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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: MrKrabs on December 31, 2013, 04:20:40 PM
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Who really started the eternal war of the three great nations of chess pieces?
What triggered it? What are they fighting over? Can't be sheep - there are plenty for everyone!
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Who really started the eternal war of the three great nations of chess pieces?
What triggered it? What are they fighting over? Can't be sheep - there are plenty for everyone!
sheep are gone :rolleyes: pay attention !!!!!!!!
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We are fighting over control of the pawns :old:
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It's for control of Middle Earth. Morgoth started it.
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It's for control of Middle Earth. Morgoth started it.
Dale 'HiTech/Morgoth' Addink.
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the quest for perpetual glory
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the better question is....does he regret starting it?....or adding tanks even?
I have no doubt that he never imagined what would become of it....he created the game for the combat aspect..... clearly.....
getting as close to reality that is possible on a PC.....to that intense dogfight that happened sometimes....on rare occasions....between two opposing enemies....he didn't create the game to recreate WW2.....
I would put money down....that if Hitech were to be perfectly honest he would say he should have kept it strictly AIR combat only....
I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
if he doesn't regret it....I task him with taking on some shade name and flying on all sides for a day or 2.....
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Debbie's in the house...
(http://www.kaneconsulting.biz/wp-content/uploads/migrated/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/debbie-downer.jpg)
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What if it was the sheep that started the war so we would destroy ourselves? :O
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Debbie's in the house...
(http://www.kaneconsulting.biz/wp-content/uploads/migrated/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/debbie-downer.jpg)
woopwoop :rock
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I task him with taking on some shade name and flying on all sides for a day or 2.....
Funny you think he doesn't do that now...
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Funny you think he doesn't do that now...
I am sure he has in the past...lately?
ether way I would love to know what he thinks about it.
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I am sure he has in the past...lately?
ether way I would love to know what he thinks about it.
Pretty sure he questions how he attracted so many weirdo's to this game... :x
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We all know this game started as a chat room filled with guys talking about cars and old warbirds. So the true cause of this war is the 200 channel.
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Actually it was started by a GEnie named Kesmai. The war goes back to the ancient times of 1988, when it was a war between the As Bs and Cs. Hitech and Pyro battled in the war in those days. Then they spread it to an alternate universe where the war was fought by Reds Greens and Golds. In 2000 they war brought to this world where it is battled by chess pieces instead of letters or colors.
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Actually it was started by a GEnie named Kesmai. The war goes back to the ancient times of 1988, when it was a war between the As Bs and Cs. Hitech and Pyro battled in the war in those days. Then they spread it to an alternate universe where the war was fought by Reds Greens and Golds. In 2000 they war brought to this world where it is battled by chess pieces instead of letters or colors.
And what exactly was his goal?
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And what exactly was his goal?
Your money.
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and some of you weirdoes used to pay hourly rate to do it..
(luckily I was too poor at the time)
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Nerds! Woot Woot! :banana:
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Doesn't matter who started it. Only who finishes it.
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Legend has it the war was started as a result of the betting of sheep on a game of Hungry Hungry Hippo's, followed by accusations of cheating.
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Nerds! Woot Woot! :banana:
Sorry one Debbie Downer per thread :)
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Sorry one Debbie Downer per thread :)
Awwww!
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The rooks started the war. The knights were pushing forward in their territory . The rooks realizing their land was being taken, confronted The knights with a deadly attack. A war erupted. Pilots trained and fought. Troops battled losses but strove to take more land. The bishops recognized the tyranny but insisted on staying out.
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The rooks started the war. The knights were pushing forward in their territory . The rooks realizing their land was being taken, confronted The knights with a deadly attack. A war erupted. Pilots trained and fought. Troops battled losses but strove to take more land. The bishops recognized the tyranny but insisted on staying out.
I feel like some sides were mixed up there. I have never seen Knights working together to capture land! :P
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No doubt it started as a contest of skill between gentleman.
Then someone tuned 200, the booze started flowing, and things got personal. Before you know it.....War!
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Actually it was started by a GEnie named Kesmai. The war goes back to the ancient times of 1988, when it was a war between the As Bs and Cs. Hitech and Pyro battled in the war in those days. Then they spread it to an alternate universe where the war was fought by Reds Greens and Golds. In 2000 they war brought to this world where it is battled by chess pieces instead of letters or colors.
And Purples
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Pretty sure he questions how he attracted so many weirdo's to this game... :x
Who's weird? :rolleyes:
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This war was started to deprive Wild Bill from capturing the air combat simulation marketplace. It started in 1999 by HiTech (after he left Warbirds and Wild Bill) in an apartment in Grapevine Texas. The first shots were fired by Gateway when they delivered a new, at that time, machine to start him coding on what would become his response to Wild Bill. I can totally substantiate the fact that HiTech wrote Aces High from scratch and didn't take any code from Warbirds. Until the Gateway arrived he didn't have a computer at his apartment. HiTech wrote the host code on a Compaq dual processor, 200 MHz, running Solaris for Intel.
I was privileged to know HiTech at that time and I took at least one day a week to pry him out of his apartment to go fly RC aircraft or some other activity to get his mind off the coding. He is the only guy I know that watched the entire OJ trial, getting up early to code then watching the trial.
Tanks for the memories ;)
There were ground vehicles in AirWarrior and HiTech has some very entertaining stories of the various bugs......err features you could exploit. I think, don't know for sure, his experiences in AirWarrior may have led to the interest in ground vehicles.
*note* the jeep is still overmodeled :noid
SB
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And Purples
You're right it was the purples. :aok
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The rooks started the war. The knights were pushing forward in their territory . The rooks realizing their land was being taken, confronted The knights with a deadly attack. A war erupted. Pilots trained and fought. Troops battled losses but strove to take more land. The bishops recognized the tyranny but insisted on staying out.
