Talk:Winter 2017 Event/@comment-29757160-20170223131046/@comment-26715360-20170223135038

I don't think there's anything wrong with your fleet. My main fleet was somewhat similar to yours when I did E3H last dance (but with Italia instead of Roma and Bismarck instead of Haruna), and even with full sparkling, I still had to retreat 50% of the time because of the first two nodes. You might want to adjust a few things though (both for the pre-boss nodes and the boss node):

Using only fighters on your CVL (this is especially useful for the boss node if you're having difficulties reaching AS).

Putting Iowa in the flagship position of your main fleet : this may reduce the survivability of your main fleet in the pre-boss nodes (since Chitose won't be the flagship anymore, she may be targeted more often). However, this ensures that Iowa will always be sparkled during your sorties (flagship position + mandatory MVP at the air node before the boss), which is a good thing considering her high firepower.

Putting one of your TCI kanmusu in the flagship position of your escort fleet to boost her CI trigger rate (Abukuma would be the best candidate I think, because of her "low" luck).

Using two torpedoes and one main gun on Myouko instead of two main guns and one torpedo (your current set-up has a damage modifier of 130% x2, whereas this one has a damage modifier of 150% x2).

The hidden debuff may also be useful if you haven't already done it.

Best of luck. o7