Now that the Yak3 has been here a couple weeks.

[Zacherof]

Sea hurri has the ability to hjave 4 20mm guns and is CV enabled as well as being a great turner. Complete opposite of the 410 tho

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47 is in a totally different class than the ki.  Ink i need to through my 47N at your ki one day

its just not a fair fight...we would be better off doing 47s.....

I know some think I can only fly the Ki   there is not a fighter in the hanger I cant fly.....I just happen to love the Ki........ it is a beefed up Hurri. hell even after all my time in the KI...... I still have 2000+ more kills in the Hurricane

one day we will have the 4 20 mm Ki84 and that will be the baddest fighter there is...nothing will compare to it for actually fighting. and I wont fly anything else.

[Karnak]

Sea hurri has the ability to hjave 4 20mm guns and is CV enabled as well as being a great turner. Complete opposite of the 410 tho

It is also so horribly underpowered that it handles like a dump truck, including poor turn rate, when lugging those 20mms, is probably the slowest fighter in the game and suffers fuel starvation in negative G maneuvers.  Being CV capable doesn't make up for that, the 40 ENY A6M2 would crush it.

[Vinkman]

Again the big difference in Ords.

You keep talking about fighter match ups, and dog fighting capability. Those are good opinions but they are not the majority of what makes up the ENY metric. !09s are good dog fighters, but carry little ords, and they don;t have a lot of firepower, hence they have lower ENY scores. Ponies, are average dog fighters, but carry the 5 ENY score because of Range and Ords capacity. Many a pony driver has complained about ENY 5 since the NEVER use the ords capacity.


HiTech said since the last few releases that ENY may need a refresh. Stay tuned.

[Karnak]

Again the big difference in Ords.

You keep talking about fighter match ups, and dog fighting capability. Those are good opinions but they are not the majority of what makes up the ENY metric. !09s are good dog fighters, but carry little ords, and they don;t have a lot of firepower, hence they have lower ENY scores. Ponies, are average dog fighters, but carry the 5 ENY score because of Range and Ords capacity. Many a pony driver has complained about ENY 5 since the NEVER use the ords capacity.

No idea what you are referring to as I am talking about the whole package, hence my calling the Ki-84 a much better balanced fighter compared to the Yak-3.

HiTech said since the last few releases that ENY may need a refresh. Stay tuned.

Yes, that was in the thread I started on the subject and ENY values have since been adjusted.  We are talking about current ENY values that are the result of that adjustment.

[Vinkman]

its just not a fair fight...we would be better off doing 47s.....

I know some think I can only fly the Ki   there is not a fighter in the hanger I cant fly.....I just happen to love the Ki........ it is a beefed up Hurri. hell even after all my time in the KI...... I still have 2000+ more kills in the Hurricane

one day we will have the 4 20 mm Ki84 and that will be the baddest fighter there is...nothing will compare to it for actually fighting. and I wont fly anything else.

OK I'll vote to add it IF it's requires a perk value for.....you

Perk Ink.


 

[LCADolby]

You make a cute couple.

[Zacherof]

It is also so horribly underpowered that it handles like a dump truck, including poor turn rate, when lugging those 20mms, is probably the slowest fighter in the game and suffers fuel starvation in negative G maneuvers.  Being CV capable doesn't make up for that, the 40 ENY A6M2 would crush it.

I wonder why it has such a decent ENY value then.

its just not a fair fight...we would be better off doing 47s.....

I know some think I can only fly the Ki   there is not a fighter in the hanger I cant fly.....I just happen to love the Ki........ it is a beefed up Hurri. hell even after all my time in the KI...... I still have 2000+ more kills in the Hurricane

one day we will have the 4 20 mm Ki84 and that will be the baddest fighter there is...nothing will compare to it for actually fighting. and I wont fly anything else.

Dont be such a tease!

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You make a cute couple.

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how about a menage a trois 
 

  Vink

[Ack-Ack]

Of course, I still think the Spit 8/9 are better as they are pure dogfighters, Yak (especially russian planes) are pure energy fighters. I'm willing to bet once the shock of the Yak-3 wears off that K/D drops. I'd like to see a graph 5 months from now to get an accurate picture.

In my opinion the Yak3 is easier to fly then the La7, which is ironic because I never learned or could fly an La7 and its far superior in every way.

I would not classify the Yak 3 as a pure energy fighter, it wasn't designed to be one. According to French ace Marcel Albert (23 kills) the Yak-3 was an excellent dogfighter and superior than the Spitfire in maneuvering.  It was a tactical fighter, meant to dogfight at low altitudes over the battle field.

The Yak-3 should be easier to fly than the La-7, probably just as easy to fly as a Spitfire.  In real life it was an easy to handle aircraft and forgiving to rookie pilots, seems like that trait is in our Yak-3 as well.

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