I haven't had time to write the report yet, but I'm on E-2... and I should have that done tonight if all goes well. And maybe I'll get to posting about it later...
Kancolle Fall 2015 Transport Event: Night of the Hunt? - Day 2 Let's slaughter the prey as we make our deliveries!
http://original.livestream.com/totakuAnd Stream done, it went WAAY over.
Let me give you the summary thus far...
E-1 - Preparing for the Transport Operation: How to bullboze over a simple fleet with minumal effort.This starting operation by far the biggest what I ever faced. You're littlerally sent in with a stong combine fleet and as an end result... this map is going to be of very little concern....
I opted for a
Surface Task froce to care of the operation and used the following:
Fleet 1:
Kongou, Haruna, Aoba, Kinugasa, Ryuuhou and Houshou
(Yes I went in with a big handicap... intentionally, just to see what danger this map posed to me.)
Fleet 2:
Hayasui, Yahagi, Shiyatsuyu, Murasame, Harusame, Atago
Basiclly all the fleets here presented no threat.....
By using this fleet set up I could easily plow to the boss 99% of the time. The boss is a Ne-Class Heavy Cruiser, which as we know is Tough and Super dodgy.
Along with the boss was a Destoyer Hime, and a bunch of late model destoyers.
End result... It all came to an end way too fast.
And I wasn't event trying during this session. So yeah... it was just a complete snoozefest as I blew through everything....
So with the completion of E-1 I got....
A Carpenter Fairy, x2 Irakos, A reinforcement expansion, and a skilled lookout!So yeah nice prize for a start up map that felt like I ran over it without even trying....
E-2 - The Battle of Kolombangara (or Korone Hagira in this case) AKA How to transport supplies and win doing it.This is an event map that comes
STRAIGHT out of WWII history. If you didn't bother to read up on the history involving this map. You're in for a
BAD TIME. As this map requires you to have a
VERY SPECIFIC fleet set up to make it as successful as possible.
Long story short, who you need in your fleet is...
Jintsuu, Hamakaze, Yukikaze, Satsuki and Mikazuki... you can have also one more destroyer. In my case I used
Akebono to get her out of the way.
If you're missing or not using some members of the fleet, you're bound to get misdirected into either an extra sub node, or a more dangerous node. So to ensure you go the safest route, you have to take this specific group of ship girls!
The first note you'll confront with this team is a batch of LM Destoyers... they can be either really obnoxious, or easy going. Depending on the confrontation and formation.
The Second node you go to is a night battle where you fight 3 heavy cruisers and 3 DDs.... this battle here is straight out of the battle of Kolmongara itself in a sense. The enemies won't pose much of a threat here, but be aware they may score a lucky hit at times... especially on your two Mutsuki-class girls if you bring them here....
The third node you reach is the supply point... this part is the most crucial part of the event...
When you reach this node, you'll obtain supplies. but you can also get more if you use
Steel Drum CanistersWhen you reach this point, get the supplies and then reach the boss node. In order to win the map, you have to make it through the boss node with
A rank or higher.Afterward the fight you're rewarded with how many supplies you bring back... depending on the rank (A or higher) and the supply containing materials you use (drums and Daihatsus). You will earn a number of points. You objective is to clear out the point gauge by drop off supplies in the location till the bar is depleted... once depleted, you'll automaticlly win the map...
You do not need to defeat the boss of this map to do this.
As for the boss herself.... you face off against....
Light Cruiser HimeAs you can probably tell this is the
Abyssal persona of Jintsuu since you fight her right around where she sunk at.
The CL hime is slightly obnoxious but in a more unusual way.
In day battle she can be painful to some ship girls since she's at risk of damaging you. But she's more of a problem if you fight her in night battle with other ships present.... because.... she has a
searchlight. And she can use this to draw the attention of your ship girls to tank hits while the other ships can sometimes get a chance to score shots at you.
She comes with a pair of CLs and some LM DDs. But in the final Transport drop, she'll come with 3 LM Elite DDs and also be a lot stronger.
Sadly I could not kill her in the last fight, but as expected I completed the map since I scored an A rank
So as for my rewards, I got in Mamiya, 2x Reinforcement expansions, x2 Steel Drum Canisters and a Repair Goddess.
So yeahnot too bad ATM.
