Board Thread:Special Events/@comment-1820055-20150207023715/@comment-5486301-20150222044818

2nd fleet: See pic

This is the most realistic Russian Roulette simulation ever.

I told myself I will give up in E5 after throwing about 50 buckets and landing 1 kill, 1 badly damaged at boss but no I did not listen to myself.

I'll have to thank (or blame)InfernalGunX's post for this. I saw his fleet comp and amazing success rate and I thought ... my ships are so much higher level, so why can he win ????

My conclusion after beating E5: It's pure luck.

I tried medium mode first and I got 2 kills and after that everything ended badly. I tried many compositions except for 4FBB since my Kongou is still level 1. Bottom route is pretty nice even though you go through whirlpool but its harsh at the same time not being able to carry more than 2BBs (I was using the Quick response for bottom route).

Switched to easy, improved my success rate. I took top route with Musashi replacing 1BBV. Lots of fuel were eaten. Musashi also gets badly damaged pretty often, meaning that 1000+ steel is taken up just to repair her, which is not funny since steel is pretty hard to farm.

So I went back to the forum and looked at that post that motivated me to try again. This time I replaced Musashi Kai with Yamashiro Kai in an attempt to save resources, and it kind of worked, I still have similar success rates (about a miserable 10%). Reaching the boss took around 1 in 10 tries, but once I reached it it usually gets KOed. almost guaranteed.

For the 'last' sortie ... well it did not go well. I was forced to use support expeditions in order to win but after the boss node expedition failed me twice (1st time all miss+ 11 damage, 2nd time all miss+ 8 damage), I decided not to use it. I put Musashi in that support which took 200+ fuel to refuel the fleet, which is something I was not happy about. The pre boss support works well though, it improved my chance to go to boss node to approx 2/3 times.

In the very end I managed to get to the boss node almost unscathed, and received green T, meaning that I could deal as much damage as possible. The amount of luck required is incredible and its just a matter of trying again and again until you get that high roll. The question is rather, can your buckets survive the test?

p.s. I finished E4 with 677 buckets. We could say I used around 200 buckets to beat E5, considering the quests I do each day to get some more. My steel is crying. I had 44k before this map y'kno!