This post was inevitable, I am sure you all are aware. 

If you aren’t aware, I retired last week on September 6th, 2025. I did not have this post finished in time, but thankfully, I had a reason to postpone it as my official retirement event was not until the 13th of September. This gave me a lot more time to work on this post.

So, what exactly is this post? Well, this is essentially just an auto-biography at this point. When I originally was writing this post, I just intended it to overview a lot of important points in my career and reflect on them. Once I saw that 2018 was finished, I realized I went in with way too much detail. So I just decided to double down and carry this out to be a memoir of my entire career. This is the longest piece of text that I’ve ever written hands-down, and I am certain that hardly anyone will read this in full.

If you are reading this and so far have no idea who I am, that is perfectly okay. You are either a future person or just someone who doesn’t know me at all lol. My name is SavageCobra, primarily known as Cobra, and I have been a member of the army community since technically 2013, although I truly joined in 2017. Throughout the years I’ve participated in numerous armies; primarily ones like the Elite Guardians, Water Vikings, Romans, Templars, Pizza Federation, Underground Mafias Army, and Dark Knight Empire. I have had the honor being awarded legend in the former most six, and I consider the former two to be a home to me. I am assuming most of the people reading this are mostly aware of my Water Vikings service, which is fair enough, that is the last army that I served in. I love Water Vikings.

Well, you’re going to learn a lot about my career and a lot about history if you actually read this. I actually encourage you all to read this to learn about army history from 2017 to 2019 at the very least. I did my best to cite everything that I could with images and hyperlinks if possible. I did not want to be called a liar and make this boring by having you have to take my word for it. Everything here is fully backed up, especially the 2023 – 2025, so you can’t call me a liar or even say that I was exaggerating stuff in most cases. If you see a historical inaccuracy, I’m in the WV Discord so you can just shoot me a message and I will fix it. Well, without further ado, enjoy the read if you so please. I know I got carried away, but it was fun to write at least (until it became a job at the last day of writing). If you’re just trying to read about Water Vikings and see some nice things that I have to say, you would be advised to scroll to the bottom section of the page. Thank you for reading.

2010 – 2014

I’m just going to keep this part very brief, but I’d like to emphasize how much Club Penguin has meant to me over the years. I was first introduced to Club Penguin through a family member via the DS game back on my old DS Lite sometime in 2009/2010. I specifically was introduced to the Elite Penguin Force game from 2008. I was a dumb kid in the sense that I avoided the storyline like the plague for the longest time. Why? I didn’t like trying to pay attention to read, so every single time I entered the Coffee Shop I would always get locked in (due to the story mode), and I’d reset. I usually just dedicated my time and effort towards the minigames on this one – I actually never really did the storyline on this one until around 2011/2012/2013 or so. 

However, what this game did do for me was actually introduce me to the world of Club Penguin. Sometime after that, I got the Herbert’s Revenge game, but I didn’t actually beat the game until I figured out what to do in like 2011. I actually took the poster out of that game and put it up on the wall when I was a kid. Even though I’ve moved a bit, that poster still gets moved every single time. Cannot live without that poster, lol. Anyways – my dad got me introduced to Club Penguin in around September 2010 (although it could have been in the earlier parts of 2011). I remember specifically that cute little intro video that plays when you click on the tour guide at the start of the screen. A lot of you old heads will know what I’m talking about. I never really knew that this would quite literally change my life in the long-run. It’s just the little things like that.

I actually did not religiously play Club Penguin until the end of 2012. In that meantime, I remember when I first got banned. I hadn’t been playing Club Penguin for very long, and I remember meeting my first Club Penguin girlfriend – named Bella. I remember I spent the whole day with her, but then she logged off. I said the f word and got banned. It was hilarious thinking back. I didn’t play Club Penguin a lot after that point, but it was something that I still would return to. I remember specifically that in the year 2011 I went on a Card Jitsu marathon that entire day using a family member’s laptop. I literally played ALL DAY (back then I’d get up early), and I think I was finally done with it around 11 AM ish. I got my black belt in that time and actually started to learn the strategy a bit at that time. Funny that 6 year old Cobra started grinds like that at such a young age. I don’t recall when I grinded Fire and Water ninjas, but it wasn’t too long after. I also recall grinding that one game where you walk on water.

In Easter 2011, my parents gifted me Club Penguin toys. I was ecstatic. I got my DSi on that same day, so believe me, I took MANY pictures lol. I still have these Club Penguin toys to this day and they’re in amazing condition. I remember I would actually play with my dad at times with these toys. They came with coins (I had two sets of them, so I got two coins), which could be used to redeem items on Club Penguin. I didn’t know that until WAY later (like 2013 or so when I was able to redeem one). Thankfully I still have these coins too, lol. I sometimes just look at all of these toys and coins for old times sake just for the sake of nostalgia. Sometime in the period from 2012 – 2013, I also bought a Club Penguin book from my school’s book fair – some story about Shadow Guy and Gamma Gal. It is a silly book, but that art style brings tears to my eye seeing it again. I was also a collector of Club Penguin magazines. I remember I would convince my mom to order these magazines off of eBay for me (pretty sure a lot of them were imports) just so I could get unlockable items. I was insane like that.

Like I said, I did not start playing Club Penguin on a daily basis until the end of 2012. It was at the Temple of the Fruit party when I began to check in daily, although I still had yet to get a membership. Once the Halloween Party of 2012 (the one with Gariwald) came, I remember specifically being really upset because I did not have a membership. My dad bought me a membership that Friday when we went shopping, and for the next two years of his life, he would spend 25 bucks every 3 months for my membership (I still have some of those membership cards). I locked in hard to transform into a ghost (the inspiration for the membership) – and that energy transferred over to Club Penguin’s best party – Operation: Blackout. THIS party was the real deal, it felt actually serious and had such a great aura to it. I remember I had literal dreams about it at the time. That party was genuinely the best and it was so intense I remember my dad was invested in seeing me entertained by it. The Holiday Party was also amazing

From that point forward, until the later parts of 2014 (just before the Merry Walrus party), I used Club Penguin like a crack addict. I would play with friends at school, attended parties all of the time (pretty much played daily), watched YouTubers (CP World, Thinknoodles, Graser, CPBroadcastShow, Poonchee, Gokan, among many others), and would frequent many posts. I actually met Thinknoodles, Poonchee, and SaraApril on Club Penguin before – that felt cool. I became accustomed to the cheating community, as I wanted to have all of the cool items and have rare items. I especially remember using that massive item database leak in 2014 to add literally every item in the game to my account, which was a big win to me. I used CPPSes like Oasis, CPPS.me, and OldCP a lot as well. I could go on for days about my love for Club Penguin and my experiences with that community itself, but that wouldn’t be feasible for a post like this, now will it? Point is, I loved Club Penguin and it was my life. My favorite parties include the Halloween Party 2012, Operation Blackout (2012, the literal best), Holiday Party 2012, Prehistoric Party (2013), Hollywood Party (2013), Puffle Party (2013), Card Jitsu Party (2013, I grinded that Snow Jitsu game HARD until I unlocked everything), Star Wars Takeover (2013), Teen Beach (2013), Gold Puffy Quest (2013), Operation Puffle (2013, this one was pretty goated), Penguin Cup (2014), and Music Jam (2014).

I first was introduced to armies sometime in 2013, where I would participate in some battle for the Nachos as a rogue. If I am not mistaken, it was on the server Sleet (a quiet server where all of the hackers would go to). I was specifically recruited into the Rebel Penguin Federation back at the end of 2013. If I’m not mistaken, an autotyper got me, and I joined in December. I remember fondly the uniform, Elmikey, and helping with recruiting at one point. I’m not sure if I really attended any events and I don’t think I was active very long in their Xat chat, but the point is I was introduced to armies – so it wasn’t an entirely foreign concept to me when I truly joined.

By the time of mid 2014, I started to lose interest in Club Penguin. I recall returning briefly sometime in like 2015 or 2016 to have penguin sex, and that’s about it. I didn’t return to the Club Penguin community until 2017, which you’ll read about next.

2017

I actually first signed up for Club Penguin Rewritten right before Club Penguin shut down, but I never ended up playing until November 2017, right after the Halloween Party. I joined in and started roleplaying hard. I was 12, so I was much more mature compared to when I first started getting into this stuff at age 7, lol. Operation Blackout on CP Rewritten really revitalized that passion I had for Club Penguin, and I got into it hard. I might’ve got into it more than I did back when it was in OG. This party is quite literally what changed my life, because if I did not get into it at the scale that I did, I would have not get recruited into armies again, and well, for good.

I don’t recall what server I was on, but it was sometime in mid November during my Thanksgiving break. I was playing Club Penguin Rewritten and stumbled upon the Town, which was quite desolate. A red penguin that wore a suit and ballcap with the name of “EmperorFlame” approached me and asked me if I was interested in joining his group. I passionately said yes, and was directed at an army known as the Dark Knight Empire. To those initiated with the S/M community from OG armies, I was recruited into the Dark Knights by it’s founder (and Army Republic leader) Color50. I joined the Xat, and felt really familiar to this as I used Xat back in the olden days. I remember I chose a Sylvester profile picture from the Xat avatar list (my love for Looney Tunes is very apparent, as you can see by the title here lol). In fact, DKE was the last army to actually make use of Xat.

I remember attending some of my first events, such as invading the server of Abominable (right from under the Wild Ninjas’ nose), getting into some skirmishes with the Romans (more on that later), and meeting many great people. In particular, I met the likes of Yikestbh, Clemont4, 0rockstar0, Minipenguin, and Kellyman. This essentially made up the crew of the Dark Knights at the time, and this is a crew that we still unironically have contact with to some degree. I remember talking to Flame about my past experience in armies, and I actually mistook Nachos for Doritos (sorry guys) and I remember Flame mentioning that Mustapha was around – me replying with “who”. Truly good times.

We made the transition to Discord at the end of November, making us the last active army to actually do so. My first Discord profile picture was Rory the construction worker and had the username SAVAGECOBRA, pretty autistic but I was 12. I rose up the ranks in the Dark Knights very quickly, achieving 3ic in a very short amount of time. We had some beef with the Romans for some reason, and we were close buddies with the Underground Mafias Army (UMA was a colony under DKE back in May 2017). I specifically remember someone from Romans telling us “what letter is missing in ‘DKE'”. That’s how I knew we were serious, when we’re making gay jokes on an actually filtered Club Penguin game. Might I add, there was a weird aura that came from Romans at this time. They were not massive (could max 15 sometimes), but they had a lot of prevalence in the geopolitical scene during the later months of 2017 and early months of 2018. Genuinely, they felt a bit intimidating.

I remember being so into the larp aspect of armies that I actually went out of my way to create an intelligence agency called the Imperial Defense Agency from under Flame’s nose (after being told no), with the purpose of spying on RPF and Romans. It was quite funny, but we did actually get findings at the time. I remember 0rockstar0 was specifically my Deputy Director, and that was the first Discord server I ever actually set up. This was in a time where people with administrator access could delete servers.

Clemont, who was the 2ic at the time being prepared for leader, betrayed Flame for some reason and went to Romans claiming he was a dictator. I never really fully understood why Flame was considered a dictator, as I never saw him doing anything wrong. Nevertheless, the next in line to lead was me and Flame wanted out so he could run to OldCP. So, last minute, I was promoted to Emperor on the night on December 4th, 2017. I actually wrote a post about it here. Coinciding with my promotion, Romans declared war on us after Clemont claimed Flame was a dictator. I was quite literally thrown into a war during my first time ever leading and was effectively abandoned, yet I persevered.

The first thing that was done was the forming of UMADKE, the brother alliance consisting of UMA and DKE. UMADKE worked together throughout the rest of this war, with Dillon from UMA (yes, him) and I calling most of the shots (although no offense to Dillon, it was me calling most of the shots here). The first thing we did was what Dillon called “Blitzkrieg” – aka he just ignored the 24 hour rule and we got like 4 people on to do some tactics.

You can appreciate Dillon giving his autistic philosophy below:

So essentially, the war was on. What made this war unique was the fact that it pretty much mad minimal usage of warfare methods that we use today. Tactics/formations were sparingly used and most of the battles were fought in a skirmish warfare style. Essentially, the warfare is pretty comparable to 2006-2008 warfare, which was a common thing for much of the conflicts during 2017. This war was deemed the “War of Roman Subjugation” by Flame, and the name of this war has stuck ever since (despite it being a very bias name). Early on in the war I practiced some very basic diplomacy, aka I cut all relations with Romans. It is funny looking back at how my leader skills grew during this war.

On the morning (or early afternoon, it was something) of like December 5th or 6th, we fought another skirmish against the Romans. Once again, this showcased the very archaic warfare style used in this war. No idea who was objectively considered the winner here.

We skipped out on the other battle later that day (pretty sure I actually had no idea what was even going on). Behind the scenes, though, a guy named Moonlocks and I started discussing, and I formed an alliance with his army, the United Republic of Penguins. The URP was previously declared war on by the Romans, but the Romans backed out and focused on UMADKE. That proved to be a mistake, it seems, since URP started cooking up their own ideas. The big idea was the foundation of the first rendition of the New Viking Alliance. This alliance, if I am not mistaken, was based off of a concept by URP leaders Moonlocks and Nullify. Although I did play a role in setting it up as quite literally the first army leader to agree to join it. I become a commander of the New Viking Alliance sometime around this time, as well. This became an additional lifeline in the war, as the NVA would prove crucial in providing additional assistance.

The next battle of this war would be a very important battle for so many reasons. Firstly, this was a big victory for UMADKE, as we showed up with larger numbers, gaining some assistance from the New Viking Alliance as well. I don’t remember much full on battling in this battle, it felt more like a shouting match and a stand-off. There was a fight between the Romans and UMADKE over which side the (organized army version) Tubas should support. I managed to convince the Tubas to side with us in this battle, and they became full members of the New Viking Alliance around this time in particular. However, the main thing to take home from this was Elmikey’s coup. This battle was on December 7th, the day that Elmikey was couped for the last time from RPF. He came running to this battle very specifically and actually joined the Dark Knights, and would later form his own army: the Rebel Penguin Marines (which would be a part of the NVA).

This proved to be a pretty major moment in armies at the time, as well as a big moment in this war itself. The next battle, on December 8th, as far as I am aware is the longest battle in the private server era – the Battle of Deep Freeze. This battle spanned like two and a half hours, and was pretty much entirely fought at the Iceberg. As far as I’m aware, this battle was officially considered a draw, although Romans did claim victory (they brought in RPF during it to get a combined force of about 25). A lot of this battle had me doing motivating war speeches against the Romans, lol, it was funny. I remember very specifically Flame showing up to see what was going on and absolutely LOSING IT because the battle went over the 30 minute mark. I think Flame was pretty unaware that the warfare here was very archaic in nature, it’s just funny looking back.

I wrote a post about this after the battle was over. I totally forgot about that post, actually, and it serves as a good time capsule into what the New Viking Alliance lineup was looking like just a day or two into its creation. Ultimately, though, due to the Rebel Penguin Marines associating with the New Viking Alliance, the Romans decided to just stop the war with the promise that they would return if the NVA cut relations with Elmikey. Ironically enough, we did, but they didn’t keep up that promise. In a very anti-climatic sense, the historian analysis (that I didn’t realize happened until after Dino showed me years after the fact) ruled the war score 2-2-2, with it being a UMADKE victory due to the Romans not following their promise. Initially, we just decided to end the war by calling it a “point-of-view” war (keeping the victor up in the air). Funnily enough, we actually wanted to call this war World War IV at one point, but that obviously doesn’t make any sense, but we were all just noobs. 

It was over with that. This war has left a very funny place in my heart. Quite literally, in a historian perspective, this was the actual first true war in the private server era (what makes it a true war is that it was the first war actually fought between two uniformed groups). It just kind of blows my mind that it was really that important for that time period. Like, this war was an actual major development in the end of 2017 due to it shaping the geopolitics heavily. The anti-Romans and anti-RPF sentiment was already there, but this really laid the foundation for what would come for the following year. That is not even considering the influence that the New Viking Alliance would have on the early years of private server armies in itself. It’s funny that Dillon and I can say that we were the main leaders of the winners of the first true war in CPPS Armies. Truly a noob victory, but a good one at that. 

I stepped down from the Dark Knight Emperor not too long after not, and sort of bounced around with armies for a bit. I remember briefly joining Romans for the lowest rank, and helping out with some events. Around this time, I created my first ever alt (and my current recruiting alt) to try to spy on RPF. You see, Clemont and I at DKE shared this sentiment – we did not like RPF. In fact, nobody really liked RPF at this time. Was it jealously? That I am not too sure. I know on my end it wasn’t jealously, I just really disliked their attitudes towards others (to be fair, it was extremely toxic). They were undoubtedly the largest and most isolated army at that time, they were very capable of a 30-60 max at events. They did 100% lie very badly on their results posts for the maxes, it was actually a really major problem that caused in-depth manually counting of events back in early 2019, lol.

So, at this time, I joined the United Republic of Penguins for 2ic and remained in a high spot at the New Viking Alliance, although I did get promoted to leader that same month. The URP was an insanely schizophrenic army at this time. They had people like Standing Bear, Sidiki Ghazi, and Manifest Red – all wackjobs. Some really weird hierarchy going on in that army as well, although I did enjoy working with Moonlocks on diplomatic stuff. Honestly, Moonlocks should’ve been the S/M Legend instead of Manifest Red – he was significantly more impactful in the 2017 army scene than Manifest Red was. At this time I had some pretty serious feuds with CPR staff and moderators. I also remember at this time I did a few invalid revivals of DKE, but ultimately it didn’t amount to much as I felt the regulations on armies imposed by CPR were going to be the death of us. I was wrong.

Towards the end of December we helped grow the New Viking Alliance with more members. I remember becoming good friends with the EGCP people at this time (in particular, Edu14463, Cookky2, and Ratoru). I also joined the Rebel Penguin Marines for a rank, I guess (I was in a lot of armies at once, this was a common issue at the time). I remember at the end of 2017 there was a tournament called Christmas Chaos: Hunt and Kill hosted by Nardo’s news organization, Penguin Press. Honestly, I didn’t know really much of what it even was, not gonna lie. I know it has been retroactively called Christmas Chaos VII, but it was a very unique form of the tournament. My historian analysis that will be on the Wiki eventually will go more in-depth with this, but it was very similar to New Years Bonanza. It was a one day tournament that was judged by some old timer CPA veterans. All I know is that the Elite Guardians won with the Club Penguin Crew in second place.

With that, I can really just conclude much of my 2017 run. It was eventful, particularly with the War of Roman Subjugation, the New Viking Alliance, and the anti-RPF movement starting to really brew even more with Elmikey couped. It’s really an interesting time in armies considering it was essentially a dark era. There was really no united organization that had enough authority to have reputable power in the community (especially after Club Penguin Rewritten Army Central collapsed in September). This was definitely a culturally important time, though. The influence from Nachos and UMA was very felt here. The main uniting thing between most armies (besides Romans) was the united disdain of RPF. This was an era where tournaments meant very little, an era where warfare really began to take the cake in terms of importance (primarily because in 2017-2018 barely any tournaments were hosted properly, and the largest one of 2018’s outcome is still disputed to this day).

An interesting thing to bring up is the fact that I wanted to create my own army and legacy back in this time – but I did not see it as fruitful as I felt armies would inevitably die not too long from then. I was very wrong… literally did not foresee the future the way it was at all. At this time, though, a lot of the old heads were away from CPA and the ones who remained near CPA despised us. Oh yeah, I joined the CP Crew (led by Thomas, yes that Thomas. The army had a very noticeable Nachos influence on it, but was more family friendly) on December 31st, 2017 for 3ic. Penguin Press got defaced by Guta sometime this month, and Army Lounge opened right at the end.

I’d like to just end this off with some folks that I’ve met and became initiated with during this time, then close with some funny memories.

• EmperorFlame (DKE)
• Clemont4 (DKE)
• Yikestbh (DKE)
• Minipenguin (DKE)
• Kellyman7 (DKE)
• Ashlley (DKE)
• 0rockstar0 (DKE)
• Dillon/Bret (UMA)
• Zeke… I guess (UMA)
• Games (UMA)
• Ulysses Nardo (Romans)
• Papa Smurf (Romans)
• Yulichxn (Romans)
• Edenboy6 (Romans)
• Gutavuh (Romans/EGCP)
• Twitchy543 (Romans/RPF)
• Moonlocks (URP)
• Edu14463 (EGCP)
• Cookky2 (EGCP)
• Ratoru (EGCP)
• Elmikey (RPM)
• Thomas (CPC)
• EmoLatina23/Izzy (CPC)
• FabGirl (CPC)
• Sava346 (CPC)
• Flame Tobias… I guess (CPC)
• Agent Rocky… in a cosmic sort of way (CPC)
• Xing (a million diff armies)

2018, Part 1

2018 was by far the most interesting year for me due to the fact I was quite involved in a lot of ways. I’ll try to split this up by the months, as January was all over the place.

New Viking Alliance / United Republic of Penguins / Underground Mafias Army

The New Viking Alliance started off the year strong by planning a massive attack on the Underground Mafias Army – the War on Ehroyals. The main parties involved in planning this: the United Republic and the Elite Guardians, despised UMA due to Dillon in particular. January 6th in particular marked the official declaration of war. EGCP, URP, and CPC launched an all-out attack on January 7th. This included the Battle of Walrus (the Capital battle), as well as the CPPS.me attacks at the end (primarily by EGCP). A NVA council planned to coup Dillon from UMA and put it under the NVA influence. Mason Cooper (the main UMA 2ic at the time) negotiated with the council while I was tasked with trying to socially engineer the NVA influence over the coup – as Mason’s coup was going to involve creating his own server. I had to pose as an older UMA veteran to try to get ownership of the server, but this failed as Mason caught on. Nevertheless, we succeeded in splitting UMA up into a civil war, which led to the New Underground Mafias Army (under Mason) to become influenced by us a bit, even if not the way that we wanted. The war was a success for us.

You can see the other invasions here on the EGCP site. Here is the NUMA site as well, if you’re interested in reading up on this niche history. This was the second war I’ve ever participated in, as well as led in. This was an interesting war as it did shape the geopolitical scene for a bit due to the UMA Civil War ongoing. It’s rare you see wars actually destroy an army. UMA ended up reunited on January 31st and returned as a pretty decent medium army for the time, but more on that later. The New Viking Alliance didn’t last much longer after this. Many of us lost interest as the clear goal began to fade a bit – and the defacing of the URP later in January didn’t help either.

