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Offline Stang

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« Reply #75 on: December 03, 2004, 08:27:34 PM »
I never said the other way was wrong, otherwise I'd be a hypocrite since I do strat some of the time  :D

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« Reply #76 on: December 03, 2004, 08:28:46 PM »
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I never said the other way was wrong, otherwise I'd be a hypocrite since I do strat some of the time  :D


Cool, honey, so now that we're done fighting do I get my goodnight kiss :rofl

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« Reply #77 on: December 03, 2004, 08:29:01 PM »
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You'll never hear me say otherwise Morph..



WHOA!!!! ME??? MORPH??? AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!




QUAH!


:rofl


Guessing the Stang/Streetstang thing confused ya hehe

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« Reply #78 on: December 03, 2004, 08:30:30 PM »
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Guessing the Stang/Streetstang thing confused ya hehe


Yeah, Damn Tequila... Can't trust the stuff...

Fixed my post :D

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« Reply #79 on: December 03, 2004, 09:07:19 PM »
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I'm pretty sure its called 'Dueling Arena'


Wrong.....DA is for dueling, not furballing. In the DA you can duel for learning purposes, for ego boosts etc. It is NOT set up for furballs.

A duel is NOT the same as a furball.
Corkyjr on country jumping:
In the end you should be thankful for those players like us who switch to try and help keep things even because our willingness to do so, helps a more selfish, I want it my way player, get to fly his latewar uber ride.

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« Reply #80 on: December 03, 2004, 09:22:32 PM »
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humble : Those of you who are "plane dependent" will always worry about what the other guy is in...the rest of us just worry about WHO the other guy is.
 


I just saw this in Slappies signature......

This is a GREAT statement!   Salute humble... SlapShot !

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« Reply #81 on: December 03, 2004, 09:28:34 PM »
That is a good one...

Btw Soup, I'm heading west sometime next week, whenever I get everything packed up and taken care of.  I'll be in Mesa outside of Phoenix probably until the end of April.  Email isn't working right for some reason so, email your phone number to Neo and he can get it to me.  I still have it from two years ago but don't know if it's the same since you moved...

I can't wait to drive that Fairlane :D

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« Reply #82 on: December 03, 2004, 09:29:45 PM »
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I can't speak for everyone red, but I can tell you about my squad..

Often we do fight in the mix, but if we are getting steamed over by another country that out numbers us we start hitting rear bases because frankly its tactically and stratigically intelligent.

Its tactically intelligent because its a quick capture.

Its stratigically intelligent because it diverts the enemy teams resources from the front to defend the rear and retake bases... This allows our team to press an advantage on a weakened front line.

You wouldn't think it would matter much, but consider a night where your enemy has 150 people online and you have 120... If you can use 8 men to divert 20 to 30 enemy onto the rear area you balance the front within 8 men...

Its no effort at all to get 30 reds to come back to a rear base, especially if its near the HQ.

And its that kind of thinking that wins wars, and for people like me (strat potatos I believe is my assigned title) winning wars and finding ways to unbalance an enemy advantage are the fun of the game.


You may well be an exception to the rule Kurt.  I too "fondly" remember all the "strat potatos" hammering away at useless Bish bases and patting themselves on the back with each undefended base captured... while the Knits rolled over the few folks trying to hold them back.

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« Reply #83 on: December 03, 2004, 09:33:29 PM »
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That is a good one...

Btw Soup, I'm heading west sometime next week, whenever I get everything packed up and taken care of.  I'll be in Mesa outside of Phoenix probably until the end of April.  Email isn't working right for some reason so, email your phone number to Neo and he can get it to me.  I still have it from two years ago but don't know if it's the same since you moved...

I can't wait to drive that Fairlane :D



Well you will be in the right place Stang.  What you doing for Christmas?  If you want to "kick it" down here you are welcome to.  Heck you and Wu could go catch a beer or chase women or something !  

The Barrett-Jackson auction will be in January.  We are already talking about getting some folks and going up that way to see it and staying over night.  Then doing a run over to the Pavillions for another car gathering the next day.  It is WILD around the auction time.  There will be 1500-1800 cars in one mall parking lot alone (not counting the auction).  

I will get the email to NEO (tho my number is still the same).
Call me before you leave if you have to.  Looking forward to a ride in your killer machine.  Never had the chance to ride in one and they are SWEET !

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« Reply #84 on: December 03, 2004, 09:37:41 PM »
Yeah, she is sweet, only the 5 speed though couldn't afford the 6 speed at an extra two grand, plus I didn't want that crappy traction control or abs brakes anyway...

