Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26967105-20151111084122/@comment-26967105-20151121210232

Viikka wrote: Hi there! Glad to see you doing well! For me however.. RNG's been toying with me or just plain hates me now.. I'm still haven't truly started E-3 yet since I'm still farming for Akizuki in Easy mode. 27 runs and I still can't find her.... TT ▽ TT.

Anyways, lets see what your problems might be.

Your Kirishima and Haruna should be using 35.6cm Dual cannons, I'm assuming you're using Surface Task Force in that setup, (You probably are since that doesn't look like a Carrier one) and in Surface Task Force, your fleet's accuracy will be drastically reduced. Using fitted guns will allow you better accuracy, which means higher chance to blow up them abyssal ships! Unless of course you're still hitting them with reletive ease, otherwise, equipping fitted guns are a lot better than just pumping out maximum firepower. Remeber, you may hit like a truck, but if you miss, your firepower means nothing.

For ASW, seems fine but for a few minor things, Sendai's case, i'm not too sure, I don't think a nightscout can help too much during night battles against Submarines, you can opt to try out just using maximum ASW on Sendai instead of a nightscout. For Kitakami and Ooi, their Torp stats should be high enough by itself, so you should probably replace their torps with ASW gear, of course keep a midget sub on so they can still do opening strikes.

Try these and see how it works for you.

Good luck! And may RNGsus smile upon you. Akizuki is a pipe dream for me :( No Akitsumaru and a lone CAV-Kumano. I barely scraped through E-3. Good luck on your pursuit! and godspeed.

I did initially use the 35.6cm Twin Guns, but their accuracy was spot on, even with the 46cm Cannon, Kirishima almost always does more than 200 points damage to the BB Hime as long as she is not seriously damaged, Hiei was having issues with accuracy, so I swapped her out for Yamashiro. Haruna wasn't effective with her upgunned setup either and has been downgraded, she is now equipped with two 35.6cm Cannons. I held off on Mutsu and Yamato to cut costs.

As for the night scout, I had that doubt myself, I'll replace it with some ASW gear. I tried switching Maya and Ushio with some promising results, Ushio was able to do some serious damage since she could attack twice in the main fleet and Maya finished off what liitle health the BB Hime or Black Wo-Shooter had at night.

After I made the above post, I tried some crafting for Sonar and got three Type 3 Actives (I love you, Kashima!). I will soon finalize a farming setup, hopefully. Going to get some sleep now.

Good Hunting !