Talk:Summer 2014 Event/@comment-25284966-20140821133557/@comment-1245621-20140822024911

To me, the Iron bottom sound event is at the top of my "Hardest Shit in Kancolle" List, followed by getting Bismarck in LSC.

I just can't call an event "the most difficult" if it gets progessively easier(relatively speaking) after each map (with the exception of E-6 of course).

The thing here is that AL/MI implements a new game mechanic(or system, not sure how to call it) where you need a lot of ships. This was stated a couple of days before the start of the event but we couldn't know the exact ships to use, so you had to decide between trying with what you had or grind ships like a madman.

I think that the reason that AL maps were, in general, harder than MI, is because it was designed for new players to be, their, event. When you hear "new players", you may think in less ships, less resources, less equipment, less experience; so is very likely that these new players couldn't afford the quota of 2 fleets for a map (I've seen "experienced players" here that they don't have the 4th fleet unlocked, but that's just due to bad luck). But still, no one says that a "new player" can't try MI maps.

Now; as well as this event, everyone could try every map of Iron bottom sound. But the difference was the boss health regeneration on latter maps, that shit was a mental torture. 2% regen per hour may not be much, but that 2% could mean the difference between your last kill and 5 or more failed runs, more buckets needed and more time spent on sparking. Obviously, if you went to sleep for, let's say, 8 hours; that was 2~3 more kills needed.

The result of this mechanic is that (if we follow the sanity belief),  your points were drained constantly with just time to rest between maps, so your sanity were gonna run out sonner or later. To prevent this, admirals rushed maps; misclicking here and there and sometimes forgetting to equip damecons. Also, the method of using a fleet consisting of Lv 1 ships for damaging the boss and not wasting resources healing and resuplying was broadly used or at least considered by many.

Oh, and the Battleship Princess was introduced here.So yeah, Iron Bottom Sound all over the place.