On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 00:46:44 GMT, "J S Allison" <johnalli@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Ah, the dreaded Kate O'Doom. That was your first scenario, wasn't it?
So
>how was flying backwards into combat? ;)
Yep. Zeb was a registered pilot I believe, and heard that walkon gunners
were wanted - so I walked on and went straight to your briefing room where
I was hooked up with you. Who'da thunk 5 years later I would be in the
position I am now at Aces High? And the bug with scenarios all started
with that walkon gunner slot.
It was OK going backwards most of the time..... but when you had to
circle,
I got a bit queasy..... circling is one thing going forwards, but going
backwards! :-)
>Only way AH could top those would
>be with...wait for it...SWORDFISH! Got *this* close to getting the cods
to
>hang torpedoes on the brisfits and turning them on in the arena. Woulda
>been a hoot. They did turn them on during a Con once, but not with
torps.
>The ACCS embarrassed a bunch of FWRun90s that night ;)
Hehe, bet that was fun to see!
>Oh I've nosed around there (AH website) from time to time. But I'm not
in a
>position to be able to afford the kind of 'puter it'd take to run the
thing
>(still herding a PII 200mmx running win95, don't laugh, it was the
bleeding
>edge in '97 ;) ) Heck, have to get my flight sim jones on MS' FS98 as
>anything more recent causes my box to go jerkjerkjerk a la Scav which is
>exactly what AH did when I d/l'd it.
Sounds like way past time to upgrade! Hope you manage to soon! :-)
> I did notice that you are among the
>cods of CM-dom over there, though, does this mean that you become more
>GB-like in the run-up to a scenario? (mean and cranky, that is) ;)
Nah, I'm never mean and cranky.... ;-) Fortunately, Tilt is the guy in
charge of the team that deals with scenarios, so I let him do all the
worrying - though he is on vacation at the moment and banned from taking a
laptop to check email and forums..... all I can say is thank goodness he
is
back on Sunday! <g>
I'm in overall charge of the whole CM team, which consists of a scenario
team, snapshot team, CAP team, SquadOps team and terrain team, each with
their own leader, so my role is more of an administrative one. Hiring
(and
firing :-( ) of staff and generally trying to keep everyone happy (I
hope!). I only do this for a year (nearly half-way!) then pass the post
on
to somebody else. I am the 4th Head CM since the team began, with Verm as
the first, followed by Wanker then daddog.
>So, are HiTech and crew contemplating anything along the lines of the
late,
>lamented autoscenarios? Saw some real potential there with a more
flexible
>structure and thought my boss was amenable to some of my ideas given
success
>but the suits at cor****ate fixed that up nicely.
AH2: Tour of Duty is an ongoing missions type of setup, but with a career
structure to it, involving basic training first. Missions will apparently
probably start every half-hour on the hour and half-hour, so players will
soon know when one is due to start. You can get further details in the
AH2
forum at: http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/index.php?s=
>Was thinking of dropping by the folk at AH but less than two years after
>visiting the cods of kesmai, they got snuffed, so better I stay north of
the
>Red River, huh?
LOL! Well, hopefully you wouldn't jinx HTC in the same way - go see them,
I am sure you would be most welcome! (wish I could! <g>)
>Just saw a BlackAdder marathon this week on BBCA, much more to my liking
>than Hyacinth and crew (Keeping Up Appearances) though I have a
sis-in-law
>that's Hyacinth to a T :shudder:
Yeah, I like BlackAdder - great series! LOL about your sis-in-law!
Sounds
scarey! ;-)
>AW shutting down (among other things) caused me to quit smoking and take
up
>golf, doomed, DOOMED, I tell you!
Well, that's better than causing you to START smoking! :-) Golf though?
:-)
Anyway, good to see you recently in Bigweek. Sorry for the delay in
answering this one - not checked in here since before I went to the Con!
I
usually check more often, but it seemed to slip my mind for a while.
Hope to see you in AH some day, Greas - would love to gun an AH Kate for
you! ;-)
Flossy <Kraits>
FL0SSY Hell Gods
AH CM Team
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