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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Slate on January 26, 2010, 10:17:31 AM
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I wasn't thrilled about the upcoming WWI arena until by chance I saw the movie "The Blue Max". Great eye candy with good dogfight scenes.
The movie came out in 1966 with George Peppard as a young Luftwaffe Pilot that no one wants to fly with because his selfishness got his wingman killed. Later he thinks he kills an observer in the rear seat of an enemy aircraft and forces the pilot to land. Before landing the observer wakes up and prepares to fire on the young Luftwaffe Pilot and he's forced to shoot the plane down. Again he is scorned for his actions because shooting down a helpless enemy is dishonorable.
Question: Will the WWI arena have a higher standard of Gameplay than the MA or will it devolve into some of the lame behavior we see now. I'm hoping that chivilary is not dead and players respect each other and contribute to others having fun as well as themselves. :aok
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A family friend was a friend (and next door neighbor) of George Peppard at Dearborn High School. About 3 weeks ago at a birthday party, he recollected George being a starting running back. He jammed his thumb something fierce and went to the bench. The head coach walked up and said, "you in pain?!!!" George said "Nah" (being sarcastic). The coach said good and yanked his thumb back into place. George went in for the next play and the rest of the game.
I still have yet to see the whole flick at once. I always catch bits and pieces of it. I'll be getting it on DVD soon.
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A very nice classic.
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The head coach walked up and said, "you in pain?!!!" George said "Nah" (being sarcastic). The coach said good and yanked his thumb back into place. George went in for the next play and the rest of the game.
I still have yet to see the whole flick at once. I always catch bits and pieces of it. I'll be getting it on DVD soon.
I always liked him as an Actor but didn't know he was really as tough in real life. Cool :cool:
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A family friend was a friend (and next door neighbor) of George Peppard at Dearborn High School. About 3 weeks ago at a birthday party, he recollected George being a starting running back and he jammed his thumb and went to the bench. The head coach walked up and said, "you in pain?!!!" George said "Nah" (being sarcastic). The coach said good and yanked his thumb back into place. George went in for the next play and the rest of the game.
I still have yet to see the whole flick at once. I always catch bits and pieces of it. I'll be getting it on DVD soon.
If you have Netflix, you can watch it on instant download. Great flick.
And Chivalry? Pulleeeze. Aside from some very rare events early in the war, 99.99% of the Great Air War was a bloody, cruel, and heartless meat-grinder. The Baron himself specialized in stalking the fight from above to identify and pick-off wounded, damaged, or inexperienced pilots trying to separate from the furball and head for home. Those certainly comprised the majority of his kills.
Suck it up Princess. Its going to be a blood-bath. :devil
Wab
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Pickers, Ho's, Vulchers, ALL coming to a bi-plane near you. :aok Count On It :O
:saluteMajChaos
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i wonder whos gonna be the first to complain about a ho and vulch like the bish do. dam vulchers hoers. itll be fun ww1 :rock
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I can't wait to see the ack :O
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Question: Will the WWI arena have a higher standard of Gameplay than the MA or will it devolve into some of the lame behavior we see now. I'm hoping that chivilary is not dead and players respect each other and contribute to others having fun as well as themselves. :aok
Hope springs eternal I suppose.
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Pickers, Ho's, Vulchers, ALL coming to a bi-plane near you. :aok Count On It :O
:saluteMajChaos
I'm guessing you have a problem with all that...if they get more than 4 planes in there, it will be fun anyway.
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as slow as WW1 rides are, you can dirty PM the other guy for HOing you while he is still in the act of doing it :aok
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Question: Will the WWI arena have a higher standard of Gameplay than the MA or will it devolve into some of the lame behavior we see now. I'm hoping that chivilary is not dead and players respect each other and contribute to others having fun as well as themselves. :aok
There will ALWAYS be lame behavior when scoring is involved.
Its not about fighting, its about how many easy kills can you get, consequently giving you a better"score".
If there are scores in WW1 arena, there will be score boiz!
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The Blue Max - great flick! Ursula Andress undressed! :banana: :x :eek: :O
oh, yeah, and some planes and shooting and stuff.....
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At least we wont get sick from the Castor oil, and our goggles wont be covered with grease. I already have my Silk scarf tucked into my flight suit. I speak from, the scarf coming streaming in the wind is BS. I was flying in an airshow in an SE-5 and my scarf came out. Trying to fly, and keep from getting strangled by the 6 foot white silk scarf acting like a Noose in 65 kts winds is not fun.
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I wear a clip on scarf
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Where runners will become trotters, and guys at 8k will be alt dweebs.
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WWI arena better come soon....my LION is eating ALOT.
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I'm guessing you have a problem with all that...if they get more than 4 planes in there, it will be fun anyway.
