Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: spitter123 on October 01, 2012, 05:22:53 AM
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I wanna know how you's ended up playing this awesome game.
I found it on another site.
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Way back in 2000 or 2001 I saw an advertisement on-line somewhere that led me to Hi-Tech.
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I played FSX in 2011, I was in a formation squad who had just recruited 3 new guys, well after about a month it didn't work out and we let these three go, I however still kept in contact with them on Skype, one of them randomly messaged me on Skype one night...
"Hey you like dogfighting/flying right?"
"Yea?"
"Here, download this game"
His in game name was FlakBait IIRC
a night of pure hilarity ensued :rofl
I remember it like yesterday. To think it's been almost a year and a half I've been playing this damn addiction - err game is crazy.
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It was Yarbles who got me into Aces High, I met him in a shop called "Frocks and Skirts for Men" but that's another story. :old:
The question is how do you leave aces high? :)
For the cost its very good value for money and the threads are awesome :)
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It was Yarbles who got me into Aces High, I met him in a shop called "Frocks and Skirts for Men" but that's another story. :old:
The question is how do you leave aces high? :)
For the cost its very good value for money and the threads are awesome :)
Don't forget the ability to share pie pics and recipes :old:
:cheers: Oz
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Too long ago to remember
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Air Warrior folded. Flossy told the squad about Aces High. We came.
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The voices inside my head.
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Was playing Avalon Hill wargames, before many on this BB were even born..
Still have a large collection of them.. Some old, first edition ones too!
Kind of a natural progression I guess..
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Back in tour 47 I was at my buddies house playing with his joystick and really enjoyed it. I bought my own and started in tour 49. Been here since.
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I heard about it on the History Channel look awesome so i asked my parents to let me try it and may a just say thank you HiTech :salute
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had played Warbirds way back when and decided to google "flight sims". They had me at 2 weeks free.
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I had read about a website that had a catalog of games in development that were looking for players to beta test. I think AH was the third game I tried that day.
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When the community I loved in Warbirds 2.x disolved, i looked for an alternative. ...Then upgraded hardware.
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I wanna know how you's ended up playing this awesome game.
I found it on another site.
I was on FA and several folks were talking about it. I came over and tried it and stayed.
I've been here since about 2000 but found the boards in 2002.
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My Son turned me on to it in 1999 during beta, he is long gone, I stayed :lol.
shamus
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Saw the ad for it on the History Channel. Punched up the website and bookmarked it for a look at a later date. About 3 months later I decided to take a solid look at it....should have looked the day I saw the ad. :bhead I've honestly forgotten when I started....too lazy to check what tour it was. All I know is....more addictive than cigarette's. :x
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I absolutely have no idea how I came here, seriously. Was back 2000/2001... I can't even remember my first ID :headscratch:
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Your first ID was Jenifer :old:
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I absolutely have no idea how I came here, seriously. Was back 2000/2001... I can't even remember my first ID :headscratch:
People can change their ID?
I'd heard about in in the early days as AW was waning, I'd tried it offline and found it altogether to difficult, and the 30 bucks was out my league.
Then AW died, and they halved the cost.
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I was playing rainbow6 multiplayer in 1999. A guy named Soulyss saw me talking about warbirds 2.x, and told me about a free beta of an even better ww2 online sim. That is what got me started, and I quickly abandoned all other online activities for the following year.
and the 30 bucks was out my league
Back when the game went from Beta to this price, the exchange rate for Canadian to USD wasn't what it is now, it was about .60 . This made Aces High about 50$ a month, and back then a cable internet connection cost 50$ as well, and the early 1.5 meg dsl's were even higher. All told, it was over 100$ after tax a month to be able to fly Aces High online. Of course complaining about this at the time brought on a barrage of people saying how it was quite cheap compared to the old Warbirds rates. And it was. At 14.95, which is around 14.50 at today's exchange rate with the US dollar, I can't believe we haven't seen a price INCREASE to be honest. We're very spoiled at this rate in my opinion.
