Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-33667919-20180120001844/@comment-26366865-20180121125934

I honestly don’t understand this mentality. If a clearly superior strategy exists, why would you willingly recommend the inferior one? Let’s take a look at an actual in-game example that blocked a lot of new players not too long ago: French Battleship Princess with 730 HP and 210 armor on Easy. Can you beat this with DA? Sure, just cross your fingers and keep rolling the dice until she rolls low enough on armor. Or you could bring a hard-cap TCI and massively increase your chance of dealing actual damage. Again: when one strategy is clearly superior, why would you recommend the inferior one? “Good enough” will only take you so far, even on Easy, and especially on large-scale events, and will inevitably lead to wasted resources.

Properly optimizing fleet and equipment will bring far better (and, most importantly in this case, faster) returns if you aim at the high-end stuff from the very beginning; you’re just wasting resources otherwise. Throwing your hands up and saying “meh, I’m just doing Easy” doesn’t change that fact.

(So much for not derailing this…)

Anyway, as far as equipment priorities go: AP shells, planes, 20.3cm (no. 3), prototype cannons, and torpedoes, roughly in this order.

- AP shells are cheap, effective and any BBs can use them; aim to have at least 5.

- You can already start working on those M21 (skilled) you got from the Dragons’ Kai Nis. They are not too expensive, and their extra range can be extremely useful on many LBAS maps.

-20.3cm (no.3 ) is the best medium gun bar none, and you should bring any of them to +4 as soon as possible until you have at least 8 of them. A +4 no.3 has the same stats as a +9 no.2 and costs no extra equipment, so I wouldn’t recommend upgrading the no.2.

- Upgrade that proto 35.6cm whenever you have screws to spare, it’s arguably the best “light” BB gun. Upgrade the standard 35.6cm only if you have the screws to convert it to a prototype, otherwise you have better things to do with them. Same goes for the 41cm, wait until you have Nagato/Fusou-class Kai Ni before worrying about them.

- Wait until you have quintuples from the CLTs before upgrading torpedoes, anything else is a waste of screws.

- When you are low on screws, AP shells, Combat Rations and T93 Sonar are your best bets for stockpiling them. Combat Rations cost 0 until +6 and will actually give screws with the daily quest, while the T93 Sonar is cheap and can later be converted to a T4 Sonar, currently the best obtainable Sonar.