Talk:Early Fall 2018 Event/@comment-30210695-20181006143859/@comment-3502824-20181006150201

People have their preferences, and both have their pros and cons.

CTF is more expensive but has much better chance at taking down the boss with sheer high firepower alone from the 1st Fleet, though you you have to go through 1 Sub + 2 Surface (With Ta and Ru-class) + 1 Air Raid then Boss, and the fact your 2nd Fleet is pretty much vulnerable against the Ta-class and Ru-class Fleet (hence why I said support expeditions are a must to avoid that from happening as much as possible)

Surface Task Force has the 3 battles before Boss, and only includes 1 Surface Combat which the 1st Fleet can handle easily, but the Submarine New Hime is a problem unless you are willing to use a LBAS full of Toukai + ASW Bomber against that node (which I did and it got me the win while trying to "Luck-gamble" it via Sparkles didn't do me so good overall. The problem with Surface Task Force however is that you got way lower firepower compared to Carrier Task Force due to the limitations put onto your fleet due to branching rules, so you might see a few failed runs with it (Unfortunately happened to me when I attempted to clear with Surface Task Force)