Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26405816-20160406183701/@comment-26351458-20160407014408

Hi,

You'll be able to blitz through easy mode with what you have at the moment. However, I think you should prepare a larger pool of high level ships to finish the remaining maps on medium. Combined fleet/s are pretty much guaranteed, and there definitely will be ship-locking as the next event is large-scale.

Based on Death Usagi's event preparation guide, it is recommended to prepare at least:

10 DD - You're planning to remodel Ayanami which is good, I would also recommend Kasumi and Akatsuki. As for Ooshio, it depends on how many blueprints you have. (if you only have 1, then I would use it on Abukuma first)

4 CL - Apart from Abukuma, I would also recommend preparing Jintsuu k2, the most powerful CL. If time is an issue, then you can prepare Naka k2 (but Nagara and Kuma are just as powerful as Naka).

6 CA - I'm afraid Zara won't be highly effective during night battles (which are common at boss nodes), so I would vouch for Haguro k2 and Ashigara k2. If time is an issue, then at least prepare Takao/Atago kai (they've helped a lot on E-1H and E-2H in the past few events)

4 FBB - If fast fleets are needed for better branching, then I would recommend getting Hiei to k2. If you don't have your 4th fleet yet, then you should level grind at 3-2A since Kongou drops there as well.

4 CV - You can easily get Souryuu up to k2 in a single day of 3-2A grinding.

5 CVL - The same applies for Zuihou/Chitose. You can get their levels up to 60+ in a few hours at 3-2A.

I wouldn't prioritize levelling Ooi up to 90+ or Ooyodo to 75+, since the EVA/LoS/ASW bonuses aren't very significant (lv75 vs lv90) with RNG being a huge factor as well. You should allocate that time for someone like Haguro k2 instead. As for Michishio, it's up to you if you want to proactively k2 her; mine's only lv38, but I'm planning to k2 her reactively (if/after she's confirmed for branching rules).

The link below is a great guide for nonstop 3-2A grinding:

http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:290345

I would recommend sticking with a CV/L FS as it is much more consistent in my experience, and you have a few carriers to grind anyway. Hiei can also exp leech to lv75 this way (my Yamashiro and Fusou both leeched to lv99 at 3-2A).

The guide suggests 1 permanent CA and 1 CA in rotation, but I personally replace the permanent CA with any random ship that I want to train (e.g. 2-slot DD and auxillary ships).

As I mentioned earlier, Kongou drops at 3-2A so you definitely should start grinding there if you don't have your 4th fleet unlocked yet. You'll also get lots of modernization fodder which is important.

For expeditions, I would suggest 2, 5 and 21/37/38 depending on which resource you need the most. As reference, my resource difference from the previous event (all hard) looked like this (not accounting for expeditions/quests completed during the event): 27k fuel, 10k ammo, 28k steel, 500 baux, 154 buckets

For 21/37/38, I would recommend sparkling your DD, since it also contributes to completing Bw1.

As you probably know already, daily quests are an important source of buckets.

I won't comment much about equipment; seeing that you have Hatsuzuki, I'll assume that you already have at least 1 sanshikidan and some ASW gear. If you don't have lots of reppuu/ryuusei kai, then you can use 20/60/10/100 for daily development.

Good luck!