Despite helping the creation of NUMA, I ended up joining Dillon’s side of UMA – in part due to autism and to spy (EHUMA). I had an account named Adolf Anilius that was used to infiltrate, and I joined as a 3ic. UMA was a bit garbage to be a part of, though, because Bret was lazy. Like I said, UMA later unified on January 31st, but I was out of it by then. Moonlocks or someone who shared the Adolf Anilius account with me ended up defacing UMA.

Just sharing this picture because it was interesting. There was a committee of several armies created sometime around January 25th with the goal of declaring a World War on RPF. I remember top figures being Eden and Elmikey trying to organize it. That image there was when we all tried to declare war on RPF, but it never amounted to anything. It especially didn’t help when Security (on his lovely run of defacing stuff) defaced this server as well.

Backtracking a little, this was a time where I (unfortunately or fortunately, however you see it) started to embrace the “edgy” culture at the time. I hung out with people like Zeke and Xing quite a bit, as well as being somewhat of a double agent against Security (you’ll see later on how that went down). As you can imagine, much colorful language was pretty normalized in this era.

Club Penguin Crew

My primary allegiance (especially after URP and NVA died) during January was to the Club Penguin Crew. CPC was on a bit of a rise and was doing pretty good numbers (maxing about 15-25 at events) throughout January. Tymatt and Thomas were leading at this time, and I got promoted to 2ic alongside Zeke during this time. Part of me is curious how much of the maxes were fabricated, as Security was planning a bit of a takeover of CPC, which saw the sizes increase a bit. I met a lot of nice people, though, and it was a nice environment to be in. Had some funny moments, sadly I cannot share them all. Romans declared war on us towards the end of the month in an attempt to revitalize activity in their army. I don’t really have any pictures of this, and as you can see on the Romans site, Romans claimed victory over apparently the Crew running away. Part of me feels like that wasn’t true, as we probably just following the 30 minute rule and we outmaxed Romans. I don’t know, though. Not many pictures really survived from this war. Shared some pictures below with normal events, plus a practice battle with EGCP.

The war ultimately ended when Security threatened Thomas into leaving the army and assumed power. Security specifically sabotaged the first event when Thomas and Tymatt were gone so he could try to prove some point. It was sad, and the Club Penguin Crew Empire was formed as the successor. Refugees from Club Penguin Crew went to different armies, primarily Romans (where I was accepted as a 3ic at). This beef did cause one of my favorite roasts in CPA.

Romans and Dark Knights

I joined the Romans right after the CPC deface and shut down – December 30th. I spent some time there, but the direction of Romans at the time (plus the drive) felt a bit weak. This led to me recreating the Dark Knight Empire – which saw us take old DKE vets, some current Romans troops, and some Crew refugees. Ironically enough, this run of the Dark Knights was actually pretty successful by early 2018 standards, being able to max 10+ (which was considered pretty good for an English army at that time). I also had a major beef with Security – you can take a look at the posts here, they’re pretty golden. Coinciding with this revival was the creation of the Club Penguin Army Syndicate (created by Nardo and Twitchy, ran by latter). This was a pretty major thing, as it brought a degree of organization and rules and was the first league in the private server era. It brought us a map, and subsequently, a massive map race. The Dark Knights began to capture servers quite heavily at this time, we had a pretty good run. I consider this month the Dark Knight Romans month, as you’ll see soon.

There are many more pictures to be found here. One of the best things to spawn out if this era was this meme from my co-leader Clemont:

I also started my trend of doing “Ok” bombs here:

We had some dumb internal drama over the chance of Zeke multilogging (probably did), as well as Clemont being upset over something involving an event. I made a post about it here, and Guta assumed leadership when Clemont left. Love Guta, he’s always been funny but insanely pragmatic. Another ironic thing is that at the end, the Dark Knights actually became the first army to start heavily using Club Penguin Online. I joined CPO very early on (like I must’ve been one of the first 1k people who joined, as I joined through the VirtualPenguin link in early January), and I enjoyed the quiet environment plus the nice interface. Don’t believe me? Check the last 5 events or so from the February run, it’s funny looking back at it. I remember actually threatening to raid CPO (the link above), and Riley went into the DKE server to defuse it. It was funny.

Zeke, who thought it was a good idea to deface the recently unified UMA while leading DKE, basically caused UMA to declare war on us. Some drama also ensued between the Romans and Dark Knights, considering I stole a lot of Romans. I discussed on the night of February 10th with Twitchy and we decided to go ahead with a merger of Dark Knights into Romans. This gave me my Romans leader role, although Guta and Flame were not very happy. We pressed on, though. We held our first event on February 11th (the “Roman Revival Event”), which maxed 15 (no idea why it says 14), which generated a lot of hype at the time. Technically speaking, this triumvirate leadership between Smurf, Ray, and I was when Romans during the CPR era was at it’s peak, since the merger saw Romans averaging sizes of about 10-15 for much of it, which again, was considered very good at this time. UMA was also doing quite well at this time too, averaging about the same sizes. We seized the new hype to declare war on the Underground Mafias Army.

Unfortunately, I pretty much have no images of this war, which sucks. I can summarize it a bit generally (although you can read the wiki page):
When we first started the war, I secured a colony with the Hawk Knights (also known as the Hawk Rebellion Catch). They aided us in some battles, and actually invaded a server from under the UMA noses (it was funny). The war had a shenanigan at the start due to the 24 hour rule, but my approach when leading was just to take things a bit slowly and focus on the US front. We lost some servers, but in terms of pure success in this war, Romans was doing much better max wise and battle wise. UMA tried their method of spamming invasions at bad times, but they couldn’t max enough at the invasions, so they ended up losing those invasions. You guys should check out the art that BloodPanther (HRC leader and a mod at Romans) made, they really emphasized the larpiness of the time.

The war concluded after the final invasion, the re-capture of our capital, Blizzard (second image shown). The war ended with the land in and war score (4-1, Romans) in favor of Romans, but we decided to end things off with neutrality by signing the Treaty of Blizzard. This returned the land to each side and we decided to gang up with the Crew Empire to take out the Elite Guardians, who at this point were the dominant army on the map and were gobbling up all land. 

UMA spearheaded Operation: Neptune Spear, but the operation was a failure as the war prep was poorly planned. I personally didn’t have my heart into it either, as I was good friends with the guys from EGCP. Romans withdrew from the war, UMA eventually left CPAS altogether and disbanded. Safe to say that EGCP won the map race, although Romans was a good second place at the end of the UMA war.

Romans hype began to die down a bit, and what hurt the hype even more was when RPF decided to pull the longstanding alliance with Romans. I personally didn’t do anything to take away from that alliance, despite my reserves, but they did NOT like having me leading or having NullType (a good friend of mine and the one who DDoSed the RPF site in December) as a high command. This really blew a lot of our hype, and Romans looked a bit bleak. My intention was to keep leading until April or so, but Twitchy convinced Ray and I (Smurf left to lead Kings) to shut down the army (Twitchy exaggerates the situation a bit in this post, but still a good read). We held our last event on the last day of CP Rewritten (it was closing at that time), March 2nd. What truly, truly infuriated me was the fact that RPF decided to raid the closing event. This was a huge slap in the face to myself and the others at Romans. In particular, it made me really dislike the Leftpopkick triumvirate. As you can imagine, that fueled me a bit for later developments, but that is later. I retired on the day Romans ended.

I left the army community in the month of March. I remained briefly for a little bit – I advised the Rebel Alliance of Club Penguin (RAC) (and no, they never maxed 30 in 2018), I joined EGCP for 3ic (and did nothing), and I helped Eden with some projects. I abruptly left in the later parts of March 2018 without any trace. Just went on invisible and stopped doing CPA. I ended up going to another community, which was strategy based, and became an administrator of a streamers Discord server (whole other debacle there). Met some cool people there, and I ended up finding a roleplay server. Ironically enough, I met Dino for the first time at that community and I pretended like that I didn’t know what RPF was (he had RPF in his bio since he was a troop or lower staff at that time). Oh yeah and in terms of CPA, I guess Ray took over at the CP Army Syndicate (which died in April).

A few miscellaneous things I’d like to end this section with. I will not say I am the person responsible for it, but I did play a large role in the revival of the CPA Wikipedia. I frequently began to edit the CPA Wiki in December 2017 (Rowan started at this time, albeit very lowkey) and it eventually spread to others like BloodPanther. This is how I met Water Ninjas creator Jayden. Another big thing that went on during this time was actually a Water Ninjas revival by Eden, which did decent numbers for the time before it died (aka Atticus wanted it dead). I know LordNinja24 also held a tournament known as the Sound of Soldiers that EGCP ended up winning. I don’t really remember this tournament much on my end. Xing ran a news organization (while he was a 2ic at Romans) called the Daily Small Medium Army News. This news organization, while didn’t last long, did generate quite a bit of buzz and attempted to host a tournament (that ended up not finishing because of Security defacing it). Apparently I was the Vice President. For some reason these (clearly not bias!) awards given at this time apparently held some merit, so I will list them off (cause they’re relevant to me):

• Most Influential Leader – Cobra
• Best Dictator – Elmikey
• Most Influential News Site – DSMAN (ironically, at this time, this was true since Zeke’s SMAN was poop)
• Most Influential Army – Romans
• Best Army Name – Romans
• Worst Army – Rebel Penguin Marines

That about wraps things up, going to share some funny moments and list some honorable mentions.

• HawkGuy (HKCP)
• BloodPanther (HKCP/Romans)
• Arureadindis (CPC)
• Tymatt (CPC)
• DramaAlert (CPC)
• Mason Cooper (UMA)
• JoshUMABeast (UMA)
• REGGI (UMA) – I didn’t mention the RAM era… best not to
• Hyperstar (Romans)
• Brownpen4 (Romans/RACP)
• Ray (Romans)
• NullType (Romans/DKE)
• Antonio (Romans)
• Penguintimm (RPM)
• Clout (RPM)
• Imogen (RPM)
• Earthing (Nazis)

2018, Part 2

After spending some time away, I found myself back into armies by the summer of 2018, although I didn’t necessarily want to unretire originally. I came back into contact with my old peers from Romans and we made a Romans veteran chat (a brief little aside, I won’t mention this much, but I did manage a Dark Knights veteran server throughout 2018 where I got close with some people like Ana and Sava). The return to the community saw me communicating with people like Cookky, with whom I began to become quite close with at this time. I came in contact with the Nachos veteran chat, where I met some cool people like Flames370, Bill, Eli, Kevin, Shiver, Bryce among others, even if they were insane.

I fully rejoined on June 30th, joining the Underground Mafias Army for 3ic. This was ironically a pretty successful generation for UMA size-wise (they ran on CPO), although I feel it was pretty heavily multilogged. I didn’t get along with the people there that much – especially Zeke.

I did not stay there very long – I began to focus on my efforts for the creation of the Nova Phoenix Corps, which was an official Romans successor. I’m just going to cut the Nova Phoenix Corps story short, as it’s really not too impactful for my career. Twitchy, Moondog, Ray, Yuli, and myself composed of that higher command (Twitchy and Moondog as advisors). It was not really a successful time, and I eventually stepped back from leader to focus on my other endeavors. We never really put our heart and souls into leading this army, though, and I personally didn’t when I began to focus on some other endeavors.

What really shaped my time here in (the first half) of summer 2018 was my work in the newly revived Templars. I toyed with the idea of trying to join RPF, but that never worked out as I kept being banned, so I worked at Templars as an advisor originally. This was a time when the Club Penguin Online Army League was first formed. It was a bit hands-off as things went, as Waterkid (or Riley as many people know him as; the owner of CPO) mostly used it just as a forum and to post other armies at the time. This was a bit of a renaissance for armies at the time, as CPO was growing, some veterans returned, and it was summer in general.

At Templars, I played a pretty hands on role as an advisor. Elmikey and Xing were leading, but I worked a bit close with them as an advisor. What really changed it all was my last ban from RPF, as well as the beef. You see, Xing multilogged an event with the accounts “Japaneseguy” and “Britishguy”, and I think even a “Flipmoo” was a multilog. Silverburg, who despite being inactive for much of summer 2017 and most of 2018, was around at this time and saw the event. He immediately smelled multilogging (it was a bit obvious) and called it out. I remember Xing denied it and actually Earthing made alts to say that they were his friends. It was funny stuff. That being said, RPF actually used this as a justification to go to war against Templars, and I officially joined as a Templars 2ic. Despite me being recognized as such, I technically did not officially lead Templars at that time. It’s one of a few cases in my career where I served as a 2ic but assumed leader responsibilities. It was a bit prevalent here, though, as I led events, battles, did diplomacy, directed the army, made plans, and managed the site. If I am not remembering wrong, I believe it was me who made most of the response posts from Templars, but I could be wrong.

Nevertheless, the war technically began right before the declaration, when RPF raided us at a normal event. We were raided on 6th July, and it beat us back quite a bit. The war was declared the next day. Sadly, I don’t have many pictures of this war on the Templars side. I just remember it was quite a rallying moment, though. We really got into this war. Elmikey really helped a lot as a good figurehead, and Xing and I did a good job at managing the troops itself. This really was the only time in my CPA career I fully worked with Xing, and I did enjoy this run. The battles in this war on the Templars side were primarily led by Xing and I; I cannot say Elmikey does not deserve any credit because that is very wrong. He was a great director and personality during this entire war. He really did help give us that sense of nationalism, as well as giving some seriously good advice to us. This effort wouldn’t have been without his supervision; even if Xing and I did the labor.

July 9th marked the next battle. We were doing a recruiting and training event, we got raided unexpectedly. This war itself did not have many formal battles, much of them were done in the form of a raid (aka, just attacking an army’s event). RPF was much larger than us during this raid and pretty much covered us the entire time, so it was definitely a L. Was an iconic moment, though, as the army felt really united. We called the war the Second Great Holy War initially (the first being a Templars war against EGCP a few months prior).

To take a brief aside from this – I actually began to help the Pizza Federation around this time. They were not known as the Pizza Federation, but sometime in the early parts of July, I convinced them to allow me in as a Chief Advisor to help modernize the army. I saw that they operated on CP Rewritten as a rogue army that had no knowledge or capabilities of a normal army. I really don’t know what compelled me to help either, but I managed to convince them to hire me. I fixed up the Discord and I led an event to teach them how tactics and formations worked. It is a bit funny looking back just of how random it was. Not sure why I helped them or felt connected to do it, but I was glad to have helped.

Continuing on, just to get it out of the way, I still helped Pizza Federation throughout the war. I documented their history, put up the Pizza War wiki page, and I also fixed up their site entirely. Shame that it is not around, although this rare site I found does preserve some of the old site structure pretty well. I got them to try out CP Online and start using it, although the success they had on CPO wasn’t on the scale of CPR (due to having to start anew there). The Pizza Federation was known as the Pizza Bois Rebellion at this time, actually. I can’t remember the exact time period when, but sometime in mid-July I suggested that PBR change their name. We went on a name hunt and eventually voted to use Pizza Federation. I believe it was a name that Chelpopkick (the PZF leader at that time and a later good friend of mine) and I came up as an alternative to Pizza Republic as the name was previously used. Might get a better idea of the PZF history around this time by looking at the wiki page and the website I hyperlinked above. I’d also like to extend the fact that I updated the wiki page in real time during this summer, especially with the war. This was a time when Rowan was starting to have his subtle rise, as I remember Rowan editing pages at this time. More on that later.

The culture inside of Templars at this time was pretty nice, not gonna lie. The war hype was very much there; throughout the entirety of the war it was common for us to be in a voice chat at all hours of the night listening to Sabaton. I never really participated in a war that had this scale of war hype, to be honest. On July 9th, EGCP released a pretty cool video teasing a fight with RPF. While EGCP was not involved in the war at this time (and I think they tried to get Wild Ninjas involved), EGCP was pretty supportive of our war efforts and contributed quite a bit to the hype with that video. I remember talking to Cookky about it and he did tease the possibility of EGCP joining in, they just weren’t sure yet. Just another aside – the Nachos chat had some serious autism at this time (especially with Jojas chilling around here), I remember being in a VC with them and we queued the most random stuff that kept playing. It was pretty funny.

A certain project by RPF known as Operation: Dynamis occurred within the first few days of this war. I don’t really know the exact date, but I do know it was around this time. Plane, a RPF AUSIA HCOM, left the army and joined Templars to become an AUSIA leader. Honestly, I smelled BS immediately and knew he was a spy – I in fact confronted him but said I wouldn’t say anything. He didn’t say he was a spy or even reply, but I knew he was a spy. I’m not sure why I didn’t say anything either. Maybe I just liked the drama, or I had some reserve with RPF. Nevertheless, I was proven right when RPF leaked a post with just some offensive things that we said (and maybe some talk about mutlilogs). We released a post on Templars basically just saying they were wrong and what-not. This really did not affect the war.

July 10th marked what is known as the Tuesday Raids. This was unique in that it had major effects on the momentum of this war. Templars held a recruiting event (I believe around 4 PM EST). RPF, in their typical fashion, decided to raid us again. This one was considered pretty major for Templars, though. While RPF was about double our size (30 vs 15) and RPF utilized formations better, RPF was a bit lazy in this raid. It was probably due to cockiness on their part, but tradition holds that Templars held an advantage tactically during it, or at least, were able to match the momentum of RPF. Quite honestly, I am not sure if this was truly a Templars victory, but it certainly felt like one internally as I do remember it generating a decent bit of hype internally. I do think this did mark a moment where the momentum was gaining on the Templars side.

At night, what really started to cement this as a bigger war as the second raid. The Pizza Federation (known as the Pizza Bois Rebellion still) was holding a recruiting session on Club Penguin Online, one of their first events on that CPPS. It was going normally until I got a message from PZF that some RPF were attacking their event. I showed up to inspect the situation and sure enough, a small gang of RPF were attacking them.

I have no idea why I was on my alt (oneonethird), just a funny detail I forgot about. Anyways, I called in reinforcements on the Templars side and RPF got in some reinforcements as well.

After that concluded, it didn’t take much convincing from me to get PZF to declare war on RPF. They did, and became the first external army to join the war effort. As you can see in the above screenshots, Templars capitalized on the fact that RPF were not restraining their troops and causing further conflict. It was actually a good rallying cry for the war effort. Another aside: contrary to what Bscharbach2 says (although he was a prominent RPF troop at the time), these Tuesdays Raids were not directly caused by him and they did not lead to a 60 v 60 fight. No idea how he thought he could lie that much, lol. 

No fighting really occurred for the next few days, we just chilled outside of heavy trash talking in that CPOAL chat. The trash talking was pretty funny at times, I cannot lie. One of the funniest instances was when Elmikey said “My army knows what I am” and Percy from RPF replied with “UnEmPlOyEd”. Wish I had the screenshot, because that was funny. An army known as the Elite Trackers and Activities was formed around this time, led by a CPO mod named Malcolm. Did not like that dude, he was a bit trigger happy with a ban (he banned me from CPOAL due to beefing with him) and ETA sucked. More on that later.

I start to run out of pictures for much of what has occurred past this point. My old colony the Hawk Knights ended up declaring on Templars on July 13th. UMA did too, but neither of those two really contributed. I remember beefing with UMA leader Games quite a bit, actually. Some people joined Templars during the next few days, that being Epic101, Freezie, and Reacon. Epic101 joined to lead, and due to his moderator status on CPO, Templars was able to take a boost. His help of Templars in some ways definitely laid the roots for the moderator/administrator bias for several armies on CPO for subsequent years.

A big moment in the war was a formal against EGCP and RPF. The Wiki has it listed as a raid, but this post indicates it was “friendly”. The battle did occur as a response to numerous RPF raids on EGCP, so I assume it was not a practice battle, but just a formal battle. Nevertheless, it was a big moment, because, as you can tell, EGCP came out victorious in the battle. This marked the first time that RPF in full force was beaten by another army in full force, which was pretty cool and really helped with hype. If I am not mistaken, I joined EGCP for advisor right around this time of the battle, so I was able to help convince EGCP go to war further. I know some beef occurred between RPF and EGCP after this, primarily with some racist comments coming from RPF (wouldn’t expect that, would you?).

After some convincing from Xing and I, we got another army, known as the Club Penguin Socialist Movement (led by Shinzo and GaryChalmers) to join the war effort on July 24th. Legends Cup was going on around this time, and to be honest, I don’t know the timelines very well of this. I will just say that I don’t think we (Templars) participated due to to ETA getting special advertisement (which was stupid, btw). ETA was capable of very large maxes cause of that, and Templars was really only capable of pulling 30 at an absolute maximum. If we did participate, I don’t recall what we did honestly. I probably led in it, I just really don’t remember this battle.

For Legends Cup, I attended for EGCP in the Help Force quarters and the RPF semi-finals. I think pretty much anyone from that time can attest to the RPF semi-finals being the real finals, as the battle was very intense. RPF won in overtime, and EGCP would go onto secure the third place position against the Dancing Sharks. I remember the Nachos vets said they would support EGCP if they fought RPF, and when we did, they didn’t join and kicked me from Nachos when I called them out for it. Made me laugh. Dan101 did help out though, he was always good to EGCP.

Throughout that 2 week period of minor activities in the war, talks of forming a massive alliance occurred. The Red Dawn Alliance groupchat (which I still have lol) was created by Edu on July 19th. It consisted of Templars leaders, Wild Ninjas, and EGCP leaders.

We talked turkey and eventually formalized the alliance on July 25th. Wild Ninjas ultimately did not join in this alliance and the discussions were between Elm, Xing, Edu, Cookky, and myself. We created a server, set it up, and invited several armies (EGCP, TCP, PZF, and CPSM), but I also got armies like the Sharks and Water Ninjas. Epic101 joined us to help lead this alliance, and he did provide some with his own armies, the Omegas, but the size contributions were not much. The alliance throughout the duration of the war consisted of like 50% EGCP (providing a 30-50 max) and 35% Templars (providing a 15-25 max), with the remaining 15% being the other armies. This massive alliance generated a lot of hype and led to the war to be reclassified as World War VII. We held a joint event that very day, and we maxed over 50 at it. It was really gratifying to lead such a large force.

