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Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations [Scripted]

Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations (HL:CAO) is a solitaire game created by Dan Verssen Games (DVG).

Description from DVG website:
Hornet Leader - Carrier Air Operations is a huge game based on the material seen in our Vassal/PDF games. This new game takes a huge step forward in artwork created by Wan Chiu. Wan also created the fantastic artwork for our Frontline game, Alexander game, and the box art for our Phantom Leader.

We have also further enhanced the game systems and weapon values to make them fully consistent with the new systems seen in Phantom Leader.

Hornet Leader spans all aspects of US naval aviation throughout the service life of the F/A-18 Hornet from 1983 to the present day.

The game places you in command of the pilots and aircraft of a squadron of U.S. Navy strike aircraft in hostile campaigns around the world. The aircraft and weapons available for each campaign are historically accurate.

A major part of the game is mission planning. You decide how to arm your aircraft and which pilots are best for the mission. Pilots are rated for skill level. Deciding which pilots to fly each mission is a major consideration. Your pilots will become fatigued with every mission. If you fly a pilot too often, his skills will degrade. Your pilots also gain experience with every mission flown. This makes for some great decision-making. Should you keep flying the top pilots and further fatigue them to get the job done, or fly the new guys to prep them for the tough missions ahead?

Missions are quickly resolved using an area movement system to display tactical combat over the target. Priority is placed on speed and realism. You get to resolve every missile launched at enemy bandits, and every air to ground attack against the enemy target. You also get to resolve the enemy SAM, AAA, and Bandit attacks against your aircraft.

While performing each mission, you get to decide how your pilots engage the enemy Bandits, SAMs, and AAA Sites. This makes for some tough choices. The more suppression munitions you haul to the target, the safer your pilots will be, but you will be able to load fewer munitions to destroy the target.

We've included the cards for every pilot to progress in experience from Newbie, to Green, Average, Skilled, Veteran, and Ace!

Key Design Features:
An all-around excellent solitaire game.
Manage your pilots as well as your hardware to be a successful squadron commander.
Intuitive, fast-playing game system.

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This upload is for demo purposes. If you enjoy the game please support the creator and purchase a physical copy of this great game. (http://www.dvg.com)

All game rights and materials are copyright DVG. I am not the artist nor creator of any of the materials.

Some of the custom game elements were created by others on BoardGameGeek for the physical version:
Hornet Leader Pilot Board (for custom Pilot Cards): Created by Jonathan Broome
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/68246/hornet-leader-pilot-board-part-1
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/68247/part-2-6-hornet-leader-pilot-board
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/68248/part-3-6-hornet-leader-pilot-board
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/68249/part-4-6-hornet-leader-pilot-board
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/68250/part-5-6-hornet-leader-pilot-board
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/68251/part-6-6-hornet-leader-pilot-board

New Pilot Cards (custom cards): Created by Jonathan Broome
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/66923/new-pilot-cards
Stats have been changed slightly by the creator to make them more balanced, there is no pilot with one advantage over another. These are optional as I have included the original cards for those that prefer.

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Other Games:
Phantom Leader Deluxe Edition
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=964564522

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Change History:

Release Version 1.5: Added Scripting! :)
5 New Script options have been added:
Reset Targets: This will detect which mission card is selected and will filter the Target Deck cards to only those on the selected mission.
Shuffle All Items: This will shuffle the Sequence Bag, Target Token Bag, Target Deck, and Event Deck.
Clean Table: This will remove all notecards, and restack cards from Event and Target decks.
Clean Weapons: This will place all weapon tokens back in their appropriate bags.
Clean Pilots: This will place all Pilot cards and tokens back in their appropriate bags.

Release Version 1.4: Added Manual.

Release Version 1.3: Added 2nd version of Iraq 1991 Introductory Mission that matches the rulebook walkthrough. Fixed state order for pilot Lightning for the skill levels. Thank you to MooseRoom for identifying these!

Release Version 1.2: Added missing armaments: AGM-65 Maverick / AGM-84 Harpoon. Changed armaments to double-sided tokens to match counts of physical version instead of infinite bags of individual types. Thank you to those who reported these items.

Release Version 1.1: Updated Target Deck. There was a duplicate of target #7 and target #6 was missing.

Release Version 1.0: Included all original components as well as downloadable campaigns and custom pilots/board (see credit and notes above).

Notes: This is my first upload to the workshop so please let me know how I did and if there is anything that isn't working properly and I will update as quickly as I can.