This was an interesting read. Just ran a game a couple weeks ago with the UK carrier air arm. The aircraft they have early war are a rough match against the bf 109 lol.
Though highly vunerable to enemy fighters. Veteran FAA squadon rapidly developed tactics to maximise thier effectiveness. Even small flights of aircraft could prove to be deadly to the axis when employed to thier best effect.
ALTERNATE PAYLOAD 5: Once per game, this unit can make a 5-dice Bomb attack instead of a Torpedo attack during your Air Attack step.
SURPRISE ATTACK : If you win initiative, this unit gets +1 armor and +1 vital armour.
Fleet Air Arm Overstack - A UK Carrier with a basing capacity of 3 or fewer can base one additional Aircraft that has this ability
Though highly vunerable to enemy fighters. Veteran FAA squadon rapidly developed tactics to maximise thier effectiveness. Even small flights of aircraft could prove to be deadly to the axis when employed to thier best effect.
Crew: 3 - pilot, observer, and radio operator/rear gunner (observer's position frequently replaced with auxiliary fuel tank) Length: 35 ft 8 in (10.87 m) Wingspan: 45 ft 6 in (13.87 m) Width: 17 ft 3 in (5.26 m) wings folded Height: 12 ft 4 in (3.76 m) Wing area: 607 sq ft (56.4 m2) Airfoil: RAF 28[66] Empty weight: 4,195 lb (1,903 kg) Gross weight: 7,580 lb (3,438 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Bristol Pegasus IIIM.3 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 690 hp (510 kW) Propellers: 3-bladed metal fixed-pitch propeller Performance
Maximum speed: 143 mph (230 km/h, 124 kn) with torpedo at 7,580 lb (3,438 kg) and 5,000 ft (1,524 m) Range: 522 mi (840 km, 454 nmi) normal fuel, carrying torpedo[67] Endurance: 5 hours 30 minutes Service ceiling: 16,500 ft (5,000 m) at 7,580 lb (3,438 kg) Rate of climb: 870 ft/min (4.4 m/s) at 7,580 lb (3,438 kg) at sea level 690 ft/min (210.3 m/min) at 7,580 lb (3,438 kg) and 5,000 ft (1,524 m) Armament
Guns: ** 1 × fixed, forward-firing .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun in upper right fuselage, breech in cockpit, firing over engine cowling 1 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis or Vickers K machine gun in rear cockpit Rockets: 8 × "60 lb" RP-3 rocket projectiles (Mk.II and later) Bombs: 1 × 1,670 lb (760 kg) torpedo or 1,500 lb (700 kg) mine under fuselage or 1,500 lb total of bombs under fuselage and wings.