The Fall of Meatshield

Background

Over the course of 2017-20, the zerger not yet called Meatshield created 45 new zergs to fight the Gulsonside-based zombie zergs Clubbed to Death, naming most of his new army after CtD accounts. Zergs created included ClubbedtoDeathSucks, cytisinezerg and matchingzerger. Clubbed to Death lost the zerg battle and disappeared in August 2020.

What would the victorious zerger do next? Ironically, he has a passionate hatred of zergers, so he went looking for more zergers to fight. In late 2021, the original 20 Meatshield zergs were created by a different zerger. As soon as the zerger not yet called Meatshield noticed them, he created 7 of his own Meatshield zergs, causing the two Meatshield zergers to be confused by many in the UD community. The original Meatshield didn't use the original Meatshield accounts for long, whereas the 7 imposter Meatshield zergs were used extensively and gained thousands of XP. The imposter of Meatshield became known as Meatshield. If you're interested in this story, check out The Origins of Meatshield.

   Meatshield 23
   meatshield 25
   Meatshield 26
   Meatshield 27
   Meatshield 28
   Meatshield 29
   Meatshield 33

Control of Fort Perryn

In early 2022, the new Meatshield's zerg army took over Fort Perryn. The zergs were mostly run as survivors and dedicated to keeping Fort Perryn in survivor hands. Despite the use of zerging, the fort changed hands frequently. Meatshield was not happy about this and hostile graffiti accusing opponents of zerging became a permanent fixture, especially in the fort but often slapped all over Whittenside. He made more new zergs: 9 in 2022, 9 in 2023 and 8 in 2024. A belief that one high XP zombie called The Tomb ran most zombies as his zergs became a key aspect of Meatshield’s graffiti to the point of obsession. Fort Perryn Defense Force was also a graffiti target for not helping Meatshield and for PKing his zergs.

By 2023, Meatshield was naming new zerg accounts after Whittenside-based zombie players who opposed him. Here's a few examples:

• Liche has Herpes is a tribute to Liche
• Rotting Zerg McNally is a tribute to Rotting Ted McNally
• The Tombs other zerg is a tribute to The Tomb
• Zaron the Zerging is a tribute to Zaron the Everliving.

In September 2023 the two Fort Perryn player groups, the Fort Perryn Defense Force and the Fort Feral Zombies, set up a zerg hunting alliance to share zerg lists and oust Meatshield from Whittenside. This forced Meatshield to keep his accounts in dark buildings and reduced his control of the fort for a few months but ultimately could not deter Meatshield’s zerging or toxic behaviour. Into 2024, both FFZ and FPDF began to stagnate as members struggled to play around the zerg army.

The Halloween Hack

On around 28th October 2024, an enemy of Meatshield exposed Meatshield’s zerg password, used for the majority of his zerg army. Meatshield does not tend to use his zergs disposably, many of them have thousands of XP from daily use, so this was a huge blow for the zerger. On Halloween 2024 the zergs were moved to 0,0 Bird Boulevard, the northwest corner of Malton, for a Halloween party. A speech was given, summarised here:

"We are all gathered here to finally admid that Clubbed 2 Death was always better than us! We were just copycat wannabes, but with sad little micro wangs. Stay here forever in this small wang lovers corner. WE LOVE SMALL WANGS! WE LOVE CLUBBED 2 DEATH! Happy Halloween all!!!"

Somebody (Clubbed being the most likely suspect) then relentlessly kept Meatshield’s army in that corner and spent the following months logging into them all to ensure they stayed there. The zergs attacked each other daily and wore slur groups in their profiles to catch the attention of Urban Dead's in-built zerging countermeasures, switching to a new slur once a week. By the end of December 2024, 80 accounts known to use the Meatshield password had been banned. Their banning has been verified by logging into them to check.

Other zergers such as Alwayz, Cats and Rigger also fell victim to partial or complete password hacks around this time, but my speculation is that these hacks are the work of AlphaDog. When AlphaDog hacks you, he doesn't tell anyone, he just uses your account. It's a very different style from the joyful celebration shown over Meatshield's defeat.

RIP Banned Meatshield Zergs

The following is a list of all of Meatshield's banned accounts.

Meatshield's 5 oldest known zergs date to 2017. Their bio of "Magical Fairy Princess" and the slur group tags were added by whoever got them banned in 2024.

   Anna Hind https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2282034
   ClubbedtoDeathSucks https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2282902
   cytisinezerg https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2297695
   matchingzerger https://urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2283290
   SecondCorpse https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2282033

The 2018-20 accounts are nearly all tributes to Clubbed to Death accounts. 40 zergs were made in this period.

   a worker II 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2326880
   Antiantiman 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2320568
   antizerg zerger 16 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321301
   antizerg zerger 17 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321302
   astrazombie2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2294785
   asudesu2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2297371
   Betty Will2 2018 https://urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2290083
   bernie lormax return 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321235
   Browim 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2326607
   buda hilton2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2296167
   clubbedtodeathonezer 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2320078
   cytisine2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2297655
   deadman27 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2316120
   Edmund Zerg 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2324662
   famouszerg72 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321177
   geismodo2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2295811
   grandpapa zerg 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2324661
   infernozerg2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2290082
   Joseph Clear 2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2291988
   KURT COBAIN2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2295177
   logout22 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2314649
   MassDeletion 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2313326
   matchinghero 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321010
   my broken fag 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2312142
   New Char 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2312139
   nukar is a zerg 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321236
   phartizerg 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2298574
   physicyst2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2293621
   pyrojoke2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2297274
   RageAgainstTheClub 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2327108
   Reviver27 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2314222
   scrapses2 2018 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2291986
   Snoopy Rotting 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2326608
   suiciderun2 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2316121
   TheManny 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2312141
   therealscoutmaster 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2329101
   Ultimate Hero 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2321011
   Zerg Hunter 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2320173
   ZergedtoDeath 2019 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2313325 
   Zombie Jesus 9001 2020 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2326606

In late 2021, Meatshield becomes Meatshield by creating 7 Meatshield accounts.

   Meatshield 23 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349798
   meatshield 25 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349819
   Meatshield 26 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349821
   Meatshield 27 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349823
   Meatshield 28 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349824
   Meatshield 29 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349825
   Meatshield 33 2021 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2349847

In 2022-24 the new crop of zergs referenced Fort Perryn players. 28 new zergs were made in this three year period.

   Aputhe5thBeatle 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356722
   Aust1nMan 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2372707
   Battleshift 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356756
   BlazerHell 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356755
   ColaWars2022 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356674
   D1slycan 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2372708
   D1stycan 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2372706
   Fart Vader 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371338
   Fort Feral Zerg 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371241
   Grand Moff Fartin 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371339
   Han so Low 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371340
   Hugo Arms 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371022
   JebbusChrist 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2376410
   Liche has Herpes 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371240
   Megatron69 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356547
   Parrot Geode 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356788
   Rotting Zerg McNally 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2372633
   Sam Walson 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356602
   spray can eddie 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371337
   tapz2 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2370322
   The Orville 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356565
   Therapist Hardcore 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356611
   The Tombs other zerg 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2370294
   WineandCheese 2022 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2356537
   xmasdecore 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2377297
   xmasdecore2 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2377298
   xmas decore3 2024 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2377299
   Zaron the Zerging 2023 https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2371272

What now for Meatshield?

To continue zerging, Meatshield will need to start new accounts from scratch. He broadcast on radio 28.01 that he was quitting the game, but then remained active for more whining on 28.01. By December, his trademark salty graffiti began to reappear around Whittenside and suspicious new accounts emerged. Watch this space!