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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Erkel on July 31, 2008, 06:56:31 PM
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I feel like such a goof. It should have been obvious sooner.
Nits just don't like to fly any further than their own fields. Doh!
Today, some of us worked all morning on the SE side of the orange map. Had one base to go and we'd have the Rook HQ camped.
Couldn't get enough pilots there to help BECAUSE IT WAS TOO FAR TO FLY...LOL.
Within a 45 minutes, rooks organized and took the whole SE side of the map back.
So much easier to play at the NW side of map and defend, defend, defend. Never had to fly outside the dar ring.
Ok nits, if I can't convince you otherwise I guess I'll just join in the everlasting furball. :rock
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Ok nits, if I can't convince you otherwise I guess I'll just join in the everlasting furball. :rock
It's obvious that quite a few don't want to play the way you do, so why try and convince them otherwise? Maybe those fights in the NW side were good and those players didn't want to leave their fun to camp the Rook HQ. Frankly, I know I would have blown you off and would have stuck around in the area I was enjoying my fights in instead of joining you and your merry band milk running enemy bases so you can camp their HQ. To me, that's boring but to you that is what passes as your fun.
ack-ack
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I feel like such a goof. It should have been obvious sooner.
Nits just don't like to fly any further than their own fields. Doh!
Today, some of us worked all morning on the SE side of the orange map. Had one base to go and we'd have the Rook HQ camped.
Couldn't get enough pilots there to help BECAUSE IT WAS TOO FAR TO FLY...LOL.
Within a 45 minutes, rooks organized and took the whole SE side of the map back.
So much easier to play at the NW side of map and defend, defend, defend. Never had to fly outside the dar ring.
Ok nits, if I can't convince you otherwise I guess I'll just join in the everlasting furball. :rock
Most knights don't know how to read, so your wasting valuable landgrab time posting in here :D
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It's obvious that quite a few don't want to play the way you do, so why try and convince them otherwise? Maybe those fights in the NW side were good and those players didn't want to leave their fun to camp the Rook HQ. Frankly, I know I would have blown you off and would have stuck around in the area I was enjoying my fights in instead of joining you and your merry band milk running enemy bases so you can camp their HQ. To me, that's boring but to you that is what passes as your fun.
ack-ack
Cause I'm a "silly billy" ack-ack and feel as strongly about the way I enjoy playing as you do about yours.
And isn't posting our opinions what the forum is for?
Maybe I can't convince all players that there's more to the game then furballing.
But if I can convince one or two, that's one or two more that will be there to help when the call is made.
<steps off his soapbox and puts it back under his computer table>
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Today, some of us worked all morning on the SE side of the orange map.
You make it sound like a career. :huh
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Maybe I can't convince all players that there's more to the game then furballing.
For some of us there isn't. I've been playing online flight sims for a lot longer than you have, around 15 years now. In that time I've pretty much done all that these games have offered and yet there is one thing that keeps me playing these games. It's not winning the war, bombing bases to oblivion, milk running an undefended base that keeps me playing, I've done all that and still have the t-shirt somewhere. What keeps me coming back all these years is the enjoyment I get from fighting in my little twin engine plane.
One day you will realize that what is fun for you may not necessarily translate into what is fun for someone else.
ack-ack
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I feel like such a goof. It should have been obvious sooner.
Nits just don't like to fly any further than their own fields. Doh!
Today, some of us worked all morning on the SE side of the orange map. Had one base to go and we'd have the Rook HQ camped.
Couldn't get enough pilots there to help BECAUSE IT WAS TOO FAR TO FLY...LOL.
Within a 45 minutes, rooks organized and took the whole SE side of the map back.
So much easier to play at the NW side of map and defend, defend, defend. Never had to fly outside the dar ring.
Ok nits, if I can't convince you otherwise I guess I'll just join in the everlasting furball. :rock
Here's some food for thought to mull over...
Sometimes if you lose you win.
Sometimes fighting is more fun than milk-hording.
Sometimes you can win all the fights but lose the map or lose all the fights and win. ;)
Sometimes you can inflict 50 to 1 casualties but still lose the field because no one really dies.
Sometimes those that lost the map had way more fun than those that won and made far more perks in the process.
Sometimes fighting for its own sake is more fun and relaxing than not fighting with a long-term purpose.
Sometimes you just have to change countries if you can't adapt to the one you're on well enough to make it fun.
Sometimes filling a missing team niche with your own individual effort is very rewarding and can be contagious.
