Worklist for update 1.4

Is there a way that you can slightly alter the dogfighting rules? It just seems odd that a fighter flight with a dogfighting score of 3 can't kill a fighter flight with a dogfighting score of 4. I also took a look at the 1.4 Fleet Excel sheet and the new ship/plane stats. I think the AP increase is good on the torpedoes and bombs but I'm not sure I like them on the guns.

Btw, I love the look of the cards so much better than before. The only thing I liked better from the old cards were the look of the hull boxes.

Thank you for the feedback, I'll keep an eye on the AP scores and any feedback given on it here. It's a funny thing, I never realized yet that a DF 3 fighter cannot kill a DF 4 fighter, a DF 3 fighter would need a score of 10 to kill a DF 4 fighter but cannot score higher than 6+3. It is also the reason that there are no fighters in the game with a natural DF 4 score. But I agree that this might need some more thought. Do you have any solution in mind?

The American Hellcat has a DF of 4 in both 1.3 and 1.4 rules. I have come up with two solutions but both are rather fiddly. I'll see what else I can come up with. In my complaints about AP I've been doing some testing and I think the rise of AP on the guns are fine except when you get to the AP of 13.
Fights between battleships are too swift it seems.

How about this? A roll of one isn't added to the total in a dogfight and is in essence a 0. Example- Zero vs. Hellcat. Hellcat rolls a 1 and the Zero rolls a 5. Hellcat is 0+4=4 and the Zero is 5+3=8. Zero gets a kill.

Here's another idea. Any roll of 1 for a fighter in a dogfight with his opponent rolling a 6 is an auto kill for the fighter rolling the one regardless of dogfight scores.

Any more ideas out there?

I've put the dogfighting mechanic into a nice matrix. As you can see, the possibility of a kill diminishes as soon as the dogfighting skills increase. Dogfighting skill 4 has some unanticipated consequences though. I put in the hellcat because there were multiple requests to be able to game Leyte and other post 1944 engagements. I did not foresee the consequence that a DF 4 plane is immune for everything exept another DF 4 aircraft.

I'll see if I can come up with a solution. One that springs my mind is that a natural roll of a 6 will result in a kill if it is enough to win the engagement. That would be the quickest fix, but I havent playtested it yet or put in into a matrix to see the theory. I'll rebuild the matrix to see how it would look with that change.

Seems we're both working on it currently. I'll put your suggestions in a similar matrix so we can evaluate the effects.

I really like that natural 6 solution. I think it's better than my ideas.

This is how it looks when we implement an autokill with a win on a natural 6. It does look to give lower DF aircraft more of a kill chance, but it does the same for higher DF planes, increasing the overall kill rate by quite a bit.

Next is the matrix with the 1 vs 6 roll when the 1 wins. Note though that the Kill in this case is for the player rolling the 1 instead of the player rolling the 6. It does make my head spin a bit though.

No doubt kills will go up with your system. I like it that way though. However, I don't know if that's historical or not.