W15 fleet

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W15 Fleet

Vanguard

Main

[plain bane]

what AA guns and Torpedo Bombers do you have?

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Lemme check. It's been a hot minute

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is ply close to dev 30?

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That's what I have

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I recommend playing opsi

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Currently dev 27

[plain bane]

for wyverns

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Yeah I've been neglecting it

[plain bane]

and do not +11 or +12 every gear in the game, just pick good ones, one at a time, and +13 it

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I know that. I just happen to do it at one point along the line of playing.

[plain bane]

you might clear 15-1 or 15-2 but big doubt on 15-3 until you get like 3+ wyverns and then preferably 2+ rainbow AA guns

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Oh joy.

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having hammann ii is a good start already

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How long will that take.

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by playing the guaranteed sources and all abyssals every month, you can almost guarantee 1 rainbow per 2 months, and with average RNG it should be slightly more than 1 rainbow per 2 months

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Fun.

It will probably take me longer cause I don't always have time to play

So I'd say we take that gamble on clearing 15-3

If I have to safe clear it I will.

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this will struggle quite a lot later in the chapter, and even 🫳 🕹️ can't really increase AA/ASW

mob: Musashi Unicorn Volga Kron Hammii Sandy
boss: NJ, Indep or Klaudia, Yorkii, Anchorage, Jeanne, Cheshire
support: Implac, get Illustrious to level 120, and preferably indomitable to level 120 but you can sub with any carrier with 4 or 5 fighters

Klaudia will definitely be better than indep in 15-4, but before that it's up to you i guess

only 2 breguets and 0 wyverns for interception will make this very hard to have enough AA

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Alright

If I get stuck ill do the opsi grind but I'll try my best with what I have for now

[plain bane]

only use these 3, maximum of 1 sextuple on sandy and cheshire, STAAG on the main fleet, and twin 90 on everyone else

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Ok

[plain bane]

getting ply and brest dev 30 will help a lot too

and aquila, but she's several months away still

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Currently working to get Brest but I have yet to start the XP grind for her

[plain bane]

aquila + musashi + hammii is a cheat code for AA without actually shooting enemy planes, because musashi can tank the planes

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Well I'll toss everything together and then come back to check if I messed up the gear in any way

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for 15-2 boss, put washing machine on NJ

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Took me a hot minute but how bad did I do

I feel it could be better but this is what my brain came up with for now @plain bane

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1. augments are all but required for extra survivability
2. swap NJ's afct with musashi's black shell
3. slap anti-torpedo bulge on most vanguard ships, unless you plan to manual already
4. switch intel report to something with 500 HP or more, like Manjuu or Operation AF report
5. I can't tell if you just left the +13's in or if you set them purposefully, but just in case, do not waste gold plates on skypirates, VIT-2, Sea Hornet, twin 137mm, crystal ice bomb, breguet, and cosmic kicks
6. Flapjacks are slightly better than sea hornet and tigercat for AA, but if you can't afford them then it's fine
7. VIT-2 has zero AA guns so they won't shoot enemy planes even when klaudia launches a strike
8. neptune gun on musashi might struggle on out of ammo, switch to a gold twin 150mm or triple 155mm (not 155 kai)

other than that it looks fine but fine isn't good enough for chapter 15

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Ight lemme break this down a bit for my response

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you can try playing whenever you're ready, but do pay atention to what you die to and adjust the fleet accordingly

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1. I was lazy when setting it up

2. I reused the fleet setup and didn't change what the modifiers were on the gear

3. Didn't know what to use tbh

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you have an extra breguet. But there's not much else that's attractive, so leave one VIT i guess

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Ok

[plain bane]

actually swtich yorkii to double fighter, and that frees up a skypirate

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I kinda ran out of decent fighters.

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use hellcat until you get more flapjacks

the support fleet can be full of skyrockets and fw190a-5, those are purple from gear lab. They cost coins but purple opsi mats are free

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Sounds like I should do opsi sooner then later tbh. Atleast bolster a couple equip slots

Anyway how egregious is it now

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just the 4th point

155 kai is fine, though it has a small chance of completely whiffing an enemy suicide boat

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Ah ok

Well I suppose I'll try this out. Dunno about Gearing support all that much since I'm kinda running out of stuff and only have 2 Focke Wulf 190

I really should do opsi.

Since I have to level some ships anyway

Think I have some old fleets still set up in the mode but not in any way geared

But I don't remember if they are still decent opsi fleets

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you missed bisz and vanguard?

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Yeah

I was taking a break during their events

I suppose they would work still but they are from like 3 months ago

So they are relatively outdated

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exactly what i was typing

fdg unicorn independence x x x
enterprise yorkii august x x x
shinano implac haku x x x (implacable should strike second of the three CVs)
musashi nj uvh aegir helena x

but move musashi to flag

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Think she was off at the time cause I was leveling her

But they should be fine just need equipment

I can keep the w15 fleet in my collection of 40 Google tabs

And gear them again later

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you can change the mob vanguard to YatSen, ChangChun, Harbin

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I had that at one point but got tired of using them

Dunno if I wanna do that again or not