Author Topic: Kancolle Kai 2 : The 11th Operation has begun! (Read 213149 times)

Sixten · « **Reply #930 on:** April 29, 2015, 06:22:47 AM »

Cleared E1 Normal in 5 sorties. It wasn't difficult at all. I never got sent home early, and even the Tsu-class Elite in the final form didn't pose much of a threat.

But I hear that on hard mode, there are plenty of instant go home opportunities, and the final form of the boss includes a guest appearance by Evil Naka...

Katsuragi - the event's true prize - awaits.

Raitaki · « **Reply #931 on:** April 29, 2015, 06:24:56 AM »

Starting E-2 on easy, and my combined fleet looks like this. Just did one attempt, Ryuujou got critted by torpedo bombers at node E so I turned back. Since I didn't manage to get air superiority last time, I'm switching around plane slots and switched Isuzu to anti-air cut-in loadout (since she can't really do much else). Even then, seems like the enemies on this map are crazy dodgy, and also tanky to the point of only taking 21 dmg from Inazuma's cut-in during night battle. Any tips for efficiently boosting ship-wide accuracy? I only have 1 surface radar, and it's the small variety ; v;

Calamity · « **Reply #932 on:** April 29, 2015, 06:42:45 AM »

^ Do you have a another strong DD CA or CAV to replace Haruna with? That would be a lot more useful in the second fleet for night battle damage. I would recommend moving RJ to flagship so she won't be targeted as much. Fusou can tank most of what hits her. With combined fleet mechanics, everyone including the abyssals have crap accuracy. Try to get air superiority plus and you will get more hits, after that the most you can do is sparklerun your entire fleet and even then you will get lots of misses in daytime.

Sixten · « **Reply #933 on:** April 29, 2015, 03:11:34 PM »

Because Katsuragi is awesome, I decided to win her in the most awesome way possible - by clearing E2 on hard mode.

I have 12 ships with an average level of 77 to form a strong combined fleet: 1CVL, 2FBB, 3 CV / 1CL, 2CAV, 3DD. I've only made one successful run of E2 so far, but it was quite a dominant victory - S victories on every node, even the boss node, with no need to go to night battle (edit: and no need for a support fleet, either).

As with any combined fleet battle, the resource cost is through the roof. I need to bring four carriers and all nine of my Reppus to avoid getting shredded by Wo Kai. Akagi and Kaga (and even Ryujo and Zuikaku) are devouring my bauxite. But my stockpile should be more than enough.

Seeing how easy people say E3 on hard mode is, it figures that E2 on hard mode would be quite doable.

Soon Katsuragi will be one of us, and Ryujo and Zuiho will rejoice.

(Now if only the boss node would drop Uzuki instead of Shokaku. I said Rabbit, not Crane.)

Raitaki · « **Reply #934 on:** April 29, 2015, 03:29:50 PM »

Hmm, sadly all the other candidates for Haruna's slot are only around lv30. Though I'll give it a try anyway, thanks for the advice!

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #935 on:** April 29, 2015, 03:49:45 PM »

I'm 3 more kills into the E-2 boss on easy mode thankfully I have plenty of ship slots since not a lot of good ships want to join me.... ack I'm just idling on Kancolle today to recover my resources thankfully I managed to get I think the 4th kill in although the boss had 88 HP left and my main fleet left the Ta-class alive... before my escort ships killed it during night battle but not the boss.... last kill I'm going to do Air fleet.

Raitaki · « **Reply #936 on:** April 29, 2015, 05:00:52 PM »

Tried switching to surface task force for E-2 and went ham, and it's working surprisingly well despite my two Lv <10 BBs in the main fleet, almost got to boss node on the first try had my main fleet not fail to finish off the Ru's in node G to stop them from chewing on my escort fleet :V I'm predicting being hella out-aired by the boss node though, hopefully Akagi's almost full fighter loadout and the escort fleet's green guns are sufficient to at least keep them from chewing up my key damage dealers before they can get shots in.

Kasu · « **Reply #937 on:** April 29, 2015, 05:17:33 PM »

I'm about to do my third run-through of E-2 on Medium. I've done pretty well so far as Kiso, Kitakami, and Ooi make things hilarious at points. Hell, I've even managed to kill the boss without resorting to a night battle so far.

