Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26919395-20150823093644/@comment-26337499-20150823151118

Personally I would use the ship with the weakest defence as your flagship (as the flagship gets a slight level of protection), and then after that in order of most to least powerful. Others may tell you to just ignore that and put your more powerful kanmusu at the top.

Unless you are able to comfortably defeat the enemy before the end of the day phase, I would use a more defensive position on nodes A or B (so not line ahead) as you are only aiming to get through them, not fully kill them. Then use line ahead on the later battles. Use a night battle if necessary on the boss node but not before unless someone is taiha'd. Don't retreat unless someone is taiha'd.

You should be able to complete the quest from node E or I of 1-4, as well as from the boss. When I did it I went straight through node D, though, so I can't confirm it personally, and there are more than a few inaccuracies on that quest page. So if you end up turning back from those nodes (or by some very rare stroke of misfortune end up on node J) you may well have completed the quest anyway.

Don't worry too much if you have to retry a couple of times.