Talk:Winter 2018 Event/@comment-27098221-20180305140623

Looking for budget fleet to keep farming E-7C

CL / 3 CV(B), 2 FBB + 2 CA / CL / CLT / 2 DD seemed okay but it needed LBAS so I went back to 4 CV(B) / 2 FBB + 2 CA / CL / CLT / 2 DD, this gets me a mix of A and S about evenly depending on how my escort fleet survives. Friend fleets are actually pretty useful on this map. As long as you can get cut-ins to trigger, you're gold.

Night planes and/or NOAP would make this so much easier. Then you could load more planes into Zuiho. No night planes for me though... :(

Still very much open to suggestion if anyone can do it cheaper. The game plan I think is to go heavy on fighters but leave some decent sized slots open on each CV for DBs with AA so that they survive to the boss. They just need enough to clear the field so that you don't waste friend fleet hits on escorts. Then hopefully they take the crane hime down to aroudn 200 HP and all you need is flagship cut in and double attack to finish it.