royal tusk
Hello guys, I just recently came back after like 235 days since I just wanted to play the game again,
and so I noticed that my 2 squads exhaust their "moods" fairly quick now when I want to grind/progress stages
So id appreciate if anyone can help me create a 3rd or 4th squad with my remaining ships since I am absolutely clueless when team building
Also if there's any adjustments or replacements that you think I should do on my 1st and 2nd teams that'd be cool too
Thanks and have a good day
silent stump
so you want to progress campaign? what stage are you at
royal tusk
thought so too
silent stump
second thing, for world 11 you want your flagship to be a battleship or battlecruiser, preferably a battleship
crimson storm
You need a mob tank and should get an alternative to Perseus.
For boss you should swap Portland and Helena around
silent stump
third thing the boss nodes in world 11 are all light armor except 11-2, so battleships with HE guns have a higher damage potential in those stages, though some of the bosses also annoyingly move around a bunch
royal tusk
do you guys recommend a 3rd team with my current box?
crimson storm
Focus on 2 fleets before touching a 3rd
silent stump
(unless you have a lot of rocket fighers, in which case those are a good option)
royal tusk
when do you think i should go for a 3rd?
silent stump
well you say you are running out of morale so well, do you have the mob fleet on dorm?
royal tusk
yes i do
crimson storm
Unfortunately you could only wait , especially since your two fleets aren't even that well built in the first place
royal tusk
i see i see, any more advice for the 2 current fleets or improvements that i can implement aside from separating unicorn and perseus
crimson storm
You need a mob tank , right now they are only really cruising because of high level
royal tusk
i've no idea who is a suitable mob tank that i have rn
thoughts?
crimson storm
By this point you should have started anchorage and agir , but since you are quite early on in the game , Sandy with augment should be fine
You also have Minneapolis I guess
royal tusk
By this point you should have started anchorage and agir , but since you are qui...
i just remembered thats also one of my problems i messed up there some time ago and got stuck on grinding for roon for so long
currently on izumo
royal tusk
noob question how do i get more techpoints for pr ships to unlock?
silent stump
acquiring ships of the faction gives certain amount of points, MLBing them gives a large amount of points, and leveling them to 120 gives a sizable amount
crimson storm
Sakawa is pretty squishy
silent stump
higher ehp than portland on the charts 🤷
royal tusk
so overall do i go with sakawa or jervis for a mobtank?
royal tusk
i think i can
silent stump
also obviously they are way lower levle than rest of the fleet atm
royal tusk
i also have a ton of exp books
silent stump
so it's up to you if you want to actually MLB or just try to stick with what you already have leveled and MLBd
also, skills of course
crimson storm
Preferably one of your dds
silent stump
sandy should ddefinitely stay in whatever you are using
crimson storm
Sandy is kinda busted right now especially with augment
royal tusk
im so sorry im so clueless when it comes to acronyms
crimson storm
Dd= destroyer
royal tusk
ohh then z23 ?
crimson storm
One of your starter destroyers can be swapped out
silent stump
which one goes probably doesn't matter much
royal tusk
ok i like laffy better so z23 then
silent stump
do any of them have augs made? gotta ask
cuz if one does and the other doesn't that obviously would have influenced it
royal tusk
laffy has a huggy pillow of bravery
silent stump
keep her then
royal tusk
z23 hasa placeholder one
gotta ask tho, thoughts on my main fleet?
the one with unicorn and perseus is my mob fleet
royal tusk
and perseus to main then?
silent stump
the bosses are light and the most dangerous enemies in W11 are battleships on mobs
perseus on boss is... probably better not
do you have any rocket fighters
royal tusk
whats the acronym for that one ill filter it
silent stump
you mean the gear name?
silent stump
there are two rocket fighters you might have
messerschmitt Bf 109G and grummann f6f hellcat (HVAR-mounted)
if you want to use carriers on boss, these will help
royal tusk
oh the planes
well unicorn has a sea hornet
perseus has atype 0 fighter model 52
and tbf avenger
is that it?
