User blog comment:Kuras/Summer Event 2016/@comment-29735334-20160823200916/@comment-25289497-20160823205509

Heya and welcome aboard, AdmiralAlatreon aka the seaplane fighter person! ^_^

It's nice to hear you're following my guide! However, it seems you're getting much luck with it. Well, let me tell you, I had a number of very poor battles too, having as good as no damage to the boss.. :/

If you're sending aerial support with fighters/interceptors to node M, you don't need that much air power since those will shoot down a lot of enemy aircrafts before the air strike phase, the enemy's air power during said phase. Node L still requires around 400 air power to achieve air superiority though. If you're opting for lower air power, you might want to send aerial support here too. Perhaps you can replace a fighter with a bomber and swap the fighter(s) to a higher plane count slot. Around 410 air power is definitely enough.

40 Luck is not bad, it's pretty decent, but still not much to write home about imo. Do you have night battle equipment equipped on your shipgirls in the escort fleet? What about Skilled Lookouts? Those increase the cut-in rate and help for sure. A torpedo cut-in can deal very significant damage to the boss, around 50-80% of her max hp. Double attacks don't do nearly as much, and you need to have everyone double attacking the boss to kill her. You can use double attack setups for pre-final kill/chipping runs though, but don't expect to get clean kills. Probably still possible, but very unlikely.

Boss support is very highly recommended, if not mandatory. The support can easily wipe out the weaker 2 DDs, allowing for better targeting by your Combined Fleet. Furthermore, I've seen the boss support doing quite decent damage to the BB Himes too. I recommend you (re-)watching my recorded (boss) battles from my replays and decide further upon it.