Dambusters Resurrection

I would like to take the opportunity to welcome our new Dambusters to the guild and to your website, specifically to my blog. You will usually see me playing the game on my resto druid called Roar but traditionally in the guild I was always known as Bigticket who is my hunter and the original founder of the Dambusters on the 26th of July 2009 making us just approaching 8 years in formation.

The Dambusters rebuild has begun. After all the drama happened with the people I thought I could trust turning their backs on me I spoke to Idioms, Jannick, Havtorn and Jolts on TeamSpeak for hours and eventually decided that maybe I was the problem so I dropped the game and didn’t miss it for months.
I handed the guild leadership to Shethehunter who has remained steadily playing her game and maintaining guild admin all this time so that when I did return there would be something to actually return to. I owe a lot to her for that and I’m never gonna forget it.

A little background to the guild. We are formed in recognition of the number 617 ‘Dambusters’ squadron, Royal Air Force who carried out daring dam busting raids over Nazi Germany during WWII. I am a former serving member of the groundcrew engineering team from 2005-2009 when the squadron operated Tornado GR4 aircraft. The theme of the Dambusters runs through the rank names into the guild bank tabs is a source of great pride to me.

My immediate plan is to bolster guild activity until we have consistent numbers online regularly and begin looking to pick out potential event leaders who fancy pulling guild 5-man runs together etc. while I continue to recruit. The priority at the moment is to fill the guild with nice, friendly, hopefully talkative people who get to know each other through guild chat and 5-man content and progress from there.

I will re-publish a few of my old blog posts that might be of interest to our new members, for example maybe explaining how the guild bank system works because it’s not immediately self-explanatory. Also, it might be worthwhile taking a look at the Rank System since it’s also a good thing to understand what each rank name actually means.

Please be aware that usage of some wording may be a bit outdated but the guild was historically very active and tightly controlled to ensure a safe and friendly community for everyone while allowing as much freedom to play to whatever level our members wanted. The nature of that swing between casual and seasoned raider meant that there can be big differences in attitude towards the game so a guild leader here needs to run a consistently fair approach across the board, dealing with disputes on their individual merit etc.

The goal of this guild moving to the medium term will be to build a strong officer team who will ensure the community are playing together regularly in combat and to set up a casual raiding scene that will progress only depending on how much people really want to progress.

There could be some very powerful players returning to this guild and we possibly might move forward quickly but I would ask for your patience as our rebuilding phase is still in its infancy. I have rebuilt this guild before and I know exactly what I am doing so trust in your leadership, enjoy your own game and get talking to your new guild mates.

/Salute