As it is know, the J7W was a prototype bomber interceptor designed by Japan in the last few years of the war. As it is an interceptor wouldn’t it make sense to give it an airspawn? Its speed is rather decent and its dive capabilities are above average, but other than that, its accelerations is not that great, the turning rate is very much below average and the guns while good, have a low ammo count.
My suggestion would be to give it at least an airspawn, as it is an interceptor. And if possible, also a BR decrease from 6.0 to 5.7 as even if it is pretty fast, basically every fighter at 6.0, and even to some extent 5.7, can catch it in a straight line given enough time.
Also this also applies to to TA-152C3 which has all of the weak points of the J7W + it sits at 6.3, when it should stay at most in 6.0/5.7, but at least the TA as an airspawn.
Yes because of the good guns, people engage in head on attacks and win. If the fight goes prolonged and they turn around for you…its over.
We can see this happening with many other planes. Look at the Fw 190 A8 another interceptor, it has bad performance but it gets 4 20mm cannons + 2 13mm mg’s, people do head ons and they win…which is exactly why it was given an airspawn. It has bad performance because of the extra guns it has for bomber interception and thus it gets an airspawn.
The only reason the shinden is not doing bad according to its stats is because of this. Also, isn’t it agreed that while stats while decent at giving a general picture for where certain planes should belong in the BR range, it should not be used to fine tune the balancing system? And after all that is what I’m asking a fine tune of the system, just an airspawn ( as it is an interceptor) with maybe if possible a small br decrease to 5.7.