Bang Your Drum!

[Edgebeard]

Hi this is Edgebeard speaking for the Band of Fools. Were a small gaming guild based in the UK who are waiting to put on our Jester's Hat for all out WAAAGHHH!

We initially met up through that 'other' MMO game but our members are now restless to sign up to the WAR effort. Although a small guild we have a good team spirit and relaxed play style. The majority of our members have pre-ordered the collector's edition and our now chomping at the bit awaiting open beta.

You can find more about us at www.bandoffools.org.uk

We've decided to to offer our services to the Armies of Destruction as we feel that that evil fools are the new garlic bread, they're the future. Plus it's good to be bad and our jesters are looking forward to playing more than a couple of practical jokes on those lovey dovey Armies of Order. I mean how embarrassing is it going to feel to be killed by a fool! Salt into the wound most definitely.

[Treznor]

Heya

Treznor here putting the guild Darkwind into the hat for beta participation. Darkwind started several years ago with everquest, and was our sole game for quite some time. Several of us left everquest and ventured into Vanguard, and more recently into Age of conan....

This was a sad time for the guild indeed as the Everquest guild decided enough was enough and time to call it a day. A long time member posted a memorial link on the forum here and if you have played everquest at some point, just reading through that quickly will bring back some memories I'm sure!.

Currently we are active in two games, and would very much like to be part of Warhammer. The vanguard team have been there since day one and we have nothing left to do! So we are looking forward to new challenges which lie ahead.

We are mature players, and hardcore, exploration and achievements are our main goals.

Once a member is accepted into darkwind, we generally have a very good community and people tend to stay and hang around with us for life, several older members still frequent the forums to keep in touch, so we have a good sense of community and it would be even cooler if we could all finally play a game which captures all our imaginations once again.

We look forward to hear from you.

[Leth]

Aqshyash Khar

At first I'd like to describe Aqshyash Khar as the guild we realy are. First, we're not hardcore. Second, we're not casual! With that in mind, we usualy define us a semi-hardcore. Yet, semi-hardcore is a very wide term!

When I asked my council how exactly we should brand ourself on the market, my most trusted councillor said:

"Unlike most other guilds, we are a a mix between a hardcore and casual guild and therefore able to appeal to a player base inbetween the two. We are not as strict with our players as most hardcore guilds, and we encourage our members to enjoy themselves ingame and create a nice guild environment."

When I asked one of our members what he thought was the most important aspect of the guild, he said:

"Aqshyash Khar is the guild to be in when you want to play in your own pace but still with the feeling of being hardcore. There is a friendly atmosphere and people are always willing to help or discuss interesting matters... .., well take a look at the forum and you'll know what I mean!"

I think this is the best description of the guild, I can possible give.


Aqshyash Khar: Our Histroy

Well, it all started out with an idea I got. Me and my mate (Some might call him tuff, I say he's got Balls of Steel) had played Warhammer since forever and when we found out about a serious WAR mmo we hurried on the internet to find information. In the end, we decided to start a guild. But it shouldn't just be any guild with any name. We wanted a guild with meaning and a guild which did not take away all your spare time, and yet was able to experience all the content ingame. Eventually, we decided to call us Aqshyash Khar.


The Name

Aqshyash Khar is the chaos language. The first, Aqshy, means "Red" or "Fire Magic" and is the root word. The second, -ash, indicated a liquid. Aqshyash is therefore a red liquid. In the warhammer this would be most commonly Blood.

The second part, Khar, means "Rage".

Aqshyash Khar means Blood Rage, fit for a WAR guild imo!

(Before we go any futher and anyone sends me any email; we've already had our fun with Chateau de Rage and the like! Basicly, you choose a red liquid and put rage behind and make fun, but it's fine!! make fun! (of us :s))



Evolving, the guild now.

Since we started out, exactly a year from now, we've grown vastly. We're currently on 34 members of a 50 member cap. This is above all expetations. It seams like we hit a gold ore when deciding to mixing up the hardcoreness and casuality of guilds. But the thing that realy hits me is the forum. The game is not even out, yet we're soon up on 5.000 posts. This means more than a houndred posts per member, on average. Ofcourse, some are more active than others.