silent stump
no i am asking if you have the fighters above
you know, fighters for the fighter slot
royal tusk
no dont have them checked inventory and units
silent stump
alright
probably better to have 3 battleships or 2 battleships and 1 carrier for the boss then
royal tusk
Ill get back in a sec and check if it's craftable since I have a lot that's available to craft
silent stump
i guess you could use something like seydlitz/hood/howe for 11-1/11-3/11-4 bosses
for your carrier alongside musashi and uni in mob, you could just use implacable i guess, she's typically a bossing ship but since you don't have the gears to make her better against light might as well use her on mob
royal tusk
alright i'll try these
any advice on how to get good gears?
silent stump
best gear is tied to operation siren and events
but there is good gear you can use that isn't tied to either
royal tusk
damn
siren is so boring for me no choice ig
silent stump
well also research
the research stuff ends up on gear lab after a certain amount of time
same with some of the good event gear
royal tusk
gotcha i'll focus on these
silent stump
but well you should understand what gear is good where
royal tusk
can you give me a basic rundown if you dont mind
silent stump
and which of the gear that you have right now that you should use too
uh sure
i'll talk about main fleet first since the numbers are more straightforward there
when it comes to battleship guns, you can basically split them into two groups: HE guns and AP guns. HE guns are good against light, alright against medium, and not too great against heavy. there is one very accessible HE gun that is one of the best and that you should use, the triple 406mm MK6. you can use this as the "default" on battleships until you acquire better guns
as for AP, they excel against medium and heavy, but are very bad against light. the shells also pierce through enemies. there isn't really any easily acquireable good AP guns though
typically on mob fleets you want to use AP because of the pierce and the most dangerous enemies typically being medium/heavy armor, but it's fine to use the MK6 if you don't have good AP guns
royal tusk
i appreciate your easy to understand explanation
do people generally change gears when entering a new/differnet stage on any game mode?
kinda like changing students in blue archive if yk
silent stump
we adapt the gears to the stages yes
royal tusk
ahhh, thats really tedious but it makes sense
silent stump
anyway i kinda wrote too much just for battleship guns
for battleship secondaries, they can serve two purposes: interception (basically, destroying the bomb boats), or just used as an FP booster
if you need interception you can use the purple twin 152mm AP gun for now, it works well enough. if you just want the FP you might have a bunch of triple 155mm HE for that. these are light cruiser guns, but some battleships and battlecruisers can't equip these and can only equip destroyer guns. they are not very good at interception and should be avoided if you really need to intercept
in world 11 we have bomb boats, so using the twin 152mm is good around here
for battleship AA guns, it's pretty straightforward: you always use either Hazemeyer or STAAG. battleships are not meant to pull the weight for AA and these two guns give accuracy stat which is more important
you can get those from research or gear lab (better to get them from research)
now battleship auxilliaries
royal tusk
i was gonna say thanks but go on please lmao
silent stump
there are basically 2 types of them that are important: shells and radars
the gold shells are acquired on the core data shop
radars are from research
(i should clarify it is the high-performance radar and not any others)
royal tusk
noted
silent stump
white shell and radars give a lot of firepower and accuracy, which is very good for battleships. black shell gives a ton of firepower but usually you use either a white shell and a radar or a white shell and a black shell; the white shell almost always is the one staying
the radars also decrease the cooldown of the first volley by 15%
silent stump
as for the augments, it's kinda fine to just use sword all the time, but you may use bow if you know that missing is unlikely or when fighting heavy armor enemies
royal tusk
i'll analyze everything you said, didnt know gearing would be so indepth for this booba game or maybe im just dumb af
silent stump
well battleships are honestly pretty straightforward
it's even more complex for carriers
well, the auxilliaries for carriers are actually straightforward
most of the time it's just two catapults
royal tusk
i really do appreciate you taking your time typing all this, cant say id be able to do so for others
thanks
silent stump
in particular scenarios we use homing beacon to speed up airstrikes or elite manjuu to slow down airstrikes, either to adjust syncing on boss fleets, or to desync
basically, depending on the stage, we might want all our damage to come out at once, or we might want to try to "stagger" the damage so that it is more evenly distributed across time
royal tusk
i see i see and i guess its normal to ask for help when doing a new stage?
