Talk:Summer 2017 Event/@comment-28397969-20170824132707/@comment-31314029-20170824141902

Ok. I`m no guru, but i`ll tell you what i did. Since you are using CTF, your weak link are your escorts, which will see heavy duty fighting. There are 4 nodes, each with a hime (or that dd demon) that can boom them. Since you are still chirping the HP, I suggest putting everything into REACHING the boss node, even if you end up with less FP against saber hime.

In my case I used 1 LBAS on DD demon node (1 fighter, 3 bombers) and 2 LBAS on Carrier hime node (3 fighters 1 bomber). Which that,  and with a setup extremely similar to yours ( 4 carriers, maya and teruzuki as AACI, and ABKM,KTKM and ooi with preemptive torps.) i found out that 9 out of 10 times I left Carrier hime with no bombers and DD demon on orange before torps. With that, there were 2 less menaces to face. With my fleet only worrying about sub hime and BBV hime, I found myself reaching T-Node 9 out of 10 times (althrough BBV used to taiha me sometimes) and reaching saber a lot.

As a side note, since the LBAS used to do most of the damage to carrier hime`s fighters, I used a heavy bomber setup with my CTF (only 3 reppus between the 4 carriers), that means more bombers and stronger initial assault. I DID leave maya on escort, so she can finish to put DD demon on orange. I used shigure as ASW DD (yes, i know) and had poi to do some surface damage on DD demon.

When I reach saber, the team used to do heavy damage on her (with support EXP), i reached her 5 times before LD, 4 heavy damages, 2 sanks and 1 very bad run with barely any damage on her (usually damage courtesy of KTKM, OOI and poi).