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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: HighGTrn on July 16, 2007, 03:15:18 PM
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First, let me say that I am completely addicted to this game! I started playing AH about 8 weeks ago and cannot stop. It is so bad, find myself thinking about the game even when I’m not playing it. At work, I read about ACM during my breaks. At dinner, I think about a new technique I learned the night before (often at the expense of a death). I find my attraction to the game stems from my love of flying and to honor the warriors (on all sides) who flew daring missions not so long ago when the future of the world hung in the balance.
I thought I would post this as a perspective from a recent newbie to our little society. So many of you have been playing AH for a long time I thought it would be entertaining to read about one newbie’s experience.
I learned of AH from a commercial I saw while watching the Military Channel. My son said, “Dad, let’s check this out”. The rest is history. After downloading the game and doing all of the initial configuration, I took off for the first time in a late war arena. I thought this was going to be another arcadish, console game where I just point my plane at the nearest target and shoot. Boy was I in for a big surprise! After getting my butt handed to me a dozen times in a few minutes, my boy said “Dad, I thought you knew how to fly a plane”.
After swallowing my ego and telling my son to go dig a hole or something, I decided to dedicate myself to the art of virtual dogfighting. I spent hours, days reading anything I could get my hands on. Slowly, I digested the material and up’d again. This time, I got a kill before someone flamed me. That was it, I was hooked!
Over the next few weeks of sleepless nights and ticking my wife off, I began to understand the nature of the game and ACM. Dogfights became a rush and I found myself almost shaking during engagements. I wanted kills so bad, I could taste it. More often then not, an engagement usually ended with me thinking, “Ok, what just happened” or “I’ll never do that again”. I guess the thrill of knowing that I was dueling with a live person on the other end of the wire was the part of the drug that got me hooked. Once I got invited into a Squadron, the experience went to a whole new dimension. Go SWAMPDRAGONS!! (sorry, had to get that plug in there).
As time passed, I started holding my own and racked up kills. I often think about the guys who did this for real and wonder how in the world any of them actually lived out the war. I cannot fathom what it was like for them. They are heroes in my book. So, to all those “Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines” who fought, lived and died so long ago, my humble hats off to you!
For anyone I shot down and will shoot down, I am sorry but better you than me :)
HighGTrn
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ummmm just a little clue..... I still feel that way after 10 years of this stuff :aok
Sounds like your in for the long haul !!! Welcome to your new addiction !
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cool, big warm welcome to AH High. great to hear that there are some people really into learning how to fight, we've had a huge influx of kiddies used to playing point-click shooter games recently. welcome to your new addiction, may it continue to drive your wife insane for many years to come!
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Great testimonial :aok Welcome!
Have you tries any events yet? ---> http://www.ahevents.org
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I hope you enjoy the new monkey on your back that is AH.
BTW- I had fun last week defending V10 against your fellow SwampDragons. Fun fights and good times all around
ack-ack
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Originally posted by HighGTrn
I cannot fathom what it was like for them. They are heroes in my book.
A lot better than the guys storming the beaches or the guys freezing their arses off in a fox hole with artilary exploding all over them :aok
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Welcome to the rest of your life.
You'll go thru times were you just want to quit there and then but after sitting back you get up again and get your butt handed to you again.
You'll do things that will make you feel proud and some things you would rather forget, most of us have done these things so don't feel stupid.
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Thanks for the warm welcome!
I have not tried the events yet but will look into them now. As for the guys sitting in the trenches and storming the beaches, just like in the game, you cannot win without putting boots on the ground.
I can't wait for the Combat Tour!
HighGTrn
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Welcome High G!
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Originally posted by HighGTrn
Dogfights became a rush and I found myself almost shaking during engagements.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
The reason I laugh is because when I first started, when I got into a one on one, my leg would shake uncontrollably like a dog who's getting his tummy scratched.
My ex would come in, see my shaking leg then yell out to my brother "you've got to see this".
:aok
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How long have you been flying for HighGTrn ?
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Welcome HighG!
