Rook, Nit or Bish?? who has the close ties?

[Rich46yo]

I dont fly perk airplanes so I dont care what the eny is. I stay Rook cause I have loyalty to fellow Rooks, not to chess pieces.

I would say the teamwork is much better in Rookdom. Plus if you need help the chances of help getting to you is much better.

I dont think we "run" away from fights as bad as the Bish and Nits, most of all "Bish". If I see a Bish FW-run90, a runphoon, or a runstang, Im pretty much assured its going to be one HO and then "run". Providing the kid didnt run into me. Actually they arent as bad in LAs but those 3 are terrible Bish-wise. And the Bish Nikis aint much better.

With the Bish iys like you run into total skill or total dweebery. Theres no in between.

[stephen waldron]

  I've flown for all three countries as well.  And I disagree with the idea they are all completely the same.  The Bishops are most loyal in a general sense toward their country.  The Knights are more loyal in a tactical sense to one another in combat.  The Rooks fall somewhere between the other two.
  For this reason Knights can be dangerous in small numbers. They escort their bombers, protect C-47's and armored units, and react quickly when their factories and territory are threatened.  A few Knight planes and a well escorted CV can easily take a base.  They are doing a very good job with CAP at forward bases this month as well. 
  The Bishops are highly independent individuals who seem to cooperate only when they are swarming enemy bases for harrassment purposes, or running massive base takeover missions led by a strong personality.   They rarely support bombers, transports or anything else.  Smaller Bishop operations usually fail.
  The Rooks are a Wild Card Team.  Good as Knights when they are on their game, but they can be as disorganized as Bishops sometimes.  I would have to give the Rooks a little more credit for tactical loyalty to their countrymen than Bishops.  But I wouldn't count on it 24/7.
   

[Adonai]

loyalty to one country went out when the MA became 4 arena's, when the countries have lower numbers. most the time when i log in bish have the low numbers....rooks and nits always have lot of ppl.

everyone knows my squad has commitment issues. we belong to no one country..we fly where we want when we want. we have flown bish more than any other due to the fact that we fly with the TSM squad and have been for like almost 2 years now.

all countries have their ups and downs. they are the same just different ppl. i agree that if you DONT switch you wont meet everyone that is in the game. there are ALOT that dont tune to 200 and ALOT that you won't run into in the game.

this is only MHO

Bishops usually have lowest numbers because they horde one arena, generally its always the empty arena, 100 bish/50knits/50rooks
usually knits or bishop, rooks really dont except early morning hours when we have more numbers on.

I have tried to switch arenas over the months, I might do another tour of switching bish/knights to see if I like it, generally never found bishops much fun since they see me as a "Country hopper" rather then someone joining the fun to kill - Knits been quite nice about me coming over - would say If I had too, I'd stay knits.

Modify: I did switch for a tour once, and ended up back rook - I think its just because I knew people and enjoyed flying with others.

[Guppy35]

Bishops usually have lowest numbers because they horde one arena, generally its always the empty arena, 100 bish/50knits/50rooks
usually knits or bishop, rooks really dont except early morning hours when we have more numbers on.

I have tried to switch arenas over the months, I might do another tour of switching bish/knights to see if I like it, generally never found bishops much fun since they see me as a "Country hopper" rather then someone joining the fun to kill - Knits been quite nice about me coming over - would say If I had too, I'd stay knits.

Modify: I did switch for a tour once, and ended up back rook - I think its just because I knew people and enjoyed flying with others.

And if the Bish are hording one LW arena, you can bet the Rooks or Knits are hording the other.  One of the frustrations of not being able to switch for an hour is that if you go up to fight the horde in one arena, and then bounce to the other arena if a squaddie is on, you often get stuck on the high number side in that arena, although you've just come from the low number side in the previous arena.

All of which tells me that the majority of folks are the same, in that they like to win even if it's in the horde, and 'loyalty' to the chess piece goes only as far as thinking that winning the war matters

[kilz]

I don't fly perk airplanes so I don't care what the eny is. I stay Rook cause I have loyalty to fellow Rooks, not to chess pieces.

I would say the teamwork is much better in Rookdom. Plus if you need help the chances of help getting to you is much better.

