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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: valdals on June 17, 2008, 05:58:51 AM
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we were defending a base in the orange arena this morning it was 4 against 10 to 15 nits. our vh was down. i had to spawn in from another base in a wirble. i got some kills but was bombed big time. problem ; no other rooks tried to spawn wirbles to defend the town and field. the support from other bases in the air was coming in one at a time. thats nuts 11 on 1 in the air. with coordinated effort we could have held that base for hours. if the tables were reversed the nits would have held that base for a week. rook start working together and fighting smart.
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all your bases belong to us !
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we were defending a base in the orange arena this morning it was 4 against 10 to 15 nits. our vh was down. i had to spawn in from another base in a wirble. i got some kills but was bombed big time. problem ; no other rooks tried to spawn wirbles to defend the town and field. the support from other bases in the air was coming in one at a time. thats nuts 11 on 1 in the air. with coordinated effort we could have held that base for hours. if the tables were reversed the nits would have held that base for a week. rook start working together and fighting smart.
you'll find this type of situation on any country.
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You could always get on country channel and politely ask for help.
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You could always get on country channel and politely ask for help.
But most will be concerned with "T3H UB3R L33T SC0R3!!"
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if the tables were reversed the nits would have held that base for a week. rook start working together and fighting smart.
No. There would exactly the same gnashing of teeth and whining, this time on knight countrychannel. It's universal:
"That sucks! When will Knights/Bishops/Rooks learn to pork?"
"LOL! We suck! Look at the Knights/Bishops/Rooks - THEY are organized"
"Why do WE always get all the n00bs only"
yada yada yada
I would recommend taking the RELAX pill and an occasional visit to the other AH "nations" to broaden one's horizon.
BTW, I'm always puzzled how some little generals do think they will get more support and better gameplay with constant and regular cussing and insulting of their own team.
I think that's the Tripl5 School of Motivation: Don't say anything positive! If you wanna help, call them names!
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You could always get on country channel and politely ask for help.
Not right now, he can't. :noid
:rofl
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Did you have relatives or business interests in that town?
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I probably do more defence of fields then anything, when a field is being attacked I will type on country channel for assistance, sometimes i get help, other times i don't. Love it if I get help, but I don't freak when I don't. Just do what you can, but don't get upset if you lose the base, there are more bases to protect or go capture. :D
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I think that's the Tripl5 School of Motivation: Don't say anything positive! If you wanna help, call them names!
:lol
Yes it's a particular style of leadership that's for sure. Not quite to this degree but always a laugh just the same.
(Warning offensive language my offend some girly men)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Af4zxwrvM
<S>...-Gixer
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ya, there are many people here who could care less about what base got taken. :noid Guess the war isn't that important afterall :noid
what we really need is a one person on every team to allocate assests. Everyone in the country will have to go wherever they are told to go. This should be determined by rank....because they are the most elite of everyone :noid. That way, instead of blaming an entire country for being idiots, letting a base get taken, not fighting in the right places, score whoring, etc., we can just focus on that one person.
You are probably right, if you had more people, maybe save the base. If you had even more, you could go take an enemy field. You didn't, oh well. Might as well relax, nothing you can do about it. Many, rightfully so, don't respond to the armchair generals demands..many don't care at all about what base gets taken and when (god bless'em). while the citizens of v23 may have been liberated from your rule, don't worry, some day you might be able to crush the revolution....unless there is a conspiracy :noid
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we were defending a base in the orange arena this morning it was 4 against 10 to 15 nits. our vh was down. i had to spawn in from another base in a wirble. i got some kills but was bombed big time. problem ; no other rooks tried to spawn wirbles to defend the town and field. the support from other bases in the air was coming in one at a time. thats nuts 11 on 1 in the air. with coordinated effort we could have held that base for hours. if the tables were reversed the nits would have held that base for a week. rook start working together and fighting smart.
Valdals if you ever see me on give me a shout and I'll help. I'm always looking for a good fight. :aok
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(Warning offensive language my offend some girly men)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Af4zxwrvM
<S>...-Gixer
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl, that is great!!
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I probably do more defence of fields then anything, when a field is being attacked I will type on country channel for assistance, sometimes i get help, other times i don't. Love it if I get help, but I don't freak when I don't. Just do what you can, but don't get upset if you lose the base, there are more bases to protect or go capture. :D
True!
I will usually type "ALERT xxx" on country and the usual suspects will show up to defend. If my bish brethern don't get there in time... oh well, we lost that one... there is always the next one to capture/defend. There is an up side to loosing a base to a light attack! That would be that it doesn't take to many of your countrymen to re take the base. The town will stay down for a while so a light mission can de-ack, cap and run troops in quickly with a LITTLE coordination. Either way it is not the end of life as we know it! It is after all a game.
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Valdals if you ever see me on give me a shout and I'll help. I'm always looking for a good fight. :aok
I'm sure he will take you up on that offer. Just as soon as HTC concedes to his demands and reinstates his vox and text privileges before he cancels his account..
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depends on how tired i am when i log on if i care about that base or not.
