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Okay so after farming E-3E a whole day I managed to survive prebosses nodes and S rank with a 95% of success. Here is my composition, I added some notes below (marked with *s).

Main fleet:

Chitose K2 (98):Type 0 Fighter Model 53 (Iwamoto Squadron) star maxed / 2x Reppuu (601 Air Group) / Fleet Command Facility

Haruna K2 (99): Proto 35.6 triple star maxed / 38cm kai 6 star / Type 0 Observation Seaplane / AP 91 star maxed

Kongo K2 (99): Same setup as Haruna.

Mogami (99): 2x 20.3 cm / Zuiun Model 12 / Sanshiki

Mikuma (99): Same as Mogami.

Chiyoda K2 (98): Reppu kai / 2x Ryuusei kai / saiun.

Second fleet:

Abukuma K2 (99): Hyoteki / Daihatsu Landing Craft (Type 89 Medium Tank & Landing Force) star maxed / Special Type 2 Amphibious Tank

Suzuya (99): 2x 20.3 cm / Sanshiki / WG42

Choukai K2 (98): Same as Suzuya but changing WG42 for obs plane.

Iowa (133): 2x 38cm kai star maxed / OS2U / 91 AP star maxed.

Fubuki K2 (99): 3 WG42.

Hatsuzuki (97): 2x 10cm Twin High-angle Gun Mount + Anti-Aircraft Fire Director star maxed / 13 Air radar kai 5 stars

Support fleets: None.

Air base Number one: 2x Tenzan Model 12 (Murata Squadron) / Tenzan Model 12 (Tomonaga Squadron) / Ryuusei (601 Air Group)

Air base Number two: Type 1 Land-based Attack Aircraft (Nonaka Squadron) / Type 1 Land-based Attack Aircraft Model 34 / Type 0 Fighter Model 21 (Skilled) star maxed / Reppuu (601 Air Group)


 * So after getting taihas in Wo kai nodes a lot of times the thing I did was keep Chitose as Flagship for the FCF but make her a reppu mule so in the second shelling phase my Haruna would at least chuuha the Wo making her unable to attack in the second phase. This way you don't need to nerf Haruna putting the FCF on her.


 * Why AP on BBs and not Sanshiki? well, first this makes reaching boss easier and on top of that for some reason they did better damage to the installation bosses with AP shells cut ins than with sanshiki.


 * To be honest I don't see much point in the zuiuns on Mogami/Mikuma maybe some people would think that putting WGs on them would have been better but I was disabling the enemy installations easily so I didn't change them. And let my Fubuki with her sea sparrow alone!


 * Second fleet: nothing to comment. Focused on taking out the instalations because they don't fight surface ships in the sorties.


 * First LBAS: full of torps on 2 Hime node. And second one on boss node.

With this set up (maybe it's not a perfect one and people will find flaws but I don't care, it worked perfectly for me) I managed to survive until boss node quite well. And even reaching the boss all ships frequently, you can also win easily at boss with 2 ship less and even with 4 I managed to S rank it (of course the LBAS need to do well its job to compensate). It also allowed me to disable the bosses taking out all of their planes or chuuha'ing them before the battle even started. Also no support expeditions used in boss or preboss.

Ok this is all. English is not my main language and I don't feel like reading all this again so sorry if there are typos. Good luck everyone and remember you are not alone. It took me ~9 hours to get Nimu and ~8 hours to get Aquila.