It seems that Christoph thinks Chthonic Syndicate blockaded Vanguard because of the actions 
of one individual. As he puts it “based the actions of an entire army on those of an alt”. 
As a former ally of Vanguard and a member of SR. We were undecided as to what our relationship 
was going to be them. There were many rumors going around about them and their actions. 
So we took the wait and see what happens attitude.

This is a list of issues we had with VG over the course of three battles.

1. The mass use of wire framing and shooting through a double prim wall. With a bullet 
that was named “None stop”? Seemed a little odd to me. (internal security video available)

2. The use of aircraft that are firing explosive bullets at infantry. I was informed they 
were missiles. I found this odd as they looked like bullets, shot like bullets and were 
firing dozens at a time. I watched them exploded right in front of me during the lag.

3. Many individuals firing into our spawn with bullets, grenades, explosions, etc. 
This happened in all three battles. Including Christoph himself entering and attacking 
our spawn area during the last battle. I would also note that in the video he seems to 
travel through our two spawn doors without the use of a breach. It is clearly defined in 
our rules that any individual that enters the spawn will be banned immediately. 
(internal security video available)

4. Christoph as a former ally was given a roll in our land group which allowed him to set home.
During one of the first two battles. Christoph abused this by setting home by the wall and then 
proceeded to teleport addition VG members in from that point. Now I would like to say that 
other armies which we have good standings with such as 39th and Sparta have members who can 
set home on our sim. We have had many battles with them. Not once have I seen one other person 
try to do this. This one truly showed the general mentality of VG and how they fight.

5. During the last battle. We attacked VG as kind of a test to see what was up. As I had 
received numerous complaints from the two previous battles. When we got to the HUB we did a 
quick read of the rules and informed every one of any restrictions they had. Including not 
being able to hive queen/medic. After a short little spar with them they counter attacked. 
We informed them not to use tactics that there sim restricts. They were so mad that they 
changed their own sim rules mid battle.

6. The use of swarm tactics. Sending 30 attackers against 7 defenders. At one point they had 
more jets directly attacking ground troops then we had defenders. From what I have heard this 
is their MO with all their attacks.

For an army that was coming back to the community with so much baggage with them. You would 
think they would have put more effort into clearing their name of these rumors. It became very 
clear to us that not only did they not care for following our rules. There general attitude was 
we can do as we please. Now it is true that we have our own opinions of what is “Fair” within 
our combat environment and I believe every army has the right to set their own Home rules on 
their sim. It became very clear to us the Vanguard as a whole have no idea what is fair. You 
can see this from the average grunt right up to their top leadership.