I remember Lzrd...I dont think its the same Lzrd as posted before this. I'd goto the dueling arena, or whatever arena it was called back then and he'd come in and fight. I'd beat him pretty bad, and finally he asked wth I was doing. So after so time showing him he got better. Eventually he got as good as me, and a KOTH tournement of champions we were in, it came down to me and him. I won, but by the skin of my teeth..it was that close.
When I started AW back in 1996, it was on AOL, and had just gone from pay per hour to a subscription. Then it went to Gamestorm. I started out flying with IKO and AgentRX(Jag15) in the Knightz of Khaos as PutzX. Then we flew for JG26 under a guy named Jag26. After a while me and a local friend who originally turned me onto AW, formed >RATTLESDEN< Heavy Bomber Group. We had a blast. We were really into getting a bunch of buffers together. The Nighthawks under WILD, with guys like JSO,and Gunahurl were great to fly with.
When AW3 came out we decided to fly Full Realism arena. For the longest time thru AW and AW2 the FR arena was manned by few people, and I was always intimidated by the name of the arena, thinking it would be too hard. But after a bunch of us, me, Vette, and Jag23 tried our first low level B25 raid of a CV we were hooked. Eventually all the others in the squad came over, followed by alot of others on all sides.
>GDI< (Ralph) was a great guy. He passed away a few years back. Gman (Gman52nd in here) flew together alot. We had a lot of great guys in the squad. Wezmn, Ditch, so many I cant remember them all. We would often hold joint ops night with other Bz squads like the Nighthawks and Nightmares, the 52nd, JG27, the CAF, and many others.
I eventually started flying fighters more than bombing. Hlbilly who was a Cz, got me learning slow controlled flight by weaving thru structures at an empty base, full flapped and barely moving to get the feel for it. Then deadh or +dead, cant quite remember the one, taught me alot about merging. After that it was just practice and I got quite good at it. Some of my favorite opponents were XooX(bandit..or bandito
, 9bals,kappa,TC in his 51,Drano in his 109 and Cuzco (who hated to lose when I beat him) although when fighting any of the it was anyone's match.
I played in alot of events in AW, Longbow being my first, in culero's spec op A26 flight, and Cartwheel my last as a F6F Group leader. They were alot of fun. Countless hours involved in them. At the end of my AW run, I played Stick's KOTH competitions alot. I managed to win 3 titles, and got a shot at the KOTH Tourny of Champions(which I won..barely see above
and won CH products stick,pedals and throttle. I just took them out of the box this year to play AH2. Wow...they were dusty!
Other than hemmoroids, and higher blood pressure, the most I got out of AW were the friends Ive met, and many I still see in here. I hope to play many more years with all of ya!
