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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: beet1e on July 15, 2002, 07:45:43 AM
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I have just finished a Euroland morning AH session. And a most enjoyable session it was too. The highlights were:
- Saving a medium sized field from capture (killed 2xLVT);
- Flattening a vehicle field which was captured moments later by another Bish of whose presence I had been unaware;
- Flattening a town ready for capture (but a B17 got the carrier off which we were operating :(
- Attempting the capture of another vehicle field.
I know that when there are less than 100 people online, the number of airfields greatly exceeds the number of arena participants! Perhaps later on we will have a smaller map, or one with less fields.
What I have begun to notice in the course of these strat missions is that I’m beginning to have a long list of like minded guys that I can work with. This is a far cry from the situation that existed when I joined AH in November.
Have you noticed the current postings about abusive language and bad behaviour? I have, but not only that, I notice that these vitriolic exchanges always take place between furballers, or in furball situations. The strat guys, on the other hand, are courteous to eachother and also to the enemy. In the fourth of the scenarios listed above, there were only two of us working on the vehicle field, and our timing was off. We didn’t get the goon there in time, and the VH came up. An M16 killed me as I tried to strafe. Did I call him a “fuggin retard” or other mindless term of abuse? I did not. I congratulated the guy for being on the ball to pop up as soon as the hangar came back up. And he saluted me in reply.
The distance between the fields means being able to do strat missions without being jumped by Typhoons or LA7s. So nice to know that while the strat gentlemen are planning the next target, some guys are desperately scouring the arena to find a furball – ROFLMAO! :D:D:D
Strat Men - a better class of warrior :)
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And I mowed the lawns and changed some blinds... sounds like we both had an equally good time.
lazs
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Bah Lazs
Bah the map debate
How's you get "TM" to show up like that? :) That's impressive! :D
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Id be pretty upset to hear my neighbor mowing the grass at 500AM Lazs2
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I have an electric mower. Plus.... upseting neighbors does not concern me. You would have to hear my Healey.
lazs
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LePaul - check out Windows Character Map. You can type lots of special characters. ™ is Alt+0153 on the numeric key pad.
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Can't stereotype people because of how they like to play.
I see plenty of between the furballers and plenty of respect going both ways.
The people who insult and whine when they get shot down... well I suspect they are probably children or rather imature adults... frankly, if they don't stop, I feel they should be banned.
But then we all have the option of just .squelching the bastards.
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Originally posted by lazs2
Plus.... upseting neighbors does not concern me.
lazs
Understand guys, the Universe revolves around Lasz, no one else, just Lazs. See things his way, we'll all get along better. :D
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:rolleyes:
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One weekend, Lazs was expecting some company to arrive in town - a gorgeous leggy blonde, who would be staying with him all weekend. She duly arrived on Lazs's doorstep, and they went inside. And then she said she was looking forward to the weekend but she'd forgotten to bring a few things with her. Would Lazs mind going down to the local store to get them for her? Lazs, being his usual charitable self, did not mind at all. "What do you need?", asked Lazs. "Some Tampax", answered the blonde. So Lazs went down to the store, and up to the pharmacy counter to get the Tampax. And the conversation went like this:
Salesperson: Good afternoon, Sir, what can I get you?
Lazs: A package of Tampax, please.
Salesperson: Certainly, Sir. There you go. Now can I interest you in one of our new, silent electric lawnmowers?
Lazs: Look, I came in to buy Tampax. What would I want with a lawnmower?
Salesperson: Well, your dirty weekend's messed up, so you might as well mow the lawn!
Lazs went ahead and bought the lawnmower anyway ;)
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Eagler ™
so it is :)
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Air-to-Air brings out the People in People. And Strat brings out the AI in People.
Depends who you ask :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by beet1e
One weekend, Lazs was expecting some company to arrive in town - a gorgeous leggy blonde, who would be staying with him all weekend. She duly arrived on Lazs's doorstep, and they went inside. And then she said she was looking forward to the weekend but she'd forgotten to bring a few things with her. Would Lazs mind going down to the local store to get them for her? Lazs, being his usual charitable self, did not mind at all. "What do you need?", asked Lazs. "Some Tampax", answered the blonde. So Lazs went down to the store, and up to the pharmacy counter to get the Tampax. And the conversation went like this:
Salesperson: Good afternoon, Sir, what can I get you?
