Talk:Spring 2017 Event/@comment-25385495-20170515161223/@comment-26356092-20170515170113

Alright, with those ship levels, I'm assuming it's Easy mode. Yikes, a level 16 Akagi... Surely you have other ships with higher levels than this, since you could already craft Taihou? Would recommend a Surface Task Force instead of Carriers, but whatever.

First of all, standard setup for artillery spotting requires no more than two guns (red+yellow). Your BBs in the second fleet can use radars or AP shells instead of the yellow guns, as well as your Verniy (two gun, one radar).

Set up your CVs in the first fleet such that you have enough fighter power to at least take Air Superiority at Boss, and all nodes leading to boss. I assume you've tried a few rounds already, so check your sortie history to see if you've been getting AS. If not, add more fighters.

Get a Saiun in the smallest slot of all your CVs, if you can afford it. Place your dive bombers (red planes) in some of the larger slots (18 and higher would be good) so that your attack planes don't simply get destroyed before you reach the boss.

Do you have any Type 0 Model 21s and land-based bombers? Use them in your LBAS, send them where you usually get serious damage, so that they can soften the abyssal targets.

If you can afford it, send both node support and boss support expeditions, with the setup of 2BBs, 2CVLs, 2DDs. Sparkle the entire node support expedition fleet, but only sparkle a single DD to place as flagship of the boss support expedition fleet.