I'm gonna fly home for Christmas for a couple days so no worries there but thanks for the offer Boss.  Is that car auction close or around the Phoenix area?   Wait... I seem to remember a huge auction going on 2 years ago that was on the northeast side of the 101 loop that I think was a huge car show.  Is that it?  Was going on like the last week or so of January.  Anyway, I've never been to one, that would be a blast to hook up for.

Oh btw, my thread, I can hijack it  :D

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« Reply #85 on: December 03, 2004, 09:53:04 PM »
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Yeah, she is sweet, only the 5 speed though couldn't afford the 6 speed at an extra two grand, plus I didn't want that crappy traction control or abs brakes anyway...

I'm gonna fly home for Christmas for a couple days so no worries there but thanks for the offer Boss.  Is that car auction close or around the Phoenix area?   Wait... I seem to remember a huge auction going on 2 years ago that was on the northeast side of the 101 loop that I think was a huge car show.  Is that it?  Was going on like the last week or so of January.  Anyway, I've never been to one, that would be a blast to hook up for.

Oh btw, my thread, I can hijack it  :D


Yes it is NE of PHX on the 101.  This Auction will have everything you can imagine.  Sort of like a carshow where the cars are for sale.  A lot of exotic muscle cars that most read about only in books, never see, and certainly can't afford to own.  You know.. Hemi Cudas that go for 6 figures.. things like that.

Then the Pavillions.. about 10 mins from the auction is supposedly the longest running, weekly car gathering in the nation.  Every Sat, year round, rain or shine (it is almost always shine here)... anything from about 400 cars to 1500-1800 during auction weekend.  You will see money flying around like you wouldn't beleive during the weekend.  One guy next to me had 5 cars he dragged over to the Pavillions... and each was priced mid 20's to mid 30's.  Sold three of them while I was parked next to him.  $1k bills being handed around as deposits etc.  WILD !

Then the street car, tuner crowd rolls in a little later in the evening and the women that come in with that crowd..... LAWD !

They did a magazine shoot of a tricked out Acura ... which the asked if they could shoot in front of my Cobra.  I said.. SURE....

The babe they had as a model.... HOT !

Yeah... we will have to do the car circuit when you get here.

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« Reply #86 on: December 03, 2004, 09:58:51 PM »
Wow, that sounds so friggin cool can't wait.  The place I stayed two years ago was about two miles from the auction.  I knew it was big because when I walked outside I could hear the guy auctioning off the cars like he was standing right next to me.  Would be an even better trip up for ya if I can qualify for the Phoenix Open, I think they're right around the same time.

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« Reply #87 on: December 03, 2004, 11:26:03 PM »
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You may well be an exception to the rule Kurt.  


Thanks Soup... The world will be a happier place when the majority realize that I am the exception to the rule.  I truly do value winning the war simply by trying to out think the guy on the other team who is just like me...

I fight against the enemy stratigist.  And I know that there are more than 3 of us.

So to those guys, I raise my glass, because those are the guys who make me work for my wins.

I get shot down in furballs first of all my guys, but if we are going deep and sneaky... Thats different.

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« Reply #88 on: December 03, 2004, 11:38:20 PM »
Well Kurt... I tended to be an inbetween type myself.  I really wasn't rabid over land grab, rarely carried ordinance, but would empty my clip strafing if I arrived a field and the strat guys trying to grab it needed some help killing the town.

I enjoyed the strategy side of it also.  I would be the guy that loaded up the Bf-110 with drop tanks... and throttled back to save fuel... and went way behind the lines to knock off strat milk runners that were porking our strat targets that happened to be behind their lines.  Heck in AW on the old ETO map.. I would fly a 109 across the whole of Cland... to knock off the milking Az hitting a Cland target... and then travel back across Cland to Bland.  :rolleyes:

Yeah I know... I just put Shane to sleep.  There was just a hunter and hunted sort of thing.  Going out I was often the hunter... coming home I was often the hunted.  :aok

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« Reply #89 on: December 04, 2004, 02:20:35 AM »
Ah, AW... Ever talked about in here...

In AW I was mostly a bomber pilot, I went by Gunzzz in there (give or take a Z or two, there were many).

And in AW I still liked long bomber flights... I was also a B country pilot... I remember a long flight over C land to the Spit Factory when a 190 jumped me... Thanks to AW physics I was able to push the old B17 into a dive then loop over the top and shoot the 190 from my top turret... (beware AW pilots talking about game mechanics... AW was aerodynamically-fatally-flawed but we will never admit it)

And thats the best part... All the AW guys in here saying AW was better... I just remember that B17 doing a loop to position a 190 in my top turret.... haha, yeah... AW, the pinnacle of realism :-)