This is something I posted on tabletopgamedesign as well. Crossposting was disabled so apologies if this isn't okay to post. 

As a point of discussion - have you ever had a long standing problem that took ages before you solved it with some very simple solution?

Story time:

For a while now I had unique enemy aircraft in my game that had an enemy crewmember, represented by an additional card that would in different ways change the mechanics of the aircraft. Be it additional defense, offense, or whatever else.

I had wanted to have a tougher plane with 2 crew but just couldn't think of a way to incorporate them since multiple of the crew have extra attack dice. Late last night I realised that all I have to do is add a limitation to the attack die of the aircraft.

Normally all enemy aircraft have an attack die, some have an additional one (that can be removed by hitting the turret location), and same with the enemy crew that some of them will add a die. I couldn't have any aircraft with a bonus attack die that would then be enhanced further by a crew adding another one, resulting in 3 dice.. that would be too overpowered.

Then I realised, just limit the aircraft's own attack die. Here it is, "max 2 attack dice" limitation, so even if both of the crewmembers drawn have an attack die the plane still only attacks with 2 dice (until the crew are potentially hit and their turret locations are removed).

Happy to hear thoughts/comments (no matter what aspects of the mechanics or card design it might be).

As extra info, the black squares are hit points ("health" is an old name, perhaps it should be changed to "status") that get covered by damage cubes when you do damage, "Drop" is scrap that the enemy plane drops on the tile where it is destroyed, players can later salvage the scrap and trade them in for weapons, equipment, or upgrades. "Reward" is what the players receive upon destruction of the enemy plane, in this case a map (leads to a dig site where you'll be rewarded upon completion of a minigame), and pearls (the game's currency).

Also don't mind the name at the top of the card, I intend to introduce production companies and designators later on, like the earlier discussed "Quinn Aerospace 4-K Heavy Interceptor" aka Qu 4-K "Mallard" Heavy Interceptor.

I finally solved my "2 enemy crew in the same aircraft" issue.