Lazs: A package of Tampax, please.
Salesperson: Certainly, Sir. There you go. Now can I interest you in one of our new, silent electric lawnmowers?
Lazs: Look, I came in to buy Tampax. What would I want with a lawnmower?
Salesperson: Well, your dirty weekend's messed up, so you might as well mow the lawn!
Lazs went ahead and bought the lawnmower anyway ;)
ROTFL!!
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Regarding point 3.... I happened to capture the moment of the CV loss. When I saw three B17's overhead, I thought that the end was near :) It was BGBMAW... I engaged his formation for over ten minutes, but neither of us scored a kill. (two experten you see :cool: )
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Another Golden Day in the desert :)
Brendo
I watched your film. I remember that happening. :(
Well, we've just finished a few real estate transactions. :) I came online and saw that V205 was red, just east of one of our aircraft bases. I decided to up a P47D-30 with 2x1000, 1x500 and 10 rockets to flatten it. It was a textbook mission, if I may say so myself. Used the dive flaps in all dives. First vertical dive was with the 2x1000 selected for the VH. Boom! Next, .salvo 5 for the rockets. I made one pass for each ack, releasing 5 rockets on each pass. No problems there. No enemy GVs had got out, so I threw away the 1x500 and headed home to land. But oh! No one to help with the troops. :( Sod it, I'll get a goon in there myself, which I did - with about 1 minute to spare. What's this new "Gironimo" thing when releasing troops from the C47? Let me know the file name, so I can delete it. My drop was adequate, and the field went Bish. :D
Now to get that other field V206, before they hit us back. Same as before - P47D30. This field is a little harder, and I got my right gear pinged out, but the field was flat by then. And then I saw a green M3 - woohoo! I think it was blunder or boozer - those guys helped me a lot. I proceeded to A189 to start on that. Got its VH ack, and then realised I might as well do the town acks. I got them all, but suffered major structural damage. The plane was flyable, but blew up. :( Oh well... The good news was that the M3s got in to V206 - another field goes Bish!
Finally, I met up with Brendo, and we both went in P47D30, armed to the teeth. The town acks at 189 were still down, and I went to work on what was left, which was everything else. Poor Brendo had a mishap along the way :( I dropped my bombs, fired my rockets, and then made some strafing runs to finish the job. But oh! Here comes a Yak... I had enough E to zoom up, and then make a chandelle so as to get on his 6. He was going to strafe a Bish M3 that had arrived on the scene, but I had other ideas and shot him up. He attempted to rtb but died when attempting to land. The M3 released the troops and 189 was ours.
Not a bad hour's work, if I may say so myself! With thanks to the three Bs - brendo, blunder & boozer.
... and Lazs can eat my shorts.
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I don't get the tampax joke.
beetle... sounds like you were having the time of your life playing AH till a real live person in an ac ruined it... Oh well... someday the boxed version will come out.
ripsnore.. yeah... and so your point would be?
lazs
Public Relations Officer for the BK's
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Lazs!
Public Relations Officer
ROFL! Well I get that joke. :D
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beetle... that wasn't a joke.
lazs
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I think Beet1e's post demonstrates quite well my point that for the "strat" players, AH is more of a team-based vs. AI game than a PvP game.
Personally I'd find that sort of gameplay painfully boring; I'm not into the field capture. Unfortunately, when there's 100 players online there's not much else to do in AKDESERT. HiTech's suggestion that maybe some fields could be disabled at off-peak hours has a lot of promise though. I hope it works well.
J_A_B
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J_A_B I understand your point of view, and I was quite surprised that I faced so little opposition today. That was at around noon here - 7am where you are. Being in Euroland makes empty arenas a fact of life, unless I were to play all night through to about 5am or 6am. And I hasten to add that jabo/capture is not all I do. Yesterday, I fancied something different, and went to a furball fight in a 190A5 - got 8 kills in the session, including a 5 kill sortie. All I'm saying is - I like variety. I like it to be a little like the real war, and not entirely like an arcade game.