Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that...

[Pepe]

...flying Rook is Dangerous to your Health.

I strongly suggest Htc. start to include this as a popup windows for freebies in their 2 week trial. I found quite a bit instances where flying Rook can be similar to smoking and, thus, Htc. liable in an eventual litigation. Now, the facts:

• Flying Rook lately produces lots of smoke (our bases burning wild).
• We are a clear minority, and going even lower.
• Being a minority, we are chased and prosecuted all along our virtual world. Item more, we are tagged as whiners.
• We are forced to fly in small and decreasing spaces. Often the corners of the country. No Rook flying on public allowed.
• Virtual life expectancy is severely hampered if you fly Rook. Average life span for average Rook varies between 30 and 50 seconds.
• Rook births (aka. respawns) are very traumathic. Instead of a sunny quiet runway, we are often born in the darkness of a Hangar, or surrounded by heavy black smoke.
• Creates addiction. Only on this terms can be explained why there is still 30 rooks flying each nite, on average.
• Flying Rook alters behaviour, generally in a bad mood. There are some documented cases where otherwise cool tempered, mentally sound, responsible fathers yelling uncomprehensible phrases on open channel. Evidence still not found wether this is caused by too much Taking Off time, or absolute lack of.
• Flying Rook reduces sleep quality (and usually quantity, as well). Rookland Recruitment Office has received some wifes' complaints stating that their husbands shout in their dreams. Something like "dam**d vulcher!" or "Chickensh** CHog alt monkey!". We have no notices of legal procedures yet, but strong suspects that they are coming soon are in order.
• It is believed that reduces organization skills and general SA. Evidence of this can be found in lack of coordination, and absence of 6 calls.
• It is a very expensive addiction to mantain. In terms of $ spent per minute of flight, we are the most expensive country to live in. I won't mention at this stage what kind of luxuries this high-spending style allows. Only they are whiter, softer and whoolier than in anywhere else  
  

So, to cut a long story short, bearing in mind the U.S. litigation patterns, I think I better warn Htc. about the risks they are facing not giving a general advise on these things when joining Rookland.

Cheers,

Pepe.

[StSanta]

ROFL

good one  

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Baron Claus "StSanta" Von Ribbentroppen
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
"Live to pull, pull to live"

[nonoht]

yeah  really need to switch to 2 side war...

NOD and GDI

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nono
56th (FG) FIREBIRDS RAF

[MANDOBLE]

RESRAMB!!! (rodando en el suelo riendo a mandibula batiente).
Muy buena PEPE!!
... una semana más ...

[stefano]

Genial, PEPE!

LOL

LUPO
1 GRUPPO CACCIA
"Asso di Bastoni"
 

[Mox]

 

Originally posted by nonoht:
yeah  really need to switch to 2 side war...

NOD and GDI

I couldn't agree more.  For some reason HiTech and others here are so against the 2 sided war but yet they've never tried it in AH.

Funny the guys that don't want to try the 2 sided war are the exact ones doing the gangbanging including the HiTech staff (except for the ladies).

And yes I've been a Knight, I know exactly what it's like to have superior numbers ALL the time.

Mox

[This message has been edited by Mox (edited 03-06-2001).]

[Ripsnort]

Knights having superior numbers all the time?

ROTFLOL!!!

I'll let the rest of the Knits respond to THAT one.heheheh, thanks for the laugh!

Incidently, I've said this for over 1.5 years,...'Everyone gets a turn in the bucket'.

[Moose11]

Like I said before, it just means more targets for us rooks.  

[Karnak]

I creates the opportunity for heroic deaths such as this:

 

Originally posted by Karnak in Ripsnort's "Gut wrenching sortie!" thread:

(Edited slightly)

Last night I logged on at about 10:00PM PST for one last flight before going to bed. Looking at the situation I saw that A21 was under heavy attack with no Rooks defending it. I tried to take off of A20, but all fighter hangers were down. I jumped to A26 and took off in a Spitfire MkVb with 75% fuel and started heading for A21.
By the time I reached 5000ft A21 had fallen and the Bishop horde was off my radar. I guessed that they were going to try to take A20 next and so altered my course and continued to climb. Sure enough, the red horde started reappearing in the 7, 10 sector heading for A20. As the first dots began to show up, it became apparent that I was going to reach A20 at about the same time as they were.

It being late and me feeling full of bravado because of my successes earlier in the day, I typed into the open channel "I will not let you take 20 unopposed!"

Upon reaching the enemy I found that there was an N1K2 above me and an F4U-1C well below. I chose to dive on the F4U and allow the N1K to try its luck on me if it wanted. The F4U saw me coming and after a brief series of maneuvers headed for the smoke of A20. I gave chase and initially gained on him due to my altitude advantage, but as that was exausted the slow speed of my SpitV began to tell and he started to pull away. By the time we passed through the smoke I had gone to a lower altitude than his 300ft to try to fool him into thinking I'd given up, but he'd extended to about 1.1. At this time I noticed that I had picked up a bandit on my 6 and he was gaining. At 1.3 the F4U-1C pulled up sharply and I cut the corner on him, blowing his vertical stabilizer off.

