Compatible with Check Your 6 core rules. This is not a stand-alone rules set.
Desperate Measures provides 48 WWII scenarios from the Late War Pacific Theater in "Check Your 6" format
Scenarios extensively researched and play-tested
Scenarios featuring such diverse elements as:
Kamikaze attacks against all types of naval vessels including Fleet and Escort Carriers, Heavy Cruisers, Destroyers and transports where you actually have to fly your planes into ships
Escorted B-29 raids against the Japanese Home Islands where the bombers actually drop bombs, while facing ramming attacks and air-to-air bombing
Actions involving the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) and the iconic Seafires
Low-level airfield attacks including strafing and bombing
Fighter versus Fighter and Fighter Bomber scenarios featuring famous aces such as Tommy McGuire and Eugene Valencia
A large selection of aircraft for the Allies and Japanese including, but not limited to F6F Hellcats, F4U Corsairs, P-51 Mustangs, P-38 Lightnings, B-29s, N1 K2 Georges, Ki-84 Franks, Ohkas, Ki-1 00s, the ubiquitous A6M Zero and many more.
What's the Same
The "Check Your 6" movement and combat system simplicity
Games with a few or many aircraft to suit all sizes of gaming groups. Small scenarios can last an hour or less, larger scenarios can take a few hours
What's Different
Scenario specific victory conditions so that each side has a chance to win
6 Mini-campaigns covering the period of the most intense Kamikaze attacks including the Philippines, actions around Okinawa and the Home Islands
Rules additions including how to conduct Kamikaze attacks, Ohkas, and deliberately ramming B-29's
—description from the back of the book
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