"What in the world is wrong with the Ki-61? Its got cannon, its fast, it climbs well, it dives well."
Well Nothing realy, it is the late War model, not the one that was in New Gunie in 43, but realy it depends on what time frome your looking to add it into and what planes your seting it aganst.
"It was THE best IJ fighter untill the Ki-84 and the N1K2 showed up in 1945."
Well that could be argued from any number of prespectives and time frames, Some might say the Zero was king early on and then later the Jack rocked, or that for a brief time in New Gunie that the Tony rocked the allies planet.
"It can (and did) fight P-40Es, F4Fs, F6Fs, and F4U-1s. Maybe perk the F4U-1 at 3 pts or something and have it at a back base. "
Well this true but this doesent mean that it would be a good match up.
"As far as the "mythical IJ fighter that AH doesnt have?" there is none. In the SW Pacific the Ki-61 was IT. The rest were Ki-43s (320mph) or Zeros. The Ki-44 is bandied about, trouble is its no faster and was not used in the Solomons, but rather Burma. Ki-45? too slow again. Ki-61 was top dog 1943-44 in the Solomons and N.G. so I keep wondering what special fighter you are all waiting the IJ to get."
It is no fun for anyone to fight up hill aganst overwhealming odds, it is not good for the CT for us to creat lopsided set up's, Other than the Ki 84, or the Jack, we realy dont nead another New Japanese single engine fighter, we do howeaver nead some more varients of some of the planes we do have. We have 4 F4U's and one Tony, one George, and the latest and earlest Zero's. we nead to fill in the gaps a bit hear to help us to do better match up's. HTC has not helped any of in this regard for the CT, howeaver sometime withen the Next year we may see more planes coming for the Japanese.
One thing we can and have done is creat fantsy set up's that feature planes fighting plane types that were not realy put head to head on maps that did not see those plane types.
Frankly I think a Tony VS a 50 MPH Faster fighter with a firepower advantage, durabality advantage, effective gunrange advantage and an exceleration advantage does not make for a good match up, The best thing the Tony has going for it is that the Blue plane flyer in the F4U might screw up blead his E and try and turn with him, the only strength he (the Tony ) has the in the promis of the stupidy of the guy in the F4U.
Just Because planes faught one another in the real world does not mean they are good match up's in the CT.
"The problem with the p40 is if you're a fart smeller you don't fly it on the deck. The problem with the p40 is that when "most combat" is taking place "low" 'tween wildcats and zekes, the p40s swoop in from higher and cherrypick.'
Yes they do, but if they turn they lose their advantage, and if the Zero has Zero SA he will be dead, it is prety easy to get out of their way if you have a clue, like I said earler we have ran set up's with just these two planes being the primary fighters facing each other and it was not that big a deal, one nice thing is that the P40 comes apart prety nicely, much easer than the Wildcat, and it is not anywhear near as manuaverable as a Wildcat.
"perk it or leave it out.
I don't understand why you put in in in the first place if you want an a6m vs f4f setup. What's the point? Why's it there? "
It is limited to a base so far away that it is almost compleatly out of play. I put it in to give those allies who whine about having no preformance advantage somthing to hope for, some tards will fly it 4 sectors to give themslefs the preceaved advantage they nead to enable an engagement aganst the Zero's. These are the same people who think that the f4U-1a is a good match up aganst the A6M2. Not that I am pointing fingers:) I have done the same thing. It is not going to cause an imbalance it is not uber and it adds some depth to the plane set.
