- Casualties of WAR (CoW)
I’ve been a little quiet the past couple days because I’m over at the new Casualties of WAR guild forums. If you haven’t heard of Casualties of WAR yet, it’s an outgrowth of Boatorious‘ idea to create a WAR guild for all the WAR bloggers that talk back and forth to each other. Genda, Hudson, Bildo, and Heartless really took the idea and ran with it.
The guild forum has attracted quite a few bloggers, and even more people who read those blogs. If you don’t yet have a WAR guild, and you think you might be interested in joining us, come by and read the charter. We’re aiming for a low drama, high enjoyment factor, but everyone always says that initially 🙂 I’m hoping we actually manage to accomplish it!
I’m usually a solo-minded player in MMO’s, but WAR has encouraged me to group more than any previous game. Grouping is simple, it’s rewarding, and it’s a lot of fun, even with strangers. It should be a lot more fun running around with friends who I’ve been talking back and forth with here, and on other blogs.
I don’t want to miss mentioning anyone’s blog, but I know I’m going to. I think I’ll start a thread at the CoW site later today that lists everyone who has a blog, so anyone who pops over from here will be able to see everyone who’s writing about WAR in the guild. And I won’t get in trouble for not mentioning them here, I hope. It’s not personal! I’m old and forgetful, that’s all.
I was excited to see Wilhelm from The Ancient Gaming Newb say he’ll join us, and not just because he’s older than me. I’ve flown around the Eve universe for over a year now, and I’ve never run into Wilhlem in space. Hopefully I’ll fix that in WAR and I’ll get to have some adventures with him. Saylah from Mystic Worlds showed up yesterday, and I’ve always enjoyed her appearances on the VirginWorlds podcasts and her blog posts. Ethic from Kill Ten Rats says he’s going to play, which would be awesome. I’m hoping we could convince Oz to come out of semi-retirement and play with us as well, although I know his real life is quite busy. Oz was an old EQ guildmate, back in our Test Server days, and one of my favorite posters on the old Druid’s Grove EZboard forum.
Oakstout will be playing with CoW, Cuppycake has indicated she’ll be there (Nice, two degrees of separation from Raph. Who needs Kevin Bacon?), Pixiestyx (who might not be blogging any longer?) will join us. Blackguard (Ryan Shwayder) has posted on the boards, although he hasn’t actually applied for guild membership…I’m guessing 38 Studios will have their own gang to run with, but I can still hope he’d come play with us. I’m running out of time here (I’m at work!), but other bloggers who are applying to the guild include Werit, Pete from Dragonchasers, Esri, Ardua (who has an awesome sig pic)…if I missed anyone, it’s an accident! I ended up cruising the application section and checking profiles for blog links…if you have a blog and it’s not in your profile, add it in!
If you haven’t been to the CoW site and you’re interested in checking out the guild, the guild charter gives you an idea of our goals.
I have to say, I haven’t been this excited about an MMO launch in a long time, and I’ve never been a part of a big guild right at launch. I’m hoping that good players continue to join us, and that can have one hell of a good time going to WAR 🙂 We’ll have two chapters, on two servers; one for Order, and one for Destruction. Come check it out!
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It’s too bad you guys aren’t going to be on my server. 😦 So many potential targets to eat alive.
Nice post
Why not throw an alt over to the Destruction CoW’s?
Also …. while pointy hats occur to me, why is it the hattiest hat class in WAR are the magic loathing Witch Hunters?
I call shenanigans.
Also while I am here, I may as well pimp http://blogwarhammer.net started by Regis over on Wizards & Wenches.
I’m presuming Casualties is a US based guild rather than EU? 😦
Good luck guys! 🙂
@ Shamutanti – Yeah, US based, unfortunately. It’s a bummer we can’t get together with EU friends as well 😦
Keen, we all banded together just in case we ended up opposite you. We fear you and your “I’ve got Paul Barnett on IM, beetches!” dev-given skills 😉
I wonder if there’s anyway to get myself over to you guys – although i’ve purchased the EU version of CE I believe I should be able to find a way me reckons. Depends if it works like WoWs system.
I lol’d at my alt-text 🙂
Sham, it’d be great to have you over if you can figure it out 🙂
Boat, it’s all word association when I make the links, hehe.
It appears at the moment the only way of getting across is by buying myself an US account so I might hit up the EA store in Sept and purchase a keycode to jam with you guys. Depends on the finances, i’m already running 6 MMOs via subscription and attempting to live as a student 😛
Great post and thanks for the shout-out. This is going to be fun. With the people that are planning to join guilds together the game could be lame it will still be good times. *crosses fingers so I don’t jinx the game*
I never expected to join a guild before a game even launches either.
See you in battle.
The best guilds are planned pre launch 🙂
Yeah, US based, unfortunately. It’s a bummer we can’t get together with EU friends as well
Yeah, too bad, I’ll be on the EU servers as well.