Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-121.7.12.210-20170103142245/@comment-232062-20170105083323

As a returning player you should brush up on your combat mechanics, there's all sorts of new stuff like Aircraft Proficiency, OASW, AACI is very common, and LBAS. Also take some time and look over the past event pages like Fall 2016 Event and try and get an idea of what it's going to look like and where information can be found

You need to understand Air superiority/supremecy, how to get it and how to utilize its effects, Artillery Spotting to be specific. Use an air power calculator like kancollecalcfc2  to plan the fighter power you'll need for AS/AS+ in any given situation, and fill the rest of the carrier slots with Torp bombers (Blue planes) and bring only 1 Saiun  other yellow planes are not necessary.

Combat/Main#Special Attacks pretty much lays out the standard fits. Anything that can use a seaplane to artilley spot uses the daytime double attack setup (2 red guns, a seaplane and a radar/ap if possible, a second seaplane if you dont have either) DD (which can't artyspot) use either nighttime double attack or torp cut in depending on their luck stat (40+ luck for cutin)

Some helpful pages - Ship Maximum Status , List of ships required by quests and expeditions, Sandbox/List of ships by combat performance, Equipment Ranking, Equipment Guide  User blog:Shinhwalee/Major Event Preparation Guide for Admirals  and  http://himeuta.org/showthread.php?649-Guide-Load-out-and-Equipment-how-to-get-your-Kanmusu-s-to-perform-at-their-best     That one's a bit dated on the variety of gear but still does a good job of laying out who uses what and when.