Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-27467402-20170731014326/@comment-26366865-20170731032942

Yams are pretty nice. wrote: Yeah, I'm missing some key ships (Taihou, Yamato, Musashi, Ooyodo). I've cut back on LSC in order to build up resources, but should I be trying for any of these ships/grind 1-6? LSC’ing right before an event is a bad idea, but definitely do so after you’re done. Losing two attacks because some DD scratched your CV into chuuha can easily cost you a run on Hard, and the Yamatos, while not sortied often, really make a difference when you just want to brute force your way through – which can, in some cases, be a good strategy (see Fall’16 E-4 for an example). As for Ooyodo, just farm her on the event. It’s really not worth wasting time on 1-6’s comically low drop rate.

As for the all-Hard: your ships look fine, but I would definitely level the AVs some more, as they are commonly used for routing on TCF maps. Your resources should be enough for clearing and farming, as long as you wait for proper information and farm on Easy before clearing – I don't think your buckets would last long on a large-event Hard farming. You should also start considering Maruyu farming, if you aren’t doing it already (after the event, of course).

As for equipment: the lack of FCF will likely cost you some sanity, so be prepared for that. You also really need to start investing in more prototype cannons – stacking accuracy is very important for dealing with those Late-model Kai DDs and their insane evasion. Same goes for RADARs – T22s just won’t cut it, and I don’t think you even have enough of those for a proper support fleet.

Your LBAS doesn’t look good either. You don’t seem to have enough land planes to fill 3 bases worth of attackers (hopefully they are simply not in the list), and you really need to invest into better long range fighters – namely, M21 (skilled), either by upgrading them from the quest or farming ships that have them (most likely Souryuu, as she also comes with a great dive bomber for support expeditions). Sending planes without a fighter escort is going to cost you a mountain of bauxite, and sending bases full of fighters to cripple the boss node’s carriers has repeatedly been a great strategy, especially for farming. Taiteis are similarly important, so get more if you have the chance.

Finally, please don’t be that guy sortieing with Mixed CI and then asking why the map is so difficult. Bad setups simply won’t work on Hard, so make sure you know the optimal setups for every one of your ships.