yeah but still to speculate as it being perked from 1 to 1000 is not really up to us. that was my point.
and butcher if you go based on lethality there's lots of other airplanes that are lethal and not perked. p47s 8 50 cal mgs and unlimited ammo. f4f 6 mgs awesome turner will kill almost anything 1v1, etc....
and if you mention well they're not as good as the tempest, may i remind you that most people that fly tempest only manage to kill themselves.
semp
Lets look at why the tempest is perked - Speed, Firepower, Turn radius, Climb Rate, acceleration.
P-47 being Lethal? Sure to an extent, The P-47M would be a good case to argue based on its stats, however its no where Lethal as a Typhoon or Tempest. In fact I would say its probably 30% less lethal then both.
It takes 3 or so 50 cal to equal the damage of one 20mm round, So thats 8 50s is 2.25 x 20mm guns, what about the other 2x 20mms?
Hell 8x 303s arn't even 1 20mm in terms of Lethality. Same for the F4F - although it can out turn quite a few planes, just because it does out turn every plane in the game, doesn't make it perkable.
Fact is unless you are higher then 4k above me, you can't catch a late war bird, and most Mid Wars, so that rules out the turn fight. If you do get caught by a bird that strictly does Vertical fighting, you cannot dive or runaway, Sure you could dive and give up whatever ALT you have stored, but the massive 320mph speed limit means you won't be outrunning most except for that pesky goon.
Same argument goes for the P51-D, rarely have I seen one that actually engaged in a dogfight, so I will say from my primary experience in the last 2 tours - It might run, however in a P-38J I won every vertical and turn fight, which leaves the P51-D only to have "speed", so it shouldn't be perked same with the Fw-190 since both only do one thing, now a tempest however - the damn thing better stay perked, run into a decent stick with a tempest and you realize quick there is very few mistakes it can make.
