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.

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 HQ dependent Map HP
Boss gauge	Easy: 120 TP / 720 HP Medium: 240 TP / 1000 HP Hard: 360 TP / 1060 HP See also this table
Kills required (second gauge)	Easy: 3 kills (255 HP) Normal: 4 kills (255 HP) Hard: 5 kills (255 HP)
Reward	Easy: x1 Normal: x2 Hard: x2 All:

Branching rules

If you see long colored boxes and not round nodes, clear your cache to see the updated styles.

Sendai, Kawakaze, Shigure, 1 CLT, 2 DD

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 (for green gauge, LoS requirement seems to be very low)
15 eLoS is enough for hard mode. You can get to boss with lesser eLoS, like 7 or 10 eLoS, but the route isn't fixed then, i.e. you can get sent to node M.

Tips

AS Values

Anything above zero will result in Air Supremacy.

Fleet composition

For the 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^{[citation needed]}
- Equip CA with 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 Boss-HP Depletion Stage:

Sinking at least 15 PT Imp Packs total within the Map in node H 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 to go A C E H and then retreat.
The Debuffs between the TP-Bar and Boss HP Bar are SEPARATE.
Even if you have met the requirements to debuff the boss during the TP-Bar stage, this will not debuff the Boss as the Boss cannot be debuffed during the TP-Bar stage.
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 try bringing at least 3 to 4 Drum Canisters to quickly deplete the TP Bar Gauge.
LoS requirement does not apply until the appearance of the boss gauge.
TP gauge does not reset

Nodes

I, J and L are Night Battle nodes
H 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 (for CAs or other ships that can carry it)
- 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher on DDs
- Secondary guns (yellow) on your CL(T)s
- 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, the node doesn't have many heavy ships. (Note: does not seem to be as effective as before, after the Nov. 20 fix)
  - A recommended support fleet is 4 CVLs + 2DDs, bring 2 to 3 blue planes on CVLs since damage from Aerial Support has higher number of hits compared to Support shelling. Fill the rest of the slots with radars.
  - For more information about Aerial support damage calculation, see http://wikiwiki.jp/kancolle/?%BB%D9%B1%E7%B4%CF%C2%E2 (Japanese).

Trivia

This map is based on the Battle of Vella Gulf
Order of Battle - Battle of Vella Gulf

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, Hamakaze 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