These planes are BR3 and 4,but are massively overteired.I will describe these planes and justify moving them to BR2 from their current BRs.
B5N2-a BR3 plane thats only machine gun is in the gunners seat,and its the weak 7.7mm machine gun,so the only arament you have as the pilot are the 2x 250kg bombs.
justicicaton for lowering-this plane has no forwards MGs,only gunner MG,bomb load is less than that of the dauntless and similar to the P51D and the AP1s,while having none of their benefiets.
D4Y1-a BR4 bomber that has front firing MGs this time,but guess what,they are the 7.7mm MGs that dont do anything to enemy planes at BR 4 and 5,a rear gunner of the same caliber,and has a single 500kg bomb.
justification for lowering-MGs are near useless at its teir,even at BR3,currently is fighting AP4s and P47s,has less armament than almost every allied bomber and a few fighters up from the dauntless.
@Euthymia07 ,could you forwards this request up please?
I think that DF looks at the raw number of the bomb weight and assign their battle rating according to that. But in reallity the effectiveness of a strike aircraft in this game is more determined on loitering time, just like irl, which is the amount of time an aircraft can be present in the battlespace delivering ordenace on target. This is to say having ONE BIG BOMB is not enough to merit these aircraft being in the BR they are at because after each drop they must LEAVE THE BATTLE SPACE affording the enemy REACTION TIME AND MANEUVRE SPACE to either vacate the area or mount a counter attack(build AA guns or mobe to the next Obj).
So I agree with you, especially for the D4Y1. This is a woefully innadequate aircraft for the role that DF shoved it into. Its got one “big” bomb, which is hot enough justification to put it at BR4. The thing should be BR2 at best. Same goes for the B5N2, pathetically underpowered for BR3.
This stems from DF’s desire to hastly introduce the Japanese into the game.
They should introduce two new aircraft to replace the D4Y1 and B5N2. The new aicraft could be the D4Y3ko(BR3), which can carry three 250kg bombs(and possibly four rockets), and the B7A2(BR4), which can carry two 250kg bombs and four 60kg bombs, and two 20mm cannons to destroy APCs as well as AA and AT guns.
The key difference between the aircraft that are present and the aircraft that I have suggested is that the latter have the payload capacity to stay engaged in the fight for longer whuch if you see the other factions offerings at the same BR uou will find that those aircraft indeed have the capability to hang in battle longer than what we have been given for the Japanese.
I might make this into my own post.
Trying to level the BN52 is without doubt the worst levelling experience in this whole game and that’s not even a maybe, getting uptiered as target practice for sweatlord piloted P-47D-28s doesn’t help either. An utterly miserable experience, makes you want to quit, playing this just makes you feel defeated, horrible.
The A5M4 was also garbage, and from what I hear the D4Y1 is also very bad. The stubborn part of me means I push through it until I either learn the aircraft better, maybe learn its hidden strengths. But to be honest the best strategy I have found is to bail close to enemy lines and use explosive packs to blow up tanks, they’re that bad.
Yes, the B5N is borderline useless, it has a decent bombload but its nowhere near BR3 worthy. It should be replaced with the B6N1 its the same except it has an offensive MG.