Things can change though, so I hope this luck keeps up.

RuneDevros · « **Reply #938 on:** April 29, 2015, 06:01:54 PM »

First try at E2 Normal. Didn't have any troubles going to the boss.

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Is there any point in selecting the south route for a carrier team? It looks like it just deadends you.

Kasu · « **Reply #939 on:** April 29, 2015, 06:09:18 PM »

Quote from: RuneDevros on April 29, 2015, 06:01:54 PM

First try at E2 Normal. Didn't have any troubles going to the boss.

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Is there any point in selecting the south route for a carrier team? It looks like it just deadends you.

I've been running the south route and I've been having a fairly easy time of it so far. The first two nodes are duds meaning you only have to enter three battles and the crossroads at the second node is one where you can pick your route, so I always head north. The last crossroads after the fourth node is the LoS check to the boss.

Totaku · « **Reply #940 on:** April 29, 2015, 06:48:05 PM »

Time for the report:

E-1: Preparing for the big scale attack

(Note: Keep in mind, I'm playing on Hardcore mode, and there's no turning back for me! I'm sticking with this!)

This map was fairly easy, To summarize it, you actually have only two path you can go and it's up to you to decided which way would be the the safest route to take. Since you're only taking Destoyers and light cruisers on this mission, you need to have your fleet prepared enough to do enough damage during the day but also be evasive at the same time.

The first node is a small fleet of DDs and a HE class Light Cruiser... nothing special.

After that node, the next node you get to CHOOSE which way to go.

The North rotue or the South route...

The North route takes you through one battle with tougher enemies like torpedo cruisers and a heavy cruiser while the south route takes you through 2 battles, one against subs and one against another batch of light cruiser and DDs. In this case it's a matter of how lucky are you so pick your poison here.

The boss node itself.... well... you fight against a Ri-class Heavy Cruiser Flagship Kai...

The Heavy Cruiser comes along with the typical low grade back up as you would expect, a bunch of feeble destoyers and one flagship light cruiser so the battle is easy to win.... till the last fight...

The last battle has you up against...

Yeah the last thing I need to see is Abyssal Naka greeting me as a meat shield for the target ship. As one would expect, she there specifically for THAT reason. To take hits, so I ultimately had to change up my team and bring in some heavy pitchers to remove the threat. Surpriseingly it wasn't needed as I managed to killed the Ri-class in the day fight leavign the rest of my Kanmusus to kill the CL Demon at night. Battle was over and could claim my wonderful prizes!

1 Iroka, 1 Mamiya, 1 Carpenter Fairy, and a Prototype 51cm Twin Cannon! So I'm already pretty happy with these rewards.

Anyways now I'm moving on to the second map:

The Second Curry Operation!

The second Curry Operation is a combined fleets map so you will be using 2 fleets for this map and well.. it's more trolly than the first one, I'll give it credit for that... but I'll cover the details on this later on... in the meantime I did get to the boss once...

Honestly though, I'm considering setting up a Carrier Task force though... as the Surface Assault Squardron can only do so much. I'll go more in depth on this later tonight following my stream as always. But that cover my report for this update.

Sixten · « **Reply #941 on:** April 29, 2015, 06:53:06 PM »

Quote from: Kasu on April 29, 2015, 06:09:18 PM

I've been running the south route and I've been having a fairly easy time of it so far. The first two nodes are duds meaning you only have to enter three battles and the crossroads at the second node is one where you can pick your route, so I always head north. The last crossroads after the fourth node is the LoS check to the boss.

I think what he means is "When you're at Node F and are given the choice to go north to E or south (west) to H, why would you ever go to H?"

The only reason I can think of is that Node H leads to Node J, which can drop the extremely rare carrier, Unryu. But who wants Unryu anyway when the far superior Katsuragi is a reward for clearing the map?

Kasu · « **Reply #942 on:** April 29, 2015, 07:21:18 PM »

Quote from: Sixten on April 29, 2015, 06:53:06 PM

I think what he means is "When you're at Node F and are given the choice to go north to E or south (west) to H, why would you ever go to H?"

