Board Thread:Special Events/@comment-25730832-20150801135420/@comment-26574811-20150813092020

Zeraphix wrote: @Vcharng

The Ta flagship version is no different from the elite since it can still taiha DDs and CLs in one hit in the escort fleet and I take almost no damage in the aerial node. I'm not sure whether I want to bring bombers over fighters in the south route, the Tsu class CLs will murder my bauxite stock. I started the event with resources at soft cap so I can't afford to use many resources like other people. I find the pre boss nodes easy to pass, I'm having more trouble sinking the boss without support expedition since the battleship princess soaks up hits.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I'm doing medium difficulty so my experience of the map would be different from yours if you're doing hard. I was doing medium as well, and  I have to say that lowering AS req. from 300 to 240 took lots of load off of my shoulder. More bombers = more ship knocked out before they can ever attack you.

Tried Aerial node once on E2, and won't try again. If you are using aircrafts as your main armament you need to control the loss of the aircrafts as well as damage to your fleet. And one aerial node= double plane loss than normal node, unless you carry little to none bombers. But that would make taking carriers become a waste of resources and space itself.

Tsu class wasn't that much of a problem until final stage, where the 2 tsu-class at boss node would shot down pretty much all of your bombers left. After my last battle Kaga had 0/1 planes left in her 2 slots of bombers, so had the Shoukaku sisters, the only exception was Taiho, who managed to have 9/17 left.

As for resources, it costed me 26K/16K/18K/12K and exactly 100 buckets from poking around the map, trying the best route, to actually clear the stage. Including re-leveling bombers due to 2~3 times of serious proficiency losses.