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Offline Tumor

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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #60 on: December 31, 2025, 02:12:11 AM »
Anybody planning to buy?

I keep looking at it... but as soon as I do, I feel like I need a shower.

I just don't know about this one.  My experience with the Korea Theater scene has been less than stellar.
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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #61 on: December 31, 2025, 07:06:46 AM »
Early jets running from late prop planes...t&b gone, early crappy missiles and dar..

Not to mention it's a war we that cost plenty in lives and $$$ and we're not victorious in the end like the two world wars before it...

Kinda set the stage for a similar time in Vietnam..

No thanks..

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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #62 on: December 31, 2025, 07:21:13 AM »
Our purpose for being in South Korea was to defend it from communist aggression. In that we were successful. The Koreas serve as an excellent comparison of free enterprise vs communism today.
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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #63 on: December 31, 2025, 08:01:24 AM »
Our purpose for being in South Korea was to defend it from communist aggression. In that we were successful. The Koreas serve as an excellent comparison of free enterprise vs communism today.

The war was never declared over..we are just in a cease fire...

I guess it ended better than the majority of conflicts that followed..

Still it doesn't sound like good fun a2a game to me  :joystick:

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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #64 on: December 31, 2025, 09:26:45 AM »
If anybody does try it I would love to hear their opinion of it. I'll sit here on the fence and watch for now.

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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #65 on: December 31, 2025, 09:30:00 AM »
The war was never declared over..we are just in a cease fire...

I guess it ended better than the majority of conflicts that followed..

Still it doesn't sound like good fun a2a game to me  :joystick:

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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #66 on: December 31, 2025, 09:35:15 AM »
I'll eventually get the game and of course there'd better be bridges at Toko-Ri.
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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #67 on: December 31, 2025, 09:41:32 AM »
I'll eventually get the game and of course there'd better be bridges at Toko-Ri.

https://www.chopperspotter.com/top-helicopters-of-the-korean-war/

Because jets are for gurlz.  ;)

Well, except for maybe the A6 Intruder. ;)

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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #68 on: December 31, 2025, 10:32:40 AM »
https://www.chopperspotter.com/top-helicopters-of-the-korean-war/

Well, except for maybe the A6 Intruder. ;)

I remember playing h2h on Flight of the Intruder back in the day!

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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #69 on: December 31, 2025, 10:40:16 AM »
Flight of the Intruder. The book was much better than the movie. Going downtown. Oh yeah.
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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #70 on: December 31, 2025, 04:07:17 PM »
My dad used to tune to hanoi hannah’s radio station and bomb the transmitter.

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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #71 on: January 03, 2026, 07:34:53 PM »
I know. Was there three times, 2 TDYs and a year PCS. Doesn't change the vast difference between the two countries. One of which we are largely responsible for.

How much you figure you spent on O.B.?
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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #72 on: January 03, 2026, 09:38:28 PM »
How much you figure you spent on O.B.?

A little but I wasn't much of a drinker then. A little soju too. Some fried who knows what from the street vendors a few times. In paper cones made from computer printout sheets discarded by the base. I was there last in Feb '94.
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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #73 on: January 04, 2026, 09:54:43 AM »
I did do the snake shot at the little bar just outside Osan. Boogie House? I didn't get the t-shirt.
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Re: IL2 Korea pre-release
« Reply #74 on: January 04, 2026, 12:19:23 PM »
I remember spending some time at Pusan. We got of the ship early and like any good sailors in port, we had beers in our hands before noon. We were out somewhere on the base somewhere drinking our beers when an older guy out for is morning jog in his PT gear passed by. He looked at us and said: "don't be throwing your trash on my lawn" My buddies and I looked at each other but didn't respond to this guy calling the base his lawn because we weren't sure who he was. We later learned that he was the CSM for Camp Hialeah so I guess it really was "his lawn".