Streaming again tonight to finish up the event! Here's hoping the Carrier Ocean Demon won't give me much trouble.
http://www.livestream.com/totakuTime for the report!
Operation Kon Phase 3
Once again we return to combined fleets. This time using a bigger assault fleet to tackle the main assault force in the area!
The map has multiple paths, but from my experience, there's only two pathes you'll likely go.
You'll be using Battleships, Heavy Cruisers and CVs/ CVLs and light cruisers for the assault fleet. While the escort fleet you can use light cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo cruisers (in general you can only bring one there,
UNLESS you have Akitsumaru only then can you bring more than oneAnd remember,
Ships used in Operation Kon Phase 1 and 2 cannot be used for phase 3!The fleet composition I used consisted of the following:
Main assault Fleet: Kongou, Nagato, Haguro, Chikuma, Ryuujou, Junyou.
Escort Fleet: Ooyodo, Yuudachi, Ayanami, Shimakaze, Amatsukaze, Kiso
You will end up going towards node A in the beginning which has a typhoon, this will take out some ammo, while it's generally wise to avoid those, this time is not the case, since it's the only way to garuntee you can get a powerful battleship fleet to the boss. You'll then move on to node B which has light ships to battle against. Mainly destoyers (regular and late model) and 2 light cruisers. This should be a simple fight.
You'll then be taken to node F: Node F can be one of the few battles that may or may not send you home. Fleets consist of Flagships Ru class Battleships, Flagship Ri-class heavy cruisers, Flagship Chi-class Torpedo Cruisers, and some late model destroyers. Sometimes a Tsu-class can appear too....
You can only hope you can dish out enough damage not to get send back.
After the battle, depending on how many of your planes you've lost in that battle may affect your direction you go in the next route, you'll either go to Node E or Node H.
Node E is pretty much an indicator you're going into
5 battles be ready to hope and pray because you will be without fuel by the time you reach the boss making you an easy target for shoot and your ammo will be slim, but you might still be able to be victorious regardless.
Node E is a Typhoon, so you're going to loose fuel there.
Node H: Is a Wo node, mainly consist of a flagship Wo, a flagship Nu, a Ri heavy cruiser, a Ne Heavy Cruiser, and some destoyers. You will want to hopfully dispatch the Wo and Ne ASAP. The rest should fall easily. You'll then go to Node I (assuming you have the seaplanes and radars for it (you probably will have the requirements already.)
If you're at Node E, you will go to node H most likely which will consist of a Ta, Nu, Ri, Ne and destoyers. You may or may not have trouble with this fight. But usually if you survive that you'll then got to Node H and the I.
Node I:
Boss battleYour target for this battle
Symbiotic Battleship Hime
You probably know her already, she hits like a truck and is tough as one, but thankfully THIS TIME you are using a combined fleet!
Her fleet consists of a flagship Ta, a flagship Wo, an elite Tsu, and some late model destroyers.
For this fight you want to make sure you get air supremacy to gain the best results. Pretty much hope the Ta, Wo and Tsu go down quick and then the destoyers, though techincally everything there is dangerous, so just hope you kill them all and leave on the BB hime by the end of the day battle.
The night battle, you'll need to ride on your destroyers picking off the BB hime to weaken her and then for the final blow to come from the torpedo cruiser. Also use star shells for best results in night battle if you have any.
If you have the mobile command center you should consider using it and pull out your fleets that are damaged if necessary and press on.
As for Akitsumaru,
she's very vital for this map! Using her will result in you
always going from node F to Node H! Meaning you'll only have to engage in
4 battles at all times!
If you have her put her in flagship, and have her carry a command center, she's best used as an escort carrier anyways, so combat wise, she may not be useful, but having her in the fleet can help save lots of grife and trouble.
Also
having Akitsumaru will also mean you can bring as of your torpedo cruisers as you want! Since you will not be forced to a dead end! So if you have her, put her in the flagship of your first fleet + one Standard Carrier, and put Kita, Ooi, and Kiso in the escort. You will still reach the boss this way.
I didn't find out about this till post event, but here's a fleet you can use to flat out decimate the BB hime with little issue, (just have buckets handy)
Assault Fleet: Akitsumaru, Nagato, Mutsu, Myoukou, Haguro, Kaga
Escort Fleet: Ooyodo, Yuudachi, Ayanami, Ooi, Kitakami, and Kiso
Akitsumaru should carry reppus and a command center, Nagato and Mutsu should have two heavy cannons + AP ammo + seaplanes, Myoukou and Haguro should use thier 20.3 guns + seaplane+ radar, Kaga should heavy 2 sets of reppu, a comet (or type 12 comet) and Saiun.
Have Ooyodo geared for double attacks as well as Yuudachi and Ayanami, and have your torpedo cruisers geared for either double attacks or torpedo cut-ins, which ever you feel best with.
9 times out of 10 they should just flat out kill the BB hime like she's nothing.
Your prize for all this trouble:
German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper class - Prinz EugunEugun is a magnificent heavy cruiser for the heavy curiser family as she was a survivor of the war.
