Next new plane

[Arlo]

Top of my list ...Cac Boomerang and the Dewoitine D-520

Yeah, we know.

[Arlo]

No new planes. Focus on updating the older models.

Can't argue with that. Well .... won't.

P.S. More active accounts instead of 'I'm cancelling mine til things get "better.' Would go further toward helping HTC accomplish our wishes.

[TOMCAT21]

beaufighter
Baltimore ( Martin 187 )
Martin 167 Maryland
Pe-8

[Brooke]

Wouldn't the MiG-3 be a better fit than the Yak-1? Even in 1942?
Japanese bombers are always prevalent, glad we have what we do for scenarios.
Agreed that the Tu-2 is not an acceptable stand in for the Pe-2, thought the properly equipped B25 is.
The Beaufighter has much the same punch as the Mossi albeit being slower.  Oh, and able to carry a torpedo as well.    In PTO and MTO scenarios it will do well enough. Though, for MA use the ENY of the Mossi Mk IV will need to be adjusted (it is too high on the scale).

They were mostly contemporaneous, but there weren't nearly as many MiG-3's as Yak-1's (3200 vs. 8700).  Also, the MiG-3 has such weak armament that it wouldn't be good as a main fighter for the Soviet side in a scenario.  The Yak-1 would be more useful.

I'm not sure if the B-25 is a good stand in for the Pe-2 depending on how much of a dive-bomber the Pe-2 really was.  I'm not knowledgeable about how Pe-2's did their bombing in real life.

I don't think that any of these planes would see huge use in the MA, but the MA already has almost all of the late-war planes.

[Karnak]

Yeah, we know.

It is quite amusing how he talks down everybody else's early or mid war suggestions as useless hangar queens, but then constantly pushes his preferred early war stuff as though they wouldn't be hangar queens.  The willful hypocrisy is interesting to observe.

[-27th-]

1. A26 Invader
2. Me 262 w/50mm cannon
3. Armored train
4. Wellington
5. Beaufighter

 
27th

[Arlo]

It is quite amusing how he talks down everybody else's early or mid war suggestions as useless hangar queens, but then constantly pushes his preferred early war stuff as though they wouldn't be hangar queens.  The willful hypocrisy is interesting to observe.

Meg is a classic case study of inability to think outside his own brick.

[Ack-Ack]

2. Me 262 w/50mm cannon

27th

Never saw any service beyond the two Me 262 A-1a/U4 prototypes.

ack-ack

[lunatic1]

We should get the 410

do you mean a better-410--have you tried bribing them with pies??????????????

[icepac]

Beaufighter, KI44, D520, Mig3.

[lunatic1]

beaufighter--updated p-51 with cannons.some other british tank.

[Motherland]

Wouldn't the MiG-3 be a better fit than the Yak-1? Even in 1942?

Yak-1 had higher production numbers and was a better fighter. The MiG-3 was significantly worse in every respect except for speed and looks.
MiG-3 would still be super cool though

I don't understand the attitude of "we almost have kind of a workable representation of one of the largest and most important air forces in the war, lets go back to focusing on American planes or completely irrelevant ones"

[save]

Tante JU-52, both as troop carrier,ordnance and bomber !

Axis does not have a troop/ord carrier flying.

[Saxman]

Axis does not have a troop/ord carrier flying.
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Up a C-47 with the Japanese skin. 

As for hole fillers:

Ki-44
Ki-45 (seriously, we have 110s taking its place in PTO scenarios/FSOs. )
Ki-100
J2M
D4Y
B6N

TBD
SB2C
F6F-3
F4F-3

Beaufighter
Swordfish

[Arlo]

Up a C-47 with the Japanese skin. 

As for hole fillers:

Ki-44
Ki-45 (seriously, we have 110s taking its place in PTO scenarios/FSOs. )
Ki-100
J2M
D4Y
B6N

TBD
SB2C
F6F-3
F4F-3

Beaufighter
Swordfish

Gotta appreciate your PTO fixation (upping the Japanese set in power and flexibility while adding allied planes that balance more in the early/mid war should promote more PTO events from early to late time frames). However, I don't think everyone else will.