#Aryn fleetbuilding thread
snow lake
Ohh. That's very handy, thank you!
late wagon
snow lake
late wagon
so you said you on world 9 right?
livid harness
first suggestion is to raise some BBs. you don't really have any ready to go besides ulrich
and you'll need them for ch10-11
late wagon
^^
livid harness
arizona is okay for now but will struggle with ch10
livid harness
yep
snow lake
Trying to finish 9-3 at the moment, but Essex + Arizona are struggling to kill the boss at the moment before the Vanguard dies
snow lake
She seemed a lot better at clearing mob fleets than Essex was. Especially in chapter 6 where Essex was dying to the suicide boat spam
snow lake
Ohh. Arizona's been doing a bad job of that so far.
livid harness
arizona's secondary gun isn't great
and hang on. are you using only two ships in your fleets, or is the screenshot incomplete?
snow lake
You mentioned Warspite, should I try to retrofit her? I'd have to delay limitbreaking UvB, but I could buy her material from the shop next month.
livid harness
fleet 1 is only ulrich and adal?
snow lake
They're not really in fleets at the moment since I was re-arranging stuff to try and get things to work.
late wagon
port z46 madge seems solid for mob vanguard 
snow lake
I'll be able to choose a rookie exam ship in two days, so I could get here there
livid harness
that being said, Hood has the same problem as arizona with a puny secondary gun. but her barrage is great for clearing mobs.
snow lake
Would Hood/Hyuuga/Unicorn be an okay back-line for Chapter 9/10 then?
livid harness
yeah
late wagon
even for w11 too
snow lake
Is that a gearlab gun?
snow lake
Ah, why is that?
livid harness
it makes her a little worse, or at least different
changes her to an aviation battleship
and you lose her aux gun
late wagon
Is that a gearlab gun?
yeah twin 128 is a gear lab gun
snow lake
Oh. Yeah, suicide boats are the bane of my existance at the moment. That and my vanguard just evaporating. I don't know if it's my gear or what, but they seem to hold up especially poorly in boss fights.
late wagon
might be a gear issue
your vanguards seem fine in terms of ship choice, like theres not anyone whos straight up bad lol
livid harness
make sure you're using double line formation
snow lake
This is going to sound really stupid, but what are formations?
livid harness
single line boosts damage but reduces evasion
double line boosts vanguard evasion
circle formation boosts AA
snow lake
Oh. I don't think I've ever messed with that before. I'll definitely make sure it's on the double line one though.
livid harness
snow lake
...
I feel so dumb now. Apparently the default one has been reducing my evasion. No wonder they're bloody melting
livid harness
there's lots of things the game is either bad at explaining, or fails to explain altogether
snow lake
I've noticed. x.x I feel bad for asking so many questions in the discord channel, but there's so many things confusing me
Should I put a priority on leveling Hyuga/Hood's skills as well?
snow lake
Awesome. Thank you so much! I've been hitting a major wall and I really wasn't sure of where to go without it being a massive waste of resources
livid harness
gear is also a big part of it. take a look at the suggestions for your ships and see if anything needs to be changed. https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home
snow lake
Will do! I really cannot thank you enough for all the assistance.
livid harness
late wagon
snow lake
A quick gearlab question
Should I craft some of the gold quad 40mm bofor AA guns? I picked up some of the universal BP's from operation siren and I don't really have any of the other recommended anti-air guns
livid harness
yeah don't worry about them
late wagon
you can get all the AA guns you need through boxes
snow lake
Ah, got it. Thanks again ^_^
Should I save Hyuga's retrotfit until after I clear W10/11 then since she looses her secondary guns?
late wagon
yeah
livid harness
save it until you don't need her anymore, tbh. she can still be useful after retrofit, but it becomes a little harder to find a place for her
late wagon
well
you can buy nodes up until modernization
but don't really do modernization until after w11 id say yeah
snow lake
Are aviation battleships that bad?
Or is it just the secondary guns are that important?
late wagon
na hyuuga is the best purple BB full stop lol
its just the secondary gun
secondary gun is only relevant in w10/w11
and w14 too but thats way way in the future for you
snow lake
I'd hope by W14 I'm no longer struggling to fill out two fleets, but we'll see >.>
late wagon
snow lake
It's been painful to see people recommend Monarch as a Pr1 research and I don't even have the ships to do said research
livid harness
Hood will help with that
late wagon
^^
snow lake
Should I swap my catch-up research to her then?
It's been on Roon for a while since I only had KMS/USS ships for a bit, but I still have 210ish of them left to aquire
late wagon
Should I save Hyuga's retrotfit until after I clear W10/11 then since she looses...
for hyuuga you can do these 4 nodes for now if you have resources
snow lake
I think I have enough Battleship BP's to almost do Warspite's retrofit sans the event mat >.> I keep getting them via the random rewards/in shops for some bloody reason
late wagon
you need like ~20 gold ones for spite retros in its entirety
and 3 gold bulins/spite duplicates too
snow lake
Exactly my point lmao