Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-28785499-20160731154316/@comment-27467402-20160806135636

Lightbaron wrote:

12 DDs is overkill for easy mode. You won't sortie more than 7 DDs at a time (Transport Combined) so there is no need to have 5 back-up DDs lying around while not dealing with ship locking. 7-8 DDs at proper level or K2 are enough if the TO plans to go easy from the beginning. More than that is just overkill and he/she could spend that time much better by leveling more important girls.

Also I wouldn't recommend to level Ushio but rather go for Shigure instead. Shigure has the same remodel level and can fill in the gap of a missing high-luck night cut-in DD. The starting difference between level 10 and 22 is not that high considering how few xp you need at those levels to advance. Right, totally forgot about Shigure's Kai-2 level. Honestly, I thought it was level 70 for some reason. Yeah, I also agree that 12 is overkill and I'll fix that shortly, but he should be aiming for 9 total instead for a standard combined-fleet transport:

2 CAV 4 DD - 1 CL 5 DD