Board Thread:Special Events/@comment-1820055-20150207023715/@comment-25477086-20150210061514

First fleet: Kaga, Yamato, Haruna, Fusou, Yamashiro, Katori

Second fleet: kitakami, bismarck, yuudachi, jintsuu, yukikaze, ooi

Hard Mode Clear, HQ 103

I went with 198 air power (2 reppu 601, 1 reppu, 1 egusa, 2 zuiun m12s) which dropped to 163 AS after the ACP + hellcats formation. As you only need 128 for boss node, it is probably safe to drop your air power a bit so you can add a bomber.

Katori was for pathing. For final run I didn't need the FCF so I stacked her with 3 damecons for meatshield in slot #6. My first fail Katori ate an airstrike and 3-4 shelling rounds on ACP node so as she is useless otherwise, don't hide her in flag. Stick her out there like a tasty target and she might just save your fleet. Kaga is squishy anyways.

All red guns I used were 41 or less unless Yamato then 53cm

Second fleet was geared like thus:

Ktkm Flag: double quints + ko-hyoteki

Bismarck Drei: 38 kais, night recon, type 1 AP

Yuudachi: 2xakizuki + t13air radar

Jintsuu: 2 x 20.3cm(2) + starshell

Yukikaze: double torps + searchlight

Ooi: 2xSKC34 + ko-hyoteki

Full sparkle for both fleets and support. Not feeling much love from full sparkled support fleets though.

Formations were 4, 2, 2, 4

First attempt Yamashiro went red on ACP so returned.

Second attempt Haruna went orange on ACP. So did katori but noone cares about her.

Boss dropped Yamashiro to orange on airstrike. Boss support took out a Ne. Torps did whatever damage because I got a RED T!

My first fleet proceeded to get shlacked into all orange one yellow. 5 ships remained. My second fleet had Jintsu go red, they dodged the rest of the attacks pretty much, and I entered night battle with still 5 enemy ships left. Luckily scratch damage results in big numbers when you have 500 hp, so the boss entered night battle with about 308 HP or so.

Searchlight + night recon. No starshell proc. KTKM opens with a cut in on the BOSS for 338 CRIT. Yes, we have our MVP. I don't know how the rest of the fight went since I was too busy spamming chat. In the end I think there were still 3 ships still alive.

Well, that's about as lucky as you can get. Sparkling your first and second fleet matters.