Any former 214th Annihilators out there?

[Hammer1-1]

Looking to restart the squadron if there are any former members out there.

[Mike Force Team]

@Hammer1-1 Are you accepting new members?

Mike Force Team

[Hammer1-1]

I dont even know if its feasible yet, its an old old old Flanker 2.0/Falcon 4.0/LOMAC group from 15+ years ago. Im interested in rebranding it and starting it again. If I do, itll be from scratch and yes will be recruiting. So far its just me.

[BitMaster]

Here I am

Long time ago I was with the 214th Annihilators flying the F22 TAW and Flanker series... man, that's two decades ago.

 

My nick back than was "Tbolt" or long version, Thunderbolt. Iirc, Archimedes was the General/Leader, Mongoose and Hengist and all the other's.

 

I have little time but who knows, if the gang is right I am with it.

Edited September 27, 2023 by BitMaster

[303_Kermit]

Good luck guys! What are you going to fly? Coldwar? WW2? Enigma?

[Hammer1-1]

2 hours ago, BitMaster said:

Here I am

Long time ago I was with the 214th Annihilators flying the F22 TAW and Flanker series... man, that's two decades ago.

 

My nick back than was "Tbolt" or long version, Thunderbolt. Iirc, Archimedes was the General/Leader, Mongoose and Hengist and all the other's.

 

I have little time but who knows, if the gang is right I am with it.

 

ahh, I remember you. Was kind of hoping Id run into Gel, havent seen him around for almost 10+ years! AFAIK he owned the whole thing.

[BitMaster]

As far as I remember Gel was from Trinidad & Tobago and didn't he run some IT Business back then.

Those were glory days, on Dual ISDN lines with 128kB/sec, a PIII-600 and and a few MB of RAM  LoL.

 

Let's see if we can get more of the old gang together. I talked to Mongoose some years ago but iirc he stopped flying Sims, hope I am wrong.

Wish Hengist was around as well, he was the right match for GS's dogfights. I can participate in the evenings ( local german time UTC +1h ( +2h summertime ) and assist in technical matters when it comes to hosting, servers, etc..

I own modules across all genres , ca. 75%, and usually have all maps. I am open to all kinds of missions but due to lack of time and children that I raise by myself I am sometimes just too damn done to hop into the Apache and learn it or keep pace with F-18 or 16 and all those were flying is secondary but knowing the onboard systems is vital. I have to heavily invest time into those modules. It's like you basically know what you want and need to do...just how do I tell this stupid plane what I want...that kind of thing  LoL 

 

Anywhere, keep me in the loop if you proceed in reviving the "214th VFS"

 

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by BitMaster

[Hammer1-1]

4 hours ago, 303_Kermit said:

Good luck guys! What are you going to fly? Coldwar? WW2? Enigma?

Not sure...I have all the modules and terrains, half of them I know enough...but again it was LOMAC and Flanker with Falcon 4.0 thrown in later when Black Shark came out. Something along the lines of being able to use Hyperlobby to join, but the group kind of fell apart afterwards.

 

25 minutes ago, BitMaster said:

As far as I remember Gel was from Trinidad & Tobago and didn't he run some IT Business back then.

Those were glory days, on Dual ISDN lines with 128kB/sec, a PIII-600 and and a few MB of RAM  LoL.

 

Let's see if we can get more of the old gang together. I talked to Mongoose some years ago but iirc he stopped flying Sims, hope I am wrong.

Wish Hengist was around as well, he was the right match for GS's dogfights. I can participate in the evenings ( local german time UTC +1h ( +2h summertime ) and assist in technical matters when it comes to hosting, servers, etc..

I own modules across all genres , ca. 75%, and usually have all maps. I am open to all kinds of missions but due to lack of time and children that I raise by myself I am sometimes just too damn done to hop into the Apache and learn it or keep pace with F-18 or 16 and all those were flying is secondary but knowing the onboard systems is vital. I have to heavily invest time into those modules. It's like you basically know what you want and need to do...just how do I tell this stupid plane what I want...that kind of thing  LoL 

 

Anywhere, keep me in the loop if you proceed in reviving the "214th VFS"

 

 

 

Im about to retire here soon, probably, and I was just thinking about bringing up this topic to see if I can find old members. Rockfire, EricJ, T-bolt, Gel...few other members I cant remember off the top of my head, kinda like to get a consensus on doing this before doing this. So..no idea where to go, thats for something to think about later.

There was a dude in Germany who was a big player in 214th, like 2nd in command...cant remember his name to save my life. If I still had ICQ, probably could figure it out lol. Itll be a big job to do - website, hosting servers, maintenance, stuff like that...lot of things going into building a group that I know nothing about that will need to be done.

Id kind of like to see a fighter wing, a ground attack wing, a rotary wing and/or a naval wing that combines all that stuff. But I think big.....

Edited September 27, 2023 by Hammer1-1

[BitMaster]

Afaik I was the only german member in 214th Annihilators. Rockfire was from NZ iirc. Mongoose was from the UK, and tbh I forgot the other names.

I don't think I was 2nd in command. I may have had the most posts on our old page's Bulletin Board.

I am almost certain that Rockfire is no more with us since he was already in his mid 60's and either just before his retirement or was already retired... some 25 years ago.

 

What is your Time Zone ?

 

 

[Hammer1-1]

Then you're the guy I remember from back in the day. Im in St Louis, so +5?

T-Bolt old comes to mind.....I rmember Rock being up there in years, didnt think he was THAT old though. I didnt think he would be still around online either, but I miss the dude.

[BitMaster]

Tbolt-214th, yep, that is me, LoL.

I am not so  sure about the 2nd in Command, for sure one of the most active Pilots back then.

 

What drove it down was the netcode of Flanker at that time, we had constant disconnects and all that stuff and over time that killed the fun and in the end the Annihilators.After that period I started R/C flying for about 20 years. That taught me lot about "flying" but I don't have the time and patience needed for highly complex R/C aircraft anymore.That was about the time I checked the A-10C/Ka-50 website again which was then called DCS, just that I meanwhile ran a MacbookPro  LoL...it worked ! It worked so good I am hooked ever since, despite the little time I have to free my mind and actually fly something.

 

Back in those days I was in my mid 20's and no kids, now I am in my mid 50's and have a 6 and 8 year old one running circles around me. Bet that I am done at 8pm and I wish I had the energy to just grab the stick and go for it, I just don't and instead relax while watching DCS youtube videos, toss some VMware machines around, do some Teamviewer work...and wish I was flying, low and dirty

Maybe it's time to get back into Gear, it's all ready to fire up and take off. Maybe a bit rusty in "what's the key for xyz".

 

Helicopter sounds good to me, I love the Ka and Mi

 

 

 

 

Edited September 28, 2023 by BitMaster

[303_Kermit]

20 hours ago, Hammer1-1 said:

 Something along the lines of being able to use Hyperlobby to join, but the group kind of fell apart afterwards.

 

Hyperlobby.... Beautiful times. VOW(1,2,?), (VEF1,2), Bellum Wars... You must be some 40+  
Welcome back.

[Hammer1-1]

wecome back? i never left!

[Home Fries]

Dude, I was with the 214th back in 1999!  With the VAF now.

[Hammer1-1]

That was before my time...I joined it in 2003'ish when I was still flying F-18 PSF and found Flanker 2.0. Was fun days!

 

Anyways, starting up the group again is going to be labor intensive and definitely would need a little bit of help to get it running again.