1.15 - Leyte Gulf — Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal - Pacific War Naval Warfare News

Scenario: Leyte Gulf, October 1944 (DLC)

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[p align="start"]This scenario covers the landing at Leyte and the Japanese gambit to counter it using remaining carriers as decoy and seeking a surface battle.

What-if options counterbalance a bit the overwhelming US power
Kamikazes have been added to the Pilot module

Rules Update

CAP and AA rules have been somewhat revised. CAP

- Combat table reworked

- Fighters gets +1 against unescorted non-strategic bombers

- Ammunition depletion

- AA 1% Confused, 3% Hit (reduced by weather).

- US +1 Confused in 1943, +1 Hit in 1944.

- Light AA capped at 40

- Light + Heavy AA capped at 100

Air attacks

- -1% to Hit for every 7 pts of AA instead of 5. (100 pts of AA => max -15%). Heavy AA halved for this purpose.

Air units:

- Some heavy fighters have a strafing value of 2 instead of 1.

- Air damage table reworked

- P47-D

Task forces

- US TF may contain up to 6 CV per TF starting end-1944.

- Both Japanese and US TF may contain up to 16 ships from June 1944.

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