Board Thread:Special Events/@comment-25730832-20151117074836/@comment-26464279-20151121221206

I was using 2 compositions for clearing E-4 hard.

1. 1CA, 1FBB, 2CVL, 2DD + 1CL, 2DD, 3CLT

2. 1FBB, 1CV, 1CL, 3DD + 1CL, 2DD, 1CA, 2CLT

The first formation was for depleting the health gauge. The DDs were all equipped for ASW and the CA was Maya with AACI setup.

The second formation is what I used for the final kill. I abandoned a part of the opening torp and airstrike power at the pre-boss nodes to get a sure SS Hime kill instead. As CV I used Kaga with 2 Fighter + Tomonaga + Saiun and the CA is again Maya with AACI setup. All DDs were ASW equipped and for the main fleet CL I used 2 guns + Sonar.

For the final kill I used node support to partially ballance out the loss in opening-strike power. The first try was a successful kill of the SS Hime without fighting M and J node before and using the weakening mechanism.