We got both Teamspeak and a Website (Which, by the way, is getting a facelift very soon, with some amazing art done by our master artist). So come visit us, even Order people should find plenety to talk about! (Don't tell me Order people are not eating pizza, playing Warhammer Fantasy, online games, eve, .. (and a lot other games), .., watching anime, .. the least you could do is stopping by to bash us! ..several attempts to take over the forum has already been made )

Mail: mail@aqkhar.com
Website: www.aqkhar.com

-Leth Khar, Guild Master
Aqshyash Khar

[bombibitt]

Hi, We are a Swedish guild named Bombibitt who is going to play order in Warhammer online. First off, we are almost all RLF and some off us have been playing DAoC since the very first day it came out. Then as time went by, we got to know more and more people and we still, to this day, play together.

All off our members have been waiting for Warhammer "forever" so this is a dream come true for all off us. We all play everthing from PvE to RvR and we also have people that are doing crafting for hours and hours.

We are more lika a family in this guild than friends and we just love to play together. We play for fun and the joy of the game.
We have a good and open vibe within the guild and all of us is keeping a constant eye out for WARHAMMER - online age of reckoning.

Let us in for the guild beta so we can test your new guild system and give something for Destruction to talk about.

FOR SIGMAR!!! and some DWARF

-Mikael
GM of Bombibitt

Mail: bombibitt.guildportal@hotmail.com
Website: bombibitt.guildportal.com

[rsmarsha]

Greetings from neXus!

Site: http://www.nexusguild.co.uk (someone will need to PM me for full access, we limit the forums and some panels to members for spam reasons )

Hmm where do I start?

Who are neXus?

Myself and some online friends were playing EQ2 as part of an existing guild. We had played EQ1 (and PS) together and had both run and belonged to various guilds in our time. Whilst playing EQ2 as part of a larger guild we soon came to realise that in a large guild working towards the higher end of the game we just didn't have the play time to keep pace. We also felt that there was no "friendly" or "family" feeling in the guild.

As a bunch of mature (in age at least ) players with busy real lives we longed for a small friendly guild where each member felt they were involved and a part of the guild as a whole, where each member would aid others without questions and knew that whatever time they could manage in game would be well spent with likeminded gamers.

With this in mind a small group of us formed "neXus" a guild which we hoped would encompass all that we wanted in a guild. The name was chosen due to it's meaning as a connection/focal point/centre of something. The guild is what joins us together so we thought the name fitted well, plus it's snappy. Our EQ2 guild cloak has a knotted star as it's logo joining all the members together. Some from our former guild said we could never achieve what we set out to do but we all had hope and I guess conviction to make it work.

The beginning and the story so far

NeXus was formed on 27/04/05 and we quickly settled into our new guild tag. We originally aimed for level 5 just so we could display our guild tag over our heads and thanks to the great bunch of players we, we are now a heady level 55!

In the 3 years that neXus has existed we've kept most of the core members with us and even those that no longer play MMORPG's pop into the forums. We are careful with our recruits as we like people to post an introduction on the forum before an invite is received. We operate a trial and have a quick chat with prospective recruits to make sure they fit our style and know what they are getting themselves into. Our numbers have grown slowly but at the same time we are still a smallish guild with the advantage that everyone knows each other and there's always enough online to get at least a group going. We have a calendar on site and often use that to plan groups enabling our members to say when they can make such events. Guild chat is lively and usually amusing with a good level of banter going on at all times.

We have managed to the pride of all our members to keep the spirit going and to embody all that we set out to be as a guild. We've even had our first guild meet last year and have a mini meet scheduled for next month.

As well as Everquest 2 we now have branches in Lord of the Rings Online and Vanguard and there's been a good few forum posts and guild chatter about WAR with myself and a good few of our number looking forward to trying it out.

Why should you let us in?

Why should you let us into the guild beta? Well we think we are a likeable bunch and will liven up whichever corner of the world we happen to be wandering around in (often lost ). We always try to help out others not just our guildmates and we are keen to expand into new worlds and see new faces.

Hope I havn't rambled too long, have fun all and say hi if you see the "neXus" tag in game.

[Frode789]

Hello from Intoxicated!

Website: Intoxicated

Website
Our website is not filled with unnecessary "stash" so the visitors eyes pops out due to all the light effects\sounds and auto played videos... It got it's charm and reflects our style. It's simple to navigate and provides the important information. However, I must say that it looks way cooler then most of the other guild sites.. Logically enough, we have a forum with in the same style, where everyone of the forums hang out. If a forum access is wanted (to read a little around) you need to PM the Admin for reading permissions on your account.

