Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-27862274-20161018135413/@comment-26351458-20161019034924

Your fleet is fine for a small event on hard mode, but for a larger event you may want some more high leveled DD along with CA/V. This includes Akatsuki k2, Ooshio k2 (though you might not have enough medals), Akizuki/Teruzuki (I locked both before going into Spring '16 E-6H) and maybe Yukikaze (I know you luck-modded Ayanami).

You should also aim for more resources, especially if you plan on farming. For reference, I spent 33k fuel, 26k bauxite and 170 buckets on ONE map, Spring '16 E-6H. This was after debuffing + knowing about the nuke strat, and IIRC my resource consumption was about average/above-average compared to others. Summer '16 was a small scale event, but I still spent 130k fuel, 45k bauxite and 490 buckets NOT including farming. Do note that I used Iowa and Yamato in the final map and chose not to bring Hayasui, so maelstrom node + 0% fuel at boss = taiha due to evasion penalty = high repair costs = rip fuel. Next event is a mystery, but it's always good to over-prepare rather than panic mid-event.

As a non-p2w player (I haven't used a single reinforcement expansion, repair team/goddess, underway replenishment or irako/mamiya), I can say that beating the final maps on hard mode requires a lot of luck, whether it is a nuke or a lucky torp-CI. For Summer '16 E-4H, all 6 of my escort ships were completely equipped for yasen-torp-CI = plz survive to the very end and aim at boss. If you don't have the patience and sanity do go through multiple C-rank fails, then hard mode might not be for you. Your land bombers seem to be lacking though, so if the LBAS system is going to be part of every final event map from now on, you should consider getting a few better bombers for future first-class medals.