We chose to have a red design. It appealed more to rogues, so RPF would call us the Red Rogue Alliance. That being said, the force we could amass was very good. Chip from RPF created an alliance to counter us sometime later in the war known as United Armies of Club Penguin Online, consisting of ETA and RPF. It was pretty poorly organized (definitely not to the scale of the RDA), so while they in theory could outmax us, that never happened. I joined EGCP officially on July 25th, which is considered the beginning of my term as an “acting leader” at EGCP – although I was officially HCOM. Many jokes were made about that due to my status there. Elmikey kicked me out of Templars because he had a schizo moment, thinking I was a RPF spy. We kept on working at the RDA, though, so I have no idea what even occurred.

On 28th July, EGCP fully declared war on RPF. I don’t know if this is the post or not, but this was a classic at the time. We launched an invasion of the server Alaska on July 29th. RPF no-showed it, and we maxed around 60-70 at this battle. Again, it was gratifying. We really began to hate Epic, though, because when he led he would sometimes to “Epic owns”. Deep down, he was trying to steal the troop base of RDA to boost his own army, the Omegas. It did not work, though.

We communicated with Left, and Edu set up a date and rooms to fight against RPF formally. Biggest issue is, Left was Toysoldier. He was going to play dirty and be a scumbag about it. That was what he was known for. It was funny when he admitted he was Toy too, by the way.

We went to battle and both brought quite a large amount of force on each side, probably about 60 on each side. Just one problem, look below at the before (the battle started) and after (the battle began).

One problem occurred. Pretty much the entire UAC force was in the room, with a fraction of the RDA force in the room. I was one of the only leaders of the RDA that could actually lead in the room, lol. This raised some serious questions: did they cheat? Well, the official conclusion was that they indeed did. You see, lockouts were certainly expected and were not rare during this summer during major battles. There still was a possibility to have the entire alliance in the room if one side really was just that slow. The problem is – we weren’t that slow. The rooms were predetermined with Left and we moved directly once the clock struck… to then come in and see everyone was there already in formation, lol. The official verdict by non bias people (like Rowan) was that RPF cheated and RDA won by technicality. We did have the higher max overall. Left did try to deny this, but that wasn’t taken seriously. Templars was later banned that day from Club Penguin Online – I assume it had stuff to do with Elmikey’s beef with Waterkid. Nevertheless, the Templars troops still remained in the RDA.

We had one last battle – a RDA raid on RPF, on August 3rd. It was very close and by modern day standards – probably a draw. Both sides claimed victory, personally in retrospect I think it is impossible to declare who won, although RPF held a degree of size advantage it seems.

That pretty marked the end of fighting. The next day, most of the armies in the Red Dawn Alliance were banned off of Club Penguin Online and Waterkid had his goon, Epic101, deface the RDA server. Instead of me sharing tons of screenshots, you can read the expose post I later wrote here. Epic did make a response but deleted it after. He actually had administrator on the RDA website and deleted the expose post too, lol, but I put it back up in 2020 since I had it all archived. RPF claimed victory and said that the RDA disbanded, but that was not the case. The alliance still operated in the group chat and EGCP still remained on CPO. RPF and EGCP just made no actions against one another – definitely due to both sides declaring victory. The war ended on August 15th when RPF shut down, with the war score in favor of the anti-RPF side. This really was the first time since the closure of Club Penguin than an army (EGCP) matched the might of RPF, as well as the first time that they saw a major loss.

That concludes World War VII. I have a million more pictures of the Red Dawn Alliance, as well as some of EGCP during that war, but it’s just too much to post here. During that period, there was a lot of autism to go on throughout the community. Jojas was a big guy who pushed a lot of that stuff, but I also met a Nachos vet (who would join EGCP) named Rozzo41. One of my favorite moments was in August when Rozzo, Cookky, and I made a music video. I really got close with those gentlemen in those days, and that started a never-ending brotherhood with them. I really do miss it.

I remained working in the Templars and EGCP sphere all the way until October. For EGCP, I did more diplomacy than other stuff. For Templars, I helped lead at times and helped set up their many revivals (including the neo-RPF, I made the site and Discord set up). I was doing two armies at once at that time in important roles, although I didn’t find it really that taxing. I had interest in the Penguin Falls CPPS too, as armies were potentially going to take part, but Security defaced that. I officially became Templars leader in October 2018 leading alongside Clade, Jay, Chel, and Xing – while also doing EGCP. I eventually left all of my posts for about two months until December, just for a mental health break. There isn’t much for me to write home about what occurred during that period. Stuff happened, I just definitely forgot most of it as not much action really occurred until December. Just did normal stuff at EGCP and Templars. I do remember closing down the RDA in October, though. I was inducted as a Templars Legend in October 2018, for my work over the past few months. I’m obviously not a Templars Legend like Xing or some that came after me, but I do feel it was warranted. I did play a large role in actually allowing Templars to survive, as well as constructing parts of its culture – as well as setting it up a million times. Surprised it was never revoked due to beefs, though. More on that later.

Before I left, I do remember trying to help out EGCP a lot with security issues. We got horribly defaced in October (the crashout we all had was bad) by some French dude named Dabbah. It has since became a meme. I also remember when Edu was threatened to be doxxed by Security, so our response was to lock down everything hard. I also created one of EGCP’s best inventions – the Guardian Bot. In particular, this one that I made would really ramp up the spamming and autism. It was good for annoying and bullying people. Has become a meme in recent memories. Sadly, the pictures are deleted but it was funny. I still have the code for it too.

In addition, this was a time when Eden organized some of his early anti-Corruption efforts. Nardo, Eden, Moonlocks, and myself worked together to try to undermine Club Penguin Central (the news site at the time), Club Penguin Online, and Pirates. We had a degree of success, but ultimately it just laid the foundation for the future operations. This is also when Eden and I first created ProSect, which was reserved for more intensive operations, those of which I won’t mention.

I have a lack of pictures, but as I mentioned previously, RPF shut down and became RF on August 15th. A massive event in October occurred, where Security, Freezie, and Elmikey staged a massive deface on RPF. It was actually huge, the website lost 4 years of history, a LOT of IP addresses were captured, the Discord destroyed, and several people doxxed. Junie was the one who was threatened and then hacked. Despite RPF being an opp, I did not like the defacing. It made me pretty mad, actually, as I felt this was a loser move. I do not have the old announcements at the time referencing this defacement, but I do have this gem:

After my mental health break, I returned in December. I returned in the middle of a war that occurred during Christmas Chaos. I’m just looking at the chat logs right now and I’m laughing a bit. I joined back in the middle of December, and was immediately put into something we at EGCP called the War Team. This was a team that primarily composed of Cookky, Edu, and myself (probably some others), but we used that to plan the next actions against Templars. I totally forgot how in depth I was taking this, it is making me laugh a bit. I was giving a lot of tips on when to raid and what battles to fight, as well as a lot of tips on spying. It is funny, I totally forgot how in depth this effort was. Templars kept trying to claim victory despite performing like booty during most of it. Right at this time I pitched the idea to the EGCP team about the recreation of the New Viking Alliance.

Before we did that, though, we had to finish up the war with Templars. Towards the end, Templars were definitely losing and could not continue fighting us. It seems EGCP also predicted the controversy over their Christmas Chaos battle – Templars were declared to win to cause controversy to allow a 3 way final. Nevertheless, EGCP and Templars concluded the war. I drafted the treaty and we did some final edits. They saw what was up and opposed it, but still signed anyways. Makes me laugh a bit.

This was a time where I was being quite discreet and I did not want to affiliate much with CPOAL (I despised Epic, it was better for Edu to have that role anyways) and instead focus on direct army relations. However, the following day, Cookky and I revived the New Viking Alliance.

I don’t recall all of the armies that joined right at the end of 2018, though I do recall Templars being one. I think the first generation of Aliens did as well, probably the Pizza Federation too. There were some other armies, the wiki has a decent article on the NVA. The alliance for a while was effectively ran by Cookky, Edu, and myself – until Cookky and I retired and lessened our involvement (will be later). I do know that there was a battle organized against Pirates (the main reason we formed the NVA initially was to combat Pirates – they had way too much power), although I don’t really recall much about the battle. I do not know if I was even able to make it. Edu doesn’t remember much about it either, but I know it did happen.

To be truthful, the New Viking Alliance did have a degree of second intentions – dominate diplomatically. Granted, that did work. The New Viking Alliance across much of 2019 did have the most diplomatic power in the community. It was sort of like the Black Ice Alliance, except EGCP ran the alliance and the others were S/M armies. That being said, it was also like a really big brotherhood. We were really close. Second intentions started it, but it grew into genuine interest between armies who cared about each other.

The last big thing I can really reference from 2018 was more so is a retrospective analysis. The CPOAL corruption in Christmas Chaos. I’ve never given an analysis, but I’d like to make a few things clear. Pirates, Templars, and EGCP fought in a three-way finals in Christmas Chaos in 2018. The league from November to December 2018 was ran by Epic101, who was leading both Pirates and Light Troops. The judges of this battle were CPO staff – Epic was also a CPO administrator. EGCP delves into the issue here, as well as has their own video – but essentially the Pirates were suspected of having judge bias but also entering rooms early. To be fair, EGCP maxed 65 and Pirates around 80, and nearly the entire force of Pirates was in the room instantly. What bothers me is that the lockouts were in a room that the judges called to be the first room (the stadium), as confirmed in this post here by Pirates. Further adding salt into the wound, Pirates confirmed that they were the only army to receive coins in this tournament in their response post to EGCP. This stuff would absolutely not fly in today’s era, and it was clear it did not fly back then either. Templars and EGCP rejected the official results, holding a finals of their own, and subsequently the CPR side of the community (will be gone into that later) also did not recognize this victory by Pirates. Quite literally nobody really recognized it until 2023, as far as I am aware, but even then it is always mentioned with an asterisk.

Now granted, I did not have any participation in the Christmas Chaos tournament preparations. I wasn’t able to even attend either – but that does not mean I did not hear about it and wasn’t angered. I am still bothered by it to this day to a degree, although I don’t lose sleep over it.

The last thing I’d like to mention is the year end Legend Inductions in 2018 (as well as awards) being a complete sham. The awards claimed to represent the entirety of CPO Armies since May 2018, but look at how skewed this is lol. Ayan not mentioned, Popsicle not mentioned, Chip not mentioned, Left not mentioned, Elmikey not mentioned, no mentions of any of the other Templars or EGCP leaders, and no mentions of anything from earlier in 2018, lol.

The main issue, though, is definitely the legend induction process.

Popular vote in a community that is insanely skewed towards Pirates (them being the largest army due to their CPO advertisement and coins) – as well as a lack of mentioning the actual impactful people from 2018. This legend nomination is more so just the people from the last two months of 2018. Some other nominations would’ve went a long way: Cookky, Twitchy, Popsicle, Left, Chip, Malcolm, Ayan, SlowFood, Victoria, Dillon, Games, myself, among many others. These were all big names that were plastered all over 2018. None mentioned. Go figure, look at who won:

Is it any wonder that the back-to-back noob of the year from OG armies was awarded Legend in the most noob ran Legend Induction, point blank period. Now granted, I do agree that Epic101 is a CPA Legend, but definitely not for 2018. Someone who joins in July, does nothing significant (he barely even contributed to the WW7 effort) besides leading a coin-fed Pirates, and only rises to actual notoriety at the last two months… are we serious? It’s more of a beef with principle. You’ll see I will mention that a lot throughout this post. Rant over, my point is anything from CPO needs to be looked with an asterisk. There is a reason why us CPRA veterans despise CPO armies.

That concludes 2018. This was a busy year for me and a busy year for CPA in itself. As far as I am aware, a total of 8 truly significant wars occurred. We had three tournaments – the last being insanely controversial. For me, this was a peak in my career. I led in 5 of those 8 wars, being able to secure a victory/advantage in 4 of them. This was definitely a large peak in my career, especially as a war leader and diplomat. I believe by pure diplomatic and warfare success, it was Cookky, Edu, and myself who took the cake here. I always looked back at this year with a lot of fond memories. This also really started that career where I publicly would shadow lead. I considered for the longest time my service in Templars and EGCP to by my main, and that is thanks to my service in 2018, where I would be recognized as a leader in both despite not officially leading until later dates. It is important to note that my time at EGCP was dedicated purely to warfare and diplomacy; I did not attend many events and the only other things I worked on was the Guardian Bot, security, and a lot of cultural stuff (such as being a dictator). I don’t mean to say this in a boasting way, this was just a big part of my childhood that I enjoyed heavily. Things happened quickly at this time. Armies came and went very fast. Tournaments were corrupt or disorganized. Wars were plentiful and full of action. Things were much more personalized this year. Things were also unsafe. The amount of people hacked, doxxed, threatened, etc. was quite astonishing. It was not even remotely close to the safety at this time.

With that, some honorable mentions and funny memories.

• ItVaries (Templars)
• That one dude with the Waluigi pic, I’m really sorry I cannot remember who you are (Templars)
• Freezie (Templars)
• Earthing (Templars)
• Clade (Templars)
• Jay (Templars)
• Chelpopkick (PZF)
• Neptune (PZF)
• R3tro (PZF)
• Maid (RPF)
• Percy (RPF)
• Waduhek (RPF)
• Moondog (Romans)
• Bam117 (UMA)
• Daniel (UMA)
• Justinfortsa (UMA)
• Shinzo (CPSM)
• GaryChalmers (CPSM)
• Shoriango (EGCP)
• Rozzo41 (EGCP)
• Ratio (EGCP)
• SamuraiNoob (EGCP)
• SlowFood (EGCP)
• Victoria484 (EGCP)
• Dolly (EGCP)
• Pedrox (EGCP)
• Lass (EGCP)
• Pepe (EGCP)
• Bill (veteran)
• Flames370 (veteran)
• Jojas3 (veteran)
• Eli (veteran)
• Austin (veteran)
• Kevin/BBatman3 (veteran)
• Dan101 (veteran)
• Lord Pain (veteran)

ACCOLADES FOR 2018

• Daily Small Medium Armies: Most Influential Leader, as Cobra (Feb 2018)
• Daily Small Medium Armies: Best News Site, as DSMAN Vice President (Feb 2018)
• Daily Small Medium Armies: Most Influential Army, as Romans Leader (Feb 2018)
• Daily Small Medium Armies: Best Army Name, as Romans Leader (Feb 2018)
• Pizza Federation: Hall of Fame, as Cobra (Jul 2018)
• EGCP: Bronze Star, as Cobra (Jul 2018)
• EGCP: Combat Medal, as Cobra (Aug 2018)
• EGCP: War Medal, as Cobra (Aug 2018)
• EGCP: Silver Star, as Cobra (Aug 2018)
• EGCP: Honorable Mention, as Cobra (Aug 2018)
• Templars: Legend, as Cobra (Oct 2018)

2019, Part One

The month of January was a busy month. I will do my best to find the best sources that I can, but finding sources here are a bit scarce. A lot of it will be trusting my word of mouth, but bare with me. Essentially, on January 6th, several troops left the Templars claiming that Xing was a racist dictator. These troops consisted of higher command leaders: Shinzo, GaryChalmers, Snork, Dagyr3, and Ripmam being the most prominent ones. They came to the New Viking Alliance for assistance, and soon after, Xing and the Templars were removed from the alliance. These troops who left wanted to create their own army; that army would go onto be the Winged Hussars. TCP and NVA did not directly fight in any formal battles or invasions, rather it was fought through raids. I did not partake in leading the raids, although I did organize the raids and help with the diplomacy/strategy of this war. This was a time when Guta returned to EGCP, he did much of the leading here alongside Edu. We went to war formally on 12th January. Interesting post covered some of the war here.

 

 

 

The war only had two raids, but it was still impactful. In the meantime, Edu and I were hired as advisors at the Winged Hussars, where we helped set it up and gave them some good leading advice. Nothing really occurred after the raid on the 21st, although that was because there was a bit of an unofficial agreement as a massive exodus from Club Penguin Online was being planned. You see, as information about the conduct of the administrator came more public, as well as the conduct of Epic making him quite possibly the most disliked person at that time, a lot of people wanted to quit. The anti-Corruption team that Eden led was transformed to have Chel, Cookky, Edu, Eden, and myself in the team. We organized a massive exodus, bringing in EGCP, PZF, WH, TCP, among other armies with us, which led to the CPOAL losing most of their armies (all on January 26th). The only prominent armies I remember staying at CPO were Help Force and Pirates. Literally.

Following that, we had to come to an agreement to end the war with Templars, just for the sake of ending it. That led to me drafting the Blizzard Armistice (no pictures of Templars agreeing exists, but this is essentially what it is, although I added the “recognize WH as a valid army”):

With that, independence secured. After that massive exodus from Club Penguin Online, we were without an organization at first. There was some debacle with Flen and the Help Force, and he ultimately would go onto be the one who would found the first organization after CPAOL – the Club Penguin Army Syndicate (called CPAC at first before Bluesockwa2 made an appearance to tell him to stop).

Sadly, most information in regards to that league is non-existent now. Flen served as the owner and developer, Hexxer was the media admin, and I was hired as the league admin. I worked with Flen to bring back the map, and I managed the map at that time and took inspiration from Twitchy to adapt it. I do know I implemented a claims system, as well as tried to find a better way to deliberate outcome of battles. I remember I specifically had to deliberate the outcome of a battle with Templars and EGCP, and I got called bias for EGCP (you right). Flen worked on, privately, the creation of an army based CPPS. It was actually real. Outside of that, the organization had a history forum, did Top Ten posts, had a posts about server raids (I did that one), and had a solid army board representation. I cannot remember all the reforms that I did for the league, but I do know they were a little more refined than Twitchy’s. The organization was renamed to Club Penguin Army Syndicate sometime in February. I cannot pin point exactly when this organization was made, but it was in February. Armies that participated were UMA, PZF, TCP, RPF, EGCP, WH, and I believe a few others.

The big, long-lasting thing that this organization did was legends. We held a legend induction, primarily for 2018 legends. We did not recognize Epic’s legend status. We had a few debacles to work out: you see, I created a legends page on the CPA Wiki in summer 2018 that had all of the CPAC legends. I also added some CPPS legends – those being Elmikey, Silverburg, Cookky, Toolbox, and Popsiclebeak. I didn’t really know better, and I added them all under weird notions. I especially messed up with Silverburg and Toolbox – I misattributed Silverburg as the main person to move RPF to CPR as his sole reason of being legend, and Toolbox was someone who pretended to be the Tubas leader and founder in 2017. No idea why I fell for that. Flen recognized all of those legends except for Elmikey’s, as he is already a legend. The nominations for the 2018 legends were decided by the army board and advisors – the nominees came down to Xing, Chelpopkick, Edu14463, Twitchy543, and myself. All for major legend, we did not do one for S/M legend. The process also used popular vote, but was based on a threshold.

Flen never explained fully what the threshold is, as he managed it himself. He was a little corrupt, because I believe he put himself as legend but do not quote me on that. Nevertheless, Chelpopkick did not reach the threshold, and Xing was removed due to fake votes. The inductees were myself, Edu, and Twitchy. With that, the 2017 legends had Toolbox and Silverburg, and 2018 had Popsiclebeak, Twitchy543, Edu14463, and myself.

Flen would kill the league in March, after some pointless controversy, and essentially try to give it over to Epic. I know Shad returned around this time, and Eden was an advisor at CPAS as well. CPAS, due to Flen, laid the groundwork for the Club Penguin Armies (2019) league in some aspects. Following the death of the league, I started to care a bit less and just relaxed at EGCP. I did do some stuff for the NVA over the months since January, but I laxed things a bit and wasn’t as hands on. I mostly relaxed in EGCP to bully people.

The last major project I remember working on was another era of reconstructing the Pizza Federation in early April. I did not mention it before, but the Pizza Federation did briefly merge into the Nova Phoenix Corps back in August 2018. PZF returned in September 2018, and I assumed my Discord ownership and chief advisor status not too long after. I essentially decided to play into the Roman identity and created a new constitution/government, new ranks, and fixed up the server. I served as the first Consul (which was an advisor guardian role), and while the exact structure didn’t remain in contact, the general structure of this remained until PZF’s closure in 2021. 

That essentially wraps up the first half of 2019 for me. After April, I chilled out mostly and did not do a whole lot until the summertime. I’ll close with some honorable mentions, but there are really no standout memories from this era that I’m allowed to share on this website, lol.

• Hexxer (CPAS)
• Flen (CPAS)
• Snork (WH)
• Dagyr3 (WH)
• Ripmam (WH)
• Arne (PZF)
• Hidcre (PZF)

2019, Part Two

Throughout the next months between April and August, I really did not do a whole lot CPA wise. I advised EGCP and PZF on some matters, as well as worked with Eden on some endeavors. Generally, though, I do not really contribute a whole lot when it came to actual traditional army affairs. Perhaps the most significant thing I can mention is that I people claimed that I was a dictator, primarily because I had a knack of banning and muting people. I had many absurd announcements in the chat, but I don’t think I can share many of them. This was a time that my relationship with people like Cookky, Eden, Ana, Bill, Edu, and some other peers became really tight. I actually miss that time of 2019 quite a bit because of how fun it was. I was also a member of the Rebel Federation Minecraft Division, met some cool guys like Redd and Matt, and I also got called a no no word by Commando717 in a debate with Moondog and Bill.

I became properly introduced with the wider community itself in the later parts of August through the Club Penguin Armies organization ran by DMT, Memmaw, and Greeny. I remember I would just mess about. This was an era where EGCP really doubled down on the edgy humor, and I do not think I can even share screenshots of most of this stuff. I do remember attending the Summer Circuit for EGCP, primarily to fight RPF. I got involved with diplomacy again for EGCP around this time, taking up my spot in the New Viking Alliance again, but I also took up a representative position at the league. This was an era where I started to establish myself as being a pretty well known troll in the community, and this is actually where the “Cobra leads EGCP” phrase really began at this time, partially due to a joke but also for the fact that I did hold a significant amount of power in the army as its diplomat. RPF decided to declare war on us at the end of August… and I was tasked with responding to that expose. Viewer discretion, I will link it here, but I do warn you that this is definitely one of the edgiest things you can probably read, especially if you’re newer to armies and not used to it. It did make for good memes, but it was definitely insensitive on every way possible.

