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Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Chaos68 on August 18, 2002, 10:44:59 AM: How did you find AH? i know most of you guys are from AW but what turned you to AH or how did you come across AH?

I was searching for WWII aces and stubbled apon AH, i played the 2 week trial and couldn't quit. :D
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Ripsnort on August 18, 2002, 10:54:12 AM: Most of the Veterans in beta were from Warbirds, Pyro and HiTech created Warbirds, then left, a few of us followed them here after they re-opened shop.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: grizz on August 18, 2002, 10:54:53 AM: I was playing WB's and kept hearing about a new sim Pyro and gang were working on. I hadn't heard too much until one day someone posted on the WB bulletin board that AH was going pay for play. About a week later I downloaded and tried it out and have been here ever since. :D

Best fun I've had in a long time. Though I wish I didn't suck at it so much. LOL:p
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Hristo on August 18, 2002, 10:56:36 AM: Back then WB had pay-per-hour pricing, which kept some of us on duel ladder. As soon as AH went beta (Oct 1999), I started playing.

It was fun indeed, you could find a duel even in small beta map.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: SKurj on August 18, 2002, 11:14:30 AM: I visited from AW durin beta.... Found it hell ... was lucky to get off the ground, once up i couldn't hit anything... and then when it came to landings I always broke my gear... So went back to aw +)

Came back for 2 week trial Around 1.02 I think... abused the trial, stayed for a month... Went back to Aw3 until I could afford AH.

Left Aw3 just prior to Awmv's release, and never looked back

Skurj
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: hogenbor on August 18, 2002, 11:32:45 AM: Hmmm, looooong ago I heard about Air Warrior in its orginal guise and the idea was hugely appealing to me. I even got a CD-ROM version of AW3 somewhere, never did much with it, couldn't play on-line back then. Somewheren back in time I also heard about Warbirds, that must be about six years ago... how time flies.

With things like the pay per hour concept, the steep learning curve I was expecting and the fact that I didn't have cable back then, I never bothered to play on-line.

Few weeks ago I was surfing around a bit and came across AH, with it's easy set-up, free download and two weeks free on-line play. I tried it ( 8 days now) and keep on getting shot down (of course). Still come back for more though.

So it took me at least 8 years to play flight sims on-line, but better late then never.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Ripsnort on August 18, 2002, 11:37:41 AM: Quote
Originally posted by hogenbor
Hmmm, looooong ago I heard about Air Warrior in its orginal guise and the idea was hugely appealing to me. I even got a CD-ROM version of AW3 somewhere, never did much with it, couldn't play on-line back then. Somewheren back in time I also heard about Warbirds, that must be about six years ago... how time flies.

With things like the pay per hour concept, the steep learning curve I was expecting and the fact that I didn't have cable back then, I never bothered to play on-line.

Few weeks ago I was surfing around a bit and came across AH, with it's easy set-up, free download and two weeks free on-line play. I tried it ( 8 days now) and keep on getting shot down (of course). Still come back for more though.

So it took me at least 8 years to play flight sims on-line, but better late then never.

Hehe! Welcome! Quit now though! or it becomes a lifetime obsession! :eek:
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: hogenbor on August 18, 2002, 12:11:12 PM: A lifetime obsession?

Well, as a little boy I was already obsessed with aircraft but that's not unusual. But a few years ago I got a new job as a tester of sat-nav systems for cars. On one trip to England a colleague took me to the RAF museum in Hendon and later I saw Cosford and of course Duxford (Sally B) as well, not to mention a huge number of similar museums in several countries. A whole shelf in my bookcase is now filled with photo albums from those trips :-)

So playing AH is just the next step in a lifetime obsession I guess...
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Ripsnort on August 18, 2002, 12:15:23 PM: Quote
Originally posted by hogenbor
A lifetime obsession?

Well, as a little boy I was already obsessed with aircraft but that's not unusual. But a few years ago I got a new job as a tester of sat-nav systems for cars. On one trip to England a colleague took me to the RAF museum in Hendon and later I saw Cosford and of course Duxford (Sally B) as well, not to mention a huge number of similar museums in several countries. A whole shelf in my bookcase is now filled with photo albums from those trips :-)

So playing AH is just the next step in a lifetime obsession I guess...

