General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: GScholz on March 15, 2016, 09:26:18 PM
Title: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: GScholz on March 15, 2016, 09:26:18 PM
To counter the trend towards negative posts about the AH community I thought it might be a good idea to make a "best of" kinda thread. Please post your favorite moment(s) in this game we all love and cherish (no matter how much we sometimes whine and complain about it).
I'll start off with an old tale from back in 2003/2004: I was flying at about 15k feet in my 110C-4 over the infamous Pizza map. (Flew the 110 as a pure fighter before it was cool.) In the excellent Luftwaffe desert camo skin of course (damn you red icon!) when I suddenly spotted one black pixel moving against the backdrop of black pixels that was the most lamented feature of that map (I liked it, but I have good eyesight). A con!
The con soon materialized as another 110! What were the odds! We merged in the classical shallow dive pulling up into vertical scissors. Both getting shot opportunities, but neither managing to capitalize on them. It was pretty clear that we were evenly matched in skill, and as his ride flashed past terrifyingly close to my starboard wing, I noticed his 110 was also desert camouflaged... He was also in a C-4! What were the odds!
After what seemed like an agonizing half hour, which probably was no more then 3-5 minutes, perhaps less, we had both spent all our E with nothing to show for it. We were on the deck, turning in a counter-clockwise Lufbery with flaps out, dodging sheep. My right hand was vampire-white from me squeezing the blood out of it trying to control my 110. I can only commend Saitek for the robustness of their products. Then... inevitably one of us made a mistake... and it was me. I pushed it too far and my port wing stalled and I was not quick enough on the rudders to counter it. As I regained control and narrowly avoided augering into Hitech's favorite herd my opponent came around on my tail, gained a firing solution and promptly sent me on my way to virtual Valhalla.
Afterwards we had a nice chat on private vox about how extraordinary it was for two 110C's to meet in the MA and duel it out like that.
Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: Tumor on March 15, 2016, 10:46:21 PM
One time in AH, I was flying a Pony... and I took a ping from CV Puffyack, and I didn't take ANY damage, let alone fall apart and die! Sometimes the AH cods smile upon me! :joystick:
Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: Estes on March 15, 2016, 11:23:51 PM
One time in AH, I was flying a Pony... and I took a ping from CV Puffyack, and I didn't take ANY damage, let alone fall apart and die! Sometimes the AH cods smile upon me! :joystick:
Shenanigans!
Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: zack1234 on March 16, 2016, 01:15:23 AM
Gibberish and nonsense :old:
GS is a girl :old:
Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: Vraciu on March 16, 2016, 04:20:14 AM
One time in AH, I was flying a Pony... and I took a ping from CV Puffyack, and I didn't take ANY damage, let alone fall apart and die! Sometimes the AH cods smile upon me! :joystick:
HAQR! :old:
Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: Vraciu on March 16, 2016, 04:20:58 AM
Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: guncrasher on March 16, 2016, 11:16:05 AM
first time i was actually able to take off in a spitfire in aw. i saw this plane below me, i pushed stick forward perfect angle opened up with all guns great hits all over, right up until i crashed into the ground. later I realized it was my shadow, but that sob wouldnt die.
in ah2 first time I was able to take off from a cv, i made about 4 trips and droped 2 1k bombs and rockets on a hangar. I was proud of myself but wasnt sure why it wouldnt go down. till somebody on range told me I was dropping on the indestructible. damn you hitech, you shook my confidence.
semp
Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: eddiek on March 16, 2016, 11:16:14 AM
WOW, Skuzzy! :aok :aok :aok Some old names in that one..........great players from way back when............hblair and I were talking a couple weeks ago about some of those folks....we've been trying to figure out how to contact milnko, as he was one of the original members of The Assassins. Zigrat joined up with us later and become our "operations" officer.........he was always planning missions. Oftentimes he would start planning even as we were taking off on one he had planned, always thinking about what to do next. Frenchy, Ammo, Nomde, and the rest of the 56th were great to fly with and against, too.
