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Editor Jay Gorman Staff Writers -Miss Elainious -Victor Vandregas -Jay Gorman -Anne Tardew -Zuton -Private Mendoza TFN Engineer -Private Mendoza Mission:We focus mainly on the different news of the #1 survivor group, The Fortress, which contains news events from different areas visited by our teams. However we will usually also have important general news as well Top News Templarivs is made Commander of Team Battlehawk The Fortress News sure is growing! We had to make a second page just to hold everything! The Fortress-wide Chain kill is finished. 139 kills (New Record). Duration of 95 hours 48 minutes (New Record). 49 challengers (New Record). To sum it up, a New Record! The Battle of Barhapolis ends The value of Cheese is now 1.3467 Brains A Special Thanks to Our Sponsors File:Kilt.jpg Funny Pictures File:Donuts.jpg	Official Fortress News Clint Clintstone resigns as Commander of Team Battlehawk. His replacement is Templarivs, a long time member and fitting leadership choice. Team Excalibur has been disbanded as a combat team. Team Excalibur is where they will continue to work together as a writing team. Team Anaconda Operation: Fort Peril Date: May 8-June 8, 2008. Written by Miss Elainious on June 17, 2008 The Fortress received a distress call from our allies, BMC (British Military Corps) that Whtteniside and Fort Perryn were in imminent danger from an advancing combined horde of the RRF and DvEM. Further intelligence revealed that MoA and FU were also closing in on the fort. Anaconda restocked and set out from their recent mission in the NE to defend Fortress one and hopefully get some delicious BMC pies, alas before the team could get into place after its long journey, the Fort had fallen. Undaunted, Anaconda instead decided to swing in behind the path of the horde and repair the considerable damage left in the wake of its south easterly advance with plans to retake Fort Perryn as a grand finale. The team worked through the suburbs of Scarletwood and Danversbank with allies such as Garnis Border Patrol. Buildings were cleared, repaired and caded, locals were healed and revived and our progress marked by steady status changes on the map. In the interim Anaconda kept a close eye on F1, waiting for the right time to liberating from the undead masses still occupying it. We moved forward into Whitteniside and with local allies such as BMC, soon had the suburb in good order except for the jewel in the crown, Fort Perryn. With Whittenside rapidly coming back to life thanks to repair and revival efforts by Anaconda and our allies, we turned our attention to F1. Short forays into the Fort showed that although zed numbers had dropped there was still considerable resistance present. Anaconda called for reinforcements and Teams Cold Cell and Dark Watch rapidly responded, both eager to do battle and reclaim Fortress 1. The three teams gathered supplies in preparation for a long siege and planned their attack carefully with allies The Cannonball Crew (CBC), Fort Perryn Defence Force (FPDF), BMC and Creedy Defence Force(CDF). June 1 proved to be an amazing day as all the hard work and planning came together for a successful joint RT strike with The Fortress (Teams Anaconda / Cold Cell / Dark Watch) and our respected allies CC , FPDF & CDF. The end result of the initial strike was 24 zeds killed with these bodies plus several others unceremoniously dumped outside the gates of the fort. Every building was repaired within the fort, 3 essential buildings powered and barricade levels for each building, as well as the gatehouse, at barricade plan levels. Over 30 people took part in the phenomenal RT strike, coordinating via chat room, others coming in later for backup assistance, evicting zeds, healing, maintaining cades. When the gates went to EHB at midnight GMT, 33 people were in the gatehouse holding the fort while other occupied various internal buildings and over 27 zeds had been evicted. This was an unprecedented event and the level of cooperation and goodwill shown during this strike should be an example to all survivor groups in Malton. Anaconda and the other Fortress teams remained at Fort Perryn for another week, wanting to see the fort and our allies through the first VSB day following Perryn’s rebuilding and into the next. The week was a test of vigilance for all, with frequent break-ins and barricade attacks the norm. Wednesday proved to be a challenge as the horde numbers outside the gates swelled before the barricades were lowered to VSB. However this was no match for vigilant Fortress members and allies, all attempts by the zeds to reclaim Perryn were effectively repelled. When the gates were locked at EHB that night we all breathed a sigh of relief, we had withstood the first test and now even more survivors had swelled the ranks of fort defenders. Unfortunately the barricade lowering had also added griefers, breathing zeds and Pkers to the occupants within the walls of F1. Despite these minor annoyances and the occasional pathetic and uncoordinated zed attempt to infiltrate Perryn, Anaconda held strong with team-mates, friends and allies for the week, leaving as planned when the cades returned to VSB on June 8 to prepare for the 2008 mass chainkill event. Special thanks and congratulations to our friends in Cold Cell, Dark Watch and allies CBC, FPDF, BMC & CDF. A final thank you to Mad Dog Murro, an officer and a gentleman, it was a pleasure working with you. Operation: Northern Lights Operation Date: April 16 – May 6, 2008. Written by Miss Elainious on June 17, 2008 Northern Malton had been flattened by the hordes, specifically The Dead whose soul objective was to destroy all life in Malton. The northern half of Malton had become one giant red zone and The Dead had turned