I don't think we "run" away from fights as bad as the Bish and Nits, most of all "Bish". If I see a Bish FW-run90, a runphoon, or a runstang, I'm pretty much assured its going to be one HO and then "run". Providing the kid didn't run into me. Actually they aren't as bad in La's but those 3 are terrible Bish-wise. And the Bish Nikis ain't much better.

With the Bish is like you run into total skill or total dweebery. Theres no in between.

unfortunately you just described all three country's.

I stay Rook cause I have loyalty to fellow Rooks, not to chess pieces.

sorry to inform you of this but that is considered a chess pieces.

its a darn shame you think you have to be loyal to one country in a VIDEO GAME. you are missing out on a lot of other skilled fighters or GVers that can help you along your way. you never know you might meet a better squad then you have now. there are a lot of great squads out there. being loyal to one country is crazy if you ask me. i never agreed with it as a LTAR and i still don't as a 173rd. that's why we jump country's

[Rich46yo]

Gee Kilz, I guess I'll now change 100% the way I play after you weighed in.

unfortunately you just described all three country's.
 sorry to inform you of this but that is considered a chess pieces.

its a darn shame you think you have to be loyal to one country in a VIDEO GAME. you are missing out on a lot of other skilled fighters or GVers that can help you along your way. you never know you might meet a better squad then you have now. there are a lot of great squads out there. being loyal to one country is crazy if you ask me. i never agreed with it as a LTAR and i still don't as a 173rd. that's why we jump country's

[Hap]

Seems to me the bish has the most close ties with eachother, but some would disagree. how would you rate your country in this category

No help on this one.  With few exceptions, flew Bishops.  Got to know guys many years ago.  Found some guys with whom I enjoy playing: Egg, LTARS, Hajo, Rusty, bunches of folks.  As the years rolled by, stayed with Bishops.

Those who do switch told me all countries are the same.

Haven't flown in close to year I guess.  If I find myself in the skies again, no doubt it will be for the Bish.   

[SunBat]

All countries are more or less the same....occasional gal.
 

You know, I can't think of a rook female.  Maybe there are some that fly non-US primetime that I don't know of.  Who am I forgetting? 

[Saurdaukar]

Ive been playing bish and AH for about 2 years now and only been on both darksides a couple times. Seems to me the bish has the most close ties with eachother, but some would disagree. how would you rate your country in this category

Im usually Bish.  My vote is for Rooks simply because I dont recognize more than a dozen Bish at any one time, these days.

[Lusche]

You know, I can't think of a rook female.  Maybe there are some that fly non-US primetime that I don't know of.  Who am I forgetting? 

I fly like a little girl, most of the time in gay planes. Does that count?

[wnt2]

I fly like a little girl, most of the time in gay planes. Does that count?

If you'd said "wearing a pink thong"....then yes it would've counted      

[SunBat]

I fly like a little girl, most of the time in gay planes. Does that count?

It would, but you are a snail and snails are asexual, so I was counting you as our no-gender rook.   

[angelsandair]

Ive been playing bish and AH for about 2 years now and only been on both darksides a couple times. Seems to me the bish has the most close ties with eachother, but some would disagree. how would you rate your country in this category

Usually (from what I've seen) Bishops are pretty close to team mates. Usually, they dont accept people from different countries too well. 

[oTRALFZo]

Usually (from what I've seen) Bishops are pretty close to team mates. Usually, they dont accept people from different countries too well. 

I would have to disagree. Ive seen many hardcore rooks and nits come to bish and we welcome them with utmost respect. What I cant stand are retards that join missions and relay the info to their buddies to come shoot us down. Its happend before and they dont take to that real well.  Many O times Ive been shot down by Stodd, god knows how times I wanted to throw the computer out the window, but flyin with them guys you get to know that they can be some cool people.

[Jaccpot]

For me i started out nit and it was okay until one day i was in a ostie defending our base (engine off) and some wise guy ask me to move my ostie away from him cuz i was in his "bubble" . Not to long after i went Bish and they wasnt that bad. Bacc then there was no arena caps so the Rooks had more numbers at that time, so i switch to Rooks and since then i've been a Rook and never looked bacc.