Army of Club Penguin

6 and a half years. Many hundreds of people met, many hundreds of battles fought. And here it ends for me.

I could write an extremely elaborate synopsis of my entire career, but that would be way too long. So instead, I’ll just go over some highlights first, then give some personal reflection. After that will come the recognition list. Note: After reading over this, I realize how erratic the whole post is, and I apologize for that. It’s just that I have so much stuff I could say and I don’t know what to include and what to leave out.

In December 2006, I joined Club Penguin, referred by my friend Bluemoss2. Only about a week after I started playing, I encountered UMA on the server Mammoth. The idea of snowball fights actually being somewhat organized appealed to me, so I turned my penguin red and tried to fight with them whenever I could. I never actually found Pink Mafias’ original UMA site, so by today’s standard I really was just a rogue.

A few months after fighting for UMA, I drifted away for a bit. Later, in October 2007, I met my good friend, Plumshake, while Sled Racing. I noticed she wore the Blue Cheerleader Outfit with the Blue Ball Cap and Sneakers quite often. On November 1st, I decided to see what this was all about. That’s how I found the Ice Warriors, and officially joined a Club Penguin army for the first time.

Here’s the one story I’m going to elaborate more on, because hardly any of this history is documented. Later in 2007, Ambrosha, a few other people, and myself all pitched an idea to Iceyfeet1234 about merging the three big Warrior armies (including Dark Warriors and Fire Warriors), to create one massive force, The Warriors Army. He liked the idea, and in December, Wwe09 brought in the Fire Warriors, and TWA was created. By those days’ standards, the official troop counts TWA had was massive, and won many battles, particularly ones that were part of WWIV. What happened next, you might think is crazy: I organized a rebellion against it. TWA was successful as a war machine, but internally, there were problems. Basically, it was very unorganized, the leaders were always fighting over power, troops weren’t getting along, etc. Initially, I had almost half of TWA in the rebellion. This was one of the craziest times of my CP army history. Updates were flowing in by the minute, and I’m pretty sure that during this time, my typing speed increased by at least 15 WPM. Icey gradually pulled back most of the troops, until the only people left in the rebellion were myself and Srivishnu, also known as Sriv007. It seemed like things were through, until Ambrosha, who had never shown any signs of backing the rebellion, came to our chat and told us that he agreed with our stance and was going to help us. He and Admiral planned to merge TWA and UMA together to form UWA. It sort of happened, but fell apart quickly due to confusion among everyone. So instead, Ambrosha and I convinced Icey to start restoring Ice Warriors back to its original status, slowly breaking away from TWA. The nickname for this was simply the “New Ice Warriors”. This was around the point where Ice Warriors troops started worshipping Icey, and as a result, I got a ton of heat for the stunts I had been pulling, so I decided to leave Ice Warriors and return to UMA for a while, which was becoming less and less active on CP at that point.

At the end of March, IW was involved in a massive invasion of Frozen involving UMA, Nachos, and all the Warriors armies against any defenders. It was a week-long campaign.  Wanting to redeem myself with Icey, I wrote up a post on my site with some tactic ideas that I had never seen being used before. Some of them were pretty stupid in hindsight, but one of them was the rake, which is used by ACP today. Another one that wasn’t stupid, was in fact, the emote bomb. I showed these to Icey, he liked them and we trained with IW to learn some of them. Then we used them during the invasion. This is the original post on my site. Now look, I’m not saying I was the sole creator of the emote bomb, or that I should be credited and considered a legend for it. I’ve never thought of myself as being above everyone else because of this, in fact, I’ve only revealed this to a handful of people before. I just wanted to put this out there. Again, I had never seen these used in battle before, and if you ask a number of veterans from that time, they would say they hadn’t either. If I had, why would I have even included them in that post? Take it as you will, I just wanted to share.

