IMO, this map is probably the cheapest event final so far.
Where to start with this stupid map... They give you armor debuff and the usage of airfields right? So you immediately thought it is going to be the same as Spring 2016 and you are suppose to nuke the boss right?
LOL, NOPE.
Unless you played Spring 2016 all the way through Hard, you will probably not have enough good planes to reach the boss at the first place. The airfields are mostly useless in killing the boss anyway because the planes can hardly kill anything in the first place and it is pretty much a waste of resources in the long run. The airfields are mostly there to stop Seaport Summer Hime or shred the boss's Wo Flag Kai's planes.
Seaport Summer Hime followed by a night battle with up to two Dysons was just ... This setup up sent me back home more times then Spring 2016 E-7 every did. Good job Tanaka, you magnificent bastard.
Lastly, the worst sin of all in this map...
I can take Air Defense Hime's BS armor...
I can taking Central Hime's full Himes escorts...
But I refuse to take a 7(or 9) nodes trip that drain all of my fuels and lowers everyone's combat capabilities! The debilitating effect means reducing the boss bar took a really, really long time... (27ish B/C/D ranks to get her to last dance... holy crap)
Most of the time the boss fight boils down to praying for that super lucky snipe with a torpedo cut in between 4 or 5 meat shields! This is always the worst way to fight bosses in Kancolle! It is even more jarring when you realize the boss node itself is not hard at all when you have Hayasui. If you fight the node with resupply, the armor debuffs will make sure they go down really fast.
The Hard mode clear made me so royally annoyed. I REALLY HATE, HATE, HATE THIS STUPID MAP!!!!!!!
... Tanaka, don't ever stop what you are doing. Maps like this is why I play Kancolle.
I think this might be the first time I didn't see this admiral salty after an event
to be fair, Aquila have subpar stats, worse than Graf. As far Nimu is concerned... Well, you can still raise her friends' duplicates for Orel Cruising.
