I was perusing an old site on the Wayback Machine and stumbled upon a RR European map and boy...the memories came flooding back.
The more I looked at the map, the more I remembered how my Bz were purely defensive in nature. In the 4+ years I played AW2/AW3, every B airfield had been captured by both Az and Cz. Meanwhile, on the Bz, we were lucky if we could capture the forward bases (GRE, GRA, CEN, MOG, ASS, GROK). Every once in awhile, we'd get FUB, SLY, or OWL, or SOL.
Although, despite that, there was the one moment in the fall of 1999 when we did the unexpected: we actually captured White Cat. Capturing an HQ never happened before and I don't think it ever happened since (although we tried taking Jenny once).
The other thing I remember was how underutilized the other arenas were. The Pacific arena was almost always empty; at most, I played with 5-6 folks in there at a time. Such a shame; it had so much potential. WWI had a few squadrons that liked to play out of there; same with Korea, but nowhere close to enough to keep it interesting.
I think it got a little better once we migrated over to GameStorm in early 2000, but that could be my mind playing tricks on me.
