From: Markus Stumptner <mst@dbai.tuwien.ac.at.
Subject: USN limited intelligence

I found this in an old MOVES magazine...

	Markus 

USN Limited Intelligence.   MOVES 9, p.15f

Like most wargames, USN fails to allow for the strategic surprises
that occurred in the historical campaign (e.g., Midway, the
Guadalcanal landings, etc.).  I have applied SPI's "limited
intelligence" ideas to USN as follows:

1. First, replace each naval unit stack with a marked "task force"
counter (I prefer to use the lettered naval air unit counters, keeping
track of NAC on paper).  The naval units gathered in each TF are kept
on a corresponding 3x5 card, out of your opponent's sight.  Units must
be properly stacked at all times.

2. No more than twelve Friendly TF's are allowed on the board at any
one time (e.g., TF's A thru L).  Any extra naval units are placed face
up on the map.  *Two* of these TF's may be dummies, i.e., you need not
keep any naval units in them. All other TF's must contain at least one
unit while on the map.

3. If, at *any* point in the game, any TF is within 4 hexes of an
undamaged enemy airbase, or three hexes of an undamaged carrier, it
must reveal its strength.  It has been spotted by air reconnaissance.
Otherwise, TF strength is only revealed in combat.  Revealed dummies
are removed immediately.

4. At the *beginning* of each naval movement phase, the phasing player
may replace one or both dummies on any Friendly TF of naval base.
They may be voluntarily revealed and replaced immediately. Only *now*
may you transfer units between TF's in one hex, or split a TF into two
or more new ones.  TF's in one hex may only merge into one TF at the
*end* of a movement phase.

5. Infantry and land-based air units are kept upside down until
revealed by combat or air reconnaissance (rule 3).

6. As an optional rule, the Japanese are allowed only *ten* TF's and
*no* dummies.  Historically, American intelligence work was usually
better than Japanese.

- Gary Hladik