Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170916044951/@comment-4981281-20170920111537

WashBoard17 wrote: Support expeditions are never meant to take down strong abyssal ships directly. They help clear out the cannon fodders abyssals and increase the odds of your ship's attacking during shelling the stronger abyssal like Re-class. And when our ships actually get to aim at Re-class because the small mobs have been wiped out, her opening torp would've already rekted us.

Look at it this way, mate: The largest problem of 5-5 (aside from E-L routing) is getting rekt by the Elite Re's opeing torp. The rest of the enemies, including the normal Re, as well as Elite Re in the shelling phase are just pushovers that don't require support expeditions to kill. Thus, the only thing that would make support worthy during sorties would be disabling Elite Re's opening torp, because that's literally the whole point of calling expedition #33.

And sadly, route support expedition cannot do it. They can clean up Re's escorts reliably, but would leave nary a scratch on the main target, which then would proceed to torp us. Sure, after that she'd be insta-deleted because of concentrated fire (as the smaller mobs have been cleaned away, thanks to the oh-so-useful support), but what's the point anymore? Support doesn't kill what it is meant to kill, and you still got rekt.