Army Control Corps/History

Early History

The Army Control Corps was founded on 12th October 2005 by Sgt Whiskey Swiper.

Initially the ACC had the following simple policies.

Group name: Army Control Corps

Goals: Reclaiming 'tainted lands', counter offensives, and organising all groups into one coherant bodies

Future goals: Destroying the zombie threat at its source

Membership: Humans only (Civilians etc also accepted with open arms)

Contact: Post on the thread (link to be added soon)

Location: Over the city, communicate in the main thread, or PM me.

I've been here from nearly the begining, and seen a lot. It seems to me that overall we lack in coordination. To combat the large zombie hordes and those foolish enough to PK, or lead small rebellions etc, I am establishing this group to give general guidance, and lead counter offensives across the board.

We are not aiming to contradict the CoL, but if we are directly opposed in the field our agents may use whatever actions are deemed neccessary.

All those who want to join (any level or class) may do so - whether you prefer combat or just surviving, we can find you all a place.

Swiper Out.

Swiper intended it to be a group primarily for coordination across Malton, more concerned with unifying groups than engaging zombies. He believed that the Army Control Corps would be the military wing of the group and counter any threats they faced.

The ACC initially attracted a wide variety of groups to join as Satelite Groups, this later led to major ramifications for the ACC as a whole.

The ACC's first major engagement was in Fort Creedy - 16th-18th October, where 3 members of the fledgling ACC assisted the still relatively new CDF. Despite all members fell, more people joined the ACC, especially after Shubeck joined as the 2nd In Command of the ACC. Shubeck brought with him members from his former group - Spr Cobra went on to found Soldiers of Fortitude - the ACC's protective and training group for new players.

The ACC's first 'Operation' commenced on a tiny scale - Operation: Black Ice. This Operation was designed to 'neutralise' MugenX - who was leading a small band of PKers and members bringing down morale within Creedy. MugenX was wounded by the ACC before being finished off by the Undying Scourge.

When the hordes moved onto Giddings, Swiper devised a grandoise plan - which he viewed could ...save Giddings.

Operation: Black Ice II was the first major engagement by the ACC - on the 28th of October the ACC launched a counter attack at Fort Perryn, with the aim to draw the hordes away from the besieged Giddings Mall. The Mall that would play such a large part in the ACC's history. Seven members of the ACC entered the Fort, and were joined by a few random survivors. Nicknamed 'Fort Liberty' by the ACC, they held off initially against a 'horde' of fifty zombies, that soon spiraled to over 100 beseiging zombies. Sweeper Teams ran small harrassing attacks, attempting to lure the zombies away from Perryn, and the ACC held out.

Swiper made grandoise statements that Perryn will hold until the hordes come!

By November the 7th the ACC left Perryn moving on - the zombies were rarely getting in, and it was clear that there was no challenge in holding Perryn at the time. This victory is mainly down to coordination than other factors, and general lack of the zombie's unity.

The Shubeck Issue

The Shubeck Issue divided the ACC, and nearly destroyed it.

On the 5th November, Shubeck left the ACC. He told the ACC how great they were and left with good spirit and a general feeling of loss.

Unfortunately reports came to Swiper that Shubeck was PKing and threatening survivors - warning them of the wrath of the ACC. Around 9 PKings were reported, and with a heavy heart Swiper ordered the elimintation of Shubeck on the 7th November. Swiper mortally wounded Shubeck - with another ACC member finishing off. Planning to hit him whenever he was revived until he left the immediate vicinity.

Shubeck returned to the ACC in a fury, it turned out Private Johanson had taken the details to his account and began butchering all those he met. Shubeck sorted the issue out with Kevan who changed his password.

Private Johanson was thrown out of the ACC because of this and is the most notorious member in ACC history.

Operation Driveby

Prior to the Siege of Caiger Mall, the ACC was preparing to establish a proper base - in Penny Heights - so they could launch a new attack on Perryn and hunt down PKer groups who had been sighted locally.

During the Siege of Caiger Mall the ACC assisted in the defence, by deploying all of the SoF and ACC to Caiger - around 30-40 men to the Seige. Constant attacks of Caiger were beaten back, and between the Shubeck Issue and Caiger Mall the ACC developed closer links with the Council of Leaders and the Gingerbread Men during this time, the Neo CoL emerged, bringing all the fault lines and issues within the ACC to a head.