2009: Sriv and I again rebelled against IW, taking a chunk of troops to our newly created generation of Golds. This was one of, if not the most successful generation the Golds army ever had, thanks to Shaboomboom, who helped us by getting some armies to merge into the army, including the Club Penguin Flyers, led by Feephill, or as he’s known these days, SAW. Because of the many leaders’ blunt personalities and harshness towards other armies, Golds received an overwhelming amount of hate, particularly from the Nachos. It was no better when we changed to become the Dark Warriors, and then the Red Coalition later in the year. There was a lot of conflict between the leaders, so Sriv and I decided to go back to IW for a bit.

2010: Once again, tired of Icey’s leadership (he was becoming more inactive as well), Sriv and I attempted to oust him by deleting the IW site with the help of Rugrat93, and created a new army that mixed blue and red together, called the United Penguin Army. The uniform we came up with is the best looking outfit I’ve ever seen for an army, and it worked well for recruiting. However, this time the support we had dwindled a lot faster than with the Golds, plus the Impossible Mission Army Force was giving us a real hard time for “stealing their uniform”, as they claimed. Rugrat returned to Icey’s side and the revolt ended in April, after which I joined ACP and Sriv retired.

2011-2013: I watched many leaders of ACP come and go, some of which I knew their entire career in the army. I took it upon myself to film major battles and wars, because I realized the value of documenting history. Took some breaks here and there, was inactive a lot, and this resulted in me never really having any power in ACP, which I’m actually fine with. As a matter of fact, looking back at the ACP ranks when I first joined, today I’m essentially the same exact rank as I was when I joined over 3 years ago. So I think I hold the record for longest-held ACP rank, maybe?

I know I said I would just go over the highlights, and that was kind of a lot, sorry… Now for some reflection and advice.

The main point I want to say is that over the years, I’ve noticed that there really just two types of people in CP armies: Leaders and troops. Well some of you are probably thinking, “gee that’s obvious”, but I mean this on a level further than just the ranks. See, most of the time when an army fails, it’s because their leader really was meant more for being a troop. They weren’t cut out to manage others, their ideas were too radical for the time, stuff like that. This is just a generalization, I’m not saying that if someone falls into one category, they will never fit in the other. There are troops who would make fantastic leaders who just never get the chance to lead, either because they stay in an army whose current leadership and commanding ranks stay for a long time, or they busy themselves with too many armies to make good progress in any of them. There’s nothing wrong with never reaching a commanding rank in your army career. An army is only as good as the soldiers who fight in it. For me, I enjoyed being both, but I prefer just being a soldier. I am a perfectly capable leader, but leading an army isn’t all glory, no matter how great the army is. That being said, I’m glad I never became ACP leader or anything, because then I would probably have retired sooner, and possibly left with a bad taste in my mouth. If you guys want to someday lead an army (assuming you don’t create one), you really should stick to just one or two. You will make progress much faster and it will be more satisfying in the end.

The second thing I would like you all to keep in mind is that you need to treat the present like it’s the last fun in CP armies you’ll ever have. Treasure it. The series finale of the Office had this quote: “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them”. Don’t live in the past, guys. The battles of 2006, 07, 08, those will never happen again. Things will never go back to the way they were when the Dojo was the main battle room, when armies willingly accepted defeat, when the Top 10 didn’t exist, or when battles lasted many hours. It took me a very long time to accept the fact, and the result of that was a lot of wasted time. So stop saying that the old days were so much better. We all get it, it’s time to move on and deal with what we have right now without worrying about how things were before.

One of my biggest regrets, something I wish I had done, is to keep a journal of whatever was going on at the time. Didn’t have to be elaborate, just statements summarizing the latest events. I think something like that would be fantastic to look over nowadays. I encourage anyone who has any interest in CP army history to do something like this. Trust me, you will thank yourself later when you read over it years after you wrote it.

And now for “The List”:

Sriv007: Even though you left a long time ago and will never read this, you’re still the best friend I ever had in CP armies. If you hadn’t been the only one who stuck with me during the TWA rebellion I might have just quit right then. Thanks for all the support and good times. Since you left, none of this has been nearly the same anymore.