Sometimes pissing and moaning about stuff makes people not want to do "your thing" even more.
Sometimes its just healthy to vent so long as you keep this "game" in healthy perspective... :aok
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For some of us there isn't. I've been playing online flight sims for a lot longer than you have, around 15 years now. In that time I've pretty much done all that these games have offered and yet there is one thing that keeps me playing these games. It's not winning the war, bombing bases to oblivion, milk running an undefended base that keeps me playing, I've done all that and still have the t-shirt somewhere. What keeps me coming back all these years is the enjoyment I get from fighting in my little twin engine plane.
One day you will realize that what is fun for you may not necessarily translate into what is fun for someone else.
ack-ack
Good for you you old geezer.
I'm 56 years old, played US Navy Pilots, Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1, 2 and 3 and now AHII.
I think it's YOU that doesn't realize what might be fun for you could become MORE fun for others.
Frankly, I get bored just flying fighters all the time. I fly bombers, gv alot, get on the big guns on carrier groups, even fly RV8's when they're available.
And when I do fly fighters, it's not always to shoot down other fighters. I'll do ack runs, ammo bunker runs, radar runs. It keeps the game more interesting than going up, shooting my gun and going down, going up, shooting my gun and going down...ho-hum.
I think it takes ALOT more brain power to think far enough ahead to see what would be a good strategy to bring to the capture of a base than to just take off in a fighter, point the nose at the red icon in front of me and pull the trigger.
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Here's some food for thought to mull over...
Sometimes if you lose you win.
Sounds like the brain chemistry of a compulsive gambler. They actually get a bigger rush out of losing than winning.
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Sounds like the brain chemistry of a compulsive gambler. They actually get a bigger rush out of losing than winning.
For example..
If losing gets you off a map you personally hate or is in geographic opposition to the type of gameplay that your team tends to enjoy.
If losing meant the enemy gleefully impaled themselves in droves upon your team's bloodied swords like the goblins in the Tolkein series, making for a feeding frenzy of fun killing.
If losing meant your team resisted the temptation to stoop to poor/weak gameplay practices in spite of being outnumbered on all fronts.
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I think it's YOU that doesn't realize what might be fun for you could become MORE fun for others.
Frankly, I get bored just flying fighters all the time. I fly bombers, gv alot, get on the big guns on carrier groups, even fly RV8's when they're available.
Great, I hope you have a fun time doing that. After all the point of the game is to have fun. As I mentioned, in my time I've come to realize that fun for me is the aerial combat portion of the game. Bombing bases, driving around in a GV, etc., just doesn't do it for me. To each his own.
And when I do fly fighters, it's not always to shoot down other fighters. I'll do ack runs, ammo bunker runs, radar runs. It keeps the game more interesting than going up, shooting my gun and going down, going up, shooting my gun and going down...ho-hum.
Again, if that's what makes the game fun for you, all the power to you. I just happen to find that actually engaging something that can actually fight back is more of a challenge to me then bombing some toolshed or strafing some ack emplacement.
I think it takes ALOT more brain power to think far enough ahead to see what would be a good strategy to bring to the capture of a base than to just take off in a fighter, point the nose at the red icon in front of me and pull the trigger.
Again, it boils down to what is fun for each of us. You find milk running, flying in a hord, capturing undefended bases and winning "The War (TM)" to be fun for you. I don't find that fun, so I don't engage in it.
Again, play the game the way it's enjoyable for you and I'll play how it's enjoyable for me. Just don't whine and post rants when those of us don't want to play the way you do.
I hope one day you will get a clue but I am not betting it's going to happen in either of our life times.
ack-ack
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I hope one day you will get a clue but I am not betting it's going to happen in either of our life times.
ack-ack
Lol ack-ack. I think you like to argue just for the sake of arguing...
I'm simply trying to expand the mindset of those who are new and still don't understand all the game has to offer.
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Lol ack-ack. I think you like to argue just for the sake of arguing...
I'm simply trying to expand the mindset of those who are new and still don't understand all the game has to offer.
No, you're not trying to expand anyone's mindset. You are trying to belittle those that don't play your way to play your way. Failing to do that, you post your whines and rants trying to convince others to play your way.
ack-ack
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If someone says tey were just gangbanged by a bunch of knights I am not surprised at all because i watch people at every furball jump on that single person porking the base I just hope to get that great proxy when you first get on the runway :t
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I feel like such a goof. It should have been obvious sooner.
