Summer 2015 Hard

e-1 (blue lock)
-kikuzuki, hiei, mikuma, kiso, jintsuu, yukikaze.
*kikuzuki for easy pathing

e-2 (blue lock)
suijou butai
-mutsu, hiei, choukai, mikuma, chiyoda (fcf), hiyou
-suzuya, kumano, kiso, jintsuu, yukikaze, shigure (I fucked up. Should have saved yuki and shigu for e-3/e-6)
*no more than 2 heavy ships (BB and CV)
*no AS requirement on this map, go all out on attack planes

e-3 (green lock)
kidou butai
-yamato, musashi, kaga, akagi, junyou (fcf), chitose
-abukuma (flagship torp cutin), kitakami, haguro, maya (aaci), ayanami, yuudachi (aaci) (Fucked up. Too trigger happy because I heard these 2 allows CLT in e-6. Found out later that the route is bullshit)
*2 CVL needed.
*go all out as this is a difficult map
*use torpedo bombers in largest slots or risk losing all of them. Large slot torpedo bombers also do a lot of airstrike damage.
*aircraft heavy map, bring AACI
*the preceding 3 points applies to e-6 and e-7 as well.

e-4 (yellow lock)
-kongou, haruna, fusou, shimakaze, fubuki (aaci), ryuujou (day route) (chipping)
-kongou, haruna, fusou, tone, souryuu, ryuujou (night route) (final run)
*kongou+haruna or hiei+kirishima will start at node B
*BDFHZ route rules:
Do you have Ryuujou?
Y: 2DD + 3whatever
N: Do you have the kongou pairs (Kongou+Haruna OR Hiei+Kirishima)?
Y: 2DD + 2whatever
N: Do you have yuudachi+akatsuki or harusame?
Y: 2BB + 2whatever
*no more than 4 heavy ships (BB and CV) on night route. Aside from that you can use whatever you want.
*installation boss, equip sanshikidan, wurfgerat and only red planes (force CV to attack trash)
*use the yasen route only on last run

e-5 (orange lock)
-nachi, chikuma, ooi, unryuu, akatsuki, hibiki
*needs 2DD and 1CAV for easy routing (BEDFIKZ). You can bring 3whatever along.
*alternatively bring akitsushima

e-6 (green lock)
kidou butai
-yamato, musashi, kaga, akagi, zuikaku, hiryuu (fcf)
-abukuma (flagship torp cutin), kirishima, haguro, maya (aaci), ayanami (torp cutin), hatsushimo (mixed cutin+aaci)
*CEGFJKZ is easier.
*The following setup forces you onto node A, allowing you to use CLT but leads to a night battle (not recommended)
1) Yuudachi + Ayanami
2) Fubuki + Furutaka
3) Hiei + Kirishima

e-7 (blue, green, and yellow lock)
kidou butai (chipping, more airstrike power, more shelling power in 2nd fleet)
-yamato, musashi, kaga, junyou (fcf), chitose, chiyoda
-myoukou/haguro, kongou, maya, abukuma, shigure, yukikaze
kidou butai (last kill, all out torpedo cutin in 2nd fleet)
-yamato, musashi, kaga, junyou (fcf), chitose, maya (aaci)
-myoukou (flagship, 2x torp, 1x red, lookouts), shigure, ayanami (torp cutin), kongou, abukuma (torp cutin), yukikaze
suijou butai (for debuffing)
-akitsumaru (fcf), nagato, hiei, kirishima, junyou, chiyoda
-kongou, ashigara, haguro, abukuma, yuudachi, ayanami
*boss can be debuffed by S-ranking nodes x and y around 3 times each. Effect stacks and resets at midnight JP time.
*can use easy mode to debuff then switch to hard mode althought for obvious reasons this works only once.
*random compass at the beginning, node D and node J
*suijou butai goes south 75% of the time.
*akitsumaru in the main fleet will guarantee going south with suijou butai and guarantees going from D to H, allowing you to get both X and Y in one sortie. There is however a small chance to get sent to node A (dead end). This is the composition you want to use to debuff the boss. Bring sanshiki as they are both installation types.
*kidou butai goes north 75% of the time and is the route you'll want to use to get to the boss.
*EGJM/LZ is the route you want to take.
*node J will go to M most of the time with kidou butai but has a small (5%?) chance to route to L (much harder).
*node J won't go to Y (off course) if:
CVL: MUST have 2 or 3
CV: Can have 1 or fewer.
BB: Can have 2 or fewer in main fleet. Can have 1 or fewer in escort fleet.
*highest AS is at node M with 396.


***reseved ships:
Nagato, Yamashiro, Shoukaku, Ooyodo