N00b Memoirs

[ImADot]

A friend and I were defending a VBase and a  N00B upped a GV and was driving around aimlessly.  I was talking to my friend on range to coordinate our efforts.  After a couple of exchanges, it was apparent to me the N00B didn't know he was listening to real people - thought is was built-in AI "chatter" for immersion.  So the two of us played it up with him and started including him in our chatter.  He was totally blown away by this "adaptive AI chatter".

[angels10]

 Mostly flew bombers the first week or two they were easier to keep level and in the air. After a couple of weeks i felt i could fly a fighter so i upped a spit16 took off toward the red icon and fired all my rounds right into the front of the plane coming toward me and to my suprise killed it.  A minute or so went by "just enough time for my head to swell up after my first kill ever!" Then i hear over the radio on  "why in the H#ll did you shoot me you Fu***ng HO!.
     
  Well being new to the game and not knowing what a PM was and why this guy was calling me a HO, which were fighting words when I was younger, I started to to tell this guy just what i thought of him and how i was going to kick his butt and so on. This exchange went on for a couple of minutes quite nasty.

 About 15 min later i was told about PM's and realized the guy i was telling off for the last ten minutes wasn't the guy I killed I was on range "F12" telling some guy on my side how i was going to kill him.

[Cthulhu]

Mostly flew bombers the first week or two they were easier to keep level and in the air. After a couple of weeks i felt i could fly a fighter so i upped a spit16 took off toward the red icon and fired all my rounds right into the front of the plane coming toward me and to my suprise killed it.  A minute or so went by "just enough time for my head to swell up after my first kill ever!" Then i hear over the radio on  "why in the H#ll did you shoot me you Fu***ng HO!.
     
  Well being new to the game and not knowing what a PM was and why this guy was calling me a HO, which were fighting words when I was younger, I started to to tell this guy just what i thought of him and how i was going to kick his butt and so on. This exchange went on for a couple of minutes quite nasty.

 About 15 min later i was told about PM's and realized the guy i was telling off for the last ten minutes wasn't the guy I killed I was on range "F12" telling some guy on my side how i was going to kill him.

OK, this is my favorite so far.

I had no idea what HO meant either for about 3 weeks. Every time someone complained "He HO'd me!" or "What a Friggin' HO!!" on VOX, I'd just scratch my head. I knew it was derogatory, but HO??? That just conjured up weird imagery.

[infowars]

I am still a Noob but have graduated a little.

My first week I think was firing 3k+ out at everything red.  Of course I never hit a thing.  Someone finally said...  "dude...  what are you shooting at?"  I thought about his questions for a sec because I thought I was shooting at bad guys,  then I asked what is the most effective range to start firing...  They said D600 and less.  I thought for sure they were kidding because I couldn't get over 5,000 feet of altitude much less pull up behind someone and fire...  Then I realized this is not a video game...

[Haplo81]

5 yrs ago when I first was introduced to AH I uploaded the software and flew offline just to check out the planes, gv's, etc.  I had never tried an on-line Sim or real net play before.  During my 2 week trial I tried every plane possible without any thought to SA or what plane is better for what I was trying to accomplish.  I flew goons without knowing what purpose they served or why have a plane with no guns.  Once I realized that goons take bases, but still not knowing how, I dropped many troops over runways, towns that were not fully down, and even towns of bases that we had not even (everything full up) attacked.  It was when I started joining missions that I figured out the role of a goon.

Good post started

[stodd]

I remember upping a panzer at the TT v base and I kill shot myself on the same friendly ostwind 10 times . I Understood that "green" above name meant friendly, but when I saw a guy with an orange name i though to myself "Oooo must be an enemy!...and hes not even trying to avoid me! " I shoot him and then I die

[haasehole]

 came over after H2H got sut down      had some bro's flying in a thunderegg mission grabed a goonie bus and drop supplies

[Rebel]

Beta tour- first tour out there- log on to reserve my name

Up a P-51, and go prowling over the valleys, find a fight, and dive in, manage to get a couple kills, and one guy bails out. 

For giggles I turn around and chute shoot him (is that dynamite in your pocket  ).  He goes absolutely APE, and get a crew together to hunt me down. 

[Larry]

I remember being very new my first time in the MA. I had spent the first month playing only in the TA trying to learn how to fly. Someone posted a mission while I was flying around asking people to join it. One thing I didn't learn in the TA was that channel one was open to all countries. The mission had launched by the time I landed (crashed), and I asked on Ch1 "is it to late to join the mission to A##". Needless to say those guys got killed and were pretty POed at me.

[SEraider]

Got another one......

Single AR-234 after making by bomb run (missed everything), see a formation of 17's go in to shoot it down.  Fire all cannons not knowing they are rear-cannons.  Go underneath them, then up and straight and in the tower.....That quick! 

 

[thrila]

I remember being involved in my very first base capture with everyone waiting for my c47, only for me to drop my troops over the field.

[kilo2]

Saved up just enough points to fly a 262 thougt nobody could touch me in this thing so i fly up to about 20k and head to a rook base. About

half way there i see a lone 109 about 5k down so i dive down. He must have never saw me cause he didnt even break i shot him down with

ease. Now i really think i cant be touched i start to climb and open my map to look around at whats going on i look for a minute or so and i

bring it back to where iam on the map. Something catches my eye its a red dot and its right on my plane WTF. About that time i come

to a realization the 109 was bait! I look back tracers streak past may canopy and BOOM 130 perk points down the drain.

[Becinhu]

Finally got the perkies for my first 262. After fighting the thing into the air I go to a port that is under attack. I see several sets of b-26s at around 3-4k.  One set is off by themselves do I figure they will be easy meat. I dive in (not chopping throttle), try to adjust for lead on the center bomber and proceed to dive straight through at well over 650 and make a nice little crater in the sand.  The guy piloting the bombers sent me a PM saying "I have to give that one a 10". Needless to say I didn't up another 262 for close to a year.

[Enker]

i dropped troops on a field. As well as augered trying to strafe a jeep in a 38.

[Anaxogoras]

"I have to give that one a 10"