Scenario: Leyte Gulf, October 1944 (DLC)
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
- 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.