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Offline TequilaChaser

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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #90 on: May 03, 2015, 10:05:14 PM »
Quote from: Threeup on May 02, 2015, 04:58:53 AM
The fight is the thing. All else is conversation.

You walk miles across manicured grass in strange clothing and have to put up with boring stories about work you're not interested in dragging a bag that keeps getting stuck and has more in it than the store you bought it from. But then, you swing just right and the ball goes like a well aimed rocket and the sound off the club is the sweetest "tink" ever made. Same thing.

You drag yourself out of bed in the dead of winter and get out of a perfectly warm car to go into a very dark, very cold ocean. Then you catch one that rears up and you're racing along, fully in control. Surfboard and man as one, carving up and down, turn after turn. Perfect lines. Same thing.

Enduring hour after hour of ack hugging, Dora running, window licking, chest beating, gangtarding "pilots", someone will come from somewhere and for about five minutes you can match move for move, turn for turn and feint for feint. And in that small time you can completely immerse yourself in the fight. Then when you review the film you're shocked that what you thought was about 30 minutes, was in fact five. And, in the end, winning is good and losing is irrelevant.

Get that and you'll get why I play Aces High.

Very nice post, Threeup, I got to where you're at 20 years ago, good to see all of  the others to find it

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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #91 on: May 04, 2015, 07:18:24 AM »
Spending time with my squaddies. Since my divorce I have much more free time and I enjoy spending it with my squaddies. I like working as a team no matter what we are doing. Nothing beats laughing the night away with a bunch of folks you respect and admire. After leaving the Army (17 years) I find that I missed the team work aspect that I had in my life and I get that need met here. I don't know what I would have done without my buddies help and support in the last few years and the game for me has been an escape and a release. The people are what keep me coming back the game is what it is and I try to improve all the time but in the end it is the interaction with others that is the driving force behind my being here since 09...
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #92 on: May 07, 2015, 06:50:15 PM »
Depends. By far on the top of the list is the fight of all fights that last a long time, starting from working to the deck.
Or Bracket fights.

Becoming Better to make encounters with other folks, so they have to earn thier kill satisfying thier wanting a good fight.

Killing is fun. Using techniques you learn Is fun. And i love teaching new guys.

Also derping is fun. Latrobe, Crabby we need to derp when i return!

And have fun. Fly with different groups, make friends, and have a good time.
The key is having an open mind :salute :devil :banana: :joystick: :old:

But ive only played once in the past year :(
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #93 on: May 07, 2015, 09:37:01 PM »
to have fun!! I don't ho cause anyone can do that, and im not anyone. I like the challenge of getting on someone's six or dying trying. I love defending a carriers in twin 5 inchers and I love tank night in the AVA!
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #94 on: May 07, 2015, 11:26:31 PM »
TROLLING
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #95 on: May 07, 2015, 11:31:06 PM »
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #96 on: May 08, 2015, 12:32:10 PM »
Cherry picking knife-fighters.   :neener:
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #97 on: May 08, 2015, 03:51:03 PM »
My goal is to smack people around in my P-38J while having a crap load of fun doing it.
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #98 on: May 09, 2015, 03:50:48 AM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on May 08, 2015, 03:51:03 PM
My goal is to smack people around in my P-38J while having a crap load of fun doing it.
mission accomplished  :D
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #99 on: May 10, 2015, 01:47:44 AM »
My primary goal is to practice for the next scenario I'll be playing in.
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #100 on: May 10, 2015, 07:40:39 AM »
Initially it was to be the first kid on my block to get a kill in 1941 Spit V.  Now its to poke people in the virtual eyes, and have some fun.
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #101 on: May 10, 2015, 09:49:47 AM »
I said the fight before but I think, Immersion is the better answer!
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #102 on: May 10, 2015, 10:36:06 AM »
Upping a Spit V while the horde is attacking a base and staying in the weeds spinning and dodging and shooting one or two down as 5 try desperatley to shoot you down. Laughing while 3 auger diving down from 3k to kill you as you turn to avoid.. and lasting what seems like forever but was probably only a minute or two... before finally you get shot down... and then read on the 200 buffer from a player I had great respect for as a pilot, but mainly a class act, not a trash talker :  NwBie?  Holy crap !!  lol

Funny how that one "sortie" sticks in my mind ... and I haven't played in quite a while, but it still is fresh in my mind.. people have fun and get enjoyment in different ways, there are many goals. I can remember many moments, but mainly the ones when I laughed my arse off with squaddies and different en-mes who had a decent sense of humor.
Lots of class acts in this game and I have always recommended this game for that reason. Ignore the whiners and enjoy the companionship of the ones who realize it is a game - games are meant to be fun :)
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #103 on: May 10, 2015, 04:08:59 PM »
To find a fight, and, win, lose or draw, get through it without doing something stupid.
Two examples from this weekend:
Up a F4U1D on a JABO flight. Both sorties result in two town building and two gun emplacements down..... :banana:

Mission 1 ends when engaging two Spits on the way back to base. After first pass I lose track of Spit #1, Think I have found him again as he kills me from my low 6.......   :bhead

Mission 2 starts the same. I also engage two Spits (at the same base). Fly several passes, avoid being sandwiched, keep my energy up but get killed by one of the Spits from D600+   :aok

Dead both times but #1 was stupid and #2 was unlucky.
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Re: What is your primary goal when playing AH?
« Reply #104 on: May 10, 2015, 04:59:09 PM »
I try to fly at least one, if not many more, mission profiles totally unlike any I have flown before.


I just don't know how guys can fly the same planes the same way over and over.
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