personal solution for E3 and E4
fleet1: bismarck + POW + lion + helena + lex + essex
fleet2: hood + andrea doria + [BBV for E3/rodney for E4] + brooklyn + sara + ark royal
fleet3: 6dd or 3dd+3cvl
use fleet 3 against enemy fleet of mainly SS, use fleet 1 and 2 for anything else. the reason i make 2 of identical composition fleet is because if one of them gets critically damaged, i still have a backup, if everything goes well, you shouldnt even need to use your fleet 2
mid damage protection is CRUCIAL in this event since you cant repair your ships in between waves, and that if flagship went red, you cant even burn damage control to make the fleet go fight
Hence use the 2 mid damage protection battleship/battlecruiser bismarck and hood as flagships for the fleets, and helena and brooklyn for the antisub ships to minimize the risk of having to retreat early
It is only me or e3 becomes more difficult every time i'll try? :( it seems i can't get through wave 4, they'll trashing me over and over again <_<.
How to reconnaisse on ex-2?
E-3 is bieng a pain for me too. high level ships and i go in and they get critically damaged onw ave 1/2, like Bruh. Lvl 98 Lex critical damage on wave 1...M8. then i got a level 20 battleship who is rocking fine XD
So you're telling me to use low level ship to do e-3? X_X
Seems I'm not the only one thought E3 is much harder than E4.
One possible solution is...if you have enough high level CVs, put them in one fleet and hope them can eliminate all the enemy without being damaged. Also you can use CVLs like ranger and hiyo with high aircraft carriage.
Then what you need to do is, just pray.
The annoying thing is that if a ship is sunk but the rest is perfectly fine you can't use that fleet anymore even if that ship is not the flagship, it's a bit unfair.
Yeah, finally passed through e3 now for e4, need to repair my fleets! :D
^ congrats im still stuck but im going at it again. i stocked up on some insta repairs so im semi good there, and took my Tallboy off Lex for another bomber (her Accuracy was getting pretty bad), so wish me luck <3
Already off to a bad start. the 4th fleet i picked from a friend had 6 lvl 100 carriers, so i thought lets go. used them once in a situation i needed them, Only Two had one fighter, rest had no planes period, RIP