Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-173.59.254.124-20150803053510/@comment-26337499-20150803080115

At that HQ level you're not likely to get any good planes yet, so I disagree that you should be trying to craft those. Instead I would try to craft some anti-sub gear with 10-30-10-31 and a DD or CL as the flagship. Do PVP exercises against every opponent (unless they just have level 1 ships in which case it's a waste of time/resources) with Hiei, Maya, Ashigara, Kitakami and 2 others (preferably not the CVLs) - unless the opponent is a sub-heavy fleet in which case you send the anti sub team listed for 1-5. Even if you get a D rank you can still get good xp. Once you've got a few pieces of anti-sub gear, put them on the ships you will be using and do 1-5 nodes A-B-C/D with Sendai, Nagara, and 4 of Shirayuki, Akatsuki, Hibiki, Inazuma and Hatsuharu. Get all 7 of these to at least level 20 for kai - the extra health and equipment slots are a huge boost. The other DDs can be used for expeditions to get more resources - expedition 2 (for buckets) and 5 (for fuel and ammo) are good to do (using Kiso as your CL for expedition 5 as you won't be using her for combat) - if you find yourself needing bauxite later then expedition 6 is good for that.

Save up on your unneeded ships until AFTER the wanted ones get to kai, so that they can be used effectively on modernisation.

If you've got access to 1-5 you should have no difficulty doing the quest for Akagi - the boss node on 1-4 contains the enemy you need to kill for the last quest. You should definitely try to get her. Getting Jintsuu and Naka would be helpful for the third fleet, but unlike Akagi you can't guarantee that you'll get them, though there's a chance of getting them from the basic construction recipe, and from several nodes, including all those 1-5 nodes that you'll be doing.

Don't expect to go far with the event - completing E-2 should be considered a success, to be honest. And remember, it will run for several weeks so if there's something important that you're missing then you can always get it after the event starts (I did quite a lot of development last time around after the event had already begun). Take each stage one at a time, and you might decide that trying to get drops is more important than trying to push ahead with the event, and that's okay too.