-=<202nd>=- Exorcists Fighter / Bomber Squadron (GMT Time Zone)
 

Hi there, I'm new here, but not new to FR (Full Realism) flight sims.

I used to fly all the way back in Air Warrior I through III, and Aces High, before moving onto IL-2 series on the PC. however my video card committed suicide and took my monitor with it, so I now use the Xbox360 for all my gaming needs.

I used to run a 30+ strong Squadron on Air Warrior III called the 202nd Exorcists Fighter / Bomber Squadron

Then I joined a 50+ Squad called Kraits Squadron which eventually left Air Warrior III for aces high, and eventually moved onto the IL-2 Series.



I'm looking for people who will be playing in the GMT timezone, to join a squad, so please respond here if you fancy becoming part of the:

-=<202nd>=- Exorcists FIghter / Bomber Squadron

http://202nd.webs.com/

for IL-2 Birds of Prey.

Thanks all for any information / help / support. (3 days remaining!) :)

I will create a website and forum for the squad and post it here.

This woud be useful information:

Xbox Live User Name

Real First Name (Optional but nice to know)

Age

Preference to Fighters / Bombers / All-Rounder

Favourite Plane to fly in game.

Country of Origin.

Then anything else you wish to share

(its not permanant, but it helps me keep track of numbers)

THIS IS THE WEB ADDRESS: http://202nd.webs.com/
All the best guys, nice to be here.

Yep, add me. gamertag below

I shall do that as soon as the missus is off oblivion :) do you prefer fighter piloting or bombing?

I will be on GMT although my worth to any kind of organised Squadron would be limited at best I do like the idea of riding other peoples MP success.

i would be interested in trying out, *edited with required Info*

Xbox Live User Name M4JOR H4V0K

Real First Name John

Age 30

Preference to Fighters / Bombers / All-Rounder no Preference but do seem to end up in a fighter alot

Favourite Plane to fly in game. any of the later model spitfires

Country of Origin.UK

cool thanks guys, keep 'em coming, I'm building the website now and there will be a forum on there.

will post a link tonight

Whatever's needed of me! I'm sure after a few games, we'll know what role suits us best!

Looking forward to it!!

hey, i'm looking for a group to play this with, gamer tag is the same as my username. i'm not to fussed what role i play, but i would suggest i'd do better as a fighter (although i would enjoy a bomber equally, but probably wont be as competent) :D

thanks guys ive added you all to the website
this would be helpful info for the website

Xbox Live User Name

Real First Name (Optional but nice to know)

Age

Preference to Fighters / Bombers / All-Rounder

Favourite Plane to fly in game. (or looking forward to flying)

Country of Origin.

Then anything else you wish to share



and remember its about fun, so it doesn't matter if you don't know if you'll make a good bomber pilot or not, practice, try it, see if you enjoy it, and if you're not good, then we can all work together to get better :)

http://202nd.webs.com/ is the web address guys, feel free to have a look around.

Hi House. Welcome to the forum :)

I'd be intrested in joining you, sounds like you have quite a bit of experience in running squadrons. I used to play Jane's WWII fighters quite a bit but only ever single player campagnes and before that I played Tornado a lot on my first ever pc. Ive only ever been up against real people in Ace Combat 6 in which I refuse to use QAAM (fire and forget missiles which require no skill to use) as I hate them with a passion. I'm looking forward to the more simulation orientated BoP and to killing anyone who thinks circle flying works best lol.

Xbox Live User Name: Robotic Pope

Real First Name: Jamie

Age:29

Preference to Fighters / Bombers / All-Rounder: All-Rounder

Favourite Plane to fly in game. (or looking forward to flying) : Mosquito?????

