PK1 wrote:
"BTW
Gotta get some things straight...
2: KillnU, Special Eds were never Bz, they went Cz. VMPR could never make it on Bz cuz no one liked him over there. Especially me"
-={38 Specials}=- were Bz multiple times. Back in AOL days, we switched arenas every campaign and always flew for the country with the fewest pilots in the previous campaign. Not only did that help the short-handed country, but it also provided a greater challenge for us since we usually were out-numbered during the subsequent campaign. Switching arenas every campaign gave us a look at all the PJ pilots throughout the many arenas in AOL and let us recruit many of the best ones.
After everything moved to Gamestorm and then EA, we would evaluate the pilot situation at the end of every campaign and switch to whichever country had the least pilots at that time.
Throughout the history of the Specials, we always flew for the country with the least amount of pilots.
As for not making it as a Bz, I had 2 of my 9 campaign wins in a PJ as Bz, despite flying far fewer campaigns as Bz than as Cz or Az.
I started in AW on play for free AOL.
A guy I supervised in the Air Force turned me on to the game. Some of you old 86 ESFers will remember his name: Wofer
Since Wofer was in the 86th, RRe2 and the Eliminators became my first arena and squad. I was on the 86th SEAL team when I left the 86th to help form the original 38 Specials.
Back then, I was 19fc. That was my first cpid. It as the meteorological code for a tornado. (I was meteorologist in the US Air Force at the time.)
I had two alts I used from time to time. The first was "altme" just to screw with the people who said I flew too high, although people like Tick and others ALWAYS seemed to be higher than me.
(lol...that was back when RRe1 on AOL was the ultimate alt monkey arena. On many missions in there, 20K was low. At 30k, you would routinely find 3-4 enemy planes above you.)
The other was "gargy" which I used when I went on missons hunting the Gargoyles - a squad of A26 jocks who all had that plane mastered and were great fun to fight.
When we started up the Specials, I picked FTD, >FTD< as my cpid (Fork Tailed Devil). I had to take a 3-4 month break due to several concurrent TDYs in the AF and while I was gone, the 38s fell apart.
When I came back, Douce was in the process of forming a squad called Dealers of Death (DoD). He was an old 38 Specials so I joined his newly formed group. We decided we would all take names that had to do with Death so I picked 'DBU (Death Becomes You). Soon, we had most of the old 38s in DoD.
It was too unwieldy to have cpids for an entire squad with names having "death" in them so we switched the guidelines to allow any names associated in some way with Death. Thus I became VMPR (Vampyre). My PJ became Death Kiss, to honor the orginal naming conventions of the squad.
When AOL started charging to fly, I took a few months off, then rejoined the fun on GAMESTORM. I found several of my old friends flying with the REGULATORS so I joined them. That is where I met Murdr and several other pilots who eventually helped me reform the -={38 Specials}=-
Now that I'm checking out AHII and I can have more than 5 characters in a name, I'm VampyreX (cause Vampyre was taken....grrrr)
