Deck F Vought OS2U Kingfisher

Close ASW patrol seems to be a primary duty of both floatplanes. How about the SA that gives a bonus to ships that attack a sub this plane has attacked? Or a Vectoring ability.

I agree. The E13A 'Jake' and the AR 196 were actually used quite successfully as attack aircraft, were designed with intent for offensive use, and have some interesting potential IMO. The Allied floatplanes were basically used as search and rescue aircraft and not much else. Radar was developed early enough for the Allies to preclude the use of floatplanes as spotters. They were not intended to be used as attack aircraft, and were not used that way.

I see I've mistakenly posted in the wrong thread :-(
Doesn't matter what if we tried this -

Imagine the USS Arizona or USS Baltimore with this card giving just her a Scout (+1) ability to main guns or something similar.

I.E.
Kingfisher Detachment
Aircraft - Spotter
Points -
Armour - 3/6
Gunnery - 1
AA - 3
ASW - 1 or 2
Bomb - 1 or 2

SA's
BB/CA Detachment - This unit can be attached to a British BB or CA. While attached that unit gains +1 die to MG attacks.
If that unit is destroyed remove this unit from the game.

Seaplane Detachment - This unit represents one seaplane detachment that function as airplane squadron. Represent it using a marker. Blah blah blah.......


You get the idea. I'm sure you guys can work it out???

See what I did there? Expansion isn't that hard you just don't have to be so frightened of it.

Then you have wasted slots. Wasted slots can be put into the USN and IJN cause they are the 2 best nations in the game... the RN cant afford many more wasted slots than they already have...

We can always agree to disagree, and that is fine.

Airfield spots are always a premiim for any build, but for nations like the RN, Italy, and Germany, they are incredibly critical to your success. Due to there bening a lot of substandard aircraft in the RN/CW inventory, I practically use the same thing all the time:

4- Sunderland
3- Canadian Hurricane FB

Now I know someone is going to come along like always and say you can always use USN aircraft, and while true, I choose not to. I firmy believe that by the end of these decks, the RN can havecompetitive air on its own without "cheating" and using USN air. The Hurricane FB was a big help on that department early war, and there only needs to be a few planes to come out to fulfill this. Stuff like the Hawker Typhoon Fighter, Vultee Vengance, and a Mossie bomber variant would go along way to making this a reality.

So, in irder for this.... thing... to be of any use IMO, it HAS TO HAVE Sea Basing. I refuse to waste airfield slots on this crud. Second, This thing would have to be incredibly cheap to be of any use. Third, I know some people have said to give it spotting whuch IMO would make it OP on such a cheap platform. +1 dice for everything is too much. Something like this would be appropriate.

SA- Zeroing In--- when declaring this SA, chiose a friendly model, and an enemy model within range 2 of this aircraft. The chosen friendly model rolls 1 extra attack dice when firing on the enemy ship chisen by this SA. Someone can clean up the SA a little...

Thank you au64 I was thinking the spotting should only benefit the ship the attachment is attached to so it is limited (and maybe can't be stacked with other boosts???).

Since the team is making the Walrus card, which is (IMO) akin to turning an SA into its' own card i.e. a stand alone unit (which I don't agree with). Making a card based SA is like this is almost exactly the same. "From a certain point of view." Ben Kenobi

Yeah, that Carrier was a typo and should have been Cruiser. (I fixed it above)