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ORIGINAL: hades1001

Guys, I'm talking about N1K5-J George, not some other planes. You really should test and see how powerful this particular plane is.

At 30,000 ft it beats P47D25 with advantage of 100:160. For those who don't believe it's game changer, just imagine you have a long range Shinden in 10/43. And why is N1K5-J George so powerful? I don't have an answer.

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ORIGINAL: n01487477
2. Economic Mod.(I've done this with my game with Floyd)
- Add months to F & FB (as well as others) plane arrival date. . One month for each year (see above).
- no more than 1 upgrade to next model per model. So, A6M3 -> 3a but not A6M5.
- Advanced Engines moved months down.
- Changing engines for advanced models so they are not using typical engines.
- Engine costs increased for building. (later models only) Pity we can't do this for planes too! Or get to the economic multipliers for these things!
- Less R&D plants available.
- All R&D plants start at 0(0)
- Less non-R&D plants (so you need to allow R&D to become production)
- Overall making the player research even late '42 planes to get them on time.
Misc.
-Reducing supply and HI production (while maintaining or increasing resource multiplier needs).
- Still testing a principle of prototyping (no arms) for my Options88 mod - which then can be used to further R&D on a real model / optioned models.

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The R&D model is too easy for most of us that know how to manipulate it. I don't advocate change, I am just suggesting what could be done.

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Finally, what is the commotion about the N1K5? ... it is a very minor upgrade over the N1K1 ... 17 kn faster to 380 ... very minor changes in other aspects. It is in no way a world beater. Why would you invest the majority of your R&D on this plane?

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ORIGINAL: erstad

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Finally, what is the commotion about the N1K5? ... it is a very minor upgrade over the N1K1 ... 17 kn faster to 380 ... very minor changes in other aspects. It is in no way a world beater. Why would you invest the majority of your R&D on this plane?

Agree.

I don't even build the N1K5. The extra 17 knots (and a couple extra machine guns) don't seem to justify the increase in SR.

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Really, as GJ and a couple of others have already opined: there is no IJ fighter wunderkind.  Each one of the late war fighters has a serious defect compared to the allies Spit/TBolt/Stang lineup which really have nothing other than mediocre armaments (not bad, but not that strong).

George is too slow.  I mean like 80 kn against the Stang. 
Shinden/Karyu uses those 30mm, which are almost, but not quite useless.  Ergo, it is really undergunned.  and low manouver compared to the allied planes.
Frank is noticeably slower, but still competitive.  Ditto Sam.
Ki-83 - 2E fighter ... $$$$ and low manouver
etc.

There is a flaw with each model, and I haven't even mentioned SR.  Now as IJ player you learn to mitigate those defects to the best possible point, but they are still there.  An allied player, even my opponent (AI Andy) can easily take advantage of these differences if I do not watch them carefully.

Finally, what is the commotion about the N1K5? ... it is a very minor upgrade over the N1K1 ... 17 kn faster to 380 ... very minor changes in other aspects.  It is in no way a world beater.  Why would you invest the majority of your R&D on this plane?  And relatively few groups can use it ... only non CV fighters.  You get much bigger bang for your buck by investing in an IJA fighter ... Frank for example.  Can be used in like 4x the number of groups.

Anyway, just my ramblings from an IJ player POV.

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ORIGINAL: Puhis

I think center line MGs can make a difference. If we think about firepower, there is no better Japanese fighter than N1K5.