What is your online story ?? here is mine :)

[baronWastelan]

Originally Posted by =69.GIAP=TOOZ

I do indeed know of Roshko, the malinguering git that he is!! Apparently he's doing his best these days to blow a trumpet in a kind of jazz-like manner in and around the locale of Copenhagen!

That made my day.

S!

L.Z out

[Richie]

First I started in Warbirds in 1997 at two dollars an hour to play online! I can't remeber my first handle but after a year I was Hackl_ I dabbled a bit in Aces High but not much online. I flew Warbirds until 2000 and I had a good time with it. After that I got into Janes WWII Fighters witch I liked especially it's awesome engine sounds. The only problem was no one seemed to want to fly any missions, just merging dogfights. Then one day in 2000 I say an IL-2 screenshot online of a 109 F2 starting up. I was in love!!! I preordered it from Bluebyte but then something went wrong with that company so then I just went to town and ordered it at the EB.

The demo for IL-2 came out in August 2001. What fun times. A guy named Stigler formed 9./JG52 and I joined up for about a month until I got to know one guy who drove me crazy. I think I've joined about five squads but I can't stand being told what to do. I flew in the D.I.D witch was an online war in old IL-2. You had to email in a mission log report after each mission telling exactly what happened during your flight. I guess nothing was automatically recorded or kept on file. Then after reading all of the reports the administration would tell who had what city and so on because there are no frontline markers in old IL-2. That's dedication ...I think that's how it worked. On busy days I can remember Forgotten Battles would have 1000 players on the Hyperlobby. I'm pretty sure things are going to be busy again with Cliffs Of Dover.

Over the years I went from Hackl_ to Hackl to 9./JG52_Hackl to JG77_Hackl to JG54_Hackl to 10./JG4_Richard to 10./JG3_Richard to II./JG27_Rich witch is mine and I'll stick with it.

[TheSwede]

I begun my virtual flight career with Microsoft Flight Simulator ~1994 and Chuck Yeagers Air combat. From the moment I could fight the "Abbeville Boys" with their yellow nosed 109s I was hooked on WW2 aviation and especially the german fighters.
When I discovered Air Warrior III in 1997 the flight sim frenzy escalated. I split my time after school with AW3, European Air War, Screaming Deamons over Europe and Jane´s WW2 Fighters. Then I discovered the online possibility in EAW and WW2 fighters. It was like magic; to be able to fight real people from all around the world was heaven. Everything was perfect except my mothers phone bill. :/

All those titles were abandon when I ran into an interview on Combatsim.com about a new title from some obscure russian guy named Oleg. I just saw a screenshot that supposedly showed a russian ground pounder. It was green and ugly on the picture. But from then on my live was all about Il2.....and Counter Strike. I gave up the huge realm of CS when the younger crowd became more numerous. Il2 still had a slightly higher average age.

My IRL friends took off along the road of mainstream; first person shooters, RTS, RPGs and so on. I was all alone in the online sky with my dear Il2. Especially in Sweden, compared to the US and GBR, the interest of WW2 aviation was not that profound. Therefore I had to fly with some great guys 6-8 time zones away to be able to experience real fighter combats with team tactics, which didn't help my studies very much. :/

But then, I think it was 2002 or 2003 I met up with a great guy, Petter_Gul from Sweden that had formed F16, the virtual swedish virtual fighter squadron. So since then I´ve flown with F16 and F19 created by Klunk that helped out with the J8A Gladiator.

When I read your own stories I can really feel and understand the greatness of Il2. So many people can thank Il2 for long term friendship and mutual respect that all those years of flying together has resulted in.

During my whole virtual career I´ve used the call sign Ramrod up until recently when I just used my first name Simon.