Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-28251657-20160419172513/@comment-26464279-20160419183650

Depending on the early maps you might be able to start out in medium difficulty but it will probably be not more than easy mode for most of the event.

Going class by class your CLs are looking good and you don't need to train them for the next event.

Same for your CLTs where you are ready with all 3 of them.

Your DDs are looking good for easy with 5 of them being 55+. You can try to bring Shimakaze, Yuudachi and Yukikaze to level 60 or try to get Fubuki to K2 as reinforcement and strong Anti-Air DD.

CA(V)s: For now leave Kinugasa at her level and focus on Haguro K2. CAVs is your biggest problem in case you need one for branching. Bring Either of Kumano or Suzuya up to at least level 45-50 for now.

BBV are ok-ish with Fusou and Yamashiro in the late 50s. Having one of them Kai Ni would have helped but they are also decent at Kai.

Nagato-class and Kongou-class at around lvl 50 is also ok-ish. Depending on the time you have bringing one Kongou-class to K2 while having the others stay around lvl 50 might be a good idea if you don't havce the time level them and the Nagatos equally.

Chitose and Chiyoda K2 are good and Junyou at 44 is a bit to low level-wise, else you are really lacking here. Try to get Hiyou and Junyou to lvl 50-ish for the event and give your CVLs more love for the next one by K2-ing Junyou or Ryuujou.

Your CVs are just as bad as your CVLs. Taihou is nice to have and she will help you a lot but that's it. Kaga and Akagi are too low leveled here. Try to get them to at least level 50, better level 55.

Try to Kai Akashi in pvp to get the extra repair facility for a 3rd overnight repair place. That will help you empty your docks. But don't forget that those fleets can only heal light damaged ships (no chuuha/orange and taiha/red damage).

For after the event Hiryuu and Souryuu should get some attention from you together with the aforementioned Junyou or Ryuujou. Hiryuu and Souryuu K2 each have a quest line for a very strong plane that can help you in later events if you find something interesting to have there and even without the quests the planes you get (Tomonaga and Egusa squadron) are already plenty strong. Instead of Hiryuu and Souryuu you can also level up Shoukaku or Zuikaku but their K2 require blueprints and catapults which makes them a lot more complicated to get.

Mogami class CAV are mediocre ships and you might want to blueprint either one of the Tone-class to K2 after the event.

Also having multiple Kongou-class K2 will help you a lot later but you probably don't have the time to do that before the event. Haruna's K2 guns (35.6cm dazzle) are good and you are now also able to upgrade them with Akashi but she also has the highest remoddel level of the 4 Kongous so you might not want to level her now and level one of the other 3 instead if you have the time.

As for equipment:

You need 35.6cm guns for the Kongous. Combined fleet is giving a severe penalty on your accuracy and Kongou-class recieves an additional overweight penalty from everything above 35.6cm. With only 41cm guns you will hit almost nothing in combined fleet maps which makes it even harder to clear than with the weaker 35.6 guns that hit more often but are weaker.

Try to get a few more Ryuusei (Kai), Shiden K2 or Reppuu the next few days but don't overdo it. You should be able to fill the missing spots with Tenzan and Suisei.

Reason for that is that you are severly lacking Depth Charges and Sonar. We saw SubHime last two events and if she comes back you will need those so try crafting a few of them before the event and switch from crafting planes to crafdting ASW equipment in ~1 week.

For EOs: You can try to clear 2-5 south route with a 2CA, 2DD, 2CVL composition for an extra medal but stay away from 3-5 and higher before the event. Your resources and buckets will thank you for that.

2-5 BEHL route should be more than possible with your ships but don't force your way through if you feel like you can't beat it.