While having good stats for the heavy Cruiser, she also possess high luck, giving her a big opportunity to perform cut-ins at night battle. But what best about her comes when you Kai her up!
She gains the FuMo25 Radar.
To this date, the best radar in the game! As it's accuracy and AA is extremely high! You will want this so get her so you can have one of these.
Extra Operation: Operation Interception Task Force
In the extra operation, you will be launching a final assult against the Abyss Fleet to drive them out of the Biak Island region.
At this point, you can choose between a Surface Assult fleet (BB focused) or an Carrier Task force (CV focused) for the final part of the campaign.
If you do the Carrier Task for it's adviced you bring
TONS of Reppus! Air superiority is VERY HARD to get at the boss without it.
Otherwise, you need to come in swinging. Thus I stuck with the BB focused fleet. which is surprisingly easier.
Also Fleets from Phase 1,2, and 3 ARE ALLOWED here! plus any others you haven't used.For this fleet, I used the following:
Assault Fleet: Nagato, Mutsu, Haguro, Chikuma, Ryuujou, and Junyou
Escort Fleet: Ooyodo, Yuudachi, Ayanami, Ooi, Kitakami, and Kiso (Main phase)
Ooyodo, Oshio, Yukikaze, Ooi, Kitakami, and Kiso (Final Kill phase)
This map is can be either really hard, or really easy. Depend on the route you go.
The first node you're going to take will lead you to submarine fleet (you won't know it's one till you enter battle) Nothing special, line abrest and kill them.
You will then either go to the north node or the south node.
The north node consist of a light fleet, you should be able to kill this with a fleet like my selection.
The south will take you to a more agressive fleet consisting of a Ta, Ri, Chi, Ne and late model cruisers.
The next node after that is the CV hime node. She will be your pre-boss battle unless you have the wong fleet composition. The CVhime will come with some flag wos, an elite Ne, a Ri and some destoyers. You can only hope you don't get hurt too badly in the battle. Better yet, damage her till she's incapable of fighting back if possible.
Then if you use the fleet comp I have you'll go straight to the boss, if you have too many CVs or BBs you'll be dragged into another pre-boss battle. More than two BBs will take you to a SECOND CV hime, more than two CV will take you to a BB hime node. It's best not to have too many to avoid these.
The final boss will feature another new Abyssal boss.
Aircraft Carrier Water Demon (
Abyssal Shoukaku?)
In this fight, you will
definitely not get air surperiorty! So hope your ships do go damage with single shots. Though I hear you could try the Air director + radar + AA gear combo to wreck the enemy planes. I'll leave that for you to experiment with...
The CV Ocean Demon will come packed with one of two possible fleet combination if you're level 105 or higher:
1 Flagship Wo Kai, 1 Flag Ta, 1 Elite Tsu, and 2 Late Model destoyer (the very agile type)
OR2 Flagship Wo kai, 1 Ta, 2 Late model destoyers (The even MORE agile type)
Either battle will present some degree of pain since the thier will be Wo Kai's present, so use what is nessary to wreck the planes, but note you probably won't gear air superiority against them so you can only hope you hit them hard with single shots.
The CV Ocean Demon is very tanky though her planes aren't nearly as threatening. You can only hope to wither her down in a day battle and then deliver the final kill in night battle. You will need your torpedo cruisers to likely commence with the final kill or possible some destroyers packed to do torpedo cut-ins (like Ushio, Shigure, or Yukikaze) Pretty much it's a straight forward battle. You shouldn't have trouble with it.
The final kill may be another story though....
She will now have 2 armored CV himes in place of the Wo Kais (sure thier planes aren't damaging, but they can tank hits) This is why having destroyers with torpedo cut-ins may be recommended for this one.
Every thing should be almost the same though, just try to wreck the CV ocean demon and her armored CV pals as much as possible before night battle and pray you can put the nail in the coffin once and for all.
Once you do that, you'll earn your final prize:
Kagerou Class DD NowakiCan't say much on her other than she's pretty much for bragging rights, but she's cute none the less. You'll really want to do the event if you want to score those medals and screws (you'll be needing them eventually.
)
Oh other than try to see if you can score this rare event exclusive destoyer during your runs:
Asashio-class DD AsagumoShe only appears in the boss nodes of E-2, E-3, E-4.
I don't have her yet so I'm doing post event hunting to add her in my collection...
Other ships girls to look out for:
Taigei (E-1 boss), Kiyoshimo, Hayashimo, Harusame, Isokaze, Maruyu, Akitsumaru, Noshiro... there's probably more, but I know some these appear between E2-E4. But yeah that's about it, happy hunting to you all!
Hint: Want to Maruyu farm? E-3 is a heaven for them since they appear in two nodes, the pre-boss and the boss node.!
Final Thoughts
My summary of Operation Kon is this:
This is a breather event, it's not very hard and should be VERY EASY to win. I did it using only 150 buckets, 15k fuel, ammo, 10k steel and 2k bauxite.... yeah... very easy to beat.
So take your time, and go through it, just remember there's only 12 days to this event. So try to beat it if you can. There's lots of good prizes you can earn from this event that are worth while to your lives as Teitoku.
