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Title: Well that makes 9!
Post by: Beefcake on June 13, 2002, 06:32:56 PM

Wow! HTC if the work load is not much about 10 for 10? :D Either way, 9 planes is, I think, the most planes ever put into a release since the game out. All I can say is WTG HTC, keep em coming. :)

Title: Well that makes 9!
Post by: airspro on June 13, 2002, 07:23:16 PM

Number 10 should be the "Brewster in AH"

Title: Well that makes 9!
Post by: Wmaker on June 13, 2002, 08:37:19 PM

DITTO airspro, Brewster Model 239 to AH!!! :D

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Post by: mason22 on June 13, 2002, 09:45:39 PM

hmmm, NATE's been kinda quiet....whatcha got cookin BIGDADDY!?

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Post by: cajun on June 13, 2002, 09:49:58 PM

Yeah... must be workin on somethin really big.... like a Gloster Gladiator or a B25? :)

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Post by: JoeDirt on June 13, 2002, 11:52:07 PM

bee twenty nine


*crosses fingers* >.<

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Post by: Tumor on June 14, 2002, 01:12:51 AM

Piper Cub

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Post by: Roscoroo on June 14, 2002, 02:25:38 AM

stuka stuka stuka !!!

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Post by: Duedel on June 14, 2002, 02:59:55 AM

Messerschmitt Me410 Hornisse FOR SURE

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Post by: MadBirdCZ on June 14, 2002, 03:31:19 AM

Come on guys! Its Pacific oriented update... sooo its gonna be Buffalo, B-29 or P-61 :D :p

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Post by: Revvin on June 14, 2002, 05:11:07 AM

I believe this is the next plane to hit Aces High, as you can see in this pic of Hitech trying it out :)

(http://www.hotink.com/wacky/dastrdly/fd.jpg)

Title: Well that makes 9!
Post by: RRAM on June 14, 2002, 05:16:27 AM

Must be japanese,because if this is a pacific oriented planeset, it's terribly lacking in japanese planes.

My bets are on a Kate, or an Oscar. Maybe even a Shoki (so Mitsu sends some Sake to HTC ;) :D). I doubt it will be something more advanced like a Frank,as most of the planes on this release are clearly pre-1943.

I also doubt there will be german planes :( ...well one could always wish for a Stuka! :)


BTW that P40 looks sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet :)...so sad it sucks as a fighter (lol ;))

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Post by: Ripsnort on June 14, 2002, 07:39:15 AM

(Taunt mode On) It won't be a P61, it takes talent to loft one of those in solides/surfaces. (Taunt mode off) :D

Title: Well that makes 9!
Post by: Sabre on June 14, 2002, 08:48:55 AM

My money's on the Ki-43 Oscar for plane #10.  It is the direct contemporary of the P-40B & E.  The Claude was probably available in greater numbers in China during the AVG era, but would be eaten alive by the Tomahawk, IMO.  Yeah, it's nimble as heck, but is way too slow and underarmed to compete.  That's why I think the Oscar will be next.  And it was in service for virtually the entire war.

One of my best memories of WarBirds was taking an Oscar up in the Main and running into an enemy F6F and F4U.  Sent both home with smoking engines and a puzzeled look on their faces.  I do wonder why they never modified the Ki-43 to add a couple more 13mm in the wings.  I'm sure it was a question of finding space, but I still wonder if they ever experimented with it.

Title: Well that makes 9!
Post by: RRAM on June 14, 2002, 09:18:23 AM

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Originally posted by Sabre
I do wonder why they never modified the Ki-43 to add a couple more 13mm in the wings.  I'm sure it was a question of finding space, but I still wonder if they ever experimented with it.

IIRC Oscar always had extremely severe structural airframe problems. I simply think the wing wasn't strong enough  to take machineguns.


Maybe mitsu or other Japan plane lover around here can tell you more about the Oscar :)

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Post by: Wanker on June 14, 2002, 09:22:20 AM

It's gotta be the B5N Kate.......the IJN still need a Torpedo bomber.

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Post by: KG45 on June 14, 2002, 11:24:18 AM

He-129, gotta have it! we need a dedicated tank buster!

BTW - the most common opponent of the AVG was the Ki-27 'Nate'
they were a generation behind a the P-40, and it showed in the k/d ratio. with only (2) 7.7's firing thru the prop arc, it a wonder they were ever able to bring down a tuff plane like a P-40.

Title: Well that makes 9!
Post by: Sabre on June 14, 2002, 02:14:58 PM

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Originally posted by KG45
He-129, gotta have it! we need a dedicated tank buster!

BTW - the most common opponent of the AVG was the Ki-27 'Nate'
they were a generation behind a the P-40, and it showed in the k/d ratio. with only (2) 7.7's firing thru the prop arc, it a wonder they were ever able to bring down a tuff plane like a P-40.

Yep, I keep getting the Claude and the Nate mixed up.  Meant the Nate.  Like I said, it (the Nate, that is) would be deadmeat against the P-40, as it was in real life.

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Post by: Karnak on June 14, 2002, 02:29:30 PM

I'm hoping for the Ki-44-IIb.  It'd be nice to see the Japanese planeset get something competitve with the American stuff being released.

But I agree, the Ki-43 is most likely.  Hopefully it'll be a Ki-43-II, that might at least be a little bit of a threat to a P-40.  The Japanese already took a hit in competiveness in getting the D3A1 instead of the more common D3A2.