KanColle Fall 2015 E-1 Debriefing

 Done with "Transport operation! Sweep up the front" a.k.a the first event map for this Fall's event.  I did this map in normal difficulty.  As you can see, this map requires a combine fleet, depending on the type of fleet (surface or aircraft) you might get directed to an undesirable route.  I went for a surface task force with 1 CV, 1 BB, 4 CA as the main fleet and 1 CA, 1 CL and 4 DD as escorts.   My fleet composition and expenses are shown below.

No event drop for this map.  I did get Uzuki which is in the high-tier of rare destroyers.  Uzuki  is a Mutsuki-Class destroyer.  Screenshot taken immediately after event to take note of the resource level after E-1.

I'm hitting E-2 while I'm writing this. Geez.  One more thing that happened in between is the remodeling of Souryuu to Kai 2. 

Like Hiryuu, most of Souryuu's Kai 2 planes are elite versions of earlier IJN aircraft, in contrast to Katsuragi's Type 52Cs, Souryuu gets Type 21s.   At least I get to relegate one more Reppu to the CVLs.  

Over and out. 

KanColle Fall 2015: A Medium Scale Operation

And here I am thinking it's gonna be grand with 18-24 ships deploying during harder nodes.  So, just a quick update on how things are going right now in the fleet.  A separate E-1 Summary will be posted once I'm done with it.

The usual ship locking is present once again.  Though ship locking is irrelevant when you're doing easy but then I wanted to try harder this season so I went for medium/normal difficulty on E-1.  Anyway, since I didn't want to commit my higher level ships, I decided to remodel somebody who has been largely forgotten since last summer, the reason being she needs blueprints to upgrade.  Enter Katsuragi.   Her remodel comes with elite planes, allowing me to relieve some Reppu and Suisei off for the CVLs. 

E-1, E-2, E-3 are green tag maps.  Meaning any ship used here will not be usable on E-4.  E-4 being the last map in the operation.  I relegated most of my "no-kai2" destroyers and CAs to the task.  I might also rush to upgrade Unryuu (Katsuragi's sister ship) to allow me to dedicate the 1st and 2nd Carrier Divisions to E-4.  As of this moment, I have 5 deployable  CVs. 

I have read reports/articles about E-4 having a submarine boss.  And I know full well I only have 3 Type 3 projectors/depth charges.  I should procure more Type 3s. 

Stay tuned for the next update. 

Fleet Rearmament and Modernization Report: Mutsuki Kai 2, Kisaragi Kai 2, Hiryuu Kai 2

Fall 2015 will commence after November 18 maintenance.  I managed to remodel two more DDs and one CV.  

Mutsuki and Kisaragi are the first two of Mutsuki Class.  They originally didn't have names assigned to them but thanks to a miracle of bureaucracy, they were given names.  While Mutsuki is the name ship of the class, Kisaragi was actually commissioned first.  Kisaragi was also lost early in the war during the Battle of Wake Island.

Probably the last to be remodeled prior to the event is Hiryuu.  Hiryuu is the last carrier to be sunk during Midway. She probably has the highest luck among the carriers in the 1st and 2nd Carrier Div.  Her second remodel offers elite aircraft that comes at rank II. I might use them to clear event maps that don't have batshit AAA on them.

As announced, Part 2 of "The Economics of Large-Scale Fleet Operations" will be posted as soon as the aforementioned maintenance is done.  Sally ho, comrades. 

The Economics of Large-Scale Fleet Operations Part 1: A Summer 2015 Postmortem

Note:  I assigned a unit of tonnes.  The reason being is KanColle doesn't have units in-game. 

Before the start of the event, August 10, I had:

855 buckets
114,514 tonnes of fuel
135,305 tonnes of ammunition
90,099 beams of steel
68,762 tonnes of bauxite

The the end of the event, September 6, I had: 

267 buckets
30,209 tonnes of fuel
117,272 tonnes of ammunition
20,970 tonnes to steel
43,533 tonnes of bauxite

The Operation lasted for 27 days. Consumption as follows:

588 buckets
84,305 tonnes of fuel
18,033 tonnes of ammunition
69,129 tonnes of steel
25,229 tonnes of bauxite

Average consumption per day:

resource / event_duration
rounded off

588 / 27 = 22 buckets
84,305 / 27 = 3,122 tonnes of fuel
18,033 / 27 = 667 tonnes of ammunition
69,129 / 27 = 2560 tonnes of steel
25,229 / 27 = 934 tonnes of bauxite

Graphs below. 

Today is 11/16.  Autumn 2015 Event incoming.  Part 2 will be all about recovering resources from September 6th to whatever date Part 2 will be posted. 

EVN Critic / Reviewer Catalog Project

Should I even?  I mean I've followed a bunch on facebook and youtube, and I'm pretty sure there's a lot of lists already available.  Why not review the reviewer?  Oh hell no.. this isn't like auditing.

This is just a random though.  It may materialize or not.