Did you have relatives or business interests in that town?
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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I'm sure he will take you up on that offer. Just as soon as HTC concedes to his demands and reinstates his vox and text privileges before he cancels his account..
:uhoh I see
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I don't mind at all helping to defend a base. But keep in mind I don't sit in a tower and wait for someone to ask for help. Like most people playing (not afk) I'm usually already commited to something and can't just drop everything and run to the latest help call. But if someone asks, I'll try my best.
:salute
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No. There would exactly the same gnashing of teeth and whining, this time on knight countrychannel. It's universal:
"That sucks! When will Knights/Bishops/Rooks learn to pork?"
"LOL! We suck! Look at the Knights/Bishops/Rooks - THEY are organized"
"Why do WE always get all the n00bs only"
yada yada yada
I would recommend taking the RELAX pill and an occasional visit to the other AH "nations" to broaden one's horizon.
BTW, I'm always puzzled how some little generals do think they will get more support and better gameplay with constant and regular cussing and insulting of their own team.
I think that's the Tripl5 School of Motivation: Don't say anything positive! If you wanna help, call them names!
Honestly between tripl5, drdeathx and vandals - 3 biggest arm chair squeeking generals rooks have to deal with. Worse your statement is right - they don't do anything to offer help other then name calling and insulting their own country mates even when they are not doing anything to help at all, but sit in a tower and blast people. Why I support a full time squelch list every time you login, 3 names would be squelched forever.
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You need to put everything into perspective. Firstly, not everyone cares about the real estate aspect of Aces High, some only care about it when they are in the mood to do so or while it remains fun. Secondly, we're currently playing on GIGANTIC maps where's there's literally a base or three for every player in-game. That's a lot of bases and there's no way to adequately cover them all. As a point in fact, I have seen many, many times a lil' Napoleon screech out for help at base X, players respond and in doing so abandon base Y, base X gets saved and we lose base Y which was previously securely defended. The huge maps we are currently on, incidentally or by design, are impossible to completely defend. They are a milkrunners paradise, there's always going to be some field getting bushwhacked by 5-50 guys that has no or inadequate defense for the forces arrayed against it.
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I ask for help on country, either it shows up or i do what i can till the numbers are to much for one person and find another fight. no point in having an aneurysm over a game.
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complaining on country not good enough for you, valdals?
oh well, another place that this will appear:
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/917_1193855640_inb4dalock.gif)
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I ask for help on country, either it shows up or i do what i can till the numbers are to much for one person and find another fight. no point in having an aneurysm over a game.
Bishops are usually there to help though when you call for it. Sometimes its only in small numbers (2s or 3s) but it will grow.
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I've been on all 3 countries and all 3 are the same. I.e not enough defenders for a base being taken, or arm chair generals completely
screwing up any defense there is.
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I like the forward air control guys giving orders, orbiting at 10k above the fight and only coming down once numbers are 5:1 in our favor.
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...no other rooks tried to spawn wirbles to defend the town and field...
You DO know there are other defense possibilities right?
Personally I'd rather log off than crawl along the ground to shoot at planes. If the base is vulched and there are no nearby (1.5 sector range) airfields I personally will go look for another fight. Does it matter of that base is lost? I can't see a reason it would other than it being the last airfield to fly from. Even then there's another arena I can go to and dogfight.
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You could always get on country channel and politely ask for help.
HELP A45!! HOARDE (sic)!!!1!!11ELEVENTYONE!!
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something i have found effective is taking a perk ride and flying over the field the red guys are coming from, some will ignore but a lot are attracted to it like bugs to light. buzzing around in a 262 at 10k will keep them down and make them think they might have a shot at killing you.
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HELP A45!! HOARDE (sic)!!!1!!11ELEVENTYONE!!
Mabey I should have put the word politely in bold caps. Nah. He still wouldn't get it.
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This thread makes me sad.
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If there are a lot of enemy's and no friendlies at a base all you have to do is cross into the sector in any airplane. As soon as they see the darbar they will scatter like roaches.
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I'm sure he will take you up on that offer. Just as soon as HTC concedes to his demands and reinstates his vox and text privileges before he cancels his account..
Maybe he could send a polite letter requesting help in defending.
shamus
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:lol
Yes it's a particular style of leadership that's for sure. Not quite to this degree but always a laugh just the same.
(Warning offensive language my offend some girly men)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Af4zxwrvM
<S>...-Gixer
:rofl :lol :rofl
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Valdals if you ever see me on give me a shout and I'll help. I'm always looking for a good fight. :aok
I wouldn't be so quick to say this. You've obviously never seen his rants on Green text. :uhoh
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Why dont all the base taker guys get on one side? As long as there is an adjacent enemy base, the rest will be happy.
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to adonai. i lost 1 hurricane and 2 wirbles defending that base. the other guys had no chance taking off. where were you? i did manage to get 5 kills. the base was taken by a lvt. we needed gvs helping out
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oh by the way. to those who call me a armchair general can kiss my butt. im probably one of the few guys in here with military experience. u.s army from 1986-1993.
