Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26351987-20150705025536/@comment-26574811-20150705113559

WokkedElite wrote: Mmmm... I'll level the ships that are easily leveled to their K2 forms but certainly start stockpiling.

As for the CVs, well, I'll try and leech exp onto Katsuragi and Zuikaku but construction has not been kind enough to give me Hiryuu yet. Can't help that.

I struggled massively in the Spring event due to lack of good CAs, which made them the focus of my post-event leveling binge. I'll have to wait and see how relevant CVs are, given last event we were told by the devs that carriers were essential yet most of the maps used few or had the best routes through Surface combined fleets.. anyhow, noted.

Other suggestions always appreciated. Katsuragi is not a good choice to level C/P wise, unless if you are aiming for the Ryuusei (601) that comes with her remodel (which indeed is a good way to solve your torpedo bomber shortage), AND provided that you have a blueprint in your hands. The reason is that Unryuu-class carriers hold too few aircrafts to be effective on air superiority, which limits her use in maps with heavy enemy CV presence. Also, her survivability isn't as good as the others as well.

But still, she's a CVA after all, a reserve carrier would be a good role for her to play.

The Spring Event was actually quite CV-heavy already (compared to others), one map even requires Carrier Combined force to dodge the night battle node. The Summer Event is predicted to be even more CV-heavy, from the hints related to the Battle of the Phillippines Sea, probably comparable to AL/MI last summer.

One last note, Hiryuu doesn't worth building, there are drops at easy maps (like 2-3 boss as I remember), or you can go for Taihou on LSC (after the event, of course). Building Taihou will give you lots of by-products, including Hiryuu and Soryuu that you don't have at the moment.