The Black Hawks | Still Winning

[Plagentine]

Very, very impressive. And it's also great to have a new, clean record that has nothing to do with predator. People knocking you down for team numbers are just jelly, because more teams need more organization and flexibility on the large scale, so the small scale benefit doesn't diminish the impressiveness one bit. Not to mention having that many people online and switching. Cheers to more record breaking runs in the future o7

[Raionitu]

Thanks everyone! This took me about 4 hours to get everything prepared, so I wont be doing these on any sort of regular basis sadly.

No worries, I'm coming straight after that once I can, Rai <3

Seriously, amazing work. Wish I'd been there to watch ^u^

That'll give me a reason to beat this one.

[Sygian II]

I'm proud to be a part of the team! This is an unforgettable moment.

[Revall]

Props to Rai for being a trigger beast and to my fellow hawks for putting on a hell of a show.

Really great to be a part of this, Scieca and I were on the same wavelength the whole update and never missed a target thanks in part to both our thorners and our other subteams jumping ahead of us drawing away any defenders.

[Rammeludia]

Very impressive work.

[Lord Ravenclaw]

It is most wonderful to see the Kingdom of Alexandria assist the Black Hawks in setting this wonderful record. I look forward to a continued close partnership and the many more successes to come.

It's wonderful to have y'all along. I'm glad Aurum reached out a few weeks ago asking about further and closer military cooperation between us - I think it's proving exciting for both of our regions so far! You've got yourself a very good military leader; not many players out there like Aurum.

I quite agree.

I was in the RLA Voice Channel as this started, since I didn't want to intrude on the operations channel, so I heard first hand as Khron and Aurum reacted to their orders, and the amount of "Oh Shit, Aurum how did you manage that, you were literally half asleep until GO!" with Aurum's response "Khron, I am literally that perfect." was quite amazing to listen to and really, it was even more fun to watch the results of (I had the activity page open and was endotarting around that time).

So, truly to you all: congratulation on a fantastic achievement. I watched a fair bit of the update before deciding to take myself off to my nest for the morning but it was absolutely super to watch and specifically, well done to Rai for those stellar triggers.

[Dream Killers]

Incredible work!

Congratulations to all of those involved. It is quite the accomplishment indeed!

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

Thanks everyone! This took me about 4 hours to get everything prepared, so I wont be doing these on any sort of regular basis sadly.

No worries, I'm coming straight after that once I can, Rai <3

Seriously, amazing work. Wish I'd been there to watch ^u^

That'll give me a reason to beat this one.

Hell, I didn't do any prep work and I was hardcore NS'ing for nearly seven straight hours, not even mentioning the massive prep

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As if 19 people raided 121 regions together, mmm. The 2014 record still's up in my eyes. Commiserations for the organizing though

By that logic, you could disqualify the Predator records as well for their common usage of the rope method, and so forth. You'd be left with, I'd bet, the Cancer Slayer sheet record (the cited 63), which is impressive still in it's own right, as a show of expert and high-speed switching. This is impressive in different areas, namely prior organization. Both, however, are alike in that they occurred during one update, by the hand of one effort, led by one trigger. That's good enough for everyone involved, and, if it means anything to you, good enough for Syl as well, who was obviously present to set the Cancer Slayer record.

...just to nail in the coffin, now that I have permission to share-

[03:17:42] The Sylinator: TBH setting a 121 tag record with entirely manual methods should be respected by every raider.

[Yuno Hawk]

Soul's report writing is the best. More.details on raider things. You paid attention
raid was teamwork and fun with my favorite people on here. ♡ all
Rai, that was amazing *patpat*
4 hours x.x

[Drasnia]

It's wonderful to have y'all along. I'm glad Aurum reached out a few weeks ago asking about further and closer military cooperation between us - I think it's proving exciting for both of our regions so far! You've got yourself a very good military leader; not many players out there like Aurum.

I quite agree.

I was in the RLA Voice Channel as this started, since I didn't want to intrude on the operations channel, so I heard first hand as Khron and Aurum reacted to their orders, and the amount of "Oh Shit, Aurum how did you manage that, you were literally half asleep until GO!" with Aurum's response "Khron, I am literally that perfect." was quite amazing to listen to and really, it was even more fun to watch the results of (I had the activity page open and was endotarting around that time).

So, truly to you all: congratulation on a fantastic achievement. I watched a fair bit of the update before deciding to take myself off to my nest for the morning but it was absolutely super to watch and specifically, well done to Rai for those stellar triggers.

Congrats TBH. This is quite the achievement.

Also, hail Alexandria!

[Raionitu]

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

Thanks everyone! This took me about 4 hours to get everything prepared, so I wont be doing these on any sort of regular basis sadly.


That'll give me a reason to beat this one.

Hell, I didn't do any prep work and I was hardcore NS'ing for nearly seven straight hours, not even mentioning the massive prep

The four hours was just picking targets and getting orders ready. Then about 15-20 minutes to move my triggers into place. and THEN the 6ish hours I spent right before, during, and after update.
Anyone who wants to try this, be ready to lose your mind

[We Are Not the NSA]

I have the flu, and have been so out of it today that I swore I wouldn't post anything on the forums to keep myself from saying anything stupid, but I physically couldn't leave this thread without saying anything. I hope we can make raids like these a regular occurrence.

[Khronion Denral]

It was an honor to be jumping with y'alls, and the Royal Legion of Alexandria hopes to continue working closely with the Black Hawks in the future.

[Personchan]

Well, guess it's 'bout time for me to get off my arse and join the Black Hawks.

[E1evenll]

All the way to 11!! 11 times in one gig!!?

You guys rock!!

[Tom Vasentius HYDRA]

Outstanding work! Congrats to Rai and the team that made this raid possible.

[New Bradfordsburg]

Well done. I offer The Black Hawks an official congratulations on their successful raids on behalf of the Dáxlamic people and The Radiant.

[Vetelo]

Congratulations, Hawks. That's an OUTSTANDING record.

[Jakker]

While the quantity of hits is the focus and is awesome, it really cannot be understated the impressiveness of this all being triggered manually. This is pure raiding at its finest and is a reminder that raiders do not need scripts to accomplish great things.

[North East Somerset]

I'm not a tag-raiding fanboy at all, indeed I consider regular systematic tagging to be rather trivial, but this is hugely impressive.

This is a great achievement which once and for all proves the capabilities of manual or semi-manual triggering for all kinds of raiding activities, putting pay to all the defender nonsense that high hit per update operations could only be done with Predator.

Well done to all involved.

[Benevolent Thomas]

God damn this is some impressive shit. Well done TBH and RLA. TBH once again proving why they are the most respected invader force in NationStates. I wish I could have been online to witness / compete against it.

[Raionitu]

God damn this is some impressive shit. Well done TBH and RLA. TBH once again proving why they are the most respected invader force in NationStates. I wish I could have been online to witness / compete against it.

Thank you. I can say I am rather glad you were not there, although on a normal day your company is much enjoyed

[The REAL Dread Pirate Roberts]

Very impressive feat! Congrats to the Hawks! This is a testament to the capabilities of raiding when great leadership, teamwork, and diligence are present.

[Valrifell]

I suspect performance enhancing drugs. I, for one, demand TBH be put under investigation for doping.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

I suspect performance enhancing drugs. I, for one, demand TBH be put under investigation for doping.

Mod-sponsored doping?

Nah, we were 100% enhancement free for that record run