those scars...
abyssal jintsuu made them...

So... Reiji training + Kashima = smiling sadist?

I LOVE IT.

thus the new newbie training menu created more trauma

Is Kashima that rare a drop? Even Kamio Reiji is in his "FUCKING FINALLY!!" mode.

OMGkillitwithfire said:

Is Kashima that rare a drop? Even Kamio Reiji is in his "FUCKING FINALLY!!" mode.

She is a reward

OMGkillitwithfire said:

Is Kashima that rare a drop? Even Kamio Reiji is in his "FUCKING FINALLY!!" mode.

You don't know how goddamned resource consuming Fall '15 E3 is.

It's the sole reason why I failed getting Graf despite clearing the event. 172 buckets consumed.

z905844 said:

It's the sole reason why I failed getting Graf despite clearing the event. 172 buckets consumed.

172 buckets? Is that for the Graf search alone or the whole thing? I managed to find Prinz, Akizuki, and Graf, but I ended up burning over 400 buckets on the event, lol. RIP resources.

nanaya88 said:

172 buckets? Is that for the Graf search alone or the whole thing? I managed to find Prinz, Akizuki, and Graf, but I ended up burning over 400 buckets on the event, lol. RIP resources.

That's only for E-3. And i started with 250 or so buckets on E-3.

I was only left with the odd 90~ buckets when i started farming E-4E, ended up with 10 buckets when i called a stop to farming and gathered back to 50 and cleared E-4 in medium and E-5 in easy. And then went back to farming and still no dice.

If E-3 had less bucket consumption, i would have pulled it off.

Officially AVH is on the same annoyance tier as gatekeeper-mode CVH.

z905844 said:

If E-3 had less bucket consumption, i would have pulled it off.

Officially AVH is on the same annoyance tier as gatekeeper-mode CVH.

Yeah, bucket use on that map was pretty bad. A combined fleet of mostly light ships almost guaranteed you'd be using at least 4 buckets per attempt.

E3 hard got me 200 buckets

Yeah.

OMGkillitwithfire said:

Is Kashima that rare a drop? Even Kamio Reiji is in his "FUCKING FINALLY!!" mode.

No, she's a clear reward for the map.

I suspect it's more that Kashima has cast the same spell him that she did on the artist community that has made the "Kashima" tag on here explode with hundreds of images in just a few weeks.

nanaya88 said:

172 buckets? Is that for the Graf search alone or the whole thing? I managed to find Prinz, Akizuki, and Graf, but I ended up burning over 400 buckets on the event, lol. RIP resources.

And you are still lucky. I spent over 400 buckets and have neither of them -.-

E3 hard cost me 250 buckets, 4 Irako, and 2 Damage Control
Oh yeah I do have Akitsumaru and I use both support, fuck that map in particular. I guess I understand how he felt

Resources used for event were 700 buckets, 40k fuel, 25k ammo, 20k steel, and minimal bauxite(Actually had more bauxite coming out of the event than going in). Graf took just 5 S-ranks whereas Prinz took 15 meaning I was very lucky there. But while Arashi was supposedly dropping even in A-rank it took me 200+ runs and slightly under 250 buckets. RNG is some weird shit.

.musouka said:

Resources used for event were 700 buckets, 40k fuel, 25k ammo, 20k steel, and minimal bauxite(Actually had more bauxite coming out of the event than going in). Graf took just 5 S-ranks whereas Prinz took 15 meaning I was very lucky there. But while Arashi was supposedly dropping even in A-rank it took me 200+ runs and slightly under 250 buckets. RNG is some weird shit.

Indeed RNG is weird, I not even took 100 buckets to complete E3 and completely deplete them (300) on my search for Graf that never drop (1 week full on search)

Operation over? So he just stopped at E-3?

.musouka said:

Operation over? So he just stopped at E-3?

She is the ultimate reward, so yeah. Most people stop at E3

OMGkillitwithfire said:

Is Kashima that rare a drop? Even Kamio Reiji is in his "FUCKING FINALLY!!" mode.

Fall 2015 E3 is cancer.

Imagine, you are using a light combined fleet. This means that at least 2/3 of your fleet are squishy DDs (4DD min in main fleet, 3DD min in escort fleet), the heaviest ships you can bring in main fleet are BBV, whereas the heaviest hitters in escort fleet are CA and CAV. And only light cruisers allowed are CL and training cruisers. So no Weekly Lesbian duo to make it easier.

It doesn't sound that bad if you have a bunch of nicely leveled DDs and CLs right? Wait, here is the best part. The event introduced the Supply Gauge in E2 (the map with Evil Jintsuu) and *ding dong* you gotta do it again with that squishy combined fleet!!! This means you gonna gimp almost all of your girls with drums or daihatsu (if you bring Akitsumaru and a seaplane tender in main fleet, bringing those means less BBV or not BBV at all). However, the main fleet can be loaded with nothing but drums and Daihatsu, excepted Akitsumaru who can Reppu Mule, whereas your escort can be loaded as normal, the idea is to leave the lifting to the escort fleet. If you dont have Akitsumaru tho, enjoy being routed to a yasen node with.... *drumroll* Your New Little Friends the PTB Imps! I tried doing it with Fusou instead of Akitsumaru. Fusou is now curling in a corner of the base, having PTSD about PTB and Surigao Strait. the 15.5cm secondary guns did nothing.

Now you'd think that you dont have to S-rank AV-hime as long as you can at least B-rank and A-rank. However, when the supply gauge hit its last bit, AV-hime seems to be stronger and WILL always find a way to F your fleet over and leave you a bunch of squishies barely able to fight in yasen. Enjoy your C or D rank and supply fail. Even sending the boss killing support fleet may get you unlucky.

Fall 2015 E3 is cancer. The map is the back alley that gang rape your girls and your resources and may leave you with barely anything to do the Graf/Pudding farming and complete E5 + Arashi farming.

EDIT:

Main transport fleet

Akitsumaru (tried switching with Fusou = BAD IDEA)
Mizuho
Hamakaze
Akigumo
Fubuki, switched with Akizuki later on
Z1

Akimaru was a reppu mule and Mizuho was not kai until the... 10th run or so.

Escort fleet

Jintsuu then switched to Abukuma K2
Prinz Eugen
Choukai
Hatsushimo then Ushio then back to Hatsushimo
Akatsuki
Yukikaze

Wiliam said:

She is the ultimate reward, so yeah. Most people stop at E3

I was looking for Graf Zepplin, somewhat satisfied by Kashima.

Question, is this supposed to be part of Fleet Journal, or this is not real since Kashima has never shown up yet in the comic?