I’m having a hard time trying to recollect a lot of the later 2019 things I did in EGCP specifically, I think I was quite literally fixated on diplomacy itself. I do know that Edu and I usually were at odds with RPF pretty much all of the time plus I was like the main EGCP representative at the Recon Federation. Now, this was before all of the controversy really became prevalent and I was just a kid trolling – but I was pretty active in the Recon Federation community. I met some cool people like Phoebe, Cabin, Dawn, and others. The main thing that can be said during this era was that I was a troll, but also a bit strategically in the sense that I was able to get close with a lot of the friends of EGCP to help hone relationships. Yes, that includes me becoming friends with Prior Bumble. Regardless, I did enjoy it a decent bit I cannot lie. At EGCP I was the runner-up for Biggest Pervert at EGCP’s awards, alongside third place for Coolest Soldier (if you peep the awards, the recency bias was pretty bad, I love you Pedrox but Edu probably should’ve got leader of the year). Good times! I remember a dude faked his death to escape RFCP around this time. Datboiraven. Absurd.

A Romans revival project that I honestly can not remember much about occurred in the fall of 2019. I do remember being an important advisor and owner (I skipped over a lot of the things that went around on that sphere as it is not as important). I got banned from RFCP after some members of Romans and other armies decided to raid Prior Bumble’s wedding event with Sidie9. Prior tried to get Romans banned for it, which I felt was ridiculous, which led me to write a favorite post of mine here.

I cannot write home about much of the remaining events for the end of 2019. I simply was a diplomat for EGCP and Romans, and just did that. I grew close to a lot of people and became a bit known in the community as the weirdo EGCP leader. This was a time when EGCP itself was starting to decline a bit internally as we began to care less and less. I do know we had some fun events, like a beautiful raid on the Army of Club Penguin (recently revived) which had some very colorful tactics that I cannot share here. This would really be the last EGCP event of the first generation that I had a notable influence on.

I do recall an attempt to make a successor to the New Viking Alliance, but it failed miserably (I didn’t really have part in this one, neither did Edu that much). I also remember getting kicked out of negotiations from RPF-everyone else because of me trolling. It was a dumb negotiation as it was trying to nerf RPF due to them being the largest army. DMT and EGCP were also extremely close, DMT even had the leader role for a bit (which had admin) and was in our private GC. He wasn’t really that bias for us, but there definitely was a degree of NVA bias throughout that organizations existence. The wiki also became significant again at this time, although it wasn’t really that much of an effort on my part (I did contribute quite a bit), but it was an effort actually on Rowan Alden’s part, someone I’ve come to cherish a lot since. I also got close with Dino starting at this time.

This concludes the rest of 2019. I’m sorry if I snubbed a lot of information and memories, I really just don’t recall anything that I can appropriately share or even just put into words outside of what I already did. I really didn’t take armies that seriously at this time, so obviously that shows. I still had a lot of fun, and I still definitely attended some important events, I just either can’t share them here, I don’t have images, or I just don’t recall.

Here are some honorable mentions followed by some funny memories:

• Queenieliz (RPF) i didn’t like you but i cannot deny it was good entertainment
• UltiPenguinJ (RPF)
• Cabin (RFCP)
• Phoebe (RFCP)
• Opino (RFCP)
• Noob (RFCP)
• Rowan Alden (RFCP)
• Manu (no clue)
• Dino (LGA/RPF)
• Dolepie (GSG)
• Hidcre (PZF)
• DMT (CPA)
• Memmaw (CPA)

ACCOLADES FOR 2019

• EGCP: Honorary War Medal, as Cobra (Jan 2019)
• CP Army Syndicate: 2018 Army Legend, as Cobra under EGCP (Mar 2019)
• EGCP: Biggest Pervert Runner-Up, as Cobra (Dec 2019)
• EGCP: Coolest Soldier Third Place, as Cobra (Dec 2019)

2020

2020 was certainly a bombastic year, one that I never took too seriously. A common theme throughout this year, as you will see, is me being chaotic. I really enjoyed having that CPA Legend status that I had, which afforded me the luxury of garnering attention and authority practically wherever I went. I was unbanned at the Recon Federation in January and had the role of Uncle, although I just trolled for a bit before being banned again. I was awarded the “Best Troll” award at their first Feddie Awards, though, so I guess was that cool.

I blank out much of the drama that occurred around this time, but I found myself back at Romans when Romans was making a return. Some drama was building between RFCP and Romans. Romans among some other armies were taking part in Club Penguin Warfare, Prior’s league. I actually thought the league concept was pretty good, despite Prior being a weirdo. Nevertheless, drama emerged between RFCP and Romans which led to a war occurring. I joined Romans as a leader during that war, and the main thing that I oversaw was the main battle of the war, as well as a merger into Romans by an army called the Team Yellow Army, which was led by Darklink and gave us an okay size boost (although I’m pretty sure he was a hardcore multilogger). This war was known as the Brutisan War and was one of the first instances that I saw of no allies in my time.

Now, despite RFCP winning that battle basically, there was one thing to consider – they said no allies. Well, turns out, Sha (the big RFCP suck-up at the time) would reveal after leaving RFCP many months later that RFCP did in fact use allies by getting armies like PZF to attend on alts. We suspected it from the start, and we actually suspected multilogging as RFCP went from maxing like 6 to maxing 36, but yes, it was indeed true. Sadly, I don’t have the proof of it anymore, but that is why the victor of the war itself is up in the air. Dino and I made a good meme review of this war, but sadly, the images are mostly dead from it. This war did have the advantage of being the largest max that CPPS Romans achieved at that time. We fired Darklink due to multilogging at some point.

I didn’t stay in Romans for that long, although I’m not sure why I left. I reverted back to an advisor in the middle of the war, but presumably I did not stay due to just not caring that much anymore. Lime Green Army was revived by Dino around the time that COVID was beginning, so I ended up joining that as an advisor. Dino led an alliance called the Rosea Coalition that consisted of some armies with the goal of taking out the Recon Federation. The issue is Zeke, Games, and I were allowed to lead tactics – and we did, but they were insanely offensive and people left the alliance. This was a trend for 2020, as we messed about a lot. COVID for me started right in the middle of March, and things changed heavily at that point.

From that spring-summer, I essentially doubled down as a leader of a troll-group known as EHUMA. EHUMA was basically originally a veteran chat for UMA veterans from the UMACPR era, but expanded to include honorary members and later on newgen people we considered cool. I personally was an original member of EHUMA from 2019. This time around, though, we essentially became a well organized massive troll group and network that had a lot of influence in the community culture wise. We had influence over a handful of armies and were unironically feared quite a bit due to… well, we would be a bit intense with our trolling and would harass people. This was an unfortunate side of my history that really tanked my reputation and my standing with many people. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that EHUMA was a pretty well known name at this time that had an influence over the community’s “edgy” culture. Quite literally if you were a part of that edgy culture, you were affiliated to EHUMA in some capacity. I’m not trying to glorify and glaze it, we did horrible things, but it was a powerful beacon that had an influence over several armies. Some of them, like the Doritos, would even take us up on certain services.

A big thing that EHUMA did was destroy the UMA that Epic was running. I don’t have any pictures of this, but we did it with a bot and was able to destroy Epic’s lame UMA revival. It was pretty funny. At some point at a later time, I was tasked with leading a Templars battle against the Recon Federation. Bad idea, because Venom and I both led some serious tactics that got us disqualified. My main tactic was “hot wheels” (those who know, know).

Like I said, most of the time that I dedicated in 2020 was primarily pushed towards trolling and EHUMA efforts. Given the nature of EHUMA, I will not be sharing much of the intricate details and what not, cause it’s messed up. Just know we were known for being very edy.

In the summer, I worked at Romans a bit. There was a lot of controversy with me being an Emperor, mostly due to me being a bit chaotic and breaking rules. Nevertheless, I remained Emperor I believe. I don’t recall stepping down. I was awarded Romans legend at this time, same for PZF Legend (alongside a lot of medals).

September had a big moment with the CPA Wiki, as we tried to adjust legends due to legends being messed up in the CPPS era. We revoted on every major legend induction since 2017 and inducted some newer legends, as well as inducted S/M legends too (although a lot of them suck in retrospect). The boards consisted of notable veterans from each respective year, just our deliberation time was short. This angered a lot of people who were veterans and felt the need to express their ego by touching up legends. It got some pretty reactions out of people and Epic and I had a pretty good fight.

They did go through with the revote, though. It ended up making Dillon, Cookky, Xing, and I getting demoted to S/M status. However, upon investigating, it was revealed that it was Epic101 lying to the board about our involvement in armies that led to our removal. Cookky’s to this day is considered highly controversial. Funks and Pookie opted not to recognize Cookky, Xing, and I demotions from CPA Legend, though. It never came into effect until like January 2023. Frankly, this bothered a large portion of early CPPS veterans. 

Around this time, we began planning a massive Underground Mafias Army revival. Dino and I cooked up a lot of long-term plans for the government, including ideas such as Mafia University (training for staff), 6 month leadership terms (1 term allowed), various war concepts, and tons of administrative concepts. However, I wanted to get some army experience first so I joined the Templars for a leadership tenure. I joined in October and I immediately went to working on reforms. Dino was my chief advisor, and I implemented quotas, started allocating resources properly, and redid our events. Dino and I helped restructure the army’s server looks (plus accommodations for troops) and I actually popped off on recruiting at this time. One of the first things I did was actually lead against Water Vikings in a battle, and I realized: wow, I am not in the meta am I? Warfare was much quicker and we got bodied. I had to learn the whole new meta here.

So, I began putting in some work into getting the army into shape with the reforms alongside Dino. We had some funny moments.

This new hype got us back into the major top ten, hitting #8. 

The next week proved pretty beneficial as the hype increased a lot, with us maxing sizes around 30ish. I was pretty hyped actually with the work here, but the problem was Xing trying to micromanage a lot of the reforms. It made it difficult for Dino and I to restructure things and get things done. I hated it.

I had a bit of a crashout due to the 7 max at the AUSIA battle against Skateboarders. I got sick of Xing micromanaging, so I tried to stage a coup. Here is a post about that. The irony is that Templars ended up falling from the major top ten after I was gone. Guess I was right? Templars ended up having to cheat their success in 2021-2022, so I guess I was right in the end lol.

UMA made the big return in November. I served as a leader and we called this moment Red Winter. Zamb, Dino, and Games went ham on those website graphics for the time. I uploaded a handful of Pink Mafias posts to the website, so it could look more valid. It was pretty cool. Zamb, Dino, Lydia, and myself essentially were the leaders throughout this generation. We started our first event with a max of 14. It was a humble max and humble moment for the time.

Things changed a bit once I was invited to lead a battle for Skateboarders in some wack tournament against Legoman‘s army. Let’s just say… this is where the tactics came from.

We basically broke every single rule on that CPPS, and we got disqualified. I thought the controversy was a lot worse than what it was, so I stepped down. Daniel from UMA made me a UMA Legend due to the incident. Granted, he was well-intentioned, but it didn’t make sense. So, we had to make it make sense by including my work in EHUMA (which shouldn’t really be glorified, but it was at least culturally important for UMA). It was still a funny honor, at least. 

Once December came, I returned to leadership. Things were starting to look a bit bright with this December part of the army. We were working out the kinks, cutting off some bad eggs, and just became organized. Instead of me sharing a million events, I’d like to share you the page that says it all here.

We had some more controversy at this time. You see, Lydia was a part of a group known as Spartans, ran by Mustapha. Specifically, she was a part of a group known as the Morningstar Clan within it. They decided to leave Spartans and come to support UMA. Mustapha, being the man baby that he is, tried to kill them by exposing them. I got caught in the crossfire, which led to him convincing Bschar to make fake screenshots, Otter to betray me and send images out of context, and then write a bunch of posts to try to expose us. Zamb managed to defuse the situation here.

Nevertheless, during the situation we would hype up an event known as the Defense of Syria. 

Then we had the actual event.

We ultimately opted to close UMA upon advice from Bam and Daniel. Honestly, we probably shouldn’t have. UMA was started to do pretty good and our structure was solid. Internally our culture was pretty significant. It is ironic how this army was pretty impactful on a lot of us. This was considered the true start of Dino’s career, laid the foundation for Aaron’s Water Vikings career, Aisha’s career, Lydia’s career, and laid foundation for a lot of the reforms that I would implement much later (such as the Mafia University concept, our scoring concept, and the autistic events). 

I took part in the end of year legend inductions. To be honest, the outcome was mostly pretty good except Regan‘s induction and potentially CSY‘s induction. Everyone else was chill. Yes, I was able to vote as a major legend because like I said, they didn’t recognize the demotion until 2023.

An edit after publishing: I also forgot to mention a pivotal moment. I was awarded the title of EGCP Legend on EGCP’s first birthday after closing. It felt good 🙂

2020 was chaotic and certainly a year. Had a big impact on me personally for a lot of reasons. You know what comes next!

• Joe Bidome (UMA)
• Aaronstone (UMA)
• Aisha (DCP)
• Africa (DCP)
• Zamb (DCP)
• Meer (DCP)
• Crazzy (RPF)
• Aaronstone (UMA)
• Lydia (TCP
• Leobaba (DCP)
• Aurora (ACP)
• Lightning (PZF)
• Koloway (I guess, ACP)
• Pjayo (WV)
• LuciferStar (CPAH)

ACCOLADES FOR 2020

• Pizza Federation Legend
• Underground Mafias Army Legend
• Romans Legend
• 2018 S/M Army Legend (I guess)
• Elite Guardians Legend

2021 – 2022

I left armies in January 2021 after the drama in regards to Club Penguin Army Hub being defaced. I wanted out due to infighting between my friends, so I left. I still had some presence as a distant advisor to the Underground Mafias multigaming project, but other than that I was pretty much done. By the summer of 2021, I was fully done. 

I really had no part in much of CPA stuff from 2021 to 2022, except for Eden’s groupchats with Spotty, Rowan, and friends, as well as some friend groupchats where I would here the up to date CPA stuff from Aaron and Dino. That is it. I was content without returning, I locked in for my grades, and I was doing really well without armies in my life.

2023

I honestly never saw myself returning to armies. I only had one plan before about a returning and that purely hinged on EGCP returning, but I never thought much of it. I spent so much time, especially in 2022, just isolated from CPA. I barely interacted with anything CPA related outside of Eden’s groupchats and nostalgia – that was it. I wanted to be dead, I did not want to return. I did enough, I was done with it. I prospered without it. 

As you can see, Edu approached me (the last time Edu and I DMed was in December 2021) in April about the return of EGCP out of nowhere. It was completely uncalled for, I never expected it. I wasn’t sure what to feel about hearing this news. I originally wanted to minimize my involvement directly with EGCP, I just wanted to provide some insight and advice purely inside of our leadership groupchats, and that initially is what we did. In the process of this, I got back into consistent communication with Edu, Guta, and Cookky – a communication I had not had for about 3-4 years at that point.

I do not remember much of my contributions early on, but I imagine it was just some simple advice. I did not attend any events or anything like that, I just gave insight here and there – just as a normal advisor would do. The first major contribution that I gave was when Edu messaged me about the possibility of ACP (the top army at the time) warring EGCP (which was on the rise). I had good connections with Water Vikings, so we went to Water Vikings for help. I created a groupchat with Edu, Aaron, and Dino, where we would talk turkey about organizing what to do.

This marked the first time I got really directly involved with EGCP. I even created an alias, the son of EGCP’s mascot Sorte Vivve, known as Pardo007. Yes, that was me. To everyone that thought it was EGCP’s Lord Pain, that was an alt of mine used to attend some battles, see how things were going, and make inspirational words. It was a funny persona to play and it taught me Portuguese unironically. I attended one WWIX battle, but I used Brave browser so it absolutely sucked. I will not overplay my involvement in WWIX, I acted merely as a chief advisor in this war (my advice mostly just came down to pragmatic strategy), but it is still cool to say I had an essential role in two World Wars. This definitely was the action that meant everything, though. I was finally reeled back into armies, even if it was still minimal at this time. You know it’s bad when I referred to Calgo using slurs and crashed out on EGCP a little bit due to poor leadership at battles. Apparently I had to convince EGCP to let RPF join the war effort, although I don’t know how much convincing I did.

An interesting element at this time was me getting close to an old friend, Lass, and becoming more and more acquainted with Belga, Joseph, and Fitsuki. It was interesting, as I never really worked with any of the four in any capacity, so it was nice to work with some relatively newer faces here. Fitsuki stood out as someone well versed in recruiting and doing day to day affairs (such as general management). Lass stood out also as a good recruiter, but also a good planner (he later became a solid battle leader). Belga became known as a solid battle leader. Joseph, no offense, I have no clue what to say about him.

Things really changed when I really wanted to get more invested in EGCP by the end of June. I remember being at the gym and really considering the possibility of returning to EGCP. EGCP was suffering a little bit of a decline internally due to a lack of steam, something that I assumed to be because of the nostalgia dying down. I ultimately decided on June 27th that I would return to EGCP under an alias: Yellow. Yellow was an alt used by an EGCP troop named Masami from back in the day. Yellow was actually a troop in the Dark Knights and what not. Masami gave me permission to take on this identity, and I made Yellow a female, in order to reduce suspicion. I was convinced that I was super hated and could not return normally, so I had the Cobra persona as a chief advisor and guardian in secret, and had Yellow serve as a high ranked HCOM. Yellow’s joining coincided with the establishment of the International Division, which was established to try to get more AUSIA and English presence/accommodation in the army itself. We ultimately chose to have three sets of language channels to accommodate that. I would later officially join right at the start of July as Yellow. Yes – I had my own Dalloway user. I also created my first formal “plan” for EGCP at this time and proposed it to the leaders – it was just to fix recruiting, welcoming, and accommodation etiquette. I do think it was implemented, primarily for the game nights aspect being introduced to EGCP, but I could be wrong.

I initially did not contribute a super lot to EGCP as Yellow right away, as I had to work out some scheduling. I actually remember Cookky didn’t like me being Yellow, since he felt it was weird to roleplay as a woman. However, I did not care. I wanted to be very utilitarian and help EGCP – that was my priority. I was hardcore nationalist for EGCP throughout my entire time in EGCP, and this wave of nostalgia and being with my friends allowed it to come here full force. A big reason why I came to help EGCP was to also justify my legend status in EGCP some more. You see, I felt that even though I was an EGCP Legend, I felt unfulfilled. I wanted my contributions to feel complete, hence part of why I was so fixated on working in the niches. The niche that I remained in as my time as Yellow would ultimately be hinged on the International Division, being an advisor, developing EGCP structure, and just creating plans altogether. Edu and Lass proved to be pretty beneficial when it came to creating a lot of these plans, and Fitsuki proved to be very competent at being able to manage and implement many of them.

Everyone within the higher command (and some trusted people outside of EGCP or that rank field) knew I was Yellow, but the troops did not. I barely told friends as well. Frankly, the only part I feel bad about is playing a character and essentially lying to some, but it proved beneficial to EGCP. Another important detail to consider is that I played my part in specific purposes for EGCP, similar to how I was originally. In no way can I take away credit from the work (especially a lot of the growth, day-to-day efforts, and general organizing) that the leadership did. However, it would be dishonest to say that I, alongside other guardians (mostly Edu, but Guta to an extent) did not play a really large role for EGCP during this generation. Guta and Edu played a significant role for PR when it came to the CPPSes and the CPA Organization. Edu and I (also Lass) played a very large role in setting up the army structure and much of the battle strategies used throughout the year. I did a lot of the diplomacy. Edu and Cookky carried a lot of the hype. Guta did a lot of grand strategy. A lot of the planning for projects came down to Lass, Edu, Fitsuki, and I. Battle leading… well, you will read about that later. I did not do this to be credited or achieve personal glory, but you will see (in 2024 specifically) why me mentioning this is relevant.

Ending off my work in July, I did attend one of the Legends Cup battles for this year, but I could not make the semi-finals. I know that the community consensus was that the semi-finals was the true finals due to the max, intensity, and scale. I do remember some of the EGCP folk being upset about the loss at Legends Cup, but I said to look at the bright side – we only revived two months prior to that battle and we managed to basically match the top army in the community 1:1, only losing in overtime. We had a right to be sad, but also had a right to be very happy with our achievements. Learning later on that Calgo spent in the thousands for that tournament, it’s even funnier considering we spent little to nothing. 

By the beginning of August, I was ready to begin taking on the role of leading the International Division. In particular, I was also set to lead EGCP’s planned EU division, although that ended up being integrated into the main division. I created one of my first in-depth plans, known as Operation: Smoking Squids. The plan was well received by the leadership and Edu, and it contained plans for government structure, revamping the minister roles (such as making Yellow the Minister of State), some larp features, the development of EGCP’s own media division, a plan to get EGCP better presented in the CPA organization (don’t worry, Edu was already doing CPA org before I thought of this, he wasn’t a plant), the development of the war team, and the creation of an academy to train future moderators and HCOM in EGCP – the University of EGCP (based on plans of Mafia University from UMA). There were some other abstract plans about diplomacy and such, but those remained unimplemented. Everything else, though, was implemented, although the plan was not able to come to the maximum fruition as ACP would declare war on us (catching us off guard, as the plan was to prepare for a massive war against them) a few days after the plan was released. This put on hold some of the plans (although UEGCP, the media plans, and Holy Guard would inevitably be implemented).

With the war now among us, it was time to prepare a game plan. We initially pooped ourselves a little, especially since our AUSIA was undeveloped. I quickly had to learn how to lead battles just in case, so this marked the first time in almost 3 years at this point of doing anything like that. Guta rushed out a post, and then we added some words from Yellow and Pardo onto that (yes I was doing both personas, but no I was not multilogging, Pardo didn’t attend events). The war team, primarily Lass, Edu, and I started developing the next game plan for the war. I actually remember Fitsuki being a bit upset because he wasn’t included, some good irony for later on. Anyways, we drafted the general outline of the war approach that we took that night.

This gameplan (outside of the raids and phony invasions) remained true throughout the war efforts, although we were not able to recruit heavily for the AUSIA Division. I actually was pushed into leading more of the AUSIA and early EU battles, rather than many of the US and normal EU battles. This led to me being appointed the Bushido commander officially. The method of getting people to attend was by promising prestige as well as higher benefits. 

The first battle that I led in was actually the second battle: the Invasion of Famagusta. This marked the first event and battle that I led in since December 2020, which was an insane feeling at the time. What was even more insane was the fact that I was able to secure a tie in the room that I led, the Cove. Considering how nervous I was, it felt gratifying to have that win. Although I cannot lie looking at the event pictures it looks like we covered on both ACP and EGCP site, so maybe the pacing or just neatness was off. Nevertheless, it was a good start that made me feel confident. We won the battle too.

