Hmm.
Buzzbait, I have to disagree that the Axis had the advantage in the last Burma.
The A6m2 is no advantage, and I may piss a few off here, but this is just my opinion. Here is why I have this opinion, so show me where I am wrong.
Speed: Advantage Hurri, P40B, F4F.
A6M2 slower than all. In here anyway
Firepower: Advantage F4F, and P-40B. Yes I know the A6M2 has the 20MM but one good fart and their gone, add to the fact that you have to get in less than 200 to ensure a killing, and it's prob my dweebness, but i can't ensure a kill until less than 150 with a A6m2. Add the short ammo load of the 20mm and the kill range of the 50 cals. I don't see an advantage for the A6m2. But then again I spent too much time getting shot down to see anything.
Manuverability: Advantage A6m2, but barely. The F4F, and Hurri I both can turn with the zeke for a short time, which is just usually enough for the zeke pilot to be just out of cannon range but well within range of his targets wingman, so he can get his purty little zeke turned into a roman candle.
Durability: I've seen tougher butterflies than the A6m2, a dirty look will kill it. Advantage Allies.
Take all that and throw in the fact that the IJ had one fighter to choose from and 3 fighters to react too, the Allies always knew they were gonna fight a Zeke, and never had to change their tactics because of a different threat.
So show me the advantage, all you have to look at is any hour during Burma or the Solomons, and watch who is landing kills, 4 out of 5 times it was Allied not the Zeke pilots.
I agree with you that the A6M5 was not a Burma plane, and we don't have Ki-43s, and KI-44s, KI-45s, so theres not a lot you can do. I understand, but don't give me the Axis had the advantage in Burma or the Solomons, in these set-ups. It's also not your fault I am a disgruntled IJ pilot thats my fault.
But flying PTO's was getting boring with nobody to fight, so a few of us switched to help even things out.
The real point we're trying to make is please limit the experiments by adding another plane to a side thats already got P-40E 3 diff Hurris, Spitfires, and P-47s. Did we really need to see how much more we could give the Allied side when the IJ's got the Ki-61, and the 2 Zekes?
Look I know it's absurd to expect you to make us all happy. It's also absurd for a guy not into Japanese planes to be in a Sentai, but damnit somebody has to be the bad guy. For me the best part of being in a CT Sentai is an ETO set-up so I can fly Luftwaffe planes.
Hell even the Imperial navy had enough sense to replace the A6m2 with the A6m3, by the Battle of Midway.
The M2 was not the legendary fighter it's made out to be. The pilots were very experianced, the Allies were not. Once the Allied pilots got experiance they never looked back. Sheesh ramble mode off.
The biggest problem we have is numbers, if you give one side 6 differnt planes to choose from, and the other 3, why add another to the side that already has 6?
Where do you think most the people are going to go? Right where they can get most choices..............
Sooner or later your gonna run out of Japanese pilots if this keeps going.
We don't need the N1k2 in Burma, the Ki-61 and A6m5 are fine, but we don't need the FM2 ethier.
Just my 2 cents, plus a dollar tip for your paitence.
