Winter 2018 Event/E-4

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Beyond the Sea of Samar - [Battle of Leyte Gulf] サマール沖 その先へ――【レイテ沖海戦】
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Special Mechanics	Combined Fleet Abyssal Combined Fleet Striking Force LoS Check Land Base Aerial Support
Experience	HQ: non-boss
Boss gauge (HQ 120)	All: 4400 HP Casual[Edit] E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 TP HP HP HP HP HP HP 40 → 49 625 50 → 59 650 360 1450 60 → 69 675 380 1500 2400 70 → 79 700 400 1150 2800 80 → 89 708 420 1150 2800 450 90 → 99 708 420 1650 3600 500 1200 950 1900 1100 2150 100 → 109 708 420 1700 4000 500 1250 1000 2000 1135 2300 4200 110 → 120 708 420 1750 4400 500 1400 1050 2100 1170 2400 4500 Easy[Edit] E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 TP HP HP HP HP HP HP 1 → 49 625 340 50 → 59 650 360 1450 60 → 69 675 380 1500 70 → 79 700 400 1550 2800 80 → 89 708 420 1600 3200 450 90 → 99 708 420 1650 3600 500 1200 950 1900 1100 2150 4200 100 → 109 708 420 1700 4000 500 1250 1000 2000 1135 2150 4200 110 → 120 708 420 1750 4400 500 1400 1050 2100 1170 2300 4200 Medium[Edit] E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 TP HP HP HP HP HP HP 35 → 49 650 350 50 → 59 700 400 60 → 69 750 450 70 → 79 800 500 1550 2800 80 → 89 850 550 1600 3200 90 → 99 900 600 1650 3600 500 1200 100 → 109 950 640 1700 4000 550 1250 1000 2000 1340 2300 4200 110 → 120 985 650 1750 4400 600 1400 1050 2100 1360 2400 4500 Hard[Edit] E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 TP HP HP HP HP HP HP 80 → 89 1350 90 → 99 1400 100 → 109 1450 700 2000 4000 700 1250 1000 2000 1540 2300 4200 110 → 120 1500 708 2100 4400 800 1400 1050 2100 1560 2400 4500
Kills required	All: 6.5
Rewards
All: Casual: Nothing Easy: 11 Medium: 1111 Hard: 11111
In-game description
Operation
Task

E-4 Branching Rules Starting Points
Nodes		Rules
Start	1	Surface Task Force Carrier Task Force
	2	Single Fleet Strike Force

E-4 Branching Rules North
Nodes		Rules
B	D	Do not meet the requirements to go to E.
	E	Meet all of the following requirements: Amount of ships with Slow base speed ≦ 3 (Engine irrelevant) Amount of Kurita Fleet members ≧ 4/6/8 on Easy/Medium/Hard Surface Task Force
E	G	Do not meet the requirements to go to I.
	I	Meet all of the following requirements: Amount of ships with Slow base speed ≦ 4 (Engine irrelevant) Surface Task Force
Q	P	Meet all of the following requirements: Do not meet the requirement to go to S. Amount of Kurita Fleet members ≧ ?/?/9? on Easy/Medium/Hard Surface Task Force
	S	Meet all of the following requirements: Amount of Kurita Fleet members ≧ 5/7/10 on Easy/Medium/Hard Surface Task Force
	T	Do not meet the requirements to go to either S or P.
S	R	Active branching
	V
V	U	Fail the LoS check.
	W	Pass the LoS check.

E-4 Branching Rules South
Nodes		Rules
H	J	Do not meet the requirements to go to K.
	K	Fast Fleet Or meet all of the following requirements: Amount of Nishimura Fleet members ≧ 3/4/6 on Easy/Medium/Hard Fleet contains no SS(V) Fleet contains no CV(L/B) Amount of (F)BB(V) ≦ 2

Historical Fleet: Battle of Leyte Gulf

The Center Force (Kurita Fleet)

The most powerful attacking force during the Battle of Leyte Gulf led by Takeo Kurita. Members of this fleet will gain a post-cap modifier of 115% on nodes O, Q, R , X and W.

• (F)BB: Yamato, Musashi, Nagato, Kongou, Haruna
• CA(V): Atago, Takao, Maya, Choukai, Myoukou, Haguro, Kumano
  , Suzuya
  , Tone, Chikuma
• CL: Noshiro, Yahagi
• DD: Shimakaze, Hayashimo, Okinami, Naganami, Nowaki, Kiyoshimo, Urakaze, Yukikaze, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Hatsushimo

Note: Hatsushimo is not part of the Kurita fleet historically, but can be used in this map to meet the requirements. Meanwhile, Asashimo is historically part of the Kurita fleet, but she cannot be used in this map to meet the requirement.

