Talk:Winter 2015 Event/@comment-25315770-20150211213256/@comment-25695665-20150211232047

The fleet I used that helped with softening up fights was

2BB, 1BBV, 1CV, 1CA, 1FBB

2nd fleet (this is where the softening up comes in to play)

1CL, 2CLT, 2DD, 1SS

With the SS you always swing up north, avoiding maelstrom. It gives you an additional opening torpedo that will sink softer ships, or take heavily armored ships often to mid-damage. With that settup, you're sinking 1-3 ships before the fight even starts. You lose one cannon attack during day phase from your second fleet during their daytime artillery strike, but if you use Goya, you often get a cut-in at night. While SS is not the strongest ship, the advantages of 1) severely weakening the enemy prefight 2) being incredibly resource efficient easily outweigh the single cannon loss. You could argue that your night battle settup is weaker, but. . . 2 CLT. That's pretty boom.