Author Topic: ki84's are a pain (Read 2647 times)

Noir · « **Reply #45 on:** December 15, 2006, 12:41:39 AM »

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Originally posted by Angus
Spit VIII is also a turnfighter hunter. (Take a slipper tank and max 50% fuel)
Seafire is a turnfighter hunter
Hurricane is a turnfighter hunter
Zeke is a turnfighter hunter, - lol, if you find a gaggle of turnfighters....

lol I meant by turnfighter hunter something that turns good but is way faster that zeke and hurri, sorry it was stupid

Angus · « **Reply #46 on:** December 15, 2006, 02:28:58 AM »

Lol, well, I grabbed it

And sgt Pappy, - how do the turncircles come out at very high alt? The VIII has more power at SL I belive. And does our Spit VIII have the longer wingtips or normal?

Saxman · « **Reply #47 on:** December 15, 2006, 09:19:55 AM »

Just to clarify, I meant "TOO well" as in, on more than one occasion even with only one notch of flaps I've over shot my target and missed. I have no idea how this compares to real life.

Noir · « **Reply #48 on:** December 15, 2006, 10:08:21 AM »

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Originally posted by Angus
Lol, well, I grabbed it
And sgt Pappy, - how do the turncircles come out at very high alt? The VIII has more power at SL I belive. And does our Spit VIII have the longer wingtips or normal?

Our spit8 got standard mid alt wingtips, like most spits we have. Some spits were fitted with extended wingtips for high alt operation (we don't have any) and some had cut wingtips like the spit16 for low alt. If you run a search on forum you should find a detailled description that Kev posted not long ago.

TimRas · « **Reply #49 on:** December 15, 2006, 02:21:26 PM »

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Originally posted by Guppy35
I don't know that the Spit VIIIs ran into Ki-84s.

Shores ("Air War For Burma") mentions a few occations where Ki-84's (50. Sentai) met Spits VIII's and p-38's.

SgtPappy · « **Reply #50 on:** December 15, 2006, 08:00:34 PM »

Thanks, all... I'll continue my research. So far I've found no info on a Hog's turning with flaps.

Slash27 · « **Reply #51 on:** December 17, 2006, 06:49:15 PM »

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Originally posted by llama

Also, the KI is not exactly a great guns platform. Large cowl and a low rate of fire make it fairly easy to miss a jinking plane. Gentle jinking while extending away works effectively - much more so than running away from spixteens.

-Llama

Are you sure about that low rate of fire?

Karnak · « **Reply #52 on:** December 18, 2006, 08:20:04 PM »

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Originally posted by Slash27
Are you sure about that low rate of fire?

Highest rate of fire of any cannon in the game.

Grits · « **Reply #53 on:** December 26, 2006, 11:31:12 PM »

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Originally posted by Karnak
Highest rate of fire of any cannon in the game.

Yup. Too fast in some respects because unlike with a slow ROF gun like in the Niki, you can go spraying all over the place with the Ki84, if you do you'll be out of ammo in a blink of an eye. On the plus side, that high rate of fire makes brief passing snapshots highly successful.