Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26673234-20150720080427/@comment-25174240-20150720090330

I think your overall condition should be ready for hard mode unless some special routing requirements come up. Some comments though:

(1) CVL, Stremespoats has mentioned Chitose/Chiyoda. That is an option. However I notice that you listed a level 63 Hiyou. She is okay for a CVL. You can push Chitose/Chiyoda up to kai ni or you can focus and try to push Hiyou up for the event. Having Chitose and Chiyoda both at kai ni (50) would increase your diversity, choosing to train Hiyou will concentrate your CVL strength in the Junyou/Hiyou sisters. Time is limited as we are nearing the end of August. Both have pros and cons. As for which is better, that is up to you.

(2) CA, you listed your best 4 CA I guess. If you have time, 1 or 2 more would be nice. Choukai kai ni and Nachi kai ni if you have them. The rest of your fleet seems ready so you can focus on training 2 - 3 ships in time for the event. As before, it's up to you if you want to look into this.

(3) Equipment, I think that it's okay. There's a few of schools of thought. Heavy firepower focus, balanced, and accuracy focus. Don't need to craft much more.

Heavy firepower relies on 2x 46cm on every BB deployed, they hit hard, provided they hit (more on this later).

Balanced tries to overcome the overweight penalty by equipping a good "fit" gun and pairing it with a heavy gun e.g for Kongou class: 46cm, 35.6cm(any variant), seaplane, last slot = radar/ammo as required.

Accuracy focus tries to overcome the shelling accuracy decrease that comes with combined fleets by giving "fit" weight guns only to the relevant BBs, seaplanes for artillery spotting still apply and radar/ammo equipped depends on the boss enemy being faced.

Personally I go for accuracy focus with highly improved guns (+10) to weaken the enemy fleet and let the 2nd fleet finish up if needed. Why? If the 1st fleet shoots accurately enough in the day, they might disable most of the Boss escort ships, leaving the boss and maybe 1 or 2 others for the 2nd fleet to deal with. The downside is that with fit guns you're trading away damage for accuracy.

There are pros and cons to each. If you take the balanced or accuracy focused options, you don't need to craft any more equipment unless you really want to.