Talk:Summer 2016 Event/@comment-24978536-20160816213250

Cleared E-4 Medium just now (and got Aquila as the drop for my last dance clear!) As someone who tried both Hard (only briefly however) and Medium difficulties, I'll have to say the difficulty gap between Medium and Hard was pretty large this time around, especially when considering that the rewards were essentially the same if one doesn't care about the Medal. That 20 armor difference on the boss, and the buffed up I and K node make a pretty large difference, I feel. On Medium, I reached the boss node majority of the time, earning a S-rank each time I did, but judging by my experience in Hard mode, I don't think I could have S-ranked her majority of the time, and node I and K were also a lot more trouble. I did alter and improve my composition soon after switching for Medium, but even if I had done the same for Hard, I don't think my low resources would have lasted (I'm at 10k fuel and 14k ammo).

One major thing that also helped was that the boss didn't change for the last dance composition on my final kill, but even if she did, the CA Hime herself would still have lower armor than in Hard mode. Usually Medium mode last dance compositions have been the exact same as the basic Hard mode boss composition.

Lastly, Hayasui was awesome for this map. Thanks to her, I often cleared the boss just in day battle. Also, sending two air bases to Node I helped out a lot, as them + my CTF fleet's Air Strike and Support expedition almost always disabled the Summer Seaport Hime.