Golden
Helms is another old clan, with about 150 members. For reasons
unbeknownst to me they are on bad terms with 'THE' clan and
they declared war on them. Alliance policy expects us to support
our allies, so Golden Helms and their leader, Alex, soon found
themselves facing the entire Alliance. He tried to even the
odds by bringing in his own allies, and in some instances
even encouraging a high rpk turnout to the war.
II. PREWAR CONFLICT.
Why was the Alliance and GH going
to war anyway? Partially, because GH declared war on the Alliance,
but two Jaguars explain the more central issues at hand: First
off, Shakazulu, a retired leader of Clan Jaguar and a respected
elder clansman. "Golden Helms
crashed our fun war (we had bronze and they had rune) plus,
aside from the MK/CA incident and the excertium incident,
we havn't declined a war declaration or declined assisting
allies" King Sancho, also a Jaguar, explains why he believes
this war is so important: "I dug around a bit, and I came
up with some shocking things about GH. I cannot any longer
write an unbiased report for runevillage on the War, or else
compromise every last bit of integrity I have. For any of
you who are not sure why we are fighting, everything you need
to know is below.
I personally believe the implications
of this war go much farther than just who beats who, who gets
bragging rights, or even proving to the world the might of
the Alliance. I think it has the potency to determine the
course of the clan world itself. Besides the Sabres, Alliance
clans are the oldest clans in existence. We not only defend
the peace, we were the very ones who maintained it until the
wilderness came out. Now it seems, there are scores of clans
out there who are craving to rip the peace apart, destroy
everything our clans have been working for for the past 3
years. It seems to me that there are a diminishing number
of clans that value integrity and honesty over combat levels,
aggressiveness, and swearing, and of those clans, the Alliance
is the largest force of them all. On the other hand, all of
the enemies at this war have no honor; at least 2 of the enemy
leaders have cracked/attempted to crack people's accounts.
They only remain in power by manipulation, deceit, and lies.
And the members know it, and they
don't care. A defeat here would mean that integrity means
nothing; that there is no point in being honest because you
can be more powerful through lies. That a foul mouth is worth
more than a sound mind. "
III:WAR; PERSONAL TESTIMONIES.
"WAR!:
DATE: SATURDAY THE 24th TIME 3:45pm EST
SERVER: 7 PLACE: varrock upstairs palace WEAR BLUE
CAPES"
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~Taken from an announcement at Clan
Jaguar HQ i.War stories
"On April 24th the Alliance gathered in the Varrock castle to
go to war.Even an hour and a half before the conflict, people
were showing up. By the time the war commenced, there were well
over 200 people there. After a few organizational exercises
and several photographs, we went downstairs and flooded the
Varrock streets. The citizens were in awe. The Alliance is the
largest force in Clans to date.
Each clan was following their leaders
in a single file line to the battlefield. These lines were
several spaces apart, so there was a lot of room between them.
They stretched for at least 15 wilderness levels. I was in
the Jaguar column led by Lucca 13 when I noticed something,
a column of red capes! Straight ahead of us! And they were
wandering right into Alliance formations! Needless to say,
I broke ranks and rushed over to the last person in their
line to start what was the beginning of the battle. After
a few seconds the rest of my column caught on, and also ran
towards their column. By now the enemy noticed. They panicked
and dispersed, every man for himself. Most were heading north,
which proved to be a sad mistake. Jaguars were towards the
end of the formations. The rest of the Alliance was already
well north of us. The opponent ran right into them, and after
a brief struggle, ceased to exist. The actual war took around
5 minutes, and the Alliance combed the wilderness in search
of a second attack that never came. The battle was won." ~King
Sancho, Clan Jaguar "First I thought the war would be at the
altar so I had told our people to gather there. There were
some red capes but after us taking over the altar, they didn't
dare to come to multicombat area. Dunno which side black capes
were but 1 of those attacked me and we killed him inside the
altar.
Then Lucca told me that it was mainly at the red drag gate,
after we got there, nothing left.
Only 1 casualty; One of our newest members got killed accidently
by our own knight while we were after-war-pking. Items were
returned, appologies accepted.
Hardly made it to blink my eyes and it was over." ~Dimitrix,
The Mighty Red Dragons
"It went too fast because everyone
fought way too well. I hope this sends a message to our other
enemies that we are bigger and much stronger." ~Foswald, 'THE'
Clan
"The war lasted around 2-5 minutes.
All red capes were destroyed (color of capes GH and it's allies
used). I didn't get a shot of epod or anyone particularly
famous dieing, unfortunately. Anyways, in the last picture,
the last straggler is getting hunted down and destroyed.
The longer story: We met half an hour
or so before in the upstairs of the Varrock Palace (The Alliance).
From there we split up into our clans and ranging/maging/fighter
groups. After that we switched servers to 7, 7 minutes before
the war. Things were going alright when all of the sudden,
the server clogged. Well over 2000 people were on. We waited,
and eventually, all alliance members logged on. From there,
we moved out of the palace in a line (with magers and others
going in another direction). We headed towards the red spiders
and from there moved out towards the Dragon Isle gates. We
met GH and destroyed them." ~Blizzard, 'THE' Clan
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