Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-34343339-20180201230120/@comment-32647310-20180205134956

If you bring a ship that has OASW with you, you won't hve to worry about that opening torp.

And since you are only bringing the first 3 nodes of 1-5, you can bring more than 4 ships, just make sure that OASW is not the flagship. Yes, she'll steal MVP for that first node, but you'll still get the bonus morale from being the flagship and the S-Rank.