MONDAY NIGHT MADNESS!
NO MERCY, NO BRAKES, AND ABSOLUTELY NO SURVIVORS' CLUB!
Aces High III — November 2, 2026
230 KILLS, 41 MANEUVER KILLS, AND ONE HELL OF A MONDAY NIGHT!
Monday Night Madness returned with all the subtlety of
a brick thrown through a cockpit windshield!What started as another friendly gathering of Aces High pilots quickly deteriorated into a
full-blown aerial demolition derby. Spitfires, Messerschmitts, Wildcats, Thunderbolts, Hurricanes, and anything else capable of getting airborne were thrown into a meat grinder where
survival was optional, ammunition was temporary, and dignity was usually the first casualty!The combat logs recorded
230 direct kills and another 41 maneuver kills. That's
271 recorded kill awards, with enough wreckage to keep the virtual scrap dealers employed until Christmas!
And judging by the results, some pilots apparently mistook the event for an
all-you-can-eat buffet of enemy aircraft!
TDGSHANE — THE SKY'S MOST UNWELCOME HOUSEGUEST!
Somebody really should have warned everyone that
tdgShane was coming.
With an absolutely ridiculous
37 direct kills and another 5 maneuver kills, Shane turned the evening into a personal demonstration of why flying in a straight line is hazardous to your health.
Eagler took a particularly savage beating, appearing on the receiving end of
ten of Shane's direct kills. ZE wasn't exactly having a wonderful evening either, suffering six!
Shane didn't simply enter a fight.
He arrived, rearranged the furniture, shot up the neighborhood, and left everyone wondering what the hell had just happened!But Shane wasn't invincible. HlyWd, Eagler, N7, and others managed to put him on the receiving end as well.
That's the beautiful thing about Monday Night Madness. One minute you're the king of the skies. The next minute you're looking at the tower wondering
who just handed you your ass!
HLYWD — HOLLYWOOD'S VERSION OF A CONTROLLED EXPLOSION!
HlyWd came into the fight and immediately began making enemies.
With
21 direct kills, Hollywood delivered a spectacular performance that would have made any action-movie director proud.
Unfortunately,
this movie didn't come with stunt doubles!Fudgums2, N7, and several others discovered that Hollywood was perfectly willing to send them back to the hangar.
But the opposition returned the favor. HlyWd's own aircraft repeatedly found itself on the receiving end of concentrated gunfire.
Hollywood was shooting people down, getting shot down, and coming right back for another helping!
Somebody give this man a fresh airplane and a bigger ammunition budget!
STEEL — SIXTEEN REASONS TO STAY HOME!
Then there was
STEEL.
Sixteen direct kills!STEEL showed up like an angry mechanic with a grudge against aviation. SkrAling was particularly unfortunate, losing five aircraft to STEEL's guns, while HORRIDO1 lost four and ZE lost three.
It wasn't a dogfight anymore.
It was a flying scrapyard with STEEL operating the crushing machine!Apparently, the only thing STEEL liked better than shooting down airplanes was finding another one to shoot down.
HORRIDO1 AND FUDGUMS2 — THE DOUBLE TROUBLE DEPARTMENT!
HORRIDO1 and
Fudgums2 each collected
14 direct kills, proving that the Bf 110 could be an absolutely miserable sight to find in your rearview mirror.
HORRIDO1 spent the evening hammering jaeger1, tdgShane, Molsman, and anybody else unfortunate enough to wander into his gunsight.
Fudgums2 was equally unpleasant, knocking down Molsman four times and collecting additional victims including BangsBox and jaeger1.
These two weren't interested in sightseeing.
They were conducting aggressive, high-speed aircraft recycling operations!And business was booming!
LAZER — FOURTEEN KILLS AND NO REFUNDS!
Lazer joined the destruction with another
14 direct kills, making sure nobody enjoyed a peaceful flight through the combat area.
CANUKK caught three of those kills, while jaeger1 and SNO also discovered that Lazer had absolutely no intention of letting them fly home without a fight.
Lazer's approach to aerial combat appeared remarkably simple:
Find airplane. Shoot airplane. Find another airplane.
Repeat until somebody complains!
JAEGER1 — THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO STAY DEAD!
Now we come to
jaeger1.
