Top 10 Reasons to be a Rook

[Latrobe]

Had to make this after reading "Top 10 Reasons to be a Bish"

10. Great bunch of guys

9. Least squeakers

8. Best pilots

7. Good laughs every night

6. Wins alot of wars

5. Also starts those wars

4. Can find a fight anywhere, any arena

3. Fight as ONE! (sometimes)

2. MOST Sheep

1. Possibly has highest number of LEROY JENKINS's

[Masherbrum]

11.  Candy Mountain is always around the corner.  

Good list though.   More accurate than the other one.

[SteveBailey]

12.  There is always a pack of friendlies to whom you can run.

13.  almost always have significant numerical advantage.

14.  There will always be friendlies nearby who are at least 10k above the fight.

15. The horde in nearly omnipresent for the rooks.

[Rich46yo]

Last night was typical of Rookdom. We needed supplies at HQ so 1/2 dozen guys jumped into goons and started flying there. Ive always had fighters come to my aid when I needed it in crippled bombers.

                         We have lotsa good people in Rookdom but in all fairness theres a lot of good people on all 3 teams. I cant become a knit cause there are some great Buff hunters on the knits and I like the challenge. That and generally knits dislike bombers coming in which keeps me on my toes.

[Bear76]

Originally posted by SteveBailey
12.  There is always a pack of friendlies to whom you can run.

13.  almost always have significant numerical advantage.

14.  There will always be friendlies nearby who are at least 10k above the fight.

15. The horde in nearly omnipresent for the rooks.

16. Steve whines no matter what country he flies for:D

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by SteveBailey
12.  There is always a pack of friendlies to whom you can run.

13.  almost always have significant numerical advantage.

14.  There will always be friendlies nearby who are at least 10k above the fight.

15. The horde in nearly omnipresent for the rooks.

Run?   Hides in numbers?   Sorry, this doesn't apply to me.

[Latrobe]

Originally posted by SteveBailey
12.  There is always a pack of friendlies to whom you can run.

13.  almost always have significant numerical advantage.

14.  There will always be friendlies nearby who are at least 10k above the fight.

15. The horde in nearly omnipresent for the rooks.

This is true for ALL countries.

[Spikes]

Wish some people came to my aid...

So here I am jumping around bases in big arena. I go to A22 in a typh to pork it after the nits took it. I kill their troops. Jump to P23, see there is a CV off shore. Up a set of 26s and kill it, while killing a couple of LVTs when landing. 10 minutes pass, and 80 starts flashing. I jump there, there is a CV off shore. I call out for help, jump in the SB and hit the cruiser a few times. It is still shelling the base, so I up an F6F to kill it. I call out for help again. Still no one comes. I kill the cruiser, and got killed by a 5". I jump in the manned ack and kill a couple of planes. Still calling out for help. By then they had well over 5 cons there, versus my 1. Just out of curiosity I look at the Nit/Bish fronts. Well, there are no darbars, and 1 base flashing throughout all of their front. A Vbase nonetheless. So I played my part to try and help.

[SteveBailey]

Originally posted by Latrobe
This is true for ALL countries.

This is true to one degree or another. From my recent experiences, having flown for all 3 countries, the rooks are more guilty of what I stated.  Maybe it hurts some feelings, as it seems Bear76's case.  I'm assuming it did at least, I've never heard of the guy so I don't know  him.

Anyway, I am speaking directly from my experience.  I suppose some of you can post arguments that I didn't actually experience what I did.. I know there are those who actually try to argue that.  lol

I consider myself relatively unbiased.  Heck,  most of my longterm AH friends are rooks as I have a long history of being rook. The last couple of tours I have been logging on and switching to the side with the fewest numbers.. except for one tour when I avoided bish for strictly personal reasons.  

When all sides are relatively equal, I fly rook.  A couple .. three or four, years ago it was the rooks who were constantly and dramatically outnumbered.  I stayed rook through some real beatings.. it went on for months, then RJO was born.  Those were great times.

[Bear76]

Originally posted by SteveBailey
This is true to one degree or another. From my recent experiences, having flown for all 3 countries, the rooks are more guilty of what I stated.  Maybe it hurts some feelings, as it seems Bear76's case.  I'm assuming it did at least, I've never heard of the guy so I don't know  him.

Anyway, I am speaking directly from my experience.  I suppose some of you can post arguments that I didn't actually experience what I did.. I know there are those who actually try to argue that.  lol

I consider myself relatively unbiased.  Heck,  most of my longterm AH friends are rooks as I have a long history of being rook. The last couple of tours I have been logging on and switching to the side with the fewest numbers.. except for one tour when I avoided bish for strictly personal reasons.  

When all sides are relatively equal, I fly rook.  A couple .. three or four, years ago it was the rooks who were constantly and dramatically outnumbered.  I stayed rook through some real beatings.. it went on for months, then RJO was born.  Those were great times.

LOL, I been here 7 years and no you didn't hurt my feelings. I never heard of you before:D

[SteveBailey]

Originally posted by Bear76
LOL, I been here 7 years and no you didn't hurt my feelings. I never heard of you before:D

Then your comment about me whining was merely an inflammatory troll.  I see.

[Bear76]

Dude, get a sense of humor:lol

[Roscoroo]

thats it I'm doubling the price of "Power bait" .

[crockett]

Originally posted by SteveBailey
This is true to one degree or another. From my recent experiences, having flown for all 3 countries, the rooks are more guilty of what I stated.  Maybe it hurts some feelings, as it seems Bear76's case.  I'm assuming it did at least, I've never heard of the guy so I don't know  him.

Anyway, I am speaking directly from my experience.  I suppose some of you can post arguments that I didn't actually experience what I did.. I know there are those who actually try to argue that.  lol

I consider myself relatively unbiased.  Heck,  most of my longterm AH friends are rooks as I have a long history of being rook. The last couple of tours I have been logging on and switching to the side with the fewest numbers.. except for one tour when I avoided bish for strictly personal reasons.  

When all sides are relatively equal, I fly rook.  A couple .. three or four, years ago it was the rooks who were constantly and dramatically outnumbered.  I stayed rook through some real beatings.. it went on for months, then RJO was born.  Those were great times.

Running back to countrymen seems to be a Bish favorite past time, along with hiding in ack.. I would say the same for the nits except you never find them by themselves as they already have their 10 gangtards with them.

[SteveBailey]

Originally posted by Bear76
Dude, get a sense of humor:lol

*sigh* some of the original stuff i posted in this thread was tongue in cheek.... since everyone took it so literally, I just assumed everyone checked their humor at the door.