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back during freshman year of high school (i believe around the time Microsoft Zone, where id play FS2004 was taken down) a friend, Pope14 told me about a WW2 flight sim with tanks and hundreds of people. a week later tried it out and got addicted
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Started with River Raid on the Atari 2600. Then there was the zillion tokens i plugged into various Top Gun machines. After that I bought a game called Red Barron on my first PC and spent many a happy hour blowing stuff out of the sky. Then there was the Internet revolution and AOL. I found AW online and almost lost a wife. When AW shut down, I reverted to MS combat flight sim but secretly yearned to kill online opponents again. Then I discovered MS had small online rooms where you could fight other players. I played there for a while but got disgusted with 50mph planes doing 180 degree turns and catching 300 mph planes. Then I found AH free head to head rooms where I set up my own little wars and people squeaked about not having enough ammo or fuel and asked for lead computing gunsights. Then hth went away and I convinced the wife that $15 bucks was cheap entertainment and vowed not to spend 10 hours per day playing like AW.
So here I am. Stuck for the foreseeable future and can't imagine a better way to spend fifteen bucks.
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Saw a commercial the summer before I started high school on the History Channel, in 2006. Been hooked since.
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in 2004 went to my landlords house one day and watched him fly for a bit he explained he was fighting real people all over the world....I was like :O......even though I was 34 years old, I never had a computer before so had no clue about that stuff.....but I sure knew about and enjoyed fighting people, and here I could do that and no one actually die's or goes to prison.....very shortly thereafter( I think within days) I did a tattoo for a 10 gig computer, the guy I got that comp from actually had a game called Fighter Ace which I played offline for about a month....it was strikingly similar to AH except in offline mode using the Bomber missions the escorts would fight back...after a couple weeks of fighting them....I asked my landlord to fly online...(he wouldn't let me before that....didn't want me to ruin his score :D) well I showed him that I could fight the AI in FA and kill 40+ planes on maximum difficulty (They came at you 5 at a time) he let me fly his account a couple times and then in tour 52 I started my killing in the Skies of AH.........been addicted to it ever since......
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I bought my first computer 20 years ago. The first day I searched "Flying Games" through AOL and Airwarrior came up. My first bill was $300.00 for that month. I played that game untill it closed, then I searched again and played Warbirds. Then Warbirds was just dying, everyone had left. the squad I was in, "JG27" all left for this new game called "Aces High". I hated them for it. One day soon after that I got pissed off playing Warbirds (mainly because I was a jerk), so I closed my account and tried "Aces High". Done. Gunna play here forever and ever and ever.
I am an Aces High evangelist. I tell alot of RL people about it. I've gotten 2 co-workers hooked on it and have a 3rd guy gearing up so he can start soon.
I met a WW2 vet in my Honda Motorcycle store a couple years ago. He flew P38's and was shot down. I sat him down and showed him some of the films on my work computer. We talked and talked and talked. I could never get him to join us, and that really bummed me out. I even told him I would buy him a computer and pay for his account, still no luck. His name was Ervin Cloyd. He passed away about a year ago. Just after that, his grandson walked into my store and told me Ervin had died. He held his hand out and said, "My grandfather wanted me to make sure that when he passed away, that you got these", and he dropped Ervin's "Wings" from his uniform in my hand. I cried. I have tears in my eyes now. I pinned those wings on my motorcycle jacket which I wear every day. When people ask me about the Wings they see on my jacket, I get to tell them about Ervin. I think about Ervin every day.
It is funny how a silly little game like this can be the impetus that might make you a better person.
I have no choice. I have to be nice here, Ervin might be watching <S>.
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:)
I have a Lambretta :)
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I used to be a flight planner for A.O.P.A. and was introduced to computer flight sims while there.
Later, I was checking out my sister's mac and magazines and found air warrior.
Found out that a Dos client was forthcoming and got in there for a bit but not before having to learn huge amounts of technical stuff to get in.
I don't remember my number name but later flew as "quisp".
DC was a good place to attend cons and I was soon taken into custody "then quickly released" for scalping tickets to the 1994 F.O.S.E. show in DC.
I was "telnetting" into work to get access for a while and then I chanced upon an air warrior con where talk was about a new sim coming out soon.
Got in and flew the free beta days for a bit but flew head to head for years and years with Mburns, Daveed, and jmuter.
Got back into warbirds arenas in the 2000s but got banned for suggesting a wiki page similar to the one used by the russian thieves.....no warning. I had no idea about how angry Jlittman and skydvr were about that.
Played IL2 and WB2.77 on russian and brazilian servers and decided to get my machine capable for either WWIIonline or Aces High.
I gladly pay to fly here because the arenas are the best.
