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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Killjoy2 on September 11, 2006, 10:55:20 PM
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When you were just starting out in your first fight sim, who helped you out and what squads have you been in?
For me it was WBs and a guy named Deft. He took me along on a sweep and coached me as we went. (This was all in text back in the old days.) We flew all over with him killing everybody and me killing a couple, then landing. LANDING! That was a new experience. Nothing like an Ace showing you the ropes. I really need to do it more myself.
First squads were: Red Falcons, 1st ACM?, Flying Pigs, Flying Zoo and now a Kid Hofer tribute squad, "Sho-Me".
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For me it was AW in June of 97. Two guys (Dart and Cold) of The Black Roses squad found me in the OC just kinda peaking around. They took me to a training area, showed me a few things and signed me into the Black Roses. I learned a lot from those two in a real short time. Great fun.
asw
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Umm C-64's flight simulator.... I learned all by myself with that uber 4 way stick and 1 button :)
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Haha I first played flight simulator on an Apple IIe.
Later on with an OLD IBM... black and white graphics and "dots" for landmarks. Cropdusting was a blast though in the old MS flight simulator. Wish they still had it.
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Mine was a pilot named Yuri in AirWarrior.
she would take a bunch of us noobs to the WWI arena, and have 5-10 of us trailing along behind her as she showed us different ACM moves. Would go on for 'bout an hour, then we would all go into a private chat room and discuss what we just learned.
(sigh) good times
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2001, the 332nd squadron was formed by GA and I joined them after about a month in AH. The squadron was running training sessions for the newbies and I learned a lot from GA, Selector and Duvel.
I also learned a lot from board discussion with Lephturn, and from films posted by him, Frenchie and Drex. Nautrally, these films involved Jugs so I tried to repeat their moves in a Jug. I liked it so much that I've been flying it since.
I tried looking for the old 332nd vikings website but it appears to be down. Instead I found an AAR website of TOD (today called FSO) I used to run. Here's one of my favorites:
Battle ground Fillippines (http://bozon332.tripod.com/etod2frame3/index.html)
And the Vikings in their glory days (AH1 actually looked good:)):
(http://bozon332.tripod.com/tod2frame2/ahss8.jpg)
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I used to fly a lot of H2H with Deft back in the old Brand W days.
He was wicked in that FM2!
He also ran a darn good H2H ladder.
Squads, well I started out in a H2H bunch, but quickly got online with Daddog & the Flying Mongrels. Been with them through thick & thin.
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Started in AH with the M.A.W. and was mentored by iceMAW ... fantastic guy and a fantastic fighter pilot.
The "old guard vets" in the MAW that helped with the addiction ...
40DogMAW
PropMAW
Paint
REDMAW
T2MAW
38MAW
TMAW
crowMAW
BgMAW
BGBMAW
urbMAW - silky smoooooooooth
muckmaw
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Yea deft got me hooked also. Back in 1995 we worked together, and he built a computer for me. Told me about warbirds, and I was hooked! We would talk WWII aviation all night, and then log on after work, and play until the sun came up. But he is still a punk! :D
The Red Falcons were my first squad, and I have some fond memories of that time. Used to fly a lot with some dweeb named rexx. :cool:
Frodo
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Originally posted by Flayed1
Umm C-64's flight simulator.... I learned all by myself with that uber 4 way stick and 1 button :)
Learned on the same game, same copy (bought in '84 or '85), same computer back in the awesome '80's. Flayd is my brother. Our dad still has Sub-Logic's version of Flight Simulator on tape, which took fooooorrrrrrrrreeeevvvvveeerr rrr to load. One side of it, we were flying around Illinois in a Piper Cherokee, the other side was aerial combat against WW1 A.I. (if you wnat to call it that) opponents on a green, flat-grid map with two sides of card-board mountians and a river cut through the middle.
There aren't many screenshots. I had a helluva time finding this one.
(http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/73/fsii20for20c64capitol1sg5.gif)
And check out the good read on the box!:D
(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/4614/115798165500wa2.jpg)
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Stupid tripod blocks the hot link.
