The Incomplete Compendium of Air Warrior Campaign Scores (1st Edition)

[Getback]

Looks like I started late in 93.  I remember GE being an old vet back then

Anyone remember how the score system worked back then?  Seemed like consecutive and total kills counted for a lot?

I finished #2 in the WWI arena...once. I must of been uber!

Rashy 

p.s. one tour I was Peter Rash.

I think you are spot on about the scoring.

[Dadsguns]

I don't think I started until late 1996. That's when I first got my awesome 133 mghz comp with a huge 1.6 gig hard drive that would never ever fill up (that lasted a whole 9 mos).

I started with the most powerful computer at the time.... IBM 200mghz 2.5Gig hard drive..... cost a whopping $1800 bucks....      2 months later my computer was absolete and selling for 999.00    

[Grayeagle]

I seem to remember practicing my egg delivery  .. a *lot* .. in the P-51.

Peacepkeeper hammered us Aggies pretty hard on never takin off without eggs ..seemed like the ol' Stang always got me to target
I believe that's how I got so hi in buff scoring for some camps.
Just tuff to stop a Stang-buff done 'right'

ie: 10k cruise to tgt, max power for speed a sector out, 45 deg dive into target area, leveling at minimum alt for the drop at very high speed, minimal exposure to flak and back up to 3k for egress on the zoom in WEP ..you could see the 'X' from the bombsite out there just off the nose to guage when yer bombing alt was correct ..hadda be fast or the explosion of yer own bombs would killya ..I seem to remember 500' was too high, <100' was too low ..about 450 indicated and 150-200 ft was ideal

'Good old days' .. ROFL.
Readin the C'n B brought back a lot of memories .. I started gettin pissed all over again.
..'clique' does not even begin to describe it.

It was like all those 'first days' rolled into one .. first day of school, first day at a new job, first time in a strange bar, a lot of people were too intimidated to post at all.
Hawkeye was my cousin .. him and I were both ex-service by then and not much fazed us, every time we got hammered we had no problems hammerin back.

You would sneak up on some of those 'Great Ones' low six and blow them away and the whining would go on for *days*
..every excuse was trotted out like a Litany of IT COULD NOT HAPPEN TO ME!!

There was nothin as rewarding

Amazin how it still goes on .. spelling Nazi's, grammar cops, perennnial 'which plane is better' debates, and always occasional gems of history-facts-good stuff to know,
..heck we all even ..gradually .. learned to type
 (bah, a wimmen's skill, nothin to be *proud* of, -rolls eyes-)

Ya BB .. I even learned 'paragraphs' ..sheesh.

-GE aka Frank
-just sayin (tm Pasha)

[Halo]

Wow, one time I beat HiTech!  I was 122nd and he was 123rd. Nice of him to let the customer win. Of course that may or may not have been THE HiTech. On other lists he was No. 1, and I don't remember ever making double figures in any standings.   

Long live the WarHawks from B land!  Fencer, Split, Surf, Halo (me), Thud, Banshee, Willie, Death Wish, Sparrowhawk, RoughRider, and many others. Just think, all those years ago, from an Atari ST and a $5 shareware disk, stick figure airplanes connected via Genie dialup after hours.

It cost $6 an hour Air Warrior and $7 an hour Genie, total $13 for ONE HOUR. That's almost the cost of the present Aces High $15 a month 24/7 via cable (and cable cost for Aces High can be considered a free bonus since computers are now on line for so much other stuff).

WWII flight simulation has come a long way, thanks to the dedicated Aces High crew and loyal customers.  

Thanks, Wraith and the Musketeers, for reviving and preserving some of this heritage from the late 20th century (sounds so long ago).  

[Reschke]

Thanks for the memories but as I suspected I still don't remember what my handle was back then and I am pretty sure I never got close to being a ranked player. One thing I do remember is flunking out of college for a quarter due to spending too much time on the game. Man I must have sucked worse then than I do now.

[trax1]

I got involved in AW in 98, but even if you had the records from then I doubt I'd remember my ID.

[Dadsguns]

I cant remember mine either, I think something like guns, or gunner, or had a number combination with it like 33 at the end....     too long ago I suppose.

[Lye-El]

Always wondered what year I started in the Pixel airplane world. It appears it was 1993. 

I was pretty bad then also.  Ranked in the mid 300's to mid 500's and there was a lot fewer people playing back then. So, if I play another 16 years I may get pretty good at.......What was I saying?.....lost my train of thought...................... ..........think I'll take a nap.

[Wraith_TMS]

Thanks, Wraith and the Musketeers, for reviving and preserving some of this heritage from the late 20th century (sounds so long ago).  

You're all very welcome guys (Halo, GE, and the rest of you vets...); glad you liked it and got some fun out of it.  Go ahead and grab the Crash & Burn Cafe archive off the site too, GE is right.  It'll remind you of the AH boards... alot.  Even if it was before your time in AW, I found it fascinating to read the threads, the camp scores.  Kind of gives me a sense of the ebb and flow of the game over the years, even before I became an active part of it.

Hope everyone had a great New Years'   

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