Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-26930285-20170330151350/@comment-26366865-20170330185205

You have the basics to tackle most maps, but you’re still lacking depth to deal with shiplocking. For example, it’s fairly common to have a STF map with 2CAs on main fleet and 2 on the escort – that alone would lock all your combat CAs. Same goes for DDs (especially considering that Transport fleets are pretty much guaranteed), fast CVLs and FBBs (fast fleet routing is more and more common each event).

As a priority, I’d level Chitose and Chiyoda to K2 CVL, as well as a couple more CAs (Myokou and Nachi) and a handful of combat DDs (namely, Ayanami and Asashio-class). You might also want to level a couple of AVs (they’ve been useful for routing lately).

Finally, if you’re serious about clearing on Normal, make sure you wait for composition info for ALL maps before you commit a combat ship – you can usually get past the first few maps using “generic” ships, allowing you to save the heavy hitters for the more difficult maps later on.