Been in WWIIOL for about 3 years on and off. Recently resubbed. Play axis exclusively now, though I experimented on both sides in the beginning to see what I'd prefer. Flying Luftwaffe, but enjoy ground work as well.

One thing I wish (due to my affection for SHIII/IV) was that the naval engagements in WWIIOL were a bit more active and exciting. I never bothered ranking up in navy because there's only a choice of three boats currently. One of them being strictly transport.

Occasionally it's fun to sit in the harbor and use the FMB strictly as an AA platform when the allied air circus shows up. But other than that I've maybe been in 1 actual naval engagement in that three years. And unfortunately I didn't have rank to hop in a destroyer, nor was able to get anyone to let me multicrew it (nice feature in WWIIOL, being able to multicrew ships, tanks and planes). Fun time nonetheless.

Crossing my fingers that someday subs or more surface ships will join the list of naval units in game.

Haven't logged in for a week or two. Rekindled my obsession with SH and have been playing III and IV too much. :P Hope campaign #45 is going well. Assuming it isn't already over. :lol:

I regret I missed antwerp. :damn:

S!

You didnt miss it. It seems we didnt get the city. :damn: The fights been on and off for the whole week for control of Ant.

Might be time to log in and check in with my squad. Thanks for the heads up on ant. :D

Breskens has been a hotbed for Naval activity. The axis tried to land troops there, had 8 destroyers as escort, and still couldn't pull it off. I was a FMB in the middle of it all for part of it. I shot down a couple of Allied planes. Then I logged in a few hours later, and jusmped in an Allied plane and sunk a FMB. :)

Antwerp is still going...and going...and going....

Aye, a huge battle raging over it. :hmm: The Axis would've capped it atleast twice before the first "serious" attack, we just didnt have our flanks secure on the first 2 mole attacks. The big attack was almost succesfull, I think the allies held only 2-3 points when our FB was destroyed. :nope:

I used to play it, but I quit because I got tired of having to pay the subscription fee. It was pretty outlandish at the time, and I wasn't going to spend $15 bucks on it every month.:down: They never did have anything come out like with The Lord of the Rings Online where you just pay a single fee (for LotRO, it was $200 BUCKS).

Well, in the time I spent playing it, she was a slow game. Not in computer speed, but combat wise. That was in late 2002. I always played as the Germans, and the squad/clan I joined up with was a Kriegsmarine unit (I don't remember the specific one; website is offline now and the last time I played with them was in 2005).

We had a setup that was pretty complex because in the early versions, each gun/position aboard a ship had to be filled with a player, so it wasn't an uncommon sight to see maybe 20 or so people on board a destroyer on a single mission. We used a Z34 Destroyer all the time.

On the particular mission that I recall, it was a HUGE load of fun. However, I never did get a chance to experience another one like it in my time playing.









I had a lot of fun that day, and I won't forget it so long as I continue to play online. I never did get a chance to have that much fun ever again.

Out of curiosity, Dowly, is swimming still integrated into the game?

Game has definitely changed a lot since then. Even since 05. That's about when I first joined I believe. What you said above is often a deterrant to some people, as they're used to spawning in ala COD (or any of today's FPShooters) and being in the action right away. I remember it taking a long time just to get to a battle. With the introduction of mobile spawn units (and even now, unmanned MS units) it has made it a little easier and faster to get right to the front line of the action.

Good and bad in a way. I miss the old days of hopping on a truck with a bunch of other grunts and being shuttled in manually. It could be very intense, knowing a few well placed shots from an ambushing tank could ruin that drop in an instant. Hehe.

(I was on the giving end of this once, at night, when my panzer had picked a spot and been camping the road watching for any incoming armor. Truck comes by, my eyes light up with joy when I see it's carrying a load of troops, and then so does the truck with my HE shells when they impact. I LOL'd so hard in RL when it blew up and the inf riding on it started to scatter like roaches unaware of exactly where that shell had come from. Naturally, I mowed them down with the MG with a big smile on my face. It had been such a boring spot there, and I hadn't seen so much as a sapper come by to engage me. So a few hours of not seeing any action turned into a massacre that I would remember as one of my most fun encounters..)

So.. I have some fond memories of the old days when getting to the action sure did take a while, and could be annoying when you were KIA immediately. But it looks like the rats spotted this as a deterrant and came up with those mobile spawns to appease the FPShooters of today that like to jump right into the fight instead of waiting too long.

Can't say I blame them... I'm not sure how many times I tried to explain to greens how they could best find some action when they were getting frustrated having gone several hours without even seeing an enemy.

S!

Oh, PS, WWIIOL does have something now where you can pay a one time fee and play the game with no more subscription, but unlike what you quoted for LOTR, I believe the WWIIOL one goes for something like $1000 :huh:

Edit: We still do some truck hotdrops today to fastcap when the allies are busy elsewhere and don't spawn in to D a town, but it's not as often as it used to be.

:yep:

:rock: :rock:

I remember one night, me and two other dudes swam the river near Huy. We didn't go directly in, instead kinda taking a roundabout approach, sneaking through the grass and sliding into the town undetected except for the all-seeing EWS. We set up at the depots and simul-capped them, then did the unthinkable and actually sat there to defend the CPs. I got a single kill, a German who came running in to recap, but I must've sat there for an hour, just waiting for someone to come and try and take my little building away from me.

Thing was, while no one had been molesting Huy before our little commando raid, the second we captured the depots we start getting asked about where we need tanks and bombs dropped, etc. Next thing we know, the town is swarming with Allied troops...all reinforcing OUR success.

I despawned when they took the army base.

Nice feeling.

after readin some of the posts here i reckon i might give ww2 online another go. i bought battleground europe when it was re-released back in 2005.

would i be better to reinstall it from the cd i have or to download the whole thing again?

You'll end up downloading a ton of patches to catch up with the current version, so I'd presume installing from the disc and then patching from there might be quicker since you already have the base of it on cd...? Guess it depends on your internet speed. When I resubbed I was only a few months out of the loop and I had 4 or 5 updates to catch up with. They come individually so it isn't like it's one big DL. You download one, install, restart, download another, install, restart, etc... Kind of annoying actually. Maybe just downloading the most current version all in one shot would be worth it after all, heh.

on the ww2 online wiki it mentions that a new graphics engine (unity 2) was bein developed, has it be updated yet?

Not since I rejoined, and not since I last logged in (few weeks ago). Rumor had it it was for late this year. But nothing so far, unless I missed something during my R&R the last few weeks.

one more question while your there mate. the original copy i bought came with a 30 trial which i obviusly used, albeit 3 years ago.

on the website they're offering a 2 week trial to new players. would i still be eligible for the trial if installed from the cd?