This is quite the surprise!

[Pribs86]

Thank you guys! That is all. Have a great day!

[saburo_cz]

DCS A6M5, Dreams come true!

[Wizard_03]

What a welcome surprise!! Such an Iconic warbird!

[MAXsenna]

Whoa! Forum is already updated!  

[banjuska92]

[Reverend]

Oh, I'm pleasantly surprised.

Good thing.

Edited Saturday at 03:13 AM by Reverend

[LeCuvier]

I cannot find any announcement about the zero fighter. What info have you seen about it?

[MAXsenna]

4 minutes ago, LeCuvier said:

I cannot find any announcement about the zero fighter. What info have you seen about it?

Yesterday's Newsletter.  

[Slippa]

Ooh, nice surprise, cheers ‘team’ 

[Pikey]

Although not explicitly stated in the news letter, we can infer from the forum position that this will be EDs module. That's important when looking at development time and features, what's coming is fairly predictable.

[MAXsenna]

Although not explicitly stated in the news letter, we can infer from the forum position that this will be EDs module. That's important when looking at development time and features, what's coming is fairly predictable.

Not just assume, they have confirmed it. And, they kind of said they would do it sometime a year or so ago, just not when. So it was always pretty obvious it was always going to be an ED module.

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[dcn]

A6M5b?It's A6M5c

[Darkline]

1 hour ago, dcn said:

A6M5b?It's A6M5c

Wait who said it was a B?

[Art-J]

34 minutes ago, Darkline said:

Wait who said it was a B?

The name of this very forum section did :D.

But indeed, WIP shot seen above clearly shows extra 13.2 mm guns which shouldn't be there on b variant. 

[mazex]

Really nice to get the Zero - but for the late war scenarions and opponents, wouldn't a Ki-84 be more interesting? No one will dare dogfight the Zero and it is too slow to catch up with anyone that understands that? 

Edited 9 hours ago by mazex

[DD_Fenrir]

1 hour ago, mazex said:

Really nice to get the Zero - but for the late war scenarions and opponents, wouldn't a Ki-84 be more interesting? No one will dare dogfight the Zero and it is too slow to catch up with anyone that understands that? 

The A6M5 was not far the most numerous of the late war fighter Japanese naval fighter types and thus represents the most likely you would encounter.

The other issue with modelling a Frank is trying to find reliable data, and establishing how much of that performance was lost in build quality (pretty poor by that stage) and in reliability. A well built, carefully maintained Ki-84 would have indeed been a formidable opponent but in late 44/early 45 by all accounts they were rarely at their best in either category and their performance suffered accordingly.

 

[Gunfreak]

2 hours ago, mazex said:

Really nice to get the Zero - but for the late war scenarions and opponents, wouldn't a Ki-84 be more interesting? No one will dare dogfight the Zero and it is too slow to catch up with anyone that understands that? 

For one, there wasn't a single Ki-84 involved in the battles in the Marianas. 

Which is what ED has decided to be their PTO experience. Sure there was just a few months between Saipan and Lyte gulf. But that's when the Ki-84 was first used. 

[dcn]

4小时前，mazex说：

Really nice to get the Zero - but for the late war scenarions and opponents, wouldn't a Ki-84 be more interesting? No one will dare dogfight the Zero and it is too slow to catch up with anyone that understands that? 

Yeah I prefer J2M but M3 choce to make A6M5 then maybe ED took over it.And Zero can land on carrier.But anyway,I think DCS is a study sim not a game that focus on MP.I want Ki-84 too but as they have chose Zero we have to wait for years to see the opportunity.

[jeventy26]

4 hours ago, mazex said:

Really nice to get the Zero - but for the late war scenarions and opponents, wouldn't a Ki-84 be more interesting? No one will dare dogfight the Zero and it is too slow to catch up with anyone that understands that? 

OK, I guess my Vals and Judy's will not have to worry about anything as I escort them on the way to deal death to the Enterprise  lol  We are home free boys!  

[Gunfreak]

Also the exact same problem can be said about the Spitfire vs the D9 and K4.

 

In theory a Spitfire should never win against those two in DCS. As long as they never get involved in a turn fight. Yet we known the Spitfire shoots them down plenty in DCS. 

Same for the Zero vs F4U and F6F.