I'm going to type up about E-2 Later as there's a lot that happened that night. The good news is I passed it so now I'm going to get read for the first major Big game hunt!
E-3:
Hunt for the Seaplane Tender of the Deep Abysshttp://original.livestream.com/totakuNow for the report...
E-2 The Despreate Struggle with a Demon Cruiser.....If there's one thing I learned quickly after playing E-2 is that I can no longer take these fights lightly. E-2 has turned into a massively draining process because I tried to take on by just bashing things repeatedly.
E-2 is a combined fleet map and you can choose to go either The Carrier route or the Surface Route... it's often prefer to take the surface route unless you're going to go on the Carrier Route to fine Unryuu or something because the Wos upthere are dangerous...
The surface route has you going up against a few simple fights, one with some destroyers and cruiser, the second consisting of subs, and the third one is where you'll often be challenged... The Ne Class Node, which has two Ne classes along with 2 Ri and some destoyers.
Making it past that will give you a stroll through the Transport node which is fun since you can complete your quests associated with it.
Finally you reach your main target....
The Light Cruiser DemonThe Light Cruiser Demon is a obnoxious boss who can hit pretty hard and is quite an opponent. She's not exactly hard, but she also doesn't fall easily either.
The main concern with her usuaully comes from her torpedoes. But anyways, in the initial fight, she comes with two Tas (one gold and one Red) A Ne and some destroyers.
These fights are easy if you can manage them, but since you're low on fuel, it may be problematic.But it's the final kill that gave me the hardest fight as her Tas become replaced with a Ne and a BBhime!
The BB Hime is pretty much a barricade that'll plague your fleet in many an operation on hard mode. Since she's there to pretty much absorb damage.
I took 5 tries with it under a normal approach before resorting to a support fleet to finish off the boss. That alone also took 5 tries until I was successful.
It doesn't help that I also took an under level fleet with me for the operation. Mainly the weaker batch of DDs I have, Ise and Hyuuga (who I trained specifically for this operation.)
What I ended up doing was sending a support Fleet to aid me in he final kill. This also took 5 tries before I was successful at taking her down in the end.
My advice to anyone playing hard difficulty.... sparkle your fleets! Don't just around, JUST DO IT. This event is way more serious compared to anything I've seen any other time and, if you're expected to beat hard mode, you're going to need to sparkle ALOT!
Anyways, with the CL demon down it was time to claim my bounty which was.... a reinforment expansion, 2 rations .... a type 91 AA firedirector...... (For hard mode?!!! COME ON!!!!) and the big prize of this section....
Shiyatsuyu Class DD Kawakaze
Kawakaze being a Shiyatsuyu DD is pretty much on par with most of her sisters... but she does have a strong track record in history in taking down several destoyers in her actual history, so she may become important. Otherwise, she does come with a Type B gun + Type 22 radard upon kai.
E-3 The Seaplane Tender and how the Error Cat denied the kill...I'm not done with this map yet, but I did decide to partake in it to see how it fare out...as of this point, I'm no longer joking around with the maps so I've decided to sparkle both the first and second fleets of the team!
with the team I took the north route which I considered the quickest to reach my destination. It consist of 1 regular battle, 1 Air battle, and 1 more bigger battle before the boss.
The first fight and the air battle are pretty generic... but it should be noted that this will also be the first possible times you'll encounter a new variation of the Wo-class flagship now armed with a new variant of Takoyaki planes. These planes are surprisingly dangerous and you will be tested to your limits. Especially the fighter which are good at taking down some of your experienced planes.
The Per boss node has a few nasty ships in the team consisting of a Ta-Class, a Ne class, some DD, and the new wo flagships.
Besides that, if you make it to the boss, you'll encounter your main target...
The Seaplane Tender HimeThe Seaplane Tender Hime is remarkablly tough for a boss primarly because of her tough armor, but also because she comes with a group of somewhat strong abyssal.
Two Carrier Onis, 1 Ne-Class, and 2 DDs, This set up is equivalent to the normal final form. So you will NEED a lot of fighters to make this winnable. I've only had a few stabs with it. Primarily to see if my fleet could handle it... On the most part: They can! It just boils down to how many planes are left alive for the rest of the carrier team to fight back.
The Seaplane Tender Hime is usually comes with a hellcat fighter, a per preemptive torpedo strike and her firepower... is underwhelming.... but that's besides the point...
The real issue is her Onis that can act as a meat sheild for her. If you're not quick enough to take them down, then the night battle might become hard.
That and also when this happens...
I think the game's telling me to take a brake and come back later tonight to try again...
But yeah I think an all sparkle fleet was a smart move for here... The rest just rides on how everything sets up... I hear the final kill is almost the same thing, just that the Hime is more powerful...
But also if you're lucky enough you might be able to ronud up this as your prize if you can beat down all the enemies in the boss node...
SeaPlane Tender MizuhoShe may not seem like it, but she's considered the not too distant cousin to the Chitose-class in terms of seaplane tenders, and she has decent stats to boot for one. So she may be a little more useful compared to others.. but otherwise, as a seaplane tender, she does allow for you to do some tasks you may otherwise not be able to do unless you had a spare Chiyoda / Chitose lying around....
That's it from me so far. I'm going to take a stab at this later on and see what happens....
