#15 Gunichi Mikawa - Commander Japan

Gunichi Mikawa - Japan 1941
Soldier - Commander
Points?

(REQUIRED)Commander: This unit is attached to a friendly ship in the deployment phase. If that ship is destroyed or removed from the map, this unit is removed from play.

Ability (Fleet)

Ability (Flagship)

Mikawa was a successful cruiser commander , with a secondary night element

How about Fleet-
Accurate torpedoes
- you start the game with 5 rerolls for torpedoes attacks from Crusiers and Destryers.

Ship - this crusier is immune from being vitalled by aircraft. If vitalled this ship will just remove 1 hull point.

I’m not sure what the consensus is on fleet admirals having a penalty apply to their fleet - I saw some of the already cards on the Forumini Admiral page had occasional debuffs that they brought with them. Maybe helps with balancing. At any rate -

Gunichi Mikawa was commander at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a disastrous affair that saw Japanese troop transports massacred by allied air power. Something to reflect that might be neat, as part of balancing. Perhaps making auxiliary-type units more expensive or more vulnerable to air attack.

Perhaps this illustrates your point perfectly, but that seems like a fairly noteworthy debuff in comparison to (in my opinion) lackluster benefits. 

Then again, I suppose it is one round of an entire fleet getting double the chance to score successful torpedo attacks, and most japanese torpedos can one-shot a cruiser. Hmm. 

Instead of a once-a-game, fleet-wide bonus, could it be a once-per-turn, single-ship bonus?

TORPEDO DOCTRINE: Once per turn, you may use torpedo doctrine. If you do, select one ship in your fleet. That ship gets +1 to torpedo attacks for the turn. 

I suppose the downside to that is it lets the player pick-and-choose how they want to engage their ships, and can use the doctrine at will when they deem it best. The once-per-game, fleet-wide rule means that there’s a little more risk involved, since chances are you won’t get the perfect line up shot for every ship in the fleet at once. 

I like the idea of a 5 to-hit doing reduced damage. 

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