Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-31583651-20170323151435/@comment-26336020-20170325052214

Check the combined fleet page for composition requirements for CTF, STF and transport fleets. They all require 2-3 DDs minimum. Since it'll be easy you can just reuse them throughout the maps, but know that once you try medium and above you'll have to start obeying ship locking requirements. You'll need at least 3 BB, 3 CV(L) a CL to cover the most basic requirements for all these.

Only Shimakaze and Yukikaze (iirc) are the rare destroyers that are buildable that are capable enough at kai. Yes this winter's map was easy, there were only 3 maps afterall. Normal events have about 5 maps and bigger have 7+. The very basics of kancolle is modernize firepower, torpedo and armor stats and look through the combat page for weapon setups, they have a large impact in your combat ability. That's one reason to at least have the correct weapon types available when you need them. Typically 2 green/red guns + extra  for DD, 2 red guns  + extra  for CL, 2 red guns + recon plane + extra for CA and BB, 4 planes on CV(L) need green, red and blue planes depends on how much fighter power the enemy has.

Please if you guys don't have hundreds of buckets already, start sending 4 DD on expedition 2 to complete your expedition dailies. Try to open up expedition 21, as it's one of the earliest good fuel/ammo expeditions.