Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171007024755/@comment-3502824-20171106184348

As previous events have shown us, Ships who have historical relations to the operation motif tends to have special bonus applied towards them, which can be like taking a really short route to the Boss node without too much limitations applied to the fleet, and/or a "nuke" damage (Ex. Fall 2016 E-5 where Sakawa, Nagato, Prinz and Saratoga (post-clear) was able to deal nuke ONE PUNCH damage against the entire boss fleet) - Though they haven't done something like this for awhile afterwards, where usual bonus damage have been something like 1.25x or 1.5x bonus damage.

Now these days alternatives do exist to take the same route as a historical fleet, but they tend to have a lot of restrictions applied to your fleet if you don't happen to use a historical fleet if you wish to take the same route (Ex. Less BB/CVs, bringing more DDs, no Slow Ship, etc.)