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| The first issue of The Fortress News, a new-look monthly publication, has today been released on the Urban Dead Wiki. Over the last month the new chief editor, ORakoon, has been busy at work re-constructing TFN, moving it into what is hoped to be a new era of success for the once unfortunate section of The Fortress. “I am very pleased with the great team we have assembled for TFN,” said ORakoon in an interview earlier, just before the first issue was released. “The articles that they have written are of the top quality, coming together to create a first issue that far surpasses my expectations.”
The current TFN team looks to be very strong. Joining chief editor ORakoon as Assistant Editor and reporter for Team Battlehawk is Avatorous. With past experience within TFN, superb writing and graphical skills, and high activity and energy, Ava makes the perfect assistant editor. theYeas, CO of Cold Cell, joins as the Wiki Engineer, bringing excellent coding literacy to the position, increasing speed, efficiency and overall quality in the wiki publications of TFN. Taking charge of the camera is Paul Henderson of Team Battlehawk, who will be providing the images to accompany articles along with reporting on his teams operations himself. Completing the trio of Hawks is Zombiedodger, a past reporter for TFN who is set to continue his fine work. Faustus Felix is the current sole reporter for Team Dark Watch, bringing a strong writing style to TFN, certainly a name to look out for. Wes Harrison is providing all the cover that you could need from Team Anaconda, keeping us up to date with all the happenings over there. Puppiemaster, a well known figure in The Fortress and Barkeep of the Tavern, is making sure not one piece of conversation goes unmissed in the busy downstairs of the tavern. Completing the current team is Miss Elainious, who will be covering the entire goings on at Radio BOOM. Jensonson, the head of The Fortress himself, is writing his own article for TFN, as is Brigadier Tommy Crowbar. All in all, a great selection from the finest The Fortress has to offer has come together to make TFN the best it can possibly be.
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| On February 2nd 2010, the plucky members of Team Anaconda received word that the Militant Order of Barhah was laying siege to Marven Mall. After recently defending Lockettside from a massive onslaught, the team decided to assist the situation to buy Lockettside some time to regroup. Operation: Road to Perdition’s objectives were to defend Marven Mall, Recover North and South Blyville, and work the revive...
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Operation: Top of the World, Ma! was the second op for the Battlehawks this year, carrying on the momentum from their previous op, “Back to Our Roots” which reclaimed the long-in-the-red Fortress One, Fort Perryn.
“Top o’ the World” was an attempt to retake the North-eastern corner of Malton, the suburb of Dulston. Four NT buildings, three hospitals, four police departments and a mall make this suburb...
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February for Team Cold Cell kicked off with Operation Gown and Slippers, a three phase plan to retake the suburbs of Dulston and Pescodside in NE Malton, culminating in a Cold Style competition. The operation was planned and led by Cold Cell’s own long serving Chief Assault Officer, Kevin Turvey, giving regular CO theYeas a chance to relax and enjoy the finer things in life... namely killing zombies...
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When Dark Watch entered Darvall Heights, it was a suburb under siege. More than twenty zeds attacked and destroyed both Herman NT and Crossman PD. With lightning quickness Dark Watch stormed and recovered these buildings. The battle was tenacious, turning now to the side of the zeds, and then back to the daring heroes of Dark Watch. New members made immediate impact in Real Time Strikes, including...
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The Fortress is the largest survivor group in Urban Dead. That is an impressive claim. From its humble beginnings in 2005, The Fortress has gone from strength to strength, gaining new members, growing bigger, and branching out in many directions to make life in The Fortress so much more than just a game. Under the superb leadership of Jensonson, The Fortress has seen many changes in every way that it works since it started all that time ago. Many new members have joined, and unfortunately members have left for many reasons, but always The Fortress has been a group that is very good at what it does – killing zombies, helping survivors, and most importantly having fun. With so much going on, it can be hard to keep up with such a large and active group.
This new monthly publication sets out to help you do just that, keeping you up to speed with all that is happening. TFN was started a long time ago, but has never really grown to much importance within the group, despite the efforts of the previous editors. As the new editor of TFN, I hope that this will change, with TFN entering a new stage in its history. A monthly publication detailing all that there is to know about The Fortress from the past month. Which, might I add, is an awful lot. Be it the general exploits of the four Combat Teams as they battle for a safer, more human Malton, the newest group to join our Chain of Allies, all the promotions handed out in the past month, the latest ABAs achieved by our members, or simply the most recent discussion in the Tavern over a (fair) few drinks while tuning in to BOOM Radio, TFN covers it all and so much more.
So grab a drink, sit back, and let us take you on a journey into an alternate reality, where in one small city in England tired and hungry people battle to survive in a world overrun by zombies, abandoned by their government and left to fend for themselves. And leading that battle for survival is a group of dedicated and experienced people, willing to put their lives on the line for the greater good (and a monthly cheese ration).
The Fortress News – Your Eyes and Ears in the City. -- ORakoon
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| The Fortress forum was humbly fashioned just over four years ago and, incredibly, the group leaders (myself included) were unconvinced that it was absolutely necessary. Urban Dead was a simple browser based game and The Fortress was able to function at its single base in central Malton through in-game chat and via mobile phone when a player ventured further afield. Today, of course, the forum is an essential tool enabling us to substantially enhance both our efficiency and enjoyment of the game – without it, there is no way we could have expanded into such a thriving community. Four years on and our incredible and unique forum
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has reached a landmark, the thousandth member joined in Feb 2010 as we passed our 200,000th post.
TFN – The Fortress News Wikizine – also reaches a new landmark today with Issue #1
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being published. Previously TFN had been crafted as a single Wiki page with recent operations being uploaded when possible by TFN writers. Now the wikizine is becoming a monthly newsletter, more fresh and vibrant than before with far more relevance to the current moment. It has become an essential read for all Fortress members and friends alike to discover all of our epic feats around Malton, so many of which would otherwise have gone unnoticed by the casual survivor.
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There are many other landmarks for The Fortress to achieve in 2010 and beyond and I have no doubt that they will continue to become greater and greater, as they always have done with each previous year. With the implementation of TFN monthly; everyone will be able to read about our efforts exactly when and as they happen. I can't wait!
Stay Vigilant!
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| The Combat Teams
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