Midway Glaring proof of why we nead the A6M3

[brady]

From above:

  "The A6M3 had Type 99MK II cannons with 100 rpg. Not he Type 99 MK I cannons we have with 60rpg on the A6M2. "

 Clearly the A6M3 would of been a better choice, for this fact alone, a note on the Damage caused by these weapons, They both fired the same projectile, and the Type 99 HEI rounds are/ should be very leathal. Hitting is the problem, the increased ammo load and the longer effective range of the Type 99 MK II would greatly inhance the Zero's abality to get rounds on target.

 My impreshion from reading several acounts on the A6M3 is that  reduced manuaverabailty was neglable in the A6M3 compared to the A6M2.

 Once agin It can be said that choice of the F4F-4 and the A6M2 only magnify the diferances between the two types. The Wildcat is very durable the Zero is not. The Wildcat has a Huge firepower advantage over the Zero. The Zero is more manuaverable but only barely. The preformance differance firepower/flight preformance issues that could of lessened these differances were not chosen in the form of the A6M3 but rather inhanced by Chusing the A6M2. All this withen a time frame in Which the A6M3 would certainly see more use in the CT and in events withen a historical context than the A6M2 would virsues the Allied planes we have.

[jordi]

I am not a plane expert and I do not pretend to be.

All that I know is that when I started the DESIGN for this a YEAR ago when i first joined AH I said Moveable Carriers - WOW !

But what we NEED are some Dive bombers and Torp Bombers and some Fighters - not too much to ask for. Now remember this was before I even HEARD of the CM Staff.

Not much changed till ver 1.10 when we got the D3A1, SBD-5, A6M2 and the F4F-4. Hmmm - Ok - IJN DB, US DB, IJN Fighter and US Fighter. To me WHAT KIND of plane did not come into play ( others may be more passionate about the make and models of the planes we get). Now if we JUST had a KATE and Devastator and Brewster we would be set.

I suppose we could have WAITED 3 - 6 - 9 - 12 months for ALL the Planes to be done before running this specific scenario - but we choose to run it with what was going to be available in the time frame we had set.

To me the IJN IN GENERAL got 2 planes that were IN THE BATTLE - the VAL and ZEKE and a better replacement TORP plane from the KATE to the TBM instead.

The US IN GENERAL got 4 planes that were involved - the F4F, B17, SDB, TBM. They got a better TORP Bomber in the TBM instead of the Devestator and a better Midway fighter in the F4F-4 instead of the Buffalo. They got a WORSE scout plane with a C47 instead of the PBY which did make several Bomb / Torp runs on the IJN CV's plus we did not give the US B-26 at all.

To me this ABOUT evened out any precieved advantage one side had over the other.

Maybe a year from now we can re-run this with a better plane set - I do hope so becuase it means that HTC is still building and putting out more planes !

LETS HTC for giving us what we have and hope and pray they will continue to give us moreplanes so ALL pilots - regardless of what arena they perfer to fly in get more planes to choose from.