F4U-1 USMC Corsair

USA, Aircraft , 1943

ATT inf 9/7/-
ATT veh 3/2/-
Cost 20.00
Def 4/4
Speed A

Aircraft
Aircraft are placed during the flight phase and attack during the airstrike phase. Units attacking Aircraft use their anti-Soldier attacks and get –1 on each attack die.

Antiair
This unit ignores the -1 penalty on each attack die when attacking Aircraft. If an enemy Aircraft is placed in a hex adjacent to this unit, this unit may make a defensive-fire attack against it.

Bombs
Once per game, instead of rolling this unit's attack against an enemy Soldier or Vehicle in the same hex, you can declare you are using bombs. If you do, roll 12 attack dice against enemy that unit if it's a Soldier or 8 attack dice if it's a vehicle.

Superior Armor 2
An attack must beat this unit’s defense by 2 or more in order to score two hits against it.

Set Bandits High, 8

 

Special Abilities Errata & FAQ

Antiair

This unit ignores the -1 penalty on each attack die when attacking Aircraft. If an enemy Aircraft is placed in a hex adjacent to this unit, this unit may make a defensive-fire attack against it.

Q: Can an artillery unit without the Antiair special ability attack Aircraft?
A: No. (Comes from the 11/12/2009 Rules update)

Bombs

Once per game, instead of rolling this unit's attack against an enemy Soldier or Vehicle in the same hex, you can declare you are using bombs. If you do, roll 12 attack dice against enemy that unit if it's a Soldier or 8 attack dice if it's a vehicle.

Q: When targeting a Vehicle, does the bomb attack go against the front or rear armor value of the Vehicle?
A: The rear armor, because the plane is in the same hex as the target Vehicle.

Superior Armor 2

An attack must beat this unit’s defense by 2 or more in order to score two hits against it.

Q: A Tiger tank's frontal defense is 7 and it has Superior Armor 2. Does this special ability simply add to a unit's defense? Would the Tiger's defense now be 9?
A: No. Superior Armor 2 doesn't change the vehicle's defense value at all. What it does is make it harder for a single attack to score two hits against the vehicle. A single attack must score enough successes to beat the target vehicle's defense rating by 2, not just by 1, in order to score two hits.

To clarify your example, a Tiger I has frontal defense 7 and Superior Armor 2. That means 7 successes against the tank's frontal armor would cause 1 hit while 9 successes against the tank's front would cause 2 hits. Without Superior Armor 2, 8 successes would cause 2 hits. Note that Superior Armor 2 has no effect at all against three attacks (14 successes against the tank's front will still cause 3 hits.) The tank is still disrupted by one hit, damaged by two hits, and destroyed by three hits. Superior Armor 2 just makes it harder to get two hits from a single roll of the dice, and that's all it does.