Porker Generals Strut Their Stuff!

[RufusLeaking]

They already have one for those that do not feel they are up to snuff. It is called the Training Arena. Why add more arenas.

I'm not trying to be glib, but the TA is for people who need very basic help.  No one comes out of the TA ready to tangle with Steve in a P-51.

I picked on Steve's post, who I respect in game for the simple fact that he sends me to the tower quite often, cussing all the way, but it is a broader issue.  Allow me to lecture.

Porking, dirt farming, tool shedding, land grabbing, or whatever, leads to fights.  No air combat would have ever occurred in real life if it had not been for the need to deny the enemy access to the sky for reconnaissance, ground attack, ship attacks, strategic bombing, and all those other activities beneath the 'purists.'

Again, this does not justify ranting on channel.  Let people do as they want.  I spent this weekend getting spanked by Muppets, cussing all the way to the tower.  I had a choice to go fly somewhere else, but I am stubborn sometimes.

[Shuffler]

Porking, dirt farming, tool shedding, land grabbing, or whatever, leads to fights.

How so..... I see them trying to kill fights or the other sides ability to fight all together.

[Wagger]

Hell I'm one of those who sucks.  But guess what?  There are plenty left out there that suck worst than I do. Besides I am actually getting a little better each day. Still suck just not as bad.

[Flayed]

  Speak for yourself sir.  in my years of AH playing I have tried some of everything.    I even got fairly good in a couple fighters for a while but found the Fur ball got boring for me after a bit.  I needed more from the game then just up a plane and kill or be killed.

 For the last several months I kept paying for AH but hardly felt like logging on at all until HT changed the strat and now I feel like bombing the ever loving crap out of it and daring those who will to stop me.   Porking  fields in my 26's is just as much fun for me as a long strat run or a good fight in a fighter.  but I need a little of everything to keep my interest going in game. 
  Last night was good fun for example, I decided to pork A35 I believe it was on Baltic in  order to keep the rooks from bombing bishland and on my second pass Skishill came in with a 109 and chased me back to bishland killing 2 and smoking an engine in my 26's before I finally popped him.   And had him and 1 or 2 others try to get me on the next run.   It continued on like this until I loged for the night.  Was good fun all around.

  We play in a game with many different types of people who like several different types of things in game that constitute fun for them. The game has been designed to facilitate your style of play IE dog fighting, as well as those that like to pork and play a more tactical or strategic game.  The players you describe were playing the game from a tactical point of view, stopping others from hitting their front line bases by destroying enemy resources on the front.

  As for saying that everyone who likes to pork bases does it is because they are no good in fighters....  I don't believe this is really the case, I feel it is more that some just don't get the same enjoyment out of the furball as you and others do so they find something else they enjoy doing more.     

 Again it comes down to the fact that everyone playing pay $15 per month and are permitted to play the game the way they like with in the programming that HTC has put in place...

[CHAPPY]

[Steve]

Normally I'd let this hubris go by without comment, but you speak of perspective.

If all of us who "suck in fighters" left the game, there would only be a few hundred people left.  Perhaps HTC needs to make private arenas available for elitists to enjoy excluding the unwashed masses.  Then those who are opposite of "sucking" - those that "blow in fighters" - could self actualize.

Ahh nice try mr straw man. I have no problem with people who suck in fighters.   I could do without armchair Generals.   All armchair Generals suck in fighters. Not all who suck in fighters are armchair Generals.

[Steve]

Actually I find alot of todays generals dont even pork actually they dont defend bases at all........they just go for the most field captures in the tour..........and their name is DogBite

I observed this just last night! I don't usually pay attention to the land grab besides how it relates to enemy darbars. Late last night, rooks were hording a base next to .. whatever team I was on(same team as 1dogfite).. anyway right next to their 163 base and thus quite close to HQ.  Half way up the map, 1dogfite and his crew were trying to take a base that really seemd to be of no significance. They were calling for help to cap the town, all the while the rooks pounded the base close to HQ against little defense. 

