User blog:提督・ウサギ/Major Event Preparation Guide for Admirals (OUTDATED)

Introduction
Greetings all Admirals! Welcome to Shinhwalee/Death Usagi's Guide to Preparing for Major Events. This Guide was made in order to help all Admirals new or old alike in order to prepare for the Seasonal Major Events (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) that takes place every year.

This Guide will cover everything from training your ships, Equipment setup, gaining resources, which ships should be prepared and are mandatory for the Event to have an easier time in Branching Rules, Event Map mechanisms, and to prepare you for the worst in regards to the Event.

The current version of this guide is in regards to the Spring 2015 Event.

Just what is a Seasonal Major Event?
It is a limited-time Event (2 weeks mostly) that lets you go through a major operation to clear difficult maps while obtaining Major Exclusive-Rewards that are only available from the Event which includes Ships, Equipments, and sometimes an Item, which takes place every season Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.

Events are also known as the only place where some ships that are impossible to obtain from normal maps or requires to be constructed become obtainable in the Event Maps (Ex. Ooyodo). Events also start dropping previous Event Reward-only ships in some maps after about 2 Events.

These events are based on real World War campaigns that the Japanese War Ships have participated in the past and some Bosses seem to be apparently based on some of the ships that actually sunk during the real campaign (Ex. Light Cruiser Oni = Naka + Agano, Destroyer Princess = Harusame).

An Event's scale is scaled from Small, Medium and Large.

If we take a look at previous events that took place; Most Admirals participate in these Events to challenge themselves using the Ship Girls they have worked hard to raise while obtaining exclusive rewards which they can enjoy raising.
 * Small Event: Fall 2014 Kon Operation - Was known to be easy but challenging mostly at the end. Requires moderate to high preparation. Contained only 4 Maps. (3 Main + 1 Extra)
 * Medium Event: Winter 2015 Operation Hailstone - First Event that introduced the Difficulty Selection System, while introducing a more difficult boss than AL/MI Event (Battleship Water Oni + 2 Battleship Princess at once) Requires very high preparation. Contained 5 Maps. (3 Main + 2 Extra)
 * Large Event: Summer 2014 AL/MI Operation - Was known as the most sanity draining Event of all times for players due to its extremely high difficulty. Large Events require extensive preparation of tons of resources including Buckets where not even 500 Buckets might not be enough. Contained 6 Maps while the Boss itself was extremely difficult as you faced 2 Battleship Princess at once while required to kill the Flagship Battleship Princess 10 TIMES.

One thing to note is that majority of Reward Ships & Equipment that you obtain from clearing each Event Map are very good in stats and the ships themselves have very good stock equipments (Ex. Prinz Eugen who was a reward for Fall 2014 Event E-3, has extremely good Guns and Radar), which makes it worth trying to obtain them for yourself.

Spring 2015 Event: What we know so far

 * Event Difficulty: N/A (May be Medium Scale which would likely be about 4 to 5 maps)
 * Event Start Date: N/A but speculated to be April 24th, 2015.
 * Event Ship Rewards: Vittorio Veneto-class Italian Battleship and more new ships.
 * Difficulty Selection System is available.

What is the Difficulty Selection System?
The Difficulty Selection System was something introduced in Winter 2015 Event.

In the past, the Event difficulty was based on your HQ Level.