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oh by the way. to those who call me a armchair general can kiss my butt. im probably one of the few guys in here with military experience. u.s army from 1986-1993.
LMAO
you kidding right?
1. there are TON'S of people here with a military background. Heck, over half my squad is current or former military.
2. I could have sworn you were a child (posting style, post content, etc)
In re: #1 just 'cause you were in the military doesn't mean you have the slightest understanding of how AcesHigh works.
In re: #2 you are pushing 40 then?
Wow.
Just Wow.
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Valdals,
The thing is, most people (especially on the forum) simply don't care. Some of us are sane and play in the main arenas for what they were made for, aerial combat not the land-grab game. So, when you ask for help, and especially start ranting, most will just squelch you and not pay attention. Nobody cares about the 'brave sacrifices' you made defending a piece of internet real estate. When 'OMG SOMEONE THE NITS ARE ATTACKING A#' comes over the text buffer, a small amount of players may come to your aid, but most will simply continue minding their own business. It's quite simply more fun for most to continue shooting down enemy aircraft than to get worked up over a war that doesn't mean anything in the first place. You literally get nothing for winning the war beside a sortie's worth of perk points. And, thus, again, no one cares.
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This thread is funny. :lol
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oh by the way. to those who call me a armchair general can kiss my butt. im probably one of the few guys in here with military experience. u.s army from 1986-1993.
Yup you are the only one. :rolleyes: pffft
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oh by the way. to those who call me a armchair general can kiss my butt. im probably one of the few guys in here with military experience. u.s army from 1986-1993.
Soooooooooo...you are saying your opinion means more because of your prior military experience?
Or...you know what your talking about in your cartoon little game because of your prior military experience?
In your Army experience, 1986 - 1993, did you fly many WWII airplanes to defend v-bases in Wirblewinds?
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oh by the way. to those who call me a armchair general can kiss my butt. im probably one of the few guys in here with military experience. u.s army from 1986-1993.
LMAO! You sound like our old supply sarge. He'd go out drinkin and get the S(&% kicked out of him for spoutin off how bad he was cause he was a Ranger! Of course leavin out the supply sarge part. :salute
You need to take a large chill pill bro.
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I dont believe this guy is a veteran, or this "kid".
I dont believe an army vet would babble on vox endlessly with a bunch of non-stop nonsense and insults. If you ask or tell him to cut it our he just goes on and on even worse. Even most teenagers in the game know better, or, are better behaved. Now since he lost his vox he's babbling on the forums thinking hes real slick and a master of psychology. Ive heard from many Rooks who put this kid on ignore automatically like I do.
My guess is hes a 22yo that still lives at home. Which is cool as long as you arent posing as an army vet, "a 7 year service is unusual aint it"?
If not then what unit were you assigned to Valdals. What posts? and what countries did you serve in?
My guess is he wont respond. Not with anything other then silliness.
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:lol I think I just figured it out.
valdals is wipple!
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i served in germany, greece, and US. i was in air defense artillery. and you think im bad when i get mad. you aparently have never been around military people. hell the government types i work with are worse than the military.
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you aparently have never been around military people.
:rolleyes:
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valdals, maybe this game isn't for you if you are going to get so upset. Like I stated earlier I probably do more base defence then anything and sometimes i never get any help. It really doesn't matter in the end. I do base defence mostly because I get good fights without having to fly 2 sectors. Ofcourse if it's a huge horde alot of times I just let em have it. But most of the time it's a small group from 5-10 guys and if I get a few helpers it makes for some good fights. It's great if I stop there attempt to capture the base. Sometimes I do and other times I don't. It's no biggy either way. ask for help a couple times nicely and do what you can, if no one helps, blow it off and go have fun at another base.
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i served in germany, greece, and US. i was in air defense artillery. and you think im bad when i get mad. you aparently have never been around military people. hell the government types i work with are worse than the military.
This ISN'T the "government", this ISN'T the "military" and your grammar is horrible.
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no other rooks tried to spawn wirbles to defend the town and field. the support from other bases in the air was coming in one at a time. thats nuts 11 on 1 in the air. with coordinated effort we could have held that base for hours.
(http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1132/3985165/18938532/321738001.jpg)
<S>...-Gixer
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ya, there are many people here who could care less about what base got taken. :noid Guess the war isn't that important afterall :noid
what we really need is a one person on every team to allocate assests. Everyone in the country will have to go wherever they are told to go. This should be determined by rank....because they are the most elite of everyone :noid. That way, instead of blaming an entire country for being idiots, letting a base get taken, not fighting in the right places, score whoring, etc., we can just focus on that one person.
Well years ago the very first initial Rook Joint Ops (RJO's) had a good CnC setup, with a dozen or so experienced (experienced doesn't mean ranked) CO's emailing during the weeks ahead, running training on Tuesdays (so everyone knew what they were doing and timing) and then Sunday night was game night. The CO's would all work together on the overall strat deploying their assigned forces, most of the ops/timing was preplanned in advance.
This wasn't just NOE raids all over the map, but dummy attacks to distract,HQ raids to blind and small groups causing havoc behind the main front or to provide reconnaissance back to the CO's.
