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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Rude on August 29, 2001, 03:18:00 PM
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Just interested in what the motivation for your squad might be...ie. friendship, comradre, History or perhaps World Domination?
What do you try to accomplish as a squad, if anything, and how do you percieve yourselves in AH?
Always wondered is all :)
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Now here is a good topic. <S> Rude. I've wondered myself. Should be interesting.
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Definitely friendship and comradery for me. I have a blast talking to the boys on RW nightly.
We also take pride in killing a lot of people (is that a good thing?). We try to work on our wingman stuff, and can do pretty well when we are on our game.
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I started it because I sucked and needed someone who could fly to watch my 6.
Seriously though, these are the only guys I know that are as into WW2 and aviation as much as I am... enhances the game experience 100 fold, and I've met some really great friends. We talk about this stuff as much if not more than we do it...
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We don't call 6's, insult each other at length and cut down Fatty's mom.
We captured a base back in beta.....
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When I ran a squad I tryed to make it as historical as possible by asking my crew to fly a plane set like alll a6ms and ju88s or all p-38s and b26 each mission was different so different planes ,
I also liked to hit strat targets more than furball around a base .
I also ran contests with real prizes usually models cheap but real .
no one wanted this so I quit running a squad
:(
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You gotta be a lil nutty to CO one of these squads in the first place, I literally didn't know what I was getting into when milenko and I formed up the assassins in warbirds. We quit the squad we were in at the time because our CO dissapeared for like 6 months :eek:. So it was me and milenko on private channel, I was new to flight simms and for some stupid reason thought the CO was like 2nd in command and XO was the leader. So I tell milenko I'd like to be CO, if he'd be XO. I think he knew that I had it bassackwards, the bum! Now I'm the poor fella in charge. :)
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I started the 332nd Flying Mongrels back in 1997 with “docdog” (he and I were high school buddies). It was his idea and he insisted I run the show. Prior I was wanting to be a member of the “Red Falcons” in Warbirds, but they never sent me an invite. :(
From the get go we recruited by “personality only”, skill did not matter. Doc and I were out to make friends and have fun. That paid off 10 fold and to this day ghosth and I run it the same way. :) Like many of you I have made some wonderful life long friends. I have had harppa, woodog, vaderr, wklink/crash come visit and I have had the pleasure of meeting ghosth, dhog and ozark.
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Santa for president !
(he promissed me a spot in finance...)
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As a squad, we've been together a long time - way back to INN days. Most of the AKs participating in 'Aces High' have been together since 1998. I've been a CO in the AKs since 1998 and I always look for the same thing in a new recruit: What kind of person do we have here? Will I enjoy talking to him? Will he stick around in the AKs if Aces High (heaven forbid) goes away? I am interested in finding nice guys committed to the idea that a group of us can have a lot more fun than one of us.
Flying skill never enters the equation. Almost always, flying skill is accompanied by ego problems. To be sure, there are exceptions, but not many. :)
AKcurly
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Camaraderie
Teamwork
Remembering those who gave all they had to fight evil.
[ 08-29-2001: Message edited by: funkedup ]
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We don't have a "CO" as per say. 5 of us were in another squad in another flight sim. The CO in that squad was an Idiot. Myself and VFJOKER were XO's of 2 flights and broke off. Some went with us. We made this squad with 8 guys. Our main objective to answer the question is FUN. Thats 1st and foremost. We love taking on RW and have been together for over 2 years now. Some have left but the bulk have stayed.
We look for guys that we think will be fun to play with. No matter of skill or flying preference. It's a game even though we all tend to get uptight at times.
We think of ourselves as help to who ever we are flying for at the time. Rooks , Knights , Bishes. We're here to help and have fun. And that is what life is for isn't it?
Jackel
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Hmm I am not the CO but an ex-CO does that count?
I started the Red Dragons with another guy back in simguilds flying circus. We just wanted someone regular to fly with. I started meeting all kinds of awesome people. We sucked at flying but had a blast!
That became our recruiting requirement... it is really our only one.. Personality above skill.... if you happen to be good then that is just a bonus. We moved to AH during tour 1 and last year decided to go historical with the unit. It was a group effort to find the right squad name for us. What do you know Joe's Jokers is a real squad name ;) Jokers ....now that is a good description for us.. well Fat Drunk Bastards was already taken ;p
Point.. the squad is just for the fun of flying together and meeting and becoming friends with guys/gals from all over the world that like the same kinds of things :)
S!
Rocket
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Okay Apache:
1) Vulching
2) Vulching
3) Feeding lazs to the bad guys
That's our whole gig.
Hooligan
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Skernsk exaggerates.
