Talk:World 5/@comment-24238094-20140305184510/@comment-24332640-20140307223844

Would you please stop talking as if I haven't played the map, you condescending prick?

This is not a hypothetical situation I'm discussing here. This is what actually happens to me. I have made it to the boss with an intact fleet about 10 times using the 2 BB + 2 CA + 2 DD approach and only have one boss kill.

Telling me that the boss isn't annoying under these circumstances is simply absurd. If the boss wasn't annoying I would be done with the map by now.

Pre-boss might also be annoying, but it's largely luck of the draw. As I've said, everything in my fleet one-shots every enemy. And even Kongou kai ni gets one-shotted into red if the enemy gets a cut-in. In other words, so long as you don't do something stupid and bring CVs or something your fleet composition pre-boss is largely irrelevant. You just have to pray (and bring a searchlight, they really do help).

But when you make it to the boss yet fail to kill it time after time obviously you're going to think about boss strategies. And I've seen similar comments by other people in the past here so I know it's not just me who has this problem. Maybe you got lucky and your fleet targetted the transport, but do at least recognize that so long as there are other ships in the fleet you are less likely to target the flagship. Thinking about ways to take out the whole fleet is a perfectly valid approach.

And if you can increase your rate of success against the boss you also decrease the number of times you have to do the pre-boss nodes.  It's win-win.

But no, let's just keep saying "the boss node doesn't matter, lol" instead.