Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-29630844-20161102234540/@comment-27862274-20161103123116

I use double 15.5cm yellow instead of 15.2cm even though it's a fit gun. I just prefer FP over accuracy. Don't sparkle to 85 morale. It's not proven to have any effect on ship performance yet - you only need to sparkle past 53 morale. If you have the Akizuki sisters, equip your dd's with double 10cm HA+FD and a something random (radar, turbine, star shell or searchlight).

Your ships are currently equipped with night CI, which does little damage in the day. Because you can't kill a majority of the CL's before the torp phase, you end up getting taiha'd - which im assuming is what is happening.

Double attack setups (DA) are much more effective in taking out ships in day and night. The only reason you would ever use night CI is to take out high armoured targets that you otherwise wouldn't be able to kill - as there are too many escorts to kill. For example, your CI "might" hit the boss and do 200-300 dmg in one shot - but this is way too RNG, with a smaller trigger rate than DA setup - you would only use this to kill an invincible 300+ armour event boss that has tough escorts. In the case of 3-5, the boss is very easy to eliminate and same with the escorts. Hence DA is much more reliable, accurate and deadlier overall.

One reason you may be struggling with the south route is because your ships aren't high level enough - which affects their evasion stat. Though honestly i don't think your levels are low - maybe bring the level 68's to 70.

By the way, nice song ^_^