Hello everyone! I come forth with a fairly simple suggestion relating to the Japanese Aviation Sakura Victory/Kill counter decals.
Whilst currently they do already exist within Enlisted in a sense, as pink singular Sakura and Double-Sakura (sometimes denoting a kill against fighters and bombers respectively, or damaged/probable kill/shared kill and confirmed kill respectively).
I would like to suggest a new decal implementing them into smaller sectioned rows of alternating and uniform Sakura/Double-Sakura markings, much akin to some of the victory/kill markings we have available for other nations, in both Sakura pink and golden yellow colour variations.
Here’s the current Sakura decals available for Japan, under the “Japan” decal tab.
Here’s a chart showing some of Japan’s Victory/Kill markings that the IJN used, featuring the gold yellow Sakura in particular.
An example of the gold yellow markings on a plane
A Japanese pilot standing in front of a Nakajima J1N “Gekko” with two yellow kill markings.
Now to finally round off my suggestion; I think it’d be really nice to have a skin depicting the colours and markings of the Japanese pilot Tetsuzō Iwamoto. He flew in multiple A6M2 ‘Zeros’ and A6M5s, (the latter of which would also work perfectly for this suggestion, whenever we get the A6M5 in game)
Tetsuzō Iwamoto was an Ace pilot of whom had his planes decorated in many such Sakura Victory Markings, upwards of 60 at a time. Whilst we unfortunately lack photos of his planes we thankfully have detailed writings about them, courtesy of his personal memoirs that were published after his passing.
One of Tetsuzō Iwamoto’s A6M2s, featuring many Sakura Victory Markings
Tetsuzō Iwamoto’s A6M5 also decorated plenty featuring more Sakura Victory Markings
Tetsuzō Iwamoto
Well that’s all for my simple little suggestion, I hope you enjoyed and let me know that you think.
With much love