Our guild
We are a medium sized guild which where formed earlier this year. We have already played several games, and are continuously looking for new games to rule the battlefield! WAR has been under our scope since the beginning and we sadly did not get the chance to get into the guild beta then. We are all about "Honor - Family - Loyalty ". Our slogan is pretty easy to explain. We care about our reputation, and we do not withdraw from battles even if the odds are close to 0. No "carebear hello-kitty island hugs" playing here. However, we work as a family. We have fun, we make jokes of eachother, and we share experiences. We only require that everyone are fully loyal, and we look at betrayal as the worst thing you can do. Consequences should be expected..

Why should we play the guild beta
Our guild has a large experience with MMORPG betas, as individuals, but also as a whole guild. For instance, in Rohan Online the whole guild was invited and I must say, we did our job great. We got to the higher lvl's, formed the guild and tried out the high-lvl content looking for bugs and possible exploits that needed to be fixed. What makes us slightly "special", is probably the composition of our guild. We have younger (mature) people, we have students, we have adults (30+) and we also have our female participants. We cover them all, and we have our own special ways to work on, which makes us able to cover many fields and find a solution to whatever it should be. We are happy, we laugh and we have fun. We are Intoxicated!

Frode
-GM of Intoxicated-

[SungHi]

Guild Name: Sanctuary
Website: http://our-sanctuary.com
Faction: Order
Location: EU Servers


Hello to all!

Our guild Sanctuary would like to be considered for the WAR Guild Beta, we applied for the original guild beta around a year ago and we are still hoping to help test out the guild and raid functions in the beta with you.


About us
We have over 750 registered members on our site, with around 200-300 currently active guild members.

We are a very experienced guild, thats been around for many years over many MMOs. We started in a fun little game called Ferentus, and we have had a presence in many others such as Wow, Voyage Century, Silk Road, Perfect World, Shaiya, and Rohan to name a few. At the moment, due to some dissapointment in Rohan because of many bots and hackers infecting the servers, there are a lot of us actively seeking a new game to commit to, and hopefully WAR will be able to accomidate us all =)

Our orgainastion and stability attracts the older gamer and we have a higher average age than most guilds, we seem to attract a few married couples as our members, the guild being run by a married couple also. This lends us to have a really strong family atmosphere that we are very proud of, we are a fun guild, but one that likes to acheive, and we have succesfully controlled territory in most of the games that allow this due to our tightness as a guild, and our strong alliances that we enter, we take our alliances seriously and can be counted on to be there when needed whatever the odds. We have strong family values which you can read on our Sanctuary Values page. We will bring strong teamwork to take on the toughest of challenges and to test the guild functions to their limits! hehe


Why should we be in the beta?
Ahhh that's easy...


Sanctuary got cookies!

[Oathbreaker]

EU Guild: Axe to Mouth

Axe to Mouth is a collaboration of 3 wow guilds. All 3 guilds have always tried to mix PvE with PvP and managed to be rather successfull in both without going hardcore. 2 of the 3 guilds managed to clear ssc/tk/mh/bt in the shortest time on our server.

We're from all over Europe, but most are from the UK and Scandinavia. Over the years our guilds have managed to build friendships that transcended our guildtags. So it only made sense to start the Warhammer adventure together. We'll have about 50 members.

With the coming of the summer and Sunwell alot of the people in these guilds have gotten enough of WoW. It's a good game, but it stopped being innovative a long time ago. So we were hungry for something new!

And we fell in love with Warhammer. All of us love the lore and the new gameplay features Mythic is introducing with this game has made us drool.

I hope this little intro has warranted a guild beta access, since we're very keen on trying the game out

Yours truly,

Oathbreaker

[Marcus75]

The life within the guild, the who and what of Valour;

We are a gathering of people (15-25) whom once upon a time ended up near eachother on the dry slopes just outside Nalliten in Midgard. Back then we were two diffrent guilds, Valour and a smaller guild called Beowulf's Legion and during a very friendly discussion under the sun we joined forces under the wings of Valour wich was our guild emblem.

We are from many diffrent countries in Europe, we have had three guild meetings in real life where people travelled for their own money just to see the face behind the avatar and talk about our favourite passtime, mmorpg's. A forth real life guild meeting is taking place this fall.

So, you ask, why do we deserve to join the forces trying out Warhammer?

