Talk:Winter 2016 Event/@comment-27768175-20160209233753/@comment-4125495-20160210001722

You should give it a try anyway. Even if you can only clear the first map, you'll get some rewards and probably some drops that otherwise you will be waiting for a long time to get. You'll also have a few weeks to play so if you find you need to level something up, you should have time. Biggest issues probably just going to be a lack of high-end fighter aircraft and a lack of leveled up DDs, but the fact is that any Kai DD can be competitive if you modernize her and set her gear up right. Kai-2s and higher-leveled ships are obviously better but their improvement is incremental.

Even if it turns out you can't clear the whole event, going back and farming the first map will probably result in a few rarer ships you would struggle to get right now otherwise. Rares like Tanikaze, Nowaki, Tokitsukaze, Ooyodo, Akashi etc. are often boss drops in early maps. You generally don't hear a lot of veteran players talk about how good the drops are in early maps because we already have them all, but if you're a newer player the preponderance of drops especially on the boss are going to be really good.

So you should try it even if you're not confident. Don't be intimidated, you'll be surprised how well you can do if you take it slow and careful.