Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-5344991-20150914045827/@comment-25174240-20150915080045

Firstly, I commend you for wanting to prepare early. I found the recent event (Summer 2015) quite acceptable (I cleared all maps on hard within 5 days) - reason being I started preparing for it immediately after Summer 2014(AL/MI event).

Most of the stuff, others have already commented on. So I won't repeat them. I did write a blogpost on the wikia (that most players ignore - I guess asking players to spend 9 to 10 months preparing is too much for them?)

http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Dethyl/Thoughts_on_preparations_for_large_scale_(and_difficult)_events

My point is that if you're going to prepare early for Fall 2015 event now, I suggest you use it as a springboard for near year's "difficult" event - probably Summer 2016. Aim to build incrementally. Maybe by Fall 2015, you can train up to about 30-50% of the suggested fleet composition in my blogpost

Some other remarks:

(1) Try to familiarise yourself with ship classes, e.g. when Someone says Takao class you should instantly know that they are the heavy cruisers: Takao, Atago, Maya, Choukai, or Fubuki class are destroyers: Fubuki,Shirayuki, Hatsuyuki,Miyuki,Murakumo,Isonami, with Shinonome,Usugumo,Shirakumo,Uranami not implemented in game yet.

(2) So why is knowing ship classes important? It kind of makes you read up on history. It will help you in the game. How? I'll give a live example - newer players won't have ships who were non-drop, event map-clear only rewards like Prinz Eugen. During Summer 2015, her high luck helped a lot of admirals to clear the final map with her night cut in. The other alternative is Myoukou. Ships that survived world war 2 tend to have higher luck and at least decent stats. Eventually, they are given kai ni, such as Ushio. When Myoukou's kai ni was released some time back, I already had her ready at level 80+. So how exactly does history help us? Look for ships who either (i) survived the war and don't have a kai ni yet (e.g. Takao) or (ii) ships who performed outstandingly during war despite sinking.