There ya go! At age 4, I told my dad (a private pilot) that "I'm going to work for Boeing some day!" after he took me to see a brand new 727. ;)

I took my son to Renton Plant Family day last Sunday, we got to tour the inside of the "Boeing Bee" B17F. My 6 yr old son has been playing online sims since age 3 (offline for the first two years, or HTH with me) and now at age 6 at the Family day last sunday, he was in heaven!

Starts at a young age with most of us.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Badboy on August 18, 2002, 12:24:39 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Most of the Veterans in beta were from Warbirds, Pyro and HiTech created Warbirds, then left, a few of us followed them here after they re-opened shop.

Hmm, actually HiTech is an ex AW :)

AW is to online flight sim's what the big bang was to the universe... the beginning.

In terms of the evolution of the genre, AW didn't evolve fast enough to avoid sharing the fate of the dinosaurs. I predict that Warbirds will be next to fall to Darwinian inevitability, becoming just another fossil to litter the evolutionary path to the survival of the fittest.

Aces High, is the only simulation evolving rapidly enough to avoid extinction, so within a couple of years it will be easy to find, because it will probably rule the planet :)

Badboy
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Ripsnort on August 18, 2002, 12:29:58 PM: Badboy,
Yep, but in regards to "Finding AH" as the thread suggest, he was better known as the WB's father. The minority here in Beta were AW, the majority ex-WB'ers.

I do remember Hitech and his long range tank folly's on spawn points in AW ;)
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Flossy on August 18, 2002, 12:30:05 PM: As usual, I followed my husband (Zeb) here! :) He smelled at rat when EA took over AW and he never did subscribe. I couldn't give it up though, so stuck with it until the end, in spite of the hurt I was caused when they decided the volunteer staff were no longer required.... I just couldn't imagine life without AW :eek: I did try AH briefly in October 2000, but couldn't get away with it and closed the account. Then, in April 2001, when my Squad (Kraits) moved to AH officially, I felt obliged to set up another account, being their Adjutant/XO! Besides, Zeb told me they now had boats I would probably like - and he was not wrong! I spent the next 8 months dividing my time between AH and AW, usually coming onto AH first, early in the evening and flying with the Kraits, then going to AW later, by which time my 'other squad' - the Hell Gods - were active.

After the demise of AW in December last year, I moved to AH completely. :D
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Thrawn on August 18, 2002, 12:32:34 PM: A friend of mine (he use to fly under Fdisk) stumbled across it in 1.03 and told me about it. The rest is history.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Pongo on August 18, 2002, 01:10:51 PM: I followed a link to the open beta in combatsim.com
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Wilfrid on August 18, 2002, 01:48:16 PM: Version 1.02 was on a magazine cover disc...PC Zone (Uk) I think. Tried it and didn't like it offline, but went for the 2 week trial anyway....I'm still here.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Toad on August 18, 2002, 02:00:31 PM: I found it quite excellent, thank you. :)
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: SLCR on August 18, 2002, 02:18:38 PM: I flew AW for a few years as a Buccaneer until they went their separate ways. Joined the Sea Serpents and flew with them for a couple years until AW imploded. Had my "feelers" out trying to find a replacement. Went to WWIIOL, Fighter Ace and WB to test the waters but they just didn't feel right. The Sea Serpents couldn't pick one Sim to form up again until Rex/Zaphod and Smaug told us about how fun Aces High was/is. We slowly formed up our squad again and are almost to our full numbers we had in AW. Once again the Sea Serpents are having a great time flying and hopefully in the future have the same success in Aces High as we did in AW.

-SLICER
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: -ammo- on August 18, 2002, 02:21:46 PM: Was in WB's when my squad (332 Flying Mongrels) debated and decided on coming to AH right at the outset of AH going pay to play. Been here ever since.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Nefarious on August 18, 2002, 02:22:03 PM: I used to visit combatsim.com all the time looking for skins for WW2F and info for upcoming games. I saw a banner with a pretty picture of a Zero in the sunset.

