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''Nathan "Bowman" Webber demonstrating how all warcrimes begin.'' }}

 

 

Originally began in early 2010, when the man soon known as ''op-again'' asked [[Image Board]] /tg/ for some fighter plane advice for a homebrew air combat RPG his GM was running. Within 2 months, he had posted several briefings and after-action reports from his games, and earned himself and his fellow players much respect from other fligh/tg/uys, and is likely responsible for a number of similar games being designed and re-designed, including an Area 88 version and Firestorm (detailed below)

* [[Anyone Can Die]] - In the very first mission two pilots died; Canadian Ross "Suit" Cameron , flight lead for the Musketeers, was killed when a Mig 21 blew apart his Falcon with 23mm cannon fire over the Red Sea. Fellow American Musketeer Henry "Guv" Dravot was seriously wounded when he crashed his damaged F-5 Tiger II into the runway. Patrick "Creek" Dawson of Swart Katte flight was injured while attempting a gun run on an armoured convoy. He managed to make it back to base but crashed on the surface and ejected straight into the asphalt.

* [[Awful Truth]] - Over the course of a few missions Musketeer Flight learns that their employer, Eagle Corp. is a front for, or is backed by, the CIA/NSA. At first not a problem, but their missions quickly turn into aerial wetwork, with the assassination of a Saudi Prince and his family during "Granite Harvest." This gravitates events behind the scenes.

* [[Badass Boast]] - During the combined Swarte Katte/Aquila operation on a fortified Iranian island (Code name "Babylon"). Jamail "Fossil" Al Baghdadi doesn't even attempt stealth. As soon as he enters the operational airspace he says this over an open radio frequency "Attention all Islamic Republic of Iran forces. This is Captain Jamail al-Baghdadi of the Iraqi Air Force's 27th Strategic Bombardment Wing. By the order of President Saddam Hussein, Welcome! to the worst day of your lives." Please note that the campaign takes place in 2015, not 1985.

* [[Badass Israeli]] - David "Uno" Peled of Griffon flight, an Israeli of Ethiopian descent who assassinates militant leaders and doesn't afraid of anything.

* [[Follow the Leader]] - Steve's game was the progenitor and origination of the concept in action. Firestorm and other assorted Planes and Mercs games are technically the spin-offs. All of them are entertaining.

* [[Former Regime Personnel]] - With the massive downsizing of military budgets in the Firestorm timeline, nearly all of the player characters are out of work military personnel.

* [[General Ripper]] - The Iran-Iraq War left Jamail "Fossil" Al Baghdadi with an extreme aversion of Iranians. He never misses an excuse to launch an attack on them and would love nothing more than Iran-Iraq War Part Two.

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]] - Arguable for many pilots but the most effected by the manipulation of events by Eagle Corp seem to be Sabine "Hamlet" Eichler, who is appalled that she willingly helped kill an entire family, and members of Aquila flight who found out they were toting nuclear weapons, suspected to have been planted by Eagle's backers.

* [[I Call It Vera]] - Stewart "Bonnie" Connolly of Swarte Katte flight loves his [[J 35 J]] Draken a little too much. He hasn't named it yet but talks to it as though it were a woman, explaining why he didn't simply eject when the plane was written off mid-flight by a Iranian [[Mi G]]. McCleach loved his destroyed Tornado but in a father-son sort of way rather than romantically.

* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] - Subverted. Jamail doesn't seem to mind the deaths of the enemy pilots because they're Iranian and in his mind, all of them deserve to die.

* [[I See Dead People]] - Arguably Jamail. He seems to go in and out of hallucinations varying from seeing family members to outright talking to the ghosts of [[It's All My Fault|People he believes he's directly responsible for the death of.]]

* [[Large Ham]] - McCleach.

* [[The Engineer]] - Esteban "Buns" LaCroix. Though his flight mates would hesitate to call his brand of "percussive" maintenance "Engineering"

* [[The Mafiya]] - No one knows where the two Russian PMCs, Red Star Solutions and OKB-276, get their money from.

* [[We Have Reserves]] - The Iranian mentality during Operation Granite Harvest.

* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]] - The different player squadrons have cordial relations and will help each other, but by no means are the "On the same side". Notable exclusions can be Aquila and Griffin squadrons (as they both work for Advantage Flight Solutions) and Swart Katte and Musketeers who (Witch and Warfrog not withstanding) have struck up a sort of friendship.