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IJN Katori light cruiser
IJN Ioshima escort
IJN T-101 landing ship
IJN Akashi repair ship
IJN Ashizuri replenishment vessel
IJN Jingei submarine tender
IJN Kamikawa Maru seaplane tender
IJN Etorofu escort

Agreed!

USS Oklahoma Battleship USA
USs Batfish submarine USA

I've been off the Forum for like, 2 years, so I may have missed something, but what is the objection the P-47? A plane that entered service in late 1942 (OK, call it 1943 to avoid a month of power creep like the Avenger or Essex), with of 15,000 copies produced. I get it, it was a good plane, but looking at you Mustang, Corsair, Me-262. I got to believe a reasonable P-47 card can be done with "breaking the game". The French could certainly use it.

I understand the deck list ship has sailed, but why the "ban-hammer" on the P-47?  Please don't tell me it is because it never flew over a puddle of water.

Does anybody really think it was so superior to the P-51, F4U, or Me-262 to break the game?  If it was that bad ass, why in the world did the allies build anything else?  

I don't think there is any rational reason at all to exclude it. Existing units bracket it's capabilities, and it opens opportunities for allies to have competitive aircraft that actually existed in their land-based air forces. I've never understood the anxiety surrounding one of the most common aircraft of WWII. If we can have a Me262, multiple versions of the Corsair, and superfighters galore, including some that barely existed in squadron strength in there respective air forces, surely we can figure out how to make a plane that was introduced in 1942/43 and was produced in some of the largest numbers of any aircraft in the war???

An argument could be made to make it's vital incredibly high (which is what all this ducking and dodging appears to be about), but I'm not sure it matters.  In all the games I've played with Vital 9 fighters, I almost never see them get shot down.  Vital Armor 9 + a "toughness" SA, but an otherwise bland 8-9AA land based fighter with some kind of bomb ability seems far from earth shattering compared to the Corsairs.  

BTW, I've never really had any urgency to see the P-47 for the US.  It's more about making a really good late war fighter available to the allies.  

I totally agree with SWO. When the ceiling is 262 and Meteor, Thunderbolt fits in the room.