No disagreement. However, the ExB+survival SA combination is already done, and done well. Repeating that becomes a choice between bookmark or powercreep. It needs to be its own thing
What if we gave her one of the following mechanics: (1) Dice reroll (limited or full) (2) Bonus damage
For (1.1) we could have: Experienced Bombers 2: Once per turn, you may choose a friendly Dive Bomber. That Dive Bomber may reroll up to 2 attack dice during your Air Attack Step.
For (1.2): Experienced Bombers: Once per turn, you may choose a friendly Dive Bomber. That Dive Bomber may reroll its Bomb attack.
For (2) we could have: Once per turn, when an enemy Ship is damaged by a Bomb attack from a friendly Dive Bomber, roll a die. On a 6, that Ship takes 1 additional Hull Point of damage.
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Can't remember exactly what skilled search says in relation to your expert scouting SA but I could get behind something like this with maybe two of the expert ability?
I think all three different experts might be a stretch for this. ET in particular is an early war tough sell. Not a fan of just loading something out game wise if it does not fill well historically. I'm definitely in the latter camp first.
I just thinking swamping this with all the expert abilities will create something it wasn't. We've obviously gone away from what is was best known for with the doolittle raid. With only really EB as a historically valid SA and with the reluctance to build around that, I would say go away from any experts entirely and create something different. At least then we could start with a survivor SA without fear of replicating the other carriers and add to that as much or as little as required.
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There is no codifided determinator for experts so EB is only an option with greater historical weight.
My position on any card is to have it a clear identity and EB fails to provide that. In the beer and pretzels sense, having been wiped out at midway and then rebuilt for Santa Cruz is equal expertise to an non fatal hit on a carrier.