Unfortunately it just became a horde roll as it became more popular, numbers would dump to Rooks on Sundays. But the very first two or three ops were exciting and the best display I've seen of organisation and coordination here.
<S>...-Gixer
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Not right now, he can't. :noid
:rofl
: :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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You could always get on country channel and politely ask for help.
I heard most Rooks have him squelched. :D
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i served in germany, greece, and US. i was in air defense artillery. and you think im bad when i get mad. you aparently have never been around military people. hell the government types i work with are worse than the military.
What bases in Germany, Greece, and America? What unit were you in, "again"? What AD systems did you work with?
Military veterans will have noticed you avoided answering all my questions.
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valdals call 703-912-1725 for the waambulance. :aok
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Valdals don't listen to them.
My brief experience flying with you 7 months ago in the Lynchmob was very positive. You were a guy that loved the fight and would help a squaddie at the drop of a hat. I will admit sometimes you took the game too seriously, but we all do sometimes (I hope it hasn't gotten the best of you). I think your competitiveness and leadership abilities are great and would be appreciated in any squad. The only complaint I have is when you kill me.....which is all the time. Valdals keep up the good work and I look forward to getting killed by you in the future <S>. :aok
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Valdals don't listen to them.
My brief experience flying with you 7 months ago in the Lynchmob was very positive. You were a guy that loved the fight and would help a squaddie at the drop of a hat. I will admit sometimes you took the game too seriously, but we all do sometimes (I hope it hasn't gotten the best of you). I think your competitiveness and leadership abilities are great and would be appreciated in any squad. The only complaint I have is when you kill me.....which is all the time. Valdals keep up the good work and I look forward to getting killed by you in the future <S>. :aok
He's gone overboard 24. No exaggeration.
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wonder what else rooks blew...
(http://www.cocktail.uk.com/images/shop/products/21108.jpg)
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to adonai. i lost 1 hurricane and 2 wirbles defending that base. the other guys had no chance taking off. where were you? i did manage to get 5 kills. the base was taken by a lvt. we needed gvs helping out
:rofl if you managed to get more kills than deaths . . . you weren't defending hard enough.
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i served in germany, greece, and US. i was in air defense artillery. and you think im bad when i get mad. you aparently have never been around military people. hell the government types i work with are worse than the military.
Geez son, I was a history major, United States Studies, with a minor in Military History. I served in the US Navy, logging over 2,300 flight hours totaled on the "yellow sheets". I have 332 traps aboard fleet carriers. I crewed the last operational sortie of a US Navy amphibian in 1976 (out of GTMO). Since 1996, I have worked with the Navy and Army developing new small arms systems, spending countless hours on military ranges testing weapons. I am lead Project Engineer for these systems, working for CIRCOR Aerospace.
In point of fact, I just returned from severals of meetings with Senatorial staff, brass at the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, showing and demonstrating new technology for the M4/M16 family of rifles and carbines. In July, I'll be at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana to test SOCOM's (Special Operations Command) new SCAR battle rifles (Mk16 and Mk17). This is only a small fraction of my dealing with the military. Next week, we will be testing a brace of Sig P229s for DHS.
I work with military personnel every day, most of them senior officers.
In this game, there are WWII veterans, Korean War vets, Vietnam vets and a boat load of Gulf War, Iraqi Freedom and Afghan vets. We have Mace, a career F-14 pilot, graduate of Top Gun and the Navy Test Pilot School. We have Hammer, a career Army Officer, who recently retired. Overall, there are hundreds, if not thousands of military veterans who play this game or have played in the past. Many of these gents were on the pointy end of the spear, in harms way for months at a time.
To claim that your experience is sufficient to grant you the privilege of castigating fellow players is utter nonsense. This isn't war, it's recreation. It's entertainment after a hectic day. The last thing most of us want to listen to is a another self-appointed Field Marshal telling us how we should expend our limited recreational time.
Thus, even if your grand daddy was Omar Bradley, we don't want to listen to your rants. Your military experience, commendable as it is, has no bearing on a game, nor does it provide you additional status as a player.
My regards,
Widewing
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Whats the fun if there are millon people trying to get one plane. You don't get kills that way. :)
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Geez son, I was a history major, United States Studies, with a minor in Military History. I served in the US Navy, logging over 2,300 flight hours totaled on the "yellow sheets". I have 332 traps aboard fleet carriers. I crewed the last operational sortie of a US Navy amphibian in 1976 (out of GTMO). Since 1996, I have worked with the Navy and Army developing new small arms systems, spending countless hours on military ranges testing weapons. I am lead Project Engineer for these systems, working for CIRCOR Aerospace.
In point of fact, I just returned from severals of meetings with Senatorial staff, brass at the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, showing and demonstrating new technology for the M4/M16 family of rifles and carbines. In July, I'll be at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana to test SOCOM's (Special Operations Command) new SCAR battle rifles (Mk16 and Mk17). This is only a small fraction of my dealing with the military. Next week, we will be testing a brace of Sig P229s for DHS.