The Southern Force (Nishimura Fleet)

The vanguard of the "Southern Force" during the Battle of Leyte Gulf led by Shōji Nishimura. Members of this fleet will gain a post-cap modifier of 120% on node N.

• BBV: Yamashiro, Fusou
• CAV: Mogami
  
• DD: Shigure, Michishio, Asagumo, Yamagumo

Phases

• Unlocking the Boss node X
• Defeating the Escort Water Princess
• There are no air raids on your LBAS on this map for both pre-clear and post-clear

Unlocking the Boss node

• Depending on your difficulty, the requirement will be slightly different:
  • Hard: A+ Rank Node N
  • Medium: B+ Rank Node N
  • Easy: Reach node N
  • Casual: Reach node M
• South Route requires the use of Striking Force Fleet (3rd Fleet) consisting of Nishimura Fleet Members of
  3 (Easy) / 4 (Medium) / 6 (Hard) for the Shortest Route.
  • If you choose to use the Nishimura Fleet, the strategy isn't much different from doing E-2.
    • Unlike E-2 however, bringing a Submarine will off-route you to J.
  • Use of Support Expedition (All-Members Sparkled) is highly recommended for additional support on all nodes.
  • You are recommended to send your LBAS to focus on Node F especially.
    • Use of LBAS Aircraft with ASW capabilities such as Prototype Toukai is highly recommended to get rid of the Troll Submarine which is included in the node, as the Enemy Fleet in this node can appear in Line Ahead and can cause trouble for your fleet.
  • Use of the Vanguard Formation is highly recommended throughout this route.
    • If you are in Medium/Hard Mode, in Node N, use of Vanguard Formation is optional but use of Line Ahead is more recommended so that Vanguard Formation does not cause your fleet to become unable to obtain A+ Rank Victory somehow (though the chance of this happening is low).
• On Easy/Casual, it is possible to easily complete this phase using a Fleet of multiple Submarines.
  • In this case you are recommended to focus your LBAS on Nodes F and H as there are multiple Enemy Destroyers/Light Cruisers capable of high ASW attacks and may even appear in Echelon Formation, which can harm your Submarines.
  • Use of Support Expedition can be considered just in case.
• Once you fulfill this Phase, the Boss node will become open for you.

Defeating the Boss

• You are required to use Surface Task Force Combined Fleet while having the minimum required number of Kurita/Suzuki Fleet Historical Members to go down the Shortest Route.
  • The required Number of Historicals are:
    • 5 for Easy (丙)
    • 7 for Medium (乙)
    • 10 for Hard (甲)

Recommendations

• You are recommended to use a fleet setup of 2-4 (F)BB / 0-2 CA(V) / 2 CVL + 1 CL / 2-3 DD / 0-2 CA / 0-2 CLT.
  • On Medium and Hard, bringing one AO with two Underway Replenishments can help for securing the final kill.
  • Please note you may only bring 3 slow ships maximum in your fleet.
    • Unusually, it seems increasing speed with turbine + boiler combinations does not help avoid the longer routing.
• If you possess them, Suzuya & Kumano CVL
  forms can help fulfill both the CVL and two of the historical ship requirements, giving you more options for other types of ships to use for your fleet.
• As this map has high air power requirements, you are highly recommended to equip your CVLs with fighters only. (Saiun is optional)
• Use of CAV(s) with Seaplane Fighters can help supplement your Air Power and enable you to avoid Air Parity in Nodes O and Q.
  • However there are enemy patterns with air power requirement as high as 648 for AS (in Medium & Hard) in Node Q, where you will unfortunately have to deal with Air Parity.
  • You may just choose to deal with having Air Parity in Nodes O and Q so that you can use a Saiun on one of your CVLs, and don't have to be forced to bring a CAV.
    • Easy mode only requires around 300+ AS, while Casual mode is much lower giving you more flexibility and the availability to use Bombers on your CVL.
• As node R contains 6 Ru-class Battleships
  (in all difficulties), you are highly recommended to send one of your LBAS into this node.
• You are highly recommended to use a fully sparkled support expedition fleet for pre-boss nodes as without it, you will most likely have several occasions of having multiple ships go into heavy damage, especially in Nodes Q and R.
  • Use of support expedition fleets in the boss node is optional, but is highly recommended you do so for final kill.

Disabling Boss Attack in Night Battle

• The Boss will not attack your fleet during Night Battle if none of your fleet members has a Searchlight, avoid using it.
  • You may use Star Shell and Night Recon instead.

Friend Fleet

The Friend Fleet is a new mechanic in which an automatic battle phase is triggered at the boss node during the start of the night battle phase before the engagement of player escort fleets. An NPC fleet arrives to fire at the enemy combined fleet in a standard top-to-bottom fashion; therefore, the enemy fleet that your escort fleet will engage in night battle may change depending on the NPC fleet's actions.

