GreyJoy
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ORIGINAL: Lowpe Ki100-I starts production next month, and this plane will be the mainstay Army fighter for a while. Frank A will come along probably about 2 months early, Feb 44, but I am not in love with Frank A. Now, the B Frank I do like! The R Frank will probably come too late, even thought I inherited 180 total factory points researching this plane (in two factories). I will have the Ki202 before Frank R. I like fighters with cannons! Centerline cannons. The more the merrier! I will trade speed off for cannons quite a lot. Oscar IV will be regulated to backup fighter and primarily an escort fighter. I still have 3 squadrons of KAI Dinahs, all broken down into thirds, performing night CAP at 10percent. Petes and Alfs perform the same function on the Navy side. Not much night bombing since the first large nightfighter squadron became active. Ki44IIc: still making them, nice speed, great climb, but no cannons. Just not enamored of the Tojo. Kamikaze? KI-44 IIc remains a more than decent plane, even in 1944 IMHO. Its climb rate and its speed makes it for a pretty good dealer of the allied escort and sweep. Surely it's hard to deal with 4Es with just tojos. However, if you got the KI-100 so early I think you can use them both very effectively. Tojo for its climb rate. Tony for its cannons. Frank...well, frank for everything :-) In a PDU ON game I think that now I will favour the Oscar IV over the KI-100. The low dur of the Oscar becomes very handy when dealing with damaged planes... they do get repaired mostly in a couple of days even after harsh battles. A plane with 30 DUR will take many more days, even with SR=1. Anyway, having you the freedom to use them all, I think you can easily skip the Tojo and keep the KI-84, the KI-100 and the KI-43 IV. They will serve you just as good
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