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I finished E-4 med (double Dyson form) a few days ago with this composition:

Main Fleet:

Bisko: Guns +10 & Type 1 Shell +10

Italia: Guns +6 & Type 91 Shell +10

ZKK: Tenzan (Tomonaga)

Taihou: 2x Tenzan (Murata)

SKK: Type 97 torpedo bomber (Tomonaga)

Kaga: Type 0 Model 53 Iwamoto +1

Escort Fleet:

Yuudachi: Quints +2; Luck: 48

Teruzuki: 10cm HA+AAFD +10 & Type 13 Kai +10

Kiso: OTOs +10

Shigure: Quints +1

Prinz: 2x Quints +1, 1x Quint without upgrade, Night Recon plane +2

Halfway through E-4 I swapped the places of Teruzuki & Kiso.

Was sending 2 LBAS to I node and the other one with 3x Type 1 bombers & 1x Type 1 Model 22A to the boss node (rip fuel & bauxite).

Boss Support & opening airstrike killed the BWS and Zuikaku killed the boss during the 2nd daytime shelling. I was really lucky there with how my ships were targeting the boss again and again instead of going for the Dysons.

Here's the replay for those interested: http://i.imgur.com/AkLRbSW.png

My main reasons for retreats were the submarines in F node and the Ro-class DDs in the yasen node K. Dyson either missed or chuuha'd my ships most of the times and didn't cause taiha retreats more than twice.

Got to the boss node 10 times in 21 tries. Results are 2 A ranks, 1 C rank (final form) & 7 S ranks. FCF might have helped to avoid some retreats pre-final but for final dance sending anything there but a full fleet will almost certainly only result in wasted resources, unless one gets a really lucky snipe.

I'm sure I could have done hard with that fleet but I rather use the extra time I have now for farming and completing my collection than throwing resources at a difficulty that doesn't give anything more than med except for a salt lake medal.