Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-32647310-20180203172907/@comment-26366865-20180204021614

Well, you shouldn't have problems with locks or routing since you have a good number of ships, but the lack of a group of high level units for the last map will likely result in a lot of retreats. DDs and CVLs in particular really need high levels in order to survive, so expect trouble in any maps involving them. You're likely to regret not leveling Suzutsuki as well, since air strike nodes get a significant jump in damage output with difficult increases. It's certainly doable, but be prepared for salt.

Equipment-wise, I really think you should spend some time actually looking at the stats of what you're upgrading:

-Base 35.6cm needs to be at +9 just to compete with an unupgraded proto 35.6cm. You're better off upgrading what you have to prototype instead of getting even more of them to +6. Same goes for the 41cm - wait until you have the ships that come with the prototype version before touching them.

-20.3cm(no.2) is useless ever since the no.3 got a stat increase. You really shouldn't bother with them at all - a no.2 needs to be at +9 just to have the same stats as a +4 no.3, which has the same screw cost and requires no fodder, as well as being faster to upgrade.

-If you want to upgrade a pasta gun, upgrade that kai. It's main use is modifying range to get your strongest ship to fire first, meaning you really don't need many of them. The ACC penalty, low as it may be, is too much of a liability once you start dealing with late-model flagship DDs.

The first one is kinda debatable since you can upgrade the 35.6cm whenever you feel like it, but the others are certainly not. I speak from experience when I claim that you're never going to touch those obsolete guns again when you get better ones down the line, meaning all those upgrades are going to be effectively wasted very soon. This is especially bad because you already have quite a few of the top-tier equipment, yet chose to ignore them to focus on the statistically inferior ones.

If saving screws is the reason, you're far better off upgrading cheap but situational stuff like searchlights than on stuff that will be as good as scrap in short order.