Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26289480-20150727142301

Hello everyone, Jenesis here, I been around this section of the forum for the last few weeks and trying to provide help to new players to prepare for the event.

I have read many fleets posted by players and given many advices.

However the more I read, I start to realize a lot of new players do not know how to grind their ships efficently. This is cruical in a game like KC, because you only get limited resources a day, so use them well is so improtant.

3-2A is the most efficient way to grind (and also cost no buckets), it can be used to train BB/CV/CVL/CA even CLT and CL to some extent. (Generally speaking it is not recommended to train CL/DD here)

So I will be talking about how to train your ships in 3-2A (ignoring morale, infinte sorite) here.

First thing to understand is in order to train at 3-2A, you need quite a lot of SS tank. Since every enemy in 3-2A is capable of Anti-SS, they will attack SS and therefore not damage your ships. However your SS will get damaged and they will need to be repaired. So in order to keep doing 3-2A non stop, you need quite a few SS and ideally 4 repair bay to keep reparing them.

AWARE: DO NOT KAI SS. Kaied SS takes way longer to repair.

your best choice of SS is Maryuu, who has very very short repair time, but she is LSC only. So you proabaly have to settle for I -168. Keep many of them and keep rotating. I-58 and I-19 are alright too. I -8 is very bad choice bec she has very long repair time.

Next thing we have to remember is how do we clear all the enemies, We have to do so because we want a S rank for maximum xp and we dont want to eat finishing tropedo to our face (these will  not hit SS and will hit your ships). But red faced (low morale) team has very low accruacy. so what we do? How do we kill enemy without rotation of ships?

The answer is abuse cut in attack. Day time cut in attack has limited damage (compare to double attack) and much higher accruacy. We also use double line formation to improve accruacy.

I will be talking more about these in the setup section below:

Now let's talk about how you setup your team to train at 3-2A. I will be talking about CV first, then BB lastly CA. (might have to do the last bit later, dont have time tonight)

No matter which ship we are training, we want to give flagship MVP. This is because of 2 reasons. First, maxmize XP gain for heavy ships. Imagine you are training Yamato at 3-2A, she eats a lot of resources, so each time we sortie her, we want to give her as high XP as possible. Second reason is MVP has morale bonus, which means our Flagship will never be red faced, ensuring their damage output is always high.

CV FS setup as below:

http://i.imgur.com/F1DipuE.jpg

This is a very basic and typical setup for CV flagship grind, You do not need to rotate anyone apart from the SS, if you BB and CA are decent level (40-50? just try it, if you keep struggling to clear, then rotate one CA)

I will explain the setup:

CV: Pretty easy to understand, you equip 3 of your best attack plane, Ryuusei Kai is standard. But therre are better ones, like those from Hiryuu/Souryuu K2, and Event reward such as Ryuusei 601. Only thing worth talkinig about is the use of yellow cannon on the LARGEST plane slot. This is because CV natually doesnt lack damage, (Open air strike + normal attack) and using 15.5cm here will improve the CV fire range from short to medium, also improve firepower. You use it on the largest plane slot to cut down on baxuite cost.

BB(V): simple here. One red cannon(main), one yellow cannon (side), one sea recon (plane) and one radar. This enable BB(V) to do Cut in attack with Main+side or Main + radar. Both have improved accruacy. Also worth noting that even I used Fusou here, i didn't equip sea bomber, i dont want BBV to have open air strike doing extra damage and steal flagship MVP. Also sea bomber might get shot down and increase Baxuite cost. I also used a 35.6+4 cannon, modifying cannons have improved accruacy. You should use the most accruate cannon you have, such as Prototype 41 cm. Side cannon is pretty much always 15.5 cm. Unless you have + Modified OTO.

Of course you should use the best radar you have, but remember, to balance things. If your BB is very high level, then you can give her a slightly worse radar and give the better one to a CA. Think about it.

CA(V): pretty much the same as BB(V). It is worth talking about 15.2cm (KAI) these have improved accruacy and should be used, if your ship does have enough FP. 20.3 (no2) is also great. Also CAV use sea recon as well, not sea bomber, reasons explained above. Radar and side arm same as above.

CVL: This is quite interseting. First CVL is must use in 3-2A, WHY? because it carries Saiun for your team. You do not want T-disadvantage in 3-2A, your ship will struggle to clear. So CVL carries Saiun. Why 2? Because each one wil improve the chance you do Cut in attack. (and she has nothing better to use.. to be honest). Only use Type 99 bomber here because you want her to have low damage. not stealing MVP off your CV. 99 Skilled is very good bec they dont do much more damage and have improved accruacy. You can pair taht up with Fighter-bomber, who even has less damage than 99 dive bomber.

SS: straight forward, No Kai No I-8 (unless you have to. out of other subs). Just tank

TLDR version:

CV: 15.5cm on biggest plane slot, 3 Ryuusei Kai (or best attack planes you have)

BB(V): Red cannon+ Yellow cannon + sea recon + radar

CA(V): Red cannon+ Yellow cannon + sea recon + radar

CA(V): Red cannon+ Yellow cannon + sea recon + radar

CVL : Saiun + Saiun + 99 dive bomber + 99 dive bomber

SS: whatever.

This pretty much cover the CV setup. Generally CV is easiest to train in 3-2A since open air strike can kill 2-3 enemies, leaving your team with a much easier job to clear the enemies. So no rotation are generally required. And it is recommended new players start with CV grinding, because by the time they finish grinding CV, their CA and CVL will be at decent levels. Making grinding Flagship BB much easier.

If you do find yourself struggling to clear or just have low level ships, Rotate one CA, keep the CA you want to level in the team, and keep rotating the other one whenever she is below 33 morale points. (3 should be enough for a full round rotation). Setup same as I posted, main+side+plane+radar.

It is getting late here, so i will update how to grind BB flagship and CA flagship tomrrow. If you have any questions, please comment below and good luck to everyone in the event. 