Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-1820055-20150701022818/@comment-26574811-20150706235510

Lici Ui wrote: I already know that having a hard Kantai Kessen final EO boss is regular in Event. But i want to discuss is that having reference to battle of philippine sea would be insufficient for large scale operation, just like Midway alone which would require Aleutian operation to increase its   content. Possibilities:

1. Phipippine Sea as main operation, theoretical Kantai Kessen afterwards as EO.

2. Merge the Battle of Leyte Gulf (AKA Second battle of the Philippines sea in earlier sources) into this event.

For 1. there would likely be:

E-1 Torp. Squad. battle. Warmup of the event

E-2 Interception of enemy bombing force en route to the Marianas or Palau. Probably AA-heavy or CV-heavy.

E-3 Anti-landing operations, based on Saipan, Guam, or other islands.

E-4 The Battle of the Philippines Sea

E-5 (EO) Prelude for Kantai Kessen, reduce the enemy force. From the Japanese Kantai Kessen doctrine, likely to be CV-heavy.

E-6 (EO) Kantai Kessen, Enemy BB as boss.

For 2., there would be even more diversities as well as possibilities.

E-1 Same

E-2 Pick one from E-2 or E-3 above

E-3 Same as E-4 above

E-4 Battle of the Sibuyan Sea

E-5 Battle of the Surigao Strait (Night Battle)

E-6 Battle off Samar or Battle of Cape Engano, since they happened on the same day, it is possible that they are made into the same map, and a Surface fleet will be sent to Samar, while a Carrier Force will be sent to Cape Engano.

BTW, the first possible design features fewer places available for ship lock, while there can be lots of ship locks (E4 through E6) in the second one.

These are just my guess though.