Former handles are quisp, icepaq, icepak, higgns, shwing, usurpr, and capici (short term joke handle)
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I bought my first computer 20 years ago. The first day I searched "Flying Games" through AOL and Airwarrior came up. My first bill was $300.00 for that month. I played that game untill it closed, then I searched again and played Warbirds. Then Warbirds was just dying, everyone had left. the squad I was in, "JG27" all left for this new game called "Aces High". I hated them for it. One day soon after that I got pissed off playing Warbirds (mainly because I was a jerk), so I closed my account and tried "Aces High". Done. Gunna play here forever and ever and ever.
I am an Aces High evangelist. I tell alot of RL people about it. I've gotten 2 co-workers hooked on it and have a 3rd guy gearing up so he can start soon.
I met a WW2 vet in my Honda Motorcycle store a couple years ago. He flew P38's and was shot down. I sat him down and showed him some of the films on my work computer. We talked and talked and talked. I could never get him to join us, and that really bummed me out. I even told him I would buy him a computer and pay for his account, still no luck. His name was Ervin Cloyd. He passed away about a year ago. Just after that, his grandson walked into my store and told me Ervin had died. He held his hand out and said, "My grandfather wanted me to make sure that when he passed away, that you got these", and he dropped Ervin's "Wings" from his uniform in my hand. I cried. I have tears in my eyes now. I pinned those wings on my motorcycle jacket which I wear every day. When people ask me about the Wings they see on my jacket, I get to tell them about Ervin. I think about Ervin every day.
It is funny how a silly little game like this can be the impetus that might make you a better person.
I have no choice. I have to be nice here, Ervin might be watching <S>.
wow....good story :aok
:salute Ervin
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Agreed; great story Zoney, wow.
I started here:
http://www.ag.ru/games/confirmed-kill/cheats/2529
Cannot remember when, but around '94 or '95 I think....and what we have now started with Confirmed Kill.
I moved to Mexico in '98, stopped playing in 2002 or so, just started again this year. I still suck :)
MaxQ
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In early 2001 one of my co-workers introduced me to the flight sim community and AH in particular. A number of us IT "professionals" got online, played, got hooked. Eventually forming a squadron called the FWOS (flying whirlpool of suck after our then sr executive manager's company wide briefing phrase :) ) When they mostly decided to move on I stayed for a long number of years. Now I don't fly, but view the boards often and help where I can.
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Saw it on a commercial on the now military channel.
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In the days of the 8088 computer, my uncle gave us a copy of a program called 'jet.exe'. Wireframe models, made Air Warrior look like IL2 graphically. Very little flight model to speak of, played the heck out of that game when I was a kid. When I was a college student in the early 90s, I discovered a game named Red Baron (not Red Baron 3D, 3D cards hadn't really come about yet).
Played it a lot, loved it. When I started to get into the internet, I looked up online flight sims because I assumed something like AH would have to exist. It did, but at the time it was Warbirds, pay by the hour. Being a student, I knew what would wind up happening and my pocketbook couldn't support it at the time, so I kind of forgot about online simming.
Around Christmas 2006, I'd become disenchanted with the MMOs I'd been playing, and it occurred to me that perhaps online flight sims had moved to a monthly fee. Sure enough, I found WBs, and was hooked.
Played the heck out of it for 3 years until a bunch of people jumped ship for various reasons. I got my reason to jump ship, so I came over here. Been here ever since, loving every minute of it.
Wiley.
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I started playing aces high when I broke my foot. My wife found it on the internet and thought it would help pass the time, she never thoght it would last this long. 3 1/2 yrs and counting. Now she really hates to a degree (wife ack from hell) :rofl
:devil :salute
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1. River Raid (http://www.atariage.com/5200/screenshots/s_RiverRaid_3.png) - Atari 5200 - Proud owner of the "River Raiders" Activision Patch (http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Activision_Patches/INTV_River_Raid.jpg)
2. Sopwith (http://cdn1.dfgfile.com/a/dfg/imgs/prod/title/sopwith_30.png)
3. JET (http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1254360972-00.jpg)
4. Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator (http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/998181817-00.jpg)
5. Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter (http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1320764003-00.jpg) (Before they knew what it was and what it looked like!)