There are 5 NPC fleets (shown below in no particular order). It is possible to prevent one or more undesired NPC fleets from appearing by using a ship contained in the friend fleet in the player main and/or escort fleets (support expeditions do not count). However, it is always possible for the 19th Destroyer Division fleet to appear regardless of fleet composition (perhaps to make at least one NPC fleet always available).

• DesDiv 19
• CruDiv 4
• IBS Fleet
• Nishimura Fleet
• EU Fleet

19th Destroyer Division

Ship	Lv.	Equipment #1	Equipment #2	Equipment #3	Equipment #4
	77					53	49	28	28
	74					35	59	36	35
	71					23	58	27	34
	70					23	57	25	24

4th Cruiser Division

• Atago and/or Takao may appear with already being in Light/Medium Damaged state.

Ship	Lv.	Equipment #1	Equipment #2	Equipment #3	Equipment #4
	84					70	61	58	72
	84					75	68	57	68
	83					63	53	55	68
	82					66	68	95	58

Ironbottom Sound Fleet

Ship	Lv.	Equipment #1	Equipment #2	Equipment #3	Equipment #4
	84					84	0	66	88
	84					87	0	48	78
	74					34	54	42	37
	65					32	55	24	33
	75					27	65	43	42
	71					34	62	46	41

• Variant A

This fleet will arrive with several members damaged to shouha or chuuha.

Ship	Lv.	Equipment #1	Equipment #2	Equipment #3	Equipment #4
	81					86	0	72	79
	82					93	0	74	78
	76					61	58	53	59
	74					34	64	42	38
	73					36	55	43	35
	78					35	50	48	28
	87					30	69	58	41

European Fleet

Ship	Lv.	Equipment #1	Equipment #2	Equipment #3	Equipment #4
	86					93	0	66	84
	85					35	0	52	43
	62					85	0	41	88
	40					32	65	43	18

Map progression

Map before unlocking the boss node X.

Full map after unlocking the boss node X.

LBAS Flight Range

The following enemy patterns and ship drops were auto-generated and currently are under review.
Use with caution!

Enemy patterns

• Hard
• Medium
• Easy
• Casual

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

Drop list

☑ All drops (enabled)☒ All drops (disabled, only rare drops)

Type	Ship?	N	P	Q	R	W	X
AR	Akashi	Casual+			Casual+	Casual+
LHA	Akitsu Maru						Casual+
CV	Ark Royal						Casual+
DD	Asagumo	Casual+	Hard+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+
DE	Daitou						Casual+
DD	Fujinami						Casual+
DD	Hayashimo	Casual+			Casual+	Casual+	Casual+
DD	Isokaze					Easy+
DD	Jervis						Casual+
DD	Kiyoshimo	Medium+			Medium+	Easy+	Casual+
CA	Mikuma						Casual+
DD	Okinami						Casual+
FBB	Richelieu						Casual+
DD	Tanikaze					Hard+
BB	Warspite						Casual+
CA	Atago	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Easy+	Casual+
CA	Chikuma	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+
BB	Fusou	Casual+	Medium+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+
DD	Hamakaze	Casual+		Medium+	Casual+	Medium+
FBB	Haruna						Casual+
FBB	Hiei						Casual+
CVL	Hiyou						Casual+
BB	Hyuuga						Casual+
BB	Ise						Casual+
CVL	Junyou						Casual+
CA	Kinugasa						Casual+
FBB	Kirishima						Casual+
FBB	Kongou						Casual+
CA	Kumano						Casual+
CA	Mogami	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+
BB	Mutsu						Casual+
CA	Myoukou						Casual+
DD	Naganami						Casual+
CL	Nagara	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Easy+	Casual+
BB	Nagato						Casual+
CL	Sendai	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+
DD	Shimakaze						Casual+
CA	Suzuya						Casual+
CA	Takao	Casual+	Easy+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+
CA	Tone	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Medium+	Casual+
DD	Urakaze	Casual+		Medium+	Casual+	Casual+
DD	Yamagumo	Casual+	Medium+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+
BB	Yamashiro	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+	Easy+
DD	Yukikaze						Casual+
CL	Yuubari	Casual+	Easy+	Casual+	Casual+	Casual+

Notes
node ignored: O for Atago node ignored: O for Chikuma node ignored: O for Fusou ship ignored: Kuma node ignored: O for Mogami node ignored: F for Nagara node ignored: O for Nagara node ignored: F for Sendai node ignored: L for Sendai node ignored: O for Sendai node ignored: O for Takao node ignored: O for Tone node ignored: O for Yamashiro node ignored: O for Yuubari