in this guide I will go over some things that will help you get ready for the event sooner.
First, to get into event maps, they will be in your normal sortie selection but it will be blinking red.
You need to have 75% sortie win rate, 5 empty ship slots, and 20 equipment slots ready.
When choosing difficulty, the number of hearts is how difficult it is. 1 heart = easy and easy should be on the most right.
Events will have special game mechanics that you won't normally see in regular sorties:
Combined Fleet: You can use your first and second fleet to make a combined fleet of 12 ships and you can choose to take a Surface Task Force or a Carrier Task Force (STF/CTF)
CTF is made of: Max of 2 BB/BBV/FBB, Min of 2 CV/CVL, Max of 4CV/CVL, and SS/SSV cannot be flag ship.
The escort fleet will contain: Exactly 1 CL, atleast 2 DD, at most 2 CA/CAV, at most 2 FBB, at most 1 AV, and submarine cannot be flag ship.
STF is made up of: atleast a combination of CL/CA/CAV/BB/BBV, Max of 1 CV or 2 CVL, Max of 4BB, and max of 4 CA/CAV. Submarine rule still applies.
The escort fleet is made of only 1 CL (not clt except Abukuma), at least 2 DD, max of 2 CA/CAV, max of 2FBB, , max of 1 AV, max of 1 CVL.
There will be four choices before going into combat as a STF/CTF and the ones you will need are these:
第一警戒航行序列（対潜警戒）(Top left): ASW (line abreast)
第三警戒航行序列（輪形陣） (Bottom left): AA (diamond formation)
第四警戒航行序列（戦闘隊形）(Bottom right): All attack (line ahead)
第二警戒航行序列（前方警戒）(top right): ASW|attack (kind of like double line but don't use this)
Line of Sight (LOS) will be a factor in this. If you are using KCV / KC3Kai, you should be able to find your fleets LOS which is required when approaching a boss node usually. Getting higher LOS is achieved by certain ships (Tone), adding planes, radars, etc.
Ship locking is applied usually when you are on medium/hard difficulty. What this means is if I take Fubuki to E-1 (event map 1), she will have color word written on her that is color coded. That means I cannot take her anywhere else that is not that color that is written on her. This is just to be more careful on which ships you take to certain maps because you don't want to lock your best ships on the first one and cant use them on the hardest map.
Branching rules are still there plus there will be special ship combinations that will override branching rules.
I'm making this short guide for you newer players so I will assume you will be going on easy.
Some drops will not be available on easy
You should at least have 20k of each resource when finishing event on easy with 200 buckets.
Here are some expeditions for resources:
2 - 30 min - Ammo, Bucket
5 - 1hr 30 min - Fuel, Ammo
6 - 40 min - Bauxite
11 - 5hr - bauxite
15 - 12hr - Steel, Bauxite
16 - 15hr - Fuel, Ammo, Steel, Bauxite
21 - 2hr 20min - Fuel, ammo (requires 3 drum, 1 on each ship)
There are some really good ones later on but unless you unlocked them, use these.
With 3 expedition fleets, you should run 2-5-21 or 2-6-21
Ships that really show potential during events:
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Equipment:
Good supply of 20.3 Reds
2-4 Type A Kyohouteki
Atleast 10cm High angles (green)
4-6 Quad Oxygen Torpedo
2-4 15.5 yellow guns
Air radars/Sonars/Depth Charges
2-4 41cm Reds
4-8 35.6cm Reds
Here are some recipes to help you get some new equipment for the event
- Planes
1 Saiun
6 Suisei or Suisei M12
6 Ryuusei or Ryuusei Kai
As many reppus or Shiden Kai ni (Type 52 fighters are ok but not good) (6-8 reppu/shiden kai ni are fine)
FS: must be CV/CVL
20/60/10/110 gives you chances for Saiun, you only need one Saiun.
20/60/10/100 for torpedo bombers. Aim for Ryuusei Ryuusei Kai (shiny rainbow background)
20/30/10/90 for dive bombers and fighters. You want suisei M12, Shiden Kai ni, and Reppu
(more shiny backgrounds)
20/20/10/90 for fighters. aim for Shiden kaini and Reppus.
- Radars and shells
4-6 AP Shells (Very important for BBs)
3-5 Type 3 shells (very good against installation bosses)
4 surface radars (helps alot with LOS)
FS: BB or CA for shells.
10/90/90/30 AP and Type 3 Shells
10/90/60/30 - Type 3
10/30/90/10 - AP shells
FS: BB or CV
10/11/251/250 - Radars and a small chance for observation seaplane (better recon plane)
thanks to Shinwa helping me with this small guide ^~^
