Talk:Combat/@comment-121.106.230.108-20150228112101/@comment-84.90.161.45-20150301115011

Welcome to the game!

You don't need to clear 1-5, or any of the x-5 maps, to advance to the next world. They are only useful to farm medals at the beginning of every month, to do certain quests, or simply to farm ships and HQ exp.

About fleet compositions for certain maps, you should read the branching rules on the related world pages. For 1-5, for example, the 100% boss route compo is CVL, BBV, 2DD/CL. That's right, only 4 ships. 1 light carrier full of bombers and preferably a Saiun in the small slot to avoid Red T engagement, no green planes needed; 1 aviation battleship full of Zuiuns, no guns needed; 2 destroyers or 2 light cruisers or 1 destroyer and 1 light cruiser, preferably packed full of depth charges and sonars, no guns needed. Line Abreast formation all the way (the bottom left one).

About you getting a CV, there's that Akagi quest you can do, it rewards you with Akagi herself. Check the Quests page for more info.

About ship loadouts, check the Combat page, it has all the info about the combat mechanics that you will need along the way. For example, a good setup for CAs is 2x 20.3cm + 1 seaplane + 1 radar. It will allow her to do double attacks during the day if you get at least air superiority against the enemy fleet, and do double attacks at night.

The best all-round CLs you get early on are Nagara and Kuma. Yuubari has 4 slots in her Kai form, but she's fragile. If you get your hands on a Kiso, Ooi or Kitakami, keep them and level them up, they're the only CLs that turn into CLTs. Torpedo cruisers are very strong, they can equip the Type A Ko-Hyoteki (or midget sub), allowing them to do opening torpedo salvo which can wreck enemy ships before they are able to attack. They are also deadly in night combat, able to bring down a flagship rank enemy battleship easily with the right setup. Ooi and Kitakami turn into CLT at their Kai form, Kiso needs Kai Ni. People usually prefer to use Ooi and Kitakami over Kiso, but it never hurts to have all 3 of them.

Some DDs to look out for: Yuudachi (her Kai Ni is stronk as hell), Shigure (high luck, good for night cut-in setups), Hatsushimo (high AA stat, good for anti-air cut-ins), Yukikaze (same as Shigure, better stats, highest luck in game), Ayanami (same as Yuudachi), Shimakaze (high stats), Fubuki (her Kai Ni has good equips), Kagerou-class DDs (good stats), Mutsuki-class DDs (low consumption, good for expeditions), Yuugumo-class DDs (good equips from Kai form).

Other than that, lurk the wiki, love the wiki, I consider it the holy bible of all Kancolle players.

Hope this helps. Take it easy and, above all, have fun. And try to not get too mad at RNG-sama, it's just its way to act, nothing we can do about it.