From this point forward, I did not lead many US and normal EU events. Edu and I became the primary AUSIA commanders, where we would do our best to tire out ACP and try to slowly but surely secure ties and then victories. I can’t go in depth with this war as much due to the fact that wars weren’t as personal at this time, but I can attest that it was quite a grind. The only AUSIA and early EU battles that I didn’t lead were on weekends usually. Sometime in the middle of the war I released this post as a response to ACP’s really gay expose post. This marked the beginning of me taking on a PR role to expose posts directed at EGCP.

The war momentum initially, while EGCP was able to secure victories, ultimately was in favor of ACP. I think what really began to mark the change in momentum was ACP’s 3 AM invasion of Gustav. This probably in theory was a good idea, but it was in fact, very stupid. Lass and I were set to lead this battle, but Lass overslept his alarm and ultimately left me as the sole person to lead… a total of 10 troops. It was annoying, but not really that demotivating. I don’t recall if I stayed up or if I set an alarm to lead it, but nevertheless, it was funny at least. I remember Mads from ACP specifically cancelled a date to attend this battle, which was hilarious and I began to see more and more ACP start to complain. What was a good idea to them ended up backfiring a bit as it squeezed out their energy a bit too much.

From that point forward, Edu and I had better odds at the AUSIA events, and ACP was starting to prioritize the EU division as early EU events. EGCP would make up for that by invading at normal EU times, which means we successfully broke through the EU front. I do remember seeing ties happening more often in the AUSIA side, which was a good inside, until the battle that really turned the momentum directly in favor of EGCP occurred – the defense of Balneario. This was a weekday AUSIA that Edu and I were leading in, and for once EGCP’s AUSIA outmaxed ACP’s AUSIA, and we secured a victory in room 2. The room choices were whack with room 1 being the beach, room 2 being the iceberg, and room 3 being the Dojo. Nevertheless, it was a nice win and it was a massive rally cry for the army, I remember Lass told me he jumped in his seat at school out of excitement.

The remaining battles, ACP really wasn’t winning. One thing I’d like to note is that throughout the battle, I wrote a lot of tactics. This was probably the most insane that I ever went with tactics. Lass also contributed a lot too and Fitsuki handled primarily the BWBs (he was good at that). I remember Edu and I also trained Leonardo to lead battles so he can help lead the AUSIA (considering he was living in Japan at that time). By the time the last battle was fought, EGCP actually secured back to back wins in our worst divisions (AUSIA and early EU). It was satisfying and the score was 18-15 in favor of EGCP, although it is to note that caught up pretty quickly once the middle of the war occurred. Nevertheless, we had some troubles – a specific tactic was sent…

Now you might be saying “Cobra, how could this tactic have been sent!” Well, you see, I didn’t see anything wrong with it when I saw it. Lass wrote this tactic and I saw it as a comment calling them girls and femboys. I did not see it as transphobic – I obviously see the wording now. Although I can attest that Lass did not mean it in that way. Nevertheless, we were given a force treaty which was a shame. They all thought I sent the tactic at first, which is fair, but it was not me. My tactics mostly made fun of Calgo for spending insane amounts of money on armies “Calgo spends his welfare checks on armies” was a big one. What bothers me the most is that EGCP was effectively winning in this war and if ACP wasn’t insanely exhausted at this time, EGCP would have turned the score in our favor. It is a shame that this war was considered a war that could “revive” the community when it was won via abusing the system… how pitiful. We moved on though and focused our efforts on various other endeavors. War ended off with a nice meme review, brings back good memories. 

With the war over, we began to direct our efforts in other affairs. Leonardo and I took control of the Bushido Division and it essentially became a special forces. I knew that our Bushido Division will not be able to grow that much in pure AUSIA size; none of us were able to recruit in that time. Therefore, my strategy with managing the Bushido Division over the next three months was to position it as a special forces. We will reward people highly for attending and all events will be an in-depth training primarily on spacing etiquette. This proved to be pretty effective actually, as it really prepared our top troops and staff for Christmas Chaos and the Christmas Crusade later in the year. I was pretty happy to see how well trained the Bushido was and the training really paid off for the purpose that it served. I remember Dino complimented us too. More on this all later. Some pictures below from September to December, just at random since I’m not posting all. These trainings were quite in-depth and I introduced a scoring system to grade our performance. It was a nice special forces to lead before my college classes at like 8 AM, lol, I had a blast even if it was ridiculous. Maxes were usually poop, we celebrated when we maxed 15, but that was rarely. I knew that going into it, as I said before, so my plan was to squeeze every bit of capability out of our maxes.

EGCP had some big fundamental changes around this time. We really doubled down on that rivalry aspect with ACP, especially as we started finalizing the Smoking Squids implementations. This was a time where we really saw Fitsuki step up in the growth efforts; we were pretty content with his ability to manage the day-to-day affairs and growth efforts. Lass began his weird ’tism spree fully here, although Lass was a fantastic recruiter and a good planner, too. This was when EGCP really started to double down on using Avalanche. Guta and Edu were really helpful when it came to PR with Avalanche. I remember we held that one event on Avalanche for a Card-Jitsu tournament, although it wasn’t officially an EGCP event. Sensei showed up and it was quite funny to us since we didn’t even plan it. I know that people really hated that Avalanche situation we had, and truthfully, it was definitely slightly dodgy but it was blown out of proportion. EGCP did quite well, and I was quite content with the leadership (primarily Fitsuki and Lass). EGCP doing daily events, having the consistent “competitions”, frequent posts, and milking Avalanche proved to be really beneficial when it came to landing well on the top tens. We dominated pretty much the entirety of the second half.

Once again, to iterate, I am writing this post from my perspective and highlighting things that I did personally, and obviously I had my hand in a big bunch of things, we ultimately have to hand it to the leadership for a lot of their work at EGCP. Wherever they faltered, that is where the advisory was able to step up at and pitch ideas or oversee. Edu and I were obviously quite active advisors and pretty hands on and often micromanaged a lot of things. Lass was very useful for a lot of the strategy planning, very good recruiter, and was just a voice towards the people. Fitsuki was good at the day-to-day running stuff, he was good at managing incentives and seeing to things related to that running. Lass and Fitsuki certainly lacked at being a voice in the community; Lass is a bit autistic and Fitsuki didn’t speak English. Even internally, they lacked a bit but I would say Lass did a better job speaking to the staff and troops than Fitsuki – his treatment of staff really became an issue at many times.

I met some cool folk here during this period, good folks like Fourless, Kazoo, Nono, HistoryLover, among others. A big role I played at events was translating the Portuguese to English. Ironically enough I learned to read a decent bit of Portuguese at this time.

One of our largest projects was the University of EGCP. UEGCP always existed, really, but it was used for tutoring on real life class subjects. However, I used the previous Mafia University plans from my time in UMA to shape a program concept to train staff and HCOM in EGCP, which was to become UEGCP. Everyone loved it and Edu and I designed a massive curriculum and approach, and it ended up being a 8 week course. There were an enormous amount of classes, which I really won’t get into. We tried to venture outside of EGCP to get professors, but ultimately had to stick to in-house professors. I (as Yellow) taught EGCP history alongside Guta, which was pretty fun. We had a HCOM section and a moderator section of the university. We ended up having two 8 week cycles and they did have success in training the staff, I was pretty happy to see it and a lot of people considered me the best professor ironically enough (Google translate came in handy). UEGCP would be temporarily discontinued sometime in 2024, but I’ll get to that later. I won’t go too much into the intricacies as it’s definitely boring.

We made a few major changes in our system as well. We held an election in October to figure out who is to run each of our Cabinet positions and to coincide with that I released a massive document defining the roles properly. I really liked bureaucracy and this was an era where we could work with it and EGCP had a functional bureaucracy. In addition, with additional help from Edu, Lass and I embarked on a massive journey to revamp our entire formation and battle strategies, which we would end up using derivatives of for the rest of the second generation. This was probably the most long-standing thing we worked on, since the work Lass and I did for this laid foundation for my work in Water Vikings, it was quite enjoyable. Will not share any of those strategies for obvious reasons.

A big thing I remember doing is giving Fitsuki what we call a “coffee”. At EGCP, a coffee simply means a talking to with the goal of making the coffee recipient calm down. He was being a bit harsh to our staff and troops, which was becoming extremely alarming, I cannot lie. This was a time when he respected me, so my word had a lot of value at this time.

Everything mentioned here was essentially the status quo for a bit, although another important thing to mention is the EGCP-SWAT war that we declared in November. Was basically just beating a dead horse, but it was funny at least. We basically terrified SWAT into running their events through groupchats, and the only time we fight was at AUSIA times. I had a lot of fun messing with them though, I used pretty unconventional tactics. I feel like I missed some stuff for November outside of just new strategies, I’ll have to think back.

This brings us to December… an interesting month for EGCP. We had a lot going on with Christmas Chaos and eventually a massive war. Just to get some stuff out of the way, I actually took up a role as a reporter as Yellow on the CPA organization site. I wrote two posts that ironically enough I think are among the better history related posts – one on RPF in Christmas Chaos and one about the Winged Hussars. On the topic of Winged Hussars, I was able to reunite with Shinzo around this time, of course through the Yellow alias that he did not know it was me. It was nice, I love Shinzo. WH and EGCP immediately started off with great relations due to our previous affiliations.

So, where to begin with Christmas Chaos? This is probably the first tournament that I directly had involvement in. Now, I was not organizing the tournament, hyping it, or mass getting people to attend to the scale that the others were doing. Edu and Lass especially were the ones calling people with Fitsuki doing the normal events and prep. I handled the special forces training of the army, specifically on honing the spacing. Edu and I devised a lot of the formation and battle etiquette for this tournament, with us going out of our way to photoshop various scenarios and create new formation concepts. Lass was also pretty critical in this, as he created a bunch of formation concepts too, many of which actually served as the basis for a lot of what EGCP did in 2024, as well as what WV did in our 2025 run.

By this point, I was very intricate with my leadership of the Bushido Division. I usually prepared images of exactly where to sit, and I took some inspiration from Dino too when making formations.

With Christmas Chaos fully announced, we had our first battle scheduled on December 10th against SWAT. Now, they no-showed so it was a cake walk, but it provided pretty valuable training. I led in room 1.

Our next battle was one that I did not lead in, but I did advise it, and that was the semi-finals versus RPF. This one was a little annoying, because while we maxed just under 60 and did generally pretty good, RPF was punching heavily above their weight. I remember Spotty complained that we won purely by size, but to be honest, it was true to an extent, especially in the last room, but not as much in the first two rooms. I crashed out a little on Fitsuki because of it, as we did a circle in the stadium but RPF had a perfect (and I mean literally perfect) wide V that made them much more noticeable than us. Technically this was our worst room in all of Christmas Chaos this year, even though we won it.

We moved onto the finals, which marked the second time in our proper Christmas Chaos history that we reached the finals, which was a nice feeling. The thing is, we thought we would be facing ACP in the finals, and when we got Water Vikings we doubted quite a bit. Nevertheless, we spied on WV trainings, doubled down on our formation preparations (we started experimenting with formations like the 2V and W, as well as creating new variations of the crosshair and double E), and we mass DMed a LOT of people (I believe we confirmed apparently about 200). We assumed we would max about 70+, as we DMed a LOT of people. I don’t recall if I participated in DMing many, I know I got zamb, but not sure about others. I know I definitely lectured them a lot to make sure it was done lol.

A massive curveball came out of nowhere, though, right during our preparations for the finals. We got war declared on us by ACP, PIC, and TCP (later Coup Crusaders and then POM). A lot of intense allegations were thrown out at us, and we were already not well liked to begin with, but this really changed public perception on us quite a bit. We were back to back the #1 army for pretty much the entirety of the second half of the year so far, so this was an attempt to derail us. I actually spent quite a bit of time writing a long post (although its credited to Lass) responding to the war declarations found here. Now, granted: was I defending some things that were definitely wrong? Yes, indeed I was. I was hyper loyal to EGCP, you can bet that I was going to defend EGCP to death. The post was absurdly long, about 10k words, so a lot of people just immediately dismissed it. Now, initially, we thought we were screwed due to the fact 5 armies were rallying against us. I specifically told the gabinete that we need to just ignore this war and focus on Christmas Chaos (was I right? Yes in the sense that it definitely took a toll on our Christmas Chaos efforts, but no in the sense that the war played out in our favor). However, we opted to play a game of ignore a few invasions, and then attend. It was a mapless war, so we really had no obligation but it was a pride thing it seems. At this war, I basically led in every single battle, especially since Belga was effectively going more and more inactive, which led to me becoming de facto an acting leader by obligation.

We won our first two battles that we showed up to, the ones against POM and Templars (the latter I led R3 in). December 27th.

December 28th we no-showed the AUSIA and then fought against the Coup Crusaders. We won, of course. For a bit, we no-showed AUSIAs until we were confident that our AUSIA would have the assets to take on the fight.

I really started to fall in love with battles. Our training and strategies were really paying off, plus our hype was pretty insane for this war. Whatever the UAF was trying to do really was not working, they kept maxing less than us and were just way less organized than us. I consider their performance during this war as a genuinely bad example of diplomacy and strategy, as they bit off way more than what they could chew without the proper organization. We did have some minor assistance from WH, though, which led to us calling ourselves the Elite Hussars.

We got some days off due to the tournament. This allowed us to further prepare, as well as devise more strategies. I mentioned out of chronology above about how that happened, as the during the war we were actively planning for Christmas Chaos and still trying to get people to log on. Edu, Lass, and I spent some crazy hours one night on photoshop trying to figure out the perfect forms, I created a guide, and we had to put into practice at our training events in the AUSIA and US front. It was a grind and the war especially made our preparations a lot harder, which was certainly a task. News also broke that Belga and Fitsuki won’t be able to lead, which led to Lass and I being the ones to lead this battle. It was an honor to have such a position.

I remember the day pretty well. December 30th I was at work and I specifically took an hour off to get done earlier so I could head home to lead this battle. My stomach was in a knot all day and so was Lass. I had to psych myself up to be ready, and I also had to practice a lot of chivalry for this fight as well considering I’d be fighting my good friends for over 3 years at this point. Once the clock struck 2 PM, I drove home very fast to be there in time for the battle. We logged on and saw a peak max of 53 EGCP vs 41 WV. We had a size advantage, although our predictions were severely less than what we wanted. The size advantage was exaggerated a bit by Dino (no offense), as we had some size drops, I don’t think we held a size difference of 10 very long in the battle, I think it was mostly about 7-8. We really did doubt WV, though, although we went into this taking on a much more experienced army. 

Room 1 was the Mine, one that I remember pretty well. I had no lag during this battle, I believe I was fighting both Dino and Cabin, as I led room 1 solo. This room, to me, felt like EGCP dominated most of it. We covered the majority of this room and had more creative formations, although at some instances WV was having good ground too. People watching definitely had a skew, even the video recordings, due to the extreme lag. I don’t know why it was so laggy, lol, I had no lag during this battle. This room ended up getting called a TIE, which I disagree with still to this day. Let the pictures tell you the story, although it is important to note that the pictures that WV and EGCP both have are 100% skewed lol.

Room 2 was more intense, as Lass and I led this one versus Aaron. Aaron is a literal tank, and I concede the LOSS here, although EGCP definitely had moments of coverage.

The last room was plagued by us doing a lot of really goofy form choices, this one led by Lass vs Dino. It ended up being a TIE, which I agree with.

Now, the original verdict was TIE-WV-WV, which when I saw that I started to lose my mind, since that was not the case at all. Then it was changed to TIE-WV-TIE, which was much better in comparison. Nevertheless, considering I had zero lag, I feel that room 1 was ours, and we should’ve went to overtime. Each room was very close, though, it was quite intense throughout the entire thing with each army holding similar sizes. I still die on the hill to this day that it should have went to overtime. Dino and I discussed this not long ago and we feel that there likely was a degree of fixing by the judges (especially after a certain incident this year giving us that notion), which is a shame.

I’m not too bothered by it, though. It was an honor to lead in the finals and play the role I did in Christmas Chaos, I never did that for EGCP in a tournament before (the leading especially was usually reserved for Cookky and Edu). I was also very happy for Water Vikings for winning, and I was still okay with a victory for them, I just wanted it to be represented better. Of course, as a Water Viking now, I certainly appreciate that tournament more, even if I feel the verdict was very incorrect. This battle marked the beginning of what I could call the “Lassbra” battle duo. Lass and I had a very good chemistry when it came to leading; I sought to swiftly halt the enemy and Lass sought to aggressively take them out. This battle leading duo of ours was very prevalent throughout the rest of the second generation. 

Now, I do not intend on overstating my role in Christmas Chaos. I was not officially a leader (I can never say that I “led us” to the finals, I didn’t, although it is true I took upon a lot of leader roles and never answered to anyone in my role). My help consisted of me training the special forces, me helping with strategies, leading battles, and just helping with some preparation (and of course advice). I did not organize the main preparation (Fitsuki and Lass), hype (everyone but I spoke English so I just translated), or even the mass DMs (Lass and Edu). I didn’t lead any of the main events either for the most part (this was a Fitsuki thing), I just attended and helped them go well. The Christmas Crusade battles were a double edged sword with training but also exhausting the efforts. Nonetheless, it was an honor to play as big of a part as I did as the chief advisor during this period.

And that ends off 2023 story. EGCP ended up having the most #1 placements and having many accolade runner-up spots (as well as some wins) throughout 2023. I was very proud of EGCP and very happy to see a lot of our teamwork bring this together. That is what really defined EGCP, it was the team work. There never felt like a singular person running the show, we all just worked in our own niches and pitched in. This was one of the better experiences I had when it came to running an administrative team, not a general team. Fitsuki and Lass were 2023 legend nominations, and I definitely did not agree with them being inducted if that were to be the case. The biggest issue is that they did not stand out, in fact, the ones who stood out the most with affairs diplomatically was quite literally Yellow (myself), Guta, and Edu – all established EGCP veterans. I do think that is definitely the biggest knock of EGCP’s second generation; we were very good but the teamwork and allocation of niches made it impossible for someone to properly stick out. We had a good run that year, though, and all of the haters simply could not deny the stats that were in our favor. 

At EGCP we did a lot of reforms to our hall of fame. I got inducted at the new tier below Legend, this time as Yellow, although that was meant in part to make my lie story valid. Fitsuki and Lass got EGCP legend, many reforms unveiled for the HoF too, primarily by yours truly.

Here are some honorable mentions followed by some funny memories:

• Belga (EGCP)
• Josephus (EGCP)
• Valdevan (EGCP)
• HistoryLover (EGCP)
• Nono (EGCP)
• Kazoo (EGCP)
• Lana (EGCP
• Idealogic (EGCP)
• Fourless (EGCP)
• Jgxm (EGCP)
• Douglas (EGCP)
• Toddynho (EGCP)
• Kedi (EGCP)
• AG (EGCP)
• Nicolas (WH)
• Disha (CPA)
• Mare (CPA)

ACCOLADES FOR 2023

• If you want to count the EGCP accolade positions for 2023 as something I contributed to, then go ahead. I am divided on that. I guess the CSY award runner-up for the AUSIA gives me some credit? Probably most tactical army runner-up too.
• EGCP: Cavaleiro do Sorte Vivve, as Yellow (essentially the HoF tier right below legend)

2024

Starting off 2024, at least for me specifically, was the Christmas Crusade continuing. I’m not going to go into every intricate battle, since there were a lot that I led in, but I will list just some important ones. Battles resumed on 2 January, we skipped the AUSIA that day. We still wanted to make sure we could confidently put assets into our AUSIA division. We launched our first offensive against PIC at US time for 4 January. We won.

Everyone no-showed on each others battles on the next day. We fought ACP on the weekend, which I couldn’t attend due to being at work. We lost, with ACP actually pulling off a 40+ max this time. This would be the last in the proper main division times that we would be defeated like that, if I am not mistaken. I remember we were a bit annoyed by this, but nothing to be too concerned over. Lass and I led the AUSIA defense two days later, and we were so sleep deprived from the night before that we fumbled it. I remember Edu got mad at us, reasonably so, since Lass and I were on some crack that battle. 

Directly after that battle, we did an early EU against ACP. However, this was considering a very boring battle for us, even though we lost it (marginally). ACP performed like straight poop and I remember people kept bringing it up. The battle went ACP-TIE-TIE.

After an announcement Guta made, WV had a bit of a crashout against us. We did feel a bit betrayed, but nothing to affect the war effort. We also had our first AUSIA victory against ACP the day before that, which was an amazing victory for Bushido. 

We took the lead the next day when we fought against ACP. Clean sweep. 30+ vs 16.

Some highlights as the war progressed:

Like with the previous ACP war, I really couldn’t tell you every mundane detail about this nor about every battle I led in. I just know that this time I led in nearly every single battle except like 2-3, which really allowed me to hone my skills quite a bit and learn how ACP and Templars roll. Once again, I felt a bit unified with Lass during these battles. It sounds homoerotic with the way I describe it, but it truly was a spectacle when we led together.

I was active on the diplomacy side of things, again that is primarily because Fitsuki and Lass couldn’t really do it. Coup Crusaders wanted out of the war, so I drafted up a treaty that we ultimately agreed to to get CC out of the way.

ACP actually approached us privately without their friends to try to negotiate an ending. At the moment, I just have a screenshot of Fitsuki quoting Coolguy, but if I get access to Yellow I’ll replace it:

Thought it was a bit snaky and it is! We kept having some back and forth and discussing among ourselves the ideas that we wanted – ACP wanted to propose some type of personal ACP x EGCP sudden death to end the war. We did not want that, it was dumb to us. Discussions, that lasted WAY too long mind you, occurred between the whole UFA alliance and EGCP. A big thing that were adamant about was not wiping the score, in addition to not rescinding our success in the war. The best we could come up with was “neither side recognized as a victor”. This obviously was a bit calculated, as while it is inconclusive on an official front, strategically EGCP succeeded. The score ended 15-12, EGCP, but if you remove all no-shows from both sides it was 11-4, EGCP. Lol.

That concluded the Christmas Crusade (January 21st). The war definitely failed in trying to beat EGCP, that is the case there. We maxed 30 for pretty much every EU/US battle, obviously with exception of AUSIA and early EU battles. The war really wasn’t close in a practical sense, and I do appreciate it being a proper war that is actually, y’know, not stupid. Definitely considered a big moment in EGCP’s history unironically, merely because we defended ourselves as well as we did. They definitely tried to force treaty us as the admins confronted us towards the end due to us using “lynch” as a tactic. Although this was due to the term “virtual lynching”, an official legal term in Brazil to describe cancel culture (which was what was being attempted on us).

