Talk:Christmas 2013 Event/@comment-14.161.64.226-20140103031605/@comment-114.160.71.148-20140103204721

The following is what I've been using to beat E3, took me several different compositions to hit this one, but it seems to be fairly reliable for its cost.

Takou (lvl 22), Iona (lvl 53), Haruna (lvl 17), Kongou-kai (lvl 65), Hiei-kai (lvl 61), Kitakami (lvl 65)

With this fleet composition I've always gone straight through the middle, so I have good amounts of ammo left over for the boos fight, in addition with the exception of kitakami it's all tanky enough to absorb many of the hits that might come its way without serious damage, and at the same time with the whole fleet being fast it's pretty good at evading attacks. Everyone except Iona has damage control to keep them from sinking, this way even if one person gets dropped into the red or orange in the second fight, I can safely continue onto the boss. That said, if more than one person is heavily damaged don't bother going to the boss, you won't have the damage to knock them out in the day, and you might end up losing a damage control and not being able to safely engage at night.

Takao and the battleships all have one anti aircraft gun, and otherwise have just canons and the repair crew, except takou who has a secondary turret to allow for double attacks at night. The other two just have torpedoes on board (don't have only Type-A equipped, they inhibit special attacks at night, so only use one to trigger opening attack on torpedo cruiser if needed). Expect to have some unlucky times where you do get hit hard and need to drop out for repairs, but so far I've running about 1.5K ammo and fuel per boss kill with this formation, plus some extra steal for repairs.

Hope this helps :)