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Offline jaxxo

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« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2008, 10:37:25 AM »
was very nice...the annoying "i pwn you" 200 types were few and far between...cough sharky cough...unfort that persona is addicting to newbs who see their new hero and wanna be just like him...perpetuating into score whoring ganger types...

Sky was a numbers dweeb who was very polite and a good fight without all the whining

I was da cvkilla/ base kapture queen extrordinaire...


less people more fun
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Offline DaYooper

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« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2008, 02:31:03 PM »
Rocks and trees could be invisible and kill gv's.

The graphics were no where near as close to what they are now.

There was a giant squid that inhabited a lake on one of the maps.
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Offline 68Ripper

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« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2008, 02:39:42 PM »
If you ran over a piece of wood from a destroyed bldg in your tank it would kill you.

oh and there were lot's more Sheep, sheep that you could actually kill.

besides the squid there were the occasional flying saucers.
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Offline BaldEagl

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« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2008, 02:54:39 PM »
I was still in AWIII during beta but in AWI:

Vehicle hangers were impenetrable camo nets draped over 4 poles.

Running into rocks killed GV's.

The Spit IX was the current XVI but without clipped wings.

There were some desert terrains.

Storm fronts moved across the arenas.

Flying in clouds it was just matte grey and you could see con's as plain as if you were in clear sky, but you couldn't see the planes in the clouds if you were'nt in them yourself.

We had Pizza.

It was more fun.
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Offline BlueJ1

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« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2008, 02:56:43 PM »
VH's where easier to take down, and camp.

Tank battles were huge on some maps such as Pizza along the outsides of the map.

Bombing was harder. Wind and harder calibration.

Maps were huge.


Anyone remember Kadesh? Had so much fun the that scenario.
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Offline Spazer

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« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2008, 03:41:30 PM »
How about the pizza and beer bottles hanging over the volcano way in the north west of the Island map...:rofl
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Offline kilz

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« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2008, 04:03:08 PM »
we had pizza map

you could drive into the town buildings

bombing took more skill

dog fights where more fun due to the lack of hoing back then.

people actualy saluted others after a good fight. and not farking cherry picking dweeb, ho dweeb spit dweeb la7 tard so on and so on.

the gv fights where out of this world. we had better maps then and alot more gv fights would break out and it was a blast.

many many clasic fights with AApache stgr Ironic littleal bigal the list goes on and on.

i am glad to see that we have some of the old big maps back it has brought back some of the fun and i hope to see more big maps come back to life hint hint TRINITY LOL
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Offline Max

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« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2008, 04:24:43 PM »
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bombing took more skill



Au contrair, mon frere. AH1 was just like AirWarrior. IIRC there was no calibration or wind factor. You could climb to 30K and hit a flea sitting on a fighter hangar.
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Offline hubsonfire

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« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2008, 04:43:26 PM »
No formations, laser guided munitions. You could kill fighters at ranges beyond 1K, but everyone was too busy furballing and having fun to attack your buffs anyway. I'm not kidding, it was great before all you toolshedders showed up.
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« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2008, 04:48:09 PM »
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I was still in AWIII during beta but in AWI:


So how many credit cards did you go through?  And did it make you go bankrupt?  :D
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Offline BiPoLaR

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« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2008, 04:50:58 PM »
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In no particular order:

Night time came around every couple of hours and lasted 20 minutes. Milkrunners took advantage of night to launch buffs while others tweaked gamma to shoot em down.

There were no SpitVIII, Spit IV or Spit XVI, or La7, F4U1-A, Ki-84, 109-K4,
B-25, B-24J, P-38G, P-47N or Sherman M-4.

50 cals were much more concentrated and deadly.

Towns had about 1/3rd less bldgs.

Rants on ch 200 were few and far between.

Skyrock and Vanscrew didn't own anything other than a pair of socks.

Hitech used to fly, and chat a lot in BLUE.

Maps changed every Wednesday morning and Skuzzy answered thousands of silly questions.

Base acks fired higher but less deadly salvos.

Rooks all cherry picked from 35K...oh wait...that hasn't changed :aok


what hes trying to say is, AH was a lot better back then
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« Reply #26 on: January 17, 2008, 05:29:18 PM »
Those were the days!!! when I could land double digit kills in my FM2 without rearming...:cry
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« Reply #27 on: January 17, 2008, 05:40:27 PM »
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Who can tell me what AH was like when it first started and what planes/gv's there were/ werent


Paradise online for flight simmers!!!!!

To capture a base....kill the ack and drop troops on the field...if they made it to the map room you got it in tact. No towns....just bomb the base. IF ya had to...you could flatten a field with 1 lanc. 2k on an FH 2 k on a BH and 2 k on the VH. Fields had 2 FH's and 1 BH small field wise.

Medium fields were the biggest if I remember right.

Take a B17 with 100 punders and De-Ack from 6k....bombing was easier.

No LaLa's....FIghts were fun and very rarley did you get Ho'ed. Furballs were the norm and base captures happened but were'nt like now.

The Chog wasn't perked.

100 people was a big nite....Clouds the you flew into and out of that went from one side of the mapo to the other in a front type deal as was mentioned.

Smaller squads.....Big fights....'s from almost everyone....and very litlle fighting over anything.
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Offline Vulcan

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« Reply #28 on: January 17, 2008, 05:48:55 PM »
The tiffies rollrate was double what is now :)
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Offline SuBWaYCH

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« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2008, 07:54:05 PM »
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Those were the days!!! when I could land double digit kills in my FM2 without rearming...:cry


Goose! Get your arse back to 164!!! :D
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