Talk:Tutorial: Leveling/@comment-26132689-20150326165320/@comment-26171095-20150326175922

The only way to do that would be to kill all except one or all in the opening strikes or manage to kill the flagship (the CA) and then somehow luckily kill every ship that's just about to attack in order. The other option is to have everybody dodge everything. In short, it's probably not happening just because there's a CA in the enemy formation.

You can tank most of the damage with a sub if you have one, as 2 of 3 formations only have 1 CA. If it's the formation with 4 CA, then you're pretty much guaranteed to have scratches.

For your plane load outs, since you aren't advancing to any nodes with an AS requirement, you should have all torpedo bombers (blue planes) to hit as hard as possible right at the start. I also hope you have a midget sub on Kitakami if she's in your leveling fleet.

The recommendation for 2-4 is 4 BB + 2 CV for a reason. It's because lighter ships are pretty likely to take major damage and force you to go back. If you're planning to focus on Kitakami, I would advise sparkling her when you actually make a run to clear or you're likely to just end up sad. Another option is to make her your flagship and run double line to try and divert all the attacks aimed at her to somebody else. If you have the ships though (BB/CV), I would advise you to bring those instead as you may have to spend a lot longer at 2-4 otherwise.