#some tips, please
manic arch
Yukikaze 
paper kindle
I mixed them up...
Kagerou was on the other fleet
which of course survives nicely
manic arch
Do you have your overall ship list? Though it seems like it should be fine, so maybe it's equips on the planes on fleet 1 as well? 
paper kindle
meanwhile, the first fleet gets heavily damaged after two or three mid size enemy fleets
paper kindle
Do you have your overall ship list? Though it seems like it should be fine, so m...
I can screenshot it, if you want
manic arch
Yep
paper kindle
though I have stronger ships, I tend to "store" them after they reach max affinity
is that bad strategically?
manic arch
Yeah, cos you want them to kinda hit like level 120 in the end rather than max affinity
So putting max affinity but not 120 ships is still good for leveling them
paper kindle
for example, to change little Eugen
first places are Saint Louis at 125, Takao also at 125, then London at 106 or so
manic arch
ooo
paper kindle
So putting max affinity but not 120 ships is still good for leveling them
I'll take it into account
manic arch
Yeah slap London she's stonks
Esp since she's overleveled so you can get out damage while dragging trash or lower leveled ships along
manic arch
donmai
paper kindle
I'll see how it goes, it should change quite nicely
manic arch
Also keep in mind eqs are quite important so best to look up which ones are better to put on your fleet
IIRC running /equip in #bot-spam should have a guide I think 
paper kindle
yeah, I don't know much about equipment
manic arch
I can only recommend SB2C on dive bomber slots and the purple triple mk6 on BB main guns as a starter. The rest may or may not take time 
paper kindle
I tend to check best base stats, then upgrade
manic arch
Some of the gold eqs are bad etc, so might be good to read up a little at least 
Like dis trash (gold btw)
paper kindle
though I am completely ignorant when it comes to other stats of equipment, like firing angle, shell type, armour type, shell velocity, spread, etc
manic arch
For those...err...ig just take it slow for now since most of them really only come into play at higher worlds (I'd say 11 or 12)
paper kindle
oh, nice
manic arch
But do know that HE -> Light mobs (DDs and CLs), AP -> Heavy mobs (BBs, CVs)
paper kindle
that I know
paper kindle
though, then again, I never know
is that related to the ship that shows as icon on an enemy fleet?
manic arch
Aye, it's the same icon as your own ships so it should be easy to identify
paper kindle
yup
so, kinda related to that, another question branching: is it okay to use different level fleets? like, one for small fleets and another, stronger formation for large fleets?
manic arch
Usually people tend to split their fleets into bossing and mobbing fleets
So you put ships better at sustain in mobbing and those that do good dps in boss
So an example is like unicorn is amazing in mobbing due to her heal on air strike but not as good on a boss fleet as she doesn't do as much dmg
Also recommend getting unicorn if you don't have her she's really good for sustain
paper kindle
oh, I tend to use both fleets available more or less the same amount of times... or is that not what you mean?
manic arch
Yeah so basically
paper kindle
I have Unicorn, around level 80 I guess, full limit break but no retrofit yet
manic arch
Instead of doing that you keep 1 fleet solely for the boss node
paper kindle
oh
manic arch
And the rest of them to hit the other mobs until the boss spawns
manic arch
I have Unicorn, around level 80 I guess, full limit break but no retrofit yet
So in this case slap a good fighter and torp bomber on her and put her in the mob fleet for big stonks
manic arch
Usually not advisable since it's oil waste, unless you're doing it for the 3rd star.
paper kindle
okay
manic arch
Otherwise it's best to just hit until the boss spawns as it's objectively and mathematically more exp and oil and coin efficient
paper kindle
so, farming as I have been doing is worthless... I did so to unlock all the ships on each stage
guess it really was unnecessary
manic arch
Well, kinda. Also note that apart from the gold ship drops I'm pretty sure all of the rest are droppable everywhere
So no need to unlock all drops either xD
If you wanna know what map drops what the wiki has everything
paper kindle
yup
manic arch
But ye, usually people just spam maps for gold drops (usually the 4th map in the stage) else it's world 9 and above for exp farming nowadays
paper kindle
interesting
well, I'm far from that yet
so, changes must be applied
thanks a lot for your help and time
manic arch
Donmai, just feel free to ask and I'm sure everyone's willing to help~