Hello, just a quick enquiry and maybe just a bit puzzled. I just now noticed that the Ki-61-I hei only has the type 94 GPHE bombs and rather not the 2 x 250 kg Army Type 92 GPHE bombs, but then the Boomerang Mk II gets two 250 kg bomb… plus it’s cheaper. Sure the Ki-61-I hei was advertised as a glorified fighter but then gets easily demolished when someone calls an airstrike and the A-20 rips you to shred when intercepted (but then it’s easy for the opposing team to take Japan’s bombers down instantaneously.)
Wouldn’t it be more justifiable with the price tag it already has to just give it the 250 kg? The plane is already a paper, in which case if got shot will either burst into flames or snap into two. Also, even tried killing a boomerang, which I was at his six, but that thing ate all of my 20mm rounds… (hit markers everywhere lol)
Just even imagining the state of Japan once they try to add the F4U Corsair’s, would just finish its final days on the sky (and possibly the best all round fighter and ground pounder).
Anyways, that’s all for my rant, thank you for tuning in. Please do let me know what you guys think, be it your opinion or through a logical standpoint, I will view it with respect; I guess just playing Japan on the pacific is driving me nuts at this point, lol.
Wrong, it get two 250 lb bomb not 250KG. 250 lb x2=500 lb is 226.8 kg, so it is similar to Ki-61-I hei 2x 100 KG = 200KG.
(According to War Thunder, the 250lb bomb is weaker than 100KG bomb, but I don’t know if it is also true for Enlisted.)
I have the plane and it requires trigger discipline, I can kill anything on one burst, as for bombers, aim for cockpits and come in close, I can clear whole waves in that plane. Cannons are used very sparingly. This is my go to plane, I can strafe and kill M13s, it is much faster and only thing I don’t like is when coming in for a landing, if you deploy combat flaps, takeoff, landing sometimes your flaps rip due to speed and you can suddenly lose control, even though I am coming in to land on carrier. Haven’t figured out throttle control and distance yet…
Ahh I see my bad, I forgot they use lb and not kg. Thank you o7
I see, when coming into contact with the bombers do you hit them from underneath or confronting them upfront? I always get shredded even if I’m below their rear, so I just tend to get away if I do see them. As for the boomerang confrontation I had yesterday lol, it just ate all my ammo even if I was close already, tried aiming for the pilot to knock it out or tried to snap its wings but thing is just a tank; it might just me though, I was just guns blazing at that point lol. Also, thanks for the tips o7
Ohh so it really didn’t differ, yeah I think that’s fair. Thanks for the enlightenment! o7
For bombers throttle down, headons work best, get one or two, then turn round and come on from back not too fast, use rudder and banking to ‘walk’ bullets in to cockpit area from behind.
Depending on server locations, re Boomerang well try again might have had a laggy server happens sometimes.