I'm so out of touch with the sim genre. Many years ago I remember admiring Kesmai's Air arrior, which was for me the epitome of online multiplayer air combat for WW2. I saw the SVGA version and was hooked - you were really part of a huge campaing.

Players flew fighters, bombers, drive tanks, anti aircraft guns (flakpanzers) and everyone could conduct huge assault and defence campaigns.

Air Warrior was closed down in 2001 after being purchased by News Corp.

Does anyone premember playing it? The game ran for close on 20 years or so.....

I started playing it on GEnie, then played it for years as it went from one service to the next (AOL, Gamestorm).

I have a lot of great memories from those days.

Many of the AW vets moved to Aces High and can still be found there playing today.

thx HardTale ! I will go and look at Aces High. Great to hear the community somehow lived on.

My first online kill was a Spitfire from a P-51. I remember that kill like it was yesterday. My adrenalin was on overdrive during that fight as I realized I was fighting some "live' and not AI. Oh those GEnie days sure bring back memories.

--T

Man o man did I waste sooo much money on AW when it was hourly. Heck I think it took 5 dollars just to sit in a turret of a B17 from takeoff to about 20,000'. Argh, man I wish I had that cash right now It was like crack, especially on squad night. Good times

Those were good days. Always liked to try and fly in the C-47 loaded with supplies just above the waterline. Or take a fighter to angels 25 then drop in like a hammer. Wonderful memories.

Started playing it on GEnie, then on the Ten-network and AOL. Then Real life kicked in with wife kids home payments................... Kind of loss track of gaming for a bit

Yea, I wanted to like Aces High, but it lacksthe charm and community feeling I felt..

Rookie <CAF> #1549 B Land

Genie here also back in 1993,$3 an hour plus ISP fees, alot of dough, but the finest memories.

What really strikes me to this day? No one yet has rekindled the magic. AW had the most strategy based WWII sim in history, to this day. Setting aside the FM's, all the strat in the background that existed in that game was amazing. Goonie birds flying resupply to to factories, factories impacting plane availability, ect. That stats page when you logged on.

There still is a huge hole in the WWII flight sim market today. No genuine strat system to force the gameplay to true teamwork, and has left endless furballing / alt-mongering in the wake.

Eidos almost had it in Confirmed Kill, but got the plug pulled in beta. I'm not talking about Dale Addinks rendition of CK that become Warbirds neither. WB was excellent in its time, but still missed the mark in my opinion.

CK was working on a "Limited Resource Engagement" would have been the best style of gameplay for flightsims period, if it had only seen the light of day. I was in the beta, and I spoke to Gillmartin in length about this. Sad it never happened, any no one ever picked up the ball and ran with it.

When I heard Jason ( 777 )was making a F-sim I tried to email him to talk about it, but he never gave me a chance to even break the ice about it. Never told him anything about it, just that I had an idea about a style/format of gameplay that would seperate him from the rest. Too bad.

Maybe someday, someone will be willing to talk.

Limited Resource Engagement (LRE) anyone care to gamble a guess as to what it entails?

AZ Rattler of The Outlaws (AW and so many more)
Steve Needham

The first game for my new PC in 1980 was a boxed version of Air Warrior (DOS). I didn't play on the Genie network right away. I did the h2h stuff online with a local buddy. After awhile, I signed up for Genie and started playing online. I joined the Knights Cross Squadron (The CO at the time was Oneway) and learned a lot about flying and fighting from a fellow pilot named Mars. It was bigtime fun and really expensive as others have alluded to in this thread. It was awesome to crew a B-17 (Deathstar) with human pilots and gunners and go on a bombing run together. Todays Aces High only allows a human pilot with one gunner in a bomber, although both can jump from station to station. AW brings back some fond memories.

Rattler of the Knights Cross Squadron