Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-203.106.214.90-20160125191756/@comment-232062-20160125213700

Consider using a viewer like KCV or KC3改, it will help you record and organize information and both of them have features that, once you get used to using you would never dream of going without.

You need to understand Air superiority/supremecy, how to get it and how to utilize its effects, Artillery Spotting to be specific. Use http://kcascalculator.azurewebsites.net/ to plan the fighter power you'll need for AS/AS+ in any given situation, and fill the rest of the carrier slots with Torp bombers (Blue planes) and bring only 1 Saiun other yellow planes are not necessary.

Combat#Special Attacks pretty much lays out the standard fits. Anything that can use a seaplane to artilley spot uses the daytime double attack setup (2 red guns, a seaplane and a radar/ap if possible, a second seaplane if you dont have either) DD (which can't artyspot) use either nighttime double attack or torp cut in depending on their luck stat (40+ luck for cutin)

Forget Anti-air guns exist.

Winter 2016 Event - Right under the red timers there are E1-4 tabs for each of the stages, click one of them and you'll see a yellow box with 2 bullets about reporting your fleet and the enemy fleet. Use both of those to see what other people are using and what the enemy patterns will look like so you have an idea what you're going into. As the devs don't tell us jack shit about the event in advance you'll have to be patient and wait for users to fill in the information, but those 2 pages will help in the begining while other people flesh out the main page.

For expedition you'll want to keep doing 2 for buckets, 3 for steel, 5 for fuel and ammo, 6 for baux and 21 for more fuel and ammo.

Expedition Shelling support is the support exped used the vast majority of the time.

Some helpful pages - Ship Maximum Status , List of ships required by quests and expeditions, Sandbox/List of ships by combat performance, Equipment Ranking and http://www.himeuta.net/f6-kancolle-guides/guide-load-equipment-kanmusus-perform-767.html#P011    That one's a bit dated on the variety of gear but still does a good job of laying out who uses what and when.