User blog comment:Kuras/Summer Event 2016/@comment-26715360-20160822161130/@comment-26715360-20160825182844

Good news ! I managed to land a clean kill on my 3rd last dance sortie. Italia and Iowa dealt roughly 150 damage to the boss during day battle, and Abukuma finished her during night battle with a torpedo cut-in that dealt around 350 damage (I positioned her in the first slot of the escort fleet to increase her cut-in rate despite having only 20 in luck). In total, it took me 22 sorties (including 5 early retreats and 2 clean kills) and round 30K fuel, 25K steel, 25K ammo, 10k bauxite and 70 buckets (although it would be more without the recovery phases) to finish this map. That's the first event that I managed to clear in full hard after one year and a half of playing Kancolle, so I'm pretty happy ! I won't be able to farm Aquilla because I wanted to focus all of my ressources on clearing all the maps in hard, but that was totally worth it.

Again, thanks a lot for this guide, it really helped me to finish E3H and E4H ! I had to do some tinkering with my equipment and composition, but in the end I'm glad all went well. I hope you'll manage to get Hayashimo !

Good luck to anyone who's still struggling with this map !