I used to love playing as the Japs but then I sort of went off them because I just wasn't that good. They really do have some of the best players in the game.
I just played a match now, first match of the day, in that Saipan event. Japanese start off outnumbered anyway but 2 of our players disconnected and 1 of our 2 N1K2s crashed for no reason.
We still managed to win.
I got 3 assists and 2 kills and the remaining N1K2 on our team got a whopping 5 kills.
Here is the link to the replay from that match I posted before.
This is the link to the match I just mentioned. I die from AA towards the end but the last 2 guys go on to win.
I hope that somebody makes a War Thunder replays website like wotreplay. I tried attaching them via TWC but it didn't work.