#58 Cape Engano Chiyoda - Done

Explain?

From a design standpoint what are we trying to accomplish here?

In my opinion the answer is:
1) A unit that your opponent should be incentivized to attack instead of other units.
2) An aircraft carrier that gets a bonus for NOT having aircraft on it (as a decoy).

Taking a wide left turn based on the above, what about:

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Kaiwa Chiyoda
Carrier - 1943
Speed 2
Cap 0
MG 5 5 4
AA 7
A2 v9 h3

FIGHTER COVER 5: Once per turn during the Antiair phase, you may make a 5-dice Antiair attack against enemy aircraft within range 3. This attack is in addition to your normal Antiair attack. The Escort ability works against this attack.

Decoy: Once per game at the end of the air placement phase, you may move all of your opponents aircraft in one adjacent sector to this sector (going beyond the normal stacking if needed). If this unit is sunk in the following Air Attack phase, your opponent scores an additional 5 victory points. This ability may not be used if no aircraft are in the chosen adjacent sector.

Mission Accomplished: If this unit used the Decoy SA, increase it's aircraft capacity by +1.

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Changes:
- Removed the Aircraft capacity... it can no longer base aircraft at all (until after it uses the decoy ability), but still has fighter cover.
- Changed Decoy to a OPG ability (2 if you bring two of these) but incentivizes your opponent to sink the carrier instead of what else may be in the sector to get the bonus 5 points. By bringing over all aircraft you also bring any escorts thus preventing a "killbox" by stacking fighters and just bringing over attack craft. This allows you to potentially protect higher cost ships for one turn.
- Added the ability to base aircraft AFTER it is used as a decoy and if it survives.

I like it because:
- This new decoy removes having to track changes to the attack dice and just moves the "stack of aircraft", plus no rearming counters.
- It's up to the player when to use the ability, possibly saving a higher costing unit.
- Still up to your opponent on whether to attack the decoy or other ships in the sector... but they get bonus VPs by sinking it as a decoy.
- You are paying for a carrier, but don't get to use it as a carrier until AFTER you use the decoy ability.

Thoughts? Tear it apart guys.

I'm afraid I don't understand, if I'm reading the proposed ability correctly the reaming counters are given to the units based on chiyoda and I don't see how that limits the opposing players number of air attacks.

Correct, chiyodas aircraft are forced ro rearm.and cant just bugger off for a turn to another carrier.

Au64,
Im in agreement on the once pergame and not modifying dice.
Its a too big a carrier not to get a cap imo, these are fixed stats.
Forcing your opponent to do things is not an approach i support. Makimg something the obvious or best avsilable course of action is better

I stand corrected. I read it as the enemy carrier aircraft get 2 rearming counters...

Would it better? (instead if having the opponent reroll the attack) to do either
a) SA: Once per game, when a friendly, local or adajacent ship is attacked in the air attack step you may use this ability. If you do roll a die. On a 3 or higher that attack misses.

Or, to make this unit have more value in the long term
b) SA: Once per turn, when a friendly, local or adajacent ship is attacked in the air attack step you may use this ability. Roll a die; on a 5 or higher that attack misses.
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Also, (I think) I understand the capacity effect in your proposed ability, but not why it's tied to the use of the decoy ability—why did you write it that way?