Talk:Winter 2015 Event/@comment-115.135.253.156-20150213153321/@comment-25695665-20150213160301

Unfortunately without knowing your fleet composition, I can only give you general advice. If you know this, I'm not trying to be patronizing, I just want to make sure you have all the information you need.

First, sparkle your ships. Take each ship, one at a time in first slot position, with two escort DDs to 1-1 and run them through at least once so that they can get MVP. This will double your accuracy and evasion.

Second, optimize your fleet for possible night battle. Check which ships are in which slot. For example, if you are going to night battle, you probably don't want a CV in your first slot, because your carrier will skip a turn, allowing the enemy to shoot first. Also, for your heaviest hitting night fighters, you generally want to put them towards the bottom of your fleet, so that the shipgirls who don't hit quite so hard clear out the remaining enemies, leaving the boss to be destroyed by your heaviest hitters (especially the CLTs).

Third, sortie a support expedition for boss. Go to expeditions, and click on the red event graphic at the bottom. Choose the option closest to the bottom, #142. For your sortie fleet, have the following;

2BB, equipped with a main cannon, a secondary cannon (15.5cm yellow cannon), a radar, and a scout plane (you can choose to use a second main cannon in place of the secondary cannon).

2CVL, equipped with three slots of red bombers, and one scouting plane/radar. (CVL because for expedition sorties, the amount of planes per slot is unimportant, meaning that they save you fuel/ammo by using a CVL).

2DD, equipped with two red main cannons and a radar.

Make sure your support expedition BBs and CVLs are sparkled.

Fourth, always check your ships before sortieing. If you see your Mamiya food button is flashing, wait! That means your ships will suffer evasion and accuracy penalties. While this usually doesn't matter, for events, you want everything to be perfect. Wait until it is no longer flashing before sortieing.

Hopefully, that will help. Remember, you only have to get lucky once, and you're on to the next stage. Make that one shot easier by putting in some extra time/resources sufficiently preparing your ships.