Talk:Spring 2014 Event/@comment-24228780-20140428155836/@comment-24348385-20140428180201

Srsly, I recommend to ppl if one formation doesn't work, then try out other alternatives. Quoting from what Kevadu said about 5-3: "When you make it to the boss yet fail to kill it time after time obviously you're going to think about [other] boss strategies." You gotta try out other formations and see if they work on the boss node. I stuck to the orthodox 4BB 2CV formation, that only managed to kill the boss once, and many other times just scratch damage. Tried out 3BB 3CV and that worked wonders - 4 boss kills netted so far in fewer runs than 4BB 2CV.

Of course I didn't settle on 3BB 3CV after only doing like 5 runs per formation. Testing both formations over more than a dozen runs and the effect was almost immediate, so I switched to 3BB 3CV. If you test both formations over time and think that both works fine for you, that's OK you can switch between two formations as you need; if you think one formation works better than the other, then that's good for you, you can stick with that formation.

I understand 1 less BB means less firepower to bring down the boss, but at the same time you can also avoid the double-line sub preboss node on the southeast path. Not only do you have to deal with the so-class sub that can randomly damage your ships to orange/red but also you got 2 Ta classes to deal with, as opposed to 1 Ta class in the northeast node and 2 enemy subs that do jack shit because of the diamond formation.