Talk:Early Fall 2018 Event/@comment-37138141-20181008182115

Anyone else try E-4 Node L farming? This is my first event (2.5-month-old newbie, please be gentle), and I gotta say, that particular node was a godsend for both my rapidly depleting resources and horribly underleveled/understaffed fleet of kanmusu. I ran that node 140 times over 2 days and change on Easy via the shortest route (D-H-I-K-L) and got 107 S-ranks by blasting BB Hime to smithereens in yasen, which got me a haul of 3 Zuikaku, 1 Shoukaku, 3 Roma, 1 Littorio, 3 Lolibeccio, 2 Kazagumo, 3 Uzuki, 3 Shimakaze, Agano, Noshiro, and Gotland (via run #32). It's a really nice haul, considering that those are my first cranes, first two Lookouts (can't spare the BP for Choukai atm), and gave me the historical BBs I needed for clearing phase 1 of E5 Casual (the first run of which promptly gave me the Bismarck I needed for tackling phase 2 cancer...).

If anyone wants to try their luck at this on the last day of the event, the setup is really simple: single fleet of 6 (preferably powerful) Kai Ni DDs + both LBAS to node L, all bombers. Vanguard formation on both D and K (equip the bottom 3 DDs with a machine gun to minimize PT Imp salt), standard line ahead for L and murder BB Hime in yasen. Torp CI setups are completely unnecessary; with Poi as flagship, BB Hime goes down on the first shot of yasen close to 90% of the time (the other 10% of the time are the occasional obstinate second BB Hime and/or occasions where LBAS RNG was just incredibly crappy). During the whole run, I got stuck with an A-rank only twice, and both were occasions of triple awful luck (Red T + 2 BB Hime setup + dumb LBAS). The light carriers at Node I would seem to be a threat against an all-DD lineup, but with just one devoted AACI destroyer (for me, it was Urakaze Kai D equipped with the gun from E2H + machine gun + T13 kai, as I don't have any Akizuki class), I found that the carriers don't really send me home any more often than torpedoes from the PT Imps/Ro Elite LM at Node D do. The bonus with doing these runs is the low resource consumption (you are, after all, only running 6 destroyers); in fact, the cost of sortieing/resupplying your LBAS ends up being about double what it costs you to repair/resupply your fleet...

I imagine E-3 Node M is also supposed to be farmed this way (shortest route with light fleet, slip through pre-boss via spoon formation), though it looks like you need ABKM Kai Ni or Yura Kai Ni to take down one of the Ta's for the route to be viable, and I won't be trying that, as I have neither of them at Kai Ni...