silent stump
well if we don't know anything about the stage it's better to ask or do some research on the wiki
alright i will explain planes now
royal tusk
go ahead please
silent stump
i'll start with dive bombers because there's only really one type of them with only one notable exception
dive bombers drop several bombs in a large area which explode with a large radius, and therefore can deal damage to clusters of enemies easily. their damage is higher against enemies with heavier armor, and weaker against light. against lone enemies, they fall off a bit because the bombs are not very accurate and can drop a significant distance away and miss
you could say that dive bombers are decent in mobs
and therefore ships with dive bomber oriented loadouts will be more suited for stages with a lot of enemies
now i'll talk about fighters since a lot of them are similar to dive bombers
fighters for the most part are similar to dive bombers in how they drop bombs, but less of them. however, they have better machine guns (i should have mentioned this early but basically all planes have machine guns which they use to shoot down enemy planes).
they also do what we call fighter interception; carriers with fighters will automatically launch some fighters every so often and these fighters will intercept enemy planes, but they will not drop bombs, only fighters launched from an airstrike trigger will drop bombs
royal tusk
what do you reccomend an average carrier(?) to go with fighter or dive bomber or mix of both?
silent stump
the damage from fighter bombs is similar to dive bombers. better against heavy, weaker against light
royal tusk
i guess it also depends on the stage?
silent stump
well that depends on the stage
royal tusk
ye thought so
silent stump
i'll get to that in a bit
so that is how the vast majority of the fighters work but there is a couple of exceptions, which are the rocket fighters
basically they are fighters that launch rockets. these rockets are aimed directly at enemies, and generally can only deal damage to one enemy. they can deal great damage against lone enemies that are light and medium armored; they are not good against heavy (with one exception but it doesn't matter right now)
they also cannot intercept, so if you need to shoot down a lot of enemy planes, they should not be used
rocket fighters are therefore typically used only in the boss fleet against light and medium armor enemies
now, i'll explain torpedo bombers
there's two types of them: parallel torpedo bombers and converging torpedo bombers
parallel torpedo bombers drop torpedoes just like that, parallel to eachother going directly ahead
these are solid against mobs where all of the torpedoes are probably going to hit something
like dive bombers they also deal higher damage against heavier armor types. so they're kinda similar to dive bombers in their purpose
royal tusk
should i also pay as much attention to gearing my subs as i do with regular ones?
silent stump
subs are complicated and you basically need to check a chart to know what to put on them ideally
royal tusk
ok ok got it
silent stump
i would say to not care too much about subs right now
if you have good ones, then leave them on dorm to level them up
silent stump
well lemme finish explaining torp bombers first
royal tusk
ok ok go ahead
silent stump
so since they are similar, i'll mention something about parallel torp bombers vs dive bombers since you might be wondering about that. dive bombers basically set their target when they are launched, and if the enemy happens to be destroyed before the dive bomber drops their bombs, then they might drop their bombs on top of nothing and kinda waste it. parallel torp bombers don't have much of this problem because enemies spawn far back and the torps move slow and are not aimed at anything in particular, so they are almost always gonna hit something. but you could say that's the tradeoff for not being able to hit a lot of enemies with one torp unlike dive bombers and their bomb
it's not too important to know this unless you are playing manual, but if you are now you know
dive bombers also tend to aim for the nearest enemy so there's that
now for the last thing about planes: converging torpedo bombers
they are torpedo bombers that drop their torps specifically towards an enemy. think of it like the torp version of the rocket fighters
their total damage output is lower than contemporary parallel torpedo bombers. you want to use these specifically against heavier armored targets that are not moving or are very slowed down
if you use them against moving targets then it's very likely that all the torps will just miss
there are certain ships with skills that slow down or freeze the enemies so that all these torps can hit, making them better than parallel torpedo bombers in this boss fleet context
all of the japanese and german torpedo bombers are the ones with converging torps, whereas all the other ones are parallel, with just one exception recently added to the game
royal tusk
ye i'll need a bit of time to fully digest all this nontheless thanks for all this info, this is the most ive gotten from the years of asking in this discord thanks
