Talk:Winter 2015 Event/@comment-25035354-20150219000332/@comment-25035354-20150219122817

It my moment of excitement I wasn't as nuanced with my response as I usually am. I'll give you that, Iron Bottom Sound definitely was the hardest map of that time in Kancolle. The game is different now so they truly cannot be compared since those mechanics don't exist anymore. If Iron Bottom Sound's E-5 came out with today's mechanics it would probably be an E-3/4 map (whereas just about any map in this event would be EO with Iron Bottom Sound's mechanics).

Though, I will contend that this was harder than summer E-6. The reason E-6 was difficult was because you had to go with whoever was left over (Like, lvl 40 Nachi's) and ships that were tagged couldn't even help with support. You really needed an extra 18 leveled ships to properly take on E-6. It was bull but people were still able to do it under those horrendous circumstances. Here, you were able to bring all your best ships and it was still a disaster trying to get final kill. So much so that people are willing to completely take on the map again just to have an easier difficulty.

Combined fleet was also a huge problem for this map. It made it that much harder to sink anything in the day due to combined miss mechanics and that much more expensive when you failed (So many 10+ bucket runs...). I would have preferred a standard fleet map with 2 support expeds rather than combined fleet. At least you’d only be using, at most, 6 buckets.

 Though, to each their own. No event map can be compared apples to apples because they are always different.



