Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-32389360-20160205024233/@comment-122.152.131.50-20160205032402

Before I even start with the ships, first thing that comes to mind is: buckets. 250 buckets is barely enough for easy clearing and farming. Hard clearing with 250 may be possible if you take it slow (and the blessings of RNG of course), but take farming out of the question with that amount. No one knows how nice RNG will be to you, but for hard clearing and farming, you would want at least 500 buckets, more than 800 to be on the safe side.

Ships: Kongou Class not a single K2. They should form the core fighting force BBs you have. Some routings may favour FBB over BB you would never know. Kaga......please at least Kai and max the mord on her. Her 46 slot is incomparable to any other CV when it comes to single slot fighter power. Try to aim for lvl 50 if possible. CVL - ok. CA(V) - no K2 CAs. Thats not good at all for hard. Hard mode have bosses with high armour and CA plays a major part with dealing with them. There were a lot of people who relied on Myoukou's torpedo cut in to finish off AD Hime in E-7 Summer. CL - sendai (night battle set), jintsuu (high FP and torp), abukuma (can equip minisub for preempt torp and daihatsu for expedition) - these are the 3 that needs K2 the most out of all the CLs at the moment, and you have none of them. Ooyodo and Yuubari for ASW, although you have Kashima to substitute. Please note, however, CT MAY have different branching rules as CL. DD - need more levels, need more depth. Poi K2, Ayanami K2, Hatsushimo K2, Yukikaze. You have basically no cut-in-capable DD with a high enough level to survive until night battle at hard mode.

Equipment: I have noticed that you have no sufficient AACI set up (no 10cm+aafd, no Maya K2) which may lead to much more retreats in a carrier heavy map. No sendai night battle set, which is very bad. You need that night scout and star shell.

Tldr: I would suggest you give up on hard entirely. There are simply too many gaps in your fleet and equipments for hard. Aim for easy with a bit of medium mixed in where possible. Beware of shiplock and plan your fleet accordingly. Do no rush into the event head first. Wait for info and take it slowly but steadily.