More in praise of Pizzaland™ :)

[brendo]

Regarding point 3.... I happened to capture the moment of the CV loss. When I saw three B17's overhead, I thought that the end was near    It was BGBMAW... I engaged his formation for over ten minutes, but neither of us scored a kill. (two experten you see  )

[brendo]

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[beet1e]

Another Golden Day in the desert

Brendo

I watched your film. I remember that happening.

Well, we've just finished a few real estate transactions. I came online and saw that V205 was red, just east of one of our aircraft bases. I decided to up a P47D-30 with 2x1000, 1x500 and 10 rockets to flatten it.  It was a textbook mission, if I may say so myself. Used the dive flaps in all dives. First vertical dive was with the 2x1000 selected for the VH. Boom! Next, .salvo 5 for the rockets. I made one pass for each ack, releasing 5 rockets on each pass. No problems there. No enemy GVs had got out, so I threw away the 1x500 and headed home to land. But oh! No one to help with the troops. Sod it, I'll get a goon in there myself, which I did - with about 1 minute to spare. What's this new "Gironimo" thing when releasing troops from the C47? Let me know the file name, so I can delete it. My drop was adequate, and the field went Bish.

Now to get that other field V206, before they hit us back. Same as before - P47D30. This field is a little harder, and I got my right gear pinged out, but the field was flat by then. And then I saw a green M3 - woohoo! I think it was blunder or boozer - those guys helped me a lot. I proceeded to A189 to start on that. Got its VH ack, and then realised I might as well do the town acks. I got them all, but suffered major structural damage. The plane was flyable, but blew up. Oh well... The good news was that the M3s got in to V206 - another field goes Bish!

Finally, I met up with Brendo, and we both went in P47D30, armed to the teeth. The town acks at 189 were still down, and I went to work on what was left, which was everything else. Poor Brendo had a mishap along the way I dropped my bombs, fired my rockets, and then made some strafing runs to finish the job. But oh! Here comes a Yak... I had enough E to zoom up, and then make a chandelle so as to get on his 6. He was going to strafe a Bish M3 that had arrived on the scene, but I had other ideas and shot him up. He attempted to rtb but died when attempting to land. The M3 released the troops and 189 was ours.

Not a bad hour's work, if I may say so myself! With thanks to the three Bs - brendo, blunder & boozer.

... and Lazs can eat my shorts.

[lazs2]

I don't get the tampax joke.  

beetle... sounds like you were having the time of your life playing AH till a real live person in an ac ruined it... Oh well... someday the boxed version will come out.

ripsnore..  yeah... and so your point would be?

lazs
Public Relations Officer for the BK's

[beet1e]

Lazs!

Public Relations Officer

ROFL! Well I get that joke.

[lazs2]

beetle...  that wasn't a joke.
lazs

[J_A_B]

I think Beet1e's post demonstrates quite well my point that for the "strat" players, AH is more of a team-based vs. AI game than a PvP game.

Personally I'd find that sort of gameplay painfully boring; I'm not into the field capture.  Unfortunately, when there's 100 players online there's not much else to do in AKDESERT.  HiTech's suggestion that maybe some fields could be disabled at off-peak hours has a lot of promise though.  I hope it works well.

J_A_B

[beet1e]

J_A_B  I understand your point of view, and I was quite surprised that I faced so little opposition today. That was at around noon here - 7am where you are. Being in Euroland makes empty arenas a fact of life, unless I were to play all night through to about 5am or 6am.  And I hasten to add that jabo/capture is not all I do. Yesterday, I fancied something different, and went to a furball fight in a 190A5 - got 8 kills in the session, including a 5 kill sortie. All I'm saying is - I like variety. I like it to be a little like the real war, and not entirely like an arcade game.