if you have more helpful info that you think people or i should know go ahead if you dont mind
silent stump
while you might get away with using rocket fighters against enemies that aren't slowed, torps just move a bit too slow for that
so they absolutely need to be slowed or frozen
now i will say where fighters are actually important
royal tusk
sure go ahead
silent stump
the answer is basically, world 12 to some extent, world 13 to a large extent, and world 15 it's what the stages are all about (massive plane spam)
since you are on world 11, good anti-air guns and using carriers that have fighter-oriented loadouts isn't really important (only if you wanted to use rocket fighters for the light armor bosses)
royal tusk
how significant do you think purple gear are if you dont have any higher tier gears atm
and would they be viable regardless if you do have some higher tier ones
since i am very lacking when it comes to gold ones and above
all my main units have on average maybe one or two gold gear
silent stump
the gear rarity is a bit of a trap
there's really bad gold gear and really solid purple gear
the triple 406mm MK6 i mentioned before is just a purple gear, but it is still one of the better HE battleship guns
royal tusk
what are the majority good purple gear that most players would have
silent stump
i can tell you which commonly available gears are good though
for battleships, you're mainly gonna stick with the MK6 because the common AP guns are just bad
for their secondaries the royal navy purple twin 152mm AP is a pretty good interception gun, and the japanese gold triple gold 155mm is good for just FP filler
if you don't yet have gold shells, there is a weaker purple version of the white shell
for carriers, auxes you can just slap catapults, gold ones if you have them, and purple drop tanks/catapults if you don't have the gold catapults
also for carrier auxes i forgot to mention, basically scepter if no planes, can use bow if there's a lot of planes
now for carrier planes:
F4U corsair is the best purple fighter
for gold ones, there's a bunch of usable ones: seafang, hellcat, reppuu are all interchangeable for the most part but hellcat will be better if you need the stronger machine guns
for parallel torpedo bombers, gold barracuda is commonly available and a decent option. if you don't have them you'll have to use the purple TBF avenger
there is no readily acquireable gold converging torpedo bomber, nor rocket fighter for that matter. you will need to get them from either gear lab, research or events depending on which one exactly
however you can use tenzans for purple converging torpedo bombers and they are pretty close in power to the gold ones
well i say this but you might already have some of this gear if you look
for dive bombers, you will be using the purple helldiver for the rest of time basically
the only better options are the gold helldiver, which is only very very marginally better and not worth the cost, and the tenrai, which is a rainbow gear and therefore hard to obtain in large quantities
this is only the gear that is obtainable from tech boxes basically. you might have some better options in some categories depending on what kinda research you've done or if you've built something from gear lab or farmed some event/war archives
royal tusk
this is pretty reminiscent of an anime scene where someone explains stuff and my brain is smoking lmfao
silent stump
i mentioned the gear by name but i guess you might not know which gear is which without looking at it
royal tusk
but i do wann ask, do the average long-ish time player have a variety of rainbow gear?
like where im currently at at the game
silent stump
it depends on how hard they want to focus on gear specifically when they're doing research, and also how much they do opsi
to be fair, because of the file zones in opsi, you can get a wyvern within the first two months of playing
and that's the best parallel torpedo bomber
royal tusk
hmm i see
ive been wanting to play the game for real for a bit now as well
so i think ill be grinding for the next few days depending on the gear huh
silent stump
did you do any opsi for this month
royal tusk
thats a no, because i literally just redownloaded yesterday after 230 days-ish which the game said
silent stump
i see
hm
this is a bit of a problem
i presume you have not yet completed the opsi story before
and we are almost at the monthly reset
royal tusk
yes because i remember only doing the campaign way back when i used to play a lot
how bad would it hurt if i dont do it and just wait at the start of next month
silent stump
check opsi and tell me if you have any exchange vouchers
royal tusk
ok gimme a sec
silent stump
it really would be for the better if you cleared the entire opsi story before the end of the month
royal tusk
actually i think i did a bit of opsi back then lemme check
where can i see my amount of exchange vouchers?
silent stump
basically, before you clear the opsi story, opsi is essentially stuck in the old shop format which makes it a pain to buy what you want
royal tusk
if its coins i have 8,700
silent stump
so in the main opsi view there is a button on the bottom left
that says "exchange shop"
do you see it
royal tusk
can you see it on the world overview?
