Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26038543-20150125000713/@comment-1820055-20150125010635

Hi, welcome to the game new teitoku! :)

To help you start out, I will also include description of terminologies used on my answers.

1) The specific line-up of ships types you use for a sortie is what we usually call the (fleet) composition, and how they go through the map is what we call branching rules. You can see the branching rules on each section of the Sortie World pages such as World 1. If there is no indicated composition, you may use any ship types (which is usually only for the early maps). If you're having a hard time going to the boss node, it is probably RNG at work there.

2) As indicated on the wiki and the Tutorial:_Proxy_Connection section, API links are safe and has been used by most of the foreign population without issue for a year now (this week is around one year since the Late Jan 2014 API Link Crisis). But you don't need to worry about the crisis anymore, it has all been resolved and the developers surrendered and gave in to the people by allowing long-lived API links. No problem since then. The only thin you need to note is to refresh every month, not because of ban-safety, but to get new content such as extra operation maps.

3) Some light cruisers are able to carry seaplanes, which may sometimes be useful for Line of Sight - especially for the general computation of Equipment LoS for branching rules. This also has some effect(?) on Artillery Spotting(?), veteran TTKs please correct me.