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Onime No Kyo -> RE: Most useless plane (6/30/2005 3:42:40 PM)
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I've just read this post and crossed planes mentally off my list.
Huries-Dont you dare. As point defense they can seriously hurt things. I had 3 sqadrons of them on andeman island take such a big chunk out of 80-Betty-Zero escorted raids that they persaded the AI not to try that anymore.
Buffs-sure they suck vs Zeroes, but you try to get a Huri to escort your Swordfish 5 hexes out.
Anything Dutch sure sucks in comparison to actual airplanes, but when youre strapped for assets, they'll do. Hawks are actually rather decent, the problem is that getting a Dutch squadron to a respectable exp level is next to impossible. The turnaround rate on pilots is around 250% in my game. The Recces sat on their buts for a while, but now that I've gotten them upgraded to F5s, theyre doing good work. And their but-ugly TBs are outstanding, as are the transports.
The Wirries suck too, but they break up bomber formations. I had the Deathstar visit Rabaul several times, and if it wasnt for all those Aussie Comand Wirries that bravely laid down their lives there, the place would have been a slag heap. Same for those valiant Huds (and I love that range, for ASW at least).
I have 2 squadrons of Wind Indicators....for diversity's sake, one at Pearl and one in the PI (which I recaptured). I have no complaints. Their range is as good as the SBDs and so's the bomb load.
Never tried to use a B-18 in combat, but the stats look on par with some of the Brit and Dutch junk that I did use, to some effect.
Vildebeest's range stinks, but those squadrons have some nice xp. Stuff that gets in range usually gets hurt. The AI has a cruiser and oodles of transports to prove it.
I looove the Mohawk. About 4 months into '42 I discovered that at the rate I was losing P-40s in Malaya, I could not keep up the supply. I had 2 FGs down to the size of a very sickly squadron. After I converted them to Mohawks, things got much better. ure, the AVG was sore at having their 40Bs taken away, but one of my top aces is an AVG flying a Mohawk.
On the other hand, I cant argue that the Lysander doesnt suck. Because it does. Walruses are pretty sad. The one land-based squadron I have will spend the war killing fish with depthchagres flying out of Brisbane. P39s are pretty sad too. I have about...umm...4 full FGs on ground attack. Its about all theyre good for. And lets not forget the Fulmars. Sure, they have range, but what good is it if the bloody behemoths cant do anything but stare in amazement as the CAP Zeros come slashing in through the Swordfish formations. The Glads are right up ther too.
Thats all that comes to mind at the moment.
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