Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-17358198-20160127063253/@comment-232062-20160127084020

You don't really need to level anything.. Your friend left you a pretty well rounded fleet. I can't tell from the pic, but if he didn't, you should work on Shoukaku/Zuikaku K2 and the plane conversion quests for them. You should be able to do full Hard, maybe some medium if the rewards suck and you don't feel like dealing with some preboss bullshit or something.

Since you got such a nice fleet handed to you I'll just copypaste the newbie bare minimum because having only played a month I don't think you fully appreciate what those shipgirls are capable of or have the same kind of understanding of the game as you would if you'd leveled them yourself. Unlike most new players who are trying to catch up by building their fleet, you just need to focus on learining the in's and out's of how the game works.

You need to understand Air superiority/supremecy, how to get it and how to utilize its effects, Artillery Spotting to be specific. Use http://kcascalculator.azurewebsites.net/ to plan the fighter power you'll need for AS/AS+ in any given situation, and fill the rest of the carrier slots with Torp bombers (Blue planes) and bring only 1 Saiun other yellow planes are not necessary.

Combat#Special Attacks pretty much lays out the standard fits. Anything that can use a seaplane to artilley spot uses the daytime double attack setup (2 red guns, a seaplane and a radar/ap if possible, a second seaplane if you dont have either) DD (which can't artyspot) use either nighttime double attack or torp cut in depending on their luck stat (40+ luck for cutin)

Forget Anti-air guns exist.

Winter 2016 Event - Right under the red timers there are E1-4 tabs for each of the stages, click one of them and you'll see a yellow box with 2 bullets about reporting your fleet and the enemy fleet. Use both of those to see what other people are using and what the enemy patterns will look like so you have an idea what you're going into. As the devs don't tell us jack shit about the event in advance you'll have to be patient and wait for users to fill in the information, but those 2 pages will help in the begining while other people flesh out the main page.

For expedition you'll want to keep doing 2 for buckets, 6 for baux, 21 for fuel and ammo, 37 for ammo and steel and 38 for fuel and steel.

Expedition#Support expedition Shelling support is the support exped used the vast majority of the time.

Some helpful pages - Ship Maximum Status , List of ships required by quests and expeditions, Sandbox/List of ships by combat performance, Equipment Ranking and http://www.himeuta.net/f6-kancolle-guides/guide-load-equipment-kanmusus-perform-767.html#P011    That one's a bit dated on the variety of gear but still does a good job of laying out who uses what and when. User blog:Hayashi H/Advanced Equipment Guide and prettymuch all the Hayashi blogs are good reads.