Iceyfeet1234: Despite the fact that I tried to end your leadership 3 times, I hold you in the highest respect and consider you a good friend. It’s funny how from the beginning, you had your suspicions about me and ordered Mr Drumline to “keep an eye” on me. Now I realize how smart of you it was to hold on to IW for as long as you did. Thanks for being the first to teach me what great leadership looked like.

Plumshake: I wouldn’t have joined IW and gotten into the bulk of armies if it weren’t for you. I’m very glad we became such good friends.

Ambrosha: Probably the most genuine and accomplished guy I’ve met in CP armies. Also an early leader influence.

Shaboomboom: You’ve been such a great help throughout my time here. Helping out with Golds is something I can never thank you enough for.

Boomer20: You probably gave me the best advice I’ve ever gotten from anyone. Always knew what to do. Great leader and great guy.

Cewan: You understand every single thing I think about CP armies. It sucks that we didn’t meet sooner, and that we didn’t stick with Pirates.

Shadow2446: I had a lot of fun just talking to you about tactics and the way armies were being run. You’re my favorite Nacho 

Dreamguitar: You were the craziest kid I’ve ever met. Sometimes your mouth got Golds and DW into trouble, but I can’t lie and say we never had some good laughs.

Collinzfresh: I only knew you for about half a year, but once again, we had awesome discussions about leadership and tactics.

Hurricanex1: You spread yourself way too much, man. But you’re a great guy and I’m glad you’ve stuck around as long as I have while I’ve just sat in ACP.

Capncook: If you weren’t in ACP, I probably would have quit again a while ago. It was great to have someone to talk about music with.

Commando717: I wish our plans to lead a new army had actually come together. You’re one of the most inspiring CP army leaders ever, and I’m so glad I had the opportunity to befriend you.

Person1233: You were a major influence on how I led post 2008. I took a liking to the way you thought and it was cool to know the most famous Nachos leader.

Nicole6754: You’re the person I miss most from the old 2008 UMA. A couple years later, I realized how great of a friend of you were, but I never got a chance to tell you that before you left.

Stev712: I joined ACP about a month before you retired. Although we connected after that otherwise, it would have been a lot of fun to be in ACP with you for a bit longer. Good luck whatever you’re doing now, man.

Sofia011: You were kind of like my apprentice for a while. I remember when in IW, I saw your potential and decided to help you out with becoming a commander. It was very fulfilling to see you succeed in becoming 2IC, and eventually a temporary leader.

Mindyellie: When there was no one else to talk to, I could always go to you. Very important to have a friend like you.

J0hanwilfr: Thanks for creating Golds and helping out occasionally; you’ll always have my respect.

Polarpen98: My long, lost Xat BFF. You were a cool chick.

Some more people I want to recognize:

• Mr Drumline
• Hillman
• Ephris11
• Penguin23800094
• Gill1097
• Rugrat93
• Kingme67 (lol)
• Fredpepe
• Trumpet Dude
• Wwe09
• Rockinator1
• Jangopengo
• Flare87
• Admiral1234
• Abercrombe29
• King Jojo3
• Jason23
• Fort57
• Kg007
• Chapa23
• Harvin13
• Omega39
• Andrew24
• Elite910
• Bobcatboy10
• Matre10
• Mchappy
• Sklooperis
• Motor20
• Buckley Beans

Well, I guess that wraps it up. Again, there’s a whole lot more history I could dive into, and perhaps at a later time I can get that stuff put up on the Clover or something. I like writing about it, really, but I don’t have time to do all of that right now and I’m sure most of you wouldn’t even read it anyways. I’ll visit every one and a while, my YouTube channel will stay up, as will my CP cheats site (which I am looking for someone pass the reigns to, so say something in a comment if you’re interested). No, you cannot have my penguin, and no, you can’t have all my xats and powers. To anyone I was mean to at any time throughout these 6 years, I apologize, and if there is anyone who still thinks I’m a girl even though that joke was like 2 years ago, I actually am a man. Good luck to you all, and don’t forget to have fun. This is a game, don’t take it so seriously!

I leave you all with what is, in my opinion, the best Rolling Stones song ever.

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