Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-35636900-20180731041211/@comment-32647310-20180801112202

The notes I made about your fighters is more of a long-term goal/ideal and something that will come in time. As you get more ships, more development and complete quests, you will get more and better planes

For shells, it's hard to say for the T3 shells; the Guide I posted suggests 3-4, so you're fine as-is. I personally prefer to have at least 6 to make sure I can outfit my entire fleet. For the AP shells, the guide says 3-4, I suggest having at least 4 so you can equip a Surface Task force (STF) with all AP shells if needed.

Seaplane fighters are more of an 'endgame' sort of thing, due to the cost in crafting from Akashi and some later-game quests. With regard to conversions, I personally, would not bother with either one in the immediate future.

This is mostly due to raw costs involved; turning a T2 SPF into a Kyoufuu is expensive in materials (especially screws) and getting a Skilled Conversion requires burning a Skilled Crewmember, and those are hard to come by...and it doesn't help that there are quests that require using Skilled Crewmembers as well...now, the game does have a quest that will provide a Kyoufuu, which you should see about doing when you get Suzuya, so there is that at least.

In other words, I would say have a goal of having 1 or 2 SPFs for the event and then look to getting having 4-6 down the road. Whether you want to turn those into Skilled or Kyoufuus would be your decision when that time comes.

For your guns, the 35.6cm guns come stock on the Kongou-class, so if you're running around in World 5 already, those should all be dropping regularly. Just pull the equipment off of them before doing anything. And you don't need to level them up for this event either, just having enough for all of your FBBs to have a pair is good enough (note this page for stuff regarding the different bonuses when equipping guns: https://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Combat/Overweight_Penalty_and_Fit_Gun_Bonus)

With regard to your ship-count; you are going to have to be making some hard choices of who to keep and who to mod-food (or scrap) in the near future. There are some really nice Event Only drops that come around, and you're probably going to want some of those. Your only ony other option is to drop the cash and get more ship-slots...