Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-31276692-20180118152124/@comment-32647310-20180118183708

From what I can tell, if you're going Easy Mode, I don't think you will have any problems at all.

However, if you still want some suggestions, here's my spare change:

- Focus on the 'Historicals'; get them to Kai Ni, or to the level where they would get their Kai Ni (for example, get Takao to somewhere between 65-75 even though she doesn't have a K2 or Yamashiro to 80, but don't give her the BP unless you have onle lying around). This is mostly to try and take advantage of whatever bonuses will be provided to these ships.

- Isuzu is very useful at K2 (auto-OASW, low-ish level and does not need a BP), and Ooyodo could use some love as she is a 4-slot CL with good stats.

- You seem to be running light on the aircraft front in that you do not seem to have a lot of strong planes. You may want some more Ryuusei Kais and stronger fighters (see my notes on your fighters below). Also, since you don't have a lot of Seaplane Fighters, you may want to consider making more of those.

- I would say you may want some more LBAA; if this event is going to be like the last one, you may want to have some more on hand so you can do a full LBAS strike.

- Upgrade your Iwamoto Squadron to +10 (Zuikaku can do this on Fridays and Saturdays...but it's costly). This will bring the fighter from an AA of 12 to an effective AA of 14.

Aircraft Notes:

While you have a good amount of Reppuus and they are good planes (especially for being buildable!), it should be noted that a +10 M52 Fighter (Skilled) is objectivly superior. At +10, an M52 (Skilled) has +2 to its AA stat, making it almost as good as the Iwamoto Squadron.

Now, upgrading a M52 (Skilled) is pretty expensive in materials across the board, but there is a repeatable (monthly) quest chain that allows you to make M21 (Skilled) and turn it into M52 (Skilled) and the stars from upgrades transfer over.

The quest chain is thus: F22 (turn a >> M21 into a M21 (Skilled). You must have a Skilled Cewmember for this quest, as it is consumed). The follow-on is F24 (or F25 if you have alrady done F24).

If you use a +10 M21 for F22, the +10 transfers over, making it a +10 M21 (Skilled). The same is also true if you use a +10 M21 (Skilled) for F24/25.

As a point of clarity, you can upgrade your planes the hard way (M21  (Skilled)  -> M32  (Skilled)  -> M52  (Skilled) ), but it is expenisve to do it this way.

This is why I would say that for long-term development/improvement you may want to think about using this as a means to get some good, strong fighter support.