Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26547464-20150712151756/@comment-26289480-20150713000128

No you cant finish hard all stages, this is because you will be screwd badly by ship locking. Since you have 3 high level CVs thats it.. and 3 high level BBs.. so after they lock a combined fleet (either surface or carrier) you will be left with lvl 40 ish ships.. which will struggle in hard (even normal)

And btw i don't know how you  want to do Carrier task force .. since it requires 4 CVs usually. .Your lineup currently is Kaga 70. Akagi 72. Hiryuu 77. and Zuikaku 38? Using a lvl 38 ships is pretty bad.

My suggestion is non stop 3-2 A grind .. CV flagships .get all your carrier to 80.. (maybe leave Shokaku and Zuikaku at 70. since they are slightly weaker and less important).. Then BB flagship.. grind all Kongou class to K2.. Mutsu and Nagato to 70+.. Isse class is not improtant. so dont worry.

During these grinds your CA and CVL will be used as helper and theyu will gain level naturally..

DD is harder.. you will need to rely on PVP or 4-3/5-1 grind (but both of them can use bucket.. which will hurt your bucket count in for the event).