Talk:Summer 2014 Event/@comment-25046333-20140816012742/@comment-24332640-20140816014622

You need two CVLs to guarantee the northern route. Though I'm not totally convinced that the northern route is something you want. That aircraft carrier hime is absurdly overpowered. The problem for me is that the optimal fleet for yasen and the optimal fleet for CV hime are totally different fleets, and there is no way to guarantee the middle route. So if I try to optimize for yasen I'll get fucked by the CV hime when I go that way by chance. If I take two CVLs I know I'll be facing CV hime and can at least try to make my fleet with that in mind. Though I'm thinking that for the final kill I will make a more yasen oriented fleet and take my chances there.

Er, anyway I'm using 2 CVLs + 1 CV at the moment, which is the best way I've found to deal with CV hime. It's actually possible (barely) to get air superiority there. I've got 5 regular Reppus, 1 Reppu kai, 1 601 Reppu (from Unryuu's quests), the Tomonaga Tenzan, Egusa Suisei, 1 Ryuusei kai, 1 Saiun, and 1 Type 2 recon between them. Obviously if you weren't trying for air superiority against CV hime (you don't need nearly as much for the boss) you don't need so many Reppus.

The rest of my fleet is 2 BBs (including Yamato) and a CAV. This fleet is nice for chipping away at the boss as it actually reaches the boss node pretty reliably. However of the 7 boss encounters I've had so far only 2 were actual kills (though most of the others were still in the ~300 damage range), so that's why I think I'll do something completely different for the final one. Though I'm also not using any support expeditions at the moment, and obviously I think I'm going to have to for the final kill.