I work with military personnel every day, most of them senior officers.
In this game, there are WWII veterans, Korean War vets, Vietnam vets and a boat load of Gulf War, Iraqi Freedom and Afghan vets. We have Mace, a career F-14 pilot, graduate of Top Gun and the Navy Test Pilot School. We have Hammer, a career Army Officer, who recently retired. Overall, there are hundreds, if not thousands of military veterans who play this game or have played in the past. Many of these gents were on the pointy end of the spear, in harms way for months at a time.
To claim that your experience is sufficient to grant you the privilege of castigating fellow players is utter nonsense. This isn't war, it's recreation. It's entertainment after a hectic day. The last thing most of us want to listen to is a another self-appointed Field Marshal telling us how we should expend our limited recreational time.
Thus, even if your grand daddy was Omar Bradley, we don't want to listen to your rants. Your military experience, commendable as it is, has no bearing on a game, nor does it provide you additional status as a player.
My regards,
Widewing
I call p0wnt!
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wonder what else rooks blew...
(http://www.cocktail.uk.com/images/shop/products/21108.jpg)
I know where you were though. Yep, you know the drill.
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Geez son, I was a history major, United States Studies, with a minor in Military History. I served in the US Navy, logging over 2,300 flight hours totaled on the "yellow sheets". I have 332 traps aboard fleet carriers. I crewed the last operational sortie of a US Navy amphibian in 1976 (out of GTMO). Since 1996, I have worked with the Navy and Army developing new small arms systems, spending countless hours on military ranges testing weapons. I am lead Project Engineer for these systems, working for CIRCOR Aerospace.
In point of fact, I just returned from severals of meetings with Senatorial staff, brass at the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, showing and demonstrating new technology for the M4/M16 family of rifles and carbines. In July, I'll be at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana to test SOCOM's (Special Operations Command) new SCAR battle rifles (Mk16 and Mk17). This is only a small fraction of my dealing with the military. Next week, we will be testing a brace of Sig P229s for DHS.
I work with military personnel every day, most of them senior officers.
In this game, there are WWII veterans, Korean War vets, Vietnam vets and a boat load of Gulf War, Iraqi Freedom and Afghan vets. We have Mace, a career F-14 pilot, graduate of Top Gun and the Navy Test Pilot School. We have Hammer, a career Army Officer, who recently retired. Overall, there are hundreds, if not thousands of military veterans who play this game or have played in the past. Many of these gents were on the pointy end of the spear, in harms way for months at a time.
To claim that your experience is sufficient to grant you the privilege of castigating fellow players is utter nonsense. This isn't war, it's recreation. It's entertainment after a hectic day. The last thing most of us want to listen to is a another self-appointed Field Marshal telling us how we should expend our limited recreational time.
Thus, even if your grand daddy was Omar Bradley, we don't want to listen to your rants. Your military experience, commendable as it is, has no bearing on a game, nor does it provide you additional status as a player.
My regards,
Widewing
Most eloquently stated and to the point. Bravo!
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no other rooks tried to spawn wirbles to defend the town and field.
yet there are still people who will contend that its not uber.
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Geez son, I was a history major, United States Studies, with a minor in Military History. I served in the US Navy, logging over 2,300 flight hours totaled on the "yellow sheets". I have 332 traps aboard fleet carriers. I crewed the last operational sortie of a US Navy amphibian in 1976 (out of GTMO). Since 1996, I have worked with the Navy and Army developing new small arms systems, spending countless hours on military ranges testing weapons. I am lead Project Engineer for these systems, working for CIRCOR Aerospace.
In point of fact, I just returned from severals of meetings with Senatorial staff, brass at the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, showing and demonstrating new technology for the M4/M16 family of rifles and carbines. In July, I'll be at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana to test SOCOM's (Special Operations Command) new SCAR battle rifles (Mk16 and Mk17). This is only a small fraction of my dealing with the military. Next week, we will be testing a brace of Sig P229s for DHS.
I work with military personnel every day, most of them senior officers.
In this game, there are WWII veterans, Korean War vets, Vietnam vets and a boat load of Gulf War, Iraqi Freedom and Afghan vets. We have Mace, a career F-14 pilot, graduate of Top Gun and the Navy Test Pilot School. We have Hammer, a career Army Officer, who recently retired. Overall, there are hundreds, if not thousands of military veterans who play this game or have played in the past. Many of these gents were on the pointy end of the spear, in harms way for months at a time.
To claim that your experience is sufficient to grant you the privilege of castigating fellow players is utter nonsense. This isn't war, it's recreation. It's entertainment after a hectic day. The last thing most of us want to listen to is a another self-appointed Field Marshal telling us how we should expend our limited recreational time.
Thus, even if your grand daddy was Omar Bradley, we don't want to listen to your rants. Your military experience, commendable as it is, has no bearing on a game, nor does it provide you additional status as a player.