6. Microprose F-117 Stealth Fighter (http://www.migman.com/sw/F-117A/pics/cp_easy580.gif)
7. Aces of the Pacific (http://www.migman.com/sw/AcesPacific/pics/gndattack.gif)
8. Aces over Europe (http://www.migman.com/sw/AcesOverEurope/pics/box.jpg)
9. Dawn Patrol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Patrol_%28video_game%29)
10. F-15 Strike Eagle III (http://img.squakenet.com/snapshot/5374/9489-F15StrikeEagleIII.jpg)
11. Strike Commander (http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/medium/2008/09/1993_Strike_Commander.jpg)
12. A-10 Tank Killer II (http://i2.listal.com/image/207975/600full-silent-thunder-%3A-a--10-tank-killer-ii-screenshot.jpg)
13. US Navy Fighters (http://i2.listal.com/image/248751/600full-jane%27s-usnf%2797%3A-u.s.-navy-fighters-screenshot.jpg)
14. Lock ON: Modern Air Combat (http://www.armchairgeneral.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/lomac-platinum/lomac%203.jpg)
15. Falcon 3.0 (http://image.dosgamesarchive.com/screenshots/falcon3-2.gif)
16. All the Microsoft Flight Sims
17. Falcon 4.0 (http://www.rampantgames.com/blog/uploaded_images/f4view-780660.jpg)
18. Air Warrior on AOL (http://www.vbf-12.com/airwarrior.jpg)
19. Warbirds (http://www.multiplayergames.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ck.gif)
20. Aces High/Aces High II. We left warbirds for the amazing graphics/FM of Aces High in 2000. Became a P-51 picker and a runner ever since.
Think I got most of 'em in there :)
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1. River Raid (http://www.atariage.com/5200/screenshots/s_RiverRaid_3.png) - Atari 5200 - Proud owner of the "River Raiders" Activision Patch (http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Activision_Patches/INTV_River_Raid.jpg)
2. Sopwith (http://cdn1.dfgfile.com/a/dfg/imgs/prod/title/sopwith_30.png)
3. JET (http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1254360972-00.jpg)
4. Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator (http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/998181817-00.jpg)
5. Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter (http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1320764003-00.jpg) (Before they knew what it was and what it looked like!)
6. Microprose F-117 Stealth Fighter (http://www.migman.com/sw/F-117A/pics/cp_easy580.gif)
7. Aces of the Pacific (http://www.migman.com/sw/AcesPacific/pics/gndattack.gif)
8. Aces over Europe (http://www.migman.com/sw/AcesOverEurope/pics/box.jpg)
9. Dawn Patrol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Patrol_%28video_game%29)
10. F-15 Strike Eagle III (http://img.squakenet.com/snapshot/5374/9489-F15StrikeEagleIII.jpg)
11. Strike Commander (http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/medium/2008/09/1993_Strike_Commander.jpg)
12. A-10 Tank Killer II (http://i2.listal.com/image/207975/600full-silent-thunder-%3A-a--10-tank-killer-ii-screenshot.jpg)
13. US Navy Fighters (http://i2.listal.com/image/248751/600full-jane%27s-usnf%2797%3A-u.s.-navy-fighters-screenshot.jpg)
14. Lock ON: Modern Air Combat (http://www.armchairgeneral.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/lomac-platinum/lomac%203.jpg)
15. Falcon 3.0 (http://image.dosgamesarchive.com/screenshots/falcon3-2.gif)
16. All the Microsoft Flight Sims
17. Falcon 4.0 (http://www.rampantgames.com/blog/uploaded_images/f4view-780660.jpg)
18. Air Warrior on AOL (http://www.vbf-12.com/airwarrior.jpg)
19. Warbirds (http://www.multiplayergames.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ck.gif)
20. Aces High/Aces High II. We left warbirds for the amazing graphics/FM of Aces High in 2000. Became a P-51 picker and a runner ever since.
Think I got most of 'em in there :)
Sheesh!
For all you tragically illiterate types lemme condense this for ya:
Pand, addict :D
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I had fsx on my computer, but hated it because I didnt have a joystick, so I was always looking for flight sims online and found aces high. well, that was back when I was scared to put any credit card info or anything online so I passed it up. so a year later, as I had been purchasing stuff online, I found aces high again and watch lapape's jug film, after that I was hooked :devil
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Superdud told me to try it, i did and loved it.
Became a P-51 picker and a runner ever since.
