I was wondering if we would ever see the Captured A6M5 since the Captured Akutan Zero is present in the game. I know some people would be against this since Captured Vehicles in the game are particularly hated and just want to hear other people’s opinions.
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already annoying enough to fight multinational vehicles in sim with iFF radars, will be even more of a nightmare to have even more captured vehicles at lower tiers.
big no for me chief
no
There’s always a chance it may one day come but the larger community tends to hate captured machines (well at least in AF & GF, not much hate in NF, mmmm destroyer Guichen D607 ex cruiser Scipione Africano).
I misinterpreted this post originally for asking the A6M2 yet I re-read the lot realising the difference, was this the A6M from the Solomon’s or a different one? Or a much later airframe that was captured from the Japanese home islands?
U.S Forces captured 12 late-model A6M5 Zeros in 1944 at Saipan.
Captured vehicles, specially aircraft, are a no no.
Not only do these aircraft destroy IFF in simulator, but even by WT standards they should never be added.
Captured aircraft are treasures of intelligence, that’s why the are painted in the captor’s colors, to avoid AA shooting down the goldmine that these aircraft are. But are esentially reduced to pavement princesses like racing aircraft, maybe flow 2-5 times to evaluate and then stored.
Maybe Finland can use some captured aircraft, since they loved to swap powerplants of soviet aircraft with more powerful soviet poweplants, slidin canopies, late radio masts and late defensive turrets and also sent on anti-submarine duty with depth charges. (all of the SB-2 bombers used by Finland)
Finns also modified Skis into a lot aircraft but that’s kind of mini nini minor modification.
Pretty sure they also captured every single Japanese ground vehicle 😄
Well, on the bright side, at least Americans will have something else to play besides Shermans
+1, the paintscheme ensures it’d be a lot less of a problem for IFF than people are whining about. Plus, I love to see more captured vehicles painted by the capturer :D
I mostly use silhouettes for IFF personally.
And I also don’t like captured vehicles in general, specially if it furballs into every axis vehicle being added to allied nations.
Personally a -1
On the positive side having USA players using them might get the Zeros back to a reasonable BR… you know when they are not fighting people that insist on turn fighting them in a P-47…
they’ll find a way to send it 6.7 still