Thoughts on the P-47M

[BnZs]

Its worth having. It is the first USAAF plane worth an ENY price of 5. First USAAF plane whose all-around abilities really put it somewhere near the league of the other nation's best LW fighters on the deck. The non-WEP advantage over the N really helps. Firepower, roll rate, some fairly decent turning ability, and dash of very fast speed. It is not in the league of Spit16, La7, possibly not even the D9 or K4, but it'll do.

Strange as this sounds to say about a Jug, I think it may become the USAAF plane used most for base defense. 25% and 267rpgs gives a full throttle time of 15 minutes with an initial climb rate of nearly 4,000 fpm, and not inconsiderable turn, plus the speed, roll, and firepower.

[Stoney]

The acceleration is probably what I've noticed the most.  With WEP, and low weight, this thing starts behaving very well.  Certainly at low weights, its going to have very competitive performance. 

[Shuffler]

lol LWB was mostly 47Ms at 15k or higher.

Can't believe they did not try to fill plansets for scenarios.

[bustr]

BNZ,

I'm betting most of tonights big number of kills landed by everyone were as vulches. It does appere to go from 250\300 to 400 in moments in a short shallow dive. And from 300 to 500+ dropping on a 262 from 2k up faster than 262 drivers thought it could.  From 7k down to a 1k con vulch it drops in so fast many players havent got a feel for it's timing yet. Saw alot of players get picked not timeing their turns right. In a week everyone will have the timing. Once the cons started getting a bit of altituide to turn into E, an inexperienced JUGG driver was an inexperienced JUGG driver. I watched as many 47M's get kills as I watched 47M's lawndart or beleive on the deck they could use WEP to make them fly like spits until the slow air under their wing dumped them in the dirt...

Low and slow with flaps and WEP it flys a bit better than the D40. It's best asset is it's speed and holding on to it. I was catching them with a Yak9U.

[FireDrgn]

I flew a few sorties , looks  like it has some potential.


Shuffler Pyro covered that in another thread.  P47m  was basically done already  Greebo skinned it.    Verses   modeling  a whole new plane.

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[1pLUs44]

lol LWB was mostly 47Ms at 15k or higher.

Can't believe they did not try to fill plansets for scenarios.

I think they put it in because they already have a P-47 model to work off of, and they just had to change the performance. So, we atleast had a new plane with the new version, instead of just a bunch of fixed bugs.

[Guppy35]

All I know is there were lots of em up. 

[texastc316]

flew one sortie, its fun, its a Jug. Saw alot of them,killed by some, killed some. I think this kid has a future in AH.

[1pLUs44]

All I know is there were lots of em up. 

And I like it

Definitely gonna be one of my main MA rides.

[Charge]

"Can't believe they did not try to fill plansets for scenarios."

That's what I was thinking too...

Well, I guess it is just good marketing filling the planeset with planes the majority of the player base is interested of. After all the scenarios only have a marginal role in what people like to play.

Bring in F86!

-C+

[Kazaa]

"Can't believe they did not try to fill plansets for scenarios."
After all the scenarios only have a marginal role in what people like to play.

[Anaxogoras]

I'm not a computer programmer, but I don't have to be in order to know that adding a variant like the P-47M is easy compared to modeling a new aircraft.  The 3D model was already there in the P-47D-40, and the engine was there in the P-47N.

[Dragon]

Awesome ride!  Caz and I did some research in the TA last night between the M and N.  Equal fuel and gun package and using auto takeoff, the M got to 9850 ft in 3 min and was climbing at 3800 ft/min while the Caz in the N was looking at my belly from @ 1000 ft below me.  Jumped into the MA after that for a few sorties. 

I was impressed to see more JUGS in the MA than at a H Ters convention.

 

[R 105]

I took the new P-47M up to 13000 ft put it in a dive with wep I got it up to 586 mph true speed and recovered from it with no damage it is a beast. I do a lot ord killing runs and will likely still use the P-51 for that since the P-47m has no ords. I think the fighter jocks will find good use for the  M model. With 8 Mg's and the clime rate range and speed I may try it out as a bomber hunter.

[Anaxogoras]

I do a lot ord killing runs and will likely still use the P-51 for that since the P-47m has no ords. I think the fighter jocks will find good use for the  M model.

Ultimately, as far as in-game goes, I'm glad they left off the ord, so the bomb-truckers suicide porking bases don't screw up the final ENY number of the aircraft.

Stoney, this time I am in complete agreement with you.