LA7 Usage: WWII vs. AH

[PR3D4TOR]

The C-Hog scourge. It was perked on usage numbers alone. Everyone and their dog was flying it.

[JVboob]

bathrobe forgot 1 important aircraft in his list of "highly used" that was built in staggering numbers and flew from beginning to end in all theaters.......the all MIGHTY and beautiful B-38

[save]

Mossie fighter is the best perk farmer in the game bar none with ENY 30

Very true!

The 190A5 and LA5 are the best perk farmers in the game.

[PR3D4TOR]

Mossie fighter is the best perk farmer in the game bar none with ENY 30

If memory serves, that's the same ENY as 109F-4, G-2 and G-6.

[DmonSlyr]

Mossie fighter is the best perk farmer in the game bar none with ENY 30

The La5 and 190a5 are much easier to be successful in, thus making them better perk farmers.

[Lusche]

If memory serves, that's the same ENY as 109F-4, G-2 and G-6.

And all those have even lower ENY than the P-47D-11 (35). Unbelievable, but true.

[glzsqd]

I'd say the P47D11 is the best perk farmer.

[Wiley]

I'd say the P47D11 is the best perk farmer.

No contest.  It's not tremendously user friendly at first but once you get a handle on it you can handily kill anything in the game especially from above.

Wiley.

[Latrobe]

Guys!!! Don't give away the secrets of 30+ eny planes! HTC might actually take a look at them and realize they need to be perked! 

[bustr]

As soon as AH3 is released, you will have about 3 months of wall to wall baby seals to club with a storch.

[Crash Orange]

The La-7 entered service for trials in Mid-September of 1944 (ie: extremely late war) in extremely small numbers, a mere 30 aircraft. It did not enter service elsewhere until October, still in smallish numbers, and about a third of those planes were sidelined due to mechanical failures. It did not appear in mildly significant numbers until 1945, which renders its effect on the war essentially meaningless.

And how is this different from any of the AXIS LW monsters? Shall we discuss the number of Ta-152s built and their overall impact on the course of the war? For that matter how many N1K2-Js were produced? If you're going to perk the 3-gun La-7 why not perk the N1K2-J and introduce a non-perked N1K1-J? And why do we even have 163s at all, even perked? They were responsible for fewer downed enemy planes than pigeon strikes!

[bozon]

And how is this different from any of the AXIS LW monsters? Shall we discuss the number of Ta-152s built and their overall impact on the course of the war? For that matter how many N1K2-Js were produced? If you're going to perk the 3-gun La-7 why not perk the N1K2-J and introduce a non-perked N1K1-J? And why do we even have 163s at all, even perked? They were responsible for fewer downed enemy planes than pigeon strikes!

The 152 was perked for years. It was unperked and still see only minor usage. Of all the planes in the AH roster this one has the least justification to be included. HTC chose to model it so it is in the game and it will be dumb to remove it. Had it taken the place of the 190d ad the primary LW ride, I'd be all for perking it again.


The LA7 is one of the leading planes in the game. Its dominant variant with 2 guns is not used t all while a minor vvariant with 3 cannons is 100% of all La7s. The closest situation is the F4U. As it happens, the cannon variant got a different name tag, so it got perked. For the la7 those are two gun packages onder the same model name, so it is not perked. Semantics.

[artik]

The LA7 is one of the leading planes in the game. Its dominant variant with 2 guns is not used t all while a minor vvariant with 3 cannons is 100% of all La7s. The closest situation is the F4U. As it happens, the cannon variant got a different name tag, so it got perked. For the la7 those are two gun packages onder the same model name, so it is not perked. Semantics.

Small note - F4U-1C has much more firepower by almost order of magnitude in comparison to 1D. .5 cal aren't good weapons in general (despite that it is popular package) they are good against Japanese paper planes, they are ok against fighters they are virtually useless against anything really strong. You can't snapshot efficiently with .5 cal - if you lucky you do some damage.

On the other hand 4x20 Hispano are deadly. Now if you look at 2xShVAK or 3xBerezin - the difference isn't that significant in comparison to 6x.50 cal M2 vs 4x20mm Hispano.

Another important note - La-7 was originally designed to use 3xBerezins and 2xShVAK was only a stop-gap measure - that hold almost until end of the war.

Bottom line, perking La-7 3 gun version makes no sense and the difference between them is marginal, I can't say the same for F4U-1C but yet I think there is no problem to unperk 1C variant.

[glzsqd]

. .5 cal aren't good weapons in general (despite that it is popular package) they are good against Japanese paper planes, they are ok against fighters they are virtually useless against anything really strong. You can't snapshot efficiently with .5 cal - if you lucky you do some damage.

the 6 50cal package is one of the best gun packages in game. You obviously have never done proper buff hunting in a P47.

[artik]

the 6 50cal package is one of the best gun packages in game. You obviously have never done proper buff hunting in a P47.

It is popular as it was major gun package at us planes, but it never was one of the best - neither historically nor in AH.

6x.50 is good enough against fighters - because it has good ballistics and rate of fire but for an average pilot it is insufficient for a bomber. US fighter never fought against medium/heavy bombers so they didn't need heavier caliber weapons.

Against fighters I personally prefer central line oriented weapons that make much more concentrated fire like at Yak-7/9/3, La-5/7, P-38 or 109-G6/G14 - so if you hit you hit hard even if you not at exact harmonization distance.

Against buffs the best are German weapons set with multiple heavy 30mm or 20mm.

Of course it is more than possible to kill a bomber with 8x.50 cal but it is far from perfect weapon. Finally you can even kill a bomber with 8x.30 cal successfully