their hungry eyes to the south. Their southern hordes have not been as successful and they have begun to move some of their numbers south to reinforce the southern hordes. As they sent numbers south and the RRF returned to their home in Ridleybank, Anaconda bypassed them and moved northward and into the northeast to restore life and light. It was a long trip, requiring that the team stop at a couple of locations along the journey, the first stop was Roachtown. Anaconda had intended only to stay the night, but we found unexpected hospitality in the form of a very friendly survivor group, the Roach Klips. To repay their kind hospitality Anaconda stayed a few days, repairing local resource buildings, establishing a free-running lane to Stickling Mall, and recovering the mall. Unfortunately the Eastonwood Ferals began a siege in the mall just as Anaconda was preparing to move on, but repairing and lighting the mall even for a short time gave some opportunity for locals to restock on supplies and a new alliance was forged for The Fortress. Anaconda proceeded to Santlerville where the team intended only to spend the night en route to the final destination of Dulston, they had been warned to watch for a known zerger in the area by the Dribbling Beavers. All was quiet initially, but in the dead of night a suspicious character slipped into the building. The drowsing Conda’s were suspicious and those suspicions were well founded when the team found themselves under attack by the very zerger the Beavers had warned of. Seven Condas were felled by morning. Anaconda organized efficiently and all members were revived and healed in short order. We appreciated the hospitality and intelligence provided by our new friends the Dribbling Beaver and reciprocated by sharing all information they gathered during the zerg attack with the Beavers. Anaconda also thanks PrepH for facilitating this communication. A new alliance was formed with the Beavers after this episode and the team is pleased to see that Dark Watch’s PrepH has taken on the role of Ambassador with our new friends. In the final leg of our journey we reached our last destination, Dulston. Here we met the Dultson Alliance, a multi group alliance who’s member’s have a vested interest in the far northeast of Malton. We worked with the alliance to repair buildings and revive fallen survivors in Dulston and surrounding area. Dark Watch joined Anaconda to assist in retaking the mall and surrounding resource buildings. A highlight of this was a 15 person RT with members of both teams and led by Officer Duncan in Anaconda’s new program encouraging all team members to develop and run mini-ops. This OP was a huge success with a whopping 8 buildings cleared repaired and/or barricaded. Anaconda received news that a horde was coming our way. We had worked too hard and our allies were depending on us, so we bid farewell to our friends in Dark Watch as they moved out to start their mission, and we bunkered down and prepared to take a stand. Analyzing the available data we surmised that Whitlock NT would be the likely first target. Staying vigilant the team was the first to note the cades begin to drop, sounding the alarm and trying to rebuild the cades, Miss Elainious was PKed for her trouble. A swift revive by Tommy Crowbar put her back in the NT within minutes to terminate the PKer who had turned his guns on Tommy, as Miss E fought with the PKer Dedun fought of the attempts of a second spy to take out the NT’s genny and other team members kept the cades up with the other survivors , many of whom were our allies from the Dultson Alliance. By the end of the night The Dead had been beaten and slunk off with their tails between their legs after receiving an unexpected spanking by a hearty group of brave survivors. Anaconda left Dulston fully restored with new friends and a new alliance for The Fortress, the Dulston Alliance. Some Stats: Zeds Killed = 45 Buildings Repaired = 45 Buildings barricaded = 124 Survivors healed = 84 Generators installed = 12 Generators refuelled = 10 Survivors revived = 31 Casualties = 13 New Alliances = 3 Team Battlehawk Operation All Your Base Written by Jay Gorman, August 30, 2008. After the success of Operation Vacation, where the Hawks breathed new life into the survivors fight against the Undead at the NT and MALL points, it was time for a change. The east of Malton had been occupied by Fort Creedy for many years now. Built for protection against the satanic hordes, too often it has fallen into dangerous hands. It was time for this trend to change. The Hawks were going to amass the Fort and bring order back to the inhabitants. Operation: All your base was kickstarted into life..... Azula was the first Hawk in the area, her scouting report showed a barren wasteland, the undead roamed free inside the fortified walls of the base. No signs of life inside the fort. One by one the Battlehawks moved into the area, there was rumors of other survivor groups doing small incursions inside the Fort winning and losing the same buildigns again and again in the hands of the undead horde. The first call of duty was to set up some safe-houses. Private Mendoza got work on securing the Pallaye Library whilst Templarivs secured a junk yard and made friends with The Creedy Defence Force who were also re-grouping to try and re-take the Fort. There were plenty of survivors in the area now and all had one thought - we have to retake the Fort - it belongs to us and we're not gonna let some pesky zeds keep hold of it! Even though there were a few setbacks, such as brief run-ins with Gore Corps and live attacks by Feral Undead, progress was quick. The fort wwas being held by a meager handful of the undead, and when word of possible zombie reinforcements reachedsurvivor ears, ther was even more of a