Talk:Fall 2014 Event/@comment-24978536-20141109152644/@comment-24928130-20141109231306

Having your HQ level surpass your kanmusu's level is the normal I think. What Shizen posted are the exceptions of admirals who are dead on leveling certain kinds of ships. Having a 10+ level difference between your HQ level and your highest level kanmusu isn't a whole lot to be worried about. That gap closes FAST once you're in the 90s.

We've been around the block on this before (even before the Summer event), but having a more versatile fleet is much more important than having a few high level ones. Those of us who watched the Summer E-6 stream of that Japanese admiral getting destroyed with his high level fleet of Hotel, Musashi, Nagato, Mutsu, Kaga (?), and Akagi (?), will know the pain of trying to brute force the hardest maps. Most of us depended on a lighter fleet (ALL HAIL KTKM).

To further drive this home, I was HQ 103 during Summer event, but I used largely mid-70s to mid-80s ship for both AL and MI (even had to pull some level 50s in). The level 90s I used (BBs and CVs) didn't do a whole in the event. Suffice to say, I had very little problems getting to E-6.

Anyways, the devs have already hinted at what kind of ships will be needed for the event and combined fleet is back (which will make some maps incredibly easy). Look at what you have in your fleet and plan accordingly. The worse enemy of the event is yourself, whether you have the persistence to carrying on in a difficult map or vent by LSCing is up to you.