Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-25390763-20151105000938/@comment-25390763-20151105040434

Jenesis33 wrote: Personally support needs a few things. what I am going to say is aginat some data mining/testing. So this is purely personal. If anyone disagree, feel free. I will not argue. I stress agian, this is personal.

1) You need sparkle and high level ships. No point using support with like lvl 50 BBs. Sparkle is super important too. Pre-boss support kind of have to sparkle anywya, and boss support although only need FS sparkle. it is highly recommended you should sparkle all (at least all BB and CV)

2) 2BB 2CV 2DD is the tried and tested setup. not much to tak about

3) DD should use triple radar, and go for chip damage (since this is % based, so can turn out to be quite a lot on high HP boss) or 3 gun (for high FP DD only like Poi)

4) Most CV needs 3 bombers to hit 150 FP cap (2nd divison needs 2 and so is 5th, but no one will support using 5th these days right?) Last spot radar. Kai radar is obviouslly better, but costly. Eguasa is the best. You want as much accraucy you can. Max expereinced bomber is better.

5) BB is questionable. depends on what you want to do. I usually go with 2 cannon + 2 radar. for better accraucy and clear smaller ships. If you want support to challenge bigger ships, you should use 3 cannon +1 radar.

6) BB should be loaded with weighted guns. 41cm for Nagato . Fusou class, 35.6 cm or 41 cm for kongou class (35.6 cm just have too little FP....)

7) BB should use Modfied gun or advanced gun like Proto 41 cm. I think this is super useful and makes a difference. But some testing says the other way. Again I stress this is my view only.

These are purely my view and my setup. It is proven to be super powerful.

Like in E7 press boss node. (the 2 Wo Kai node) My support + open aerial strike manage to sink everything bar one Wo kai. (yes it killed one Wo Kai) and in boss node, support heavily damaged (take 100-200 HP ) off 3 big ships. and killed 1 smaller ships. I can safely say I wouldnt beat E7 hard without support.

Saying that, somtimes people over use support. A lot of maps doesnt really need support. Speically for players lacking the gun/plane and high level ships i mentioned above (mostly missing a lot of good radars). It might do more harm than good, since they hardly do any damage and just eat your resources. But no one can deny support is the way to go for super hard maps. I might give supports a try Winter event. Thanks for the info.

And I'll definitely work on main gun improvements. Would one of you be willing to give me the best rundown of a weekly day-by-day equipment improvement plan?

I think my shells are fine, too. 4 of them, 2 at max. If I do use an FBB in escort fleet, it would probably be Bismarck with torp cut-in and a searchlight (unless installation, obviously), but it's rare that I used one anyway, and we never have more than 4 BB in the main fleet.