Talk:Summer 2017 Event/@comment-60.48.185.120-20170818070327/@comment-26354027-20170818072425

http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Abyssal_Combined_Fleet

Take a closer look under Normal Fleet vs. Abyssal Combined Fleet (6 v. 12). What you are experiencing is most likely stage 6~8. Hmm, think of it like the exact reverse of what happens when your CTF fights a regular Abyssal comp. In a CTF, your escort attacks first, for one shelling round, then torps, then main fleet. It's kind of the same thing in your case.

This will happen in all nodes where you are running a single fleet while facing a combined Abyssal.

Either that, or you unlocked some sort of hidden gimmick of E5, in which case you are required under the Admiralty Code of the Kancolle Administration to reveal it to the rest of us, lest the Teitoku Council have you charged on suspicion of selling military secrets to the Abyssal and sentence you to death by being poi'd away by Ashigara's 20.3cm main gun.