Talk:Spring 2014 Event/@comment-211.124.92.145-20140504154837/@comment-139.0.112.209-20140504202917

I finished without sparkling too. However, I did try to use sparkled fleets out of a combination of desperation and curiosity. Out of 12 all-sparkled tries:

- 6 were sent back home by senkan hime.

- 1 was ko'ed by southern island hime

- 2 were torped back home, of course this was only possible thanks to senkan hime turning some ships orange beforehand.

- 1 was so successful the fleet perfect-S-ed the first node, then passed senkan hime without getting a scratch (but couldn't sink her), then passed the sub node again without a scratch, then spectacularly took out senkan hime and every ship in the boss node except the actual boss, who escaped without a scratch.

- Remaining two made it to boss node okay, and one actually sunk the boss.

The other 24 tries were unsparkled, including final one. Sunk boss only three times, but met her seven times. All in all, sparkling probably helps, but with a 1/4 success rate to reach boss node, not really worth the time and effort for me.