Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26270231-20150728190154/@comment-26289480-20150728232236

It is very hard to asnwer your questions. Without knowledge of how ship lock and event pathing works. No one can tell you what is the mininum fleet needed for an event. You are pretty much asking us to guess here, so anyone can take a stab in the dark.

I will try my best, this event already been signed as BIG size and Carrier focused.

So I dare to say we will need to use at least 1 Carrier Combined fleet. So lets start with that.

Team 1: 4CV2BB

Team 2: 1CL2DD2CLT1CA(or BB since you do have bismarck)

I would say we probabaly need  a tropedo squardon at least.

Which means 2CL4DD or 1CL5DD, usually devleoper let we use both. So thats already 3CL6DD.

I have to say most likely we will need to use one support fleet at least, possibly 2. (but support fleet usually woudlnt be locked, however it does mean you have to sortie the support fleet with your combined fleet)

This means you need at least 4BB and 6CV (4DD, which overlaps what we said on top).

We proabbaly will face against a land installation map with CA like 4-5.

So I am going to guess 1BB1-2CVL3-4CA.

For me the absoute minimum you need to prepare are 6DD 3CL 3CA 1CAV 2CVL (one fast one slow) 6CV 6BB (including 1 BBV) for ship lock. This is a total of 27 ships, which is far less than the Summer last event requirment of 39 ships.

I know from what you said, you dont like min-maxxing, but this game is called Kantai Collection.

There is a reason why it is called collection and we have more than 350 ships in our index. (although not all filled).

I am sorry but you can't have the best of both world. If you dont like training many ships, you can't deal with shiplock and have to play easy. Maybe this is not the game for you. Many players like me enjoy sending a lot of different ships in combat. It is a shame for us if we are only required to use a such small fleet in a huge event. So you are free to have your view and way of playing the game, but I am afarid it is not the same wavelength as the developer. Nothing wrong with that, but you just have to suffer a bit.

it is 100% possible to clear event (even hard) with lower stats ships. But right now you have no ships to sortie when ship lock hits. It is not a question of less stats ship, it is you simply have NO SHIP at all. (like in CA department)

I dont want to recommend any ship on personaolity bec what i love might not work for you. I love Haguro, I married her. Yeah she got awesome stats, but i love her personaitliy too. Would i love her so much if she didn't have awesome stats? Porbabaly, I am a practical player, I enjoy been on the winning side, so I love the stronger ones. But this logic might not apply to you. All of these are very personal.

All we can do is give you practical advices, because no one know what you like and don't like.