Author Topic: Rooks in a tight spot (Read 1149 times)

TalonX · « **Reply #15 on:** August 13, 2004, 10:33:20 AM »

PS....

I am having as much fun from 3 bases as from 100.....Killing just as much, destroying as many hangars, etc...

JUST LEAVE THE GOSH DANG RADAR ALONE!

mars01 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 13, 2004, 10:36:18 AM »

It's no ones problem really. All the sides have been through this. For now it is the Rooks with the advantage.

Personaly I think Big deal, but I could care less about the resets etc.

I could see how the guys that log in to win the war get all wet because they are out numbered and winning the war isn't going to happen. So after a while some of these guys are going to go to the side that wins the war more. Today that is the Rooks.

So the other sides are left with more people that would rather fight than play "Win The War" and we like being out numbered because there are more people to shoot at.

When my squad went Rook I wasn't thrilled about being on the country that had the numbers but there were a lot of fun guys to fly with so it was ok.

I'm not sure where all this numbers balancing is going to go, but I am for anything that promotes more fighting more long battles more pitting player against player.

Boozer2 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 13, 2004, 11:02:55 AM »

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Originally posted by Overlag
are you rooks really supprised about this?

if you "spoil" our sunday nights then bish/knits will hit you more than each other, even IF you are down on numbers. Maybe if some of your squads even the sides this wouldnt be happening......

Oh yeah, thats the ticket, this is payback for sunday nights, not that without ganging the rooks constantly they would take command of the map immediately.

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and as 68thdevil said, keeping you down to 3 bases is the only way to keep your numbers down

And yet a reset is still so far out of reach

Zazen13 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 13, 2004, 11:14:32 AM »

I much prefer being outnumbered than being on a largely unopposed steamroll. It's more exciting by a factor of 10.

Zazen

Shane · « **Reply #19 on:** August 13, 2004, 11:20:46 AM »

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Originally posted by Zazen13
I much prefer being outnumbered than being an a largely unopposed steamroll. It's more exciting by a factor of 10.

Zazen

back it up by switching to knits or bish for a tour or two.

double dog dare ya.

MOSQ · « **Reply #20 on:** August 13, 2004, 11:43:30 AM »

Last night the Rooks came back from 3 bases to 8. They reason?

Partly because 262s and Tempests were dirt cheap with so few Rooks on. We even launched a Tempest raid on A18. Talk about unstoppable... Those planes add a great advantage to the underdog country. We beat back the assault. The perk system worked as designed. Every player on all sides got to fly their favorite plane, but we Rooks enjoyed the cheap cost of Tempests and 262s and took full advantage of it.

Despite having 1/2 the players and no DAR, I personally landed 10 kills in Tempests with no deaths. What a great plane. Once the numbers balanced out I switched back to my favorite Mossie ride.

Was a blast last night.

Howitzer · « **Reply #21 on:** August 13, 2004, 12:06:31 PM »

The only reason I can see these posts continuing is because its much harder to get 10-15 dedicated folks together and start steamrolling bases than it is to log off and post a BBS whine. Personally, I could care less who wins the war, but quite a few play for that reason.... and a horde of motivated and coordinated flyers can really tear apart bases. In this game the best defense is a good offense.

--Mike/Howitzer

acetnt367th · « **Reply #22 on:** August 13, 2004, 12:18:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Hyrax81st

Seriously - nothing is going to balance the game when we Rooks work to take bases and Bish/Knights fly past us to go vulch 1 or 2 planes upping at our fields before dying in the ack.

We fly past you (and below) because you are normally at 30K. The only time a rook is low enough to furball is when he is on the runway :-)

Acetnt

TequilaChaser · « **Reply #23 on:** August 13, 2004, 12:26:23 PM »

well Howziter, I would have to agree with you here, yesterday morning I sat in an M3 at A16 for nearly an hour and a 1/2 waiting for the knights to finish off the town, I saw 2 large green dar bars coming 1 from A18 1 from a17, thing is they never made it, they stopped to fight with the few rooks inbound to A17 and got completely lost about what we was trying to do,

if you are setting out to accomplish a goal why drop your ord. and chase down 2 or 3 planes, why not do your first objective, then after accomplishing that attend to the secondary objective, only time one should drop ord and engage is if they are being attacked out right, not because a enemy is flying by to cap a field, if he turns toward you and seems to be coming for you then and only then get ready for a merge and drop ord and set up for him.

yet some said well we can't get away from 17 they got us pinned down, they wouldn't have had ya pinned down if you didn't try to intercept them and got killed, you be pinning them down trying to up at A16........so as I said to start with, I agree with ya Howitzer......

btw---I fly on the Knights side........

Widewing · « **Reply #24 on:** August 13, 2004, 01:01:25 PM »

In three years of playing, I have never seen either the northern or western country get reset on the NDILSES map. It's the nature of the map design. Whoever gets the southeast corner will be hard pressed to avoid a reset. Restructuring field ownership would help, as it would with all the smaller maps.

My regards,

Widewing

killnu · « **Reply #25 on:** August 13, 2004, 01:48:47 PM »

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I much prefer being outnumbered than being on a largely unopposed steamroll. It's more exciting by a factor of 10.

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back it up by switching to knits or bish for a tour or two.

now here comes the "rooks better teamwork...blah blah blah". unless of course, he is flying under his wifes account.

~S~

DoctorYO · « **Reply #26 on:** August 13, 2004, 02:09:21 PM »

If the Knits and Bish got creative they wouldn't reset you... (im knit now hence the you..)

They could blow your dar for a month straight and blow blinded hapless rooks from the sky... as punishment for their insolence.. I would cry havoc and just do that... then thru community policing the sides would even..

I laugh at all these rook outnumber claims for those who wern't rook for the 1 1/2 year guantlet..

Is it bad yes... is 150 +150 vs 50 race it used to be no...

Rooks arn't organised, with 50 people we used to defend that same island for at least 3-4 hours before combined Knit bish forces would overwelm us.. the other nite with 180 we were struggling getting into the air.. so make your own deductions...

DoctorYo

Goth · « **Reply #27 on:** August 13, 2004, 02:40:37 PM »

I just look at it this way. I've been a rook for many years and only a rook. The CAF and the Ghost are friends of our squad, which has led to the decision that the Nazgul will continue to remain rook.

I've been through the ovewhelmed stage, and now I am part of the overwhelming force. I don't like it when the rooks have numbers, but I will not change sides without my squad of which I have been a part of for 9yrs (I think, from the old AW days).

Morpheus · « **Reply #28 on:** August 13, 2004, 02:54:12 PM »

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Originally posted by GScholz
*lol* I remember us Rooks were quite outnumbered for the better part of 2002 and 2003. Was a great time too.

yup.

Hyrax81st · « **Reply #29 on:** August 13, 2004, 03:06:11 PM »

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Originally posted by acetnt367th
We fly past you (and below) because you are normally at 30K. The only time a rook is low enough to furball is when he is on the runway :-)

Acetnt

LOL ! Not when I have barely climbed out to 2,000 ft after take off and a 109 PASSES BY my loaded down P47-D40 just to strafe the field...heh heh...

I don't think I've ever gotten to 30K before - too high to see the under dar Goons trying to sneak our bases.