My regards,
Widewing
Amen
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Geez son, I was a history major, United States Studies, with a minor in Military History. I served in the US Navy, logging over 2,300 flight hours totaled on the "yellow sheets". I have 332 traps aboard fleet carriers. I crewed the last operational sortie of a US Navy amphibian in 1976 (out of GTMO). Since 1996, I have worked with the Navy and Army developing new small arms systems, spending countless hours on military ranges testing weapons. I am lead Project Engineer for these systems, working for CIRCOR Aerospace.
In point of fact, I just returned from severals of meetings with Senatorial staff, brass at the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, showing and demonstrating new technology for the M4/M16 family of rifles and carbines. In July, I'll be at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana to test SOCOM's (Special Operations Command) new SCAR battle rifles (Mk16 and Mk17). This is only a small fraction of my dealing with the military. Next week, we will be testing a brace of Sig P229s for DHS.
I work with military personnel every day, most of them senior officers.
In this game, there are WWII veterans, Korean War vets, Vietnam vets and a boat load of Gulf War, Iraqi Freedom and Afghan vets. We have Mace, a career F-14 pilot, graduate of Top Gun and the Navy Test Pilot School. We have Hammer, a career Army Officer, who recently retired. Overall, there are hundreds, if not thousands of military veterans who play this game or have played in the past. Many of these gents were on the pointy end of the spear, in harms way for months at a time.
To claim that your experience is sufficient to grant you the privilege of castigating fellow players is utter nonsense. This isn't war, it's recreation. It's entertainment after a hectic day. The last thing most of us want to listen to is a another self-appointed Field Marshal telling us how we should expend our limited recreational time.
Thus, even if your grand daddy was Omar Bradley, we don't want to listen to your rants. Your military experience, commendable as it is, has no bearing on a game, nor does it provide you additional status as a player.
My regards,
Widewing
Zinnnnnnnggg!
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Geez son, I was a history major, United States Studies, with a minor in Military History. I served in the US Navy, logging over 2,300 flight hours totaled on the "yellow sheets". I have 332 traps aboard fleet carriers. I crewed the last operational sortie of a US Navy amphibian in 1976 (out of GTMO). Since 1996, I have worked with the Navy and Army developing new small arms systems, spending countless hours on military ranges testing weapons. I am lead Project Engineer for these systems, working for CIRCOR Aerospace.
In point of fact, I just returned from severals of meetings with Senatorial staff, brass at the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, showing and demonstrating new technology for the M4/M16 family of rifles and carbines. In July, I'll be at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana to test SOCOM's (Special Operations Command) new SCAR battle rifles (Mk16 and Mk17). This is only a small fraction of my dealing with the military. Next week, we will be testing a brace of Sig P229s for DHS.
I work with military personnel every day, most of them senior officers.
In this game, there are WWII veterans, Korean War vets, Vietnam vets and a boat load of Gulf War, Iraqi Freedom and Afghan vets. We have Mace, a career F-14 pilot, graduate of Top Gun and the Navy Test Pilot School. We have Hammer, a career Army Officer, who recently retired. Overall, there are hundreds, if not thousands of military veterans who play this game or have played in the past. Many of these gents were on the pointy end of the spear, in harms way for months at a time.
To claim that your experience is sufficient to grant you the privilege of castigating fellow players is utter nonsense. This isn't war, it's recreation. It's entertainment after a hectic day. The last thing most of us want to listen to is a another self-appointed Field Marshal telling us how we should expend our limited recreational time.
Thus, even if your grand daddy was Omar Bradley, we don't want to listen to your rants. Your military experience, commendable as it is, has no bearing on a game, nor does it provide you additional status as a player.
My regards,
Widewing
Widewing - While I support everything you say with the up most respect - this kid will not understand with any slightest clue what you said.
Even if his grand daddy was Omar Bradley or even Black Jack Pershing - If there was an automatic squelch - he'd be on my list.
The only reason anyone enters my squelch list, is the fact he has proven time and TIME again is basically A) I feel he has no military experience in his life B) lives in moms basement or C) well its ok some don't get laid and I feel for ya bro - but seriously there are magazines to overcome this experience vandals. It might not fix the problem, but JEEEEZ READ A MAG OR TWO.
Seriously I do respect anyone with more time "experienced" in this video game - m00t, widewing, MntMan - I could go for a few good hours, but seriously vandals nobody cares whether a "base" is taken or not - its the fun of the game and if you think you are a 4 star general well then prove it and take 15 outa 15 bases a night or then just shut up already.
Same for guys like DrDeathx - I am not going to De-ack a base just because you are a squeaking arm chair general - I am really sick
of listening to your insults because you think you are better then me. I am a regular player as ANYONE ELSE THAT PAYS. Seriously I don't care to win a "war" in a video game - I just care to to do what I want with the time I spent and paid for.
Just remember one little detail: we all spend our money a different way - some want to furball - some want to take bases, just don't cry
because you are unable to win a medal of honor and show your basement girlfriend your worth more then anyone else.
Edited: im sure i will get a week vacation from the forums for this skuzzy, but try not to make it perm :aok
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omg ? there are military personal that play this game? I though the majorities are kids !
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These forums are like quicksand to "vandal".. the more he posts... you get the idea.
