Talk:Spring 2019 Event/@comment-826197-20190617073844/@comment-32647310-20190617130818

@Exotics019: The first one is the E4 map from Fall 2017; "Operation Shō-Gō! Battle of Leyte Gulf (part 1)"

The second pic is the two preboss nodes from Summer 2017 (Hard Mode). This was, apparenlty a nightmare for folks doing Hard Mode because PT Imps were introduced for the first time (IIRC), and they were notoriously tough as nails due to their OMG-levels of evasion.

The last pic is the boss formations for Winter 2018 (Hard Mode). In addition to the (clearly painful) forces you are facing off against, the boss node had a Range of 9, meaning that if you didn't have 2-3 Taitei-chans, you could give up any/all hope of having any sort of fighter support from your LBAS on the boss.

@Tennousu: This is what people are talking about in regards to power-creep in the game. As more ships (and their gear) are made available and more people get them, there needs to be updates to the enemies to keep things both challenging and interesting. I mean, I've been playing this game a little over 2 years now (started early May 2017) and I legitimately felt like I was committing war-crimes when going Easy Mode in E3 though E5.

Personally, I found this event mostly straightforward all things considered; only gimmick was hitting certain nodes and/or S-Ranking them (as opposed to Perfect Air Defense, AS+ on multiple nodes, HP + TP + HP and even against the boss you kind of needed a bit of a gimmicky build) with some anti-installation.

@SlashZero: What OP is talking about has been going on well before Nelson showing up. Things like Nelson, 5-slot capital ships (Musashi, Ise, Hyuuga and Akagi), 4-slot DDs and multiple 4-slot CLs are really just continuing down this path.