Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Brady

A6M5C: Endurance see above. Gunpackage should be three 13.2 mm type 3 MG's and two 20 mm type 99 mod 2.

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ORIGINAL: Brady

Below is a list by plane type of errors found in the OOB of Scenerio 16, I modified my 15 so I wanted to start with a clean slate so I used 16 as the base, the errors are referenced to Rene J. Francillon's Book Japaese Aircraft of the Pacific War, and some of Buschells volumes on Japanese aircraft, and so other books I have on the subject.

A Note on Endurance, for the most it would seam that endurance figures are about half that of the range listed for the plane type in most referances, though in many instances the figure given in the game seams considerably less, since I am not entirely shure how WiTP handels this my coments on the endurance errors beleow may be off in this regard.



A5M4: Endurance given as 746 st miles in most referances yet in the game listed at 200. Manuaver it has been my understanding that the A5M was as manuaverable if not a bit more in fact than the Zero yet this is not reflectedin the manuaver rating in the game.

A6M2-N: Endurance listed as Normal at 714 miles/ Max 1,107, yet in the game given as 240.

A6M2:Endurance figures listed at 1,160 Normal/ 1,930 Max , game gives about 590, not bad if based soly on normal, but my understanding is that max included the drop tank and this was used often. Manuaver figure is less than the A6M3 and this is not corect the A6M2 was more manuaverable than the A6M3.

A6M3: Endurance again seams off Max listed as 1,477, and game alows 385. Manuaver see A6M2 coments. 20 mm Type 99 Cannon soould be 20 mm Type 99 Cannon mod.2.

A6M5:Endurance again seams a bit low 1,194 Max given yet we see only 310 in game, again max figure would sugest the use of a drop tank, and this was often done. Gun Package should be two 20 mm Type 99 mod 2 cannon, and one each of the following 7.7mm type 97 MG and 13.2mm type 3 MG, since the A6M5 is a generic a/b and since most of the planes built in this series were so equiped it would seam the more represenative gun load out. Their is also some argument for switching the 60 KG bombload for a single 250 KG as this was often dun in the field and led to the standaradsation of this load out on future models.

A6M5C: Endurance see above. Gunpackage should be three 13.2 mm type 3 MG's and two 20 mm type 99 mod 2.

A6M8: Endurance suspect based on finding listed above. Gunpackage should list 20 mm Type 99 mod.2, should also carry the 250 Kg bomb type, indead it was capable of carrying the 500 KG bomb.

A7M2: Endurance seams a tad low again though not as bad as some of the figures listed above, realy hard to say since this plane never realy entered combat. 20mm Cannon should be again the 20mm type 99 mod.2.

N1k-: Endurance N1K1 890/1,581 (normal/max) miles, N1K2 1,066/1,488 miles, game alows 230!, I listed both types since the George in WiTP is generic representing both plane types. Bombload should be two 250 KG bombs , the gun package is representative of the N1K2-J, and the bombload of this and many of the N1K1's was two 250 kg bombs, heck some models could load four 250 kg bombs.

J2M:Endurance listed at 1,180 st miles game alows 320. Gun package should be two Type 99 cannons and two type 99 mod.2 cannons.

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Later I will contune withe list of the rest of teh navy types then do one for the Army.