Author Topic: Any old Air Warriors out there????? (Read 191547 times)

Fencer51 · « **Reply #690 on:** January 18, 2007, 05:54:07 AM »

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Originally posted by Holmes
5551

'sup fellas

whoa... a 'Stag sighting!

or a flashback I spose...

Holmes! Welcome myman! Shaky is around here somewhere.

bzek74 · « **Reply #691 on:** January 18, 2007, 09:23:07 AM »

I flew as 91prf in old aw ( aol and gamestorm ). I started as a elite but kinda sorta learned I didnt like bugy so I ended up being one of the cornerstones of sog after slugm twisted my arm.

90prf

68ZooM · « **Reply #692 on:** January 18, 2007, 01:32:01 PM »

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Originally posted by SteveBailey
The 68's are the Mot's of old AW?!!!

Steve no just a few of us were 68KO and 68Bragg and myself were BUT KO and Bragg started the 68th and i was lucky enough to run into them years later, never felt more honored to fly with old friends again

68BRAGG · « **Reply #693 on:** January 18, 2007, 02:21:27 PM »

exacty right ZOOM,
~~68BRAGG~~

GooseAW · « **Reply #694 on:** January 18, 2007, 05:31:28 PM »

ye old MOTXO is a C HAWK in AH..

aka MotleyCH.

Sorry Motley! The cats out now!

frosty · « **Reply #695 on:** January 18, 2007, 09:47:33 PM »

I used to play AOL Air Warrior in the mid 90s. RR mostly, both Europe and Pacific. In PAC I was an unapologetically dirty bastard of a Niki BnZer. Played FR only once in a while...was pretty good with a Yak there. Good times.

My handle was AceHi (oddly enough) and I was in a pretty crummy but fun squad called Jokers Wild. I haven't played an online sim since AOL shut that down, aside from a very brief stint in AW2.

I'm pondering about trying Aces High 2. What's it like compared to AW? How many people are typically in a busy arena? Any big furballs? My fondest memory of AW were the occassional dogfights that were so huge that you spent as much time avoiding friendly fire as enemy. I was always more interested in fighting the "war" than setting up 1 v 1s.

So what's Aces High like, relatively speaking?

GooseAW · « **Reply #696 on:** January 19, 2007, 08:00:38 AM »

Frosty,

Try it, you'll like it.

For the most part, it's whatever you want it to be.

There is always a furball somewhere. Always a contingent of losely organized landgrabbers working to win the war. You can even create/find a good 1 v 1 if you work at it.

In prime time (U.S.) there are usually 300+ in each of 2 Late War arenas and less in the early and mid war arenas and the Axis V Allies arena.

Better than AW ever was even though we all miss the ole girl.

Brooke · « **Reply #697 on:** January 20, 2007, 02:39:23 AM »

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Originally posted by frosty
I used to play AOL Air Warrior in the mid 90s.

So what's Aces High like, relatively speaking?

Howdy, Frosty! I played a lot (make that A LOT!) of Air Warrior in the early-mid 90's, too. Comparatively speaking, Aces High has better and more-realistic flight dynamics and weaponry and much-more-realistic gunnery. For me, upon starting in Aces High, getting my flying skills back was pretty quick, but getting my gunnery skills back took a while.

As Goose says, game play covers the whole range -- you can find what you like. If you want large furballs, then the most-populated late-war arena is where you should go, and just gravitate to wherever the map shows the most participation.

The community is bigger than Air Warrior was. So, it is less unified in its mind set than was Air Warrior. However, it has many groups within it that have Air Warrior-level comraderie and enthusiasm. There are a great many former Air Warriors who now fly in Aces High, even Air Warriors from way, way back.

Aces High is wonderful, and I think you'd love it. If you want a place that is the closest to what Air Warrior was like but with many, many technical improvements and with a much larger user base, Aces High is it.

davpol · « **Reply #698 on:** January 20, 2007, 01:22:51 PM »

Used to play was known as bigcrock. Took alot of crap over the name although ther was alterior motive in the name. Can't remember the squadron i was part of. That's how I found this play though. Was looking for soemthing like that when i found Aces. Just installed but can't view clipboard - hope soemone can help.

Shaky · « **Reply #699 on:** January 20, 2007, 10:47:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Holmes
5551

'sup fellas

whoa... a 'Stag sighting!

or a flashback I spose...

HOMEY! DAMN MAN! How the hell are ya?

Shaky · « **Reply #700 on:** January 20, 2007, 10:50:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Booz
all AH guys, Holmes is the author of mo 'nannas

Feh! No one reads the classics no more Boozer.

Bopboys coo · « **Reply #701 on:** January 21, 2007, 12:28:12 AM »

My dad flew in Airwarrior His name is PT then now is PTBOPS

Holmes · « **Reply #702 on:** January 21, 2007, 10:13:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Shaky
HOMEY! DAMN MAN! How the hell are ya?

Hey... cheers Fencer, Shaky... doin' well... busy. Changed jobs a couple times, bought a place out here on LI back in '01. Pretty much lost touch with all the old gang. I checked in over on Big Week a couple times over the past couple years, saw Moggy and GB, some of the CAF guys there...

If you want to bring back some ol' AW memories check out - http://www.tamcon.com/awscores/ it has scores from 3/88 thru 12/94. Pretty cool to just scroll through and remember all of the old names. Found my first appearance in Camp 72 (Mar. '92) and the Hams first showing in Camp 74 (it'll be 15 years this May 5th).

I picked up a new ride recently, Pentium D, 20in widescreen monitor, and grabbed a Saitek X52 setup. It's ok, I always been a CH type guy but it'll do for the price. Been tooling around a bit offline, got a bit of the old scenario jones... waxing nostalgic over them splendid DoK h8fests.

Saw GE checkin in uptopic... hey GE, how's these AH dweebs... are they good at flight sims?

cheers

frosty · « **Reply #703 on:** January 21, 2007, 11:15:22 PM »

Well, I'm on now. I'm the sad SOB with the handle "Outback" who can fly ok but can't shoot worth a lick. If you see me on your six, ignore me, I'll miss my shot by 50 yards and blast by you at twice your speed. Feel free to shoot me on the way by.

I was quickly hooked when I found myself nursing a P-51 with half of a wing shot off back to base (I crashed on approach). Very cool.

One thing I feel I have to point out: this game was HARD to find. Seriously, I googled "online ww2 flight sim" and this site comes up nowhere close to the top (the game title shows up along with some others, but not very noticable). (see link)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=online+ww2+flight+sim

I think HiTech Creations needs to work a bit on the search engine ranks and maybe a little marketing...maybe an ad on Fark.com or something. For all I knew, all the WW2 sims had been shut down until I stumbled upon this through...guess what...an Air Warrior related search I made on a whim.

This game rocks hard. C'mon, HiTech, get a bit of word out. MMOG's are huge now, capitalize on it!

PK1Mw · « **Reply #704 on:** January 22, 2007, 12:11:15 AM »

lol Roadr.. JUG.. Roper.. whatever you want to be called ya dweeb.

Long time no see, where you been?