Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-27572786-20160408212355/@comment-1853279-20160408220247

It's always hard to guess what you will need, and often I've found it's equipment that can set you back just as often as your ships and levels. I'll focus on your ships, though, and with the knowledge that it will be large scale, so that we'll see a bit of everything:

Work on getting Nagato to 50. Your fast battleships are fine. BBVs -- possibly fine, but likely Ise or Hyuuga to 50.

CVs -- work on getting 2 more to 60 or 70. Hiryuu Kai Ni is good if you can manage it in time. Finding Kaga would improve your fortunes as well. Light carriers, you probably want all of those at 50 or 60.

Heavy cruisers, you're probably okay on. They're the backbone of boss killing, often. Aviation cruisers can be useful, work on getting Mogami to 50. Light cruisers, you're good to go. Ooyodo, Yuubari and Abukuma Kai Ni are missing from your toolkit, but the last and first of those might be hard to get up to par in time. Your CLTs are fine.

Destroyers, you might be okay. It is likely there will be at least one map with a transport combined fleet, which requires 7 destroyers. However, the ones in the 'main' fleet will be too busy holding drums and/or daihatsu to really contribute, anyway, so those can be in the 40s or 50s.

Submarines have never been a major factor in any event I've been a part of. Auxiliaries are also hard to tell. Having at least one or two AVs that aren't Akitsushima prepared won't hurt. Akitsumaru is also quite useful in some circumstances, but there likely isn't time to waste resources on LSC for her.