Board Thread:Event Official Threads/@comment-26091666-20160430054725/@comment-26825520-20160509144554

Vcharng wrote: The thing is this is a very abnormal map, a very abnormal boss, letting the 1st fleet to soften the enemy before the 2nd fleet finishes them off in night battle would be the common sense, but this is no common boss.

The system in E7 is favoring air attacks, including those from land airbase, support fleet, and your fleet. Protecting the 2nd fleet really isn't the most effective way to kill the boss here. In fact on easy difficulty, the 1st fleet kills the boss even more efficiently than the 2nd. My Shoukaku and Taiho each took around 200 HP from the boss on last dance, something not possible for the 2nd fleet to do.

Also, having no fuel in the boss node is already bad enough if you want a steady survivability.  Why not? STF worked as intended, the main fleet killing everything other than the boss, increasing the survivability of the escort and leaving only Central Hime to be scratched down to taiha and giving me a relatively easy clear on the boss. I'm not saying that I completely rely on the escort fleet to inflict damage on the boss; I only expect them to finish the boss off. The main fleet can pretty much take care of everything else that's not the boss.

I don't see why it favours an aerial attack. Sure you'll get AS+ (provided you have 500 AS) on every node but that would still burn through your bauxite. Using CTF also means you need to hope your carriers do not get chuuha'd or in the case of CVBs, taiha'd, because if you do, you lose a shelling phase, which is pretty bad imo... but I do not actually know this since when I tried CTF I've never reached the boss unfortunately, and the bauxite drain was mentally draining.

About fuel and ammo, I can see why. But imo fuel is more important for CTF for the carriers to dodge, but their shelling damage willl still be strong. Meanwhile STF needs ammo to deal any kind of significant damage at the boss but is generally more tanky and reselient against attacks.

 Thanks for the information about the LBAS, I did not know that. I thought it was only how far the starting node and the boss node that affects the range.

 Replay of my last dance. I don't think I've gotten a taiha at the boss.