[newz]

I'm not the one spamming country channel with nonsensical claims that
"furballers are costing us the map again".

You want to pork? Be my freaking guest. Gather up your like minded fellows
and off you go.
With a little luck you can shut down fighting on both fronts!

As far as, "maybe you should try other aspects of the game" goes, believe
me I have.
               NOE captures....check (wtg fellows we got it so quick not even 1 upper)
               40 guy hoard circling dead field awaiting goon....check (wtg guys we slaughtered them)
               porking............check (started to hate when we captured fields in old squad cause porking always followed, yawn)
               buffing .......... check ( spent nearly 2 years(o the horror) in these lumbering time killers, doing my part to "win the war")

The thing I found really interesting in last nights country spamming was the complete opposite way of thinking between
these "generals" and myself.
They don't like red dar bars and I do.

[Husky01]

Wow

[Shuffler]

 Speak for yourself sir.  in my years of AH playing I have tried some of everything.    I even got fairly good in a couple fighters for a while but found the Fur ball got boring for me after a bit.  I needed more from the game then just up a plane and kill or be killed.

 For the last several months I kept paying for AH but hardly felt like logging on at all until HT changed the strat and now I feel like bombing the ever loving crap out of it and daring those who will to stop me.   Porking  fields in my 26's is just as much fun for me as a long strat run or a good fight in a fighter.  but I need a little of everything to keep my interest going in game.  
  Last night was good fun for example, I decided to pork A35 I believe it was on Baltic in  order to keep the rooks from bombing bishland and on my second pass Skishill came in with a 109 and chased me back to bishland killing 2 and smoking an engine in my 26's before I finally popped him.   And had him and 1 or 2 others try to get me on the next run.   It continued on like this until I loged for the night.  Was good fun all around.

  We play in a game with many different types of people who like several different types of things in game that constitute fun for them. The game has been designed to facilitate your style of play IE dog fighting, as well as those that like to pork and play a more tactical or strategic game.  The players you describe were playing the game from a tactical point of view, stopping others from hitting their front line bases by destroying enemy resources on the front.

  As for saying that everyone who likes to pork bases does it is because they are no good in fighters....  I don't believe this is really the case, I feel it is more that some just don't get the same enjoyment out of the furball as you and others do so they find something else they enjoy doing more.      

 Again it comes down to the fact that everyone playing pay $15 per month and are permitted to play the game the way they like with in the programming that HTC has put in place...

lol you can pay your 15 bucks... but if your play is gamey don't complain when you hear about it. BTW as far as I'm concerned you can keep you 15.... you add nothing to the game.

[thndregg]

BTW as far as I'm concerned you can keep you 15.... you add nothing to the game.

So what if he doesn't cater to your tastes? He adds nothing to Y O U R game.

[Gabriel]

Oh look.

Another thread bashing someone else's style of play. What a refreshing change.

[Hawk55]

worth it for good crackling   mmmmmmmmmmm

I've got to agree with you there Jimmy...fresh pig crackling is to die for.

[Hawk55]

They don't like red dar bars and I do.

So do I newz...it usually means some good air to air fighter combat.   

[DMBEAR]

Pork Generals are only following this guys orders...

Seeing the Armchair Generals and the "Irony" posts, I thought I'd combine the topics and deliver a short story.

General Emo, Our Savior...

There is a player logging on now right now.   He pulls up his map and his upper lip purses.  He checks the war status and has to loosen his scarf as he begins to feel his body warm.  He removes his flying goggles and wipes them hoping that he has read the numbers incorrectly.  Alas, he has not.  His country is losing the very real war, and they do not seem to care.  Someone will pay for not taking care of his country while he's been offline.

He hunkers down in his ergonomic chair and devises a plan on a dry erase board next to his monitor.

                       1. Berate all of the country for letting it go this far.
                       2. Find Followers.
                       3. Pick an easy target and make mission.
                       4. **^^^^**********ADVERTISE********^^^^^*
                       5. Blame anyone who didn't join mission when it fails.
                       








I'm gonna go fly now. You should too.