yes rich i also love the nik it has a lot of good strengths to it.
and if your decent in it you can cover for the weaknesses.
i like what soda said about the nik
"Everyone should be scared of you and if they aren't then they are fools. The N1K may not be very fast, but it is so highly maneuverable and has so much firepower that most N1K's will shoot you in the face at every chance they can get. It's almost silly, N1K's tend to blast away at anything with D900 and often can land lucky shots that hurt you badly. There is nothing quite like the nervous feeling of a N1K D900 back spraying the sky around you full of lead"
his site may be a lttle out of date, but i still say its how i learned most everything i know.
too bad nik's get a bad rep from ho's and people tell everyone its a dweeb ride.
its very comparable to the spitfires to me.
lot of stregths easy to fly and a few weaknesses.
the next plane i want to try out is the ki-84 ive only flown it a few times and that was in hth 8 player.
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also im of the opinion that most bomber jocks should learn to fly fighters,
if anything it will distract them from the craving they have for b29 superfortresses.