I clicked on the link.

I downloaded the software.

I played my 2 week free trial, and loved it, It seemed like everytime I logged on during my free trial, there wasnt more than 100 players on. I remember learing a lot from mathman. And this was before the Hellcat came out :eek: What did you fly then Math?

After my trial period ended, I played H2H for almost a year. Until price was brought down to 14.95.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Kweassa on August 18, 2002, 02:36:22 PM: Well, I started flight sim games with that "Chuck Yeager" simulation. I was always exclusively facinated by prop-sims, and I also majored in Western History. Anything that had to do with airplanes of WWII was a big interest for me - building models(though only a newbie at this), reading books(hard to find good books in Asia :) ), reading stories/reports..

Then I first got my hands on Dynamix's Aces of the Pacific, and Aces of the Europe. The translated manual was pathetic(10 pages), but reading about the aircraft and getting to fly them on the PC was almost like a dream-come-true experience for me. I tried almost every 'new sim' that featured WWII planes, and since it was pre-internet era, I actually thought pretty good about being able to shoot down hundreds of AIs in a day :D

Then, the internet age arrived. Found this pleasant on-line game called "Air Attack(FA1)" :) So, my MMOG experience begins with Fighter Ace. I realized there were also other people like me, and some of them recommended War Birds. Those were the "final days" of War Birds and Air Warrior, but I didn't get a chance to play it. So I naturally continued to play through FA1.5, FA2.0 and FA2.5. I was pretty cocky by then, since it was fairly easy to shoot down ;) people in FA, and downing all those "Green GBR" hoardes in Spit14s with the 109F-4 was always a pride-swelling experience.

Then, one day, some of the people on the community I was at recommended "Aces High", which was supposedly the newest hot-rod in the market(by that time, AH was in 1.05 I think..). So I started off with AH1.05. I think to myself "OK, let's give it a try" - pick my usual ride Bf109F-4 in that cocky "Fighter Ace mentality", and found out I couldn't sustain a turn that lasted more than 270 degrees! As if that wasn't enough, I instantly became cannon-fodder to every enemy around. Boy did my ego take a hit there!

So that's how it all begins.. :)
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Karnak on August 18, 2002, 02:58:17 PM: There was a link to the open beta on CombatSim.com. I clicked it, gave it a quick try and liked what I saw. However, I was working 60 hour weeks as a software QA engineer and didn't have the energy to do more QA at home. I kept track of AH's progress and signed up when 1.03 was released.

I've been here ever since.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: eddiek on August 18, 2002, 03:37:31 PM: Downloaded it back in January 2000 at the urging of my CO, hblair.
Couldn't do much more than fly around as a target with the 6-10 FPS frame rates I was getting with my ancient video card.
Stuck with it thru the beta versions, bought a new vid card in March 2000, have been here every since.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: SunKing on August 18, 2002, 03:53:16 PM: Got feed up with CFS2 planes.. Read online for 2 weeks all I could about the 3 big Online Sims. Almost got hooked by the pretty planes in WB. Eventually eveything started pointing to AH as the better game with the higher population of skilled pilots not arcade arenas. Best choice I made. I've never fired up another pay sim since.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: poopster on August 18, 2002, 04:19:18 PM: Finally decided to let my head heal from beating it against the wall over a WB.

Tried AH out, took my time, took it all in and realized that this would be a real nice place to stay.

And it is :)

Good people. Good game.

What more could a poop want ??
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Mark Luper on August 18, 2002, 04:32:42 PM: I played WB for about 3 years, it was my first multiplayer online game, met HT and Pyro at the 98 WB con in Dallas. Was impressed with them and when they started AH I was given an opportunity to do some of the latter stages of alpha testing.