I hope you enjoy AH at least as much as I do...Still sweat and shake after a good, long, hard fought combat.
Enjoy, it's cartoon planes, you may try everything and do all the mistakes in the book, all you get is a few scratches to your ego.
Want to feel the rush of adrenaline of combat antecipation? Try the AvA.
Nothing more like real combat, in some ways. Not so chaotic as the MAs, you may survive for a longer time and learn more. You will die a lot, but you will get better and better.
If there is a place where you have time to watch your and your foes mistakes is AvA.
Film your sorties. Watch the films carefully and from all possible points of view. Study your opponents moves, detect mistakes and correct them. Learn combat manouevers and put them to practice.
Hope to meet you soon,
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Originally posted by sparow
Want to feel the rush of adrenaline of combat antecipation? Try the AvA.
That's debatable
But don't be afraid to try out all things, including King Of the Hill (a last-man-standing type of event), Snapshots (semi-historic semi-recreations, i.e. bombers vs. interceptors), even Scenario Events (we have one coming up in a few months), AvA, DA, TA, and so on.
I can pretty much promise you that you'll have the most fun in the LWAs for now, as you're still acclimating to the game. However, once you feel the urge/interest kick in, try out a lot of the events/arenas that this game has to offer. It's got something for almost everyone, somewhere (hidden or not :D )
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Originally posted by HighGTrn
Over the next few weeks of sleepless nights and ticking my wife off, I began to understand the nature of the game and ACM. Dogfights became a rush and I found myself almost shaking during engagements.
HighGTrn
Welcome to your New addiction!
I don't know of anyone who doesnt shake... happened to me last night chasing a P47N on the deck in a Tempest that was tryin to RTB a sector away from a base he was defending. Running low on fuel... I start to bounce my knee ( that's my "twitch")... getting closer.. thinking he's dragging me to more NME's ...constantly looking around... Heart pounding!... It's the coolest feeling.
Now the Wife ack is totally seperate.... If she's ticked off now, you've got to reach a compromise so you'll be allowed to play the game without disturbances... Remember to eat... bring plenty of fluids... and also remember to AltX and go AFK for quick potty breaks.:rofl
4XTCH
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Welcome,
Hope you have a great time here. It is a great game.
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Welcome to the community High G.
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I totally started laughing after reading Bald's post. Let me share a real funny story from last night.
My Swampees and I were defending this base along with other Bishes. There were red icons all over the place. I was in a Zero and I just landed two kills with several assists. I call out "Bingo Ammo" and asked for cover from my Squadies while I tear into the runway. I run hard at 90 degrees to the runway, then chop throttle and break as hard as I can to bleed off speed. My planes starts to shudder but I'm slow enough to lower my gears. I quickly deploy on notch of flaps and just let my nose ease on to the cement.
All the while, I'm looking around like a mole in a field covered by hawks. There were smoke trails and falling debris all over the place. I've got people screaming checks at everyone and the message bar is rolling like a New York Times Square board. I hit the pavement cut engine and nail the brakes so hard I almost flip over. before stopping, I reach up to hit esc to bring up the menu so that I can "end sortie". Well, I had to keep one hand on the stick to keep from flipping from torque and the other to control brakes.
I finally stop and I hear the whine of an airplane coming from behind me.. It gets closer and closer. I don't know if its friend or foe.. Then I tell myself its gotta be foe since no friend would be flying a straight line over the runway during a air base defense furball. This adds to the stress. I reach up to move my mouse over the "end sortie" button but my fingers will not work. Everytime I get the cursor over the button, my shaking would move it. I start to curse at myself under my breath. Just then, I remember reading about dot commands and I .ef myself out. During this whole time, my wife snuck up behind me and watched the whole thing. She then said, "I remember a time when you used to shake like that for me". I got up, walked out to the kitchen and poured myself a Scotch.
Some guys, drink, some gamble, others beat their wives. I kill pixels on a screen for 12 bucks a month. That's what I told her and it seemed to work.
You guys are what makes this game so fun.