"i served in germany, greece, and US."
I've visited those in my spare time. Nice places for a holiday. :confused:
Countdown til vandal is banned from forums, 10 9 8 7.....
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Damn Widewing, that's impressive :aok
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Geez son, I was a history major, United States Studies, with a minor in Military History. I served in the US Navy, logging over 2,300 flight hours totaled on the "yellow sheets". I have 332 traps aboard fleet carriers. I crewed the last operational sortie of a US Navy amphibian in 1976 (out of GTMO). Since 1996, I have worked with the Navy and Army developing new small arms systems, spending countless hours on military ranges testing weapons. I am lead Project Engineer for these systems, working for CIRCOR Aerospace.
In point of fact, I just returned from severals of meetings with Senatorial staff, brass at the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, showing and demonstrating new technology for the M4/M16 family of rifles and carbines. In July, I'll be at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana to test SOCOM's (Special Operations Command) new SCAR battle rifles (Mk16 and Mk17). This is only a small fraction of my dealing with the military. Next week, we will be testing a brace of Sig P229s for DHS.
I work with military personnel every day, most of them senior officers.
In this game, there are WWII veterans, Korean War vets, Vietnam vets and a boat load of Gulf War, Iraqi Freedom and Afghan vets. We have Mace, a career F-14 pilot, graduate of Top Gun and the Navy Test Pilot School. We have Hammer, a career Army Officer, who recently retired. Overall, there are hundreds, if not thousands of military veterans who play this game or have played in the past. Many of these gents were on the pointy end of the spear, in harms way for months at a time.
To claim that your experience is sufficient to grant you the privilege of castigating fellow players is utter nonsense. This isn't war, it's recreation. It's entertainment after a hectic day. The last thing most of us want to listen to is a another self-appointed Field Marshal telling us how we should expend our limited recreational time.
Thus, even if your grand daddy was Omar Bradley, we don't want to listen to your rants. Your military experience, commendable as it is, has no bearing on a game, nor does it provide you additional status as a player.
My regards,
Widewing
Damn widewing....
You just demostrated to people total pwnage WITH correct grammer. :lol
p.s. Did you ever work in the pentagon in the early 1990s? My dad was a big guy in the pentagon who re-wrote the way the U.S. identifies, classifys, something else about casualties. Maybe you knew him. (I'm not sure exactly but I know it had to do with casualties and re-writing the system)
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BTW, I'm always puzzled how some little generals do think they will get more support and better gameplay with constant and regular cussing and insulting of their own team.
I think that's the Tripl5 School of Motivation: Don't say anything positive! If you wanna help, call them names!
I thought Patton built a career on it :D
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And he still hasnt posted any facts about his military career other then he says he was in Germany and Greece.
Strange, I wasnt aware we had any US Army bases in Greece and I cant find any record of one using the Internet. Maybe he was in one of those top secret type units. :uhoh
I always thought our military presence in Greece, Turkey, and Spain, was always limited to USAF and maybe USN. There is one exception, and one systems exception. But I dont believe PATRIOT was deployed in Greece and Turkey until the late '90s.
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ok heres my militray record. 1986 ft.bliss texas 1986-1988 baumholder germany, berlin germany, crete the small island off greece, 1988-1990 ft.bliss texas 1990-1993 ft.mccellan alabama, ft.meade maryland, and ft.smith arkansas. MOS was 16D10 hawk missile crewmember and 88M truck driver. as 88M i pulled 155m howitzers and did drivers training to new recruits at ft. meade. in crete i fired missiles at drones.
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ok heres my militray record. 1986 ft.bliss texas 1986-1988 baumholder germany, berlin germany, crete the small island off greece, 1988-1990 ft.bliss texas 1990-1993 ft.mccellan alabama, ft.meade maryland, and ft.smith arkansas. MOS was 16D10 hawk missile crewmember and 88M truck driver. as 88M i pulled 155m howitzers and did drivers training to new recruits at ft. meade. in crete i fired missiles at drones.
I wasnt in the army so I'll leave it to others to access your service record. I myself would have to see your 214 and other records to believe anything you say. Thats what constant trouble making and insults have done for you. But you still dont get it do you?
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Strange, I wasnt aware we had any US Army bases in Greece and I cant find any record of one using the Internet. Maybe he was in one of those top secret type units. :uhoh
I always thought our military presence in Greece, Turkey, and Spain, was always limited to USAF and maybe USN. There is one exception, and one systems exception. But I dont believe PATRIOT was deployed in Greece and Turkey until the late '90s.
I was in from '72 to '75. I spent time in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Greece. Think....NATO. :)
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All that truly comes out of this post that is of any real value.
<<BIG SALUTE>> Widewing (wow) and thanks!
And a salute to all service people really <S>
zuii
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Valdals,
I hope you eventually recover from the wounds you received as a result of the numerous blanket parties of which you were no doubt the guest of honor. I can't believe you even had the gall to reply after widewings post. Dense man, dense!