Country of Origin. : England

Xbox Live User Name: vincent1989

Real First Name: vincent/vince (not fussed)

Age: 20

Preference: all rounder/more skilled fighter

Favourite Plane: hurricane

oops: forgot to mention COO, sunny old blighty

omg i used to ahve tornado! lol god have you seen how it looks compared to how we remember it? lol and Janes WWII fighters looked amazing in its day, although sadly i never got round to buying it. but thanks for your support, consider yourself added :)

So your saying circling isnt the pinnacle of combat flying tactics???
I'm screwed that's all I've got.

is it a better or worse tactic than stalling at every turn? seriously, if the p51 was like that in real life i'd never have made it off the run way XD , big beasty though, saw one at the imperial war museum, absolutely dwarfs the british offerings.

Haha no I haven't even seen a screenshot of Tornado's graphics in over 10 years. Don't think I want to either, I remember it being awesome on my 386 pc back in 1994, lol don't want to ruin that. Anyway thanks for adding me. I will look forward to the Declaration of war ;) (Website is looking very nice by the way)

they were the days eh? lol what makes me chuckle is that look at the SIZE of those games, and the specs of the machine, i mean the xbox cant handle more than 18 players, but Air warrior used to handle 250 people with 56k modem technology, granted almost EVERY kill was a lag kill, but at least EVERYBODY was lagging. :)

afaik it's only 16 player online, 8 per side, thought it best to mention :)

ok cool, on the multiplayer video it said 18 player multiplayer, but i shall assume its 16 for now, i can always add more slots onto the site :) thanks

16 total.

fair enough, web site altered to 8 slots per Wing. thanks guys.

means red wing's nearly full, not bad for an afternoons work ;)

Im in:

XBL: x BIue Leader x (L in blue is capital I), can someone add me please.

And its Steve Mann

31

England

Fighters

Spit II

Welcome Blue Leader, I apologise that I havent been able to add any of you on xbox yet, yes the missus is STILL on oblivion :) hehe, hang tight, go to the web site, look around, feel free to join the forums there and comment. :)

That's Red wing filled, now moving on to Gold Wing.

Xbox Live User Name - STAR FOZ83

Real First Name - James

Age - 26

Preference to Fighters / Bombers / All-Rounder - Ground attack.

Favourite Plane to fly in game. Hawker Hurricane :grin:

Country of Origin. UK


May aswell go with the flow and fly with some committed flyers. Should be good.

good good, another hurri-fan :cool:

TAG : nicotlsefr
42 years old
Nicolas
Fighters
France

welcome, our first member of Gold Wing, I've got you down as gold leader, but positions etc will all swap around once we know who likes doing what and who'se good at what, etc. etc. so dont panic thats Gold Leader is next to your name :)

i guess i'll start adding gamer tags, if only there was a way to seperate them out in the friends list so that i can lump you all together :P

Naturally a hurricane fan, gotta love the bird. She's incredible.


I dont mind being thrown at the top of gold wing for now.... is gold wing the ground attack group? Thats my main job!! in hard and low, then out fast. If i need to dogfight i will, but destroying the target is my main objective :grin:

right now its just filling slots, once we all have the game and see what we like and dont like, then ill try and arrange people to be with people they like flying with etc. but on the whole i think groups will be mixed, because each individual flying style compliments the other, with we send out a wave of fighters, or a wave of bombers, or a wave of low level flyers on their own, they'll just get pasted, so i think mixing it up would be good, bombers with escourts, low flyers with higher altitude protection etc.

can't beat a bit of a ruck in the old humped one :-P

happy to be on board ol' bean!

I'd let her take me anywhere and i trust her enough to bring me back in one piece. She's a real lady, not just something to look at ;)

Yeah it's a pain that. Used to be able to do that on the old xbox within each game. You were able to setup clans with your moto and other stuff, and give certain people the ability to recruit new people who would automaticly apear on the clan list for everybody to see. It was so much easier than every single person having to be friends with each other and having friends from different games all muddled together, its such a mess. Can't imagine why that ability disapeared when the 360 arrived.

Ive come over from EAW (European Air War) and CFS2 on the pc so dont mind a bit of dogfighting or escort. Im good at them (not the best but i get the job done, might not be pretty...but its done).

