Fall 2015 Event/E-5

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Information

To enter the map, you need to have a CL flagship plus min. one DD, and at most CL + 4 DD + X. X can only be CA, CAV, CT, CLT, CL or DD. (Report needed: do 2CA work?)

Overcome! Nightbattle of Vanilla Gulf! 乗り越えろ!バニラ湾夜戦!

Title
English	Overcome! Nightbattle of Vanilla Gulf!
Japanese	乗り越えろ!バニラ湾夜戦!
Romaji	Norikoero! Vanilla-wan yasen!
Information
Mechanics	Ship locking (orange/green) Debuffing Mechanism Transport off-load Gauge Node Selection LoS Check PT Imp Pack
Boss gauge	Easy: 120 TP / 720 HP Medium: 240 TP / 1000 HP Hard: 360 TP / 1060 HP
Kills required	Easy: 3 kills Normal: 4 kills Hard: 5 kills
Reward	Easy: x1 Normal: x2 Hard: x2 All:

Branching rules

Sendai, Kawakaze, Shigure, 1 CLT, 2 DD
- This is the Historical Setup
- A C G J K L N
Only Shigure
- A C F G J K L N
Only Sendai and Shigure OR Shigure and Kawakaze
- A C E H J K L N
LoS check preboss when the gauge becomes red
15 eLoS is enough for hard mode (6-8 eLoS seems also enough, even less for pre-final runs)

Tips

AS Values

Anything above zero will result in Air Supremacy.

Fleet composition

For the Historical Setup branching at A C G J K L N, the CLT can be replaced with CAV^[1]
- Equip seaplane for LoS boost
- Equip sanshiki for bonus against PT imp
- Equip CA 20.3(2) or similar strong variants

Debuffing/Weakening

Defeating a certain amount of PT Imp Packs within the Map will weaken the Boss: Destroyer Water Demon.

The boss' voice and appearance changes after the weakening

During TP-Bar Depletion Stage:

Sinking at least 30 PT Imp Packs total within the Map in node H, J, or L will weaken the Boss.

During Boss HP Bar Depletion Stage:

Sinking at least 15 PT Imp Packs total within the Map in node H, J, or L will weaken the Boss.

Other Notes to take on Debuffing:

Node H is the fastest and the most recommended node to defeat several PT Imp Packs easily.
Recommended to use Sendai and Shigure in the fleet at least to go A C E H and then retreat.
The Debuffs between the TP-Bar and Boss HP Bar are SEPARATE.
If you have debuffed the boss during the TP-Bar stage, this will RESET once you enter the Boss HP Bar Depletion stage.
You must sink the PT Imp Packs during each stage separately for the debuff to take effect again.
Always remember generally the Debuff will reset at 5:00 AM JST.

TP Bar Depleting

It is recommended to bring a CAV as they can equip Drum Canisters.
- Although not required, you may opt to try bringing at least 3 to 4 Drum Canisters to quickly deplete the TP Bar Gauge.
LoS requirement does not apply during TP bar depletion, it only apply starting from the appearance of boss gauge.
TP gauge does not reset

Nodes

I, J and L are Yasen nodes
H, J, and L have Enemy patterns that can include PT Imp Packs.

General

For those having trouble sinking PT Imp Pack, you can use:^[2]
- Type 3 Shell (if using a CA or other ships that can carry it)
- 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher on DDs
- Secondary guns (yellow) on your CL(T)
- You may choose to use Support Expedition for the Boss Node to get S Rank Victories more consistently.
  - Use of Aerial Support Expedition is viable for the Boss Node as other than the Boss, it doesn't have much heavy ships. (Note: does not seem to be as effective as before, after the Nov20 fix)
  - A recommended support fleet is 4cvls+2dds, bring 2 to 3 blue planes on cvls since damage of Aerial Support is different from Support shelling. And fulfill the rest of the slots with radars, be mindful that accuracy bonus for anti-air radar is halved for support expedition.
  - For more information about Aerial support damage calculation, see http://wikiwiki.jp/kancolle/?%BB%D9%B1%E7%B4%CF%C2%E2 (Japanese).

Gallery

References

Drop list

For editors

See Template:DropList documentation for ship drop markup

Red ship names indicate notable drops.

Click the small arrow next to the header cells on the first row to sort by ship types/names (Type/Ship) or group drops in that particular node together according to ship drop difficulty (A, B, C, etc.). You also can multi-sort.

See Template:DropList/doc on how to use/edit the table

Type	Ship^?	J	L	N
CL	Agano			Easy+
DD	Arashi			Easy+
DD	Harusame	Easy+	Easy+
DD	Kawakaze	Easy+	Easy+	Easy+
DD	Maikaze			Easy+
SS	Maruyu			Easy+
CA	Mikuma			Easy+
CL	Noshiro			Easy+
DD	Nowaki	Easy+	Easy+	Easy+
CL	Sakawa			Easy+
DD	Tanikaze			Easy+
CL	Yahagi			Easy+

Kawakaze, Arashi, Nowaki, Maikaze, Tanikaze drop in N node A Rank.

E-5 enemy patterns

All fleets marked with * next to the node name are sourced from Poi-Statistics only, and are probably correct.
All fleets with no symbol marks are confirmed either with an API source, screenshot source or two independent sources, and are guaranteed to be correct.

To increase the accuracy of symbol-marked fleets, please submit the relevant screenshots to this thread.

Click on the nodes to see pattern info