Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25189003-20141023151111/@comment-24332640-20141023195225

You shouldn't even need a boiler if they're fully modernized.

I usually send a Maruyu along with my sparkling sorties. All the enemies will target her during the shelling phase 100%. Your flagship will still have to deal with torpedoes of course, but they tend to have pretty low accuracy and even when they do hit they rarely do more than scratch. And that's against a destroyer.