2024 progressed as normal for EGCP, I suppose. I continued to manage Bushido for a bit, I started to unveil some of my late 2023 reforms that I planned to help hone our ability much more. I really wanted to get a lot of medals and I started doing more in-depth attendance tracking so we can better track Bushido membership (as membership was tied to specific attendees who could get a salary), and just to see who was attending in general.

The aftermath of the war was definitely not entirely in our favor. We lost New Years Bonanza, I don’t think I even partook in that. Belga was really starting to die in activity, he was only leading events and not contributing much. We had a lot of staff retire around this time, although most of the retirements were tied to many of them being old heads who wanted to move on. Couldn’t blame them after all of this grinding. Our Avalanche source started to decrease quite a bit, we started to have bad relations with their administration, and we also already milked that CPPS for all it was worth at this point. The army definitely declined a bit, and that was pretty evident in our top ten placements. It wasn’t a severe decline, but we weren’t hitting #1 anymore.

Obviously, we wanted to find a proper successor to Belga as we planned to encourage him on retiring. I was the first choice, naturally, although we wanted to do it as Yellow. I did not feel comfortable leading as Yellow, however, it was already difficult enough doing my International Division work as Yellow (I would teach UEGCP using Google translate, plus I led all of my battles in Portuguese too). I opted to make a return as Cobra, it would’ve been better in many ways for that. So, that was what the plan was. We decided to encourage Belga to retire and have me become the next official leader. We did some insanely whack ceremony for me to become leader, reminded me of some pagan ceremony lol.

This Club Penguin Armies post details my official return to EGCP. Honestly, going into EGCP as an official leader I really had no specific goals in mind. I just wanted to help keep EGCP at the top, although I made clear in that post a few things that I specifically wanted to address: training our army to improve our strategies & tactics, improved communication internally, better International Division accommodation, and diplomatic work. I went into this assuming my specific niche that I did in 2018-2019, as well as my 2023 niche, but this time a bit more involved. Honestly, though, I really did not like the wider community, so I did not want to take diplomacy in an international sense because I really did not like the wider community lol.

Timing wise, me joining the leadership was not the best. I got sick for like 1-2 weeks immediately when I first joined as leader, I had a stomach bug, so that messed me up for a little bit. However, even after the fact, I was not as locked-in as I should’ve been I did start training the army with the new system that Lass and I devised: the system essentially combined the in-depth training approaches from the Bushido Division, with Dino’s training format that emphasized repetition (especially the “get back in your spots” approach). This training system was effective, although I was still working out the cracks. Lass was my translator. Nevertheless, I did not do a whole lot for a bit and Fitsuki got on my case a bit for it, I do not blame him, I was not taking this was seriously as I was previously. In terms of performance for this month, we generally stayed around the top 3, we managed to get #1 army of February.

EGCP continued on with a slow decline. As mentioned before, it seems that most of our issues stemmed from the experienced staff leaving, as well as the Avalanche situation falling through quite a bit. However, I also think that there definitely was a change of mindset in the leadership for a bit. Fitsuki was clearly burnt out, and was trying a lot of flawed systems to try to fix things (such as the points system). Lass and I both were not really locked in, also probably due to quite a bit of burnout as well. Nevertheless, we felt that our odds for March Madness, announced at the end of February, was still possible. Edu and I planned a bit of the hype for March Madness, and quite honestly, the odds were looking decently in our favor. I made a massive announcement (sharing the English version here).

Lass and I did quite a bit of the training efforts here (this was our practice for the new system), although nobody was fully locked in for March Madness, especially after the battle. The first battle (the quarter-finals) was fought against PIC. I personally could not lead this one, but EGCP maxed 41 and did amazing. There was just one problem – we (led by Fitsuki, we thought it was Lass) sent a certain tactic. Take a look.

You see, as absolutely hilarious as this was, PIC did not like this. This brought up some drama over doxxing and what not (which is actually really bad because they inherently kept calling Sha fat due to alleging we were doing the same). I was actually riding in a car when I saw this, and I laughed when I saw it. This was not a good look, apparently. 

The admins were not too happy, and PIC being the sore losers that they are, wanted us punished. Unfortunately Fitsuki and Lass both were banned for two weeks from CPAB and me for one week. This really derailed our efforts quite a bit, which is unfortunate to admit. We had some pretty decent hype so this news hurt us a little. We had a Star Wars theme which was cool at least, Edu set it up nicely.

Our semi-finals was scheduled to be against the Rebel Penguin Federation. I decided to work on that day as I could not attend, so Edu and Belga had to lead. Belga was a cracked battle leader, so I wasn’t too worried, and Edu was a strategic battle leader. What shocked me to see was that the battle was a 3-0 loss against RPF. I was a bit shocked… primarily because the army was decently well trained and RPF really wasn’t performing too well at all even at this point. Even looking at pictures, it didn’t look like a 3-0 loss, as a lot of pictures show us having more strategic and creative forms than RPF, as well as covering them. However, there were two major flaws: RPF had cleaner forms (as expected) and EGCP had a lot of sleeping troops. The sleeping troops problem is sort of what shocked me, as our performance at trainings really weren’t that bad previously. Perhaps people just weren’t locked in, I don’t know.

So, unfortunately we lost but we at least could fight for a 3rd place finish. This battle was against ACP and would end up being led by Edu and I. Now, the biggest advantage here was that this was a continuation of our rivalry against ACP, who at this point had an equal back and forth with us at wars, but had an advantage tournament wise. They also dethroned us from our top spot on the top tens at this point. This served as an opportunity for us to defeat ACP in a tournament for the first time. The battle was held on March 23rd. Ironically enough, ACP outmaxed us 24-22. This was a pretty low max battle all things considered, Edu and I actually consider this battle especially funny. This battle was considered quite boring. You see, at this point, EGCP already had a lot of training with 20-25 maxes using the new system, so we could actually utilize that size pretty efficiently. Edu and I called it boring, just because of how much we were able to mess with them. I led in R1 and the first half of R2, which Edu leading the rest. I actually pulled off a funny strategy of countering a V with a plus (something you generally don’t do) inside of the Docks, because I decided to move early and exploit ACP’s poorly executed V. I felt like a literal genius. We ended up winning EGCP-EGCP-TIE.

So, not all was lost. We secured third place, which at least cemented ourselves as a top performing army this tournament. However, it’s not even nuanced to where I can say that we performed better than the finalists (like I’ll mention later on), we definitely were not at our best here, but still among the best.

Some changes occurred here at the end of March. We had our last session of UEGCP finishing up in March, which ended off a bit abruptly. We started to have our degree of infighting around this time with Fitsuki vs Lass and I. I’m not going to send all of the fights here, and frankly, I will have a hard time finding each. However, Fitsuki really started to not like us and I really do not know why. Lass told me that he started to dislike me because I did not call DCP people to attend for Christmas Chaos (not sure why he would assume I’d ask friends I haven’t spoke to for years and aren’t CPA affiliated anymore, let alone EGCP affiliated to show up), but I don’t know. The infighting really became prevalent around this time, leading up until April.

We still remained among the top and ended off the month at #2.

Things started to change a bit for me personally in April. I was able to manage time a bit better, and Lass and I were able to fully refine our training method by then. I also personally started to up my involvement when it came to staff communication, something that really needed to be fixed given Fitsuki’s tantrums. Lass still remained a bit dead, and Fitsuki kept trying new growth ideas that ultimately kept on failing. We were in a bit of a rocky spot in April, although things at least started to look hopeful. Ana suggested a radical idea at the time; a one week hiatus. This hiatus concept would be us taking a week off to plan a big comeback, take a break from the constant push (which has been literally constant at this point since May), and allow us to communicate with the staff better. I will not share all of the discussions, but I can highlight the infighting here. Fitsuki was really adamant that Lass and I never did stuff (which was definitely true for much of February and some of early March, but definitely not true in the grand scheme and since mid March). I don’t get how Fitsuki thought blowing up on his staff and co-leaders was productive either, lol.

Fitsuki was very much opposed to the hiatus, he felt that we could rebuild without the hiatus (which isn’t necessarily wrong, but the hiatus was appealing logically). 

Pretty much everyone voted in favor, with Fitsuki being the sole one to vote no originally and then abstain. Edu even swayed his opinion on it in favor. We therefore decided to do so, and Ana mass reached out to the staff to understand their situations and get information. During this hiatus, we discussed future plans, which included a massive war campaign where we would fight numerous armies along the way (with RPF and ACP being the goal armies), a tournament campaign, improved recruiting efforts, harder training, and improved staff community. We also decided to change our scheduling for events (which included having a mass DM team to DM people to check the schedule, as well as the creation of a general schedule at the start of each week which involved finalizing it on every Thursday). No one person can get credit for these ideas, no matter how much people kept on trying to steal them, I can attest that the ideas were a group effort. In addition, we made a major change – Edu (who already had been shadow leading at this point since the revival) will be officially returning as a leader (and also will be operating as Dalloway). A lot of hype internally was being done due to this hiatus and the subsequent reforms. 

Hype with the return was massive and the internal culture of EGCP really began to boom at this time. Due to the hiatus, we did poop on the top ten of the month, but that is okay. This started what we considered to be the “peak” period of EGCP’s second generation, which was for a number of reasons. Needless to say, the hiatus definitely was needed and showed a lot of promise. It gave Fitsuki, Lass, Edu, and I a much needed rest and allowed us to not feel the constant pressure that we all have felt since EGCP’s revival, and allowed us to really think about our next moves. We locked in after this period, again, collectively. While it was true that Fitsuki was the “main guy” in much of February and some of March, it reverted back to the older way from the previous year where there was no main person directing the efforts, perhaps even more prevalent now. We just went into this team lock-in that I haven’t seen so equally distributed for in a while.

We made our grand return on 22 April, maxing 27 and spelling out “EGCP” with each formation.

With the return, we essentially split into some niches that accomplished certain tasks. Fitsuki did the day-to-day stuff, growth efforts, and currency management. Lass did troop interaction, outreach, battle strategizing, and assisted in the training efforts (also did some growth efforts). Edu did diplomacy, outreach, the hype efforts, and staff communication. Edu acted as Dalloway to do most of the diplomacy through the CPA org. I manned the training efforts, diplomacy, outreach, strategizing, and staff communication. Edu, Lass, Cookky, and I specifically did a lot of autism in the chat with the troops, it was a lot of fun. At training events I did a lot of brainrot tactics to keep things interesting. I solo led most trainings. Fitsuki led all of the normal events usually. We worked on a schedule at the end of each week, made a graphic, and published it at the start of each week for the army to see. I would then direct a mass DM effort to make sure people see the schedule. Fitsuki frequented the recruiting task force (which had been fixed a bit) and would communicate with Bigabau for propaganda. Thunder recruited a bit hard around this time, getting a lot of ID troops into the army. Welcoming efforts improved too. Internally, this was probably one of the most locked in EGCP had ever been during this generation. Felt good to see many of the beautiful faces. Infighting still occurred, though, and definitely dumb moments still occurred. I remember Fitsuki flipped out on Vitorwin for something he didn’t even do, which was mad lol. Bushido made a return with Thunder, and I gave him a lot of my Bushido plans. We opted to keep heavy planning and bureaucracy is minimal, just to avoid getting too complex for now.

Our last week of April ended off with a good top ten placement.

May essentially saw a few major projects: prepare for Around The World Cup (using our dictator profile pictures), start expanding our borders, and go to war. 

Now, the project that revitalized us properly was our war against Templars… the first victim. I wrote up a post about this and it is actually a pretty decent read I cannot lie. This was an off-map war, but Templars at least agreed to take it seriously. We couldn’t do it map based since the grace period wasn’t over yet, but it didn’t matter much to us. Templars was being led by Sidie and Echo at this time, with Dawn still shadow leading a bit as an advisor. Templars was still major at this time, I believe.

First battle was an AUSIA, smoked ’em

Our second battle was an EU, with technical issues. CPAB really wasn’t wanting to work at first, but after you cleared your cache it worked fine, as Super said. Templars made an entire groupchat with the head judges to discuss this, and Spotty gave a ruling, and we were able to continue the battle. Templars didn’t recognize this battle, but that didn’t matter.

The third battle of that day, and third battle in general was a US battle. We won that too, of course, maxing just under 30. Our old pal Games and his friends were supportive of EGCP at this time, so it was nice to see them helping out.

Frankly, you get the gist of this war. Templars folded due to their incompetent management and this really cemented their status as falling from major (officially occurred in June). On the 16th of May, they tried to weasel out of the war by claiming we raided their server and brought up past occurrences as well. It was a pretty pitiful post, and actually got proven wrong by CPA admin Mchappy lol. I wrote a post claiming victory once Templars no-showed their last battle, thus breaking the terms. It is credited in Edu’s name as I did not want to look bad over the doxxing AI meme that we put in there, since I just managed to fix some troubles over doxxing drama. 

Felt good to really utilize the hype at this time. Internally, the culture was quite amazing (as you will see in the highlights). Cookky would make AI songs of various things that people said, it was a lot of fun. The staff felt very united at this time too which made me happy as beforehand it never felt like the staff were really that united. I do not recall any major projects that we embarked on between this point and Around the World Cup. Let’s get into that.

Around The World Cup was a whole new big tournament creation that was conceptualized primarily by Mchappy. The idea is that the main battles would be over a week span, one in AUSIA, one in EU, and one in US timezones – with a finals that would occur the following weekend at EU time. It would be split into group A and B and the goal would be to score the most points in each group (which is determined by the quality of the win). It was a neat concept and probably one of CPA’s better tournament concepts that has been created since Project Conquest and AUSIA Arena. I’d argue it is better than them both. Every army except Templars (they were dropping and Sidie was known for micromanaging PIC in this, so I imagine this was why) and RPF (this is typical) did not participate. The main forerunners of this tournament were definitely EGCP, ACP, and Water Vikings. ACP was doing a bit better around this time and WV also was doing not too bad. The top armies for a bit was us three.

We just sort of locked in hype wise. We didn’t even do anything that unique for the tournament either, we just did normal hype as Lass described later in an interview. I personally managed the training efforts and the regular mass DM efforts (Edu helped too). Edu did a lot of the hype and veteran outreach. Lass and I were the primary battle leaders during the tournament, similar to Christmas Chaos. I did not lead in the first battle against PIC, though. This one was a bit worrisome since PIC had a well developed AUSIA and ours, despite the decent training, never was known for size. We had a 2-0-1 EGCP victory, the last room was a fumble (no offense Fitsuki we were mad at you for that). 

Next “battle” was a fight against Dark Pirates. They did not show up. It was just a glorified training event, but it went well in terms of training. EU time.

Our next fight, which we had to take pretty seriously, was a fight against the Water Vikings in the US time. I personally led in this one, and this one at room 1. I don’t think the outcome was really the way that the judges said it was. It was a TIE-TIE-EGCP outcome. I do agree that WV definitely didn’t win any rooms and that EGCP dominated the third room, but I am not too sure if this battle was as close as it was. Here is the EGCP post, you can take a look for yourself. Nevertheless, we won!

This led us to the finals, fought against ACP. This was a nice moment, as Lass and I served as the sole leaders of this battle. This one is probably a perfect example of our leadership styles – me being the halter and Lass being the attacker. We maxed 50 against ACP’s 38. I led 2 minutes of R1 and R3 and led all of R2, with Lass leading 8 minutes of R1 and R3. What a fun battle this one was.

Room 1 was quite intense, although this seemingly looked like the closest room to me. We ended up getting a victory here, though.

Second room was also pretty intense, but since it was the Iceberg we really could exploit sitting out in a large expanse. It was nice, I really have no idea how it was a TIE, lol.

Third room was also intense, but EGCP seemingly had the advantage for most of it. I really am unsure of why this one was a TIE as well, because from the looks of it, we dominated. I do not know. Let this post be what guides you.

This was one of the most major victories in EGCP history, by far. A tournament that went very well and had a lot of competition in it. We managed to edge out victories against the other forerunners of WV and ACP. I think if RPF participated this would be even closer, but I honestly think EGCP would’ve still edged out the victory since we would’ve locked in harder. I felt the judging of these battles, especially the finals, did not make much sense to me, though. Our first tournament win since 2018, and our 5th time reaching a finals overall.

We had to return to normalcy after Around The World Cup, and even though I was happy about the win, Legends Cup mattered more. I wanted us to begin preparations, so our training events generally went well and we improved communication quite a bit over the time. I started hosting some recruiting sessions and I drafted my first Legends Cup plan ever, which involved the creation of a music video. Before that, though, we had to fixate on newer ideas. Furthering the war campaign was discussed.

We were toying with going to another war, although I was a bit hit hesitant. We did make some reforms in this time, namely I brought scoring into EGCP fully, which was cool.

After spinning a wheel, Water Vikings was chosen for the next war. Personally, I was a bit reluctant as I did not want to tire us out for Legends Cup and I felt bad attacking Water Vikings due to my friends being there. Nevertheless, I obliged, at least it would be a good fight (WV was still major at this time). Personally, there is not much for me to talk about in regards to this war. We declared war on June 9th and had several battles, the only one that we lost was when Fitsuki had to solo lead the entire battle (invasion of Summit), I don’t recall as to why. I will just share some highlights.

 

The negotiations to end this war was straight up autistic. I wanted to try to be nice, Edu wanted to be brutal, and Lass was just going all over the place by adding Joel and what not. I don’t even know what was going on here. Given the situation, I just decided to try to get a fair deal for both sides, and then just not follow up at all like I was supposed to, it was a bit funny. We traded one of our temporary servers (Summit) for Fjord, since WV was leaving the map anyways. Led to this meme.

The war concluded on 13 June, so we immediately began working on Legends Cup preparations. I personally kept up the training efforts with Lass, although we started to get a bit more in-depth around this time. I know Fitsuki worked on other growth efforts and worked on some stuff with the Minecraft server. The biggest project, though, was Guardian Bot. While I previously had a Guardian Bot back in 2018-2019, I created a new concept at the start of 2024 that involved a bot that would adapt to each room and present formations for each room. I will not explain the exact mechanics, but this was a major breakthrough when we finally finished it in June. 

Honestly, I cannot really detail that much about the rest of June other than just normal stuff went on. Nice trainings, Guardian Bot, and just general hype. We definitely upped the recruitment efforts and welcoming efforts. Nothing was really of note at this time, though. We did create a lot of the concepts for our Legends Cup hype (such as the Greek 80s theme) and what-not. Fitsuki and I worked on a really solid Minecraft incentive program. We held some recruiting sessions pretty frequently though. Scoring also went over well, and due to the formation pictures, the trainings improved pretty drastically.

Recording with a specialty team, directed by myself, recorded by Edu, and edited by Bigabau – we released an awesome music video for hype.

Our first battle was on 30 June and we fought SWAT. I’m not even going to waste my time describing this battle, it was just a glorified training really.

We ended up being the #1 army of June. It was pretty cool, it seemed that the hype train was working after our successful lock-in and war campaigns. 3 #1 in a row felt nice.

This left us with a pretty decent presence in the first half of the year – with a total of 8 #1 spots. 3 of them being #1 of the month.

At the start of July, I held a recruiting session and I personally went on New Club Penguin. My efforts got disrupted by someone who acted like they knew everything about me and I thought it was Eden at first, but after a bunch of back and forth it turned out to be Zenishira. I miss you, Zenishira.

Our next battle was in the semi-finals against the Help Force. Frankly, none of us expected Help Force to lock-in as much as they did, but it appears that they recruited very hard for this and Ayan did a lot of the arrangements to get veterans to return. We ended up maxing 47 at the battle, but what hurt us a lot was the size drop; we averaged only about 35. I am not even sure what the reason for that was. I think part of it was due to a lot of internal hype within the leadership starting to die down a bit. Lass, Edu, and I were pretty burnt out considering how much we were doing over the past year and how much weight we pulled during the lock-in since the end of April. The battle ended up being a 3-0 loss for us.

Now fortunately this was a double-elimination tournament, meaning EGCP had an opportunity to make a comeback. We were set to face Templars in the elimination battle on the 13th. I remember us being pretty hyped for it… just for Edu and I specifically to feel something was off on the day of the battle. I really do not know what it was, we just did not feel too good. We discussed this before the battle, there was just something off about the hype altogether. It was a night and day difference compared to ATWC.

Frankly, this was one of the most insane judging I’ve ever seen in my time here. In fact, I think this is the worst case of judging point blank period, and I’m not even kidding. I can admit a defeat when one occurs (I can even give leeway if it can go either way) but I did not see how we lost this outside of the room 1 loss (it caught us off guard). Outside of that I really have no idea how we lost this battle, lol. Still to this day I’m a bit shocked that we lost. Take a look here, I really have no idea how we lost.

Well… that was that. We were done with Legends Cup after that. This had to have been one of the weirdest tournament runs we ever had point-blank period. Completely off, lol. The hype was really strong for a 2 month period and then it just fell flat on its face right around the time of the Help Force battle. Not sure what was up about that, but nevertheless we move. This essentially marked the end of a peak moment with EGCP’s second generation. I’m not really sure why people thought EGCP was better in 2023, which while we did have higher size, we had significantly better war (Christmas Crusade, Saladin, Visigoth) and tournament success (MM and ATWC) in 2024.

Honestly, around this time, I started to take a degree of a step back and so did Lass. Edu left to Water Vikings in July and Fitsuki started to take a bit more of a hands on approach to trying to reform the army. I liked some of the reform ideas, and I helped restructure the ranks a bit. I got hit pretty hard at work in July, so it made things a bit tricky for me to get things done. Fitsuki made something called the Marshal program, which is essentially giving trusted veterans access to the modline with a special rank that gives one mod duty. It was a bit similar to an idea I had in Smoking Squids for advisors, but this was fleshed out. I tried to revive the “call team” (for mass DMing), as we had a lot of success running the team for the back-to-back wars and ATWC, plus our event attendance. EGCP kept attending events around this time due to maxing below 20 a lot, so I was a bit upset since I felt it was fine to have events at a 15 max. Gaming the top ten never mattered to me.

EGCP began toying with the next war being against ACP, in order to bring in activity. I was pretty demotivated at this time due to work hitting me pretty hard and me having worked for as long as I have, but then what demotivated me further was a pretty brutal fight with Fitsuki that we had. Now, granted, he was right in the sense that much of July activity was bad out of nowhere (I had no control due to my work getting extremely busy due to a project going on), however being discredited for the lock-in was the last straw for me and I just straight up stopped caring. I wanted out and wanted to retire. My plan was to retire in September, but the demotivation was already bad enough on me. The army itself was demotivated. The fight did not help and that really sealed the deal. I won’t share a whole lot of it, just some.