silent stump
does it look like this for you (i don't recall if this looks different before you clear the opsi campaign)
royal tusk
ye its not there only collections
silent stump
i see
i guess it's not there before you clear the opsi campaign
that's a bit of a problem.
royal tusk
you think i can clear it before the reset?
royal tusk
i woudnt mind doing so since i cant really progress further with the event
silent stump
why not?
royal tusk
would attention mean doing manual?
silent stump
i'm not sure. it depends on what is the absolute strongest single fleet you can manage with your current ships/gear
royal tusk
ok since we are on the topic of opsi how do you normally progress within the map since im really confused about that
silent stump
there's a lot of easy stuff at the start though
so basically you can go to the zones that are adjacent to the ports you can access
if i recall right you only start on the port on the left at first, iirc campaign lets you go on some of the ports on the right the further you complete
when you clear a zone, you can go to adjacent zones to that zone
the higher the corrosion level of the zone, the more dangerous it is
silent stump
the "adaptability" that you have is basically a damage nerf to the enemies
royal tusk
im looking at the fleet but i dont think i can
silent stump
you have a maximum reduction of 30% IIRC
the exact numbers you need depend on the corrosion level and some specific zones need different
you can change fleet by clicking on the "order" button and then clicking fleet redeployment
you need to be at a port to do that
royal tusk
if a zone says secured can i consider that done/complete?
but at the same time it has stars and the ones that i think i completed i only have like 2
silent stump
yes
don't worry about the stars
you should also use your highest level cats on your fleet because that's important for the rewards from the meowfficer nodes
royal tusk
ok got it
silent stump
i guess we should establish what fleet you should be using
royal tusk
of course go ahead
silent stump
honestly i don't remember exactly how hard campaign gets as its been a while
i think you may or may not have to clear the arbiter at the end
if you need to clear the arbiter, it will require a lot of retreating and healing
royal tusk
is the arbiter at opsi or normal campaign
silent stump
arbiter is basically the final boss of opsi
it's the enemy at the center of the map
royal tusk
gotcha
silent stump
however the normal difficulty arbiter saves your progress, so every little bit of damage sticks even if you lose
so even with a relatively weak fleet, if you have enough coins for healing, you can do as many battles as you want until it dies
royal tusk
kinda like raids in BA thats cool
silent stump
considering the stuff you have leveled and MLB, the strongest fleet you can put up for now is probably something like... musashi/unicorn/implacable + san diego/helena/kawakaze
the vanguard is a bit squishy but you don't have an extra leveled good tank ready so it may just be better to bank on someone who can deal decent damage against everything like kawakaze
royal tusk
ohhh thats really helpful, ive been thinking for a bit with your info in mind about what fleet i can go with
what second fleet would you recommend?
silent stump
the fleet will struggle a little bit against light armor because all the main fleet only really will deal good damage against medium and heavy unless you have rocket fighters
hmm perhaps you can use enterprise instead of implacable actually. if you are willing to reset for the bosses
really just grab the rest of your leveled stuff and put it on the other fleet for now
royal tusk
i understand sure
silent stump
if implacable and enty aren't in one fleet then they should be in the other, etc
royal tusk
should they be put together in a fleet you mean?
silent stump
fill up with boats like hood, seydlitz, howe, monarch, and the leveled vanguards like emden, portland, Z23/laffey
emden does have synergy with seydlitz and with hood that's something to maybe help with light fleets
silent stump
should they be put together in a fleet you mean?
uh no
well it kind of depends, do you have rocket fighters?
royal tusk
the planes right?
silent stump
musashi/implacable/enterprise would make for a decent main fleet for bosses specifically, but the fleet you are going to use most of the time is going to be whatever fleet has unicorn in it
royal tusk
the planes right?
if so on enty seafang fairey firelfy and barracuda
and impla has 2 F6F hellcat
and a barracuda
silent stump
maybe you can try that main fleet with the vanguard i mentioned before to go all out on damage, then use your remaining level 110+ on another fleet with unicorn. like seydlitz/hood/unicorn + emden/Z23/laffey or something. or you may be fine using perseus+unicorn if you manual though it's not recommended normally but you are lacking in ships and you might need a lot of healing with your levels
silent stump
if so on enty seafang fairey firelfy and barracuda
and impla has 2 F6F hellcat
a...
