E-2 (Hard) clear data:
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R=Ship & Level & Equipment [standard] & Equipment [alternate]
R=[BBV] Ise & 80 Kai & Prototype 41cm
35.6cm [Dazzle Camo]
Surface 33 Radar
Zuiun Model 12 & [same]
R=[BBV] Hyuuga & 82 Kai & Prototype 41cm
35.6cm [Dazzle Camo]
Surface 33 Radar
Zuiun Model 12 & [same]
R=[CA] Myoukou & 73 Kai2 & 2x 20.3cm no.2
Surface 33 Radar
Type 0 Recon & [same]
R=[CAV] Mogami & 47 Kai & 20.3cm no.3
20.3cm no.2
Zuiun [634 Air]
Air 14 Radar & [same]
R=[CVL] Chiyoda & 79 Kai2 & Suisei [Egusa]
Tenzan [Tomonaga]
Saiun
Skilled Aircraft Maintenance Personnel & Ryuusei [601 Air]
Tenzan [Tomonaga]
Saiun
Skilled Aircraft Maintenance Personnel
R=[CVL] Hiyou & 80 Kai & 2x Suisei [601 Air]
Ryuusei [601 Air]
Skilled Aircraft Maintenance Personnel & Ryuusei [601 Air]
2x Tenzan [601 Air]
Skilled Aircraft Maintenance Personnel
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R=Ship & Level & Equipment [standard] & Equipment [final kill]
R=[CL] Natori & 54 Kai & 2x 15.5cm [yellow]
Searchlight & [same]
R=[CA] Takao & 53 Kai & 2x 20.3cm no.2
Surface 22 Kai4 Radar
Type 0 Recon & [same]
R=[CA] Atago & 62 Kai & 2x 20.3cm no.2
Surface 22 Kai4 Radar
Type 0 Recon & [same]
R=[CLT] Kiso & 70 Kai & 2x 15.5cm [yellow]
Ko-hyoteki & [same]
R=[DD] Kikuzuki & 54 Kai & 2x 10cm HA
Surface 33 Radar & 2x Quint O2 torpedo
Surface 33 Radar
R=[DD] Hamakaze & 56 Kai & 2x 10cm HA
Surface 33 Radar & 2x Quint O2 torpedo
Surface 33 Radar
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R=Node & Formation
R=A & Cruising [forward formation]
R=B & Anti-sub
R=E & Cruising [forward formation]
R=G & Cruising [forward formation]
R=Z [boss] & All-out [+ Yasen if required]
Notes:
Surface Task Force composition is used.
Had to research hard today, because I'm still not sure of the ideal compositions for each map. Therefore I'm taking it a little slower than usual, as I don't want to commit a critical routing ship to a map where she'll be ship-locked, like the last event when I used Ryuujou in E-3 and then found out that she enables a more consistent route in E-5. However, since E-1 ships can be used in E-2, I quickly threw together something using the E-1-locked ships and a few lesser-used ones, and tried it out.
First run didn't go quite according to plan, though, as I got to the boss but she escaped with about 140HP remaining. Goddamn those two escort BBs.
EDIT: Swapped equipment around a little, loading up on full torpedo bombers rather than the mixture of torpedo and dive bombers I had before. Also I note that I'm using 2x Tenzan (601 Air) instead of 2x Ryuusei Kai, as the Tenzan (601 Air) have accuracy-up stats. First clean kill in three attempts (second attempt was a retreat from the first node). Still not entirely convinced full torpedo bombers are the way forward, since the torpedoes have a high chance to miss, but they worked on the first try with the setup, so we'll see. I'm also not sure equipping both CVL with the SCAMP is a good idea either since they attack before the BBs and often miss/chip - when they do hit, it's pretty much a killing blow, though.
EDIT2 (13/08/15 @ 01:06):
Jesus Christ, that took entirely way too long to get the final kill. Perhaps ten attempts - and an unnecessary amount of buckets burned - with the majority of them being retreats when the enemy CA, BB or *shock* transport ship gets lucky and crits something in the first fleet. In the end, it took an extremely lucky opening torpedo bomber salvo (cleared one CA and one DD from the final fleet), followed by the
boss support expedition (yes, I resorted to that) taking out the other enemy CA, followed by Kiso actually targeting and killing the remaining DD with her opening torpedo, to get into a position to clear.
Even then, CL Demon survived with about 90HP, and it took Takao's no-ammo-left just-barely-double-crit in yasen to kill her.
All the while I was afraid that the idiots in the second fleet would aim for the BB escort. >_>
No notable drops besides a Kinugasa I'll probably speedlevel for the 20cm no.3. Onward to E-3.
