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

HQ100 admiral here, been playing since early Spring 2014 looking for thoughts on minimal fleet compositions.

Despite playing for more than a year, being a roleplay player basically means that I don't exactly have a min/max fleet composition optimized for event clearing, this is especially true when you add ship locking into the mix. Anyhow, here's my fleet (* indicates kai):

(56 ships total)

BB: Haruna** (99), Kongou** (99), Bismarck** (95), Nagato* (89)

BBV: Ise* (58), Hyuuga* (58)

CV: Taihou* (99), Kaga* (99), Zuikaku* (97), Katsuragi* (93)

CVL: Ryuujou** (83), Zuihou* (56)

CA: Prinz Eugen* (76), Kinugasa* (49)

CAV: Suzuya* (99), Mogami* (49), Mikuma* (49)

CL: Yahagi* (60), Abukuma* (53), Ooyodo* (42), Yuubari* (41), Kinu* (30), Yura* (28)

CLT: Kiso** (65), Kitakami** (55)

DD: Amatsukaze* (130), Akizuki* (99), Shimakaze* (86), Yukikaze* (72), Akatsuki* (67), Hibiki* (57), Ikazuchi* (57), Inazuma* (57), Asagumo* (52), Hatsuyuki* (52), Miyuki* (51), Yayoi* (48), Uzuki* (48), Isonami* (47), Urakaze* (44), Tokitsukaze* (43), Hatsukaze* (43), Hamakaze* (41), Z1* (36), Z3* (36), Kuroshio* (30)

SS: I-168* (99), I-58* (91), RO-500 (89), I-19* (88), I-8* (87), Maruyu* (74), I-401* (67)

Other: Akashi* (35), Akitsushima* (35), Taigei (23)

Equipment:

1 Reppu Kai, 1 Reppu (601st), 6 Reppu, 3 Shiden Kai Ni

4 Type 3 Shells

5 Type 91 Shells

Resources:

100K Fuel

150K Ammo

150K Steel

42K Bauxite

414 Buckets

Notes: Kinugasa will hit Kai Ni by event and will probably be near fully modernized, Akatsuki and maybe Hibiki are possible candidates for Kai Ni during the event.

As you can see, I'm pretty starved when it comes to CA and when it comes to ship locking, I pretty much have to ez modo due to the limited count of ships per class. As a result I end up missing good drop tables offered in higher difficulties and its pretty unsatisfying steamrolling through with lvl 70+ ships on easy.

Now obviously the straightforward answer to my question would just be to get more ships of each class, but I've been there/done that, max/min play just isn't for me. In the end success on higher difficulties probably comes down to branching rules, but I'd like to hear what people think could be an absolute minimum fleet comp or perhaps thoughts on playing with non-optimal roleplay fleets.

Some thoughts on the fleet for clearing medium would be nice too (feel free to suggest CA that I could add on a personality basis, not stats basis, Takao, Atago, Kumano unavailable). 