Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26490231-20150719144806/@comment-26289480-20150720063430

you need 4 Reppeu at least, plus more Shiden kai on top.

Passable is 6 Reppeu plus numerous Shiden.

Ideal is 10 Reppeu, (eventually you have to remove 2 to craft a Reppeu 601 for a quest)

SS is used for speical purposes. I will try to give a few examples:

1) tanking, 3-2A leveling is the perfect example, it allows safe leveling of all big ships at least (CA, CVL even CL can leech) Costing 0 buckets and worry free. This is invaluable bec it saves precious buckets.

2) tanking no 2. For exmaple 4-5 One of the way to beat the map is bring 4BB1SS1CV. Boss is a land installation and will attack SS before anything else. Hence your BBs are safe from boss attack and can dish out full dmg, improving the chances you will beat the boss. (Same case for E5 during Spring event 2014)

3)Sneaking pass really hard maps, 2-4 is doable with 1 SS only. So you can progress much faster to level up in 3-2. Rather than wasting time and effort trying to beat 2-4 with big ships. Same case for 3-4 and 5-3. Both can be very very diffculties maps to beat otherwise. SS is very resources friendly, although drain your sanity meter like crazy if you try to sneak pass these maps.

4)Resources gathering, Solo 2-3, and few other maps you can use SS to gather reosuces for free. It is tedicious and sanity draining, but a way to get more resouces.

5) Complete dailes/weekly quests, like 50 supply ships, 20 carriers, Beat map 2 boss 5 times. You can do nearly all sortie weekly and dailies quests with SS, which will save you resources.

So SS are super useful and important in this game.

Hell you can even use 3BB3SS to beat the hardest EX map in the game (5-5). WARNING DONT TRY THIS!