Played WB some for a while after that also because my squad was in there then made the break from it and never looked back.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: eskimo2 on August 18, 2002, 04:35:19 PM: My squad was well established in WarBirds. Most of us lived in the Colorado Springs Area. One of us was a AH Alpha tester. He invited us over to his house the hour AH went Beta (he had kept quiet about it untill then, as asked). By the end of the evening most of us had gone home, downloaded AH and started and account. WE haven't done a squad mission in WB, nor have I logged in since that night.

eskimo
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Animal on August 18, 2002, 04:38:39 PM: I was cruising around in my yatch when I recieved a cellphone call from hitech

"Hey Animal! I'm making this new sim, and it wouldnt be cool if you didnt play and spice up the arena"

So I said

"I'll right H-Dog, I'll do you the favor and give it a shot"

The rest is history!

[/lie]

I found a link on combatsim.com the first day AH hit public beta. Been here since day one.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: hitech on August 18, 2002, 04:39:37 PM: It came to me in a dream.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: eskimo2 on August 18, 2002, 04:48:33 PM: Quote
Originally posted by hitech
It came to me in a dream.

So, is it a dream come true?

Or did you expect to get more sleep?

eskimo
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Yeager on August 18, 2002, 04:48:52 PM: I remember the day http://www.hitechcreations.com went live. No BBS, just a front page with a statement from the new announced HTC
about this soon to be leased gem.

Unfortunately I wasnt invited to alpha test so I was stuck with WBs until public beta was released. Cancled my WBs account the following day :)

WTG HTC :)
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Pollock on August 18, 2002, 05:50:32 PM: My story may be a little out of the ordinary.

In 1999 I was in a virtual squad the 91st Fighter Group. We played a game online via hosting called Screaming Demons over Europe. We flew B17s online to practice for the upcoming over hyped game B17 2. The game was so friggin unstable we spent more time forming on the runway and lag crashing than it was worth.

My squaddie Sunchaser mentioned this game in Beta that was tottaly online play. This was around September 1999. We quiclky adapted to the B17 in AH and used it for practice and soon became our obsession. About 1 month later it was announced that B172 would not support online play. We really didnt care at that point because AH proved to be so much more fun anyway.

I have been here ever since...
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Grimm on August 18, 2002, 06:11:55 PM: BulletHead
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Saintaw on August 18, 2002, 06:21:54 PM: Blame Heater for havin' me here :D
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Creamo on August 18, 2002, 06:24:21 PM: Central
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Apar on August 18, 2002, 06:35:24 PM: Went on a 7 month\s trip to sea. When I got back most of my squad (air_squadron) had moved to AH (version 1.02).

I left FA and joined up and played it ever since :D
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Octavius on August 18, 2002, 06:42:50 PM: Saw it in an article in PC Gamer a loooong time ago. I joined in Tour 2 or 3.. not sure what version that was though.
Title: Re: How did you find AH?
Post by: akak on August 18, 2002, 06:57:11 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Chaos68
How did you find AH? i know most of you guys are from AW but what turned you to AH or how did you come across AH?

I was searching for WWII aces and stubbled apon AH, i played the 2 week trial and couldn't quit. :D

After playing AW for close to 9 years, I couldn't get rid of my addiction and WW2OL was a placebo and only AH seemed to ease the pain of withdrawls.

ack-ack
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: snafu on August 18, 2002, 06:58:17 PM: Found it on Combatsim I think, Spent a few weeks trying to kill an ack offline :rolleyes: joined the open Beta V0.36 (I think) Back in the days when you could come steaming in in a goon and drop at 10ft (OK Get ready to start running guys). ;) I seem to remember the Ack was tougher then but maybe I just got better at dealing with it.

TTFN
snafu
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Pongo on August 18, 2002, 07:03:53 PM: Quote
Originally posted by snafu
Found it on Combatsim I think, Spent a few weeks trying to kill an ack offline :rolleyes: joined the open Beta V0.36 (I think) Back in the days when you could come steaming in in a goon and drop at 10ft (OK Get ready to start running guys). ;) I seem to remember the Ack was tougher then but maybe I just got better at dealing with it.

