Who Started The War Anyways?

[MrKrabs]

Actually it was started by a GEnie named Kesmai. The war goes back to the ancient times of 1988, when it was a war between the As Bs and Cs. Hitech and Pyro battled in the war in those days. Then they spread it to an alternate universe where the war was fought by Reds Greens and Golds. In 2000 they war brought to this world where it is battled by chess pieces instead of letters or colors.

And what exactly was his goal?

[Shifty]

And what exactly was his goal?

Your money.

[kvuo75]

and some of you weirdoes used to pay hourly rate to do it..

(luckily I was too poor at the time)

[Fulcrum]

Nerds! Woot Woot! 

[Nefarious]

Doesn't matter who started it. Only who finishes it.

[ReVo]

Legend has it the war was started as a result of the betting of sheep on a game of Hungry Hungry Hippo's, followed by accusations of cheating.

[MrKrabs]

Nerds! Woot Woot! 

Sorry one Debbie Downer per thread

[Fulcrum]

Sorry one Debbie Downer per thread

Awwww!

[DmonSlyr]

The rooks started the war. The knights were pushing forward in their territory . The rooks realizing their land was being taken, confronted The knights with a deadly attack. A war erupted. Pilots trained and fought. Troops battled losses but strove to take more land. The bishops recognized the tyranny but insisted on staying out.  

[Latrobe]

The rooks started the war. The knights were pushing forward in their territory . The rooks realizing their land was being taken, confronted The knights with a deadly attack. A war erupted. Pilots trained and fought. Troops battled losses but strove to take more land. The bishops recognized the tyranny but insisted on staying out.  

I feel like some sides were mixed up there. I have never seen Knights working together to capture land! 

[Rich46yo]

No doubt it started as a contest of skill between gentleman.

Then someone tuned 200, the booze started flowing, and things got personal. Before you know it.....War!

[aztec]

Actually it was started by a GEnie named Kesmai. The war goes back to the ancient times of 1988, when it was a war between the As Bs and Cs. Hitech and Pyro battled in the war in those days. Then they spread it to an alternate universe where the war was fought by Reds Greens and Golds. In 2000 they war brought to this world where it is battled by chess pieces instead of letters or colors.

And Purples

[Zacherof]

Pretty sure he questions how he attracted so many weirdo's to this game... 

Who's weird?

[SB]

This war was started to deprive Wild Bill from capturing the air combat simulation marketplace. It started in 1999 by HiTech (after he left Warbirds and Wild Bill) in an apartment in Grapevine Texas. The first shots were fired by Gateway when they delivered a new, at that time, machine to start him coding on what would become his response to Wild Bill. I can totally substantiate the fact that HiTech wrote Aces High from scratch and didn't take any code from Warbirds. Until the Gateway arrived he didn't have a computer at his apartment. HiTech wrote the host code on a Compaq dual processor, 200 MHz, running Solaris for Intel.

I was privileged to know HiTech at that time and I took at least one day a week to pry him out of his apartment to go fly RC aircraft or some other activity to get his mind off the coding.  He is the only guy I know that watched the entire OJ trial, getting up early to code then watching the trial.

Tanks for the memories 

There were ground vehicles in AirWarrior and HiTech has some very entertaining stories of the various bugs......err features you could exploit. I think, don't know for sure, his experiences in AirWarrior may have led to the interest in ground vehicles.
*note* the jeep is still overmodeled 

SB

[Shifty]

And Purples

You're right it was the purples.