Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-27119040-20151025182007/@comment-26464279-20151025205452

That doesn't look too good for medium and depending on the maps it might be better to aim for an easy clear/farming instead of wasting resources with medium tries.

Depending on the number of ship locks and Combined Fleet maps you might need at least 4 Destroyers at lvl~40+ with firepower, torpedo and armor stats maxed for map 2+ in full medium.

Additionally the first map in the last events was a map mainly for DD/CL and even though it was quite easy to beat even with mid level ships and hard difficulty that's another 3 to 5 DDs (in case ship locking applies to that map) you might need there if not for a "detour" with heavier ships available. However you don't want to lock your important ships at the first map.

What you should do for sure is waiting for intel and don't play the first days of the event if you intend to clear some maps in medium difficulty to get the better clear rewards.

As soon as there is enough data on the ship lock, branching rules, enemies and map rewards you can try to go in and beat the maps. You should not waste too many resources and back out for an easier difficulty

Re. leveling

-Most important independent of the difficulty would probably be to get up CV(L)s to lvl ~40 to 50.

You need at least 2 (max. 4) CV(L)s for a Combined Carrier Taskforce and a Combined Surface Taskforce allows up to 1CV or 2 CVL.

If you have the time prepare 2 of each CV and CVL with at least Type 52 Fighters for AS requirements, better Shiden K2 or Reppuu if you have them. Akagi and Kaga are really good CVs and you might want to level them after the event.

You can get them up without many problems in 3-2 together with a FS that needs leveling too and a submarine in the last slot.

-Your BBs are looking ok. You might want to give Bismarck a blueprint if you can get it next month. For easy 6 BB should be enough (4 main fleet + 2 FBB escort fleet). Bring Kongou to K2 at lvl 75 and level 2 of the remaining Kongou-class to lvl ~40 so you can place them in the escort fleet of a Surface Taskforce (Does not allow slow BB).

-Both types of Combined Fleets need a CL in the Escort Fleet. Getting Sendai or Jintsuu to K2 is probably impossible in the time left so you should focus on getting Yuubari to at least lvl 50 and max out her armor, firepower and torpedo stats. For future events you might want to level Sendai to K2 for the night battle equipment and Jintsuu is a good backup with her high stats for a CL. Else there are Kuma and Tama with high stats even without a K2 remoddel and Ooyodo with a 4th slot like Yuubari which can be used for night battle or anti-sub equipment.

-CAs are the most common ships used to fill in the missing slots of combined fleets as they have good firepower and the HP and armor to also take a few hits every now and then. They also can equip Type 3 shells for fights against installation type bosses and the 4th slot comes in handy for night equipment.

The best "first aid" would be Kinugasa as she has a low remodel level (lvl 55) and gives you good equipment. Else having 2 Kai'd CAs at lvl ~40 should suffice for easy difficulty.

Last event there also was a branching rule involving a CAV. Having Mogami Kai at ~lvl 20 to 30 might be enough depending on the map if you want to be on the safe side but right now we know literally nothing about branching rules and map difficulty.

For the event after this you should get Maya to K2 together with at least two other CAs and one high level CAV. Tone-class K2 would be perfect as CAV but Mogami-class should also suffice if you don't have the blueprint needed. You also need CA(V) for some of the later maps because of branching rules.

-CLTs make your life much easier but there is a chance that they get shut out due to branching rules as it happened last event. However having Kitakami and Ooi at K2 does never hurt and you might consider leveling them after this event.

One last thing: Keep in mind that you need at least 5 free ship slots and a bunch of free equipment slots to sortie on an event map.