Talk:World 4/@comment-24246774-20131229095100

Having fucked around with 4-4 a bit, and not seeing any strategies on the page, thought I'd weigh in with my thoughts in hopes that any other teitokus who are confused on where to start with it have something to go off of. From my limited research it seems there are a few "primary" setups, most using using 1BB2CLT or 1BB 2CV for the empty slots. 1CA 2DD is a given, preferably Maya(AA) + YuudachiK2+ShigureK2 or VerniyK2. A battleship of some variety is also necessary for dual shelling phase; from my limited testing Kongou class is a little underwhelming damagewise, so you're looking at AP-shell-loaded Mutsu/Nagato if at all possible, though a Kongou class is -okay- if you don't have anything better. One carrier with loadsafighters is pretty much necessary for the 2flagWo + 2eliteNu preboss node, toss in a red plane so they're useful in shelling too.

I experimented a lot with the last ship slot, and found that a remodeled sub-chan is about the best I could get going - the amount of damage she facetanks that might otherwise take the DDs to red is really impressive, and few of the enemies on the map actually have good ASW outside of first node. Iona is the obvious choice during the event, but really any remodeled, decently-leveled sub will work; sparkles are very helpful. Boss is actually trivially easy compared to the preboss node, super saiyan version of boss is a bit harder, but if you load at least two Type3 sonars onto one of your DDs, they should be able to at least knock the sub below 50% by night battle even in Line Ahead - two of them with 3 Type3s should be able to kill it no problem, and the rest of your fleet can easily deal with most/all princess's fleet before night battle, so the DD-chans don't really even need to be set up for night battle.

Obviously, with the Ars Nova ships going, everything is pretty trivially easy, but when I ran it a few times with Iona she was actually impressively useless and a normal sub-chan did the job just as well, so it's not like the idea of a sub-chan only works with her around. She certainly makes it easier to not get RNGscrewed at first node, though, that flagship CL is annoying.