Wow, just reading some of the names brings back many memories.
Shortly after purchasing our first PC and after seeing how much my son and I enjoyed the AW2 demo my wife bought the game. I think she learned to regret doing that. The bonus was AW4WIN for online play was included in the CD. AOL was all you could eat. In April of '97 my Air Warrior odyssey began starting with the beginners arena for a day then into the RR Arenas of the Pacific. Within 3 weeks I tried FR and never went back.
In RR a squad snapped my newbiness up. They suggested the cpid of -MLM-. It stuck through all the versions of AW until it became -)MLM in AW3. Originally in AW4WIN FR PAC Arena I was in C-Land. Quite a while after being in the FR Pac Arena I joined a squad in which TC was the CO. Night after night it was constant battles with Dragn, Rapier, HeBee, Madda, Clay, Kumori, Kanth, HW, RM usually with me on the losing end. I stayed with C-land through AW2 and into AW3. By the way Zazen was a Cz at the start of AW3. I got a glimpse of his tactics back then. He called for help at hi alt and when I joined in he took off and left me to take on his former multiple adversaries. One of the first fights that I remember occured at the beginning of AW3 in the BIG Arena. ME-262's were abundant. I was in my usual HOG at 20+K north of Henderson getting a feel for the new version of the game when I got bounced by a 262. I kept dodging the passes until he misjudged my "E" and I whipped around and got a snap shot. Message was "Moggy killed" "A Kill has been Recorded". Sometime later in AW3 I switched to A-Land and remained there until its demise at the hands of EA.
I've flown off an on in AH & AH2 for the Knights. It always seemed that when I joined the Knights we were always outnumbered in large numbers by both the bishops and rooks. It would degenerate into nothing but vulchfests by air and ground vehicles hiding in our hangars. It was a "pincer movement" night after night after night. I still have an account for the purposes of H2H play because it cost nothing to play. Last week I flew there for the first time in over a year and got tired of dodging "Comets".
If some of the Muskies start to fly in AH2 again then I might consider taking to those virtual skies, but for now I'll just stick with hosting Pacific Fighters Games on Hyperlobby (free) for my flight fixes.