Reason i stopped playing (no more dogfights), that and most of my squad left. Oh the glory days of furball island in the old MA. :cheers:
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Saw it on a commercial on the now military channel.
Same for me, I'm gonna start playing that ultra real A-10 Combat simulator. The manual for the game is like a 1,000 pages, anybody wanna bet if I can take off in the first 5 minutes. Gonna be doing some Neil jumping to other building in Matrix stuff right here.
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I used to work with Boxboy28 and noticed a Tour 26 screenshot of a Hog on his work PC. Tour 27 I signed up.
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I saw the advert on the History Channel many moons ago... :aok
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Saw a commercial on either the History Channel or the Military Channel when I was really young. Decided to try it my freshman year of high school. March 07, I did my two weeks, actually got invited into a squad on my first day online! I talked my parents into letting me at least play one month. One month turned into two, then six, then a year. March 2013 will mark my sixth year in this community. I've tried to get away from it, but I always find myself coming back. Now, I only get to fly on the weekends and after work during my breaks.
#S#
Josh
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Commercial on the Military Channel. Only commercial i actually ever bought anything from
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when I was 2 years old my dad would put on movies, I was just learning the basics at that time, when I sat down on dads knee one afternoon the the strains of "Aces High", the theme of the Luftwaffe in the film "The Battle of Britain".
After being riveted by this amazing film at such a young age, my third word was, no lie, "Spitfire".
I wore out my tape of The Battle of Britain TWICE, demanding it be replaced when the first copy broke. I then proceeded to rent, hire, record, and buy every WW2 movie I could. Which still happens today.
But when I was 3 and my dad bought a new computer, with revolutionary technology for the time (1997). He bought a flight simulator with it, called "battle of britain, their finest hour" by Lucasarts Entertainment. And the original combat flight simulator, with a toy joystick.
So here I was, 3 years old, flying a Spitfire over england shooting down messerschmitts and heinkels in glorious 2d and did so for many years.
After 3D simulators became available we upgraded and I switched to a WW1 and WW2 simulator, being Rowans Flying Corps and Rowans Battle of Britain. Yet again at a young age, I flew Spitfires and Sopwith Camels against the dastardly german menace, taking them down with blazing machineguns and a good cup of tea and a love of all things BRITISH
By the time I was 13, I had gotten over all these simulators. IL2 Sturmovik had since taken over as my favorite simulator, but the advent of highspeed broadband and decent graphics had since whetted my appetite for a greater challenge. So I trolled about on youtube. Looking for a new flight simulator. And I came across a video called "Aces High - Another One Bites the Dust". By Niros1.
I was entranced, all these planes, flown by real people? impossible, so I looked it up, and so it was true. All these aeroplanes, and such fun. Eventually however I decided, right, Im gonna have a free trial and see for myself. And here I was, flying with a mouse, chasing after a FW190 in a Spitfire 16, on my own in the early morning, I shot him down... my first PROPER, one man bests the other, Air to Air kill. I never remembered feeling so accomplished. I landed, bumpily and decided.
THIS. IS IT!.
so in mid 2007 I subscribed as B67891. And after Several years floating around known only as B6, I eventually switched over entirely and became DaPacman, and have been that ever since.
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Completely by accident. My brother in law was talking about some game where he flew online against other people, but as usual, I was tuning him out. I'd always wanted a game like this, interacting and killing other virtual pilots, but never had the gumption to do a quick google search for one (its cos I'm daft see!!).
Got back from vacation, finally remembered the conversation I'd tuned out, and did a google search. This was the first game that came up - so I d/l'd it, installed, and hopped right in. Been giving away easy kills ever since. Think I started around May 2007 or so - time lines are not my speciality.
Love the game, but its the people who keep me coming back - yes, that means you lot on the boards, and those ingame who dont use the boards but who I interact with every time I get time to fly.
Wurz
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Started playing AWDOS then AW4W, AW3 and WB in the mid-90s and made the move to AH shortely before the Exodus of AW.
ack-ack
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I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.
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Years ago, when I was playing around with computers as a hobby (now days I play around with computers professionally), I was at a computer show, and there was a demonstration of a WWII online flight sim (don't remember which one).
A few years later, when I had a better job, decided to check it out. Found Warbirds. Played for a while, and loved it. For various reasons, I had to leave for a while. When I tried to go back, there were some tech issues, I couldn't get my account to work, and I couldn't get an answer from them. So I decided to try a different sim.
