HMW: Campaign for Cybertron, round 1: SHARKTICONADO!!

For many cycles, the war that had raged across Seibertron had been quiet, small skirmishes broke out across the planet, but not enough to be noticed.

Then ... the noise began, a stirring, a call to arms, an Autobot warrior who craved for the war to begin anew. Some fellow Autobots stirred, while others were not heard from. The Decepticon forces heard the noises, they too put out a call to arms and many answered.

It began again with a small exchange, the troops of Bun-Bun took the war to the troops of Wingz. Aided by other teams both sides fought hard, with many Commanders proving themselves.

The spark had been lit, as machines came to life beneath Seibertron, the forces of war gathered above the surface, and now, the war, the Heavy Metal War, has begun anew!




It's an all out war between the seas and the skies as creatures from the depths rise to take the lands for themselves, whilst the news helicopters fill the sky above - but they must beware, as even the smallest sea monster still has giant teeth!


Autobots and Decepticons, you must mobilize and destroy the terror from a 10,000 leagues before there is no more land to fight over whilst the media-choppers jostle for space, and your enemies seek to take advantage.


The hunt is simple;

• Make an entry post in the 'signups' thread, following the instructions in 'the boring stuff' below.
• Kill as many sea creatures and helicopter alts as you can in 1 week. The list of legal alts (around 50 of them on each side) is listed in the next post.
• To be able to enter you must format either a sea creature- or helicopter-based alt onto at least one member of your team.
• This is the character that will be used to determine your level bracket for the game.
• Players may enter more than one level bracket, but may only enter once at each level.
• ALL of your teams kills on target alts count.

To Enter, post below with a link to your team and the character(s) you have chosen to reformat, along with their level(s) you are entering at.
Then, watch your mission logs.
When you get a kill on a target alt, edit the link into your original post making sure to list the victims name and time of kill.
Whoever has the most kills at the end of 1 week in each level bracket wins. In the event of a tie the number of higher level kills will be examined (e.g. number of level 11's killed, then 10s, then 9s etc.).

As usual, hunt tactics and game discussions can be added below, or started in the faction-specific forums.



Your reward for protecting Hydrax.

Pretty isn't it?

The Quintessons Finest warrior: For bringing the watery menace to heel, the top hunter of each level (from 0-11) will be given access to the powerful SHARKTICON altmode. This offer will be given once and will last until you chose to reset it.

PLEASE NOTE: There is no guarantee that it will come with any special tactics. That is the Admins call and his decision on this will be final. Awards will be discussed with the winners only.


And the Campaign for Cybertron continues!!
The winning FACTION will be the one that wins the most Sharkticons, and they will seize control of the Hydrax Plateau for their side - the first step in either defending or conquering our home planet!


Boring Stuff:
- Sign ups are required, found here, listing the Name, Chosen altmode and Level of the lead character from your team
- Player numbers will be assessed before the game starts and weighting may be put into place to even the sides. This will be announced as the game begins.
- Players can have as many game-relevant alts as they want in their team, but only one can count per level, which must be listed in advance.
- Cheaters penalty: removal (without notification/permission) of a hunted alt from a listed (qualifying) team member is grounds for instant disqualification.


tl;dr: Kill the alts listed below, record your kills, and win.

So what is Heavy Metal War (HMW)?
HMW is Seibertron.com's very own on-site Transformers game which will be celebrating it's 15th (yes, 15th!) anniversary in a few months.
It's simple.

• Choose your faction
• Create your troops (you can create up to 12)
• Deploy your troops to missions (or one-on-one arena battles)
• Beat up your enemies to earn XP and Energon
• Upgrade your bots
• Deploy, beat up, earn, upgrade, repeat.

The best part is, unlike most other Transformer based games, there are no loot boxes, you won't be attacked while you're away, you don't need to log in daily to collect bonuses, you don't need to meet expectations of overbearing alliances. In fact, unless you want to engage in the banter on the HMW Forums, you can dump and run in five minutes and then come back in an hour or so!

So join up, crush, kill, destroy!