Here they are, 332nd vikings in their finest hour.
Ahhh.... good old times, I remember when players were honorable, talk on channel 1 was polite, sheep were fluffy, the sun was green and little elves were playing in the streets.
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/1015_1158073956_ahss8.jpg)
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Was my 1st flight game on a c64. AW1 on AOHELL was my first online game. I flew with Hog@n's Heros. Hog@n and cartr taught me a good bit. Had to take a break for awhile when I came back I could not find AW to my dismay. I looked around and found it on game(^&^$*$*&)storm. And met up with the Confederate Knights, WORRO was the CO.
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Started around '98 in AW with Grimm & Gunner of the Cactus Air Force (CAF) because a girl was driving me nuts and I needed to vent! :rofl Flew with them from AW to AHI and now AHII. Got sent overseas to Italy in 2002 so lost alot of time between AHI & II. Finally got back online in the Spring of 2004 and started up right again. Didn't get to fly with the CAF alot due to the time-zone difference and alot of wierd hours on my part. Figure I would leave the Squad and go solo for a little while and after a few months I got asked by Dogg, Floppy & Kaz to jump over to thier squad channel. After a bit they fed me some wierd food... might have been chicken... or camel and I got the invite into the Araibian Knights. Have enjoyed every minute of this game wither I am getting killed or soing the killing. A
to you all over the years!
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DFA, Death from Above, was my first squad in Air Warrior III. Relic was the CO then and still is I believe. Hell Gods was my next squad in AW III and Wax was the CO.
Both guys still fly and during those times that I'm flying as opposed to when I not, I very much enjoy seeing them and saying "howdy."
Both helped me bunches. Also, it was fun to be along side Wax during the first months of our learning curve in Aces High. I never mastered the "learning" part of the curve and just noodle about.
Also, Airmess, CZ Bird, and Orel and the rest of guys from Abbeyville Kids squad were very helpful too. Scary talented pilots!!
hap
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my first squad was 490th Battlin Bulldogs in 2004 when I joined AH2, BCool helped me ALOT with bombing (before bombing was so simple)
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My first teacher was Drum on the old Air Warrior DOS first squad was JG3
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first flight sim was WB back when it was still a beta where deft propmtly ppointed me to his H2H ladder and VonDoom taught me how to fly the hvy birds and ghosth and i learnd how to knife fight in zeke's.
first online squad was with the mongrels who have put up with me and welcomed me back after every break i have taken from this simulated reallity.
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First name was Panzer82 summer after 6th grade, 2001 AH1, first squad I can't remember, I left them after a week to fly with Pigs on the Wing. Eventually I got a few more weeks of online play and I returned as Never and Artlaw showed me the ropes after I was incessantly asking question, one of the reasons i'll always have great respect for him, lord knows I was an uber n00b back then. Played H2H for a year or 2 as Nirvana, ran into Reacher15 and Colt44 in an H2H room and joined the Sick Puppies. And that's my story.
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It all reminds me how important mentoring is in flying. Does memory make the old AH, WB, AW communities seem better or were we a better community back then?
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I started out with Fighter Ops...was a free relaxed realism for WBs for awhile. I had the great fortune of meeting and being taken under the wing of an incredible gentleman who went by the name of Ibex. If you're still out there somewhere old friend thank you so much for answering so many stupid questions and taking the time to be a friend.
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I also made another wonderful friend in FO who went by the name of Ghosth. Thx so much Ghosth for the memories and fun...You're a class act all the way. ! Sir. And then on to WBs....... and so many great people and wonderful memories. It's been a fun ride.:)
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I started flying on a 386 with an rgb minitor. I got a game called f16 fighting falcon it came on like 6 or 7 of them old 5" floppys. I loved that game played it for days on end. I buddy of mine turned me on to AW and flew it off line for a while because gasp the was no internet access in my area of can you imagine Orange County CA. When Internet finally became availible I started online. Man I thought I was the watermelon after flying off line boy did I get a wake up call!! I must have took a week before I got my first kill.