Nits just don't like to fly any further than their own fields. Doh!
Today, some of us worked all morning on the SE side of the orange map. Had one base to go and we'd have the Rook HQ camped.
Couldn't get enough pilots there to help BECAUSE IT WAS TOO FAR TO FLY...LOL.
Within a 45 minutes, rooks organized and took the whole SE side of the map back.
So much easier to play at the NW side of map and defend, defend, defend. Never had to fly outside the dar ring.
Ok nits, if I can't convince you otherwise I guess I'll just join in the everlasting furball. :rock
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No, you're not trying to expand anyone's mindset. You are trying to belittle those that don't play your way to play your way. Failing to do that, you post your whines and rants trying to convince others to play your way.
ack-ack
Yes ack-ack. You're absolutely right.
This is why there are so few generals and so many privates.
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What's wrong with not wanting to fly half an hour to drop a bomb on some buildings instead of staying in the fun fight where you are? :confused:
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What's wrong with not wanting to fly half an hour to drop a bomb on some buildings instead of staying in the fun fight where you are? :confused:
Absolutely nothing. I'm flying bombers to A30 as I write this. Creative minds find creative ways to keep themselves entertained.
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What's wrong with not wanting to fly half an hour to drop a bomb on some buildings instead of staying in the fun fight where you are? :confused:
Blasphemer!!
Must.......Win.........The... .....War!!!!! :t
<quick someone fetch my Ridlin!>
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If you kill FH to take a field... you might be a bish
If you join large missions... you might be a bish
If you cheer for winning the war... you might be a bish
If your K/D is under 0.5 you might be a bish
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Yes ack-ack. You're absolutely right.
This is why there are so few generals and so many privates.
You ask those privates if they're having fun doing what they're doing and they'll tell you "Yes!". Ask the little Napoleans if they're having fun, they'll say "NO, whoopee privates!".
I guess I'm glad I'm a "private" and having fun.
ack-ack
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If you kill FH to take a field... you might be a bish
If you join large missions... you might be a bish
If you cheer for winning the war... you might be a bish
If your K/D is under 0.5 you might be a bish
You forgot a few...
If you took down posters of hot chicks in bathing suits to put up a life size poster of ghi you might be a Bish
If you think a "fight" is you and your 50 closest friends vulching the same 2 weeker repeatedly you might be a Bish
If after the enemy takes a zone base you abandon everything to go milk factories for points you might be a Bish
If you pray for HUGE maps and set your alarm for 3am to reset the Small Maps you might be a Bish
<disclaimer: this is just in good fun, none of this is true...well except for the ghi poster one> ;)
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For some of us there isn't. I've been playing online flight sims for a lot longer than you have, around 15 years now...
NOOB!... oh I mean... WTG! :aok
Jokes aside... normally when I log in there are two or three sectors of knits attacking the Bish.
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You ask those privates if they're having fun doing what they're doing and they'll tell you "Yes!". Ask the little Napoleans if they're having fun, they'll say "NO, whoopee privates!".
ack-ack
Why thank you akak. I'll take that as a compliment... :aok
Oh, btw akak. You guys need to update your squads website. Link from AH Squads doesn't work.
If you want to flame me at Luftmorder's our URL is http://luftmorder.homelinux.org
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You forgot a few...
If you took down posters of hot chicks in bathing suits to put up a life size poster of ghi you might be a Bish
If you think a "fight" is you and your 50 closest friends vulching the same 2 weeker repeatedly you might be a Bish
If after the enemy takes a zone base you abandon everything to go milk factories for points you might be a Bish
If you pray for HUGE maps and set your alarm for 3am to reset the Small Maps you might be a Bish
<disclaimer: this is just in good fun, none of this is true...well except for the ghi poster one> ;)
:lol
I got a ghi poster when I renwed my subscription.
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:lol
I got a ghi poster when I renwed my subscription.
Mine is all tattered & torn tell me please as to where I can get a new one?
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Hey, I AM a Bish and I didn't get a Ghi poster :frown:
Seriously, I do a little of eveything just because I enjoy the diversity but I couldn't care less if we are winning or losing the war, nor do I attempt to implore others to play my way. On the other hand, if I put out a call for help at a field I usually get enough takers to repel the attack or to help take the field.
Mostly, I just want someone to fight against. That's what it's all about after all.
I had a 60 member squad in AW in ~'97 and did the win the war thing. Now I'm in a 2 person squad and fly solo most of the time. I have more fun now.
