Talk:Winter 2015 Event/@comment-25762672-20150216033149/@comment-4125495-20150216065457

Sparkled fleets and sparkled normal node support expedition does wonders, combined with bottom right formation and air supremacy and a whole lot of praying. If you're lucky your support will activate and knock out some of the weaker ships and then your CLTs/SS should thin the herd a bit more and hopefully your main fleet will dodge her first couple of attacks and have knocked her down below 50% HP to stop her attacking.

AACI is nice to have but don't plan your strategy around it, because it'll just not activate and you'll get hit anyway. Even having air supremacy isn't a guarantee - at one point I got AS+, AACI, and she still managed to one-hit my Kaga back home for a long bath. It's really random so even if it takes time sparkling everything and so on, you should do everything you can to tip the odds in your favor.