Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-31154453-20170126222310/@comment-26464279-20170127020436

You're rather low on both resources and ship levels, which might become a problem for you.

What you should try to do is:

-Bring Akagi to Kai level and modernize both her and Shoukaku as much as possible (Firepower and Armour are most important)

-Bring that CAV to level 30-40 if you can, but she's not really your top priority right now. I guess it's Mogami you have? Her 11 plane slot is good for a CAV even if her other stats are mediocre.

-Bring Isuzu to Kai Ni (Level 50). She will be your main ASW ship until your DDs are high enough leveled to perform opening ASW attacks.

-Get Kitakami and/or Ooi and get them at least to Kai and level 30+, preferrably Kai Ni (level 50).

-Bring some of your DDs to level 30 to 40. 4 would be good for the beginning, for a transport combined fleet you will need up to 11 later depending on branching rules but that would likely be too much right now and also in the past the maximum needed was not more than 7 DDs together with 5 ships of other allowed/required classes.

If you have them, Shimakaze and Yukikaze are your best picks. If not the other DDs are all rather close together except for Mutsuki-class and Kamikaze-class which are worse and Amatsukaze, Yamakaze & some Yuugumo-/Kagerou-class DDs that are above average.

Which CVLs do you have on Kai and what's the level of your BBVs?

Modernize Firepower and Armour of your BBs, CAs, CAV, CVLs & CVs as much as possible. Also modernize Torpedo and Armour stats of your DDs, CLs and if you get them Kitakami/Ooi. If you can also modernize the Firepower of them.

Your main leveling spot (beside pvp) for DDs and CLs should be 1-5A and for the other ships 3-2A. Naturally you can also take DDs/CLs to 3-2A and let them leech xp there.

Also for efficient 3-2A a submarine is used to tank damage from the enemy CLs and DDs, allowing you to level them with your other ships while avoiding large repair costs. If you only sortie with good morale you will also avoid spending too many resources on your leveling.

3-2A drops all Kongou-class and Myoukou-class ships and if you're lucky you can unlock your 3rd(?) and 4th fleets with the quests while you are leveling there.

Use daily crafts and try to craft more sonars and depth charges. Since those are cheap you will make a plus on resources with the daily craft quests but don't wast resources on crafting too much. Also don't waste resources on expensive BB/CV crafting.

Isuzu Kai Ni will give you 1 Air radar, 1 small Surface radar and a Type 3 Depth Charge if you can get her. If you want you can also Kai Ni Jintsuu (Level 60) to get her Searchlight and 2x Quadruple Oxygen torpedoes.

Your planes are probably in a bad shape too but it is no use wasting lots of bauxite and other resources at this point to craft better planes. Rather wait for the event to start and for the frontliners to gather information before crafting additional things you need.

Except for Fall 2016 there have always been installation type bosses on at least 1 map in recent events. You can try to craft 2 or 3 Sanshiki (Type 3 Shells) with daily crafts before the event starts or you also wait with crafting them until frontliners have revealed the enemies encountered in the event and craft them at that time if needed.

I guess someone else can add some more things to that or correct mistakes on my side where I was giving too much freedom for ships you seem to like (based on their level you posted) over ships you should level now.

At last I'd suggest you follow the KanColle dev twitter or check on the info in the event section until the event starts. Google translate is usually enough to get the important information from the dev tweets though.

Guess that got a bit longer.^^

Good luck for you during the preparation and the event. I hope you can enjoy your first high quality salt gathering and don't rush in too early or you might regret it.