Because we are a dedicated group of people whom are slightly (for us to know and you to find out...) older than your average mmorpg-player. We have alot of experience from games ranging back to regular rpg's as far back as Phantasy Star and Zelda and within the mmorpg's to Ultima Online.

We have a relaxed attitude and click on most stuff to see what happens - a fact that sometimes causes interesting results.

We have all type of players, those that run around and get lost and usually find that place whom noone expected it existed, those that PvP and cant take defeat, those that analyze everything in detail and almost mail out a stack of papers for "this next encounter", those that just tag along up a hill and straight into a enemy keep only to get wiped in a few seconds because the "sticky" in the group (Me? No, no, no.... ) gets a momentary loss of brain functions.

What will you guys get from us?

We're old enough to know how stuff should and shouldn't work in the real world, we are the type of guild that takes the extra effort to help and to try and contribute to a better game both with our own behaviour and attitude but as well in correspondance with you, the developers.

In short, we aren't the type whom dosn't give a f-k - quite the opposite - we care about things in real life as well within our favorite hobby... your mmorpg's.

[Yourimeister]

Hi Ian,

so to put up our banner:

Chaos Crew, 15 member Dutch guild. We're all really waiting for this game we've all pre-ordered the ce.

Why we should be invited into guild beta?

first: why not?

second: we all live in the same city, and we have lan-parties all the time.
So we are very well coördinated as a guild. We're not some big hard-to-lead guild.

[Gutte]

The Older Gamers - Mature PC, Xbox, Playstation and Wii Gamers


The Older Gamers is a gaming community for people over 25 years of age. We currently have guilds in all the major mmo's in europe. We are open to anyone of the right age and our goal is to provide a mature community. Our members range from hardcore gamers to people who just wants to log in for an hour to relax from family and work after a stressfull day.


I think the system of public quests, easy to find RvR and the mix of cooperation and competition that the realm war brings will be something that appeals to our members.

Our european wow guild the old grudge has been one of the bigger guilds in europe for a long time with over 200 unique accounts. With our strenght in numbers we have been able to both progress and have room for more casual gamers.

During the spring we were active in AoC beta and now have established several guilds that are successfull over there.

Being older gamers we still have the need to relax and have fun so we sometimes do silly and fun events that all our members can take part in. One example is the running of the bulls we did where we invaded Ironforge with lvl 1 bulls and spelled out our initials with our dead corpses for all to see.

YouTube - Running of The Bulls - TOG - 2006



Our forums for separate guilds is closed to non members but our warhammer section is in the open section.

If you are 25 or over and read this you are welcome as a member apply at the link at the top.

[Twierdza]

We are Polish multi-mmo guild. We have active divisions in most of the paid mmo games (e.g: Lotro, WoW, AoC, TR, SWG, EQ2). Altogether we associate more than 350 members in various mmo’s.
The average age of our members is 30 years. The average number of games played by each member – 2.
In AoC our guild had more than 200 members on the pve server, however AoC really disappointed us, except nice graphics and bugs it didn’t really offer anything new
There are still about 50-60 active players, but they are true believers.
We are hoping that WHO will be the game, in which we will fall in love, which will be as a water for dried tree for the not-very-diverse mmo market and will be the game of the kind we would love to play forever
Initially there are over 70 ppl, who will definitely play WHO once it is released. Over 20 members has pre-ordered collectors edition. Why only 20? Because in Poland there were only 600 pre-order packs available.
Many of our members has played other betas – eg. WoW, Lotro, Vanguard, Aoc, TR, so we are quite experienced in this field;-)
We would like to try WHO beta, as we are sure that the experience gained in beta will allow us to enjoy the game more after the release date and also, what is more important for us – will let us convince those, who doubt and hesitate

Mail: twierdza.org.pl@gmail.com

Website: Twierdza - Gildia Multi MMO - Index

[Mandavar]

Hello this is Mandavar, the GM of Twilight guild
Guild website: twilight-guild.eu

Twilight is World of Warcraft european guild that has been founded in 19th september 2005 on Sunstrider realm. The guild started off as a Molten Core guild and currently - we have cleared all high end pve instances as well as enemy player cities (hello Orgrimmar ).

We have currently transfered to Sylvanas server and merged with guild Silent Vision. We have over 80 active, mature and dedicated members. We are a PVP/PVE oriented guild and most of our members have Veteran WAR Newsletter Subscriber status. Whole guild is converting to "Warhammer only guild" right after WAR launches.