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Why thank you akak. I'll take that as a compliment... :aok
Oh, btw akak. You guys need to update your squads website. Link from AH Squads doesn't work.
If you want to flame me at Luftmorder's our URL is http://luftmorder.homelinux.org
Why would I want to flame you or your squadron?
ack-ack
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Yes ack-ack. You're absolutely right.
This is why there are so few generals and so many privates.
Oh man if they're were more privates to keep men busy, we would never play this game :rofl
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After a while, having engagements against buildings that can pull a massive and continuous 1G gets old but the problem is, people will follow the path of least resistance.
Why learn how to fight when you can prevent the fight by going NOE or complaining about a complex heavy bombing model so you can 'point and click' the hanger from 25k feet instead?
Eventually, most graduate to furballing (to some level) when they realize how futile their war winning efforts are.
I've seen a couple come around this week and maybe we'll see a shift in AH in the near future. Erkle, your posts complaining about the lack of war winning players really gives me hope for the future. Please, don't stop posting...
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I've seen a couple come around this week and maybe we'll see a shift in AH in the near future. Erkle, your posts complaining about the lack of war winning players really gives me hope for the future. Please, don't stop posting...
I love you man! :D
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I got 2 erkle kills tonight.. it was pleasing.
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We lost cause all we do is furball lol, which im totally fine wit cause with all these BIG maps that r really boring, its funner 2 furball then take bases
-BigBOBCH
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man, where do you guys get these titles, and who appoints them? Why was I never told that I have to do what people tell me to? Why am I always seemingly playing the game wrong?
At any rate, there are so few generals because most of them have been captured by the pirates and a few ninjas. they are being held for ransom, but in retrospect, this was a bad idea because to date, none have been paid. On side note, for awhile we were capturing privates, but they just wanted to be pirates and ninjas...so that didn't work out so well either.
-King Ninja Pirate
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I feel like such a goof. It should have been obvious sooner.
Nits just don't like to fly any further than their own fields. Doh!
Today, some of us worked all morning on the SE side of the orange map. Had one base to go and we'd have the Rook HQ camped.
Couldn't get enough pilots there to help BECAUSE IT WAS TOO FAR TO FLY...LOL.
Within a 45 minutes, rooks organized and took the whole SE side of the map back.
So much easier to play at the NW side of map and defend, defend, defend. Never had to fly outside the dar ring.
Ok nits, if I can't convince you otherwise I guess I'll just join in the everlasting furball. :rock
ya knowwww....
it strikes me as funny that the only people that seriously and consistantly put forth the ""you all syould play the game my way!!!!"" posts, are the land grabbers.
pickers, bnz'ers, furballers, squeak and whine a bit, but don't consistantly try to tell others to play their way. we only care about the fun of the battle.
then here comes the land baron.
waaawaaaaa we had all the buildings down except for 2!!!! you furballers were tooo busy waaaaa vulching the runways waaaaa.
vulching is not furballing. we like to have a fight. vulching is not a fight. if they were vulching, they WERE helping you you tard! they kept the aircraft from comming to kill your troops.
rant done. time to go back to work
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ya knowwww....
it strikes me as funny that the only people that seriously and consistantly put forth the ""you all syould play the game my way!!!!"" posts, are the land grabbers.
pickers, bnz'ers, furballers, wench and whine a bit, but don't consistantly try to tell others to play their way. we only care about the fun of the battle.
then here comes the land baron.
Mostly true, but sometimes furballers do tell others how to play the game, usually to complain about someone who picked their sorry a55 and then ran away from their countrymen. :lol
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Most knights don't know how to read, so your wasting valuable landgrab time posting in here :D
:lol
A squaddie and I once flew 3 sectors in B-17s to drop the hangers at a base to slow down the offense at nearby bases and were berated by an individual after we had dropped our eggs because we had ruined his vulch... My response was: "my dog just [insert gameID] in the yard, I'll be afk while I clean it up"
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Mostly true, but sometimes furballers do tell others how to play the game, usually to complain about someone who picked their sorry a55 and then ran away from their countrymen. :lol
ya, that's true, but it's not nearly as consistant as the land barons. :D
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I make missions but not necessarly to take bases. A few nights ago, I made an all P-39 mission, there were like 30 P-39Ds and P-39Qs and we actually took a base :lol
Not any ord with us either. We took it from Knits too, you knits should be ASHAMED of yourselves :devil :rock :rock :rock :D :lol :devil
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I make missions but not necessarly to take bases. A few nights ago, I made an all P-39 mission, there were like 30 P-39Ds and P-39Qs and we actually took a base :lol
Not any ord with us either. We took it from Knits too, you knits should be ASHAMED of yourselves :devil :rock :rock :rock :D :lol :devil
Stang did a "Stuka" mission once ... with 1 goon ... and about 40 Stukas ... was one the most fun missions I have ever been in. The Stukas pwnd everthing in sight ... without dropping all the FHs I may add ... and we took the base.
