Oscar KI43

[Karnak]

Krusty,

Agreed.  As I recall, rather than try to find the data, which may not be available, for all the synchronized guns in AH HTC just did a generic 10% reduction in rate of fire.  I recall reading that Browning heavy machine guns, which the Ho-103 and Ho-5 are derivatives of, did not handle synchronization well.  The Brewster would also be impacted by such a fix.

[bustr]

Have you considered putting the Brew, Hurri and wildcat in the offline drone circle then doing time to kill testing with different guns? Didn't this model of the Brew have most of it's armor for the pilot removed to up the performance?

[Yeager]

Not sure which variant WBs had.  One of my most memorable sorties ever was killing five better than average F4Fs in a single sortie and landing with 98 rounds left (200 default loadout) and no damage.

All shots were under 100 yrds and on the cockpit.  Ki43 was a real snipers rifle.

[Squire]

Big thumbs up to the Ki-43 "Oscar". It was the primary Japanese Army Air Force fighter in China/Burma/India 1942-45 and as Bino said saw action in large #s on every PAC front in WW2. Its also a fun little fighter...extremely manueveable.

[Krusty]

Karnak: I forgot about the Brew... And the SBD, too!

But now that I think about it, I think rather than a generic 10% HTC has modeled all foreign models after the US rate of fire. The stock is 800 or so, and we get in the 650 range for our US planes. That's about 20% loss. That seems to match with synch'd US rates of fires, so the Brew, SBD, P-40B, wouldn't be affected. Just the foreign rides.

Problem is that even though they're based off the Browning, the Breda SAFAT and the Ho103 don't act like it. Different rounds as well. It's natural they'd have their own rates of fires.

Now they know! Hopefully they'll update those Japanese and Italian models.

[Pigslilspaz]

Technically speaking the Brewster is listed as the Finnish one, not the American one. 

[STEELE]

Someone pull out the ORLY bird for Westy!

The Finnish Brew has the same fuel tank armor as the a6m's (NONE), also the same self sealing tanks (also NONE). 
So why is it that they are twice as hard to light?? 

[Westy]

"that's just sour grapes because your f7f didn't see any combat."

Nah. Just tired of the wishlist forum "experts" spouting b.s.

[Krusty]

Someone pull out the ORLY bird for Westy!

The Finnish Brew has the same fuel tank armor as the a6m's (NONE), also the same self sealing tanks (also NONE). 
So why is it that they are twice as hard to light?? 

Actually the claim is they put all that stuff right back in as soon as they got it. I wonder if that weight is accounted for in AH?

But that's another thread entirely.....

[Krusty]

"that's just sour grapes because your f7f didn't see any combat."

Nah. Just tired of the wishlist forum "experts" spouting b.s.

You don't seem to be reading anything in this thread, and are not even remotely on topic or 100,000 miles near "correct" --- so quit trolling please?

[Slash27]

Someone pull out the ORLY bird for Westy!

The Finnish Brew has the same fuel tank armor as the a6m's (NONE), also the same self sealing tanks (also NONE). 
So why is it that they are twice as hard to light?? 

Pixie dust.

[Oldman731]

Pixie dust.

You just had to go and reveal the secret, didn't you.

- oldman (now everyone will be wanting pixie dust)

[gyrene81]

"that's just sour grapes because your f7f didn't see any combat."

Nah. Just tired of the wishlist forum "experts" spouting b.s.

hey westy...pssst...you see the word quote at the top right corner of everyone's posts? guess what it's for...it's a really neat little piece of html code that allows you to do the above...all you have to do is make sure you're not typing within the

markers.

[save]

Yeager in Warbirds we have model II  - 2*12.7mm

[HighTone]

I personally think the Ki-43-II would be the best choice for AH. Little better features (preformace and armament wise) for the MA, and as long as it has the 1 x 7MM 1 x 12.7MM option it could sub in the early war special events setup.