Author Topic: Any Air Warrior III players still around? (Read 10556 times)

FT_Animal · « **Reply #120 on:** July 24, 2004, 05:15:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Badboy
Hi Kappa,

I fly and post on the boards with the same callsign thesedays, and I came over to AH about a year before AW closed.

I'm enjoying AH as much as I ever enjoyed any online game, and it just keeps getting better.

I also heard today (from TC) that Snowman was thinking of coming to AH! That would be cool.

Badboy

>I also heard today (from TC) that Snowman
> was thinking of coming to AH! That would be
>cool.

That WOULD be cool, hope he makes it over. Snowman would be a great addition to AH

TweetyBird · « **Reply #121 on:** July 24, 2004, 09:51:34 PM »

>>Did'nt Vossman get a brain tumor or something ?<<

No relation to the Voss in a thread in the OC. Vossman of early AW was all class and a great teacher.

tobor · « **Reply #122 on:** July 25, 2004, 11:46:10 AM »

I played from the free AOL days and then went to gamestorm with everybody else.
That game about got me a divource,but damn,no luck. Still married.

I went by msll through AOL and II then in AWIII I changed to stEVIL. I was always aCz and most of the time a lone wolf.

Doubt very much anybody remember my sorry arnold.....

DrDea · « **Reply #123 on:** July 25, 2004, 11:58:00 AM »

I got in around 96 on free AOHELL.Flew with a Doc someone as a blue knight buff gunner for starters and then formed /*IRONMEN*\ with Dburt.4th ACW as a CZ,was a BOP for awhile and Expertein with +Fang.After it went to AW3 I kinda moved away from it.
AW had a smokin community.Never saw or have seen anything like it since.

doc1kelley · « **Reply #124 on:** July 26, 2004, 10:26:03 AM »

I started in AW back in the SVGA DOS box version but didn't fly online then. I went online back in 2/96 in AWClassic and was an RR dweeb until it's demise at the hands of Electronic Farts. I was DOC1 back in AW. I mainly flew ETO in RR2 and flew in the following squads:
1. The Intruders (a Buff squad)
2. Confederate Knights (an all cop squad)
3. The Flying Skillets (a great bunch of nuts)

All the Best...
Jay
awDOC1

RDSaustinTX · « **Reply #125 on:** July 26, 2004, 11:53:54 AM »

LOL. You're all dweebs.

Flew AW campaign 1, It was MACINTOSH only on GEnie. $12/hr. The only guy on your lists I can remember being there was Dok Gonzo, who got banned like, immediately, and started an endless (and highly entertaining) feud with Kesmai.

Earliest player still here I can remember is NoBaddy (NB), although we had no alpha cpids (I think he was 2227).

A nice month of gameplay was around $1000. A great frame rate was 12. I think arena held like 20 players max.

Crowd was very light until it ported to Amiga, then DOS, then GEnie went $6/hr. I remember when the bulletin board went flat-rate, got more active than the game.

You guys complain about bugs. The Ami port had wrong sign on fuel and ammo weights (weight was SUBTRACTED), so Ami guys flew around with full tanks and clips killing EVERYTHING. Took Kesmai a year to fix.

BlueBarron (BB) was a DOS player, then got hired-in after Robert Wolf finally got fired. He brought in more players to Kesmai, made it production-grade after they got bought-up.

Meanwhile HiTech showed-up - making this ancient history.

G-man (Rolf Penzel) and I setup the left coast convention in 1991 in Los Angeles. Was fun explaining to Hilton why we need 40 separate phone lines in a conference room, but can't use PBX.

That is where Kesmai announced they were porting to Windows and going onto AOL. GEnie got hostile but the players fairly slobbered themselves imagining 10,000 dweebs suddenly upping at A1.

GreyEagle (GE) was feuding with Dutch. Both of them were 'packing heat' at the con. Gotta love the hate.

HiTech's wingman (Heater) was a test pilot a Wright-Patterson. Very deadly. HT was a little slower on the learning curve.

Anybody here remember the first AOL squad? "Aggressors"??

My # was 2112. Handle never changed.

Mullah

slimm50 · « **Reply #126 on:** July 26, 2004, 12:00:25 PM »

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Originally posted by RDSaustinTX
LOL. You're all dweebs.

Flew AW campaign 1, It was MACINTOSH only on GEnie. $12/hr. The only guy on your lists I can remember being there was Dok Gonzo, who got banned like, immediately, and started an endless (and highly entertaining) feud with Kesmai.

Earliest player still here I can remember is NoBaddy (NB), although we had no alpha cpids (I think he was 2227).

A nice month of gameplay was around $1000. A great frame rate was 12. I think arena held like 20 players max.

Crowd was very light until it ported to Amiga, then DOS, then GEnie went $6/hr. I remember when the bulletin board went flat-rate, got more active than the game.

You guys complain about bugs. The Ami port had wrong sign on fuel and ammo weights (weight was SUBTRACTED), so Ami guys flew around with full tanks and clips killing EVERYTHING. Took Kesmai a year to fix.

BlueBarron (BB) was a DOS player, then got hired-in after Robert Wolf finally got fired. He brought in more players to Kesmai, made it production-grade after they got bought-up.

Meanwhile HiTech showed-up - making this ancient history.

