Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-32198889-20170704110345/@comment-26366865-20170704145943

First of all, you need to train enough ships to assemble all three types of combined fleets. That means you’ll need 7 DDs, 1 CL, 4 CAs, 2 CAVs, 4 BBs, 2 AVs, 4 CVs and 2 CVLs. Do note that this is just the absolute minimum required to sortie to maps with combined fleets, and you should keep at least one or two extra ships of each class to deal with different situations, and double those numbers if you want to deal with any type of shiplock (only a concern if doing Normal or higher).

Regarding your fleet specifically:

DD: focus on the heavy hitters and those with high luck first – Shigure, Ayanami, Akatsuki and Kasumi are all good picks and easy to obtain. Kasumi should be prioritized since she can equip all forms of Daihatsu, which is very important for dealing with installation bosses. Yukikaze and Shimakaze (if you get her) are also good choices, given that they can reach their full potential at level 20 – but you’ll want to give them more levels than that for evasion and accuracy. And since you already have Fubuki at a decent level, might as well get her to Kai Ni.

CL: Isuzu, Abukuma and Jintsuu, in that order. Isuzu is your best pick for OASW, Abukuma for the preemptive torps and Jintsuu for the highest FP in the class. Do note that you’ll need a blueprint for Abukuma.

CLT: get Ooi and Kiso to their Kai Ni levels. You can’t sortie CLTs to all maps, but they are fantastic on those where they can go.

CA: Get Maya to Kai Ni ASAP – her AACI will be extremely helpful in any map with a lot of carriers. You should also try and Kai Ni all 4 Myoukou sisters, but if you’re short on time, Takao and Atago have respectable battle stats at Kai.

CAV: try to find more Mogami-class ships, and get them to CAV form. Also, get Tone to her Kai Ni level – I personally think Abukuma is a better choice than her for using the blueprint, but if you can’t find another CAV, or manage to get another blueprint, she’s ready to be used as CAV.

BB: all 4 Kongou sisters to Kai Ni, in case we get a fast-only STF route. Feel free to give as many levels as possible to all you BBs though – it’s likely you’ll be using most of them often.

AV: get Chitose and Chiyoda AVs to a decent (~60) level – they are very squishy, so they’ll need levels for evasion.

CV: get all your CVs to level ~70, and see if you can find Hiryuu – her Kai Ni comes with great planes.

CVL: Chitose and Chiyoda (again) are the best picks for CVLs, since they get good performance at a lowish level (50), as well as being fast ships. Jun’you is the best of the class, so do train her if you find the time. Ryuujou is quite weak before her Kai Ni, so do train her if you plan on using her.

Equipment: get more of the top planes, fighters (Reppu and Shiden Kai Ni) and torpedo bombers (Ryuusei Kai) in particular, and try to craft some LBAS bombers – they are expensive, but get a damage bonus against quite a few bosses.

-Also, make sure you have at least 5 AP shells, to use your BBs’ most powerful setup, and 5 Type 3 shells, for dealing with installations.

-You’ll also want better ASW gear to deal with Sub Hime if she shows up again (which is likely, given how common she is as an early map boss). ASW gear is cheap to craft, so get to it.

-More RADARs would be very useful, but they are also expensive, so do prioritize planes before building them.

-I don’t know how feasible this is, but try and complete F33 for the Ka-Mi tank – it’s a great anti-installation DD equipment. You can use normal Daihatsu in its place, but they are significantly weaker.