We don't have a CO, we've NEVER captured a base and Fatty's Mom bakes us pies, the sweet old dear.
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A good number of our squad are work mates. We all share the same interest in the game and we also wanted to honour two Canadian Squadrons of WWII, to which our members have an attachment.
;)
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Daddog has it right about us Dogs.
There is nothing like seeing the bunch formed up in a big buff strike with lots of chatter on RW.
I'll never forget the night a bunch of us were gunning a B17. (Back in brand W you could have more than 1 gunner) It was my turn to pilot & I had it on autoclimb. Told the guys I was going for a fresh drink.
Well the b17 was headed straight for a big mountain peak when I got back. Ever so gently I played with the autopilot speed till I could see we would just hit the top.
RW started getting excited as we got closer & closer to the peak. The guys are all yelling "GHOSTH" as I roll it into a barrel roll & squeeze it over the peak inverted. Teeerex screamed!
I was laughing so hard I almost crashed!
THAT is what being in a squad is all about!
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Fun, Fun, & Fun. Being online with other bastards and hopefully getting on RW is all that matters. Flying together like a band of idiots, or organized and taking a base, or flying against each other and gloating profusly when shooting each other down. It's all good.
SOB
Oh, and making hurtful comments toward Animal...that's also something that binds us together! :D
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hehe Hooly. I have that taped to the monitor. Rule #3 is in Bold :)
If memory serves, the BK's go back to INN, around '92 or something?
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In order:
Historical recreation
(Which leads to..)
Respect for those who fought with honor and country
(Which leads to...)
Common interest that draws squaddies
(which leads to..)
Comraderie
(which leads to...)
Lifetime friendships
Arena domination? I think of CO's that surround themselves with known talent when I think of that factor. Personally, I'd rather have someone whos a lousy shot, but a great person/friend than I would with someone who's got a lousy attitude, bad vibs within the community and alot of skillzzzzzz.
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Interesting replies...thanks guys!
The 13th TAS has gone thru some phases for sure. I'm extremely competitive and have a hard time tolerating failure...yes you're correct, it's a character flaw for sure :)
Inspite of my shortcomings, squad life over the past ten years has been one of lifes good things. I have flown with some of the guys for 10 years...been to their homes, they to mine and shared tragedies as well as side-splitting laughter.
Currently we fly as a squad, first, because we are friends...like a old pair of shoes, nothing else quite feels right.
Secondly, we strive to do our best as a squad in whatever we choose to do...call it pride I guess, we just enjoy kickin tail :)
Thirdly, if ya want to get something done in this sim, a group effort sure don't hurt the cause any :)
Thanks again for the replies...Cyas Up!
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Don't worry guys... I'm working on Rude.
I can alreay report this much progress: He used to go into week-long crying jags if one...just one... of his bullets missed when he unloaded a burst into someone.
Now he gets over it in less than a day.
Stay tuned for further updates. :D
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Daddog I was an original Red Falcon.Who were you flying with(RF)?I flew 4-6am weekdays and sun.nights because of my work schedule.That's probably why I don't remember your handle?Who was supposed to give you an invite?
Killjoy and gorf were also RF members.The most fun I have had in flight sims was with the RF.
Frodo
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Hi Frodo!
If I recall you were one of the newest members of the RF's at that time. This was back in 97. I had been in WB for a few months and had met some of the RF on Kali doing WB h/h. When I signed up for an account I first flew Red. I was told to hang around and try to join them on some missions. I do believe I even sent an e-mail to the C.O., but it has been too long to remember for sure. In any case after a few weeks I gave up and started flying green because another friend on Kali "snoopy" started flying for the frogs. Soon after that "docdog" aka "buddi" convinced me to start a squad.
My orignial call was "jwg11"....lol I think! It has been so long!
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When I started the Fat Drunk Bastards I did it with honor and chivalry in mind. My job as a CO is a though one as sometimes I have to pull the squad together in the moments of grief; but those times when we do succeed, its all worth the effort.
We, the FDB, are based on truth and friendship. We are like a band of brothers, ready to stand firm and take a blow for any other in the squad, or a friend of the squad. Thats what we are all about.
<S> C.Os of Aces High!!
<S> TO ALL!!!! <S><S><S><S><S><S>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Animal is a good CO, Ill admit that.
S! WTG! Add sappy crap here_____________.
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Daddog those days were a blast.
I started w/b in the fall of 95.I worked with deft and he got me hooked.He started a squad and there were only 3-4 of us.We merged with chaz who had a similar number and became the Red Falcons VVS.I started off as ronp and then frdo.
We were red in the early days and later switched to gold.You went from red to a frog.How could you! :D
Frodo