rush to get the fort up and running again. In the middle of the Fort, a concrete bunker stands, fortified for all sides with only 1 gate, the Fort Armoury...... but now the zombies inside the Fort were inside. It was a undead stronghold in the middle of the Fort Small strikes and attacks inside the fort kept both sides busy, 1 or 2 zombies killed inside the armoury followed by a zombie attack on the safehouse. Both sides fought to win the Fort and then the things for the survivors got worse, a group named Creedy Guerrilla Raiders were spotted inside the Gatehouse and around the Fort. This group were some of the worst things around Malton, a group of madmen killing other survivors just for fun. In the fight against the undead that only means trouble for all of us. To top everything off, our valiant leader, Clint Clintstone, was whisked out of malton, in order to try and appeal to the survivor cause to governments outside of malton, leaving only a list of things to do. Thankfully, however, Tommy crowbar came in to rally the hawks, and brought with him the brave Zombiedodger. Thus the battle continued, with minor break ins, and many infections. However the infections did not stand as steve the decimator was on the scene with FAK's aplenty, for any and all survivors needing a heal from the infectious bites. It was expected that Brigadeer Crowbar would asapt readily to the Hawks combat style, but who would have thought he would become obsessed with Pink. This was the man who has single-handedly saved Malton from the Hordes time and time again. His feminine side was protruding, but we all put it down to love! We all could see just how good an acquisition to the Hawks Dodger could become, the level of enthusiasm and willingness to join in the Combat was very impressive. We controlled the Fort for extensive periods, while utilising the armoury and infirmary for restocking purposes.Another new promising recruit joined the ranks of the Hawks, soon after the arrival of Dodger. Kathryn, another potentially great soldier, fitted right in, and put herself in at the deep end straightaway, acting as reviver for the CT. Temp kept all Hawks informed of the opponent intelligence sources, updating tactics as he received it. The Zeds dispersed due to the failed attempts of the Horde to overthrow the survivor resistance in Creedy. The Hawks job was done, and done damn well!!! We restocked, and moved out, leaving the Fort in the capable hands of the living. Operation Vacation Written by Jay Gorman, August 15, 2008 As is well known, the Hawks are a happy-go-lucky bunch of friends that enjoy nothing more than responsibly and vigilantly protecting the suburbs of Malton. However, they work to the strict motto of “Work Hard- play 10 times harder. Give them half a chance once a situation has been dealt with, and the beer will be out, the salmon will be in hand, and the fish fights will break out. Commander Clint was a bit downbeat after the last Operation. There weren’t any fireworks or explosive ending. It kinda just….finished. Bring on Operation Vacation. We set off to reclaim the NT’s, take back our dear, dear Nichol’s Mall from the undead, and have an absolute blast in the process. We battled the Zeds and our beer-filled bodies for nearly a month, from May 13th to June 10th. This is an account of our Operation. Have you ever killed a Zed with a Hockey stick??? Commander Clintstone led the Battlehawks to Nichols Mall, finding it under attack by the horde. We attempted to clear the Zeds, using Vere Cinema as our main fall back location. Cecil fell early, but went out in style, killing one Zed with a Ski Pole!! Azula showed her class, killing notorious Lord Moloch with a Fencing Foil!! We congratulated Temp when he arrived, as he had successfully attained the assassin ABA on another high class Zed, Murray Jay Suskind. I continued my duties as the Medic Grizzly, healing and reviving my friends and fellow team members. I always hated Cricket, but that didn’t stop me from a Cricket Bat kill!! We needed to fight against the horde of standing Zeds, and coinciding PKer’s, who were knocking at the Cinema Door! We reclaimed the Went Building, as we all sang Piano Man by Billy Joel…didn’t we?? Azula kept us all updated on its condition, with a vigilant eye. We battled hard to retain it, but the horde rose in number. We battled hard, holding it. By May 24th we had successfully reclaimed Went NT and all 4 corners of Nichol’s Mall. The Hawks were on fire!! Commander Clint kept all of us motivated with some true words of inspiration. We are the Hawks!!!!! After the eventual fall of Went we spent time reviving, and turned our focus to the Greenhow NT. We retained our fall house Vere Cinema, and throughout this time secured and retained Greenhow. The pathway between safety house and NT was secured at all time through the hard work of the Hawks. But what’s this??? We have company. No other than our fellow CT, Excalibur, who were carrying out their own Operation in the vicinity of Vere Cinema. This was going to be even more fun, as it was the first Operation where I had worked with another CT. We continued to reclaim and lose Nichols so much that we were all tired of reporting each breach, but we kept going, coz that’s what we do!!! Our Op was coming to an end. We kept killing with every sporting good we could find, enjoying the Zed blood splattering over our clothes. Sure that is what sport is all about!! Greenhow was in survivors hands and The Mall was currently in top shape. We all got dressed up and had a Fashion Show. Zuton looked beautiful, as did all the females of the CT’s, but she just had that something special!!! We got word that there was going to be a mass chain kill with all CT’s linking up again. For now, the Hawks had finished here, but will return in time!!!