What bothered me the most was being told I did nothing when I pretty much did the bulk of this army’s diplomacy, warfare strategy, tactical strategy, in-depth training, much of the structure/communication, and led nearly every significant battle in this army for a year at this point. I mean, all of the details that I’ve given in this post indicate I was pretty extensive in this army. I do not know why he had to flip out on me the way he did, he also would flip out on Lass. He just a genuine disdain for me and I am not quite sure why; I do not think it was because I did “nothing”. Contrary to what he stated, I arguably pulled more weight in the back-to-back wars and ATWC than he did, and I am not joking.

I stopped caring about whether or not we will war. I felt that we were not really in a spot, but I just had no preference. I let Fitsuki make up his mind himself. Lass was against the war, but he felt bad for not pushing for it as much.

This leads us to Operation: Caesar. I really did not have much part when it came to the grand strategy here, I just led battles. I was not operating at my peak though, neither was Lass. We both were burnt out quite a bit. Nevertheless, we move. Honestly, I was not personally attached to  many of these battles. There were some funny victories, like one in AUSIA that was absolutely amazing. My favorite battle in this war was when I was leading in room 1 and I made a plus to bait ACP in the cove, and they made a plus too. I then immediately moved into a V and just destroyed them. Made me laugh because I felt like some mastermind here.

I really cannot speak much on this war as I was really not too personally invested in it. I led a lot of battles, mostly in the first half. By the time it got closer to college in August, I couldn’t really lead anymore. Lass also began to vanish too. I fully vanished when university started on like August 25th or whatever day it was. Not sure why Fitsuki made such a reckless mistake knowing we weren’t available for this. Fitsuki did try to force treaty ACP during this since it became bleak. We were actually winning at first, but Fitsuki opted to not negotiate an end since ACP reached out to us to negotiate an end.

I never expected myself to abruptly vanish at EGCP during such an important moment. I loved EGCP so much and have played a part in practically every single EGCP diplomatic and warfare related moment at this point. No joke, if you’ve read this far then you’d know that. I was so burnt out and sick of being attacked by Fitsuki over these past months that I simply just could not do it anymore. I had to leave to prove a point, and that I did I suppose. The war effort was fully lost once Lass and I left, which is where the majority of the 40% of battles on our end were won at. If you don’t believe me, take a look at CPA judges I am NOT sharing 100 battles. It is a sad moment that I left so abruptly, but he brought it on himself.

I wasn’t really wrong either. While some nice reforms occurred after the war was over (such as the medals, I liked them since a lot of them were Bushido concepts that I created previously for medals), EGCP really was collapsing quite a bit. Events had a lot of AFKs. Fitsuki was left as the sole leader, which was a bit ironic considering Lass and I did “nothing”, just to see it show no real improvement over this period when he was the sole leader. I know, I’m ranting a bit, but I love EGCP and take pride in my own work too much. I was actually snubbed at the 2024 Summer Gala nominations, for Edu’s alt LOL. I never even noticed until writing this post, since I didn’t care and I really don’t care. I just found it funny to be snubbed like that, cause even though I was generally lowkey when it came to the community stuff, it just didn’t make sense. Could’ve nominated Edu outright if you didn’t want me lol.

The Consulate was essentially completely uninvolved until we heard about the EGCP constitution was changing in October. The constitution specifically sought to remove the Consulate position, which rubbed us the wrong way since we were quite literally the protectors of the legacy. We assumed it stemmed at Fitsuki and I beef, and it probably was that case. We had some discussions about this with Fitsuki and I nearly removed him from administrator of the site, but I ultimately opted not to. We planned the coup, but Fitsuki left on his own terms once it was made clear that he was trying to seize power and we were trying to stop that. We announced it as a coup since we essentially helped him along.

We tried to train Aucraia and Vitorwin to become leaders, but they ended up getting tricked by Fitsuki and Licy to create their own army that they wanted, the Bastille Vanguard. Belga and Fakezin seized our EGCP website, releasing some expose posts, and still hold the post to this day. What bothers me the most is that they let all of the things said in those chats fly by for such a long time, and Fitsuki, for example, said a lot worse than what we said there, lol. It was annoying since it was clearly done merely to destroy the reputation rather than something that amounted to anything meaningful. I didn’t get exposed too bad though cause I don’t swear anymore, at least. It was a pretty tough moment for the Consulate as this was very intense. EGCP essentially died since many were manipulated to side with them, even those who were victims of Fitsuki’s abuse. Just take a look at an example, lol.

We opted to move to a hiatus given the situation.

This essentially concludes my in-depth involvement in EGCP. 2018 – 2019 and then 2023 – 2024. Quite a lot of time and effort, EGCP is a home to me. I made my career here. I did so much work for this army with diplomacy and wars, and with time I became a critical component in our strategies, communication, structure, and battles too. I don’t know. It felt quite amazing and gratifying to help EGCP to the scale that I did all of these years. I barely even led for most of it, I only officially led for 6 months out of that two year span, and that was primarily due to necessity for the army. Most of my work was almost always done as a chief advisor, just we always would consider it an acting-leadership. I was pretty pragmatic and utilitarian in this sense, sort of like a Shaboomboom esque deal for the army. I consider the first generation having a core seven (main people: Edu and Cookky; internal people: Victoria, SlowFood, and Pedrox; diplomats: Gutavuh and myself), and I conisdered the second generation having a core four (Fitsuki, Lass, Edu, and myself, although you could argue for a fifth person), although this one never really felt like it had a main leader during the best moments. I found myself a bit more excited recounting my time in the second generation if anything. While the first generation was significantly more impactful, the second generation I was much more hands on with and had a lot more thrills. I felt honored and gratified to work in this army, and felt sad that an army that I once would defend even if they committed a murder became distant feeling to me due to one specific bad egg.

If it wasn’t clear enough, that bad egg was Fitsuki. I did not write this as a post to rant about it, but I cannot emphasize enough that Fitsuki’s undoing and prideful nature is what killed my home. Lass and I heavily mistreated and the Consulate disrespected. When he was properly checked we did amazing, but the minute Fitsuki would assume total power (much of February and after LC in July) the army would decline. I find it funny how people would praise Fitsuki at times, although whenever he was the one calling the main shots the army was at it’s weakest. Whenever it was a clear team effort (all of 2023 until early 2024 and then March to June 2024), we did amazing. EGCP was always like that. Even Edu and Cookky were not traditional main leaders in the sense that they did every little thing. It bothered me hearing that Lass and I were “mooches” off of Fitsuki, which was leaked to me from some private discussions. It just was ironic considering how much we were relied on for all of the tournament and war efforts when it came to training, leading battles, and the strategies. Literally the most of the strategies at EGCP (and later WV as you will learn) came from Lass and I. The only leader that could communicate to the troops and be liked was Lass. The only ones who could communicate to staff and not be hated was Edu and I. It is true that Fitsuki manned most of the “normal” events, totinhos, hype, incentives, and day-to-day efforts. When it came to a lot of the structure, geopolitics, outreach, diplomacy, strategies, battles, communication, and in-depth training, that was literally not the case – this is where Lass, Edu, and I (even when we were advisors in 2023) almost always came into play. I do not write this to defame anyone since I emphasize again, this was a massive team effort for a year. We succeeded when we worked as a team and we failed when we lost touch of that. This post has all of the evidence provided anyway, so you can tell me who’s right here.

I love EGCP and am very proud of everything we achieved over those two generations. I reiterate that I was really honored to have worked here at EGCP. I felt gratified with a lot of the efforts we did, such as reaching the Christmas Chaos finals, the Christmas Crusade, the back-to-back wars, and the Around The World Cup victory. Heck, I was also happy with breaking through the AUSIA in the ACP War in 2023, and I was also happy we at least got third place in March Madness and defeated our rival ACP. The same goes for the first generation, such as our many wars with the Templars, World War VII, and the New Viking Alliance. The impact from the New Viking Alliance especially cannot be understated culturally, it was just that important. Truly a shame that one bad egg had to ruin it. Avante, EGCP.

So this brings us to the next thing – where does me joining Water Vikings come into play? Well, let us take a quick intermission before we begin that story.

Well, we reach the end now. From this point forward, I will not be providing many internal screenshots due to how recent everything is. I can’t be overly nostalgic due to it not really even being a year old at this point, but I also cannot risk jeopardizing the very systems that got us to where we are at now. I’d rather keep our methods a secret for now. 

What primarily inspired me to join the Water Vikings was when Lass and Thunder expressed interest in joining WV. Lass in particular wanted to help out for Christmas Chaos, and leave with Thunder to recreate the Elite Guardians for a third generation, which was beginning the planning phase just now. Water Vikings at this point had been a S/M army and was not doing too hot after Cabin retired, for a NUMBER of reasons. After speaking with Aaron, I was offered the rank of Viking General (2ic) and I officially assumed the rank on November 1st.

Now, it’s not really a bragging thing, but it is pretty undeniable I effectively assumed a leadership position upon joining. Everyone in Water Vikings was aware of that, the HCOV considers it a shadow leadership, and considering my track record this was bound to happen. Upon joining Water Vikings I really had three goals in mind:
1. Resurrect Water Vikings
2. Win Legends Cup
3. Set the army up for long-term success

These three humble goals would require a significant amount of work, considering Water Vikings at this point was just a simple S/M army. The first actions that I took were holding meetings, reaching out to staff for opinions and availability, and changing how we approached events. A lot of the internal work that I brought into Water Vikings originated from the work I did in EGCP. The army was a bit autistic and frankly I was worried about not being able to fit in, but I definitely found my niche and was quite happy about getting involved. We started to just grind out basic things and managed to regain our major status in mid November, although I can note that we were moreso a medium army if anything.

I cannot say that working with some of my peers was easy. The army definitely had a lot of demotivated staff, and no offense to my co-leaders and friends, quite inactive and uninitiated co-leaders. Frequent events and staff communication was a method for us to try to revitalize energy in the army, and it definitely worked to a degree but it certainly wasn’t colorful.

We went to war with SWAT on November 17th, primarily due to some leaks coming our ways about SWAT wanting to war us over some stupid drama or whatever. I don’t really care too much at the moment to actually look into this part.

This war really did not amount to too much, but it at least was the start to getting the site back to activity. I was pretty annoyed that our website was not very active with posts, so this was the moment when we started to post on the site more frequently.

At the end of November, we tried out a new concept for events known as infection. This is based on a game I used to play as a kid back in elementary, in which it is essentially tag where each person you tag ends up joining you to tag others. I turned this into a version of hide and seek, and this actually became a staple of Water Vikings. It is fun to be honest.

Also at the end of November, we started perhaps my favorite trend ever, the Poop Takeover. I knew autism was a way to wakeup the army, so having an event about fecal matter was a way to make things fun and interesting. It still highlighted some issues (such as it maxing 21 but only averaging 11), but nevertheless it was a good start.

During this period I got to meet some cool fellas, even if I wanted to kill some of them. Revan, Rye, Tomato, Chey, Claire, and Escot being ones to stick out the most at this time. Raven took the Poop Takeover concept even further with a Pee Takeover.

We also had our lovely Fast Food Takeover event in December. Bullying Aaron became my forte (I was the one who got EGCP to bully Aaron for being fat and then everyone else kept doing it).

We ended off December with a nice anniversary event where we maxed 57.

Now, the thing is, I skimmed over a lot of stuff in this November-December period merely because it’s not as nostalgic, but also because the roots for what became Water Vikings now was established in this time. I will not go into the intricate details over what I did and what others did. I can just attest that our trainings improved, we had more fun events, and our communication with staff began a big improvement compared to what it was before.

Over the course of the two months so far I created a lot of long-term plans, but kept tweaking them with time. However, a main piece of the plan, to me, was to reset Water Vikings through a brief lockdown and couple it with an active count. DrQueen was on board and in agreeance, so that is what we pushed for, and it got approved.

This concludes 2024. A lot happened over this year for me personally, and honestly, it was a pretty decent year in terms of Club Penguin Armies. It was very competitive all things considered, had some wars, had some good tournaments, and it was just all-around very solid. I remember I cheered on RPF for defeating DCP in the Christmas Chaos finals, because Doritos sucks. I won’t be silent about them, they are one of the biggest scums in the community. Here are some honorable mentions:

• Crente (EGCP)
• Nono (EGCP)
• Vitorwin (EGCP)
• Scourge (EGCP)
• Thunder (EGCP)
• MtJordan (EGCP)
• Kazoo (EGCP)
• Lady Eden (WH)
• DrQueen (WV)
• Rye Bread (WV)
• Claire (WV)
• Mabel (WV)
• Tomato (WV)
• Raven (WV)
• Revan (WV)

ACCOLADES FOR 2024

• Biggest Army Runner-Up, as Elite Guardians (Leader), Summer Gala 2024
• Most Tactical Army Runner-Up, as Elite Guardians (Leader), Summer Gala 2024
• Biggest, as Summer War (EGCP Leader), Summer Gala 2024

2025 – The Present Year

Starting off the year strong, we began the lockdown.

Now in this time, taking some discussions we had with the leadership (although I hardly used it as a reference), I penned the Frostbite Plan throughout January. The plan labeled a lot of reforms for the army including better events, better training methods, communication methods, rank restructures, an outline for a new staff training program (The Viking Academy), the active count, currency reforms, and an entirely new internal structure system (primarily the Committees). It was a very ambitious and quite detailed plan, which I again will not be sharing in any capacity. This was my primary contribution in January, as I just focused merely on the planning side and not much else out side of that. 

We had our big return event on February 11th, maxing 42.

Quite literally directly after, we took part in Candy Crusher Brawl’s S/M category. It was a one day free-for-all esque tournament. We came out victorious in a close fight.

February went well in general, maxing 20+ at most events. We ended off the month well, securing a #5 position on the last week’s top ten. Not perfect, but not bad considering the situation.

Starting in March, we had our major status return, which was very good. Compared to the end of November-December, we were much more consistent at this time.

One of the first tournament concepts that I created for Water Vikings was Ocean Steadfast. Frankly, the odds weren’t really that well in our favor to win March Madness, but we also didn’t lock-in that much either. The idea was for an internal competition to recruit pretty hard and get in registers. To be fair, it did see some decent success, actually. Around this time too I remember the faces of Ango and Noa appearing, alongside many others.

We faced RPF in the quarter-finals, and well, we got smoked. This really dawned on me about how scarred I was from leading both aspects of tactics and formations in battles. This inspired me to develop the buddy system (that being, the system where one leader does tactics and one leader does formations) so I could better accommodate myself and prevent others from facing this burnout that I had at EGCP.

We ended off strong with a #5 on the top ten of the month of March, at least.

I think this is where I proved to be a decent mentor to Trails, Escot, and Tomato. These three were my boys who worked quite hard and kept things afloat when it came to a lot of things at this time, in particular the former two were good at welcoming/recruiting. 

I was promoted to Viking Commander officially on March 29th. Now, the thing is, I nearly did not become Commander numerous times. I contemplated returning to the newly revived EGCP, I contemplated leaving outright, and I also contemplated just remaining 2ic as I could fulfill my purpose without official leading. Nevertheless, I opted to keep my word and become promoted to leader. It was a nice feeling, I suppose, and now I could really direct the efforts in implementing these reforms from the Frostbite Plan. So far, the active count, communication, training, and better events had been implemented. It did prove to have success at least.

I enjoyed giving the HCOM reign to lead battles while I would lead the trainings. I felt a lot better working on internal stuff at this time anyway. It’s really hard for me to explain everything in detail that I did since I simply just did it, plus I don’t have the ability to even go into detail due to the time period since. Our last big event in March was a practice battle against RPF, which was insanely close and ended in an overtime loss for us. It was a pretty good indicator, at least.

These were the winners of Ocean Steadfast.

Revan is a brilliant guy for hype, we celebrating April 1st by being the Club Penguin Night Divers.

The month of April was pretty pivotal internally. Lots of meetings, lots of planning, lots of autistic events. At this point, the website was basically revived with posts, which was nice, and we were doing decently for a major army. Not insanely great, but not bad by any stretch of the word. The primary thing that was being worked on in April was the Viking Academy. Now, this is where I will do some glazing. The concept of Viking Academy was mine based off of UEGCP and much of the surface level concepts were mine, but DrQueen and Trails were essential in developing the Viking Academy beyond my capabilities. We had some staff write up some lessons too. I am especially indebted to DrQueen, as her direction when it came to formatting, formalizing, and seeing to a perfect creation of our staff training program through the Academy proved to be critical. It was amazing and proved to be beneficial. 

We also tested the buddy system in a battle against ACP and came out victorious.

Throughout April, we decided to have some hype and go on a massive invasion campaign that had several daily events. I won’t share all of the event pictures, but I will share the celebration because it has the infamous “dairy uh” phrase that we kept using. You can read the post here for more details on the conquest campaign.

Ended off the month at #5.

Internally, Water Vikings really started to shape up into a distinct culture around this time and its own era. I felt at home at this point really, just by how stupid and autistic we were. Again, I will not get into the nitty gritty of every specific little thing that I did as a member of Water Vikings and leader. Just know I just took initiative and did things. In the month of April, I effectively became the main leader of the army, even if constitutionally I wasn’t. Definitely had a degree of added stress.

Event wise, Water Vikings continued to max 20+ at pretty much every event, often hitting in the higher 20s. May was what we considered the start of the lock-in and that is for good reason considering I was finishing up my semester at university at the time and was able to begin putting in a lot of effort. I even adapted a real life schedule to allow myself to get back to the gym, lead, and take charge. Within the month of May we specifically began upping the recruiting sessions quite a bit, and that will be explained a bit more thorough afterwards.

From the Frostbite Plan, I proposed a complete currency reform for us that would remove inflation and allow it to be a proper incentive for interaction within the community. Rye and I began to flesh things out in May with this currency, which involved a complete reset of the currency itself. Definitely some people disliked losing their money, but the value of our silver became very emphasized with this, as people really enjoyed earning silver from attending events.

Towards the middle of the month, we finally concluded the first academy session (with much success) and that is essentially when everything began to change. The structure changes (with our committees) and the inclusion of a staff scoring system (akin to the EGCP/UMA one previously) proved to be very beneficial in motivating the staff and organizing efforts. Recruiting sessions were extremely frequent after this point and people began to treat Water Vikings very seriously and we began to work quite hard.

At the end of the month, we finally had a practice battle with Doritos. We previously tested the buddy system against the Army of Club Penguin and came out successful, and this time we did it again and came out super successful, a nice conclusion of the month.

We also cannot forget to mention the Sonic the Hedgehog event, of course!

We also notably took part in Around The World Cup II after originally wanting to take part in Frost Frenzy. The only reason why we took part in the latter was due to Templars taking part, as they were going to get a free win against a bunch of S/M armies. We decided, for morale purposes, to take part. Once Templars left to do ATWC II, we did too. We ended up underestimating Aliens in our battle, which led to our loss and ending off with a third place finish tied with Doritos. I was not present at the battle against Aliens, so I imagine I could’ve directed the buddy system a bit better, since it was not being used to full potential here. Nevertheless, we were outnumbered regardless and this battle did highlight some issues with the armies that we made sure to NOT repeat again.

Ended off at top 5 again.

As you can tell by now, much of my work at Water Vikings was very internal based. The entire idea was to get Water Vikings back on its feet entirely. It was not like my work at EGCP where most of it was in a specific niche and we already had an established structure. No, I had to dabble my hands in a bit of everything. So, I did not care much about doing wars, doing diplomacy, and interacting much in the community. All efforts were directed to be focused on in the army itself. This was really the first time in my entire career where my focus was 100% internal. I kind of liked it. I’m lying, I really liked it lol.

June was a big month for Water Vikings. We started off with some insane hype as the committee system was fully implemented, hype for Legends Cup around the corner began, and importantly, Doritos had internal struggles which led to some of their top people to come to us. We also had some veterans just randomly return. It was pretty cool and helpful. We had an event, that was planned before this mind you, called A New Wave Ahead. It was insane because we maxed 37 and averaged just under that. It was genuinely a massive hype boost.

We promoted Escot to leader that day as well, and he proved to be a very valuable co-leader due to his knowledge of recruiting and registering. He was quite good at that, and he was a competent battle leader as well. Starting from this point, I essentially started to exclusively lead every single event (except Friday ones). I already led most before, but this really cemented it. I think my co-leaders might’ve been upset me over it (especially once July came around), but it proved to be beneficial at least so who cares.

We had our second Poop Takeover, maxing 29.

Shoutout to Bean for registering a lot and getting people to log on for this next event, we had a cool Knights vs Ninjas practice battle that did insanely well, maxing 34.

We reached top 3 for the first time on the week of 15 – 21 June. The past few weeks we hung at #4, so this was an amazing morale boost in the army at the time. This was also thanks to shutting down our CP Journey program. We considered and dabbled with CP Journey events, but my own hesitancy over safety led to a lot of us not taking it fully seriously and we just opted to end it out of principle.

The website became active with weekly awards posts again and internally we were doing amazing. Newcomers like Muscle Man and Jacer proved to be really crucial for our internal autism, which led to events like the Muscle Man Takeover.

We came out on top of a three way practice battle with Help Force and Void Troops, utilizing the buddy system once again.

Training efforts this month were also quite good, we held a series known as the Warfare Masters, which helped a lot with training.

For the last week of June, we reached #3 once again, which also felt amazing. This also made it official that Water Vikings was undeniably the largest CPAB army.

June was amazing for Water Vikings. So many new faces, so much hype, tons of fun events, and importantly, we maxed 30+ at pretty much every event. I only shared just a fraction of the events that occurred this month. Fun training events, fat camp, Vice City, among many others that occurred really built up the autism of this army. For once, I felt that just doing our own thing was fun – and it showed. We ended off the month at #4. Ocean Breakthrough’s early stages and planning began right here.

July was big. I mean it, it was big. I do not think I’ve ever in my entire CPA career saw an army that united before in my life. I am serious. The internal hype and culture was genuinely on PEDs this month and there is literally no denying that. It was actually impressive lol. Now, what was Ocean Breakthrough? A complementary plan for the Frostbite Plan that focused on the work necessary for Water Vikings. I will not even hint at the methods used for this plan, but a lot of dealt with hype, growth, media, and outreach. Perhaps the most important team was Team No-Life, the team responsible for recruiting, welcoming, and giving walkthroughs on a cracked level. More on this all later.