I will have to wait for the official list to know what planes are avaliable, but if its ground attack..... i want armour and something that packs a punch..... the IL2 would suit this. Though im not a huge IL2 fan...

If im dogfighting or escorting then i want something fast, powerful, agile........ this will be the spitfire or P51 i think.

Will be taking the hurricane up ALOT though, just to prove to you fly boys that she's a work horse and can do the job she's needed for ;)

haha, as long as she's got a metal prop she's fine by me, wouldn't want to have it fall apart up in the blue :D

i dunno, hopefully they'll add something like it again if enough people ask, even if it were just a grouping system akin to MSN.

its interesting isnt it, that they can provide all this functionality elsewhere e.g. MSN, where u can sort contacts into groups, but not on the Xbox 360 :) and yes adding pre-fixes and suffixes without having to change you live account name would be nice too.

-=<202nd>=- Exorcists Fighter / Bomber Squadron (GMT Time Zone)
 

Hi everybody,

This is simply an advert for the 202nd Exorcists Fighter Bomber Squadron.

This is our Web Page: http://www.202nd.webs.com

We use the X-box 360 and play in the GMT Time Zone.

Please don't request to join in this thread, please go to the web site and follow the Enlist page.

What we need to know:

Xbox Live User Name

Real First Name (Optional but nice to know)

Age

Preference to Fighters / Bombers / All-Rounder

Favourite Plane to fly in game.

Country of Origin.

Then anything else you wish to share.




We look forward to hearing from you :)


House MD 221B

Commanding Officer of the 202nd Exorcists Fighter / Bomber Squadron.
Commander of Red Wing.

some games include it, i agree it should be down to the console publisher to allow for things like that BUT the option is there for games publishers to take advantage of should they choose (CoD4/WaW is a good example of this)


added you all to my friends list btw

they only allow for 3-4 letters in a pre-fix though and no suffix, its a little strict

but i do aggree im sure theres nothing sopping anyone from coding more into a game

Looks like you've got it set up very well. I'd love to join, but I'm GMT-5. Good luck anyway!

shame, well feel free to fly with us if u see us on, or if we end up having a regular night / time that suits you, you're welcome to hook up with us.

you never know if we end up having a Squad Meeting time of Saturdays at 8pm or 9pm it's only 3-4pm your time :) (unless you work weekends)

Wow!!! Love the website and history!

I would join up in a heartbeat. Too bad this Goat is from the US. I would lag something crazy flying with you.

thanks guys i appreciate your kind words, and the offer is extended, try it, you may or may not lag, i regularly play with a canadian and we dont lag that much.

feel free to try, if it works it does, if it doesn't it doesn't :)

and if you want any help setting up an american wing, i'd be happy to help, you could then either join us as an american detachment, or become a rival clan and we can set up matches :)

the possibilities are endless :D

I'll talk to a couple of my wingmen that I live close to... We're all pretty skilled as far as I'm aware. If they agree to take on your leadership instead of starting our own squadron then I would love to be an American attatchment of you squad. You guys seem to have a rich history and a great system already in place.

More specifically, we could head up your Texan wing. ;)

Feel free to add me though: PedroTheGoat

I've played with some Englishmen and some other people from Europe, and whenever we play, it doesn't lag. I think it's the time of day/night you play?

I probably won't start joining any Squadron, but if you see a Yak-3 flying low and alone, that might be me? I'll be flying the Yak-3 as my signature plane. ;)

Born in Texas, so I qualify.:grin: Would be interested in at least discussing some of the above possibilities.

Hmmmm... This may be the seeds of greatness in the works.

In which case, I'll set up an american detachment,

eventually we'll choose a Wing Commander, and you guys can run pretty much autonomously if you like, with separate meeting times that are convenient etc.

and then if we get american clans challenging us, i'll pass them through to your wing commander and you can chose if u can accept or not. :)

how does that sound?

