The Black Riders: The Elite Cavalry of NationStates

[A Million Voices]

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Welcome to the news thread of The Black Riders.

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Links:

Old news thread (September 22nd, 2011 - June 5th, 2012):
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=141921

Complete list of regions conquered by The Black Riders:
http://www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=L ... ack_Riders

Regional forum:
http://s4.zetaboards.com/The_Black_Riders/index/

Theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayb9v_Ycqq4

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Staff:

Current staff as of November 20th, 2012, and otherwise notable figures:
Overlord: General Halcones
Chief of the General Staff - Nordic Arbor
Marshals - Gest / Kknight / A Million Voices
Generals - Feuer Ritter / Scooby-Doo / Jarron
Colonels - Socialist Ecuador
Majors - The Republic Of The Republic Of (TROTRO) / Camo5768
Captains -

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History:

Initially founded in late 2009 by Halcones, the Black Riders have enjoyed significant success in the gameplay world. The first few months of the organization's history were months of booming growth and expansion, until the Christmas of 2009 when the organization largely decayed due to general disinterest and Halcone's university obligations.

On July 7th, 2011, Halcones refounded The Black Riders, and selected Gest to be co-founder and Chief of the General Staff. Since then the region has been very active and now boasts a growing record population and raid count.

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Statistics:

Successful raids executed: 711
Most nations in the The Black Riders region at any given time: 682
Greatest number of successful raids executed within a single update: 41
Longest occupation: Region Of Reunited Muslim States (34 days)

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Notice:

If anyone would like to ask a question about the organization, please refer to the list of staffmembers above and send one of us a telegram. Posting in this thread is allowed but we ask that it be kept to a minimum, and that all minor conversation be taken elsewhere.

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[A Million Voices]

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June 7th, 2012.

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Huzzah! The Black Riders charge into battle! Within a single update, 26 regions were raided using only a single raiding team. While we fell short of The Black Hawks impressive record of 28 (which was the goal,) we are still pleased with our results.

Magicka
The Hippiedom
ROMANIA DE AUR
New Gaia
The Arab League
Phoenix_1
Life The Universe And Every Thing
Greater Armenia
Roman Empire
The Heights Of Azure
Quisling
Free Drug Trading
Together In Isolation
New Region
Saksische Volkerenbond
Baconlandia
Atrosia Isles
New Age Thinkers
The Great Green Federation
Frozen Wastes of Ralarii
Lhedronna
Allied Furry Nations
Intelligentsia Islands
Laodicea
Rafah
The Divided Nations

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Into battle rode the following riders:

Timekeeper: Feuer Ritter
Lead: Gest
Lead: Socialist Ecuador
Support: Tim-opolis
Support: Scooby-doo
Support: A Million Voices

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We'll get it next time!

[Tim-Opolis]

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June 9th, 2012.

Operation Shadow Strike

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Huzzah! The Black Riders charge into battle! Within a single update, 13 regions were captured. The impromptu raiding spree was masterminded, organized, and mainly triggered by Corporal Tim-Opolis. Out of 14 attempted raids, TBR captured 13. Lady Update would not allow a 14th to be captured, and chose to speed the update.

Goauld System Lords
Region of Barringtonia
Lovely Citizens
The United Federation of Empires
LOL DOOMED
Imperial Allied States
Linux
Light my Fire
Amicitia
Democratic Entry
Transilvania
Ridgefield
Marxism

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Into battle rode the following riders:

Tim-Opolis : The charismatic Trigger Man and Organizer
Gest : The Iron-Willed Commander
The Governors Land : The Young Marshal

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Shout Out to our Friends, The Black Hawks, for putting a password on Capitalist Paradise

[Warzone Codger]

http://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=1376661

Heh, TBR suppressing the last post of Linux's RMB which was the tag raid message from TBH.

Tram should be offended

[Feuer Ritter]

http://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=1376661

Heh, TBR suppressing the last post of Linux's RMB which was the tag raid message from TBH.

Tram should be offended

Well, some of our troops enter in a state of berserker rage sometimes.

[Crushing Our Enemies]

Oh, it's on.

[Feuer Ritter]

Oh, it's on.

It's on for a week, the battle for most raids in one update isn't over yet

[Tim-Opolis]

Oh, it's on.

That was Gest. On my points, I actually unsupressed the TBH messages

[Feuer Ritter]

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To show that the raiders are Number One! The Black Riders together with Unknown and The Black Hawks raided
The FRA.
To celebrate the promotion to Colonel, Feuer Ritter planned and executed this raid, together with:

Kknight
Grimmjow Jeagerjaques
Spartzerium
Common-Sense Politics

And now, let's see a Before and After:

and. . . .

Look behind your shoulder fendas, we see everything!

[Scoochi2]

I especially like the part where you daringly and riskily stole the delegacy away from the native delega... WAIT! It didn't have a delegate!

You managed to successfully raid a founderless region that had no delegate. My my, your amazing prowess knows no bounds.

[Feuer Ritter]

I especially like the part where you daringly and riskily stole the delegacy away from the native delega... WAIT! It didn't have a delegate!

You managed to successfully raid a founderless region that had no delegate. My my, your amazing prowess knows no bounds.

Don't be angry, it was just a tag. A very good one

[Scoochi2]

I'm not angry. Just amused.

Why did it need to take THREE different groups of raiders in order to successfully pull this off?

[Fischistan]

Heh, kudos for creativity. Who owns the founder to that region?

[Feuer Ritter]

I'm not angry. Just amused.

Why did it need to take THREE different groups of raiders in order to successfully pull this off?

Well, it was kinda short notice, so we called upon the Raider Unity.

[Scoochi2]

I see. No one raider org has 2 WA nations to do a quick raid. Noted.

[Feuer Ritter]

I see. No one raider org has 2 WA nations to do a quick raid. Noted.

You see, and then you say the R/D gameplay in unbalanced, while we can't get some updaters in at short notice.

[Scoochi2]

I see. No one raider org has 2 WA nations to do a quick raid. Noted.

You see, and then you say the R/D gameplay in unbalanced, while we can't get some updaters in at short notice.

Do not mistake the lack of certain organisations to acquire skilled players at a time when the game is played and severe advantage issues for balance.

[Drop Your Pants]

Just wait Schoochi, when LKE and TNI see this they'll swarm the region and claim they've beaten the FRA

[Common-Sense Politics]

I see. No one raider org has 2 WA nations to do a quick raid. Noted.

You guys really are running out of material, huh?

[Rachel Anumia]

Funny raid

[Drop Your Pants]

*checks region*
Nope nothing unusual there.

[Feuer Ritter]

*checks region*
Nope nothing unusual there.

Yeah, the founder woke up, but still:

and. . . .

[Sedgistan]

Who owns the founder to that region?

The nation used to be mine - I handed it to Cocodian around the time I was modded, I think. Funny raid, though inevitably short-lived.

[Tim-Opolis]

Entertaining raid.
Congratz guys

[A Million Voices]

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June 15th, 2012

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Huzzah! The Black Riders have successfully invaded South America on June 15th's major update! Colonel Feuer Ritter took command of the mission personally, leading his team to victory.

Into battle rode the following riders:

Gest
Nordic Arbor
Feuer Ritter
A Million Voices
Socialist Ecuador
Scooby-Doo
The Republic of The Republic of
Tim-Opolis
Caotic chaos
Lani Lani

A shoutout also to Wolfram and Hart and The New Inquisition for their invaluable support in the operation!