next new air craft?

[Airwolf]

Fighter Ace had the Oscar...Rarely used and for good reason...Two .50 cals don't cut it....I'd rather have a new tank...

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Fighter Ace had the Oscar...Rarely used and for good reason...Two .50 cals don't cut it....I'd rather have a new tank...

lol sorry don't mean to laugh but FA......went under for a reason...huge difference between FA and AH

[Airwolf]

lol sorry don't mean to laugh but FA......went under for a reason...huge difference between FA and AH

Actually, that has nothing to do with FA...The Oscar would be as useless here, as it was in FA...And yes, FA went under for a reason...Failure to adapt and change (Stagnant maps for example)...But FA did have better things going for it than AH does...Superior graphics and a better film playback system just to name a couple...There is no call to laugh at FA...

[Slade]

I'd like the two 12.7mm machine guns version please.

There is not a fighter in this game you can't shoot down with those.

[AHTbolt]

Setting the 2 games aside the Oscar was never used except in the historical room, it was just torn apart by any gun set. Agile fairely fast but low fire power and weak airframe will doom it after the new wares off. It will be great for EW and the SEA events but would be eaten alive in LW but thats just my HO.   

[save]

we have oscar-II  in Warbirds. Its a much harder target than zero m2/3, not only does it turn better it can fly faster without compress, it has wep and can take som damage.
its the ultimate 1vs1 in the same plane, much fun , and snapshots does not kill.

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Actually, that has nothing to do with FA...The Oscar would be as useless here, as it was in FA...And yes, FA went under for a reason...Failure to adapt and change (Stagnant maps for example)...But FA did have better things going for it than AH does...Superior graphics and a better film playback system just to name a couple...There is no call to laugh at FA...

FA was the first ww2 game I played.......sorry if your a transplant but FA was .....well wanted to be what AH is but fell very short of it.

and no it would not be "useless" by any stretch of the imagination.

[morfiend]

 The 12.7 was called a machine cannon not a machine gun,it fired 12.7 HE rounds which would be considerablely harder hitting than just ball ammo!


  Whether HTC models HE rounds for the Japeneese 12.7 is another matter and I cant comment on it as I'm not sure.





  

[Tank-Ace]

-1 to the Ki-43. not yet.

We have a grand total of 1 EW tank, we're severly lacking in in Italian planes, Russian bombers, and we have nothing thats not from, or based on a plane from, one of 6 countries.

Its been a good long while since we've gotten a fighter thats not just a variant of something we already have in the game.

[Karnak]

Fighter Ace had the Oscar...Rarely used and for good reason...Two .50 cals don't cut it....I'd rather have a new tank...

It would not be used in massive numbers, true.

However, against fighters two 12.7mm guns are light but serviceable.  I have shot down a number of aircraft with the same two 12.7mm guns on the Ki-84 after running dry of 20mm ammo.

The Ki-43 would also turn better than any fighter in the game right now, better than the A6M, better than the Hurricane and better than the Brewster.


Tank-Ace,

Cool it.  You've had a decent number of tanks added, the last new fighters added were the Brewster and I-16 and that is quite some time ago now.  A6M3 wasn't a wholly new fighter, but rather a variant of an existing model.

[Tank-Ace]

I didn't even mention tanks in that post  .

[icepac]

-1 to the Ki-43. not yet.

We have a grand total of 1 EW tank, we're severly lacking in in Italian planes, Russian bombers, and we have nothing thats not from, or based on a plane from, one of 6 countries.

Its been a good long while since we've gotten a fighter thats not just a variant of something we already have in the game.

The ki43 shot down more allied planes than any other japanese plane.

[Tank-Ace]

So? I'm not saying it wasn't significant, I'm just saying its not as needed as other potential additions.

[Karnak]

So? I'm not saying it wasn't significant, I'm just saying its not as needed as other potential additions.

From a historical stand point it is one of the seven most important aircraft still missing from AH.  I am sorry, but I can't agree with your assessment unless you are arguing from a "What will be used in the MA" point of view.

Beafighter
He111
Ki-43
Pe-2
Wellington
Yak-1
Yak-7

[Tank-Ace]

I'm arguing from an MA use standpoint as well as a scenario use standpoint.


A6M2 can stand in for the Ki-43 better than a 109G6 can stand in for a 109G10. The A6M can sub for the -43 better than the Il-2 can sub for an Il-10.  The A6M can sub for a -43 better than a Yak-9 can sub for a Yak-1.