Talk:Winter 2016 Event/@comment-26273980-20160220185211/@comment-27685683-20160220194830

I'm not a veteran here considering that I have just started the game a few months ago but I hope I can help out.

First of all, you might want to consider replacing Kiso in your escort fleet with Bismarck Drei and put a night recon on her while adding another Yamato class (Italia/Roma or Kirishima or move Mutsu up from support fleet works as well) into your main fleet. Also, I suggest you to move one CVL to Flagship position for two reasons: 1. They can't attack once they are chuuha and below and 2. You will want one of them to at least sink at least one DD on the map given that your boss support doesn't do well as planned so that your BBs will focus on the main target(s).

Since your fleets are already pretty high leveled I'll assume that your Type 91 Shells and all your main guns (381mm/50 Triple Gun Mount Kai / 41cm Twin Gun Mount / 38cm Twin Gun Mount Kai [or perhaps 46cm Triple Gun Mount as well]) are upgraded to at least +6.

For your support fleet, Tenzan (601 Air Group) has lower damage power in support shelling and you might want to change it to something else like Suisei (Egusa Squardon) / Tenzan Model 12 (Murata Sqardon) [if you have an extra one from Summer 2015] or even Ryuusei Kai / Suisei Model 12A (Check 'Expedition' --> 'List of bombers by shelling damage' for more information). Besides that, you may want to consider using 3 main guns + 1 radar for your support shellings on BBs, they deal higher damage while still having decent accuracy since you have good radars. 2 planes + 2 radars are fine on CVs since Shoukaku and Zuikaku Kai Ni already reach damage cap with 2 planes in head-on engagament.

If you have trouble with normal nodes from time to time, running normal node support might help you as well. To be honest you need only one lucky cut-in or two to clear the map. I wish you the best of luck =)