The members of Twilight have been core players or leaders in many high end guilds in games like: Ultima Online, Vanguard or City of Heroes. We know what we are doing, and we believe we are building a guild that is destined for greatness.

Our goal in every MMORPG game we play is to kick ass and have fun while we do it

And Since we're playing World of Warcraft from quite some time already (around 4 years) we would love to try something fresh and different, especially something with the heavy emphasis on Player vs Player and Realm vs Realm combat.

[pord]

I am here to represent "The Bloodstone Clan".

website: Bloodstone Clan Main Hall - GuildPortal Guild Hosting

The Bloodstone Clan will be a dwarf clan with the primary objective to provide the members with a solid community of like-minded friends aimed at becoming the most Heroic and Legendary dwarf Clan. Bloodstone’s will be founded on a role playing server and be committed to medium Role-playing intended to make the WAR-world come to life.

As all dwarf Clans the clan is about its kinsmen, given our previous experience of community games, a Clan where the members are altruistic and thinks not what others can do for them but what they can do for others benefits everyone in the long-run. We will therefore expect all players to undertake their responsibilities towards each other and to the clan.

In order to succeed in RVR/PVP the Clan will have a well established hierarchy for ranks and groupings, at the same time this structure will be flexible to meet what type of difficulties WAR will face us with. The structure will also enhance our RP-ambitions and include internal Titles, rewards and other community features.

We will accept hard-core players, role players, crafters and casual players; depending on the type everyone will find a suitable role in the Clan. To be able to have a high level of activity we will structure the Clan according to different player’s preferences in gaming-objectives and gaming-hours. This means that Hard-core players will belong to Squads consisting of other Hard-Core players, while causal players will fill the Reserves rather than be part of their own Squads. Details will be worked out as the Clan comes to life.

Our main ambition is that the Bloodstone Clan will be a Heroic clan with a large number of friendly and active players who have a great time together. Our secondary ambition is that we the Bloodstone Clan will be THE dwarf force that the greenskins fear the most to face. This means we have set our ambitions high, but given that there is still some time until WAR is finally upon us we hope to be well organized and prepared for the release."

We have stories about the clan and the families within the clan, with a quite extensive history in our library.

We have also received an award on the guild portal site for being a spotlight guild where we received 5 stars.



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[Bobtree]

Guild: The Suffering
Members: 100+
Games the guild has a presence in atm: World of Warcraft, Lord of the rings, Age of Conan

Website: http://wow.the-suffering.co.uk/ (also have Lotro and AoC forums running as well)

Who/what/where/when of The Suffering

First started off on Bloodhoof server in World of Warcraft when 2 x similar guilds who were for more mature players with a slightly twisted and warped take on the world merged together. The atmosphere within the guild has always been excellent so once members join they rarely ever leave which means we've all had a few years to get used to one another

We became one of the premier guilds on the server, which was a great achievement considering we were not as hardcore as some guilds around us, although within the past year we have become quite prominantly raiding/PvP emphasised, whilst maintaining the cheery atmosphere we hold paramount above everything else.

We raided all the 40 and 20 man instances before Burning crusade, and since then have raided all the 10 and 25 man content.

When Lotro came out some of our members moved there, and likewise with AoC. We established the guild name on those games as well and brought more mature/friendly people into the Suffering (the fools!). So between our Lotro and AoC Suffering guilds there are around 30-40 players, with the remaining 50+ odd being in WoW. Because of the type of guild we are lots the wifes and girlfriends of the chaps who play have been convinced/nagged/bribed into playing so we have a higher than normal amount of women in the guild (who keep us in the straight and narrow essentially :P)

So now we boast players/gimps/psychopaths/kittens from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Germany, Italy, Belgium, France, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Holland etc. Although we do hold English as our speaking language so all members must be able to speak well enough to communicate over our ventrilo servers.



Currently lots of our WoW members have expressed a big interest in WoW, through either an interest in the warhammer universe that spans some years, or the desire to try something new.

It is the intention of the guild to move a large number of us to Warhammer when it comes out, and as a horde guild in warhammer, I guess its our destiny to become Destruction eventually

Hopefully we will get the chance to test WaR beta, and give our feedback (as about half the guild seem to be tech savvy, programmers, designers, technicians etc) and improve the game for when its release to the public comes

Regards,
Bobtree
The Suffering