Master of the Air miniseries, 8th AF action, and the next Scenario

[hazmatt]

Put a post in the IL2 forum for other sims. 13 views in the first 20 min lol. https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/86954-aces-high-iii-%E2%80%9Cbig-week%E2%80%9D-scenario-feb-3rd-mar-2nd/

I am going to blast it on a few Reddit subs as we get closer. I did link to events page in a discussion thread in the IL2 reddit though.

OMG. You posted about AH3 on IL2 forums?! Are you trying to kill IL2?! Surely you will be banned I tell you!

[Dadtallica]

OMG. You posted about AH3 on IL2 forums?! Are you trying to kill IL2?! Surely you will be banned I tell you!

Help I’ve been arrested by the online forum police.

[CptTrips]

Help I’ve been arrested by the online forum police.

Don't worry, they're probably just silly self-appointed Hall Monitors.  Ignore them.

[LCADolby]

Help I’ve been arrested by the online forum police.

Animl reporting for duty!

[hazmatt]

I'm doomed. I replied to your post on the IL2 forums...

If you stop hearing from me you know they're coming to take me away!

[Dadtallica]

I'm doomed. I replied to your post on the IL2 forums...

If you stop hearing from me you know they're coming to take me away!

You will be remembered as a brave soul.

[xanax]

The online flight sim community is pretty niche, small and it's shrinking. This cross pollination and cross promotion stuff does nothing but help grow the community in my opinion. Highlighting and promoting other games' strengths and weaknesses shed light on your own as well. Seeing and discussing what's over the fence in the neighbors yard might show you what you need to improve in your own backyard.
I'm back to looking at all this stuff and it's great. I can't wait to get back to AH gameplay and I'm looking forward to some of those cool missions and the like over at IL-2 too. Not sure what the other sim mentioned is, but color me intrigued. Intrigue plays a big part in keeping this niche world going and growing.
Keep up the intrigue, I say.
In the meanwhile, I'm gonna practice as I'm absolutely looking forward to this scenario. It's great to see the enthusiasm for it...reminds me of the old days.

I looked over my backyard fence over the summer while trimming a tree. I almost saw boobies. I also almost fell off the ladder too. That was intriguing.

[Dadtallica]

The online flight sim community is pretty niche, small and it's shrinking. This cross pollination and cross promotion stuff does nothing but help grow the community in my opinion. Highlighting and promoting other games' strengths and weaknesses shed light on your own as well. Seeing and discussing what's over the fence in the neighbors yard might show you what you need to improve in your own backyard.
I'm back to looking at all this stuff and it's great. I can't wait to get back to AH gameplay and I'm looking forward to some of those cool missions and the like over at IL-2 too. Not sure what the other sim mentioned is, but color me intrigued. Intrigue plays a big part in keeping this niche world going and growing.
Keep up the intrigue, I say.
In the meanwhile, I'm gonna practice as I'm absolutely looking forward to this scenario. It's great to see the enthusiasm for it...reminds me of the old days.

I looked over my backyard fence over the summer while trimming a tree. I almost saw boobies. I also almost fell off the ladder too. That was intriguing.

Oh no they got to you too! 

Great points Xanax welcome back! 

[Brooke]

I looked over my backyard fence over the summer while trimming a tree. I almost saw boobies. I also almost fell off the ladder too. That was intriguing.

The best sort of intrigue.

[Dadtallica]

The post on the IL2 forum has 118 views in under a day so not too shabby. And old Air Warrior player replied that he is going to come check it out. I told him to stop in here and he may be surprised who is still around lol. His IL name was Kestral79 not sure if it was the same in AW.

[Animl-AW]

The online flight sim community is pretty niche, small and it's shrinking. This cross pollination and cross promotion stuff does nothing but help grow the community in my opinion. Highlighting and promoting other games' strengths and weaknesses shed light on your own as well. Seeing and discussing what's over the fence in the neighbors yard might show you what you need to improve in your own backyard.
I'm back to looking at all this stuff and it's great. I can't wait to get back to AH gameplay and I'm looking forward to some of those cool missions and the like over at IL-2 too. Not sure what the other sim mentioned is, but color me intrigued. Intrigue plays a big part in keeping this niche world going and growing.
Keep up the intrigue, I say.
In the meanwhile, I'm gonna practice as I'm absolutely looking forward to this scenario. It's great to see the enthusiasm for it...reminds me of the old days.

I looked over my backyard fence over the summer while trimming a tree. I almost saw boobies. I also almost fell off the ladder too. That was intriguing.

1) only said by players who play different games.

2) on other games its either segregated or not allowed at all.

3) when its only done forum wide in one game it puts it behind the 8ball.

4) IF it were equal I might agree, but its not. Its unleashed here, so I don’t agree.

It doesn’t hurt the other games. Obviously I’m not alone, base because 1, pretty planes, agrees with me. Its not s single person concept. Killing a game does not preserve the niche.

[hazmatt]

I know that some might find this shocking but some of us are actually promoting AH3 in the IL2 forums and nobody is complaining about it:


Aces High III “Big Week” Scenario Feb. 3rd - Mar. 2nd
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Yesterday at 11:23 AM in Other Sims and Games

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Posted yesterday at 11:23 AM (edited)

Not sure if there any Aces High players in here but there is a new scenario starting on 2/3/24 and continuing on Saturdays through 3/2/24.

 

To coincide with the new Masters of the Air tv show premier this scenario will focus on a Big Week style time frame of the European campaigns. Not an exact redo but there will be bombers to fly and shoot.
 

Aces High is free to try and always free offline. There are over 120 WWII Planes and vehicles to use.  No credit card is needed for your free trial and during you will get two week access to all multiplayer arenas.

