Need help building 4 fleets for harbiter
#Harbiter Help
frigid bluff
Do you want one fleet for each armor type, or all fleets specialized for a specific harbiter?
brave jetty
just the current one
if its possible with the one fleet for each armor type, please do so 🙏
the fleets i got right now kinda focuses on each armor type but it didnt beat harbiter so im out of options
nova robin
How much did it do?
frigid bluff
Harbiter this month is Strength, who has medium armor. Her abilities are shield every 20s to that can absorb 20% worth of her max HP and last for 5s, so you want to avoid striking during that window. Her other abilities are just stat buffs that you can't do anything about.
Not sure you are able to beat it to be honest, you're lacking a lot of good bossing backline ships and I suspect your gear isn't up to task either.
Looking at ships now but I'm only really seeing two fleets at most worth of bossing capable ships, and they wouldn't be all that great.
brave jetty
frigid bluff
Oh, there's more than the first screen shot
brave jetty
yeah forgot to add this one ig
been gone for 2 years so i didnt get the meta ships 🗿
frigid bluff
Fleet 1: Haku/Shinano/Ark Royal, Anchorage/Sirius/Shimakaze
Fleet 2: NJ/Vanguard/Ulrich, Agir/Helena/Yuudachi.
Fleet 3: FdG/Monarch/Georgia, Kron/kawakaze/Sandy
Fleet 4: Vittorio/Aquila/Enterprise, Sanfran/JdA/Suzutsuki
Gearing them is a whole other thing ....
brave jetty
if it means anything, doing the harbiter rn made me realize that my vanguard's dying way too fast (30s on timer)
frigid bluff
Yeah this one will eat your vanguard if it gets caught in bad spots. You can quit the run and retry if it goes bad early on. You'll want surviability auxes on all of them.
For Fleet 1, try to get airstrike timing to 23s+, if you have the purple manjuu item that helps but I doubt you'd have three.
Fleet 2 try to fire before 18ish seconds, Ulrich will do her own thing.
Fleet 3 is the sketchiest, they'll add some damage but not a ton. Either stagger their shots like with Musashi gun or try to make them fire early to avoid the barrier, this fleet doesn't have a stop or any support buffs for damage so timing isn't that important.
Fleet 4 will make use of preloads, Try to get Enty to launch either well before 20s or after 23ish. Vanguard is pretty flimsy on this one, might be worth swapping Kron into the front so it can survive because it'll do more than fleet 3.
A lot will depend on what you have gearwise.
brave jetty
ill screenshot my equips rn
nova robin
Haku Shinano august kron, one of ibuki augment or Shimakaze, and sirius
NJ UvH Vanguard Aegir Helena Jeanne (use AFCT/HSFCR and enough autoloaders to get to 19-20s reload)
FdG howe warspite anchorage sandy cheshire
Enterprise Independence Ticonderoga San Fran yuudachi baltimore
frigid bluff
You think Ticonderoga and Warspite are worth using?
nova robin
The better BB fleet with agir Jeanne is expected to survive for four salvos, and the other three fleets just try to get 2 salvos or 2 airstrikes in 50 seconds
I don't know what unique augments they have, there are a few better options but not by much
frigid bluff
Is your AvP at FS5?
nova robin
I would hope so with a dev 30 haku 
brave jetty
Is your AvP at FS5?
nope, lmao
frigid bluff
Then definitely Ark Royal, AvP not at Fs5 is unusuable for slows.
nova robin
How tf do you have agir and haku both dev 30 without the gold ships fs5
brave jetty
uhhhhhhhhh idk but i do have anchorage at fs5 (only her)
nova robin
Even dev 30 avp I would take over ark though because she does more damage, just reroll the battle if you need to
frigid bluff
Eh.
Where are all your converging torp bombers? I only see the junkers. Where are the ryuuseis?
brave jetty
most of these screenshots are probably redundant 💀
last image here
frigid bluff
Ah, found them
brave jetty
i also have a bit of room for gear lab
frigid bluff
Use the converging torp bombers as needed to sync up timings on CVs, the messers can go in fighter only slots
nova robin
Current fleet:
Also if you did 75% with these fleets then you should be able to do 100% with the improved fleets if you use similar gear. But whether that gear is good is a different question
frigid bluff
For BBs ... throw that musashi gun on Ulrich, she can make use of it.
nova robin
And did you manual at all or time your subs?
brave jetty
oh shit, no i did not
frigid bluff
Champy guns otherwise
brave jetty
And did you manual at all or time your subs?
i will do that NOW 💀
nova robin
Well it's basically required to manually hold the CV airstrikes until the 20s barrier expires
frigid bluff
"Timing subs" means calling them in not at the very start so they don't pop up and die before the battle is over.
Yeah holding the cv airstrikes is the easiest way to get around the barrier timing. Though I'm surprised that's being recommended given how averse everyone in GPH is to any mention of manual play.
If we are including manual play as an option, vanguard survivability is much less of an issue. You can avoid the most damaging barrages.
brave jetty
its a one time thing so it should be ok
brave jetty
Fleet 1: Haku/Shinano/Ark Royal, Anchorage/Sirius/Shimakaze
Fleet 2: NJ/Vanguar...
is this in order of battle or nah
frigid bluff
Battle order doesn't matter (for this harbiter. IF it had zombie skill it would). Only thing that'll carry between battles is sub hp, so don't let them get wiped out on the first 3 battles. They can die on the fourth.
nova robin
BB gear should look like that for anyone not named UvH
Maybe Vanguard doesn't need the autoloader
No big difference though
BBs should auto
frigid bluff
Remember you can use healing kits on the subs between battles, top them off on HP before going to the next round. So long as they don't sink you're good.
brave jetty
god i sure hope i remember my old kits before changing to these
also idt i have enough champy guns lmao
frigid bluff
You can save your current kits in the loadout bars, if you want.
brave jetty
ah ok
frigid bluff
You can make champy guns in gear lab
brave jetty
ayt will try this out and see how it goes
brave jetty
ok so update on harbiter: i got it down to 8% so i guess ill just keep retrying until i get lucky (and get the sub timing better)