don't use the firefly
also since implacable can freeze the enemies the carriers can and should be using the converging torpedo bombers for bosses
implacable can also use torpedo bombers on her second slot (and also dive bombers, but if you are using her for bossing you're gonna use torpedo bombers)
maybe you can set these fleets and, if your fleet with unicorn is getting chipped down a bit, you can come in with the big bossing fleet for a couple of fights and heal it for just a little bit on ports later
though you do have to keep two fleets geared like that
you should have helldivers laying around somewhere, you should use that as the dive bomber
royal tusk
ig this is good for now?
silent stump
the planes right?
ok so i was asking if you had any rocket fighters
fighters that launch rockets, there's only two of them i'm guessing you don't have them
well there's three but no one has the last one yet
actually there's 4, but one is irrelvant
royal tusk
name me one just in case
silent stump
so if you don't have the messerschmitt Bf 109G nor the Grummann F6F Hellcat (HVAR) then you don't have them
the latter was from yorktown 2 event. since you don't have her, you don't have that i guess
the former is from PR4 research
royal tusk
ye i def dont have them lol
silent stump
alright
then you should be using either hellcats/seafangs/reppuus or corsairs. they have the same bombs, so they deal the same damage technically, but the corsair is technically very slightly inferior because it gives less AVI stat as it's purple
royal tusk
ok i def have those so i'll look out for em
silent stump
actually i had forgotten that purples do have a lower tier of bomb despite being the same weight so it is actually a little inferior on the damage as well
do use those 3 gold planes if possible. if not, then corsair, if you don't have corsair you can use the purple variants of the gold planes mentioned
royal tusk
ill keep that in mind since those are the majority that i have
silent stump
for converging torp bombers you may have tenzan
definitely use that on implacable, and enterprise if she's on the same fleet
musashi is a bit of a special case. you actually do not want to use the 406mm MK6 on her because she really wants to equip a japanese gun so that her barrage deals much more damage
the most convenient option for you is the purple twin 410mm
maybe just maybe you have izumo gun if you've done PR1 in the past
if so then you may want to use that instead. especially since it stays in sync with helena better
royal tusk
unfortunately no since im still currently on izumo i am close to completing it tho
silent stump
well you don't need izumo for the izumo gun or anything.
it's just a gun you can get by acquiring blueprints from PR1
royal tusk
ahh how do i check
silent stump
if you have taken PR1 researches before, you may have enough to build it
in fact
you should just screenshot all the gold gear that you can make
royal tusk
gimme a sec
silent stump
so yeah i think i would go musashi/implacable/enterprise there and just ditch perseus entirely
royal tusk
There's also a lot of purple craftables do you want that as well incidentally?
silent stump
or move her to the other fleet but you would need to play manual because 3 airstrikes at the start of the battle isn't good
alright, there's the izumo gun
and also ryuuseis and STAAGs
ok so, the gun that you have 67 prints of, make one of that
then make the rectangular looking gun at the bottom of the second image
royal tusk
is the prototype triple 410? izumo gun?
silent stump
yes
royal tusk
ok
silent stump
make twin 40mm bofors STAAG
and also Aichi B7A Ryuusei
you can also make High Performance Hydraulic Rudder, that will be useful for some vanguards
and make the gold catapult if you don't already have enough
royal tusk
i guess i put all these crafted gears on the fleet you suggested then?
royal tusk
gotcha
silent stump
we may want to get a couple more of these for the other fleet but we'll see
royal tusk
damn your really helping me out huh thanks
silent stump
izumo gun and ryuusei you should enhance to +10 right away
also just any planes you will be using really
auxilliaries are a bit less important to +10 but still important
do you have tenzans for implacable?
royal tusk
no i do not have any tenzans
silent stump
hm
check if you can build some, they are purple after all
if not, then try to open a few purple sakura tech boxes if you have some lying around
or open boxes first. i guess that might be better
the full plane name is nakajima B6N tenzan suppose i should make that clear
i've been using shortened names for the planes instead of the full name. maybe i should be using the full name
royal tusk
oh i just opened some and i got the tenzan
royal tusk
nice i have 2 now
royal tusk
on the crafting screen?
