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Nikademus -> (11/15/2003 1:18:30 AM)
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You make a good point afenelon, in that the whole story is hardly told by just posting 'optimal' stats for a designated airframe, certainly the Ki-84, if properly built and maintained was a formidable opponent. Everything i've read about it from pilot accounts always gave it healthy respect.
The point being made (i'd like to think ;) ) is that formidable is not good enough in this case. Germany also had formidable weapons too but in the end was crushed by the attrtion war generated and ironically suffered the same problem that Japan did only slower...(i.e. her pilot cadre was exhausted and could not be replaced with fully trained replacements)
Even with properly working Ki-84's you'll still need competant pilots to man them so any what if scenerio where 2nd gen Japanese aircraft are assumed to be built in appreciable #'s will also have to do a "SC-19" and assume a larger pilot cadre to man them.
Even then, they'll still face an uphill battle vs a larger and technologically sound enemy. Thats the issue....its not enough to just say, lets put a bunch of 2nd gen IJN/A aircraft in a scenerio
It would make for a more competetive game though, i expect we'll see mods like this after the game is released. Personally i want to see the F8F in action.....i loved flying this plane in the old Aces of the Pacific add on module :D
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