Heck no, im the biggest ho here....Look for me at 12 oclock :noid :rofl :rofl :rofl
<S>majchaos
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One of my favorite movies. My wife bought the DVD for me for Christmas. :)
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I wasn't thrilled about the upcoming WWI arena until by chance I saw the movie "The Blue Max". Great eye candy with good dogfight scenes.
The movie came out in 1966 with George Peppard as a young Luftwaffe Pilot that no one wants to fly with because his selfishness got his wingman killed. Later he thinks he kills an observer in the rear seat of an enemy aircraft and forces the pilot to land. Before landing the observer wakes up and prepares to fire on the young Luftwaffe Pilot and he's forced to shoot the plane down. Again he is scorned for his actions because shooting down a helpless enemy is dishonorable.
Question: Will the WWI arena have a higher standard of Gameplay than the MA or will it devolve into some of the lame behavior we see now. I'm hoping that chivilary is not dead and players respect each other and contribute to others having fun as well as themselves. :aok
Great movie!
Different kind of planes. Same players. In which one do you think there will be change?
There used to be a sort of code of honor wayyy back in the Airwarrior days. Back when I first started playing when it was on AOL. Beleive it or not. many of the current type of lame gameplay common now was frowned upon by the majority. But it gradually devolved. what was once common. You only saw in the very early hours when fewer were on. As the game got more and more gamers and squeekers. That unwritten code of honor gradually disappeared. Sadly, you rarely see it now.
The majority that used to frown upon lame type of gameplay is in the minority now. And are often called "whiners" now.
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Luftwaffe
They were called the Luftstreitkräfte.
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I had to laugh watching it again. Its been over a decade since reading the book, but in the movie they make it look like that gunner woke back up and went for his gun forcing Bruno Stachel to have to finish him off (causing him to be tragically misunderstood by his squad mates :rolleyes:). In the book I remember him clearly doing it deliberately. He was furious that he was robbed of his initial kill simply because it fell behind enemy lines and couldn't be verified. So this one he deliberately killed over the base so it was like "There! Think you could verify that one???" :lol
Also in the book he didn't die in the end. There were sequels. After the war Stachel falls deeper into alchoholism and eventually ends up flying for the Nazi's in WWII. I guess the movie studios didn't want their heart throb movie star property to come off in a bad light so they white washed it and changed the story. :rofl
Wab
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They were called the Luftstreitkräfte.
Imperial German Army Air Service
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I wear a clip on scarf
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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Imperial German Army Air Service
That was prior to October of 1916, IIRC. After that it was Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte.
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Watched it when i had netflix last year...prolly one of the best war movies I've seen
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"I can't wait to see the ack"
Ack? Wot, flak? AAA? Na, during 1914-1918 it's called 'Archibald' by the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service, dear feller - 'Archie'.
Tootle-pip.
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"I can't wait to see the ack"
Ack? Wot, flak? AAA? Na, during 1914-1918 it's called 'Archibald' by the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service, dear feller - 'Archie'.
Tootle-pip.
:cool:
Word is it is dogfighting only... no ack required.
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A family friend was a friend (and next door neighbor) of George Peppard at Dearborn High School.
Interesting. My grandmother's family (her last name was "Bokas" and later married last name was "Lalla") lived on the same street as George Peppard when they were growing up. Would be interesting if they knew each other.
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I wear a clip on scarf
My scarf worked its way out of my flightsuit at an airshow that my dad and I were performing at, My plane had no trim tab so you couldn't trim it, and the throttle would vibrate back to idle, so you could not take your hand off the throttle. Right in the middle of our routine, I had pulled up hard to do a wing over infront of the crowd with an SE-5a right on my 6, my dad had saddled up real nice. Just about the time it broke over, it felt like someone had a noose around my throat. I could not take my hand off the throttle, or the stick long enough to get the scarf completely stuffed back into my flight siut. So I floundered around trying to fly, put on a show, and get that white silk noose back to where I could breath. I finally got it stuffed back in some what and turned the smoke on, nothing happened, no smoke, well I turned on final anyway. My plane did not have breaks, not that they were broke, they were not there, so to stop I was going to go in between the lights and run it off in the grass, No big deal. Well when I went off into the grass what ever had plugged my smoke system dislodged, and it REALLY started smoking. By the time I got the smoker turned off, and the smoke cleared from around the plane, the fire dept was already there getting ready to drown me with fire retadant. That is some nasty, sticky smelly stuff there. I managed to get them Not to hose me down, and got back to our parking spaces and at that piont I promised myself to always zipp my flightsuit all the way up, and use a slip knot so it would not happen again.
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Heh! Good tale, 2ADoc! :aok