Player input desired. Shokaku/Taiho N1K5 Fighters

[JustAnOldDude]

As subject line says how good are the Kawanishi N1K5 fighters that are an optional aircraft for the Shokaku and standard aircraft on the Taiho? From what I have read and seen they seem to be on par with the Grumman F6F Hellcats of the USN but how about the Vought F4U's? I know in general the USN fighters are more tough but with 20MM cannons seems like the N1K5 can do a lot of damage.

 

So what do you all think of these fighters?

[TheBossNC]

These planes have been quite good on Shokaku in my time playing it. However I wouldn't consider it optional as running stock planes is a large disadvantage. So I also reccomend upgrading on Taiho.

[pyantoryng]

Planes' characteristics only matter in WoWP, not here.

 

So upgrade where you can for WoWS, it doesn't matter what the planes hold.

 

 The only time it even remotely mattered was the choice between the Consolidated Sea Wolf, which sacrifice torpedo damage for speed, and the other one that flies slower but has more torpedo damage.

The Sea Wolf no longer exists.

 

[Kingfishercritic]

Would be nice if they made aircraft choices actually a choice instead of straight upgrades.

[Palladia]

Would be nice if they made aircraft choices actually a choice instead of straight upgrades.

 

That would be awesome.  Have stock be balanced and then give us different options for advanced planes.  That would give stock CV's a fighting chance and allow us to customize our gameplay a bit.

 

Personally I'd like to see air superiority fighters and fighters that have options for rockets.  Sacrifice some air superiority for the ability to do minor attack runs on ships.  For bombers it would be nice if we had speed options and damage options.  Sacrifice some damage for plane/torpedo speed.  For bombers I'd love to have the option to trade in standard bombers for bombers with the Saipans targeting options,  trading some bomb damage for increased accuracy.

 

Never gonna happen,  of course. But hey,  a man can dream.

[JustAnOldDude]

Yeah seems your kind of stuck with what WG gives you. A user defined option as mentioned above would be great!