nightmare for a rook...

[nopoop]

I KNEW I should'a flown last night.

[Steve]

blah blah blah blah  blah blah blah

[nopoop]

Steve your posted reply to this thread was a complete and utter failure in punctuation.

What kind of example are you setting for the children ??

Please..

Think of the children.

[TweetyBird]

Ehehehe. Nah, there was a fun furball between  5 and 62 Tuesday night. I missed most of it though since my SA overloads at 5 planes "Etch, check 6" -er no kdding, there's 30 planes in the sector!  I'm exagerating a tad, but it was a kick. And even with 30 planes in a sector, those 6 calls help a lot I do have a bit of a stiff neck from looking up at all those rooks j/k

[nopoop]

To HELL WITH THE CHILDREN I SAY !!

Wounded missing an elevator down on the deck in an attempt to "egress" to my home field I was bounced by one of those high "rook" spits, who after four or five attempts ended up egressing himself..

On my complement on the fight on channel one I was accused of cheating..

WHOOT !!!

Caps of the night.

Jeez steve, they fuggun drool when they attempt to talk..

We Knights have correct punctuation.

..and wear bibs.

Time for a soul search.

[dracon]

Hmmm..........

I see lazs2 is BAITING again.....He's a MASTER of it

[dfl8rms]

Got two to come out of the herd tonight -- I flew to a bish base that was being attacked by the rooks and unexpectedly drew a bishop out to fight me.  After we danced, the rook p51s came in high and higher.  I extended and was looking for a goon until my tank was hitting a quarter with 3 rooks within 3k and another 3+ just out of icon range.  

On egress the ponies were not giving up so slowly we drew away from the pack, two realized their mistake and headed back.  One insisted on playing.  It was a fun fight, something I've missed lately.  

to both the bishop and rook player who decided to engage 1 v 1.

[Steve]

Bibs?!!  I'm left to drool on myself.  

Man, with all this tough talk on these types of threads, you'd think rooks never get any kills, with  all the deadly virtual pilots who oppose them.

Wow Forhim, you've outscored the rooks 72-64, at least you're in the lead. Let me guess, you only die to rooks when they have huge number and alt advantages right?  Well other than sundays, rook numbers are about equal to everyone else's; with each team taking it's turn in the bucket.  Ohhh, I know, you only die to rooks on sunday nights!

[B17Skull12]

i nevar die to rooks;)

[Masherbrum]

"u guys are right... you can put any country in place of the rooks... the rookies simply do it more often these days. that is what is so pitiful.

missing the good ol days when people looked for a good fight.

lazs"

You're the pathetic one in this situation.

Karaya

[beet1e]

This has all the ingredients of one of those "Waaaah, people just won't fly the way I want them to!" threads. Hmmm, people used to accuse the strat players of that all the time.

Well boot's on t'other foot now. What goes around comes around.

[Furball]

Lazs, shame i dont have my "I hate rooks." 1 man squad still going  (i rejoined hornets) you could have been an honourary member and official spokesperson

Knits and Bish should unite and kill rookdom!.......

Actually, nah, its no fun to fight rooks.

[Pepe]

Bishops are yummy.

With regards to lazs....well, he's on his own rotation  

[lazs2]

furball... yeah, the bish are allways preferable to fight.   I think maybe the problem with rooks is all the LW squads...  Or maybe.. it is just a combo of the new "strat" and all the new timid players and the weight of numbers on the rook side that are all conspiring to make for a very unfun country to face.....  It must be really boring and embarassing to be one when the numbers are like that too.

I think about everyone notices it and that is why it get's such a response (agreement from nits/bish and vehement denial from rookies).

I think moving the fields closer together and not letting fuel drop below 50% would pretty much fix the problem and bring the combat back to AH.  It wouldn't get rid of the timid and the late war monsters but it would give the early and mid war planes some better footing.   Numbers would not be as big a deal...  Win/ win.

lazs

[gofaster]

Originally posted by IHham
I saw about 15 rooks flying into a field at 28k and wouldn't come down. So I took a Ta152 to 33k and to my amasement, there is a la7 at probably 37k or so. I try to get higher, they still beat me in altitude. My gosh, I don't think I have seen many rooks below 7k in the past week, unless they were climbing to get to 25k.

Help me, help the rooks. Atleast the bish horde comes and plays.

No, the Bish horde doesn't come down and play.  If you want specific examples with names, read on.

Last night I was tooling around in a Yak9T on the deck (10k since it was AKDesert) when a Bish P51D raid flew over my head, with a couple of Spits and P-38s along for the ride.  None of them dropped down to take me on.  I couldn't climb up to them so I flew on by looking for the C47 behind them.  Out in the distance I see a low con.  "Aha!  That must be it!"  So I set up an offset merge and suddenly the icon "P51 2.1" popped up.  As he blew past I saw that it was a B-stang, then he was out at 1.0 by the time I got my nose around. By now it was too late to catch the 51 so I popped a few rounds over his canopy to try and get him to turn.  He did, but after he flew past he just kept going. 3.1  ... 4.1 .... 5.1... then on Channel 1 comes Zoso with something like "Rook Yak can't kill me when I'm afk! hahaha!"  So I responded with something like "Bish P51B at A199 nice runaway".  I never saw him again.  Funny how a pilot with friends so close by wouldn't bother to engage a lone Yak9T down on the deck and slow.

Interestingly, they never got troops into the base and the raid died off due to fuel starvation and battle attrition.