This is a tough situation that you'll hit in most BBs in any nation in NF. As Compass said, rotate your supports so that the lowest ones are always on board. Use all five engineers, since this will accomplish two things:
1) You'll have a higher speed + more OH time. 2) You'll want them to level as quickly as possible with your crew so that you can hit the caps reasonably early in the Montana. 3) More speed = more range.
Then, use the 2 reps. More often than not, if you get hammered hard enough to worry about rep, you'll get finished before you can heal it. If you use two decent reps, you should be able to get at least 100-150 DP/sec by the time you reach Montana.
The biggest thing is to make sure you have 900SD at all times; it's unacceptable for a BB4+ to have less than 900. So if you have to go without AA in order to add two additional reps for the sake of SD, do that as long as necessary. Once you can hit the SD cap with just two reps, play that way with AA.
That's my advice, and it worked well for me. Good luck :3
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And lol:
"which I do have, but for it to work in this case I'd need to level only that one rep without any of my other crew or the level difference between them won't change, and trying to get an Iowa level rep to monty on a ship that has no other supports just seems too painful."
>>>> The idea isn't that the supports are the same level. The idea is that the supports are the near your first BO's level. When you level the other one, put ALL your supports, etc. on board. The support may not catch the other supports, but you'll be leveling your higher supports while the lower one catches your first BO.
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