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Stang did a "Stuka" mission once ... with 1 goon ... and about 40 Stukas ... was one the most fun missions I have ever been in. The Stukas pwnd everthing in sight ... without dropping all the FHs I may add ... and we took the base.
I tried to put one of those together last week with Stukas, 109E-4's and 109F-4's escorting plus a goon. Only 1 guy joined so I cancelled it. :frown:
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One day you will realize that what is fun for you may not necessarily translate into what is fun for someone else.
ack-ack
Now THAT'S signature material. Well said ack-ack.
Glove
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It's amazing how much more fun IMO you can have
as soon as you stop worrying about "winning" or "losing"
the war. I win every time i up and find a good fight.
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It's amazing how much more fun IMO you can have
as soon as you stop worrying about "winning" or "losing"
the war. I win every time i up and find a good fight.
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most true thing said so far.
when i log on(which is agonizingly rare these days), i look for the bardar, and go there. if there's no bardar, i jump in a tank of some sort and shoot big things with a big gun.
if my squad needs me, i drop what i'm doing and join them. if not, i go on my own and have fun. don't care who's taking what base.
the only reason i worry about any of our bases flashing is because i know there's a good fight comming up there.
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:furious:rofl :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWhU8PQ5ojo
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Knits are LOSERS! err....wait, umm, dang
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It's amazing how much more fun IMO you can have
as soon as you stop worrying about "winning" or "losing"
the war. I win every time i up and find a good fight.
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Exactly, that's so very true...
I play pool in a Team based Pool league. A lot of times the other team will "throw off" on me because they don't have a high level handicap that has a chance to beat me. So, I end up slaughtering their low level person they throw on me. Sure, I won the match, of course I did, I used overwhelming force against relatively no resistance, the outcome was decided before we even lagged. But, I didn't learn a thing and it wasn't fun at all, I actually feel bad for the opposing player. It wasn't fun for the low level person either, they just sit in their bar stool and pout while I run out. Once in a while a team will have a high caliber player, sometimes that person even beats me. Sure, I lost the match, but I almost certainly learned something and it is always a lot of fun to play against some real resistance where the outcome is not a forgone conclusion. You know, win or lose, it's going to be a fight.
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I think it's because knights have such a complex movement pattern it's difficult for players to comprehend exactly how to use this to their advantage.I mean it's easy for bish cause they just go diagonal n rooks go vertical or hortizontal. thats my theory anyways.
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I feel like such a goof. It should have been obvious sooner.
Nits just don't like to fly any further than their own fields. Doh!
Today, some of us worked all morning on the SE side of the orange map. Had one base to go and we'd have the Rook HQ camped.
Couldn't get enough pilots there to help BECAUSE IT WAS TOO FAR TO FLY...LOL.
Within a 45 minutes, rooks organized and took the whole SE side of the map back.
So much easier to play at the NW side of map and defend, defend, defend. Never had to fly outside the dar ring.
Ok nits, if I can't convince you otherwise I guess I'll just join in the everlasting furball. :rock
GET A CLUE!!! SHEESE!!
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I think it's because knights have such a complex movement pattern it's difficult for players to comprehend exactly how to use this to their advantage.I mean it's easy for bish cause they just go diagonal n rooks go vertical or hortizontal. thats my theory anyways.
:lol
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GET A CLUE!!! SHEESE!!
hey kuhn, how ya been dude?
c'mon now......give the dude some explanation....... :D
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I think it's because knights have such a complex movement pattern it's difficult for players to comprehend exactly how to use this to their advantage.I mean it's easy for bish cause they just go diagonal n rooks go vertical or hortizontal. thats my theory anyways.
This is true. the Knights have to plan ahead. They can't just take the next base, they have to take the base that is two away and one to the offset of those two. The logisitics alone are so complex that it boggles our simple minds.
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I thought the knits lose so much due to being limited to moving in L shapes on the board. You know, 1 over 2 up or 2 over 1 up?