Grits,
I like the Fw190A-5 in AH as well. It is vastly better than the Ki-84.
I'm sorry, but I just can't accept that the Ki-84 could not manuver with a Typhoon at over 150mph.
The Ki-84 is too slow and too unmanuverable to be considered anything other than a deathtrap.
You guys keep talking about it's ability to fight at 100mph as though that is even remotely useful in the MA or CT. The Ki-84 has no hope of forcing an enemy fighter down to those speeds and if it is at those speeds it is more of a straffing target than an air-to-air target for any fighter that chooses to whack it.
Who knows, maybe the flight model will be improved, but I doubt it. It took incredibly solid data for them to boost the F4U-4, and that is a perk plane. In every other case that I can think of the flight models have only been weakened when they've been changed. The Lancaster, Fw190A-5, P-47D-40, P-47D-25, P-47D-11, N1K2-J, F4U-1C and Spitfire Mk XIV all had their performances reduced. The Ta152H-1 has never had it's flight model improved despite many threads on the subject.