I didn't see the bandit on my 6 so I dove for the smoke and did a sharp pull to the left over the field and engaged the N1K. Now there was a P-38 and another F4U-1C with me as well as the N1K. The field guns now began to respawn and the F4U-1C was quickly shot down, with me getting credit for it although I really had nothing to do with it. After doing two turns with the N1K I was able to put a 20mm round into his engine after barely getting him in my sights, he must have been no more than 10 yards from me in a frontal aspect when I shot him. The field guns finished him off with me getting the credit and points for him.

I then began to engage the P-38L with was turning with me, but after half a turn and one pass by the P-38 in which he couldn't get a firing solution, I saw a C-47 slipping over a hill to hide. Judging that as the best target to inconvenience them with, I went after it. The P-38 came around and gave chase. As I dove over the rim of the coastal hill that the C-47 had disappeared over I saw that it had gone left and was now at 1.0. I was gaining on the C-47 fast, but the P-38 was gaining on me as well and began firing at long range to try to dissuade me from my target. He was too far away for me to give him much chance of stopping me in time, although hedid score a few .50 hits. I closed and, with a sustained burst from 500 yards into 400 yards, blew the tail off of the C-47.

I then pulled hard left to avoid the P-38. He turned with me and obtained a few more .50 cal hits on me. As I turned with the intention of pulling in on the P-38's tail a SpitIX joined him, but with a better firing position. In an attempt to shake the Spit, I tried going over the top and the Spit blew me apart.

I then typed into the open channel "I told you I wouldn't let you take 20 unopposed!"

Then I had to log off to go to bed.

I feel that I gave a good account of myself and lived up to my first statement.    

 

Originally posted by sling322 in Ripsnort's "Gut wrenching sortie!" thread:

(The C-47 pilot's reply)

That was a good one Karnak. I was the goon driver. The funny thing was we had like 8 planes capping the base and 1 frekking spitfire there. I called out and told them where I was approaching from, and someone still drug you toward me and gave away my position. At that point, I figured I was as good as dead so I went in anyway. Just as I was in range of the base, one of the acks came up...so I whipped it around and headed back out to loiter over the water to the east. This was the point at which you began following me....I knew I was in trouble. I couldnt believe that someone hadnt killed yer sorry spitfire driving prettythang yet.    I mean its not like we didnt have you outnumbered like 8 to 1. I thought I was gonna get away from you though...I think you almost overshot me, no?

Anyway, good defense. <S>!

Rooks will not give up and we don't have a sense of pain anymore.    

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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother

Bring the Spitfire F.MkXIVc to Aces High!!!

Sisu
-Karnak

[This message has been edited by Karnak (edited 03-06-2001).]

[CavemanJ]

 

Originally posted by Ripsnort:

Incidently, I've said this for over 1.5 years,...'Everyone gets a turn in the bucket'.

Aye, everyone gets a turn.  But tour 12 was the first time I've seen one country spend 90% of a tour in the bucket, and tour 14 is begining to take the same road.

[Mox]

 

Originally posted by Ripsnort:
Knights having superior numbers all the time?

ROTFLOL!!!

I'll let the rest of the Knits respond to THAT one.heheheh, thanks for the laugh!

Incidently, I've said this for over 1.5 years,...'Everyone gets a turn in the bucket'.

Come on Rip I've known you since beta and you and I both know it's true.  I've been in The Wrecking Crew since beta where we flew Rooks then we switched to the Knights for many months and I don't remember but a few times when the Knights didn't have the most players.

I have been away from AH about 2 months so I cannot really say Knights had the advantage in numbers during the time I was gone but Knights had the numbers before I left and still do.

Mox

[This message has been edited by Mox (edited 03-06-2001).]

[popeye]

Scale ack strength around HQ and main fields inversely to a country's manpower.  Underpopulated countries would have extra ack for defense and shelter from gang bangs.  Very hard to kill HQ during off-peak hours.

[Mox]

 

Originally posted by Ripsnort:
Incidently, I've said this for over 1.5 years,...'Everyone gets a turn in the bucket'.

And it still holds true as it always will except you fail to see that one country has a much higher percentage of being the "one in the bucket".

I'll let you guess which country I'm talking about.

 

Mox

[This message has been edited by Mox (edited 03-06-2001).]

[NHFoxtro]

     I think a two sided war would be better than a three

[anRky]

Ripsnort wrote:
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Incidently, I've said this for over 1.5 years,...'Everyone gets a turn in the bucket'.
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And while it's not much fun being in the 'bucket', it's even less fun gangbanging the ones in the 'bucket'.

Why don't we just get rid of the stinking bucket, and have some fun fights instead?

anRky
-Ih8ubb