Fights that I remember that made me laugh/smile: First was against StSanta. He'd been on the open channel all night, doing his "Allied opportunists..." stuff, I knew the general area he was in from reading what he was saying. I took a P-47D30(D40 now) up, grabbed alt to between 20K and 25K, and started looking. Sure enough, before too long I spot an enemy 109. We began closing on one another, I tune a channel to StSanta and ask him if the 109 might be him, telling him my location and that I am in a Jug. Getting an affirmative reply, the fight is on..........and it was a good one, too! We go vertical, we scissor, we try to out turn one another.......finally, after what seemed like forever, but was probably just a couple minutes, I manage to hold him in my sights long enough to smoke his engine.........he starts a split-S, I roll over to see where he is going.........BAM!! Back in the tower......."you have been killed by wrongto".......StSanta PM's me that he had been telling wrongto to please stay out of the fight. I didn't care, it was a blast, and while I enjoyed the idea that I had gotten killing hits on him, I hated for it to end.
Second.......This was not long after I started playing AH, hblair talked me into getting into a 109G10.......back then I did NOT like flying LW rides. Just didn't feel comfortable in them. But off I went, flying with him. We went to the area of a base that was under attack by buffs and fighters, got there and the attack had been broken up, so we debated just landing and finding another hunting ground when hblair spotted some B17's low and trying to exit the area. Down we went, until we were right behind them, weaving between the hills in pursuit. I'm closing on one buff, hblair says something on vox about "check out what I just shot off this guy", I look to my right where he is, and POOF! I slam into the side of one of the hills..........my intended victim in the B17, turns out to be SoupNazi........"no soup for you!!" Heath laughed so hard I had to turn the speakers down, and the open channel was full of good natured ribbing.......
Last one........again, not long after I started playing AH, back in 2000 or 2001:
One area of the map was under almost constant attack, can't remember if it was by the nits or bishops........The Assassins flew rook nearly 100% of the time back then. After a few hours of general furrballing, intercepting CV raids, etc., I get the urge to take up a 109.........other rooks are talking about someone who repeatedly brings B17's over. I decided to give it a go and see how I fare in a 109. Grab alt to 23Kish, give or take a couple thousand feet........kinda loiter around in a racetrack pattern, waiting for him to (hopefully, I thought) wander into my airspace. I figured I would be really close to his alt, as that was how high he had been on all the previous sightings.........the country channel comes alive as he is spotted again, right about my coordinates.......I am asked several times "do you see him?", but I haven't yet....I dip a wing to look below me, and way, way below me I see a B17 cruising along. Split-S, line up on him.........down I go.....faster, faster, faster......uh oh! Just missed colliding with him by a whisker or less, streaked all the way to the ocean and back in the tower again. He told me on PM that my plane was just a blur I was moving so fast.
My fun experiences weren't always victories, as you can see. On the contrary, I found ways to laugh at myself and have fun even in newbish moments. I'd like to say that I got better, but I have no concrete evidence of that...........but I DID have a lot of fun in this game. Hopefully I can find my way back to playing again. After almost a year of being out of work, I just offered a job very close to home. But that's a different topic........have fun, all!! :neener:
Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: Estes on March 16, 2016, 04:14:36 PM
Eddiek lives? nice to see ya around bud! Wonder what ole hblair is up to, same with regurge max soda etc..,
Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: eddiek on March 16, 2016, 05:59:16 PM
Eddiek lives? nice to see ya around bud! Wonder what ole hblair is up to, same with regurge max soda etc..,
Took a couple prolonged breaks from the game, Estes. This last one started last summer when oil prices made jobs in my line of work scarce. Decided that until I was able to come up with a reliable Plan B, best to just keep my $$ each month. I get on the BBS pretty much every day to see what drama is going on; been plenty of that going on, for sure. Hblair is still around, had some health issues a while back, but he is still kicking. Lizard3, Soda, Regurge, Wlfgng, milnko...........not sure where they went or ended up. Would be nice to see some of the old faces back in the game.
Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: Waffle on March 16, 2016, 07:28:31 PM
Anyone ever try a PT Boat mission with LVTS for troops? Ahh yes..good times......lol
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Title: Re: Counter negative posting initiative!
Post by: LCADolby on March 17, 2016, 01:38:53 AM
I don't have a story, but I did capture it on film, it's going back a while now.