#58 Cape Engano Chiyoda - Done

Cape Engaño was in 1944 so that’s what date this unit should be. That said, EDF doesn’t really reflect the level of pilots they had available.

I’ve suggested that and also Fly Off Strike for the kamikazes.

I really don't want to get down to the level of pilot quality on these cards unless it is specifically related to an event. Otherwise almost all IJN aircraft are downgraded after 1943.

So you want to add Fly-off Strike? Do we use all three SAs or drop Expert Dogfighter? If we include all three would the cost bump to 14? (I would say yes as this now starts to look like an interesting - aka playable - unit for a Cap 1 carrier)

Carrier - 1944
Points - 14
Speed 2
Cap 1
MG 5 5 4
AA 7
A2 v9 h3


Expert Dogfighter - Once per turn, you may choose a friendly Fighter. That Fighter rolls one extra attack die when making Antiair attacks this turn.

Decoy(revised 2) - Once per game, if a friendly local or adjacent Ship other than this unit receives hits equal to or greater than its Vital Armor, roll a die. On a 3 or higher, that Ship takes 1 point of hull damage instead of being destroyed.

Fly-off Strike - Once per game during the Air Mission phase, you may place a marker on the map that functions as an aircraft squadron. Remove from play when it's aborted, destroyed or at the beginning of the Air Return phase, whichever happens first.
Fly-off squadron: Armor 4, Vital Armor 7, Bomb 7.

The 3-ability set is fine.

I'd prefer a slightly stronger Decoy ability (to guard against torpedoes as well as bombs), but then the expert dogfighter is more necessary for game reasons (to protect Chiyoda from Air Attack). Fly-off Strike is nice either way, as an edge over other Cap-1 CVs, and thematically.

14 with a edit to decoy as Theaetetus suggests that refers to a unit bekmg destroyed rather than vital armour

Decoy(revised 3) - Once per game, if a friendly local or adjacent Ship other than this unit would be destroyed in the air attack phase, roll a die. On a 3 or higher, that Ship takes 1 point of hull damage instead of being destroyed.

Another issue guys. Aircraft carriers have different hull stats than regular warships. The tonnage and size of Chiyoda (11,190 tons) are similar to the Zuiho class (11,262 tons) and Ryuho (13,360 tons) which are 1/6/3 hull stats.

Rich Baker's Ryujo (10,600 tons) appears to be an outlier, but I think that may be because Ryujo was built from the beginning as a carrier to "warship" standards while the others are all conversions from auxiliary ships.

I think this ship should also be 1/6/3. I can't find any evidence the conversion of Chiyoda/Chitose was any different from the other conversions (Zuiho/Ryuho).