Sounds like a plan to me. Already talked to my friends... They are going to check out the website and infrastructure.

Sounds like things are in motion.

I still need to think a bit more before joining, to be a good squad I'm assuming people need to be committed and held accountable for getting there at certain times etc. I wouldn't want to throw a spanner in the works with my ever changing schedule.

If I decide it would be too much, it would be great to exchange Gamertags anyway and just fly for fun when we're on at the same time, if anyones interested. ;)

EDIT: that last statement is directed at anyone, not just people from said squadron. :)

Good news is the multiplayer runs off servers instead of being player hosted, so it should be pretty smooth and lag free regardless of player location.
Just make sure you keep looking over your shoulder at regular intervals if you're gonna do that. Never know who might be sitting a couple of thousand feet above you in a Bf109:cool:

Ok tough guy, I'll be watching and waiting :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhhiVLMjOpQ

Alright guys, well Eagle Wing, the American Detachment of the 202nd is up and running, if you want to join let me know I'll add you.

then after chatting with you all, we'll pick a Wing Commander, who wil be responsible for running you're evnings when you want them :)

I merged your two threads together so you could keep better track of things.

that's cool, thank you kindly, hope I wasnt clogging things up, the other thread was supposed to be more of an advert, rather than a recruitment thread :) sorry :)

I'm not a tough guy, at least as a pilot, that why I fly the Bf109. Means I can sneak round and stab people in the back with a 30mm cannon:grin: and then run away very fast if things go wrong. Real life I'm 6'1", having a working knowledge of Judo and wear steel capped boots and finger armour (legal knuckle duster;)) but that doesn't really help online:(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFlPu...layer_embeddedNot my video but you get the idea:D

It's cool I was doing it to make things easier for you incase people replied to the wrong thread.:-P

Whenever you two do meet up online, be sure to get it on camera so we can see how the whole debate actually works out:D...

Wish the replay feature from the PC games made it through. Not that I make very good movies, but being able to look back on an epic fight from a different perspective is great. I'm going to have to get an Ace Edge too, not that the game is unplayable with the game pad but having compared my flying with a 360 pad on the PC and the same thing with my flight stick there is a definite edge there.

Persuade Soviet ace to buy the 360 version then!

Okay. It's official. I am part of Eagle Wing.

User Name: PedroTheGoat

First Name: Trey

Age: 26

Preference of type: Well rounded. Mostly ground attack... But no heavy bombers. ie: IL-2, IL-10, P-47, etc.

Favorite Plane: P-47 Thunderbolt/IL-2

Country of Origin: USA: Texas

Not new to flight sims... Has always been my favorite genre. I do happen to be new at WW2 flight sims. My flight sim origins are: SU-27 Flanker, Falcon 4.0, US Navy Fighters, EF2000 (My favorite flight sim before BOP).

Now... Could someone explain to me why my Spitfire has no Forward looking Radar or even AIM-9 Sidewinders??? And how am I supposed to Lase a target???? (Just kidding of course)

So hurry up and add me so I'm not a lonely Goat.

I really don't want to show the shame of David going down in flames LOL I'll try to get a movie of it, and will be sure to be the most arrogant guy on here when I win. :P Not really, I'll be a good sport for whoever wins.

I've got both consoles, and will be buying it for both. So don't worry, there will be plenty of time. My next paycheck should be coming around near the middle of next month, so I'll buy the game for which ever console I don't buy it for first.

EDIT: This month, I forgot it was the 1st :P

That's some good news hehe, I think yak-3 will also be the plane for me!

Wow this threas exploded since I left work, bout time I added details

Xbox Live User Name King jareth

Real First Name (Optional but nice to know) Tim

Age 30

Preference to Fighters / Bombers / All-Rounder No idea yet, anything that compensates for my lack of flying ability?

Favourite Plane to fly in game. again, no idea TBH I feel compelled to not pick a Spitfire as I always tend towards avoiding the obvious choices. I'd like there to be an F6 Hellcat in the final game, always liked them after doing a rather good job on an Airfix kit as a kid.

