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Example of Naval Combat
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In Spring 1942, the Japanese decide to attack the American and British fleet in the Coral Sea. They are attacking with their ships from the Solomon Sea as well as their planes from Rabaul and their bomber from Truk.
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The first phase in any combat is air to air combat. The Americans have two fighters, the Japanese have three fighters and a bomber involved in the battle. The side with the least amount of fighters (the Americans) assign their planes as either fighters or bombers, then the side with more fighters does the same. The U.S. decides to have one plane be engaged in air to air combat with the other assigned to a bombing mission. The Japanese assign two fighters in air to air combat and one fighter and the bomber on bombing missions.
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Mark:
The Japanese player decides to bypass with one of his fighters and go after the U.S, planes on a bombing mission. The first part of air-to-air combat is now resolved between dogfighting fighters from both sides.
In air-to-air combat, the U.S. fighter needs a "3 or less" to score a hit and rolls a "2". The Japanese fighter also needs a "3 or less" but rolls a "4" and misses. The Japanese player needs to remove one of his air-to-air fighters as a casualty. He chooses the fighter in air-to-air combat rather than his bypassing interceptor as it has not had a chance to fire yet.
Next, the Japanese bypassing interceptor fires at the U.S. planes on a bombing mission needing a "3 or less" to hit. Because it is a fighter on a bombing mission, the U.S. fighter does not get to shoot back. The Japanese player rolls a "5" and misses - the U.S. plane gets through! The U.S. fighter and the two Japanese planes assigned to bombing missions are now moved over to the Naval combat board.
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Mark:
Ships and planes that were on bombing missions are laid out on the combat board.
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Players assign their bombing planes to the ships they are attacking. The Japanese assign both planes to attack the American carrier. The U.S. player goes after the Japanese light carrier with his plane.
Next, anti-aircraft is rolled. Both fleets have plenty of AA available to fire at each attacking plane. The Americans get lucky and hit the Japanese bomber. Japanese AA misses the U.S. plane.
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