Kantai Collection: Moe IJN Battleship Combat

Hmm, is that so.

Still, this is what I planned right now. Thoughts? Am trying to minimize lock on E-3 and 4 by trying to reuse fleet as much as possible.

edited 16th Aug '17 2:04:30 AM by onyhow

1FBB 1CV 1CVL 2CL 1DD goes ACFJLO at E2. I tested it personally.

Also, first part of E3 is transport loadoff, and with 4 D Ds and only 1 daihatsu carrier it will take you a looong time to clear it. And why use Ducky in E3 but not in E2?

edited 16th Aug '17 2:37:25 AM by Pz_VI

^ Because I'm an idiot! Thanks for catching the Duck thing!

Still, is 1FBB 1CV 1CVL 2CL 1DD or 1FBB 1CV 1CVL 1CL 2DD better? I mean I could technically add in Naka in addition to Sendai, but it does end up with extra CL lock there...want to know a bit more.

E3 TP wise I got some suggestion by how a guy in Kancolle Discord arranged his transport fleet◊ on hard. Guy says he finished it in only a few runs. I don't have enough CAV to put 2 on main fleet tho, so had to make do with Kisaragi. I mean, I COULD arrange dedicated TCF, but it's going to stretch the HELL out of amount of ships I have to budget and lock in. As in "using up ALL DD except 2 that are too low level to be useful and can have problems with other classes" bad. That's the F2P curse for ya. Even if I CCCI it's still going to take significant amount of time to train up additional ships.

Any thoughts on E4-6 planning tho? All things considered most of the plannings are helped a lot by people in Kancolle Discord.

edited 16th Aug '17 4:59:13 AM by onyhow

Seems fine, except that you don't use Taiyou in TCF. She is the only CVL allowed in there. Or you just dont have her?

^ No Taiyou, also what problem exactly? I plan to only use TCF on E6, and has no CVL there. E3 I plan to use CTF on transport AND boss (replace Atago with Kisaragi for those Daihatsu TP), and E4 it's STF on both phase.

edited 16th Aug '17 9:02:48 AM by onyhow

I mean if you had a Taiyou, you could put her in, for example, E6 TCF. Having a CVL in the fleet is better than not having her, right?

True, true...don't have her tho, she's in last event, and I stopped playing the game (and WOWS) right after the Winter event...

This event's really strong-arming people who haven't considered keeping clones into doing so, if only for the logistical puzzle forced by the 6 ship locks. Yeesh.

Isn't there "only" five locks? Seven maps, one tag for two, no tag for last.

^ Yeah.

Also, using STF for TP phase in E-3 is not that bad. I managed to stack in 11 drums and 3 Daihatsus. So if I S-rank the fight node I can reduce the bar by 105!

edited 17th Aug '17 2:37:25 AM by onyhow

I suppose so

I finished E-2H earlier. Too bad I did it on my phone, which means I have no screenshots of the moment. :( Oh well.

And yeah, I did use the shortcut, then FBB, 1CL, 2DD, 1CV, 1CVL. Took 14 total runs, with the last drop being Junyou. Boo.

Oh man, E 3 H LD is a fucking brick wall. Abyssal Zara just WON'T DIE! Seriously, >20 sorties trying to kill her and still NOT WORKING! And each run costs like 10 buckets!

At this point I might just go normal or even easy!

edited 18th Aug '17 8:52:28 AM by onyhow

Himeuta's player reports see-saw wildly on this, but what I DID notice is that people with dupe CT Ls to sortie for the stage had a much MUCH easier time against Summer CA hime. :(

^ Can agree on that. A guy I chat on Kancolle Discord has quite lower fleet level and apparently beat her easily due to 1CLT + CL with opening torp...and here I am, saving my CLT for E4 and 6...there's also the guy on that Discord who said it took him like ~260 sorties to beat E3H!

Well, medium it is. Not going full Sunk Cost Fallacy now. Well, unless I want to sacrifice that CLT on E4 or 6 and put her here instead...

edited 18th Aug '17 5:56:03 PM by onyhow

Finally E3 and 4 normal done.

Now to grind Richelieu and use her on E5 hard...

Yay, E 5 H beaten! The damn A, D, F node are so annoying...still somehow managed to beat LD in a single run though!

I beat E-3H at work, so no screenshots again. :(

Also replaced the power source of my desktop, so RNG willing I should be able to power through both phases of E-4H over the next two days. Wish me luck!

The event's slightly extended, it'll end on 11 Sep...also we'll apparently get K2 CV...Sara K2?

I'd want Akagi to get one.

^ Well Tanaka interview said it would be Foreign K2...

Isn't a GTX 970 a bit overkill, though?

Welp, E-6H TP phase done...that wasn't hard, tedious as hell tho since I can barely get S rank at boss, so end up having to reduce the TP bar by around 102-109 nearly every run...

E-4H is a massive piece of work. Literally EVERYTHING has to go right for you to have a chance to even dent that 270 Armor. Sheesh.

And I've sunk French hime twice too during chipping. :( Now though? It's like RNG is out to get me.

^ Which is why I do E-4M lol.

Really, E5 and 6 will feel much easier if you reach it, even on Hard.

The ranking reward just came out...yep, it's Sara K2 after event! I wonder if the F 5 F-3N and 5N will allow Sara K2 to actually use air combat formula for NB or not tho, since all NB capable CV right now only use shelling formula even if the graphics had them using planes.

Also Enterprise when? E and Sara are both in same dedicated Night Carrier Division RL...

edited 29th Aug '17 8:12:35 AM by onyhow