Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-34250367-20180130153156/@comment-32647310-20180130174217

Before I get started, I want to reference that infographic I linked earlier, as it has a LOT of great information on it…with most of it coming from here, and I am pretty sure will be echoed by most everyone who responds to this thread (including myself). https://infograph.venngage.com/publish/b3055fbb-b256-4ea1-bf15-cee244b251ad

Next, I want you to understand that given the amount of work ahead of you and the amount of time before the event kicks off, you may not be able to do everything. That’s okay! You should still try anyway!

Overall Fleet

First and foremost, you do not have a lot of open slots in your fleet. You must, at minimum, have 5 open ship slots before you can sortie into an event map. There is, unfortunately, very little you can do about this; get rid of some ships or buy additional slots. I will leave it up to you to decide what you should do.

If you decide to get rid of ships, I would suggest you take a good look at this page before doing so: http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Ship_Maximum_Status

You will be able to see where your ships reside in stats and such.

While I am not a meta-tryhard or someone that cares overly much about stats, I acknowledge that some ships are just objectively better than others. This information may help you decide in who you keep and who you let go for the time being.

As far as the rest of your fleet goes, it seems to me that you have a rather lopsided fleet composition; lots of DDs, CLs and CAs, but no CAVs or CLTs and your CV/CVLs are looking more than a little light.

The CL you are lacking most is Isuzu. Again, even though I am not one to subscribe to ‘the meta’, the fact of the matter is that as a CL, she is objectively good for a whole slew of reasons. I suggest that the next Isuzu you snag from construction or a drop (and she is fairly common), keep her and get her to K2 as reasonably possible.

Kitakami and Ooi start off as CLs, but they turn into CLTs a fairly low level, these are rather strong ships (well, rather, glass cannons; they hit hard, but they can’t take it). I would start trying to get these 2 to K2 as soon as possible.

Your CAs are pretty good as far as sheer numbers go, though I would suggest putting as much effort into leveling them up as soon as possible with your priority given to Maya. On top of having great stats, she is an amazing Anti-Air platform.

As previously mentioned by others, you are lacking in CAVs. Fortunately, all of the CAVs in-game are available as drops on maps you have already unlocked or via construction:

Mikuma – LSC or 3-1 Boss,

Suzuya and Kumano – Normal Construction, LSC or 2-5 Boss.

Normal construction – Use BB recipes: http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Construction#Battleship

LSC – 1,500/1,500/2,000/2,000 and 1 Devmat

I would not spam construction attempts too much. Give your FBBs some love; especially Hiei and Kirishima. Fusou and Yamashiro should also get to at least Kai ASAP, as that will give you 2 more BBVs.

Historical Fleet

Any and all leveling should, in my opinion, focus on these ships first. While you likely won’t have to worry about routing and such too much, historical ships tend to get damage bonuses against bosses, which are always useful.

Equipment

First and foremost, you are going to want enough guns and equipment to fully equip all manners of Combined Fleet (Surface Taskforce, Carrier Taskforce and Transport Taskforce. Information on combined fleets can be found here: http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Combat/Combined_Fleet). If this means not scrapping guns off of ships, then do so.

Your Carrier Aircraft, as a general thing, are severely lacking. During your daily construction, have a CV (preferably your highest-level) as the secretary and use this recipe: 20/60/10/100. This is a general recipe that has a pretty good chance of producing any/all aircraft, as you are lacking in all areas.

You will obviously get some trash planes, so here are the ones you want to keep:

Ryuusei Kai (blue) – If you get regular Ryuusei, keep some just in case. While Ryuusei Kais are better, Ryuuseis are good enough for starting out.

Suisei M12A (red) – If you get regular Suisei, keep some just in case. While Suisei M12As are better, Ryuuseis are good enough for starting out.

Reppuu and/or Shiden Kai 2 (green) – Both are strong fighters. You should also keep any Type 0 Model 21 and Model 52’s you get as well, as there are a LOT of upgrade recipes and such that require them as materials.

Zuiun (Seaplane bomber) – You don’t have any of these, and you should really have some, especially since you don’t have any Seaplane fighters. While nowhere near as good as a seaplane fighter, they can cover down ‘just barely’

Recon Seaplanes (T0 Observation or Recon) – You don’t have any of these either, you will want some for your battleships and heavy cruisers for Arty spotting (improves accuracy and damage of your ships).

Other equipment:

You need more shells; T91 and T3.

You need more ASW equipment (Sonars, Depth Charges)

Recipes and requirements for these can be found here: http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Development

I hope all of this helps!