Country of Origin. England

Ok, if I'm coming across as arrogant then sorry, really don't mean to be taken that way, just trying to give as good as I get. :razz: Anyway, since I won't be flying my usual plane (Bf109=no cockpit), I'm going to end up flying the Yak-3(or maybe the Spitfire IX) against someone who always flys the Yak-3 and sounds very good at flying it. So, probably going to go down in your favour, at least at first:)
Only 3 days to go for the European launch:D Better start practising with the Yak-3 in Il2 1946 then........

When are you guys getting the game in the US?

It comes out tomorrow in the US now doesn't it?

Actually i'm supprised there hasn't been anyone posting on here saying they already have it. When I pre-order a game from play.com it often gets to me a day early. I thought it would be the same for US online shops.

So anyway you guys across the atlantic better take some time out from flying tomorrow and give the rest of us on here a sit-rep.

I want to thank all you guys for your support,

im truely stunned at how well this took off, i thought i might get one or two interested but not 9 plus an international american division too, im truely shocked, let's make this work and have some great times.

also, let me know if your friends are interestd in joining the American division.

im liking it!!


just beware of the hun in the sun ;)

and the ants in yer pants?

hahaha, quite possibly!


i'll be flying cover, so any "hun in the sun" thinks they got an easy kill they wont see me coming down on their 6!!

just hope my accuracy is ok, seems to be fine in the demo.... but thats only a demo...not real action ;)

you can be arse end charlie then, i'll take point ^^

works for me mate!!

just hope you have adequate armour plating haha, a few stray rounds might go past my target and hit you.

are you sure you shouldn't be in the american wing? :-P

hahahahaha!

i said "might" not "would"

im confident im my accuracy, as long as the communication is their then we should be just fine lol.

Watch it now. Eventually you'll be flying practice against my detatchment, wouldn't want those words to come back and bite you. ;)

oh lummy, if they're bad at the real thing one can only quake in terror at the amount of blue on blue involved in practice missions :grin:

out of curiosity will there be any point fueling up or will you have shot each other to pieces before we can even scramble? :-P



just having you on chap :)

lol!!!


well i hope "eagle squadrons" guns and skill talk as much as their mouths do :P


all in good jest :) would be an honour to have you guys as wingmen fighting the nazis and russians.....


what? the russians are on our side?

really?

you sure?

na!!

sod it, shoot em anyway, i dont trust em

Lol!

Oh you can fuel up... You won't need to fuel up enough to make it home though.

Little point in that. ;)

It would be a good idea to see if there is a way to jettison your landing gear too... Also little point in having that.

i'll keep both, wouldn't want to run of fuel before i'm finished scaring the countryside with yank planes and then not be able to land. that's a ruddy German tactic (although i wont be adverse to a little mid air wing clipping if the ammo runs dry :cry:)

Na the yanks tend to shoot first, ask questions later hahahahaha.



I'll find out what their operational zone is prior to the mission starting then i'll steer well clear or take a well earned day off that particular day lol



:P

Lol

good old limey humour pedro, were only playing. Will be good to have some allies in the air with us. :grin:

The Yak-3 is for everyone who has always wanted a nimble, light, and fast dogfighter. Also a good plane at the controls. :cool:

First response:

When you and me fly against one another, the skies will always end up Red. I mean, it would become some weird color(s) if you won :P AND FLY THE SPITFIRE MKIX!!!!! I always wanted to shoot down an Englishman in his own national plane :P

Second reponse:

I'm buying it tomorrow or the 3rd, so don't worry. Me and my little Yak-3 will be ready for you. We're always ready for you. ;)

I dont want to be the nay sayer about the Yak but I just never liked the plane, maybe its because of the Il2 1946 Multiplayer and everyone was the LA or the FW. Ive tried using it many times it just never did what i want it to do. Maybe i was just doing it wrong.