So here I am at Aces High. I am very happy here, even though I still can't shoot straight.
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I saw a commercial on the military channel I believe. Tried it and got a subscription.
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Hotel California: You can check out, you just can't leave! And Zoney is right about Pand...addict! Though Pand is right on the money about US Navy Fighters.
Abouth three years ago. Military channel, saw the commercial a dozen times and thought what the crap. Two eeks later and presto. Not quite a year later some German guy by the name of Dyhran invited me into Loose Deuce, which is when I became truly addicted.
Boo
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Pulled a CD of Air Warrior out of a "dollar bin" at some game store. Found it had a H2H setup and flew against anyone I could con into installing it on their computer. Then AOL got it and I logged in there. Played it until EA killed it. In the last few months of AW me and "TRIX" (a great hog driver) started looking for places to fly. Tried FA, WarBirds and Aces. Was going to join Aces even though it was $30, but HTC lowered the price to $15 and made it even easier. I've been here since tour 21
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Air Warrior folded.
This. :cry
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First tried AH1 circa 2002, when FA upgraded from 2.5 to 3.0, My PC was old and couldn't run the newer version, All I remember was flying a niki around HO ing people :D I thought the graphics sucked bad and left after a week to buy a better computer to run FA 3.0.
Spent a further 3 years there happily killing everyone until the numbers dwindled and lack of game development was killing it off. May 2005 was my first tour in AH2 and I guess the one thing that AH did have was numbers of people online especially during euro time zones. I think even this has suffered over the last few years but still enough to get a few kills.
The one thing that started the addiction though was going to Duxford when I was 15 and impressionable. I wanted to fly Spitfires and Hurricanes and kill the hun.
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Air Warrior>>Warbirds>>Aces High.
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By being poor and searching for 'free flight sims'. D/l the two week free trial of AH1 in 2003 and was instantly hooked, been a subscriber every month since. There is something deeply ironic about that outcome from my original search criteria
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Air Warrior>>Warbirds>>Aces High.
Ripsnort was there in the beginning.
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Ripsnort was there in the beginning.
Yep. I shot him down. :devil
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Started AW about 93 and stopped about 97. kept looking back for about 10 years, walla.
Rash
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Pand's list = good at flight sims -evil grin-
S'funny how most of us will list all the sims we played.
I had a page on the GEnie BBS back in the day for all the dweebs *like me* that stumbled in and didn't know where to start.
So I told 'em ..get it off your chest, make a list of all the sims.
Then ..forget about all of that .. this aint no flight sim.
Welcome to Air Warrior :)
People will sneak up behind you and shoot you in the back...and laugh about doing it!
They will vulch you just as often as you let them.. etc .. etc.
I came here when AW died.
I learned about AW from G-man (Rolf Penzel) ..
..who told me about it when I was learning to fly ..
..we were both in USAF ECM long ago and stayed friends long afterward.
I bugged him unmercifully gettin my Amiga 500 setup (late 1988)
..useda run about ~1500 dollars a month flyin DOS Air Warrior (6/hr + 2/hr surcharge because I lived out in the sticks of Victorville, CA)
Later ..during a CAD Engineering degree program,
..got hired out of the program two weeks before Associate Degree finals
(they gave me a Diploma anyway due to me bein on Dean's List with Honors, 4.0 GPA)
..to be Lead Artist for Air Warrior.
I was in deep clover :)
Useda fly with Hi-Tech as part of the Wart Hogs in AW, later we were in FUBAR together with some great people.
Good times. Invited to be a lifetime member of the Damned by G-Man ..have been ever since.
Didn't much care for Aces High when I first tried it .. nose bounce just did not jive with how the Mustang actually flew.
Sure ..you can yank the stick back and let go and get a similar altho reduced bounce .. but .. steady pressure to aim is used..the Stang tracks like it's on rails.
It has to for the guns to be able to shoot anything at all.
Yes .. I was jaded .. I had flown the real one and had two years of college level Aerodynamics under my belt.
I called BS a lot. -grin-
Because I knew better.
However .. Aces High evolved. There is no better out there now.
I haven't flown in awhile .. but .. I will.
Prolly be up in the Spring ..buggin Skuzzy to get my old handle back an such :)
-Frank aka GE