Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-99.238.54.98-20151029012727/@comment-99.238.54.98-20151029032239

Jenesis33 wrote: Ern.. You are super far behind and i guess you are just a casual player. If after 6 months (assume you start playing before spring event, should be 6 months of game time at least), your fleet is like that.

There is nothing wrong been a casual player. But it does mean you will miss out huge chunck of game content and reward. (proven in previous 2 events)

I am really sorry to say this, but the chance you will be able to get to E4/E5 is very slim even in easy. And your fleet is no where close to OK for event standard.

You lack ship levels and depth in almost all area (and equipment)

So what I say is try to assmeble a combined fleet (both BB and CV based) and see if you can get 12 ships above lvl 50. (more than 12 is needed because BB and CV fleet use different ships) Plus a few more CA and DD for other maps.

So this most likely means you need a fleet of 4DD 2CL 2CLT 4CA (V) 2CVL 4CV 4BB all above level 50. ( From what i seen i dont think you have that)

Equipment wise you want 4 Reppuu at the very least, 4 AP shell, 4 Type 3 shell. These are must have. Other stuff are just luxury. Night combat gear from Sendai K2 is great to have as well.

1-5 is for grinding smaller ships. Just simplying by you saying you using Shigure/Sendai and Hyuuga RJ to grind 1-5 tells me you are doing this wrong. The correct way to grind 1-5 is Point A only using 1CL5DD. You really need to read some guide on how to grind efficiently. I assume you are just going all the way and grinding boss. which chew through your resources and buckets. (not to mention the HQ exp will push you above 80 soon and render 1-5 un-grindable)

3-2A for bigger ships. I have a guide on how to grind 3-2A here in this section of froum. Just take a look.

Both correct 1-5 and 3-2A grind eat 0 buckets. and that is how you save buckets.

On the other hand, you are very very low on resources and buckets. Although resources is less of concern, (since spamming expeidtion can save you) Buckets is another story. I really fail to see how can you beat this event with 29 buckets. You have to stop every bucket usage at all cost. and run expedition 2 and 4 non stop whenever you can (dont forget daily mission) to try to dig yourselef out of this hole. If you want to have any chance of beating the event.

I am sorry to sound so pessmesstic, but you are very far from been preapred for an event.

Best of luck. Thank you Jenesis, and don't worry about it, It's totally okay to sound pessemestic with my fleet I suppose. I joined around early Janurary, so I've been plying for 10 months now, and I've always considered myself a casual player. I do in fact know the correct composistions for 1-5 as well as 3-2A (it's not like I haven't spent hours reading all kinds of guides, lol) And I can assure you that my fleet has worked great in the previous events and sortues, and I expect it to work even better with my updated fleet (with most ships around level 50). Also, the reason I have those 4 ships on 1-5 is because I'm currently farming for Isokaze as well as Mackerel, but since the event is over now I'm going to switch to my 1CL 5DD fleet.

For 3-2A, I currently sortie Maya, Yamashiro, Kumano (Aoba on rotation), Myouko (Takao on rotation), Houshou,  and Submarines (all rotating, except for Maruyu who does expeditions).

To be honest, I'm completley fine with not beating the event, as long as I can make it to E4, or at least get some new ships that I can use in my fleet. I'm not ready to take Kancolle as seriously as many others around here, but I can work hard and level the fleet when I need to. Thanks for the advice