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Offline Zoney

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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #75 on: August 26, 2013, 11:49:10 AM »
I dont care at all. It is a Scenario. They're all bad, what is one more?

"They" aren't all bad.  None of them have been bad for me.  I enjoy them so much that I have requested to re-arrange my schedule at work so I can have Saturdays off for the month of September so I can fly all the frames.  I'm a positive guy, a glass half full guy.  I'm not stupid.  I don't have blinders on.  I see the flaws but I don't focus on them.  I read the rules and I find them quite clear.  I had to read them more than once, I had to think about what I was reading but I got them right and my understanding was confirmed as they were explained ad infinitum.  If you are going to be miserable, please feel free to withdraw from the event.  Your responses in this "recruitment" thread are not helping the event, it is not promoting the event, it is not encouraging players to participate.

To all Aces High players.
Sign up and participate as much as you can.  If you have not done one of these before, sign up and try it.  Make your own decisions after it is over and decide if you want to do them in the future.  Bring your friends.  Bring your squadmates.  If you are a dedicated Axis or a dedicated Allied flyer you can do one of two things.  Sign up and fly on the side you have been dedicated to, or sign up and fly the side that you would not normally fly with to experience the other side of the war.  I have bounced around in Aces High quite a bit.  I've been in a dozen squads.  I have flown axis and I've flown Allied.  I've flown fighters and bombers.  Never, have I asked myself, "What am I doing this for".  Scenarios, (and FSO's), can allow you to immerse yourself in the gameplay and possibly feel just a little of what the "Greatest Generation" surely felt as they woke up to a cold and misty dawn watching their friends dress and eat what may have been their last meal, drink what might be their last cup of coffee, groan as they lifted themselves into their aluminum birds for what may be the last time.  Roll down the runway and watch their home field dissappear for what may be the last time.  They were thinking about the girl waiting for them at home wondering if they were ever going to see her again.  Thinking about that last kiss and dearly wishing for a chance for another.  They worried about their mothers being upset if they did not come home.  They knew their brothers and sisters loved them and wanted them to come home but they had to fight, and maybe they had to die so they would have a home to come home to.  Then they had to focus and forget all of that as they engaged the enemy.  They were all scared.  They all would have had a place that they would rather be, but there was only one place they should be, in the cockpit, engaging the enemy who were just like them and they knew that other man, their foe, was no different than them and deserved as a human being to live a life free from war, and pain, and suffering, and yet, they pulled that trigger.........

FSO players know that there is much more to Aces High than just the main arena.  Scenarios can be even more.
« Last Edit: August 26, 2013, 11:59:40 AM by Zoney »
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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #76 on: August 26, 2013, 12:01:07 PM »
if your a 109 pilot that enjoys scenery and then returning to base because your fuel light just came on then yea will be riveting.

To make it interesting (and fun for all) there needs to be 45 Hurricane pilots signed up RIGHT AWAY!   :D

I mean even Stukas and Heinkels got full before the Hurricane, this is madness!  

Perhaps they sense impending defeat, and don't wish to suffer the consequences of inadequacy. And I commend them on their intelligent, if not particularly courageous, decision to stay out of the fight. When the flood-waters of the Reich wash over the UK, they will be spared.

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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #77 on: August 26, 2013, 12:36:26 PM »
i'll add you and give you a spot in a hurri squad danny.     :aok

You should now see the RAF Allied forum under special events. 

splendid. Cheers   :aok
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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #78 on: August 26, 2013, 12:46:06 PM »


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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #79 on: August 26, 2013, 01:04:55 PM »
Pilots hate the term "drivers."

Well that explains all of these silly things worn with pride over the years.






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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #80 on: August 26, 2013, 01:09:44 PM »
"They" aren't all bad.  None of them have been bad for me.  I enjoy them so much that I have requested to re-arrange my schedule at work so I can have Saturdays off for the month of September so I can fly all the frames.  I'm a positive guy, a glass half full guy.  I'm not stupid.  I don't have blinders on.  I see the flaws but I don't focus on them.  I read the rules and I find them quite clear.  I had to read them more than once, I had to think about what I was reading but I got them right and my understanding was confirmed as they were explained ad infinitum.  If you are going to be miserable, please feel free to withdraw from the event.  Your responses in this "recruitment" thread are not helping the event, it is not promoting the event, it is not encouraging players to participate.

To all Aces High players.
Sign up and participate as much as you can.  If you have not done one of these before, sign up and try it.  Make your own decisions after it is over and decide if you want to do them in the future.  Bring your friends.  Bring your squadmates.  If you are a dedicated Axis or a dedicated Allied flyer you can do one of two things.  Sign up and fly on the side you have been dedicated to, or sign up and fly the side that you would not normally fly with to experience the other side of the war.  I have bounced around in Aces High quite a bit.  I've been in a dozen squads.  I have flown axis and I've flown Allied.  I've flown fighters and bombers.  Never, have I asked myself, "What am I doing this for".  Scenarios, (and FSO's), can allow you to immerse yourself in the gameplay and possibly feel just a little of what the "Greatest Generation" surely felt as they woke up to a cold and misty dawn watching their friends dress and eat what may have been their last meal, drink what might be their last cup of coffee, groan as they lifted themselves into their aluminum birds for what may be the last time.  Roll down the runway and watch their home field dissappear for what may be the last time.  They were thinking about the girl waiting for them at home wondering if they were ever going to see her again.  Thinking about that last kiss and dearly wishing for a chance for another.  They worried about their mothers being upset if they did not come home.  They knew their brothers and sisters loved them and wanted them to come home but they had to fight, and maybe they had to die so they would have a home to come home to.  Then they had to focus and forget all of that as they engaged the enemy.  They were all scared.  They all would have had a place that they would rather be, but there was only one place they should be, in the cockpit, engaging the enemy who were just like them and they knew that other man, their foe, was no different than them and deserved as a human being to live a life free from war, and pain, and suffering, and yet, they pulled that trigger.........

FSO players know that there is much more to Aces High than just the main arena.  Scenarios can be even more.

Great post for all.  <S>

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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #81 on: August 26, 2013, 01:10:09 PM »
Well that explains all of these silly things worn with pride over the years.

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I'll bet they look nice on those bus driver uniforms...  :devil

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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #82 on: August 26, 2013, 01:17:45 PM »
No Spitfire pilots needed?

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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #83 on: August 26, 2013, 01:19:45 PM »
No Spitfire pilots needed?

Spitfires filled up rather quickly. Unofficially, there's been some talk of volunteers to switch over from pits to Hurricanes if that will draw more volunteers. It's not set in stone yet.

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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #84 on: August 26, 2013, 01:27:51 PM »
Do the Bosch planes have 15 minutes fuel over Britain? :old:
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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #85 on: August 26, 2013, 01:33:21 PM »
Well that explains all of these silly things worn with pride over the years.

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I was talking to a WW2 vet 38 pilot and I referred to a 38 driver.  He asked me how I knew that term as they called themselves that due to the 38 having a wheel on the control column. :)
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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #86 on: August 26, 2013, 01:38:46 PM »
I'll bet they look nice on those bus driver uniforms...  :devil

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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #87 on: August 26, 2013, 01:58:04 PM »
Well that explains all of these silly things worn with pride over the years.

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Yeah, what do they know?  :noid
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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #88 on: August 26, 2013, 04:09:06 PM »
Dear, youre being disappointed, really?
You exactly know what im talking about.
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Re: Bitterly disappointed
« Reply #89 on: August 26, 2013, 04:44:58 PM »
Spitfires, bah.  Hurricanes were the real brawlers of the Battle of Britain!  :aok