My guess is that it has to be B99, it's the only quest that make sense. The Nagato kai-ni sortie quest.
A - C/D - E - G/H - J | |||||
BB | BBV | BBV | FBB | CVL | CVL |
A - C/D - E - G/H - J | |||||
BB | FBB | FBB | FBB | CAV | CV |
Main Fleet
and
2CLT 1CL 2DD 1FBB for the Escort Fleet
I don't use SS since I need surface ship to help dealing damage to the boss fleet too other than SS for just night cut-in.
HQ LV.107 Hard Mode
Using 30k for E1-4 and like 50-60k for E-5 alone, at least I just beat it on hard mode last night, what a great Valentine persent from Yamato-chan <3
So yeah, this map is pure RNG. At first I make sparkling effect and got trolled by RNG heavily, so I just ignore the sparkling and go with it. Cuz sparkling ain't gonna help if you have bad luck.
NOTE : I use only bottom right formation for every nodes
Node A shouldn't be a problem, at least your main fleet should be able to kill everything except for Cruiser Princess and at least damage her to medium damage so she couldn't fire torpedo at the end.
Then random between C and D, I really didn't care about the maelstorm cuz it's all up to your luck again. Avoiding maelstorm wouldn't help anyway.
Here we go with E node, thanks to the combined fleet mechanic. Even though there are 4BB on enemy's fleet, they're still not gonna hit you hard most of the time. As usual, your main fleet should be able to dispose of them quickly.
Then it's the trolling time, whether G or H are both horrible. Aircraft Carrier Demon awaits you with the chance of two flagship Wo-Class on both nodes (with the extra of 1 Ru-kai on G or 1 Tsu-Elite on H). If RNG decide to give you Aircraft Carrier Demon + Wo, then it's 80% that you will be back to base.
In case you're lucky, H node contain 2 Ta-Class and G node has 1 Ru-kai 1 Ru-Flagship and 1 Ri-Kai. Node G is really mean, but still better than 2 Wo, believe me. It's most likely that one or two of your ship girls will get medium or heavily damaged by the Demon. Just pray that your battleship will damage her to medium level asap so she couldn't do anything more.
AA Cut-In helps A LOT to me
Other than that, just pray to RNG on this node......
Finally, on to J.....the boss node.
Pre-final round, this node will have Battleship Water Demon and 2 Wo-class flagship, with the extra BB and 2 Ne-Class elite. I used 2CVL just to gain AS and just hope that your main fleet will kill every thing or at least the Ne and Wo class for the least. Really not much problem, at least you can still damage the boss and get her HP gauge down consistently.
Now for the final round. This is pain in the *ss, with the composition of 1 Battleship Water Demon, 2 Battleship Princess, 1 Wo-Class Flagship and 2 Ne-Class Elite.
There literally is nothing you can do except praying that your main fleet will be able to dispose of the Wo and Ne class quickly then damage the princess a little bit. Then it's all up to your escort fleet and your luck......also AA cut-in help a lot. There was once that my Hatsushimo shot down all Wo-class's plane so she can't attack at all.
Night battle cut-in setup help a lot at boss node, but double attack on CLT is fine since they do a lot of damage anyway. So everything is still up to luck and RNG. "Pray a lot"
Spent like 3 damage control, but that's worth it.
Note that I use support expedition on pre-boss node for every sortie, but only use boss-node support expedition on final form.
For the equipment setup on final run :
Yamato (LV.136) : Prototype 51cm / 46cm / Type 0 Observation Plane / Type 1 AP Ammo (+2)
Kongou (LV.92) : Prototype 41cm x 2 / Type 0 Recon Plane / Type 91 AP Ammo (+6)
Hiei (LV.92) : 46cm / Prototype 35.6cm / Type 0 Recon Plane / Type 91 AP Ammo (+6)
Kirishima (LV.92) : Prototype 41cm / Prototype 35.6cm / Ar196 Kai / Type 91 AP Ammo (+6)
Chikuma (LV.88) : Type 2 20.3cm (+6) / Type 3 20.3cm (+5) / Zuiun Model 12 / Damage Control
Kaga (LV.98) : Reppu (901 squadron) x 2 / Reppu Kai / Damage Control
Escort Fleet
Shigure (LV.86) : 5 Tubes 61cm Oxygen Torpedo x 2 (+6) / Searchlight
Bismarck (LV.99) : 46cm / 38cm kai / Type 91 AP Ammo (+6) / Night Recon Plane
Yahagi (LV.90) : 15.5cm secondary gun x 2 / Starshell
Hatsushimo (LV.75) : Type 13 Air Radar / 4 Tubes 61cm Oxygen Torpedo (+6) / 10 cm HA+AA director (+1)
Ooi (LV.94) : Midget sub / 15.5cm secondary gun x 2
Kitakami (LV.95) : Midget sub / 5 Tubes 61cm Oxygen Torpedo (+6) / 4 Tubes 61cm Oxygen Torpedo (+6)
Time to go back to resource regenaration mode now.
