Disclaimer 1: I don’t play Japan on BR 4-5, so I don’t know what’s going on there.
Disclaimer 2: I don’t ‘main’ any faction, so I don’t look to weaken/strengthen either of them against another.
- Problem 1: Japan has too few plane squads
As a ‘veteran’ player with legacy squads, I can circle 3 fighters/3 attack aircraft if I want with USSR/USA/Germany but this is imposible with Japan as it only has 3 fighter squads total (one locked to A6M2 (BR2), one locked to A5M4 (BR1), one locked to BR 4 planes).
Currently it just feels unfair for the Japanese that on BR2 USA I can do this:
But Japan BR2 can only do this:
Meanwhile, with the eventual addition of Soviet-Japanese front, I’ll also be able to do this with USSR BR2:
And just for comparison Germany BR2 can do this:
This is just not an equal fight: they shoot down my American BR2 fighter, I can spawn another one; but if they shoot down my Japanese BR2 fighter – I am done fighting for air superiority.
- SOLUTION: add more Japanese vehicle squads through progression/events
- Problem 2. Japan has too few and too weak planes
Some BR2 attack planes have this:
While Japan attack planes can only have this:
Some BR2 fighter planes have this:
While Japan fighter planes can only have this:
Also, Japan was known to invest a lot in their navy and aircraft, but in Enlisted we currently only have: E13A1 (BR1), A5M4 (BR1), D3A1 (BR2), A6M2 (BR2), B5N2 (BR2) and D4Y1 (recently BR3).
Where are all the other planes that were used in WW2?
Fighters
Kawanishi N1K Kyofu Navy Fighter Seaplane Rex 1942 1532 IJN
Kawanishi N1K1-J/N1K2-J Shiden Navy Land-Based Interceptor George 1943 1435 IJN
Kawasaki Ki-10 Army Type 95 Fighter Perry 1935 588 IJA
Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu Army Type 2 Two-Seat Fighter Nick 1941 1370 IJA
Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien Army Type 3 Fighter Tony 1943 3159 IJA
Kawasaki Ki-100 Goshikisen Army Type 5 Fighter n/a 1945 395 IJA
Kawasaki Ki-102 Army Type 4 Assault Aircraft Randy 1944 238 IJA
Mitsubishi A5M Navy Type 96 Carrier-based Fighter Claude 1937 1094 IJN
Mitsubishi A6M Zero-Sen Navy Type Zero Carrier Fighter Zeke/Hamp 1940 10939 IJN
Mitsubishi A7M Reppū Navy Carrier-based Fighter Sam 1944 10 IJN
Mitsubishi J2M Raiden Navy Interceptor Fighter Jack 1942 621 IJN
Mitsubishi Ki-46-III-Kai Army Type 100 Air Defence Fighter Dinah 1941 1742 IJA, IJN
Nakajima A6M2-N Navy Type 2 Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber Rufe 1941 327 IJN
Nakajima J1N1-S Gekko Irving 1941 479 IJN
Nakajima Ki-27 Army Type 97 Fighter Nate 1937 3368 IJA
Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa Army Type 1 Fighter Oscar 1939 5919 IJA
Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki Army Type 2 Single-Seat Fighter Tojo 1941 1225 IJA
Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate Army Type 4 Fighter Frank 1943 3514 IJA
Attack aircraft
Aichi D3A Navy Type 99 Carrier Bomber Val 1940 1486 IJN
Aichi B7A Ryusei Navy carrier torpedo bomber Grace 1942 114 IJN
Aichi M6A1 Seiran Navy Special Strike Submarine Bomber n/a 1943 28 IJN
Mitsubishi Ki-15 Army Type 97 Command Reconnaissance Plane Babs 1936 500~ IJA
Mitsubishi Ki-51 Army Type 99 Assault Plane Sonia 1939 2385 IJA
Mitsubishi B5M Navy Type 97 No.2 Carrier Attack Bomber Mabel 1937 125 IJN
Nakajima B5N Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber Kate 1937 1150~ IJN
Nakajima B6N Tenzan Navy Carrier Torpedo Bomber Jill 1941 1268 IJN
Tachikawa Ki-36 Army Type 98 Direct Co-operation Aircraft Ida 1938 1334 IJA
Yokosuka B4Y Navy Type 96 Carrier Attacker Jean 1935 205 IJN
Yokosuka D4Y Suisei Navy Carrier Dive bomber Judy 1942 2038 IJN
Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Baka (‘Fool’ in Japanese)[1] 1944 852 IJN
Bombers
Aircraft | Allied Code Name | First Flown | Number Built | Service |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kawasaki Ki-48 Army Type 99 Twin-engined Light Bomber | Lily | 1940 | 1997 | IJA |
Kawasaki Ki-32 Army Type 98 Light Bomber | Mary | 1937 | 854 | IJA |
Mitsubishi G3M Navy Type 96 Land-based Attack Aircraft | Nell | 1935 | 1048 | IJN |
Mitsubishi G4M Navy Type 1 Land-based Attack Aircraft | Betty | 1941 | 2435 | IJN |
Mitsubishi Ki-21 Army Type 97 Heavy Bomber | Sally | 1938 | 2064 | IJA |
Mitsubishi Ki-30 Army Type 97 Light bomber | Ann | 1938 | 704 | IJA |
Mitsubishi Ki-67 Hiryu Army Type 4 Heavy Bomber | Peggy | 1942 | 767 | IJA |
Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu Army Type 100 Heavy Bomber | Helen | 1941 | 819 | IJA |
Yokosuka P1Y1 Ginga Navy Land-Based Bomber | Frances | 1943 | 1098 | IJN |
Even the famous Zero had ~15 versions, but in the game we only have 1 (+1 more as event/premiuim)?
Why can we have 3 versions of Ju-87, 3 versions of P-38, 7 versions of Bf 109, but just 1 Zero in the tech tree?
- SOLUTION: add more (and better) Japanese vehicles available in those new squads we just added