Well this will be a good teaching experience for the HELM veterans to teach the new recruits. Should be interesting to see how this turns out. I just hope those in VUDU will keep the war with the vets and leave any newbies alone, though I'm sure most would not consider hitting any newbies.
Regardless good luck to both sides, remember to have fun

While VUDU does not plan to attack non hostile new players. New players that attack us or have already attacked us will be treated the same as verterans. We highly recommend any unwilling to participate should seek shelter elsewhere for the duration of this war.

*Grabs popcorn*

Wasnt me.

SSAA welcomes the refugees who are seeking asylum from the war.

Feel free to hop over to into if anyone wants to avoid the war we will help you out some but helm and ssaa are definitely more of a training guild then us. So after saying that I would suggest ssaa if you are newer to the game or if you are well set and don't want to fight at that time come here. War will be with us eventually it seems to be going down the list.

Greetings,

Allow me to write our official HELM position here. We got several leaders in HELM though. I will just try to cover them all.

First, HELM did not want and does not want war. I do not know if it seemed different to some and this is why I wanted to clear this out.
If you exclude our core members which are about 7, the rest are unprepared, this is why we do not desire war with anyone.

Especially, I do not desire war against a guild that is consisted of some players that I really like. Such players will be spared till they provoke us.

Some events as how we ended up here:
-Ever since VUDU creation, there have been voodoo attacks against our members.
-I do not remember ever retaliating before.
-We have not retaliated because sometimes it was 1 vs 1, sometimes our newcomers were simply careless.
-A few days ago, there was an attack to Anomander. Two days ago against Blableberry and yesterday to Lodswe.
-Especially in yesterday's attack, 5 or more VUDU members were involved. This was enough for me, without asking anyone, to set up a retaliation to Shadowood.
-Later, it became clear to me that it was not a coordinated attack. After this point, we ceased our retaliation. We had nothing to separate with Shadowood although we were skeptical if the simple retaliation was enough to convey our message.

As it seems, William with this declaration wants HELM to receive the attacks like a farm. Well, not our game. Not what we want either. No one will push us.

WAR then.

OUR TERMS:
-You attacked us and the attacker is the one that backs up first. Which means that unless you call it off, you just got a war for ever and ever to the end of time.
-We will not touch who ever does not enter the war. Which means that your inactives (and I know who they are) are safe.
-We are not after anyone's skin. But if you enter the war without anything to lose, prepare to lose your skin (which means bad voodoo, like magpies, assasins, propaganda, anything that targets something you have to lose).

OUR TERMS to OUTSIDERS:
-Any voodoo cast against our members during the war, is an act of war.
-Multiple plunder attacks against our members during the war, is an act of war.

Which means that we will deal with you as a war target.


VUDU members seem a worthy adversary to most of us. VUDU itself however and its foundation plan seems flawed. When most of you run with big trade fleets, on small hands and you have plunder activity, this makes you more of a farm than any merchant that runs possibly the same trade fleet with you, on a large hand and no plunder activity.

Maybe I will be proven wrong. It is just an observation.

2 guild wars in a row? Great to see the action. Keep us updated.

We won't war for your entertainment. Hopefully this will be a short war.