[Rules] 4th Edition rules are up

[leonard]

Alan, to be fair, the AA gun has never been able to shoot down planes in PG and thus the problem, if it is a problem, is not new to 4th edition.

From my perspective, the plane counters represent a small portion of the air power supporting the troops on the ground. If some planes were shot down, I don't think it would impact other planes of the same types flying over the battlefield in a later turn.

Daniel, My point is that it looks to now have the planes being too effective, if they can attack AA guns without any threat of there loss.

Since there is new plane draws on future turns it makes more sense to have attacking planes driven off. Or maybe add 1 per AA gun to the miss die roll.

Or maybe just reduce the number of draws a player with planes has. Still effective but maybe not overpowering if they only get 1/2 the draws.

I liked the idea of planes being more effective but I can see the point that maybe they are TOO effective.

Though so far we're basing this whole conversation on one attack example.

Obviously, I skipped the 'miss' die roll in my description. There IS a +1 to the miss die roll so that the chance to miss the target was 50%. Thereafter there is another -1 column on Direct fire for AA gun within 3 hexes of the target and -2 for entrenchment...
These rockets should really be powerful. But the final result (X2) still was lucky (dice roll = 11). Don't panic.