G-man (Rolf Penzel) and I setup the left coast convention in 1991 in Los Angeles. Was fun explaining to Hilton why we need 40 separate phone lines in a conference room, but can't use PBX.

That is where Kesmai announced they were porting to Windows and going onto AOL. GEnie got hostile but the players fairly slobbered themselves imagining 10,000 dweebs suddenly upping at A1.

GreyEagle (GE) was feuding with Dutch. Both of them were 'packing heat' at the con. Gotta love the hate.

HiTech's wingman (Heater) was a test pilot a Wright-Patterson. Very deadly. HT was a little slower on the learning curve.

Anybody here remember the first AOL squad? "Aggressors"??

My # was 2112. Handle never changed.

Mullah

Wow! I get the feeling I'm in the presence of greatness...or at least something ancient. Ever visit an old-growth forest, say, up in Oregon, or there abouts? It's kinda like that feeling:p

Guppy35 · « **Reply #127 on:** July 26, 2004, 12:48:21 PM »

Late to the party but Flossy's screenshots got me digging around the hard drive.

A few screenshots for nostalgia sake.

Dan/Slack
+Tiff in AW

Spit V and P38 from the Italy Scenario. Fidd did the 417 Squadron Skin for the Spit

Another Fidd done skin of and 18th FBW F51D Mustang. This one from the Korea Scenario when I got a Mig to over shoot and auger in trying to chase down my 51

B17s and 51 escort during the Ploesti Scenario just as the flak started bursting over the target. We went deep without being intercepted leading to the infamous 'I call BS" flamefest. Ahh the nostalgia

Vice · « **Reply #128 on:** July 26, 2004, 06:37:34 PM »

Heyas tiff

~~Ploesti! was great.~~

TweetyBird · « **Reply #129 on:** July 26, 2004, 07:44:49 PM »

>>Flew AW campaign 1, It was MACINTOSH only on GEnie. $12/hr. The only guy on your lists I can remember being there was Dok Gonzo, who got banned like, immediately, and started an endless (and highly entertaining) feud with Kesmai.
<<

Well I was just mentioning the *quality* players

j/k - I remember you too Mullah.

I remember hearing stories of the "death valley" days (I guess late 80's) when there was no moutains and planes could climb forever inverted. But, remember - it was half time. You could make a cup of coffee while split-s'ing

Wasn't there a squad "Aggies?" that everyone used to joke about? If I remember right, they were Aussies.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #130 on:** July 26, 2004, 11:59:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Vice
Oh and IT, I had MANY of those 24 hour days back in airwarrior, Bombing spit factories with you guys in our fully gunned b17's and just bull****tin about everything and cuttin up.

Ahh them were the days.

Rgr that, You, me Bozz,flit, Prg,Wrase, Reacher,Raw,
And a ton of others whose names I now forget
and a Guy that went by 6gun or something like that.
he was the only one I ever found that could accurately gun my Vader while I was flying/fighting in it. Made a great team. He just seemd to know what I was gonna do all the time.

LOL I'll still never forget the time I was piloting a fully gunned deathstar late at night and fell asleep at my desk long before we reached target. Geuess everyone bailed cause when I woke up the 17 had ditched far far off the map.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #131 on:** July 27, 2004, 12:02:11 AM »

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Originally posted by tobor
I played from the free AOL days and then went to gamestorm with everybody else.
That game about got me a divource,but damn,no luck. Still married.

I went by msll through AOL and II then in AWIII I changed to stEVIL. I was always aCz and most of the time a lone wolf.

Doubt very much anybody remember my sorry arnold.....

I do seem to remember your name. Only cause I kept mistaking you for an Az that went by EvilX
Who happened to be my arch enemy and #1 sought after target at that time.
Learned alot from him.
Died alot from him too LOL

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #132 on:** July 27, 2004, 01:23:20 AM »

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Originally posted by Badboy

I also heard today (from TC) that Snowman was thinking of coming to AH! That would be cool.

Badboy

Maybe he can convince HT to start an AH flight training academy. Snowman did a hell of a job with the AW academy before it shut down.

ack-ack

JG26-Ditch · « **Reply #133 on:** July 27, 2004, 02:17:37 AM »

Ok. Got my joy stick. Got a working head set. Ty to JJ for helping me set up!

And on my first real combat mission, we get over an enemy base somewhere, I get in a turn fight with an enemy and begin accidentally shooting rockets at him. Damn I think that put the fear of jebus in the guy!

Managed to peel off, shoot the rest of the rockets in the general direction of the base then twisted and hopped all over the hillsides while 3 or 4 guys boom and zoomed me for a while. Then I got shot too much and spun into a tree.

@#$% I missed this.

Flossy · « **Reply #134 on:** July 27, 2004, 03:35:27 AM »

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
LOL I'll still never forget the time I was piloting a fully gunned deathstar late at night and fell asleep at my desk long before we reached target. Geuess everyone bailed cause when I woke up the 17 had ditched far far off the map.

Yeah, I was gunning a SkyKnights B17 in FR once and fell asleep. We apparently landed on a carrier and after failing to get my attention to join up again, they took it back up. I woke up to find myself on the carrier with only the text to give any clue what had happened. The scrollable text which was available while on the ground is something I miss about AW.