E-2 cleared in 5 consecutive tries. Another brilliant performance by my beloved fleet girls. Extra thanks to luck and RNG.
HQ LV 105
Fleet composition : 6DD (none of friends use this)
Equipment and LoS can be found in the picture below.
Route taken : C-G-I 3 times and C-D-F-H-I (?) 2 times, including the last round.
Decide to use all DD composition for no reason, just feel like it. I must say that they fought unexpectly well, not even a single failure round. There are two times I got thrown into C-D-F-H-I route with no reason......but my girls still could sank the boss with no real problem. With the 3 cut-in set up, the boss really doesn't matter much. The only problem was the minion 5 DDs in the boss node which my girls were able to kill them all in day-battle.
Always use Line Abreast formation and keep Line Ahead for the boss fight only.
Of course, no support expedition needed.
E-3 cleared in 5 tries (insanely lucky huh?) My fleet girls fought brilliantly. Never get heavily damaged on the way before boss node and were able to sink the boss S rank consecutively 5 times.
HQ LV 105
Fleet composition is Akitsumaru 1FBB 1BBV 1CAV 1CA 1CV + 1BB 1CLT 1CAV 1CL 2DD
Equipment and LoS can be found in the picture below.
Route taken B-F-H-I
Akitsumaru makes everything WAY EASIER even though she's only LV 30+ at the time I started the sortie. 2BB 2CA on the first fleet and 1CLT is there just to make sure my fleet wouldn't get thrown into the maelstrom (only Akitsumaru might be enough tho). Plus, Akitsumaru can carries Reppu, with Kaga, that's enough to get the air advantage on preboss node. With my main fleet engage first via surface combine fleet, this was really easy, Bismarck and Yamashiro (and Yamato if there was anyone left) blew a hole through everything except for the Senkan sei-ki.
Yamato and Kitakami were able to finish the boss in night battle with no real problem as well. No support expedition used.
Got Shimakaze on the last round.
E-4 cleared, I feel like I want to share my report as well.
HQ LV.105
My fleet composition is 1BB 1FBB 1BBV 1CV 2CAV and 3CLT 1CL 2DD
For the last round, I change to 1BB 1FBB 2CAV 2CV and 3CLT 1CL 2DD
Equipment and LoS is all in the pictures.
Route taken is C-D/E-G-J. D is a pain if using carrier escort combined fleet but is a joke with surface combined fleet.
I can sink the boss only 2 time (the first and the last). The reason I used surface combined fleet for most of the time is that my main fleet will engage first, thus decreasing the chance for my escort fleet to get heavily damaged (which I really need their fire power for the night battle). 3CLT also help significantly too.
Another reason is that even with 2 CVs, my girls still couldn't get the air advantage if the boss decide to bring 2Wo-Kai along (which she did a lot against me). So changing a CV to BBV really help out. Kaga alone is enough to deal with the boss node, hold them on par in air battle and get air-advantage against the CV hime (G node).
As for the last round, boss node composition change, so I change to carrier-escort combined fleet (2CVs) to ensure air-advantage at the boss (also get air superiority at G node). With more risk of getting my escort fleet hurt before night battle. Which worked surprisingly well, my girls were able to sink the boss in one try with the change I made. Even though Shigure had to tolled Shimakaze back, Kitakami Ooi Kiso and Yahagi still got the job done.
Support expedition of 2CV 2BB 2DD is used as the boss on the last round, tho I feel that it really isn't necessary. It's all about luck and RNG. Fleet command facility is used to increase the odd of reaching boss node, it does help out a LOT.
Got Zuikaku on my first round, and that's the only real rare ship girls I got from this map.
Can I share mine? This is from last night, so I have a little bit more right now. Although I haven't start going into the event map quite yet. Still doing the daily quest first.
Before Event
After E-4 completion
Also, E-1 E-2 E-3, my girls completed them in 5 rounds each, save a lot of my resource. E-1 E-2 E-3 all together used up even less than half of the amount we spent for E-4*