss will be the only one left by the time you get to yasen, or there will be one or two more with her. Since the boss shoots first, whether you put your strong ship 2nd slot or 6th doesn't make her any safer from the boss.

By putting your strongest night fighters last (in this case, CLTs) you are doing a couple of things. First, your weaker ships can soften the enemy by either taking out any leftover trash and leaving just the boss left for your CLTs, or they can do some decent scratch damage to the boss when it still has higher health left. Scratch damage happens when your ships can't pen the enemy's armor so it deals percentage health damage instead (meaning it is more effective when the enemy is at higher health). That is why you will notice your DD double attacks doing a lot of damage when the boss is still healthy, but hardly anything once the boss gets to taiha.

That brings me to the second point, which is the fact that your CLTs actually have enough night battle power to pen the boss' armor and sink her. That power would be wasted by putting them higher up. You'll find that you will be able to sink the boss instead of leaving it at 100 hp left.