Board Thread:Special Events/@comment-1820055-20150205083915/@comment-118.168.113.129-20150207173843

HQ 103, Hard mode, 14 sorties, 3 kills, line ahead the whole way.

Started out well with DD/BB/FBB/DD/CV/CV, then the golden Nus started decimating my fleet at J. Switched to southern route with Naka replacing Hiei, stopped needing to retreat (night node was no threat), but not enough firepower to kill boss. Slowly wore down to the last kill and switched back for more firepower as above.

The real difficulty is that you have to assume Aircraft Carrier Hime can, and usually does, take two ships out of the picture for the night battle, and if they aren't the CVs, the chance of getting S rank drops dramatically even if she is the only one left. Therefore, do everything you can to avoid taking too much damage on the way there, such as have the BBs early in the order to take out the Wos or Nus ASAP in the second round.

Strongly suggest both support expeditions, fully sparkled, on the final kill.

Drops: Kiyoshimo at boss.

Final composition:

Musashi (94): 51cm / 46cm / Type 32 Radar

Nagato (87): 46cm / 41cm / Type 1 AP shell

Yukikaze (96): Quint / Quint / Type 33 Radar

Shigure (95): 10cm Twin HA + AA detector x 2 / Type 33 Radar

Taihou (87): Reppu 601, Reppu, Suisei Egusa, Reppu

Kaga (86): Tenzan 12 Tomonaga, Reppu, Reppu 601, Reppu