So I'm here to post my report on the event right now.
After E-3 I originally decided to stop there for now because I got who I wanted, my cute german ship girl. But after a couple days I decided, "hey I still got plenty-ish resources so why not try E-4 at least and see how it goes?"
I went with the surface fleet very similar to the fleet I used in E-3, except I put in Ashigara and Mogami in to replace my Hyuuga and Kirishima so I don't have to deal with the BB Hime and go straight to boss node.
I was...really surprised on how well that first run went. I remember telling Totaku about it in IRC. I survived the pre-boss decently (some ships at orange but no big deal). However, I was surprised at how bad my fleet's accuracy was in the boss node. They could not hit anything. I managed to sink a couple ships but with the amount of ships in the enemy fleet still alive I was being very doubtful on how this run would go.
Surprisingly, torpedo phase went well and sunk nearly all of them. Night battle I went...
...and every single girl missed their cut-in. I never had this happened before, except for one that hit the Wo-class and sunk her. So I was getting pretty pissed at this point...until Ooi, as the last ship slot of the escort fleet DID manage to get the cut-in...and one-shots the boss with a staggering 437 points of damage. A bit overkill but it's what I needed.
That run, however, gave me a false sense of relief because I thought it would be easy after that run, but oh no, it proved to be only a very lucky run, because after that it's been pretty terrible. Getting sent back at pre-boss sometimes (it wasn't as bad as I thought), and if I did get to the boss node, we could never sink the boss due to the inability to sink the other ships in time, even with boss support expedition. Hell, there was a couple times that I got sent back in the FIRST BATTLE (node D from NE compass), because of that flagship torpedo phase that we can't sink due to it's really high evasion for my ships to hit reliably. So for the most part I was just chipping away at the bosses health (at least it was in chunks as we'd normally get her down to 100-ish health). The biggest problem was that even Yukikaze wasn't getting cut-in torpedoes reliably, even with her high luck.
I was talking to Totaku for the most part as I did this for advice on how to beat this and this is when I abandoned the torpedo-only night battle plan and gave some of the girls on my end some double attacks. And it did help quite tremendously actually. It helped take out the other ships in night battle pretty easily so it was easier to take out chunks of the bosses health at a time (but still never sink).
Then came the final form. Oh boy, I was honestly intimidated at first...but in all honesty it was slightly easier, but only slightly. The two CV Hime that joins the boss are easier to hit and get damage on, but they still have really high health and armor so it still took some time to take them out. The double attacks really take out those CV Hime pretty easily in night battle however, but it's attacks wasted on not being directed on the boss herself.
This form took me just as many tries, because many times we'd take out the whole fleet but not the boss...even instances that we get her down to 20 health but still can't finish the job.
And then...I had 0 buckets, but my ships are all ready to go. This would be my very last run of the day, I was already planning on grinding some buckets the next day so I can go at it again on Saturday. I decided to do something with the equipment first though. I gave Kongou a secondary for increased accuracy, hoping it would make a difference. Then I went out.
Everything was going swell. I even made it past the pre-boss with all girls in green. Then, the boss node. No AS as usual, support comes in and takes out two ships AND most of the health in one of the CV Hime. But we still have a pesky destroyer with it's ridiculous evasion...and Kongou takes it out on her first try. Wow that accuracy really did make a difference. The rest of the fleet then went on to take out a lot of the damage on both CV Hime and some on the boss herself.
Torpedo phase, and we manage to sink one of the CV Hime in day battle. This was HUGE because then we only have the other CV Hime to worry about with the boss. Night battle rolls around, and most of my ship girls proceeded to double attack the boss. I was okay with this, but worried, because then this brought about the possibility of either Ooi or Yukikaze wasting their torpedo cut-in on her instead.
But that proved to be a non-issue, because Yukikaze pulls off a cut-in straight for the boss's throat and sinks her! I had the biggest sigh of relief from that, while Ooi missed her cut-in but still sank the last CV Hime, for the S-rank:
And so with that I get my shipgirl (that I wasn't too interested about but hey, free rares!) and finally the confirmation that I finally beat an entire event. This would be my first event that I beat entirely.
I would like to really thank Totaku for helping me out on this last map especially. It really helped me out. The support was really appreciated.
I did a celebratory LSC...only to get Hiei, lol. But now I have no resources and 1 bucket (because Akatsuki came back right after I beat the event from the expedition with a bucket...yay). I'm planning on grinding as many buckets and fuel I can so maybe I can do some last minute grinding for some rares before it ends. I wanna get Shioi but I don't think I'm willing to go back to E-4 again, so I'll most likely do E-3 for Tokitsukaze...and if I'm REALLY lucky with that I'll try E-4 for Tanikaze and Shioi, but I highly doubt it.
