Board Thread:Special Events/@comment-1820055-20140815075833/@comment-114.179.18.35-20140823022746

I doubt I could offer any new information or tips, but I just finished E6 (Praise the Lord!), so I'll give whatever information I can:

HQ Level 97

KTKM (94) - 2x 15.5cm secondaries, midget sub (switch 15.5s for quint torps for final kill)

Nagato (93) - 2x 46cm, Type 98 Night Scout, Type 14 Radar

Kongou (93) - 1x 46cm, 1x Prototype 41cm, Type 0 Obs., Type 33 Radar

Kirishima (92) - 2x 46cm, Type 0 Obs., Type 32 Radar

Ryuuhou (96) - Reppu, Reppu, Saiun, Damecon

RJ (82) - Reppu, Reppu Kai, Saiun, Damecon

Route A-C-E-H-J

Formations: Line Ahead, Line Abreast, Line Abreast, Line Ahead

To be honest, I probably could have switched the motley array of radars I used for recon seaplanes. I really lucked out on my second attempt for the final kill: my CVLs had just run out of sparkle for the final run, but I made it to the boss node with only Ryuuhou at medium damage. Even luckier was the fact that I had to fight the 1-Hime formation this time (the first run was against the 2-Hime formation; that ended in total disaster when the Himes ganged up on my KTKM and rendered her helpless before the night battle). I only used the boss support expedition, and I only used it once during my chipping runs (it did 24 damage to a BB, and nothing else).

For the final kill, my KTKM finally pulled off a miraculous cut-in for 300 damage. My BBs started mopping up the rest of the Hime's fleet, but Kirishima pulled off the final miracle, dealing around 140 damage total with a double attack (partially thanks to Night Scout plane).

For the preboss CV Hime, I personally found Line Abreast produced better results. The reasoning is that despite the lack of damage against the enemy fleet, the CV Hime usually only bombed my ships to medium damage (whenever I used Line Ahead, the CV Hime could usually oneshot my shipgirls even if they were sparkled).