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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Ack-Ack on December 17, 2016, 12:17:21 AM
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Sorry but this little pet peeve has been festering for many years now. We do not have any "buffs" in the game, we have bombers. A "BUFF" is a B-52 bomber and not a generic term for bombers. That is all.
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I thought they were talking about Buffalo, Shoot, we have had flying pumpkins!!!! Ok got it, your a tad OCD after hours on end of killing me!!! It wont happen again Sir, i have been know to bring supps to a base capture so take my commitment as a I shall endeavor to persevere :x
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I thought this when I first joined the game in 2007 "wait there's no B52s in WW2"...kinda just went with it and now it's definitely a habit.
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The word buff, among other more nefarious terms, is a color which is often associated with the color of tanned hide or just hide. A color that might have been used on WW2 bombers. Not saying it was used during WW2 just a possibility that buff was associated with bombers with a particle type of camouflage color.
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When I used historically 'correct' terminology, very few understood "Möbelwagen" or "Dicke Autos".
I had to accept that the terminology in game was somewhat different. :old:
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The expression Ack Ack originated in the battlefields of World War 1. The phonetic alphabet used in the British trenches used the following symbols.
A- Ack
B-Beer
C-Charlie
D-Don
E-Edward
F-Freddie
G-Gee
H-Harry
I-Ink
J-Johnnie
K-King
L-London
M-Emma (YES THAT IS CORRECT)
N-Nuts
O-Oranges
P-Pip
Q-Queen
R-Robert
S-Esses
T-Toc
U-Uncle
V-Vic
W-William
X-X-ray
Y-Yorker
Z-Zebra
Anti aircraft fire was referred to as AA or Ack-Ack. The name stuck and is still in use today.
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While we're at this...
CAP missions are flown over friendly bases/fleets. They are defensive. One does not CAP an enemy base or fleet.
Whew - I feel so much better getting that off my chest!
Mutha
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For some of us, flying buffs is a state of dress.
Do you REALLY want a visual on this?
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Ack-Ack is right. I served in the Marine Corps in mid-late sixties. The B52 was called BUFF. Have not heard of any bombers before that being called a Buff. Of course, I might have missed it.
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Sorry but this little pet peeve has been festering for many years now. We do not have any "buffs" in the game, we have bombers. A "BUFF" is a B-52 bomber and not a generic term for bombers. That is all.
Because we want to. We enjoy using apocryphal terminology. That is all.
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We call ourselves pilots in here. Very few are.
And what about that thing we call joystick, most of the time it just cause pain.
Semp
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The B-52 is one of two to get that name in Vietnam. We used it for the Jolly Green rescue choppers as well. It stood for "Big Ugly Friendly *^#$@!"
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Those flattops we call CVs are really more like CVLs, or even Jeep Carriers.
-Mutha
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Some modern terms are bound to leak into a WW2 sim but I agree.
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Sorry but this little pet peeve has been festering for many years now. We do not have any "buffs" in the game, we have bombers. A "BUFF" is a B-52 bomber and not a generic term for bombers. That is all.
we had Deathstars not buff's!!!!!! many moons ago and yes Ack-Ack u used to gun for me in them :devil
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A Tail Slide is NOT a 180 nose reversal at the top of a zoom climb performed by kicking the rudder. :furious
Thank you Akak ... feeling better also :aok
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Those flattops we call CVs are really more like CVLs, or even Jeep Carriers.
-Mutha
If you're talking about the carrier we have in game, it was a front line aircraft carrier, USS Hancock of the Essex Class.
(http://www.usshancockassociation.org/flashimages/002.jpg)
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A Tail Slide is NOT a 180 nose reversal at the top of a zoom climb performed by kicking the rudder. :furious
Thank you Akak ... feeling better also :aok
that would be a hammer head.
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If you're talking about the carrier we have in game, it was a front line aircraft carrier, USS Hancock of the Essex Class.
(http://www.usshancockassociation.org/flashimages/002.jpg)
Ok, fine.
But you can't call what we have in the game a task force! Where's the oilers? The minesweepers? The picket destroyers?
I'm outraged!
-Mutha
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Those flattops we call CVs are really more like CVLs, or even Jeep Carriers.
-Mutha
Actually the CV's in game are Essex class. The CV in game carries the designation of the USS Randolph (CV-15).
:salute
Sik
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Actually the CV's in game are Essex class. The CV in game carries the designation of the USS Randolph (CV-15).
:salute
Sik
I should know better than to try to out-grognard the grognards! :grin:
-Mutha
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Going to chime in on this one. I heard the term BUFF was first used in WW2 on the shiny aluminum skin that had to be washed and waxed, then BUFFed to make it extra shiny. That way the sun would make the plane stand out in the blue sky like a shooting star.
The brass in HQ were determined to make sure the Luftwaffe wouldn't get lost. That way they had a bright shiny beacon to visually home in on. Unfortunately, the LW failed to order surplus sunglasses. The brightness of the shiny skin blinded them making them easy targets in the last few months of the war.
To this date, I have found no official data to validate that theory.
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A Tail Slide is NOT a 180 nose reversal at the top of a zoom climb performed by kicking the rudder. :furious
Thank you Akak ... feeling better also :aok
You and I both Frenchy! Cant tell you how many times players have come to me to ask how to do a tail slide!
Most are quite upset when I taken them nose up and cut power and actually fall backwards....then they tell me that's not a tail slide.... :rofl :rofl
Yup I feel better now too...... :rock :rock :rock
:salute
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:cheers: To the Hammer Head Preservation Society. :cheers:
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Now I see what is wrong with some of us!!! :confused: Alot of OCD, and people hitting their heads with hammers :x