Dateline Donut Map, October 10th 2005, 11:30PM PDT...........
The Bishop fun killers, reportedly led by Herblife, decide that FighterTown must be all Bish and nothing but Bish. No fun will be allowed for Furballer Freaks! The Bish overran Fighter Town, ruining everyone's else's chance for some fast furballing fights.
By 9:30PM PST the great Rook leader Karaya has had enough of this BS. Despite the fact the Rooks were being pinched on both sides by Nit/Bish attacks, and had even lost any bases near FighterTown, he called upon the Rooks to get it together and retake a series of bases leading directly toward FighterTown, then to jump the forbiddingly high mountains of the Donut Range and retake A21. Many Rooks responded to this call to arms. SHawk brought the WOT . Numerous other Rooks jumped onboard this quest for the Holy Grail of returning FT to the masses.
The quest started with retaking at least one airfield currently controlled by the Bish nearer the donut ring. The battle began with the eventual capture of A33 and A40 after great loss of virtual life. The Rooks are now in position to make a run for A21 but one more piece must be in place for the quest to be successful, Knight alliance. The mountains surrounding FT are too tall for an outside attack to stand a chance against the three closely spaced Bishop bases in FT for a normal attack to be able to maintain momentum through a capture.
Karaya enlists the great Knight leader WmLute in this quest. WmLute jumps at the chance to return the holy lands of FT to all countrys' control. In a very rarely seen event in the MA, the Knights and Rooks unite, declaring a truce and active allied support within the FT ring to defeat the Bish fun killers.
The first wave of Rooks cross the forbidding Donut Ring Mountains. Your writer crossed the DRM in a Goon. At first Bish opposition was light as they could not beleive anyone would be so idiotic as to attempt a capture of FT surrounded by the DRMs. But their resistance quickly gathered as they realized this was a real attempt.
At the same time the first Knight assault wave also crossed the DRMs and met stiff resistance.
The battle at A21 raged. We all wondered if the truce would really work, and to our surprise it did. The first evidence was a Knight P-51 at A-21 working with SHawk to mash the Bish. < A few Rooks had to be educated on how to tell a Bish icon from a Knight icon. However this board will not allow me to post the terms we used when explaining how to tell them apart>. Rooks and Knights fought till their gas ran out. Shawk reportedly crash landed with 16 + kills at A-21. Another Rook had 20.
But to no avail. Herblife, the great defender of Bishop hegemony over fighter town, caught this writer's Goon at 16K over A21 and cut it to pieces. He then landed 5 kills in his 109G-10.
A second wave was called for. This time many more Rooks responded. Karaya continued to work the Red Phone to Knight HQ, coordinating our Allied Attack with WmLute.
This time the Rooks were successful despite suicidal attempts by Bish partisans to up at A-21. Three Rook goons made the daunting trip over the Donut Range Mountains to drop their troops.
Immediately massive numbers of Rooks upped at 21 to flatten 167 and help the Nits retake 193. . Again, Bish fun killers attempted to save FT for just the Bish, but Rook indignation and Nit ferocity was too much for them. The Rooks pounded 193 to dust, vulching the Bish the moment their planes appeard on the runway. This writer's most satisfying moment came when I vulched a P-38 and got the kill message on Herblife.
The Rooks kept the field capped until more Knight fighters and their Goon arrived. It was amazing to see 20 Knight and 20 Rook fighters flying around together without a single friendly fire loss. The Knight goon came in and Rooks left before the auto ack came up.
That left the question of what to do about the Bishop base at 167? A debate raged, some folks wanting to capture it and kick the Bish out of FT for a week. Others called for a continual Vulch green light there for the next week. In the end Karaya and WMLute took the high ground, and the decision was made to let the Bish keep 167 and just vulch them for a while as punishment. The vulching at 167 continued for about 20 minutes with some Bish, notably Fariz, whining on 200 about the vulching at 167 by Rooks and Knights. The whining fell on deaf ears.
FT has been returned to it's rightful owners. Let the Furballing Fun go on!