That last line is wrong and should read....
The bishops recognized the opportunity and started quietly sneaking land from both Rooks and Knights.
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Obviously the war was started by someone ignorant of the basic layout of a chess board.
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The rooks started the war. The knights were pushing forward in their territory . The rooks realizing their land was being taken, confronted The knights with a deadly attack. A war erupted. Pilots trained and fought. Troops battled losses but strove to take more land. The bishops recognized the tyranny but insisted on staying out.
Both sides realized that they needed bishop support. Knights and rooks subsequently offered bishops planes and tanks to aid them in the war. Neither side realized bishops had promised to help both sides. The bishops liked the knights more and aided them instead of keeping their promise to the rooks. The rooks realized what happened and sent a massive hoard of planes, tanks, and troops to punish the bishops for lying about their promise. The hatred of bishops had begun for the rooks.
One day, late into the war, rooks had lost most of their land. Rooks were suffering from mass hoards and production and equipment were running low. A very intelligent rook general named Shawk realized they had to somehow get the bish to help them. He struck up a deal with the Army of Muppets, a bish squad full of outcast ( seemingly crazy but some of the best pilots) who were tired of the taking orders from their bashful king. They set up a sabotage attack on the knights. Many pilots were killed, knights suffered major losses. The bishops king said he had no idea about the attack and did not plan it. The knights didn't believe him and started massive raids on the bishops. The hatred of bish from the knights had started.
The rooks recouped themselves and got their bases back ready for action. They wanted their land back on both sides. While the knights and bishops were fighting rooks started to take their land back on both sides with small victories.
The battle for land and the the battle for hatred lives on. Many pilots have been killed and much of the land has been fought on. One thing is for certain. Neither team will settle for their own land to diminish. This war is still not over. And it may never be.
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Obviously the war was started by someone ignorant of the basic layout of a chess board.
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:neener:
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:neener:
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perfect! :cheers:
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:neener:
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:rofl
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I'm sorry but you can't rewrite history:
Once upon a time in a sim far far away there lived three countrys seprated by water. They were know as the AZ, BZ and CZ and they lived happily in their own little lands.
Then, one day, an AZ snuck across the bridge below the mountainous pyramids into CZ land and stole a sheep. Amazed at the human-like qualities of the CZ sheep, more AZ snuck over in the dead of night until CZ land was nearly depleted of its sheep.
The CZ, not knowing it was the AZ rustling their sheep, and getting grouchy over their lack of intamacy, immediately blamed the BZ who were, after all, known as "furballers" but the jig was soon over when it was discovered that the AZ were hiding a large heard of sheep deep in AZ land near the Spit factory. Both the CZ, wanting the return of their sheep, and the BZ, upset over being the ones blamed for the rustling, attacked the AZ, and thus began a war and the habit of two countries ganging up on one.
Then, the evil empire, EA Sports, took over the world of AZ, BZ and CZ. Soon realizing their mistake with the growing hostilities between the countries and the incessent server loads caused by the "<Insert player name here> has just pawned you" macros initiated by each player after each and every kill, they n00ked the lands of the AZ, BZ and CZ.
Lost on the interweb, the forlorn AZ, BZ and CZ searched for a new home with their 56K modems. Even though they were hostile to one another, the word quickly spread from country to country that there was a new land called AH where clouds actually filled the sky.
One by one, then in ever growing numbers, the AZ, BZ and CZ moved into AH Land and settled, but the hostilities over the sheep rustling were never forgotten. Because of this, the AZ settled mostly as Bish, the BZ settled mostly as Rooks, and the CZ settled primarily as Knits, although a few took the opportunity to switch alliances.
Once settled in, they couldn't help but continue thier fight and that's how the war started.
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Dang I was told a Victoria Secret store opened in in the town of A69 and thats when all hell broke out!
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Who really started the eternal war of the three great nations of chess pieces?
What triggered it? What are they fighting over? Can't be sheep - there are plenty for everyone!
Well.... Bishlandia all agreed that everybody must like poptarts. The knights, always liking fruit snacks, decided this rule was bust, and declared it void. Bishlandia and Knightlandia got in a big disagreement and decided that anybody who liked pop tarts was bish, and anybody who liked fruit snacks was knight. The Rooks were the group of outcasts who hated both and preferred breakfast cereal. Ever since then, the nations have been at war, a never ending war. (until like three seconds after it starts the bish go hording and stomp everybody, knights and rooks go mad and declare a re-do-over.)
When I was a wee tiny boy this is how my oldest brother explained WWII, by stating every country had chosen between two kinds of breakfast cereal, and all the countries came together as two giant forces, which they would do battle for years to come. I took his old story that surprisingly I can still remember, and shook it up a bit. (no wounder I was slow growing up, my brothers telling me bogus stories! :lol)
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:neener:
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:lol
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That last line is wrong and should read....
The bishops recognized the opportunity and started quietly sneaking land from both Rooks and Knights.
Those dirty honeybadgers! :old:
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DO you think after Chess pieces it will be animal teams?
Knight's would become Sharks, Rooks would become Wolves and the Bishops are Lamas?
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:rofl
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DO you think after Chess pieces it will be animal teams?
Knight's would become Sharks, Rooks would become Wolves and the Bishops are Lamas?
:rofl
I laughed for 2 minutes before I could move again. :lol
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DO you think after Chess pieces it will be animal teams?
Knight's would become Sharks, Rooks would become Wolves and the Bishops are Lamas?
OMG that's signature worthy!
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:)
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The Book of Dweeb.
Heretics.
:old:
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It was not me! :airplane: