Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26038543-20150125000713/@comment-1820055-20150125022208

By common practice, you should have at least two of each ship type properly leveled.

This is especially important during events where branching rules get more difficult and ship-locking becomes a major pain (ship locking = you cannot send ships already used on previous event maps). thus you'll need to have a wide variety of ships prepared - and multiple per ship type, youll need two CAs here, and one on next map for example, there you already need three CAs to tread the best branch possible. Though each event is different, so the main thing there, get some of each type ready.

To know which of the ships per type is the best one to level, you may check pages such as EliteDD. You can view other ship types by going to Ship and clicking the type name such as "Destoryer". The ones with good stats are highlighted with green.

To unlock 3rd and 4th fleet, you may visit the Quests page and look for the keyword "unlock" [3rd=A14] [4th=A16].

When I was starting out with the game less than a year ago, I used to compare resource rewards. You may also use one of the third-party viewers such as KCV or KC3 which offer English translations.