rooks blew it again this morning

[valdals]

i served in germany, greece, and US. i was in air defense artillery.  and you think im bad when i get mad. you aparently have never been around military people. hell the government types i work with are worse than the military. 

[hubsonfire]

you aparently have never been around military people.

 

[SFCHONDO]

valdals, maybe this game isn't for you if you are going to get so upset. Like I stated earlier I probably do more base defence then anything and sometimes i never get any help. It really doesn't matter in the end. I do base defence mostly because I get good fights without having to fly 2 sectors. Ofcourse if it's a huge horde alot of times I just let em have it. But most of the time it's a small group from 5-10 guys and if I get a few helpers it makes for some good fights. It's great if I stop there attempt to capture the base. Sometimes I do and other times I don't. It's no biggy either way. ask for help a couple times nicely and do what you can, if no one helps, blow it off and go have fun at another base.

[Masherbrum]

i served in germany, greece, and US. i was in air defense artillery.  and you think im bad when i get mad. you aparently have never been around military people. hell the government types i work with are worse than the military. 

This ISN'T the "government", this ISN'T the "military" and your grammar is horrible. 

[Gixer]

no other rooks tried to spawn wirbles to defend the town and field. the support from other bases in the air was coming in one at a time. thats nuts 11 on 1 in the air. with coordinated effort we could have held that base for hours.

<S>...-Gixer

[Gixer]

ya, there are many people here who could care less about what base got taken.    Guess the war isn't that important afterall

what we really need is a one person on every team to allocate assests.  Everyone in the country will have to go wherever they are told to go.  This should be determined by rank....because they are the most elite of everyone .  That way, instead of blaming an entire country for being idiots, letting a base get taken, not fighting in the right places, score whoring, etc., we can just focus on that one person.

Well years ago the very first initial Rook Joint Ops (RJO's) had a good CnC setup, with a dozen or so experienced (experienced doesn't mean ranked) CO's emailing during the weeks ahead, running training on Tuesdays (so everyone knew what they were doing and timing) and then Sunday night was game night. The CO's would all work together on the overall strat deploying their assigned forces, most of the ops/timing was preplanned in advance.

This wasn't just NOE raids all over the map, but dummy attacks to distract,HQ raids to blind and small groups causing havoc behind the main front or to provide reconnaissance back to the CO's.

Unfortunately it just became a horde roll as it became more popular, numbers would dump to Rooks on Sundays. But the very first two or three ops were exciting and the best display I've seen of organisation and coordination here.


<S>...-Gixer

[Nutzoid]

Not right now, he can't.                 


 

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[GrimCH]

You could always get on country channel and politely ask for help. 

I heard most Rooks have him squelched.

[Rich46yo]

i served in germany, greece, and US. i was in air defense artillery.  and you think im bad when i get mad. you aparently have never been around military people. hell the government types i work with are worse than the military. 

What bases in Germany, Greece, and America? What unit were you in, "again"? What AD systems did you work with?

Military veterans will have noticed you avoided answering all my questions.

[TonyJoey]

valdals call 703-912-1725 for the waambulance.

[TwentyFo]

Valdals don't listen to them.

My brief experience flying with you 7 months ago in the Lynchmob was very positive. You were a guy that loved the fight and would help a squaddie at the drop of a hat. I will admit sometimes you took the game too seriously, but we all do sometimes (I hope it hasn't gotten the best of you). I think your competitiveness and leadership abilities are great and would be appreciated in any squad. The only complaint I have is when you kill me.....which is all the time. Valdals keep up the good work and I look forward to getting killed by you in the future <S>.

[Masherbrum]

Valdals don't listen to them.

My brief experience flying with you 7 months ago in the Lynchmob was very positive. You were a guy that loved the fight and would help a squaddie at the drop of a hat. I will admit sometimes you took the game too seriously, but we all do sometimes (I hope it hasn't gotten the best of you). I think your competitiveness and leadership abilities are great and would be appreciated in any squad. The only complaint I have is when you kill me.....which is all the time. Valdals keep up the good work and I look forward to getting killed by you in the future <S>.

He's gone overboard 24.   No exaggeration. 

[VansCrew1]

wonder what else rooks blew...

[E25280]

to adonai. i lost 1 hurricane and 2 wirbles defending that base. the other guys had no chance taking off. where were you? i did manage to get 5 kills. the base was taken by a lvt. we needed gvs helping out

if you managed to get more kills than deaths . . . you weren't defending hard enough.

[Widewing]

i served in germany, greece, and US. i was in air defense artillery.  and you think im bad when i get mad. you aparently have never been around military people. hell the government types i work with are worse than the military. 

Geez son, I was a history major, United States Studies, with a minor in Military History. I served in the US Navy, logging over 2,300 flight hours totaled on the "yellow sheets". I have 332 traps aboard fleet carriers. I crewed the last operational sortie of a US Navy amphibian in 1976 (out of GTMO). Since 1996, I have worked with the Navy and Army developing new small arms systems, spending countless hours on military ranges testing weapons. I am lead Project Engineer for these systems, working for CIRCOR Aerospace.

In point of fact, I just returned from severals of meetings with Senatorial staff, brass at the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, showing and demonstrating new technology for the M4/M16 family of rifles and carbines. In July, I'll be at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana to test SOCOM's (Special Operations Command) new SCAR battle rifles (Mk16 and Mk17). This is only a small fraction of my dealing with the military. Next week, we will be testing a brace of Sig P229s for DHS.

I work with military personnel every day, most of them senior officers.

In this game, there are WWII veterans, Korean War vets, Vietnam vets and a boat load of Gulf War, Iraqi Freedom and Afghan vets. We have Mace, a career F-14 pilot, graduate of Top Gun and the Navy Test Pilot School. We have Hammer, a career Army Officer, who recently retired. Overall, there are hundreds, if not thousands of military veterans who play this game or have played in the past. Many of these gents were on the pointy end of the spear, in harms way for months at a time.

To claim that your experience is sufficient to grant you the privilege of castigating fellow players is utter nonsense. This isn't war, it's recreation. It's entertainment after a hectic day. The last thing most of us want to listen to is a another self-appointed Field Marshal telling us how we should expend our limited recreational time.

Thus, even if your grand daddy was Omar Bradley, we don't want to listen to your rants. Your military experience, commendable as it is, has no bearing on a game, nor does it provide you additional status as a player.

My regards,

Widewing