My daughter and son-in-law (Keith) are living with us until he graduates college in May of 2007. He recently returned from 16 months in Iraq with the 69th INF. He's still in the NY National Guard.
He has shown interest in playing AH2, so I have let him play on my account for the past couple of months.
Yesterday, I set him up with a two-week account so that he could fly when ever it suited him. I expect that this will transform into a paying account pretty quick as he had a lot of fun last evening.
When I set up the account I asked him what user name he wanted... Looking at my desk he saw the draft of an article I have working on about Elwyn Righetti (called the King of Strafers within the 8th AF) and said, "how about Righetti?"
Ok, Righetti it is.
After setting up his hardware, I logged into the MA and created a squadron for him, the 55th FG and assigned him to the Rooks (where I fly), although he may change that.
Now, understand that Keith has been playing for a few months and gets a lot of coaching from me, so he's not a raw noob. He does tend to stick to buffs and attack sorties though.
Last evening he logged into the TA and flew around for a while, flying a few duels, including one with a nice fellow named Popapup in a Niki (Keith was in a Spit8). He more than held his own, showing me that he has learned much of what I tried to teach him about controlling a fight.
His next stop was the MA. This morning he told me that last night he flew four sorties and landed 7 kills, and managed to avoid being shot down, which is better than he usually does. I asked him what planes he had flown and he said, "P-51 and P-38."
However, he was all excited about a kill he had while flying an A-20G. He apparently engaged a P-47 in a brawl and clobbered it. He was excited because he didn't drop any of his bombs, but "fought with bombs on the wings, it was really cool!"
So, when you see him in the TA or MA, give him a howdy. He lost two good friends while in Iraq and he still has trouble sleeping some nights... AH2 helps him briefly forget and pass the time when he can't sleep.
My regards,
Widewing
