« Reply #18 on: April 03, 2011, 03:29:11 AM »
Lulu, While I find your account humerous the history of AW/AH and flight sims in general can't be overwritten.
From memory, and other oldtimers will correct the parts I get wrong, the history of AW/AH goes more like this:
Once upon a time in a sim far far away there lived three countrys seprated by water. They were know as the AZ, BZ and CZ and they lived happily in their own little lands.
Then, one day, an AZ snuck across the bridge below the mountainous pyramids into CZ land and stole a sheep. Amazed at the human-like qualities of the CZ sheep, more AZ snuck over in the dead of night until CZ land was nearly depleted of its sheep.
The CZ, not knowing it was the AZ rustling their sheep, and getting grouchy over their lack of intamacy, immediately blamed the BZ who were, after all, known as "furballers" but the jig was soon over when it was discovered that the AZ were hiding a large heard of sheep deep in AZ land near the Spit factory. Both the CZ, wanting the return of their sheep, and the BZ, upset over being the ones blamed for the rustling, attacked the AZ, and thus began a war and the habit of two countries ganging up on one.
Then, the evil empire, EA Sports, took over the world of AZ, BZ and CZ. Soon realizing their mistake with the growing hostilities between the countries and the incessent server loads caused by the "<Insert player name here> has just pawned you" macros initiated by each player after each and every kill, they n00ked the lands of the AZ, BZ and CZ.
Lost on the interweb, the forlorn AZ, BZ and CZ searched for a new home with their 56K modems. Even though they were hostile to one another, the word quickly spread from country to country that there was a new land called AH where clouds actually filled the sky.
One by one, then in ever growing numbers, the AZ, BZ and CZ moved into AH Land and settled, but the hostilities over the sheep rustling were never forgotten. Because of this, the AZ settled mostly as Bish, the BZ settled mostly as Rooks, and the CZ settled primarily as Knits, although a few took the opportunity to switch alliances.
Once settled in, they couldn't help but continue thier fight and that's how the war started.
So as you can see, the Bish (formerly AZ) are still good at sneaking around capturing things, the Rooks (formerly BZ) are still "furballers" and the Knights (formerly CZ) are still confused.
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Former LTARkilz
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