Well as of right now it seems that I alone am the yank wing. I hopefully can get a couple of my buds to join soon. They're decent flyers too. We'll even attempt not to shoot you down when we're flying on the same side... Maybe. ;)

I meant I needed to start practising with the Yak-3, but okay. I've been flying the Yak-3 some over the las couple of days and it seems a very good plane. Its either that or the Spitfire IX, so I'm gonna try them out vs each other.

That's because no one new how to fly the Yak, but me (:D) I always flew and knew how to handle it, and also because everyone always wanted the "best" big gunned plane. In reality, the Yak-3 is a simple plane to fly and handle. I do hope they made the Yak-3 like it was in real life.

Yeah I might try it as well? :cool:

Wow.. It's been a while since I seen anyone from Air Warrior. Heck I used to play the original when it was on AOL. ;p Heck I would be happy to pal around with you guys, though I am not interested in joining a squad, its always nice to meet fellow AW's. My Gamertag on XBL is the same as my Forum name here. :)

You should consider joining the yank wing.
I'm pretty lonely on the roster alone.

Been flying the Yak-3 for a couple of fights vs the Bf109G10 and Spitfire IX. It is very good at turning fights, big advantage over the G10 in turn and roll, especially at high speed. Not so much over the Spitfire IX, if anything the Spitfire has an edge at low speed but the two planes are very close. Yak-3 and Spitfire very close in top speed, G10 is a bit quicker. Good climber, but both the IX and the G10 are very good climbers, so they have an edge here. Dive rates are very similar across the board but the Yak-3 has the best high speed control responses.

Only thing I'm not really happy about is the firepower. Duelling with a pair of G10s, and I shot down one, then went after the other. Hit him with a snapshot that get him smoking, but the single cannon runs out of ammo during the snapshot. So I thought, no problem, he's already in damaged, I'll just knock him down with the MGs. Haul round on his tail, open fire and the MGs run out of ammo in about 1 second. Cursed, turned and dived away, but the G10 didn't come after me so I started following it and it went down on its own a couple of minutes later.

So I was curious, because I hadn't been using much ammo even though the Yak-3's guns don't seem to do as much damage as a Bf109 with a similar armament of 1 20mm cannon and 2 13mm MGs. Timed the firing time and the Yak-3 has only 9 seconds for the 20mm Cannon and 10 for the 2 12.7mm MGs. A Bf109G with that armament has 13 seconds for the cannon and 20 for the MGs, and really it should be more, they only have 150 rounds of 20mm ammo when they could have 200 but the game has no option to increase the ammo loadout.

yeah Fenavian, its been a long time since the AOL version, i was about 10 or 11 lol playing on my dad's PC. happy memories. was a great game, the other squadron I was in Kraits Squadron did that skinning program fo it to liven up the sea / land / planes. cant remember the name, but i did quite a few skins for that.

(mostly planes) i didnt do well with the land textures :)

my god you have grown quick
shame u can do cross system mp then you and V.A.S. could fight
cough ps3 rules cough

it is a massive shame, cus i doubt any one woud have any advantage over the other :)

and i shall ignore the last comment, because my brothers and i regularly have this argument, (jamie and I are pro x-box even though microsoft are rubbish, and andy is pro PS3 because sony have web browser function and good system support) what an idiot :) hehe.

xbox has better controllers... that's all ive got, and all my mates use it, so thats why personally for me it beats PS3, even though the PS3 is better in EVERY other respect :)


P.S. yes im truely amazed at the response, i especially never though we'd be setting up an american wing inside 24 hours :)

I didn't think I would join your squadron within 24 hours either. I'm still hoping to get my two buds on board. I don't think they're going to sign up until we actually get the game.

Good stuff either way. I'm proud to be a part of the 202nd.

By the way... I just fell in love with the new patch.

thanks dude glad u like it :) nice to see it in ure sig :)

i hope ure mates join up to, feel free to recruit people and get them to join via the site :)