Time to write up the report:
E-1: The Ta who ran like a cowardIf I had anything to say about the first map, it's that I slightly underestimated it for Hardcore mode I expected the E-1 map to be slightly easier... It was still easy but otherwise it did have a slippery slope.
Basiclly the map is a combined fleet map that has you doing some simple battles. The best way to handle the map is to use an all fast fleet with 5 DDs in the front. As it'll lead to the quickest path through the map. Which I'll descirbe here.
First Battle has mainly light cruisers and DDs nothing special.
You then go north with said fleet. Not having this requirements will send you to the south and you'll have to go through two fighter down there instead of one.
The battle to the north path mainly consists of 1-2 Rus, 2-3 Ris and some DDs if I recall correctly. More harder, but should be manageable.
You're then take to a path where you can select a path to go either to the east or north.
You only want to go north if you're going to farm for some rare kanmusus like Akitsumaru, Hayashimo, Maruyus and the like.
In the mean time the east takes you to a sub battle. Nothing special since they're all ka-classes.
But after that you'll hit the pre-boss node which is the most intimidating of them all...
Yeah.... you can get either a battleship hime or a Carrier Hime here which can make life rather painful. But otherwise it's not that big of a bother if you have your FCF on.
Then you reach the boss node where you fight a Ta-Class Flagship with a Tsu-class elite, some late model DDs and some PT Imps.
Honestly this fight is less painful than the pre-boss node. When you get here, you know you're going to win it. So there's little to worry about by then.
About 12 battles later, I managed to take out the meager threat beating the map.
My prizes were 1x Mamiya, 2x Irako, 2x Battle Rations and...
A Daihatsu with Type 89 Tank + Marines! This made the playing hard mode worth it since I had needed to diversavy my Amphibious assult fleet with some Daihatsus suitable for the kanmusus that can't use a tank. Honestly the only painful part was that I lost more buckets than expected, but that's because I used plenty of my weaker ships in the fleet for this operation.
Let's see how I do handling the Landing protion of the campagin.... which actuallly is going to start.. now!
E-2 The art of Hardcore Amphibious Warfarehttps://www.twitch.tv/totaku2
