W15 fleet refinement

[sinful tusk]

Been revisiting my W15 comps since I want to push that content and wanted to get some thoughts on them before I tackle the last stage and grind the other stages to safe threat

And the more relevant ships in my dock that are leveled up right now
(Traf is lvl 120 and Nahk is not even D30 because I'm slow af)

W15 fleet refinement

[kind whale]

the typical setup would be something like

mob: musashi aquila unicorn z52 sandy eldridge

boss: alsace volga amagi/fritz
guam jeanne shimanto

with the support fleet being any of essex fritz implac hwah jah nakhimov

iirc you have to stagger support reload times as well

by giving them different 3rd planes

[sinful tusk]

Update 12 hours later:

• Managed to 3* both 15-1 and 15-2 after slotting in washing machines on the entire boss backline
• 15-3 is going smoothly as well

But I'm wondering two things rn, whether to replace Shimanto with Eldridge and to swap Fritz Rumey and Essex Kai around

[misty gust]

are you doing Mob boss Mob for 3 bosses

[sinful tusk]

That's the plan yeah

[misty gust]

then eld is wasted on boss

[sinful tusk]

oh yeah I forgot to mentioned I swapped Elridge for Z52 since I was having DPS issues on 15-2

[misty gust]

do you have zuihou

[kind whale]

uh you can run guam eldridge laffii

[wanton raptor]

I'd swap
Guam -> Z52
Napoli -> Guam
Soyuz -> Lion
Fighter or TB in Essex's 2nd slot
Drop the Manjuu on Aquila
swap Laffey 2 and San Diego

[kind whale]

but imo z52 eldridge sandy should be better

[misty gust]

z51

[sinful tusk]

is that for a Mob boss Mob boss knocking order or the inverse

[kind whale]

[wanton raptor]

could be either

[sinful tusk]

Hmmmm ight

how about swapping Essex and Fritz around? would that be a good idea?

or would losing the synergy with Yk2hurt Yk2

[kind whale]

this is also an option to make it less susceptible to planes but i dont think thatsa problem

[misty gust]

dps go out the window

[wanton raptor]

you could do that

[sinful tusk]

[misty gust]

is zuihou an option for you

[sinful tusk]

She's not leveled at all

[misty gust]

+2 hit and almost 2y since release

[sinful tusk]

I'm not a tech nerd yet
too lazy to be

[misty gust]

same

just use this
a good mix of dps and survivability

[sinful tusk]

I'll try this later then once I finish 3*'ing 15-3

Prob will end up swapping Eldridge and Shimanto around like Alpha posted

[misty gust]

use this, use mob boss mob or else you go kaboom

throw cyadin towel on eld probably

for an explaination
in MBM, your boss fleet is effectively doing one fight in the entire sortie
so id wanna stack crossfleet, such as alsace's thingy, indep's supporting wings, and essex's "best cv xfleet" barrage
to support your mob fleet
the frontline is whatever since the fight is easy

i picked z52, sandy and eld because z52 gives huge rdps and flagship cover, sandy has good dps and AA, eld is eld

[sinful tusk]

I see