 

Scenario planes to include the B17 and varying models of P51’s, P47’s, BF109’s and FW190’s.

 

Registration begins on 1/7/24. More info to come and can be found at the AH Special Events site.
 

Aces High Special Events

 

There is also a teaser video on YouTube.
 

All are welcome!


 
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Posted 19 hours ago

Sounds like fun!

 

If you plan to fly it you might want to download it and get your stuff setup before the even or you might find yourself fumbling around.

 

You could always be a gunner though. I don't think you even need a joystick for that if I recall correctly.

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Posted 17 hours ago (edited)

     
    19 hours ago, HazMatt said:

    Sounds like fun!

     

    If you plan to fly it you might want to download it and get your stuff setup before the even or you might find yourself fumbling around.

     

    You could always be a gunner though. I don't think you even need a joystick for that if I recall correctly.

No joystick required but it is very highly recommended. All planes, vehicles, and guns are controllable by mouse and keyboard.
 

AH3 also is friendly to VR.
 

Always a good idea to get settings squared away and make yourself comfortable offline first.

 
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Posted 4 hours ago

How is this compared to Warthunder, IL2, and DCS? I played Air Warrior back in the day and I think this is the spiritual successor right? I always liked the larger number of players online in one game, and the ability to capture bases was fun too. Great gameplay. But I'm dating myself and talking AOL in 1997 here

 

How much does it cost a month to play after the trial?
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Posted 3 hours ago (edited)

Come on back! There are no shortage of the old Air Warrior vets in Aces High lol!
 

You pretty much described it as it is today. AH has a lot of unique things that those others do not. Player numbers aren’t like the old days but getting about 130 in prime time and more for the scenarios and FSO’s. It’s 14.99 a month after the trial.
 

No charge to download and start flying offline if you want to get familiar again. You can wait a bit and sign up for the account closer the scenario if you want to try it during the two week trial.
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Posted 2 hours ago

Cool maybe I'll check it out for Big Week. I actually remember Air Warrior III doing that in the late 90's. How's VR work compared to IL2?
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Posted 2 hours ago (edited)

     
    2 hours ago, kestrel79 said:

    Cool maybe I'll check it out for Big Week. I actually remember Air Warrior III doing that in the late 90's. How's VR work compared to IL2?

I do not use VR since I have a 55” screen but from all accounts it’s a game changer and AH handles it very well.
 

You should pop in the AH forum ahead of time you will for sure find some old AW friends. In fact a few days ago people were looking up old Air Warrior stats lol. What was your AW call sign?

 

There is also a section solely for VR if you have specific questions. AH BBS
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Posted 1 hour ago

What site has the old AW stats? I'll have to check that out. I was in 7th or 8th grade, I was probably terrible. <f16> or <f-16> something like that. I flew with a squadron too, but the name of the squad escapes me. I remember our CO's name was Chunks, or Chnks something like that. And the best pilot in our squad was Dark9. Maybe the Warhawks, Warhammers, something like that. Idk.

 

I would get up early before school at like 6am and fly a B-17 below radar and bomb all the factories for mega points while only a handful of other people were playing online. Also have fond memories of being a gunner on a fully crewed B-17, and we came across another B-17 and got in an epic dogfight of bombers. Great times. Back when you had unlimited free time to play games.
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    1 hour ago, kestrel79 said:

    What site has the old AW stats? I'll have to check that out. I was in 7th or 8th grade, I was probably terrible. <f16> or <f-16> something like that. I flew with a squadron too, but the name of the squad escapes me. I remember our CO's name was Chunks, or Chnks something like that. And the best pilot in our squad was Dark9. Maybe the Warhawks, Warhammers, something like that. Idk.

     

    I would get up early before school at like 6am and fly a B-17 below radar and bomb all the factories for mega points while only a handful of other people were playing online. Also have fond memories of being a gunner on a fully crewed B-17, and we came across another B-17 and got in an epic dogfight of bombers. Great times. Back when you had unlimited free time to play games.
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I am not sure where they got them but I will post this screenshot in the forum and see what happens. AH is still full of old AW pilots.
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    1 hour ago, kestrel79 said:

    Also have fond memories of being a gunner on a fully crewed B-17, and we came across another B-17 and got in an epic

Do they have b 17?

how is the gameplay compared to il 2 and fm

[Dadtallica]

It’s weird that nobody in the IL2 forum has sent me any hate filled pm’s after 140 views. Already looks like we have a couple people interested too. I’m going to start Reddit subs this weekend.

r/flightsim and r/microsoftflightsim have weekly self promo threads for whatever you want. The Microsoft sub has 140k members and is the #14 sub for all simulation games. Hoping to get some good traction out of that one.

[Dadtallica]

Kestrel79
What site has the old AW stats? I'll have to check that out. I was in 7th or 8th grade, I was probably terrible. <f16> or <f-16> something like that. I flew with a squadron too, but the name of the squad escapes me. I remember our CO's name was Chunks, or Chnks something like that. And the best pilot in our squad was Dark9. Maybe the Warhawks, Warhammers, something like that. Idk.

 I would get up early before school at like 6am and fly a B-17 below radar and bomb all the factories for mega points while only a handful of other people were playing online. Also have fond memories of being a gunner on a fully crewed B-17, and we came across another B-17 and got in an epic dogfight of bombers. Great times. Back when you had unlimited free time to play games.
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I am not sure where they got them but I will post this screenshot in the forum and see what happens. AH is still full of old AW pilots.
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Does any of this ring a bell for the old AW crew? I came along after that time.

[CptTrips]

It’s weird that nobody in the IL2 forum has sent me any hate filled pm’s after 140 views.

Maybe they are on their meds.