After a couple weeks I was invited to my first squad The Death Birds. Didnt stay with them long. My next squad was the Motley Aces. Great bunch of guys man we had fun too bad the Co Blaster was a scum bag. Started flying in bigpacRR in AW2 looking for a new squad. I found the Marine Air Wing and have been with them ever since.
In my time I have seen many come and go. But the core group of Old School MAW are some of the best freinds I have ever had. I have had the honor of training quite a few. But 2 allways stand out in my mind Slap Shot and MARS01. When ever we went into a fight they were allways there.
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Awe shucks guys!
Nice to be remembered :D
Rexx you were a stud P38 Pilot. You'd be shocked to learn that's pretty much all I fly now :D
I'm still running the WB scorepages for IEN. Aces High could use a little "deft" touch on their scorepages :D
http://scores.warbirdsiii.com
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AW-DOS online cost, $600.00 to $700.00 a month. Joined 13th TAS in AW-DOS had good wingies in Ice (Rude) Doom and ya Voss as well.
Though my 1st few months i was in a bomber squad, then jumped to 13th TAS.
Very long time ago.
Dog out.
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I started out by flying WB 2.7x offline. Then when I felt confident against A.I. I joined the online game only to find out humans are much more unpredictable than A.I.
Which was nice.
I scored 4 kills on my very first relaxed realism online fight. :D
Once I found out about AH post-beta and tried it out there was no turning back. The FM was so much more challenging (especially with the old-skool E burning monsters) that I couldnt get more than 1 nm away from base before getting shot down. And I could hold my own in WB nicely..
I like challenges and Ive been a subscriber of AH ever since.
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Originally posted by thndregg
Learned on the same game, same copy (bought in '84 or '85), same computer back in the awesome '80's. Flayd is my brother. Our dad still has Sub-Logic's version of Flight Simulator on tape, which took fooooorrrrrrrrreeeevvvvveeerr rrr to load. One side of it, we were flying around Illinois in a Piper Cherokee, the other side was aerial combat against WW1 A.I. (if you wnat to call it that) opponents on a green, flat-grid map with two sides of card-board mountians and a river cut through the middle.
There aren't many screenshots. I had a helluva time finding this one.
IMG]http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/73/fsii20for20c64capitol1sg5.gif[/IMG]
And check out the good read on the box!:D
IMG]http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/4614/115798165500wa2.jpg[/IMG]
I started with that also, on apple //c, then chuck yeagers air combat on a 386... talk about an improvement :)
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Hey Deft, Nice to see your still flying. Maybe we can get you into AH one of these days. The Early War Arena has some real possiblities.
I'm so poor with the p38 these days. But the early war is getting my interest.
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birdo would take our whole squad in da and teach the squad a new acm then we would ffa for an hour once a week
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AW2 was my start. My brother RINGR got me hooked..then we joined up with ASW and 1CAC a little later.
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My first squad was the fighting 56th in AW1, co was Cyclops. Switched to the Az, and the 444th Air Mafia in AW3. 7Lobo, and LPN were the ones that gave me the most help in them early days.
SIK1
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I had the Sublogic game on the Atari. I remember the enemy planes looked like stick crosses and you had to use radar to spot the planes around you (no view keys in those days). I think that was my first try at boom and zoom. You'd climb real high on the south side of the river, the dive down over the river and head on everything :) (kinda like MA :P)
I remember an older "flight sim" than that one. It was on the Timex/Sinclair z80 computer. It was a white stripe (no color in those days!)that represented a runway and you had to land the plane by tracking a beacon.
I also remember Hitechs first jump into flight sim programming (I think) with his AW gun cam utility. I tried my hand at flight sim programming with the C++ book "Flights of Fantasy." I got the graphics parts down and could rotate objects in 3d space. I didn't even attempt to create a flight model, let alone many realistic flight models. I did use the techniques is some graphics programs to simulate real world paint mediums.
After that, the walk gets blurry. Paint fumes I guess :)