A massive hype effort to start of July was our Squid Game competition. Revan proposed the idea so we ran with it, and it worked out quite well, people were interested. We started out with Round-A-Bout. This one was my favorite personally. Yoni and Pingo won this one.

Next up was Red Light, Green Light. This one was fun too, I can’t remember who won this one.

Next up was honeycomb. This one was fun. Those who did bad formation wise got eliminated.

These events were examples on how you do a fun week. It was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed it. I know I did at least. We had a final event which was a battle against Aliens. The part that bothered me is that it was ruled a 3-0 sweep against us, when literally nothing even indicated that. We definitely lost room 1, won room 2 (we literally dominated it), and tied room 3. I actually crashed out really bad privately over this, because this was bad. Spotty judged it and was in an active beef with some of the folks at WV, so we felt that there was bias here. This led to Dino thinking that the Christmas Chaos finals in 2023 probably should’ve went to overtime. This was bad and was definitely #2 of the worst judging I’ve ever experienced. You can see our event post if you disagree. I also finished the Funks Bot, our strategic bot similar to Guardian Bot, at this time. This was basically Guardian Bot but perfectly perfected. It proved to be extremely important for our efforts here.

Our next preparation event was the Road to Legends Cup event. This one was huge, we maxed 44 and we all started to feel that we finally had a chance.

We finally reached #2 on the second (or first I guess) week of July, it was awesome.

It was nice seeing veterans return, friends show up, and the recruiting grind go ultra-hard. It proved to be extremely beneficial. We went on to have the best AUSIA this month, maxing 30-35 at our AUSIAs, 40+ at our US and EU events for the month. Below are some highlights.

I liked doing speeches around this time in the army. It felt pretty cool but also very strange to do the speeches over Discord. It did work at personalizing the experience for troops, which was definitely the main highlight of that. I imagine doing so made me feel like a real relatable person to the troops. I’m proud of that aspect at least, the troops liked me a lot.

We went onto the qualifiers against Scarlet Republic. They were a S/M army so this was more like practice, but nevertheless we had a turnout of 63 and did really well. Buddy system was used, I did formations for R1 and R3. I led tactics in R2 with Escot doing formations. This showed a lot of unity, and we managed to outmax WV’s March Madness finals max in 2024. It was nice.

We finished off that week with a #1 spot on the top ten… finally.

We continued hard with the grinding. It was pretty taxing on me, not gonna lie. For pretty much all of July at this point I fixated on Water Vikings like it was a job. I’m not exaggerating. I was off work, off of university, so I would just spend my entire day on armies and sleep at like 3 AM. I didn’t eat a lot either, and I didn’t even gym. I was locked in hard this month, like… really intensely. Our next opponent was Templars, so we had to grind hard to get people to react and train. I personally would DM like 40+ people, it was taxing. I will share some highlights of the events.

Next up was the fight against the Templars in the quarter-finals. We locked in hard like I said, since it was personal for a lot of us, but it also was a genuine threat. Xing was back and we knew he was going to beg every single person in the community to attend for Templars. We ended up maxing 75 against their 61 max, so the sizes were pretty close. Performance wise, we were just way too prepared and well trained for this. I did forms for the whole event with assistance from the Balcony (my advisors consisting of Dino, Revan, Pjayo, and Aaron). Credit to Escot (R1, he led blinded due to lockouts), Rye (R2), and Tomato (R3) for leading tactics.

We hit #1 again.

The next opponent was the Rebel Penguin Federation. We actually wanted this for the semi-finals, as we felt that if we can’t beat them in the semi-finals, we won’t beat them in the normal finals. We locked in yet again, and I remember writing like 80 tactics for this lol. It was pretty intense, we knew that this was going to likely determine the outcome of the tournament with whoever wins this, so we had to make this good. I literally pulled so many connections to get so many people to turn up. We were not going to max below 80.

August 2nd marked the day. It was intense. We had a voice chat to hype everyone up with Pjayo and I doing that. We hit over 70 in our voice chat just before the battle… this was the moment of truth.

We ended up maxing 88. This was undeniably the largest max in Water Vikings history, which was absolutely insane.

We entered room 1 and it was about 50 WV vs 60 RPF. The preload training paid off, we actually did it. This room was extremely even, with the only thing against us being the star formation at the beginning being executed a bit off. However, due to that one moment of us being a disadvantage, we lost the room. Credit to Escot for tactics and the balcony for helping me lead forms.

Room two was just straight up even. Sizes were similar, formation quality the same, and coverage was a teeter totter. It ended up being a tie. Credit to Rye for tactics and the balcony helping me with forms.

The judges were idiots and were calling lockout rooms the entire time, which ended up messing up RPF for room 3. We had 70 WV vs 40 RPF in room 3, which led to us winning by our solid execution of size. RPF was punching well above their weight, though, because they were very visible even with the 30 size advantage. They make 40 look like 60.

This sent us into overtime. It was intense and real… well, it didn’t go the way we wanted. We had our mess up with the overtime room and half of the army went to the forest, whereas the other half went to the Iceberg. 40 WV vs 70 RPF. It was over. We punched well above our weight, but it just wasn’t enough. I was having a bad crashout during this. Aaron was doing tactics and I did forms. The crashout was actually really bad for a bit during this, I could barely even do tactics. We lost the tournament… it certainly was a defeat.

I got over it later. Honestly, once I looked at the bright side, I was not upset. We literally achieved our first goal of revitalizing Water Vikings, that was undeniable. We exceeded expectations by maxing 40+ all of July, maxing the highest max in WV history, and reaching #1 multiple times. This was undeniably WV at one of its tactically strongest points in history, our second best Legends Cup ever (even outdoing two of the runs to the real finals), and after the disaster of the real finals that Aliens had (no offense)… cemented this battle as the true finals and WV being the second best performing army. Quite literally no army came this close to matching RPF since they rose to the top at the end of 2024. Doritos might’ve made the finals, but their performance was garbage compared to this. We quite literally defied all odds and managed to match RPF (the top army) within 2 months, dethroning them in the process. We did nothing wrong, the only thing affecting us being the debacle. After looking at this… well, I was proud. We literally did it, even if we didn’t win, we quite literally changed WV history forever and cemented an entirely distinct legacy for Water Vikings. To end it off, we achieved #1 again and achieved #1 army of the month.

This led to May – August being labeled as a “Blue Summer”, which is a term for golden age. There were only a few Blue Summers before that: 2013, 2015, 2016 (probably will get removed), and 2023. This one was definitely undeniable, and I’d like to take a moment to give some credit where it is do.

Bean: Team No-Life member and expert welcomer.
Escot: Team No-Life member and expert recruiter.
Yoni: Team No-Life member and expert recruiter.
Stefan: Team No-Life member and expert recruiter.
Claire: Team No-Life member and welcomer/walkthrough person.
Ethan: Team No-Life member and major welcomer.
Ango: Lovely face that kept the army’s culture booming.
Mira: Went above and beyond as a troop, going all-out.
Isagi: Insane recruiter, much respect.
Revan: Led our Elite Core, helped a lot with training.
Jacer: We love Jacer.
Malachi: We love Malachi.
B2: The recorder.
Pingo: Lots of recruiting and propaganda.
Dino and Aaron: Helped a lot with outreach.
Pjayo: A lot of hype.
Lydia: Absolutely essential for the Parka Committee.
Nardo: You too.
Vivala, Adden, and Zamb: Money.
Aisha: Lots of outreach.
Raven: uwu
Tomato: Cracked welcomer. Absolutely on crack.
Lass: He wasn’t around but the formation strategies that he and I created were quite literally the blueprint for the training and battles here. Literally none of the battle performances and training outcomes would have been possible without that. Just wish you were here to lead in the battles with me, friend.
DrQueen: None of this would be possible without the Viking Academy concept being implemented so perfectly by you. Thank you.
A lot of others: A lot of you guys helped quite a bit, I cannot thank all of you enough. If your name isn’t here, just know that I didn’t forget you, I’m just running badly out of steam.

During Ocean Breakthrough, we managed to recruit about 900-1000 people within a month, welcome about 300, and walkthrough about 50-70. Meth. I love it.

From this point forward, I essentially became a glorified advisor so we can have the leaders takeover from my spot, as I was nearly finished with my goals. My plan originally was to retire in September and I needed to see to that. I trained Mato and Escot a bit, helped with some war ideas (like the Templars war), and helped formulate some of the ideas in regards to the recent division war (although Tomato is the one to put this into action). I cannot take too much credit here outside of just being a helping hand with the community itself. Also turns out Prism, one of our staff, multilogged. Thankfully, it was just an additional 1-3 penguins, so it doesn’t affect the Blue Summer in terms of success (they didn’t touch Legends Cup at least). Was proud of that.

So, with that, my leadership essentially came to a close. I received some accolades at the CP Armies Summer Gala, with Aaron MESSING UP MY CHANCE FOR ONE OF THEM! All things aside, Water Vikings had pretty good representation for an army that didn’t gun the awards.

I received Best Leader at the Water Vikings Blue Summer awards. I also worked extensively with Pjayo for the map summit that occurred around this time, and we were able to push for and secure an end to some of the dumb war terms (such as 1v1 wars and the no loophole terms). This was a pretty major win for us old timers, since this allowed wars to actually not be stupid.

Importantly, though, I officially retired and passed the torch of leadership to Tomato at the Hall of Fame ceremony. Importantly, though, I was awarded the title of Viking Revolutionary. To those uninitiated with Water Vikings, there is a weird system with legends in which there are two titles: Pantheon and Revolutionary. Both of them are equal in status and authority, they just differ in impact/longevity. Both titles can call themselves WV Legend. I just like to say WV Legend because that’s more applicable to other armies.. Now, prior to the event, I was aware I was going to be inducted, but when I first found out I was in awe. I did not think I deserved it, lol. I felt genuinely gratified considering this is a legend title that truly felt like I worked super hard for. 

Followed this up with my official announcement of my retirement.

WV made me proud by proving they could reach #1 without me. I felt complete in setting the army up for long-term success by seeing this.

September 13th marked the day of my retirement event (aka Poop Takeover 3). I enjoyed this one a lot. We maxed 51 and it was perfectly chaotic. Bouncing room to room, executing perfect formations, and just doing autistic tactics. 

I ended this off by doing my three most iconic tactics.

It all ended off with Dino saying what is quite possibly the best thing someone has ever said to me in the context of armies as a whole:

And that… well, that concludes it all doesn’t it? Ending my career off at Water Vikings has been the best thing I ever could have done. I met so many amazing people, helped create a whole new culture, and just worked with what was the best team I’ve ever worked with period. This was absolutely amazing, every second of it. It felt… I don’t know. I’m still at a loss of words how to describe it. We managed to quite literally achieve all of the main goals of revitalizing Water Vikings and setting the army up for long-term success. We did it. We literally did it! It is so amazing to see. I finally got my closure and proved to myself that I could do it. I proved to myself that I could successfully be a main leader. I am so complete and am so proud of everyone at Water Vikings. All of us. Absolutely so proud. I loved every second of this and loved every single one of you guys. I mean it. We did it together, and I am so happy to call myself a Water Viking. I will be here for the foreseeable future.

I’d like to finish by pointing out exactly what we did. We rose to the top without having to multilog (Prism’s mulitlogging didn’t affect it), we rose to the top without having to use an unsafe CPPS (like CP Journey), we rose to the top without having to exploit a CPPS partnership, and we rose to the top without buying it. We did it with pure blood, sweat, and tears grinding recruits that don’t even know Club Penguin. That in itself, is amazing.

Here are some additional highlights and many honorable mentions.

• Villa (WV)
• Yoni (WV)
• Pingo (WV)
• Bean (WV)
• Ango (WV)
• Noa (WV)
• Stefan (WV)
• Escot (WV)
• Isagi (WV)
• Mira (WV)
• Malachi (WV)
• Cloudsy (WV)
• Tenny (WV)
• Muscle Man (WV)
• Jacer (WV)
• Camilla (WV)
• Adden (WV)
• Buddy (WV)
• Ethan (WV)
• KingFunks4 (WV)
• B2 (WV)
• Sparky (WV)
• MexoKev (WV)
• Mesli (WV)
• FireNinja (WV)
• Stevos (WV)
• Spin (WV)
• Vivala (WV)
• Shaan (WV)
• Saber (WV)
• Hyper (WV)
• Jay (WV)
• Iibrow (WV)
• Silv (WV)
• Thalia (WV)
• Jojo (CPA)
• IceQueen (IW)
• Daniel (ACP)
• Roxy (ACP)
• Kailey (ACP)
• Gabgirl (RPF)
• Link (RPF)
• Lia (VT)
• Kira (VT)

ACCOLADES FOR 2025

• Best Major Army Leader Runner-Up, as SavageCobra, Summer Gala 2025
• Most Tactical Army Runner-Up, as Water Vikings (WV Leader), Summer Gala 2025
• Most Achieved Runner-Up, as SavageCobra, Summer Gala 2025
• Biggest Rise, as Water Vikings (WV Leader), Summer Gala 2025
• Best Leader, as Cobra, Blue Summer Awards 2025
• Viking Revolutionary (WV Legend)

CONCLUDING STATEMENTS

What can I say, I’ve done a lot. I’m content, to be honest. I never was sure if I’d fully get this closure, but seeing the appreciation I got at Water Vikings at the end really gave me that closure that I desired. I felt so happy to be a constructor of a community and be a part of that. It is a gratifying feeling to feel that. 

I’ve never been the best. I never even strived to the be the best. I worked in so many niches over the years, so many different roles. Heck, much of my career I hardly even officially led, lol. I was always very utilitarian in this sense. I always did things with a purpose, I was a known planner. Always took up a role that had a specific goal behind it, something to be achieved. If I didn’t have to officially lead, I wouldn’t. I just worked best doing whatever I could to contribute to armies. At EGCP, that included being a chief advisor and primary diplomat for much of its history. I didn’t have to lead officially until 2024 when the army was in need of someone else as a face internally. For much of my history in major armies, I always worked in that niche of diplomacy, warfare, and planning. I never was someone to be the guy calling every little shot, serving as the face, and pretty much having my name tied to every little thing. That was never something I did until Water Vikings. Even then, I never intended on leading long-term. The goal was to get the army revitalized and ensure that the army was able to have long-term success. The first part was certainly achieved and I think the second part has been achieved as well. We will see. Importantly, I proved myself that when given the opportunity to be the main guy, I could pull it off. I have to thank Water Vikings for so much. Water Vikings was an accumulation of literally a careers worth of skills when it came to training, battling, planning, structuring, and everything of the sorts. Truly the magnum opus in my career.

Stats wise, I’m not too crazy. The best thing in my favor is my war record. I’ve led in like 16-17 wars, gaining an advantage/victory in 12 of them (including a World War). I’ve created and led some major alliances at least, and pulled off some solid diplomatic moments back in my days as a teenager. I was never really a tournament guy, I only have one win tied to my name, Around The World Cup, at least its a major tournament that has become more popular than March Madness, though. Now, I have revitalizing a S/M army into a major army tied to my name. Heck, I’m a legend in every army I ever touched. The only thing I do not have is a victory in the big three tournaments, but even then I have contributed/directed some seriously good runs in these tournaments. Frankly, I’ve done more than most even if I don’t consider myself among the greatest. I’m proud of how far I came and have really proved to myself that I can do it. This is not me being arrogant, I’m just… happy. Happy to say I am finally done, happy to say that it all has amounted to this moment.

I claim my main legacies to be in Elite Guardians (where I’m definitely a top legend) and Water Vikings (we will see how that goes). These two armies have built me up a lot, and I am forever am indebted to the people that gave me the opportunities and worked with me (except Fitsuki) along the way at these armies. I helped achieve some great things there, met some of the greatest people I’ve ever met, and just had an amazing time all-around. I wouldn’t change a thing, not at all.

With that, I issue a thank you to everyone I’ve encountered in the community good and bad. I thank my Lord for overseeing me and using CPA connections as a way to bring me closer to Him, even if I truly do not deserve it and stumble so much. I issue an apology to my Lord, for neglecting our relationship so many times in my life. I issue an apology to those that I’ve wronged over the years… the number is too many. I truly could have done better with how I treated many people. I could’ve said things differently or just not at all. I could’ve did things differently. I could’ve been a better me. Likewise, I thank everyone who allowed me to improve and be a better me, giving me an opportunity to do the things that I’ve done. I couldn’t have been the person that I am without you all.

This is was my childhood, and I have concluded it here at the start of my 20s. Starting Club Penguin from age 5, fully joining armies at age 12, and ending my career off at age 20. It’s an insane thing to think. Practically 15 years of my life has centered around this one game and its community. It’s just insane. This community has brought me many of the greatest people I’ve ever encountered. This community has developed me so much. It has brought me closure to God. This is my life and it is time for the next chapter to continue.

I may update this post if anything extra occurs during my time here. Just know I will never be leading ever again, and after 2025, I probably won’t be a hands on advisor in any capacity. Maybe I will do media outside of the wiki, who knows. I do not intend on thinking about it very much. I just want to see Elite Guardians and Water Vikings continue to succeed. This is what is important to me. I love every single of you all, I am blessed to have encountered you all.

To conclude, I have a few final statements to issue to some friends that I have been friends with for a long time. If you do not see your name, do not fret, I am just listing people that I consider a part of my core friend-group over the past 8 years. If you know that you have impacted me in a great way and that I cherish you dearly, then you shouldn’t have to see your name here.

Dillon- The first person of the outside community that I ever really encountered. You are a wacky fella, I think you’re insane, but I love you. I really do. I’ve bullied you so much in the past, been hard on you, yet I’ve grown to respect you dearly and even if you say something completely idiotic, I just know that is you and I wouldn’t have it any other way. You are an amazing friend even if you are insane.

Eden- You are also insane. I still love you. You have been here consistently with me since 2018, that is no joke. You are one of the best friends that I have ever had ever, and I am really happy to have worked alongside you for so many years. We achieved greatness working on the destruction of CPO Armies and CPO itself. We achieved greatness in this community and I hope you find your closure. You are insane, but this is why I love you.

Nardo- You are weird, but I love that in you. I really do love that. Do I want to kill you a lot? Yes, I do. But you’re Nardo. That is the best way I can describe you.

Cookky2- I do not talk to you as much as I should. You have been one of the funniest and realest friends that I’ve ever had the pleasure of having. When I was at my lows as a teenager, you were there for me every step of the way. We both were at a low point leaning on each other. Into adulthood, you’ve given me much insight through faith and through your humor. You are random, but you are my brother, forever.

Gutavuh- You are perhaps one of the most pragmatic human beings that I have ever encountered. Your knowledge and devotion is something I love and you have been nothing but great to me my entire time here. We’ve done so much together at armies, and it is a duology that is overlooked often. We are not remembered as EGCP’s best diplomats together for no reason. You are too, a brother.

Lydia- Sniff my butt. Editing this after publishing, but I am no longer sleep deprived. You have been a reoccurring schizoid in my life every since Templars and I love you for that. You look identical to me in real life, and you have my sense of humor. Quite literally I am positive that people will think that we are related. I know you will do well when you lock-in and find in your heart to keep pushing for everything you love. Love you.

Lass- Oh, brother. You are an interesting fella. You are the definition of straight up autistic. I love you for that, though. You and I have such an insane chemistry and it is funny that we have the same stupid outlook on life together. Our time in EGCP in 2023-2024 brought us very close, we did so much together in those battles and we had a connection. I wish you were here with me in Water Vikings during those battles, but I understand life gets in the way. Thank you, Lass, for being a real one.

Aaronstone- Man. What a fella you are. Truly, what a guy that you have been. I mess with you so much, I bully you a lot, and I have made it pretty much a daily goal to make you mad in some capacity – but I absolutely love you. You have been one of the most amazing friends that I have ever had over the years. You have been with me through so much, so many laughs, so many amazing moments. Political discussions, stupid baitings, and a mentor when it comes to life. You’ve done well for yourself and an additional shoutout to your girlfriend DrQueen making you the man that you are. Happy for you two and I wish you all the best.

Dino- My insane little brother. Just know that I love you and every little quirk about you. You tell me when I’m wrong when I glaze. You respond dry when you don’t care. You never get half of the jokes anyone tells you. You have been amazing guy in my life. Truly an amazing work ethic and someone who has been there for me for so much. I’m proud of you for outdoing me. I am proud of you for utilizing the potential that you have, and I know you will do amazing in life.

Rowan- You have been nothing but great to me my entire time knowing you. At our lowest we were there for each other, at our best we were there, and to this day we continue to be there. You’ve been someone who has helped me through a lot and vice versa. What can I say, Rowan? You have been amazing to me. Thank you.

Zambi– What a friend. You have helped me so much. You have been real. You have been there. We have ate together and survived together at our lowests. We have humbled each other in times of needing it, and we are academics. We are above this community.

Edu- You are a prideful guy at times, but that in your nature and regardless I love you. You have been a brother to me my entire time here, even when we talked little for a bit. We picked things back up like it was nothing. You have allowed me to seize so many moments in my life. You have given me guidance with faith when I needed it. We were there with each other when we needed someone. We were there by each others sides trying to make our community succeed. We are brothers through-and-through. We disagree. We fight sometimes. But we also always come back and agree at the end of the day and respect one another. We have had this brotherly love for so long and I never want to lose it. Life would not be the same without you at all.

Ana/Izzy- What can I say, Ana? You are a sister to me. You are unique in that fact. You are unique above all else in the fact that we have been here together for so long, quite literally through every amazing and horrible moment. Everything. Our lives are each others. Everything we have had we have shared. Everything we have done we have shared. Every stumbling block. Every height. You have been my everything in my life. We have changed so much together, we have grown so much together, and we have moved onto life together. We are always rooting for each others success on the sidelines. We have always been looking over in spirit. We have had our moments of fighting, and we have had our moments of drama. But that is what siblings do, isn’t it? Since 2018 this has been our everything and we have remained present in some way. Even if we are busy with life nowadays, we still find the time to catch up and discuss things. Even if we can’t do the same things that we used to, we still find a way to share a moment. I’m sorry for not being so present. I owe you a lot and I truly could be better by doing more with you. I hope that day comes where something isn’t in the way and we can have fun like we did for so many years. I hope nothing never comes in between us. I hope I never lose you. I love you, and I always will until I die.

With that, considering this post is absurdly long, I’d like to finally wrap this up. It has been a ride. That is all, folks.

Elite Guardians, Templars, Pizza Federation, Romans, and UMA Legend – and importantly…

VIKING REVOLUTIONARY (WV Legend)

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