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Geez son, I was a history major, United States Studies, with a minor in Military History. I served in the US Navy, logging over 2,300 flight hours totaled on the "yellow sheets". I have 332 traps aboard fleet carriers. I crewed the last operational sortie of a US Navy amphibian in 1976 (out of GTMO). Since 1996, I have worked with the Navy and Army developing new small arms systems, spending countless hours on military ranges testing weapons. I am lead Project Engineer for these systems, working for CIRCOR Aerospace.
In point of fact, I just returned from severals of meetings with Senatorial staff, brass at the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security, showing and demonstrating new technology for the M4/M16 family of rifles and carbines. In July, I'll be at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana to test SOCOM's (Special Operations Command) new SCAR battle rifles (Mk16 and Mk17). This is only a small fraction of my dealing with the military. Next week, we will be testing a brace of Sig P229s for DHS.
I work with military personnel every day, most of them senior officers.
In this game, there are WWII veterans, Korean War vets, Vietnam vets and a boat load of Gulf War, Iraqi Freedom and Afghan vets. We have Mace, a career F-14 pilot, graduate of Top Gun and the Navy Test Pilot School. We have Hammer, a career Army Officer, who recently retired. Overall, there are hundreds, if not thousands of military veterans who play this game or have played in the past. Many of these gents were on the pointy end of the spear, in harms way for months at a time.
To claim that your experience is sufficient to grant you the privilege of castigating fellow players is utter nonsense. This isn't war, it's recreation. It's entertainment after a hectic day. The last thing most of us want to listen to is a another self-appointed Field Marshal telling us how we should expend our limited recreational time.
Thus, even if your grand daddy was Omar Bradley, we don't want to listen to your rants. Your military experience, commendable as it is, has no bearing on a game, nor does it provide you additional status as a player.
My regards,
Widewing
Note to Valdals:
When engaging in a pi$$ing contest in United States, make sure that there are no other competitors that can beat you while standing in China.
(I'm afraid that is what just happened).
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On a serious note, thank you for your service. Prior military member or not really doesn't have a bearing in this game. A lot of us AH players are former, or still active military service members. GO 88!
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Note to Valdals:
When engaging in a pi$$ing contest in United States, make sure that there are no other competitors that can beat you while standing in China.
(I'm afraid that is what just happened).
LOL x 2
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Hey Widewing,
Thank you for your service to your Uncle. :salute
Also, beyond the obvious, thank you for typing all of that and saving me the time it would have taken to make such a statement :)
-Dan
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we were defending a base in the orange arena this morning it was 4 against 10 to 15 nits. our vh was down. i had to spawn in from another base in a wirble. i got some kills but was bombed big time. problem ; no other rooks tried to spawn wirbles to defend the town and field. the support from other bases in the air was coming in one at a time. thats nuts 11 on 1 in the air. with coordinated effort we could have held that base for hours. if the tables were reversed the nits would have held that base for a week. rook start working together and fighting smart.
Last night Knights put up an awsome defense. With both rooks and bish hitting us in force on all fronts at the same time. At one point I counted 3 bases on bish/rook front flashing and 9 knight bases flashing. Still we held most of our bases and the ones that we lost we killed a pile of attackers.
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I always thought our military presence in Greece, Turkey, and Spain, was always limited to USAF and maybe USN.
We used to operate for short periods out of Souda Bay, Crete. Usually this was associated with NATO exercises, or in support of 6th Fleet carrier ops. We also spent some time flying from USAF bases in Turkey. All of this circa the late 1970s.
My regards,
Widewing
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We used to operate for short periods out of Souda Bay, Crete. Usually this was associated with NATO exercises, or in support of 6th Fleet carrier ops. We also spent some time flying from USAF bases in Turkey. All of this circa the late 1970s.
My regards,
Widewing
I was stationed at Incirlick in the '70s but Ive been to most of the bases in country for short stints. I was at Frankfurt for a short TDY, "I heard they closed Rhein Main".
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We used to operate for short periods out of Souda Bay, Crete. Usually this was associated with NATO exercises, or in support of 6th Fleet carrier ops. We also spent some time flying from USAF bases in Turkey. All of this circa the late 1970s.
My regards,
Widewing
I was on the Eisenhower (CVN69) in the Med in the late 70's. If you got to my boat and didn't stop in for a coffee, I'll be p!ssed !!! :D
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I was on the Eisenhower (CVN69) in the Med in the late 70's. If you got to my boat and didn't stop in for a coffee, I'll be p!ssed !!! :D
We operated off of Saratoga, but did fly hardware and people on and off other CVs. Nimitz being the most common. I believe it was Eisenhower that relieved Saratoga to begin her first Med cruise after about a year of work ups and shakedown.
My regards,
Widewing
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Vandals,I have a small cottage in RooLand ..I'll sell ya cheap ..there you can relax in the Sun ..wax your plane,gv,cv, ect ..and just watch the world go by . (notice I aint givin up one of my castles or supplying towels)
<--USAF WC-135b's ,Jet eng tech, AC/HC-130's,HH-53's Turboprop tech /dual afsc's ..spent most my time vaulting the pole ,circling the globe,and catching Wavs .