Talk:Spring 2014 Event/@comment-24516216-20140508070822/@comment-1027815-20140508151511

Wow, it...it actually worked. I took her out.

Used a 5BB/1CV setup very similar to above. Haruna had 46/41/Type 0/Sanshiki; Kongou, Hiei and Kirishima all had 41/41/Sanshiki/Damecon; Nagato had 46/41/Sanshiki/Damecon; and Kaga had Reppu/Reppu Kai/Shinden Kai2/Damecon. No sparkle, no support expeditions.

The sortie started out very bad, I almost considered ending it after the first node. Kirishima gets shot to orange almost immediately at first node, which surprised me because it's rare for any ship to even go to yelllow after the first node. But I decided to press on anyway.

At node E, Hime shoots Haruna to orange but luckily all other ships make it out of there relatively unscathed. Moving on to preboss node, sub luckily misses all ships but Ta shoots Kaga to orange. "That's OK" I think, because I remember I put a damecon on her. So I press on to boss node, not very hopeful given the condition of my BBs.

Day battle at boss node does not go so well either. Two BBs actually target Wake-chan and get her down to yellow, but most of the enemy fleet remains standing while Hime and Wake-chan shoot 3 of my 5 BBs to red! That left only Haruna and Nagato able to participate in night battle. At this point my hope is almost gone, but I decide to try anyway.

Night battle starts and, frustratingly, Haruna targets one of the Ru's. The remaining enemy fleet proceeds to target only my already red BBs (Kaga managed to get out free without having to use her damecon). It all comes down to Nagato finally. I watch her target Wake-chan, my heart stops..."will she do it?" I think. Nagato gives it all she's got and manages to just barely take out Wake-chan! I have never been so happy in my life as I was when I saw that boss gauge disappear. Ok so that may be an exaggeration, but you get the idea.



Current state of my resources is 5k/9k/11k/20k and just under 100 buckets. I started E-5 with roughly 30k/30k/60k/25k and 300 buckets.

Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to keep going in the face of despair. Thank you to my lovely kanmusus who gave it their all to the very end. And finally thank you to Nagato-chan who gave the final blow.

Now if you excuse me, I'm going to relieve the rest of my lingering stress by poking the hell out of Sakawa-chan.