TTFN
snafu

nope..ack was way tougher.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: GunnerCAF on August 18, 2002, 07:18:09 PM: BulletHead
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Spout on August 18, 2002, 07:39:47 PM: I found AH at about 3am on a game-Demo download sight, and at this time, I had a crapy internet service, It took hours, and more hours just to download. I had to redownload the game 5+ times to get things to finally work correct, but i am glad i hung in there :D :D
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Vulcan on August 18, 2002, 09:56:02 PM: I started following HT and Pyro in the CK beta, which then turned to WB. I still have fond memories of putting my zekes nose straight down at 20k and diving in after ponies (you guys think the Niki is bad, the CK-Zeke was ultra-uber).

Just after AH went open beta IEN/WB went down the toilet. There were periods when WB servers were completely offline for up to 72 hours.

So I was left with a choice, stick with crap servers, no response to emails, crap customer service, pay by the hour, lacklustre development. OR put up with a bit of beta code, good servers, fast development, response to emails, flat rate.

Never looked back cept I do miss a few WB buddies like rekkof, fokr, gryph (think hes at WW2OL now), finn, etc.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Glasses on August 18, 2002, 11:35:09 PM: On Saw's note Blame Animal for having me here. He told me about AH and I came to open beta when he did.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Mathman on August 19, 2002, 02:04:57 AM: I found out about AH from Soulyss. I was playing a lot of Rainbow 6 and Rogue Spear. Souly, his roommate and another guy all had a share of a T1 that they used to host games on. Well, one weekend, they hadn't hosted a single game at all. So the next time I saw Souly on ICQ, I messaged him asking if he was going to host. He said probably not because he and his friends had found some multiplayer flight sim that was in beta and they hadn't stopped playing it for some inordinate amount of time. Being a huge airplane and flight sim fan, I asked where to get the game. He sent me the link, I downloaded it, and have been hooked ever since.

That first night, I remember trying to take off, trying to shoot someone down, and trying to land. I think I got killed about 20 times, got maybe 3 kills. Was crazy fun.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Swoop on August 19, 2002, 02:43:06 AM: Was flying EAW on the Kali servers until it started to die out, found AH (God knows where from) in tour 1 and decided to stick around here until Multiplayer B17-II came out......still waiting.

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Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: lasse on August 19, 2002, 03:35:35 AM: Been here since day one of open beta.(Played Warbirds from V.1.07)

It was a sad day when Pyro and Hitech left Warbirds, I was worried about the future of Warbirds, and my future flightsim hobby.
After Ici games became Mol, then Imol I felt WB stagnated, and it actually did :(

So it was a happy day when I heard that Hitech and Pyro formed a new company, and started all over again :D

And now, in a relatively short time they have left Warbirds in the dust and is still accelerating ;)

I am glad I could be a part of the journey :)

The Wild Vikings
Commanding Officer
Lasse
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: devious on August 19, 2002, 03:57:34 AM: I always liked boxed WWII sims, played SWOTL and Their finest hour on Amiga (or was it a C64) as a kid, when Internet was not an option in .de.

Came to be a good Q3 Mod player, True Combat (http://www.truecombat.com) and Navy Seals (http://www.ns-co.net) to name the best, and looked for something "planey" to play online.

Started out on a certain russian MMOG and looked for better graphics, better immersion. That sim's messageboard had hearty discussion on which commercial sim would be better, WB3 or AH. Tried both offline, guess which won my trials ;)
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Bonden on August 19, 2002, 04:05:38 AM: Friend of mine, fossil, told me about it - many dollars ago :)
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: LLv34_Snefens on August 19, 2002, 04:24:53 AM: I joined LLv34 early 1999 which at that time only played EAW. Camo also did some WB I believe, and he always tried to convince the rest of us that we should try it out.
No way I would pay to play online, but after listening to Camo's endless talking about that sim he one day mentioned another one called Aces High, which was free.
That was a few days after beta opened, and I signed up and have been here since.

Swoop, I was still playing quite a bit of EAW at that time, and I remember talking about AH a number of times at Kali. Maybe that's how you found it? :)
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Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: bounder on August 19, 2002, 04:32:14 AM: 'Flew' WB 2.77 on my Macintosh for a month or two before our squad leader circulated a thread from this very BBS, asking what players would get from moving to AH. Problem was - that AH didn't run on Mac.