Fourteen direct kills and one maneuver kill.Not bad for a fellow who apparently spent half the evening getting personally acquainted with every enemy gunsight in the arena!
HORRIDO1, SkrAling, and N7 each suffered three direct kills at jaeger1's hands.
But the return fire was absolutely brutal.
ZE, Eagler, JoeZee, Wiley, and practically half the flying population took turns rearranging jaeger1's aircraft.
At one point, it looked less like a dogfight and more like everybody had received an invitation to the same barbecue —
and jaeger1 was the main course!But did he quit?
HELL NO!
Back into the air, back into the fight, and back into somebody else's gunsight!
That's Monday Night Madness!
ZE — THE FLYING MENACE!
ZE was another pilot who apparently decided that moderation was for people who didn't own machine guns.
With
13 direct kills and 7 maneuver kills, ZE spent the evening in an FM2 Wildcat, making life absolutely miserable for the opposition.
Molsman, SNO, and jaeger1 all repeatedly appeared on the wrong end of ZE's guns.
The combat logs show sustained bursts of gunfire, followed by the inevitable kill awards.
ZE was especially hard on Molsman's Mosquitos, proving that having two engines doesn't necessarily improve your chances when somebody is determined to
turn your airplane into confetti!
N7 — THE MASTER OF MAKING PEOPLE CRASH!
If there was an award for making opponents regret their life choices,
N7 would deserve serious consideration.
N7 recorded
12 direct kills and an astonishing 15 maneuver kills!FIFTEEN!
Apparently, shooting opponents down wasn't entertaining enough. N7 preferred to convince them to fly themselves into disaster!
Whether through aggressive maneuvering, desperate evasive action, or simply running out of sky, opponents kept handing N7 maneuver-kill credits.
N7 didn't need to shoot everybody.
Sometimes the enemy did the work for him!
WILEY, EAGLER, AND SKRALING — THE THREE HORSEMEN OF THE HANGAR!
Wiley finished with
12 direct kills and 2 maneuver kills, delivering punishment to Molsman, CANUKK, and N7.
Eagler recorded
11 direct kills and 2 maneuver kills, repeatedly hammering SNO, jaeger1, and Molsman.
And
SkrAling, flying with 2 Gruppo "Diavoli Rossi," added another
11 direct kills, making life particularly unpleasant for HlyWd, Lazer, and BangsBox.
These three were not interested in polite aerial engagements.
They wanted guns firing, airplanes burning, and somebody screaming over vox that they had just been
HOSED!And they delivered!
THE REST OF THE LUNATICS WERE NOT EXACTLY INNOCENT!
SNO and
CANUKK each collected
9 direct kills.
AKWarHwk added
8.
JoeZee accounted for
7.
Molsman grabbed
5.
And
BangsBox managed
3 direct kills and 2 maneuver kills.
Nobody was getting a free pass!Even pilots who spent considerable time getting shot down managed to take somebody else with them.
It was the kind of evening where you could shoot down three enemies, get blasted out of the sky yourself, and still consider the sortie a smashing success!
THE FINAL VERDICT — ABSOLUTE, UNCONTROLLED MAYHEM!
By the time the fighting wound down, Monday Night Madness had delivered another spectacular evening of airborne insanity.
The numbers tell the story:230 direct kill awards41 maneuver kill awards66 assists298 recorded flight starts18 pilots credited with direct killsThere were no safe airplanes, no guaranteed victories, and absolutely no shortage of pilots willing to risk another perfectly good fighter for five seconds of glory.
Some pilots dominated.
Some pilots suffered.
Some pilots spent so much time in the tower
they probably should have started paying rent!But everybody who entered the fight contributed to another unforgettable evening of Aces High combat.
And that's what makes Monday Night Madness so much fun.
You don't need a perfect aircraft.You don't need a perfect plan.You don't even need to be particularly good at landing!You just need the willingness to climb into a fighter, find trouble, and keep coming back when trouble finds you first!
MONDAY NIGHT MADNESS!
WHERE FRIENDSHIPS ARE TESTED, AIRPLANES ARE EXPENDABLE, AND THE ONLY THING MORE DANGEROUS THAN YOUR ENEMY IS YOUR OWN CONFIDENCE!
Great fighting to everyone who participated!
See you next Monday night, when we do the whole damn thing all over again!
jaeger1 <S>