silent stump
in this case, enterprises
well check if you have any and if you don't, craft or open eagle union boxes
silent stump
you can make the two or go open boxes if you want. i mean if you have a lot of boxes might as well open them
we only need 1 for enterprise, we don't need another for now but there will come a point where you will need more than one dive bomber
silent stump
all good then
royal tusk
does it also go on implacable?
silent stump
no, implacable will be using fighter/torp bomber/torp bomber
as we are gearing this for boss
so just to make this clear, it's gonna be musashi/implacable/enterprise + san diego/helena/kawakaze for our most damaging fleet
i think it's better to do it this way and use this fleet as backup if the other starts to get worn down a bit
silent stump
tenzan is the way to go because we are gonna be using this for the enforcer fights and whatnot later on when we get there
royal tusk
ok ok
silent stump
well i would give even better advice but really i don't remember all of campaign all that well
but if you have one super strong fleet, then you can use it to take down one or two troublesome fights
and heal up on port or with packs
and use the other fleet for the rest
royal tusk
ok then i'll go over the rest of the stuff that you said and then ill go opsi
i'll update you on it since you put so much effort here lol
silent stump
well i told ya how to gear main fleet basically
i didn't say much about vanguard so i'll do that a bit
in terms of auxilliaries we are just gonna want to maximize our survivability here and it's kinda straightforward for that
for destroyers simply go toolbox + another toolbox or anything that has similar HP to a toolbox, the more the better
for light cruisers we want toolbox + rudder
for heavy cruisers it's either toolbox + rudder or beaver badge + rudder
you can make and put this on helena, i doubt you have better
royal tusk
so just to make this clear, it's gonna be musashi/implacable/enterprise + san di...
if im gonna use this as a backup fleet whats the one that im gonna use most of the time?
silent stump
something with those other ships i mentioned. something like hood/unicorn/seydlitz + portland/laffey or Z23/emden
royal tusk
ahhh will do
silent stump
i would put a fast gun on hood like the purple twin 410mm
because her shelling damage is kinda bad and to desync damage a bit
and put the MK6 on seydlitz
i assume your hood has her augment
and i also assume kawakaze also does
also, about kawakaze
you should be using the blue 76mm as her main gun
royal tusk
i assume your hood has her augment
is it the dames medal of grace?
silent stump
and for san diego, you should use whatever shoots fast and still strong (i assume you also have her augment)
yes
the gold augments are their unique augments
i think it'd be good if you could just screenshot your destroyer/light cruiser/heavy cruiser guns tbh
by clicking on that slot and then just screenshotting what guns are there
royal tusk
in the depot or should i go one by one with the ships?
silent stump
it should be fine to just click a ship's gun slot and screenshot what is there
in the depot you can't see anything that's equipped
royal tusk
Is this it, it's under laffey's
silent stump
that helps, well it's your AA guns/torps/destroyer guns
if you could screenshot your light cruiser guns and your heavy cruiser guns as well, that'd help
royal tusk
Here
silent stump
alright
so there's a couple things you can do
you can make the gun i posted above and put that on helena or emden
you can go open a few iron blood boxes to see if you can get a purple twin 150mm tbtsk to use on the one that doesn't have that
for portland, just use the first gold gun
royal tusk
alright ill go do that
silent stump
for kawakaze, open sakura blue boxes until you get this https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Single_76mm_(3"/50_caliber_gun)#/media/File:11000.png
it looks really weak but there is a reason for using this
there are a few ships, namely sakura destroyers, that have really bad firepower/main gun efficiency but they have powerful all-out-assaults that do things such as shoot torps which naturally scale off of their torpedo stat
so in those ships you don't want to use a gun with good damage, you just want to use a gun that fires fast
and kawakaze is one of such ships
well you can open purple boxes as well
do specifically get the blue version of this gun
actually that's an eagle union gun, my bad
so you have to open EU boxes
royal tusk
ok gotcha thankfully i have a lot in stock
silent stump
you do have kawakaze augment right
royal tusk
prolly not but ill just craft it
silent stump
she also absolutely needs it
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