Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26962604-20170522231348/@comment-26366865-20170523202550

Lupusregina wrote: 3 month never gona be enough. don't forget that some of must have ships need blueprints and you can get 1.5 per month at max. same with needed rare equip, it comes only from spending bp or ranking. then you better have luck modded ships like abubear since her pure fp rather shitty but she usually used in later maps. and get batches or maruyu takes ton of time and res. going without having all this you asking to get rekt hard

You don’t need a fleet full of waifus with ranking-only equips to clear an event, even on Hard. If you go through the comments of the past event, you’ll see plenty of people cleared it with some hilariously bad compos and setups, either by sheer luck or simply by dumbing a mountain of resources on it. As long as you have the mandatory ships to deal with each situation (vs installation, vs high-armor etc), you can definitely clear by burning some extra resources.

As for blueprints, the only ship that I consider absolutely essential would be Abukuma, who is indeed on a category of her own when it comes to versatility. Even the Cranes can be replaced with some other CVs – you’ll just need to compensate with more resources for the extra fails you’ll get for not having their durability and power. Everyone else can be replaced quite simply – Tone-class can be replaced with dupe Mogami-class, half the daihatsu DDs don’t require a BP and so on. Having the top BP ships and luck-improved monsters will certainly make your life easier, but it is by no means mandatory.