The War against the Neo CoL

Operation: Driveby was the largest blunder in the ACC's history. Two days after the formation of the Neo CoL, Swiper and a secret coalition - The Allied Defence Committee decided the best course of action to stop the Neo CoL would be a war against them, removing key leaders and groups sympathetic to the Neo CoL.

The initial attack of Operation: Driveby claimed the Neo CoL Councillor Sykic, and soon other Councillors began being attacked and killed, along with those sympathetic to the Neo CoL. Initially it was highly successful, but the Neo CoL managed to manipulate their positions on the Desensitised, and get the ACC declared PKers and all those who attacked the Neo CoL were to be eliminated.

The next few days saw major internal divisions within the ACC, the ACC divided internally and there was open outrage that Swiper had made such a dramatic decision without even consulting the majority of the ACC.

Disgruntled Heroes cut all ties with the ACC in responce to this and several members of the ACC joined other groups, such as the Gingerbread Men.

Swiper's Retirement

Swiper retired on the 4th of December, and handed control over the ACC to Shubeck. During this time Swiper became 'The Avenger of Malton' assisting survivors he found, and destroying a small PKer group in a small seige by attacking them then destroying their barricades - within a few hours all were lying outside the Police Department.

During this time the ACC limped on, changing leadership and policies.

Added from the history on the main ACC page: Following the brief war against the New CoL (caused by some disagreements and confused communications), Swiper decided it would be best if he retired. As such, he posted a farewell on the forums, made some suggestions as to a successor and left.

On the 29th of December 2005 returned to the group he created to rebuild the ACC, which was crippled after his idiotic move to directly oppose the New CoL; and he was thus reinstated as commander.

Swiper's Return

On the 29th of December, Swiper returned to a tattered ACC, and started the hard work of rebuilding the group he almost destroyed and a publicity campaign.

After the Mall Tour commenced, Swiper made his opinions vocal and the ACC grew in size once more - he contacted old members and managed to get several to return to the ACC.

The ACC won back its status and glory during the January Siege of Giddings Mall where it used the Giddings Mall Defense Policy and Swiper formed the Giddings Defenders.

After Operation: Sacred Ore

The Army Control Corps was one of the key forces in the January Siege of Giddings Mall, Swiper devised the Giddings Mall Defense Policy and established the Giddings Defenders to coordinate the defence of the Mall. The Giddings Defenders led to increased cooperation with the various groups assisting at Giddings Mall. When the Mall fell, only one member of the ACC made it out alive, he proved instrumental in assisting and coordinating the revives of the other ACC members.

After the fall of Giddings Mall, the Giddings Defenders decided not to disband - and many groups wished to continue this cooperation - leading to the foundation of the Alliance of Giddings based upon the principles of the Giddings Defenders.

The ACC was combat ready within three days of the Seige, and assisted retaking Giddings Mall.

Alliance of Giddings has been inactive since July 3rd, 2006.

The April Reformation

By April 2006, the ACC was quiet. No united official operations were going on, a lot of the experienced members were simply not posting. The most active board was the off-topic one.

Myo, a Major of the ACC and one of the forum's Admins decided that enough was enough. With Swiper's support he took apart the forums and rebuilt significant parts of them. He also declared that everyone, including himself but with the sole exception of Swiper, must reapply and should they either not do so or not be accepted they would be considered inactive and thus be removed from the ACC. Since then a lot has happened. The ACC has become much more unified, organised and active since then. And the newly created High Command simply hope that it will continue to be so.

CDF-ACC Disputes

There have been a number of disputes of all kinds over the summer of 2006 between the long-standing allies the Creedy Defence Force and the Army Control Corps. This was mainly due to clashes between Swiper and a number of the CDF leadership figures. However, thanks to some extensive efforts made by several key figures in both organizations, these problems have been pretty much resolved. Although there were some concerns over Swiper's status; as although he had not officially taken a leave of absence, he effectively had, and had formed the NMO; an anti-CDF organization.

After a lot of confusion and a lack of activity or information from Swiper (due to real life commitments) this eventually resulted in a lot of confusion. In the end, Major Myo took over as CO after a vote and with the support of Swiper.

Not long after this, Acting Special Forces Commander Ranceblc resigned over the whole NMO conspiracy, which eventually turned out to be a sort of 'test' conducted independently by a small group of officers. Rance felt he had been backstabbed by said officers and left to work as a permanent PKer. Since then Rance (aka Johnny Reb) spent some time on the forums. He apparently felt hard-done to and seemed to relish stirring up trouble on the forums. Eventually his account was banned as it could not be deleted as per his request.