Lokasenna
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Joined: 3/3/2012 From: Iowan in MD/DC Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel The Soviet air force is sizeable and will have the latest models in play. The pilots are trained well. But I don't know if a late-model Soviet fighter in the hands of a good pilot can handle a Ki-83 or Randy or Frank-R. I suspect I'll find out that they are adequate or even good on defense and poor on offense, which pretty much sums up the Allied air force in general. It can't. They are comparable to short-ranged 1943/early-44 American fighters. They're OK in some roles, but overall not great. The Ki-83 should eat them all for breakfast. What types beyond the KI-83 do the Japs get in stock? I'm facing all kinds of exotic types beyond that model in the Ironman scenario, but of course, they aren't employed nearly as effectively as they could be. I'm facing KI-93s, KI-94s, KI-100s, Shindens, Japanese ME-262s and what look like Japanese ME-263s (is that the correct number for the rocket plane?) as just a few examples I can remember readily. There are many many more. Had a large kamikaze group (72 planes) made of of Tokas that look like a fighter bomber come at my DS. It seems like the AI comes at me with new types every other week. Those are all available if you want to get them, you just don't really see them much aside from the Ki-100, Shinden, and occasionally the Ki-201 Karyu (that's the Me-262). Shusui (IIRC on the spelling) is, I think, the IJ version of the rocket fighter.
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