Now, the AAA Arena...

First and foremost, I love the AAA arena (forum is here). This is the original Mod enabled arena. There are others, but this one is the one that deserves your attention and trials.

I will be very honest about my take on this arena. There are things I love and things I don't. First, what joining the arena is like.

Standard boilerplates when joining. No killstealing, no shouldershooting, vulch only with bombs and rockets or strafing in appropo ground attack planes ( find list here). See the maps, pick a side, and pick a plane. This is where things will be a little different. Modded planes will now appear next to the "regular" planes in your "arming" screen. Certain planes for certain maps, not every plane in every map. Balance is taken into consideration. Choose a plane, a load out, hit fly. Been there, done that? Well, check the tactical map before you join the fight, because there are goals to reach. Sink ships, destroy tanks or just shoot down planes, you have choices. I once flew a Stuka across a whole map just to find the tanks and kill them. Its there for mud movers as it is for dogfighters.

Because of the bevy of planes, you are gonna find a couple of different styles. Turn and burn and Boom and Zoom are always there, but you also find low level Doolittle-like bombing runs, heavy bombers at both high and low alts, and my personally hated form, ack-starring. I am a Boom and Zoom man, I fly the 190 only. There is plenty for any fan of a certain technique to have fun and use tactics. No matter what your poison, don't steal kills or shoot at already burning planes. The admins are there and they will warn you. Keep it up and you will get banned. And no one likes that. Haven't ever seen a pilot that got banned that hasn't begged to get back in.