E3 Hard cleared. It was a lot easier than it first looked. You shouldn't have put a FBB in your second fleet, I cleared E3 with ship levels averaging 70-75.
EDIT: Doing E-4 Normal instead. While I could probably handle Hard, I need to farm for Unryuu here so I'd rather not shoot myself in the foot. As long as I still get a medal, it's all fine.
EDIT2: E-4 Normal Cleared. CV Hime was a lot tankier than I expected, had quite a bunch of unclean kills.
E3 Hard Guide
BB/BB/CAV/CAV/CVL/CVL + CL/CA/4DD. Accept no substitutes.
CEHK is piss easy with only 2 battles (E is fuel maelstrom) and the only problem is the prenode's BB Hime. However, her accuracy is pretty bad; she didn't make me retreat once.
4 kills to clear the map.
Getting AS is extremely easy before the last kill, you only need 84. However, the last kill ramps it to 306 so just get above 136 for parity.
Searchlight on DD flagship (preferrably a high luck DD for CI), Night Recon on CA, 2 star shells among the 3 other DDs.
I used a boss support on the last kill only. Ironically, I failed when support sank 2 DDs the first time, then I won when they did a total of 30 damage the second time.
U-511, 2 rocket artillery (one from U-511, one from clearing the map), 2 medals, 4 screws.
CEHK is piss easy with only 2 battles (E is fuel maelstrom) and the only problem is the prenode's BB Hime. However, her accuracy is pretty bad; she didn't make me retreat once.
4 kills to clear the map.
Getting AS is extremely easy before the last kill, you only need 84. However, the last kill ramps it to 306 so just get above 136 for parity.
Searchlight on DD flagship (preferrably a high luck DD for CI), Night Recon on CA, 2 star shells among the 3 other DDs.
I used a boss support on the last kill only. Ironically, I failed when support sank 2 DDs the first time, then I won when they did a total of 30 damage the second time.
U-511, 2 rocket artillery (one from U-511, one from clearing the map), 2 medals, 4 screws.
EDIT: Doing E-4 Normal instead. While I could probably handle Hard, I need to farm for Unryuu here so I'd rather not shoot myself in the foot. As long as I still get a medal, it's all fine.
EDIT2: E-4 Normal Cleared. CV Hime was a lot tankier than I expected, had quite a bunch of unclean kills.
E4 Normal "Guide"?
Really, just 2DD2BB2CV. 2DD is required as per branching rules. Air power of around 240-250 upon reaching boss is enough. I felt that using AP shells on my BBs were more effective than just a radar.
Katori, 1 Medal, 3 Screws (3 less screws than Hard, otherwise the rest is the same). Helllloooo teacher.
Katori, 1 Medal, 3 Screws (3 less screws than Hard, otherwise the rest is the same). Helllloooo teacher.