Talk:Winter 2015 Event/@comment-25035354-20150219000332/@comment-24254177-20150219053353

While enemy ships could still potentially send your ships straight to red, just getting to the boss was certainly notably less brutal than Midway E-6 or the preceding event's E-5. And Iron Bottom Sound had regenerating health mixed with pure random compass. I was only able to clear through E3 due to having just started playing right about when that event started, but I hear that was an absolute nightmare.

Actually sinking the boss for final kill can still be nasty with those 2 400hp meatshields, particularly for relatively new admirals. For anyone who's only been playing a few months and only experienced the previous event (which was really easy), this would certainly be the hardest that the game has offed *that they've been able to experience*.