Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-32647310-20180111034041/@comment-32647310-20180111222100

@Mob2104:

I have looked that site over, but there is nothing there that I don’t already get from KC3 Kai’s Strategy Room. When I say I don’t understand some things about the upgrades, I am talking about things like certain guns and equipment; I do not see an appreciable difference between a +6 T91 AP Shell and a +0 T91 AP Shell… so other than the daily crafting thing, I don’t see a reason to put any effort into these things.

This being said, I do understand the upgrading process (35.6cm Twin -> Prototype 35.6cm Triple)



That general rule-of-thumb about being able to get to the boss and at least get it taiha is a good one, and one that I will try to keep in mind for future events.



Thank you for your time an insight.



@Artie1207

My concern rests a bit with ship-locking as well, however, I suspect that this upcoming event will be similar to Fall in that if a map favors/caters to a certain fleet’s movements and actions, I will be ‘safe’ in using ships of that fleet or setting aside class/level equivalents…I just hope locking and such isn’t *too* insane!

You are correct about the lack of firepower for Fall 2017. At the time, the Fusou-Sisters were (kind of) the most powerful ships I had. While Roma, Richelieu, Kongou and Kirishima have better overall stats, the post-cap damage bonus given to the Fusou-Sisters clearly outstripped them.

As far as getting the Fusou-Sisters to K2, this is one of those things that I want to do, but I am ‘Blueprint Poor’ at the moment. Compounding this problem is the fact that there are a fair number of ships that require blueprints and are either ready to go right now, or will be ready to go relatively soon (most likely before the event starts) and all have pretty good reasons for getting the one blueprint I have right now and the one that I will have in February.

Again, upgrading them is something I want to do! But it’s hard to choose between them and someone like, say, Nagato or the upcoming Yamato-Class, you know?



With regard to upgrades:

I now that this is one of those ‘slowly over time’ deals; it’s just that as of right now, I don’t have anything to really invest in. As I mentioned, my primary focus (getting strong aircraft) has been met for the time being, so I am unsure what I should be putting my daily efforts towards.

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<p class="MsoNormal">This being said, the only thing I can realistically work on getting some Proto 35.6 guns. While I can work on upgrading some 41cm guns, I don’t see myself getting them to the Proto-stage any time soon, simply due to the general lack of New Model Artillery Materials and the difficulty in getting said materials.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Other Notes you mentioned:

<p class="MsoNormal">My daily crafting will, for the time being, focus on trying to get more Yamato-guns so I can have some spare materials for upgrading my 41cms.

<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t see myself working on any torpedoes. I mean, there is the Shimakaze quest, which is available, but it’s just not a priority at the moment.

<p class="MsoNormal">I do not see the inherent value in T4 Sonars other than help give ships OASW. As it stands, I have 5 DEs, Isuzu and Hamakaze who can all pull OASW if needed. Don’t get me wrong, I won’t turn one away, but I don’t see myself going out of my way to work on getting any of these right away. I am wrong here, please let me know!

<p class="MsoNormal">I am doing what I can with my LBAS aircraft. I figure that right now having 8 LBAS bombers is enough because even when given 3x airfields, one of those is going to be all aircraft to wear down some high air-power node…so there’s no real need for more of these.

<p class="MsoNormal">As far as the interceptors go, there’s painfully little that I can do other than the quarterly quest and pick rewards that provide them. At the very best, I can work on turning that Shiden M11 into a Shiden M21…but that’s prohibitively expensive for me right now, so, sadly, it will have to wait.

<p class="MsoNormal">I’m not certain about T2 Tank, I mean, I used it in Summer 2017 and it was pretty awesome when it hit… but I have a lot of other high-cost things to work on (now) that are far less circumstantial.

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<p class="MsoNormal">In any event, you have provided me some good insight and some things to direct my efforts towards, and I appreciate your time and assistance. Thank you.