Talk:Winter 2015 Event/@comment-220.255.4.27-20150217142622/@comment-4125495-20150217160537

Re: your battleships in the first fleet aren't hitting anything, are you running FBBs with 46cm guns? Drop them down to 41cm or even Bismack's 38cm or the 35.6cm Prototype / Dazzle if you have them. The accuracy penalty for running BBs with guns that are too heavy for their class seems to be amplified with combined fleets. I was having heaps of issues with my FBBs missing everything when using 46cm + 41cm, dropped to 41cm x2 and they hit like expected.

It takes extra time but sparkling everyone (to at least 53 morale - remember sparkle effect starts at 50, but they don't get evasion & accuracy bonus in sorties until at 53) and making sure all your support expedition ships are sparkled and all have a radar in one slot if possible will make them activate more often and take out more of the weak ships early on, meaning less targets for your CLT/SS to aim at. Also makes it easier to get through the pre-boss nodes if you can clear out as much as possible before shelling starts, so your BBs can hopefully knock the CV Hime below 50% before she can do too much damage, since she has a worrying tendency to target the same ship twice in a row. Getting AS helps in getting past pre-boss too, if you can (I did E5 easy and was barely able to do it with Kaga + Tone Kai-2, all slots on Kaga with Reppu/Reppu 601, Tone with 2 seaplanes, sometimes was short by 1-2 depending on what was shot down in the previous nodes. Again, RNG). AACI on one destroyer in the escort fleet helps a bit as well.