Then Got job working from home with PC - never looked back, cancelled WB 2.77 account immediately and signed up after 14 days. Still wish there was an AH for the Mac tho, but I can see why it's not worth the bother.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Scott E on August 19, 2002, 04:37:39 AM: I blame Hblair
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Creamo on August 19, 2002, 05:34:56 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Most of the Veterans in beta were from Warbirds, Pyro and HiTech created Warbirds, then left, a few of us followed them here after they re-opened shop.

Who were you in Beta 1?
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: wipass on August 19, 2002, 08:36:17 AM: 3 years warbirds then packed up and started looking for a new home, arrived here by way of WWII online

wipass
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Masherbrum on August 19, 2002, 08:58:14 AM: My (co-worker) BoxBoy28, had a wallpaper of an F4U-1D on his desktop. "Are you a WWII buff or anything?" I said. He replied "kind of, I play Aces High online". We got to talking THAT DAY, I went home did the 2 week trial and been with NAZGUL (Rooks) the whole time! Bless this game and the players that still play to this day. No matter how I razz you guys, I'll always you.

To HiTech and and the rest of HTC that Bust and Sweat their tulips off every day to ensure that they put the best product out there. I've noticed a lot of people whining about stuff, but they realize how much time and effort you put into this sim. You ask for feedback and get many responses to help make this enjoyable for all. For this, we are grateful.

Karaya2
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: hblair on August 19, 2002, 10:29:29 AM: lol fester! I didn't twist your arm man. :)

I came over from warbirds, got a big chunk of my squad to come with me. I think I first heard about it on channel 1 in the warbirds MA. I was one of the guys online the first night of open beta. What a melee. I remember scop was here the first night but haven't seen him since. Wasn't he the F6F king in warbirds? Where be he?
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: cajun on August 19, 2002, 10:37:55 AM: Well, I use to play a game called Age of Empires II on the MSNGaming zone, and I had allways been interested in aircraft (especially WW2 aircraft) & wanted some sorta aircombat game, so I did a search on msngaming zone & somehow it came up with AH as one of the games, so I decided to DL.
I was looking for the most realistic plane game I could find, not the arcadish games like microsoft's flight sims & I don't think I could have done better!:)
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Horn on August 19, 2002, 10:52:47 AM: It was a Damned thing.

dh
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: T0J0 on August 19, 2002, 10:56:00 AM: after getting the boot from AWMV from ea..I followed the usmc to WB3... Hated WB's with a passion, but showed up out of respect for the Squad until one day i couldn't stand it any longer... I had been reading on the AW message boards about aceshigh and dloaded the game and did the 2 week trial...
anybody remember "Aces of the Pacific" the single player flight sim?
I became interested in flying due in part because a family member flew P-51's in ETO... And as a kid he used to take me flying in his single engine plane.... I also live under the flight path of an airport and see way more than i should at times!!
It gives you more respect for air traffic controllers after you watch a few near hits..

~~T0J0~~
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Rude on August 19, 2002, 11:35:21 AM: Followed HT
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Apache on August 19, 2002, 11:38:28 AM: I was at WB. The split happened, iEN moved to North Carolina and my connects went in the toilet.

One of our squadmates told us that HT & crew had started a game called Aces High. I was already an HT fan so naturally I followed 'em. Been here since beta.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: Soup Nazi on August 19, 2002, 11:39:34 AM: While sitting down to lunch to a hot bowl of Alphabet soup one day, the letters "AH" floated to the top. I did a google search on "AH" out of inspiration of this obvious sign from the Gods, and been here ever since.
Title: How did you find AH?
Post by: midnight Target on August 19, 2002, 11:43:56 AM: The Nightmares were one of the top squads in AW FR for years. Early on one of our own went over to AH (Midnight of the 412th). Some others heard about it and we had dual squads for about 1 year in AW and AH. I stayed in AW until almost the end.