The only reason I can think of is that Node H leads to Node J, which can drop the extremely rare carrier, Unryu. But who wants Unryu anyway when the far superior Katsuragi is a reward for clearing the map?

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The only reason I can think of is that Node H leads to Node J, which can drop the extremely rare carrier, Unryu. But who wants Unryu anyway when the far superior Katsuragi is a reward for clearing the map?

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Node J, which can drop the extremely rare carrier, Unryu. But who wants Unryu anyway

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Unryu

WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED OF THIS.

I KNOW WHAT I'M RUNNING IF I BEAT THE EVENT.

Raitaki · « **Reply #943 on:** April 29, 2015, 07:44:58 PM »

Aight, first time reaching E-2 boss node was an astounding success. Managed to get air parity despite only having 1 carrier, and my escort ship had enough firepower to shred the boss at night as well. Now the real question is whether I can beat it before I run out of fuel from feeding 4 battleships ; v;

Shadow · « **Reply #944 on:** April 29, 2015, 08:44:08 PM »

Using a Carrier Task Force, I tackled E-2 with surprising effectiveness. After a retreat at Node G during the first run, I cruised smoothly towards the Boss Node, where my shipgirls proceeded to sink the Armored Carrier Princess within daytime shelling. I think I can manage to do this for the five remaining kills, though this Air Superiority approach is costing me between 300 and 500 bauxite every run. The repercussions of not having any better Fighters than Type 52s, I suppose.

However, the best prize arrived unexpectedly after this success:

Yes! Now I have all 4 fleets unlocked. ^^

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #945 on:** April 29, 2015, 10:09:46 PM »

I did... it.... I did it!!!!!!!!!!!! I redeemed myself from last E-2's defeat: Just a note also... I used surface fleet 4 times and compared to that I had an easier time with carrier fleet on the last two kills.

Funny that it was Kaga Kai who stole the win.

And I got a rare drop to boot:

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I'm so happy:

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Here is my fleet:

Main Fleet:

Escort Fleet:

Zengar Zombolt · « **Reply #946 on:** April 29, 2015, 10:45:26 PM »

Augh.
I know, I should have prepared. I'm certain that I won't be even clearing E-2, Carrier Taskforce is getting 2-3 red girls on node E right away. So welp!

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #947 on:** April 29, 2015, 10:54:46 PM »

LOL E-3 Easy mode is just piss poor easy... just a few scratches although.... CL Demon is on close to boss node, nothing to worry though a few shots to her face made her go home. 1/7 kills done just waiting for Maya and Haruna to get out of the tub.

Raitaki · « **Reply #948 on:** April 29, 2015, 11:05:37 PM »

Welp, just a little over 1k fuel left. Only 3 kills in. Time to switch back to carrier task force and hope for the best >_> Not gonna ever bother with diamond formation anymore, I need them crits, and I need them fast :I

Though this means once again it's up to the escort fleet to play bullet time and hope they don't get blasted to smithereens....bleh. Fun.

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #949 on:** April 30, 2015, 12:43:05 AM »

E-3 is so fun for Transportation kill quests.~

Calamity · « **Reply #950 on:** April 30, 2015, 03:31:03 AM »

Quote from: Sixten on April 29, 2015, 06:53:06 PM

Unryu

sheeeeeeeeet

I shouldn't have done E-2 on medium...

Oh well. I'm clearing E-4 on hard, let's hope this map's dead end loop has good drops later. Wanko 2.0 dies in day battle pretty easily.

Also Katsuragi's BAKA line is too good.

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #951 on:** April 30, 2015, 03:34:17 AM »

E-3 Easy Mode beaten now to recover my supplies for E-4 and hope I get lucky with better drop than I have gotten:

Gpop · « **Reply #952 on:** April 30, 2015, 04:29:37 AM »

E-1 and E-2 beaten easily.

E-1 took 7 out of 5 tries, the first 2 tries sent me back because of Yukikaze inability to dodge, so I switched her out for Amatsukaze and lo and behold, we sink the boss easily the next 5 tries, even when the CL demon appears. I used 2CL 4DD here.

E-2 beaten in 6 tries. This was a joke really. I used a Carrier force with 3CV 2FBB 1CA for the first fleet and 2DD 1CL 1CLT 1CA 1FBB for the second fleet. Killed the boss the first 5 times in day battle, last battle required night battle but we killed her off easily.

