Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26461371-20160111063757/@comment-25681511-20160111131117

Just go for full hard, but you have to carefully plan your fleet and have the confidence before sortie. You also have to stock up your resources until ~100k fuel, ammo, steel and ~50k bauxite (probably don't need that much)  for full hard.

For equipments.....scrap those worthless equipment (12cm,12.7cm,14cm,12.7cm high angle,15.2cmS, quad torp,T99 bomber,suisei,T97 bomber,tenzan,ryuusei,recon plane,7.7mm,12.7mm,25mm mount) to make space for better equipments (craft them). Go to my profile to have a look how "better" equipments looks like (not showing off, really!). As for improvements it is up to you, otherwise just follow Hayashi's guide, though i never follow that or any guide.