Author Topic: Titanic Sinks (Read 1906 times)

waystin2 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 28, 2007, 06:59:52 AM »

Titanic Tuesday was great, but you better be ready to fight. Furballs were intense. Got killed alot, killled a few. What a hoot!

Mus51 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 28, 2007, 07:02:56 AM »

Had a good hour or 2 myself.

Did 2 porking runs in a pony wich resulted 1 cap, stopped a vulch fest over a rook base and won 2 3v1's. As stated before allot of people where haulers.

sunfan1121 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 28, 2007, 07:45:43 AM »

Max · « **Reply #18 on:** November 28, 2007, 08:04:57 AM »

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Originally posted by sunfan1121
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I'll see your IN and raise you 3 OUTS

The Fugitive · « **Reply #19 on:** November 28, 2007, 08:18:17 AM »

I didn't really have time to fly last night, but I really did want to see how things would shake out.

I logged in around 1930 eastern, and manned a field gun for about 20 mins defending a port. Got 3 while I was watching the map.

It looked to me that everyone pretty much went back to the "old way", the huge hordes avoiding each other. Gone were the little fights that were happening around this same maps last week.

I get tired of furballs real fast. My aim stinks, so I have to saddle up for a bit to kill a guy, and in most cases that opens me up to a "tail" of bad guys. So the fun doesn't last for me.

We all know HTC split the arenas because the way the community went "bad" with the big numbers. Hordes avoiding each other, vulch fests, ganging and so on. Its up to the community to make these "Titanic Tuesdays" to work, or you may loose them again.

Is the trill of this game capturing a base by steam rolling it, or is the thrill earning that base by battleing for it? Some of the best nights of flying in AW were when some of the bigger squads went head to head. Slam them hordes into each other !!! Is your team good enough to triumph over the other, or is your team a coward, can't handle the pressure, weeny type team?

5PointOh · « **Reply #20 on:** November 28, 2007, 08:46:33 AM »

I have some mix feelings on my experiences in the arena.

While it was great to see 600+ people in the arena I found I was quickly surrounded by a bunch of new people that I have never seen before. Not sure if it was the same on the Knights and Rooks side, but there where a lot of new guys with the standard new guy questions.

I engaged a Tempest with my Pony, put a couple of rounds in him, then the temp and his pony buddy ran away. Disappointed.

Then the hordes where in full effect, seems like I spent the whole night bouncing from one base to the other to find NOE 110 raids.

I wasn't looking to furball, I was just basically looking for a good fight, all I found was hordes. At one point I counted seven guys chasing my A-20. Oh well, maybe tuesdays will be spent in Mid-War.

Shuffler · « **Reply #21 on:** November 28, 2007, 08:49:50 AM »

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lol, I remember that

correct me if im wrong, but isnt that about the route the NoE P-38's took?
I think you may have chose the wrong guys to follow if ya wanted a quick fight

I was 1/2 sector south of them...... the group I was looking for were on a CM mission. After I upped I found out the CM mission was south, however, the 38s I heard about took off from the base I left so I was hoping the group I was trying to catch was 38s. That group stayed way north and ended up out in the boondocks.... like I said "absolutely no idea what they were looking for in that area. I kept thinking they would turn south.

The first plane I see, a spit, just passes right by and keeps going. Some like to fight some don't. The spit as it turned out was whels and he was looking for that group I was shadowing. No big deal as long as it stays a one night thing.

Taking away choices just seems like a backwards move. Before if you didn't like the terrain you could switch, if the numbers were way off you could switch. The 80th will always go to the lowest number side to find more fights. In this instance I went to rooks who were far outnumbered at that time. I ended up not locating either the CM mission or the 38 group. Bad night all around.

helbent · « **Reply #22 on:** November 28, 2007, 09:01:05 AM »

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Went up for about an hour too. Same thing. Absolute mobs on one side, a few trying to stop it on the other. Never had so many guys pass me by going to look for the vulch.

Even the guys with alt and E would one pass, haul a** if you turned into them.

Saw a fair amount of guys landing lots of vulches. Oh well, if thats what the folks want, so be it I guess.

That about sums up my hour online last night as well. Tried to fight off the horde, only to find vulchers HOers rammers and runners.

Was nice to see that many people in one arena again, with a fairly even number split. Although it wasnt much fun getting ganged, hopefully things will calm down in upcoming Titanics.

Not going to give up on this idea after one go-round.

Kazaa · « **Reply #23 on:** November 28, 2007, 09:08:46 AM »

If you get ganged by the horde, then you may need to work on your SA.

Gulp · « **Reply #24 on:** November 28, 2007, 09:22:14 AM »

Had fun! A small map would have been even more fun.

Urchin · « **Reply #25 on:** November 28, 2007, 09:22:28 AM »

Yea, just like whenever you die you made some mistake that made it possible.

For example, your first mistake was not picking the LA-7.

Gimme a break.

Chalenge · « **Reply #26 on:** November 28, 2007, 09:34:23 AM »

It is absolutely impossible to fly on that map with the channelled front having dar bars two sectors wide and not be able to get into a fight unless you are trying to avoid the group. Now if you go looking for a one versus one fight of course you should expect to be disappointed because unless the other guy is looking for the same thing you may have a problem pinning him down.

Fulmar · « **Reply #27 on:** November 28, 2007, 09:48:06 AM »

I enjoy a little of both. The 1 on 1 fights against skilled pilots are always an adrenaline rush. But a good old fashion furball tweaks my fancy as well. But after playing this game for years I've learned that you cannot have it both ways. If you enjoy the 'chivalry' of 1 on 1 combat with no HO's, then the AvA seems to be clearly the best choice. However, the numbers for that arena make fights far and few at times. So many head over to the MA and have to deal with congo train strategy.

I did enjoy the increase in the number of missions posted as we had a larger player base to pool for pilots. This was a large bonus for me.

MajIssue · « **Reply #28 on:** November 28, 2007, 10:05:24 AM »

I was up on the East side of rook land trying (unsuccessfully) to take V69... As much as I dislike the rooks I've got to give them a for the best Vbase defense I've ever seen! Multiple layers, ground and air! Say what you want, you don't see that kind of defense in depth on the "normal" MA maps. Having 700 players on 1 map makes the whole map a HUGE battle. If sombody couldn't find a fight they were not looking... I couldn't avoid a fight on the ground or in the air. Zero "cheap" captures on T.Tuesday... Kudos to HTC for the idea! It was fun and I look forward to next Tuesday... [whispers]... Mindinao

bongaroo · « **Reply #29 on:** November 28, 2007, 10:14:20 AM »

i had plenty of fun. Never once even got the oportunity to vulch or attack a field. The knits were attacking in waves, which made it fun to burn up fuel and ammo, reload, and repeat!

no problems here!