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First, we found that it was too easy for fleets to sail by enemy land regions. We felt that we needed a rule to cut down on these long-range excursions, especially in the Pacific. Although air units can Op fire at units moving past them, there aren't always enough air units on the board to account for the effect of land based airpower on fleets.

The answer was adding a rule that tracks how many hostile enemy land regions a unit has moved past. For each region, the unit suffers a penalty in combat. In effect, we assume that there are small amounts of land based airpower in all of the regions owned by players, even if there are not enough aircraft to warrant the display of a unit on the map. This rule should have the effect of forcing players to slow down and capture enemy islands and land regions that would, in real life, be a deterrent against fleets sailing past to fight in waters behind enemy lines.