Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-4523833-20160128180932/@comment-232062-20160128184424

Damn... I've never been much of a subcriber to the inflated Hq thing but for a lvl 80 you don't have many ships at all. That said, it doesn't really matter, you should be able to clear the event on easy and do some farming. Depending on the ship/item rewards for clearing the whole event you might even consider only doing 2 or 3 stages and devoting your resources to farming, it's possible you would stand to gain a lot more that way.

How far into the game are you? (worlds-stages) and Expeditions?

Kai Ni Junyou, Maya, Sendai, Jintsuu, Yuudachi, Shigure. Maybe the rare DD recipe and see if you get lucky with Yukikaze or Shimakaze, don't blow your resources on trying though.. only like 5 or 6 times. If you do get one take her to around 40-50. Porsonally I wouldn't bother with the CV recipe. With Junyou K2 and Chitose&Chiyoda K2'd + Akagi you'll be fine, and CVs drop often during events so you'll probably end the event with most of the obtainble CVs. Kai that Akashi through PVP leeching.

You'll need to build more Reppuus or Shiden K2's a total of 6 between the two of them would be fine. Some Ryuusei/Kai's, 6 between the two of them should do. If there is an SS map you'll want at least 8 sonars.

You need to understand Air superiority/supremecy, how to get it and how to utilize its effects, Artillery Spotting to be specific. Use http://kcascalculator.azurewebsites.net/ to plan the fighter power you'll need for AS/AS+ in any given situation, and fill the rest of the carrier slots with Torp bombers (Blue planes) and bring only 1 Saiun other yellow planes are not necessary.

Combat#Special Attacks pretty much lays out the standard fits. Anything that can use a seaplane to artilley spot uses the daytime double attack setup (2 red guns, a seaplane and a radar/ap if possible, a second seaplane if you dont have either) DD (which can't artyspot) use either nighttime double attack or torp cut in depending on their luck stat (40+ luck for cutin)

Forget Anti-air guns exist.

Winter 2016 Event - Right under the red timers there are E1-4 tabs for each of the stages, click one of them and you'll see a yellow box with 2 bullets about reporting your fleet and the enemy fleet. Use both of those to see what other people are using and what the enemy patterns will look like so you have an idea what you're going into. As the devs don't tell us jack shit about the event in advance you'll have to be patient and wait for users to fill in the information, but those 2 pages will help in the begining while other people flesh out the main page.

Expedition#Support expedition Shelling support is the support exped used the vast majority of the time.

Some helpful pages - Ship Maximum Status , List of ships required by quests and expeditions, Sandbox/List of ships by combat performance, Equipment Ranking and http://www.himeuta.net/f6-kancolle-guides/guide-load-equipment-kanmusus-perform-767.html#P011    That one's a bit dated on the variety of gear but still does a good job of laying out who uses what and when.