INTRODUCTION
GAME SET-UP AND VICTORY CONDITIONS: Randomised
Deployment of Forces; Reserve Forces and “Flank Marches”; End of Game
“THE BIGGER PICTURE”: Game Start and Deployment; Moving
between tables; Attacking the enemy; Returning to base; Operational and
Tactical Turns; Game End; The “Widescreen Production”
ORDER OF PLAY
EXPANDED COMBAT EFFECTS: Surface Gunnery Rules;
Additional Effects of Attacks on Carriers or Air Bases; Fires on Carriers;
Effect of Gunnery or Bomb Damage if Structure or Flotation is reduced to 0;
Structural Critical Hits
REPAIR, MORALE: Repairs and reloading torpedoes;
Morale; Morale Effects on Carriers and Aircraft; Effect of Loss or
Withdrawal of Carriers on Victory Points; Replacing “Lost” Commanders;
Effects of morale failure in “The Bigger Picture”
CRITICAL HIT TABLES:
NON CARRIER STRUCTURAL (WW2)
UNDERWATER
CARRIER / AIR BASE STRUCTRURAL (WW2)
.AIR GROUPS; Introduction to the use of Aircraft;
Creating Air Groups; Equipping a carrier or air base; Re-using Air Groups
during the game
CARRIER AND AIR BASE OPERATIONS: The Basics; Aircraft
Handling; Taking Off; Recovering Air Groups; Supporting CAP; Refuelling and
Rearming; Using Friendly Air Bases and Carriers
AIRCRAFT MOVEMENT: Movement; Turning; Interaction
between opposing aircraft; Interaction between aircraft and surface targets;
Leaving and Joining Air Groups; Leaving the Table; Transferring Commanders
AIRCRAFT IN COMBAT: Aircraft and the Game Turn
Sequence; Jettisoning Payload; Lines of Sight to and from Aircraft;
Resolving Air to Air Combat; Resolving Anti-Aircraft Fire; Aircraft Damage;
Air Attacks on Surface Targets; Air Attack Types; Resolving Air Attacks on
Surface Targets; Aircraft Weapon Effects; Examples; After the Attack
KAMIKAZE ATTACKS: Initiating an attack; AA fire and air
to air combat; Resolving the attack; Victory points
GAME DATA AND SCENARIOS
AIRCRAFT DATA: Abbreviations; Tactical Doctrine Table;
Aircraft Ordnance Tables; Australia; France; Germany; Great Britain; Italy;
Japan; Russia; United States
SCENARIOS: Repair Rules in linked scenarios; The
Battle of Punta Stilo; The Battle of the Coral Sea; The Battle of Midway;
Malta Convoys: Operation “Halberd”; Operation “Pedestal”
WARSHIP DATA: Abbreviations; Filling in the Squadron
Record Sheet; Warship Data Tables: Generic; Great Britain; Italy; Japan;
United States
CARRIER RECORD SHEET (WW2)