next new air craft?

[Karnak]

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 Bf109G-14 most certainly can stand in for the Bf109G-10 better than the any A6M can sub for any Ki-43.

Il-2 can sub for an Il-10.

Il-10 was not a significant participant in WWII, unlike the Ki-43.

The A6M can sub for a -43 better than a Yak-9 can sub for a Yak-1.

Probably true.

[Charge]

Next new aircraft will have two engines.

-C+

[Wildcat1]

+1 for any Ki-43 variant. I for one would use it in the MA

[Tank-Ace]

Regardless of if the Il-10 was as significant, it was still a major ground-attack plane late in the war.


Another example: Brewsters subbing for F2A's (not saying I WANT the F2A, just using it as an example).

[Wmaker]

Regardless of if the Il-10 was as significant, it was still a major ground-attack plane late in the war.

You gotta be kidding me.

Il-10 saw combat starting from April 15th 1945 on. That's only few weeks of combat. It truly wasn't "a major ground-attack plane", even in the late war. Ki-43 saw combat almost from the start of the Pacific War.

There's absolutely no comparison between them.

[Tank-Ace]

Hmmmm.... then what the hell am I thinking of?

[Krusty]

I suspect Pe-2. (wild guess?)

However that doesn't negate the absolute need for the Ki-43 in this game.

[Airwolf]

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.

Well, not "very" short, but failed due to a general inability to adapt...

[Airwolf]

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

Never said that it's impossible....But two .50 cals, 250rpg will not endear it to very many people considering how frail the plane is...For that, there is the Zero....But if an Oscar is to be introduced, try the Ki-43 mark 3b....At least that variant had twin 20mm cannons...

[Krusty]

No models had 20mm. A trio of prototypes did, that is all.

[Airwolf]

No models had 20mm. A trio of prototypes did, that is all.

Sure, go ahead and shatter my dreams...

[Krusty]

They did turn like a whiling dervish, though. 

[tmetal]

+1 for a new turn fighter that wont get the standard "easy mode" label

[Tank-Ace]

I suspect Pe-2. (wild guess?)

However that doesn't negate the absolute need for the Ki-43 in this game.

Yup, Pe-2. That or the Tu-2. One of those anyway  .


And eventually yes, we need it. But I would personally rather see an Me-410, an IAR-80, Re-2005, etc. Stuff I would actually fly.

[Karnak]

Note that the Pe-2 was on my list of "most historically significant aircraft not in AH right now".