Onto E-3 tomorrow or so :V

Raitaki · « **Reply #953 on:** April 30, 2015, 04:52:49 AM »

KILL ME. History repeated itself...Verniy wasted her cut-in on a destroyer, and everyone else missed their night attacks....42 hp left on boss ;-;

....It's a lot easier now with a carrier task force now that I just use the 4th formation exclusively >_> I'm never bothering with diamond formation again :V And it appears torpedo bombers are a lot worse than I thought they were, added 3 slots of torpedo bombers, and it wasn't that much different from the damage I get from dive bombing with just 2 slots of Zuiun and 1 slot of Suisei 12-A. Kinda suspect most of my damage from aerial bombing is still from dive bombers, really, only torpedo bombers can actually crit.

Sixten · « **Reply #954 on:** April 30, 2015, 05:03:20 AM »

E-2 "hard" complete in 7 sorties. On my first try I got sent home when a lucky shot from a Ru Flagship got Ryujo right in the flight deck, but everything went smoothly after that.

Wonder Woman joined the Justice League.

(Katsuragi is gorgeous. Of all the shipgirls, I consider only Ryujo to be more beautiful than her.)

Totaku · « **Reply #955 on:** April 30, 2015, 05:35:25 AM »

Well. it's time for me to do the my stream again. I shall be doing E-2 tonight and hopfully beat it. A report will come later after the stream.

http://original.livestream.com/totaku

Shadow · « **Reply #956 on:** April 30, 2015, 07:12:12 AM »

E-2 has been cleared! Took exactly 11 sorties, must have used approximately 3000 bauxite and 12 Instant Repairs... somewhat taxing, but I'm content with the result:

And thus, Katsuragi joins my fleet as my first Event-rewarded shipgirl! ^^ Tomorrow, E-3 shall be tackled.

Giratina93 · « **Reply #957 on:** April 30, 2015, 05:56:36 PM »

Well, Totaku's stream last night was lolsy, with all the lag and shorting out livestreams. E3 definitely isn't a HARD map, per say, but it does look annoying as hell, especially with the southern route giving you a sadistic choice between Ru Blockade if you stay south, or Evil Naka if you go north. I'm just amazed that he managed to beat it with a team of subpar ship girls.

Raitaki · « **Reply #958 on:** April 30, 2015, 05:57:57 PM »

E-2 finally beaten, with my resources taking heavy damage. This could have been prevented, but whatever ; v;

E-3's no slow BBs or CVs restriction continues to prove that I need to spread out the exp some more ; v; Easy looks easy alright, making me want to do Medium, buut the concentration of flagship-level ships on Medium is giving me pause, I've never encountered more than 3 on the same route before, much less with an underleveled fleet. Guess I'll give it a shot, and if things don't look pretty switch back to Easy.

Sixten · « **Reply #959 on:** April 30, 2015, 06:24:31 PM »

Quote from: Giratina93 on April 30, 2015, 05:56:36 PM

Well, Totaku's stream last night was lolsy, with all the lag and shorting out livestreams. E3 definitely isn't a HARD map, per say, but it does look annoying as hell, especially with the southern route giving you a sadistic choice between Ru Blockade if you stay south, or Evil Naka if you go north. I'm just amazed that he managed to beat it with a team of subpar ship girls.

The thing about Evil Naka in E-3 is that sometimes you get lucky and she doesn't bother to show up at her node.

I took 2CVL / 1FBB / 1CAV / 2DD (bench and third-string ships, with one of the CVLs being a Level 32 Shoho) to E-3 Hard. That combination forces you to take a sub node followed by the Evil Naka node every time. (Edit: It is possible to go to the choose-your-path node with that kind of fleet - it just never happened in my first 10 or so runs.) Sure, that can mean instant go home when Evil Naka fires a torpedo. But sometimes she isn't even there, and all you have to deal with is a Light Carrier Nu-Class Flagship, which is usually an easy pass. I've been sent home early a couple times, but I was able to get three boss kills, with no need for sparkling or a support expedition, even on hard mode.

E-3 seems to be a map that the game designers want you to beat using your bench players.