I've been flying for about 8 years. Just little stuff. Single engine Cessnas and Pipers.
HighGTrn
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Welcome! Come on people...this is hardly addicting....I mean I can quit at anytime!
(wait...maybe after I get a bigger monitor....oh and that extra Vid Card and ram...got to have that first then I can quit....oh wait...got to shoot down a few more people first then it adios.....but then there is the FSO, maybe a couple more of those then I'll go cold turkey.....on the other hand, there is that one pilot I have been stalking....once I get him then I'll give it up noooooooo problem.....on the other hand............)
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*pssst!* Boomer! Not til after the next scenario event!
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Anyone that can spell, use paragraphs, punctuation and form well structured sentences as well as you is always welcome!
Let's hear it for literacy!
YEAH!
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Give her a few turns on the thing ~ let her become addicted to the game as well. Wife-ack will be less of a danger that way.
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I had this experience back in 2003. I'll copy and paste the AAR into here, but hot link to it also.
http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=94851&highlight=on+the+deck
Right now i've graduated from P-38s over to P-47s, but still flirt with the big breasted 38 and her sister the A-20.
The most terrifying fight of my life
It was a Sunny day in Bishland - Junior2 and myself were going on a quick strike from 77 to 87 about 40 miles southwest in a pair of P-38's. Rarely do missions stand out that I wish I had taped and this was one of them. We get on station and immediatly are met by several P-51D's, a P-38L and Spit of some varient. We loosed our ordinance and reasoned correctly there was no way to avoid a fight.
What made this fight unique for me, is that in all my years of playing I have NEVER, NOT ONCE felt like I needed to change out my shorts, or had my stomic in my throat for what seemed hours.
The 51's engaged us first, Junior bag'd one and another 51 crawled up behind him and flamed him. He was low on E, got the snap off and he went down. The 38 tried the headon and lost when his tailboom departed the fuselage. Seeing the situation going downhill faster then a redneck stuffed inside of a goodyear, I elected to try and make a run for it. But there was the problem of a spit, that somehow was able to keep up with my 300+ IAS on the deck with WEP on.
The Spit was within 500 and plinking me incessantly, I knew that I was worm food if I kept running, and I pulled the hardest vertical reversal, blacked out and dumped the flaps while doing it - somehow he lost all of his E maybe figuring he could not follow me through. I ended up behind, he ran for the deck a little, and then started a standard rate turn to the right - the 50's landed on his wing and sent him in.
The remaining 51's having witnessed this came back with altitude and speed - I pushed WEP and got my E up - the first one broke early in the head on and lost his tail to my hizooka. Quickly I reversed and the second 51 overshot and tried to pull hard in a turn - I led him about 3 or 4 mills and took his wing.
All the while, there was no restbit - 2 more P-51's came up and that 38 decided to come back. No friendlies were in the area, I was yelling on my squad channel for someone to get their bellybutton over to my position, the nearest friendly was a good 30 miles away.
The first 51 missed in his headon and broke hard left and lost all of his E. I was below 200 and was able to turn inside him without issue and quickly reclaimed his left wing. The 2nd P-51 I got caught in a vertical scissors and got him with a snapshot to the cockpit.
In the background was the 38 - bearing down on me with WEP at about 2000 meters to go. I was still yelling into the radio, and on the deck with WEP screaming back to 77. The 38 followed for a good 4 minutes and then finally broke off his chase.
I threw on the autopilot - got to a more comfortable altitude and went into the bathroom - looked into the mirror and my hands were shaking, and sweat all over. Ladies and gentlemen, $14.95 is a small price to pay for a fight like that. A salute to all those who fell to my gun in that epic struggle - you made the most memorable fight.
Wolfala
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Originally posted by texasmom
Give her a few turns on the thing ~ let her become addicted to the game as well. Wife-ack will be less of a danger that way.
I tried that (or she tried AH). I still get battle-acked a lot.
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I like to go to sleep thinking about my last sortie.. SOMETIMES this does not occur at the computer desk:p