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War Resumes!

After extended peace conferences, neither side could reach an agreement. Eventually, negotiates collapsed, and both sides have withdrawn their ambassadors. War is now imminent.

Both of the irreconcilable factions are mobilizing their forces and preparing for an all-out war. No longer will conflicts be localized and focus in specific regions of the inhabited portion of the galaxy. Now, each side aims for the throat, targeting the Capital planet of their opponent.

The Empire is preparing to march on Harvest, capital of the Brotherhood Alliance, while the Brotherhood has Earth within their sights. Which side will become victorious, and finally end this seemingly never-ending battle for control of humanity?

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A New Breed of War!

With the stakes this high, both sides have pulled all the stops. Mobilizing more forces than ever and preparing massive naval fleets for combat, both sides have fully committed themselves to this war.

To describe this conflict, we are releasing the Rules of Engagement for the First Conflict of Halo 4.

Combining a variety of new ideas, these new Rules of Engagement are likely difficult to understand and extremely confusing, but hopefully at least a few of you will be interested in the strategic aspects behind the war. This time, we're utilizing planets and sectors alongside additional attacks that can be launched without Spartan forces, the war is more real than ever. If anyone is ever confused, feel free to ask me or your respective High Command.

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War From Earth to Harvest!

With the incredible work of our resident website graphics artist Mededust, we proudly present what is quite possibly the best Warmap we've ever had (once it's finished):

Mededust has stepped it up and used Flash for a truly epic Warmap. Hope you guys appreciate the amazingness!

Please note that it's not fully completed yet. Lots will be added over the next days and weeks. Expect great things and you won't be disappointed.

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Hostilities Declared!

The first Attack Plans for this war have been announced. To kick things off, we're playing on two forged symmetric 8v8 maps, Deuterium and Aurora.

Check out the Attack Plans for details.

You can get the maps off of my fileshare. Tomorrow and Tuesday, we'll be going through and ensuring the maps are fully compatible with all our gametypes and that there are no framerate issues. If you come upon any issues with any maps, let us know and we will fix it.

Reminder: The Battles begin this Sunday, January 6th, 2013, at 6:00 PM EST. Be there.

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Rank-Specific Usergroups

Many people want these, and we want to provide them to you all.

However, since 343 has yet to make the fileshare system fully implemented so that screenshots are easy to come by, we can't.

We need screenshots. There are too few screenshots already on the internet for the number of ranks that we have. Ones like this:


Head over to Mededust's Update for some other details and if you have any questions about this.

The sooner we get enough screenshots, the sooner you'll all get rank-specific usergroups and images.

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January Banner, Early!

Mededust has gone crazy, and in addition to the Warmap and preparation for the new usergroup images, he's also gone ahead and done the new monthly banner early!

And so I'm even putting it up a day before normally expected! This time it features New Years. Hopefully you guys have as good a New Years as the banner is awesome!

As thanks for Mededust's fantastic work, be sure to go read the section above about Rank-Specific Usergroups and get him some screenshots!



~Mythonian