Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26772887-20150729133038/@comment-26289480-20150729231633

if you just want to clear full easy be sure to have the following fleet (lvl 50+ at least)

4DD 2CL 2CLT 2CA 2CAV 2CVL 4BB 4CV.

If you want to do medium, you have to deal with shiplock, which i dont think you can handle. although a few maps in medium should be ok. (probabaly those eariler maps without shplock)

Stremespoats already give you the list to work on so i will not repeat.

I dont think you need 8 DD, 6 should be fine event to deal with shiplock. (provided you have some backup)

Regarding grinding BB for levels, yeah they use a decent amount of resources but nothing too bad.

If you follow my guide at 3-2A grind you will be fine, http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:290345

Also You should be running expedition with sparkle to maxmize your income and yes sit under soft cap. No need to go beyond that. You need all the resources you can get your hand on. That includes natural regen.