Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-32647310-20171015050812/@comment-232062-20171016194401

Rather than the static max stat pages those lovely green names made sortable lists a while back and those beat the shit out of having to endlessly scroll up and down compairing this stat and that stat across a bunch of DDs for example. Heres a shitty pain image that'll show you how to find it incase you don't know where the sortable lists are already.



That said, Peroim nailed it on all counts. Sure level and use girls you love because at the end of the day it's a game and it should be fun, but you might find getting your ass kick during event not so fun because you want to use cute girls rather than good girls... theres gotta be some balance. My very first blueprint went to Taigei>Ryuuhou because I just love her, and this way way back when there was only 1-5 2-5 3-5 and 5-5 (I couldnt even do 5-5 so it took more than a month for that first print), and I knew I was making the "wrong" choice and it was going to set me back a bit, but those are choices we all have to make and live with.

As for the methood of your madness... well to be frank, it's a whole lotta bullshit, guess work and assumptions about things that don't really matter. Don't take this the wrong way and get upset or defencive because virtualy every single player has done these things and it's just part of being a noob or still fairly new. I curse like a sailor and tend not to beat around the bush so even if I come off as and asshole just ignore that and search for the usefull bits of info.

Just because you can put together a transport escort of mostly good ships dosen't mean anything, event's dont consist of just 1 stage and you just taged all your good girls potentially barring them from Med/Hard on later stages if the tag colors dont qualify. Every single combined fleet needs at least 2 DD and if you burn all the good ones in a transport escort you'll be left shoving to low level weaklings into an otherwise sound fleet comp.

The max stat/sortable pages will put an end to the is she good guesswork.

K2 stock equipment dosen't mean nearly as much as you might think. For the most part they are just a by-product of getting the actual prize which is the K2 ship, in the not too distant future you will literally be awash in searchlights and starshells so K2'ing Ayanami for those rather than for a top notch fighting DD is the absolute wrong way of looking at it. The 12.7B K2 (poi gun) is just a stop gap untill you've got several 10cm aafd's (Aki guns). Just speaking of Akizuki class also brings up aaci, Aerial Combat you're going to need a crystal clear understanding of not only how it works but what to use on who and when.

Agano class are cute but they are utter shit. They use more fuel and ammo than the top 7 CLs (in terms of combat stas) and have nothing special to offer your fleet like the 4slot CLs. In terms of events and combined fleets, CLs kinda get the short end of the stick, Combined Fleet, CTF uses 1 and only 1, STF can use up to 3 (2 in main 1 in escort) and transport escort uses 1. I'll say it again, this doesn't mean to level or use them, but don't skimp on the CLs that actually bring something legit to the table.

Again, maxstat/sortable will clear up any confusion with the CAs and their value.

For CAVs, again.. maxstatsortable blah blah but I will point out - Though your Chikuma and (eventually) Tone are CAs they will eventually become your 2 best CAVs, untill then you should put work into Suzuya and Kumano simply because of their forward growth potential (K2 and conversion to CVL), unlike Mogami and Mikuma, So since you absolutely need working CAVs you might as well invest in ones that have room to grow, its kinda 2 birds with 1 stone type deal.

Good on Jun'you and RJ, you don't need to focus level them, just do as you are doing and incorperate them into fleets whenever you can without weakening the fleet toomuch, they make good escort carriers in 3-2a fleets for example.

3 Wg's good! your life sucks substantially less by having those, even if you dont need to use them this event.

I sink lvl 1 or 2 DD's that get popped while sparkling all the time, fuckit they were just going to get thrown out anyway and you get more morale by going on and sinking them rather than retreating right away, if they get taiha'd on the first node of 1-1 fuck'em they deserve to be an artifical reef.

Best advice I can give you is explore the wiki constantly and re-read shit you think you already know. ask questions if you can't find the info or you don't feel you have a clear understanding of something, sure people might shit on you but it's the internet afterall, that's just part of the deal, ignore it and try and extract the nuggets of worthwhile info and put it to use.

I'm not even going to get into equipment improvment because that's a whole other can of worms and I'm sick of typing.