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Cleared E-6 last night. I tried a whole lot of different setups, but this is what I found worked the best. Both for chipping and killing the boss (turns out that killing the boss is a pretty effective way to chip).

HQ Level: 104

Effective LoS: 123

Route: A C E H J

Fleet:

Kitakami lvl 96: 2x 61cm quint torpedo, midget sub

Yamato lvl 116: 2x 46cm guns, Type 98 recon plane, AP ammo

Ooi lvl 94: 2x 15.5cm secondary, midjet sub

Jun'you lvl 89: Suisei (601 air group), Ryuusei kai, 2x Saiun

Chiyoda lvl 90: Reppu (601 air group), Tomonaga Tenzan, Saiun, skilled maintenance personnel

Akagi lvl 84: Reppu, Egusa Suisei, Reppu kai, Saiun

I found that 4 saiuns really were necessary for LoS with 2 CLTs in the fleet.

One big advantage of this fleet is that thanks to 3 CV(L)s and 2 CLTs it has tremendous opening attack power. It can clear out a lot of enemies before shelling even starts. To take advantage of this I went line ahead on A and double line on H (unfortunately you're never going to take out that hime...).

3 CV(L)s is a godsend. I know a lot of people basically just use their CV(L)s as fighter/saiun carriers but a properly equipped CV(L)'s shelling damage is second only to BBs. Plus their opening attack can help clear out the small fry. I actually tried the more conventional setup with just two CVLs with damecons for a while and I found it worked terribly. I kept getting stopped by the Ta at the first node, which rarely ever happened with the above setup (since I would just kill her before she had a chance to do much damage). And the one time I actually did make it to the boss with that kind of setup, their performance during the day was so terrible thant there were still 4 enemy ships alive at the start of the night battle. Luck was part of that too (they missed a lot...) but my preferred setup almost never left anyone besides the senkan hime(s) alive by the start of night battle.

The tradeoff is that if you want your CV(L)s to actually perform well there's really no room for damecons, so expect lots of retreats at H. But when you do make it to the boss they perform so much better. And even though only 3 ships are fighting at night, when those three ships are 2 CLTs and Yamato they aren't exactly lacking in firepower. Especially when there's only one or two targets left by the start of the night battle.

My biggest regret is that I sent all my best CVs to MI, since I heard that what you wanted for E-6 was really CVLs. That's why I was stuck using a level 84 Akagi. Oh well, still made it through.