Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26858501-20150805164038/@comment-26232447-20150807194056

Hi, looking at your heavy fleets at lvls 40-50s while your light fleets (CL/CLT/DDs) in lvl10-30s, you'll need to get some levels into your light fleets more than your heavy fleets. On Easy mode.

1) You've 9 usable FBB/BB/BBVs > lvl 40s, in worst case, need around 8 ships ie. Surface Combine Fleet (4max.), Escort Fleet (2 max.), Support Fleet (2).

2) You've 3 usable CV(L) > lvl 40s, min. is 4 & worst case is 6 ships ie. CV combine fleet (4), Escort fleet (0), Support (2). So get 3 more - you can probably get away with low levels for the 2CV(L) for Support fleets - so last resort is to level at least 1 more. For low levels CV(L), usually planes over ship levels - get enough good planes and choose CV(L) with good plane slots for max. AS/Strike. Yes, you do need to rely on support fleet even on easy mode to clear later event maps.

3) CA/CAVs - usually won't need more than 4CA(V). You've Ashigara so level Maya up and 2 others. If you've Mogami, she remodels at lvl10 into CAV, usually its 1 CAV for routing. Chances are the Mogami/Suzuya routing combo in Spring won't be repeated for Summar (Solomon)..but its your decision on whether to level Mogami/Suzuya combo.(Suzuya CAV at lvl 35).

3) CLTs - Upgrade KTKM & Kiso and equipment them with Type As. They're heavy hitters and usually the make or break for a lot of the event maps.

4) CLs - Upgrade Isuzu for her AACI (closest option). Event maps will have a light or surface fleet going through air-battle node. Lack of AACI is bad esp. when facing CV Hime. Also upgrade Sendai for her night equips for night battle nodes and get a good CL along the way. Jintssu is probably best CL overall but she's not a priority over the other 2.

5) DDs - level up your 6 DDs. If you've better DDs (eg. Yukikaze, Shimakaze) - suggest to swap with Mutsuki class. For light fleet maps, usually 1CL+ 5DDs. Evasion is DDs main protecton, so increase lvls increase evasion. In combined fleet sorties, the escort fleet's 2DDs faces both day & night battles - they will get targeted a lot with opening air strikes, double day attacks, closing torp strikes & then go into night battle. The 2DDs used for escort fleet need to be much higher levels then the rest.

6) Levelling - If you don't have access to 3-2A, then 1-5 is your viable option. Don't use it for DDs/CLs alone. 1-2 CL/DD with ASW usually enough to take out the sub at 1-5A (< HQ 80, no opening torp strike). Add any other 4-5 ships that needs levelling. Then use pvp-levelling for hard to level or resource heavy ships.

7) Resources - run expeditions 5 & 21 for fuel & ammo while levelling 1-5A. Expedition 2 for buckets if you don't have enough. And you may want to stop using Musashi for time being since you can level 2 ships for same resources she consumes.

Cheers & good luck.