PBY-5A Canso *DONE*

Perhaps splitting hairs, and I think I know the intent here, but does Suppress Sub work if this plane has been aborted? I've run into this nuance in night games where units fail their placement roll and then are treated as aborted in the sector they were headed to, in effect limiting the number of planes than can still get into that sector. Aborted planes don't return to the land base until the end of the turn. I think the intent here is that if this plane remains unaborted at the end of the air attack phase, then it gets to move and attack another sub. Perhaps this wording for clarity?

I agree. It would not be adding a lot of text, and keeps it clear on how it should work.

I like this version better

Then let's keep it clean and not include it.

I took this unit (actually 4) against a German Sub swarm. Against the German swarm I would put two of these with an escort into a sector with a sub and then place the other two with an escort in an adjacent sector with a sub.

Utilizing the Canso's SA, it allowed me to make 8 attacks (4 regular and 4 with Suppress SA) against each sub. Granted the ASW attacks were not great values (I didn't have a boost), but if you roll that many times, chances are (and were) good that you would eventually hit and sink a sub.

The impacts of doing this resulted in less TT dice being rolled because of the ASW attacks, and the German player had to make a choice of separating his subs or knowing that we would be under ASW Threat or worse getting two of his subs attacked 8 times in a turn.

The Canso's managed to destroy 3 U-66s (3/6/2) and crippled another during the game; 2 Canso's got shot down.

I don't think it felt overpowered, I specifically played it against a German Sub swarm (the Germans fielded 10 subs).  Bear in mind that I don't think it will come up that often, and the chances of hitting a Armor 3 sub with 2 ASW dice is about 8% (you have to roll a 6 - 16%, and the other die has to be 4+).

Most of the crippling hits were on the first attack, the SA made it easier to finish off a crippled sub in subsequent turns (2 armor vs. 3 on a U-66). 

Bear in mind the playtest I did was in a Canso's dream environment (against 10 subs and two land-based fighters), so it should have done well.  

As a note the Allies beat the Germans pretty soundly this game.

Between the Canso's and the 6 destroyers the German sub Fleet was almost always under ASW threat.  The Torps were running pretty much average (1 hit in 6 rolls).  Remember the Canso's got to come out EVERY TURN thanks to Loiter, this unit is a German Sub Build's worst nightmare. 

I think that the unit is fine, but was trying to find and test a scenario that I thought they could be 'broken'.  The best I could come up with was against a German Sub build, and the Canso's WERE very powerful... but lets face it; how often (other than against some jerk at Origins last year) are you going to face that many subs in a 200 point game?

In most games you're probably going to face 2-3 subs which is easier to keep them separated, thus nerfing this SA.