Clan:The Titans

The Titans were a PKing (Player-Killing) clan. The Titans was active between the years 2004 and 2016. Titans members were among the best PK tanks, fall-in speed, and snipe kill potential players in all of RuneScape during their active period, especially between the years of 2007 and 2011 when they were among the top 3 reigning clans of the RuneScape wilderness clan-versus-clan era.

The Titans originally rose to dominance in an era of RuneScape where high level players were still few and far-between. The Titans originally opened in November of 2004 under Harveytian and recruited anyone above level 90 combat back in 2005-2006 to greatly boost their member roster. After 2007, they began to grow more selective in recruitment and focused on developing their members skill in clan-versus-clan PK.

The Titans clan members pioneered the method of throwing off enemy call-targets by having their fall-in leader circle into one of their own fall-ins, thus creating a spinning circle of members which are difficult to target. This strategy was employed during the 1st ever annual Jagex clan combat cup to win. Like many PK clans of the clan-versus-clan era, RuneScape's Evolution of Combat update in late 2012 had a significant impact on the PK community and the severe downsizing of many clans. Although The Titans was resurrected a year after Old-School RuneScape (2007 version) servers went live, they never returned to the height of dominance that they held between 07'-11'. Wilderness Clan Cape Color: Yellow

Most Notable Achievements:
 * 1st Place Winners of the first ever, Jagex Annual Clan Combat Cup held in 2009
 * Winner of Runescape's first and only 24-hour uncapped Free-to-Play Wilderness
 * Placing 3rd in the 2010 Jagex Annual Clan Combat Cup
 * Placing 2nd behind RuneScape Dinasty in the 2011 Jagex Annual Clan Combat Cup

Community-Voted Achievements:
 * 2008: Most Organized Clan (Voted by the RuneScape Zybez Poll)
 * 2008: Best Free-to-Play Clan (Voted by the RuneScape Zybez Poll)
 * 2009: Most Organized Clan (Voted by the RuneScape Community Poll)
 * 2009: Most Selective Clan (Voted by the RuneScape Community Poll)
 * 2009: Best Organization (Voted by the RuneScape Community Poll)
 * 2009: Best Organization (Voted by the RuneScape Community Poll)
 * 2010: Best Organization (Voted by the RuneScape Community Poll)
 * 2010: Best Tanks (Voted by the RuneScape Community Poll)
 * 2010: Best Snipers (Voted by the RuneScape Community Poll)
 * 2011: Best Tanks (Voted by the RuneScape Community Poll)

Other Achievements:
 * Consistently ranked in the top 5 PKing Clans from 2007-2012
 * Forced closing of the following clans: 'THE' clan, Damage Incorporated clan, Rune Raiders clan, Red Devils Clan, Divine Kings clan.
 * Titans founder Harveytian was good friends with the founder of 'Divine Forces' clan. Before DF was a clan, their founder was an active member of The Titans. Despite the rivalry these 2 clans held, their founders always had respect for one another.

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A Titan History (Written by Charlie (The Man O)

When i joined Titans, it was already the second incarnation, with HarveyTian leading a semi successful (in as much as the members enjoyed themselves, it never really achieved huge success in terms of dominance) monks robes clan in 04, laying the foundation for all that was to come. The Titans that i joined, and many know as the first incarnation, was reopened by Nhia212 in the autumn of 04, and began the slow growth of an unknown clan.

Nhia's Titans (1st attempt)

For a more complete history you will have to ask one of the older members, however when i joined in early January (as the only European member at that time), the clan was already a stable top 40 competitor, with incoming members matching those who left or were kicked, notable victories of this time include miniwar wins over Rr (who all chose to mage and were consequently killed without many losses) and official war wins over TOL.

About this time the clan began to compete in earnest against stronger clans, though by no means was it the easiest going of periods, with our nightly pk trips coinciding with Mystic Knights, one of the superpowers of the time, meaning that very rarely did a pk trip successfully conclude with Titans reaching edgeville alive.

Despite all the setbacks, 2 bits of luck in the next few months helped the clan greatly. The first was Mk official warring Damage Incorporated, and for lack of a better word, getting hammered. From then onwards it was a downward spiral for them, and end of the daily crashing of our pk trips. The second being that after the death of their clan, many of the best Doz members joined Titans, providing many of the officials that would be promoted through the next year and beyond, as well as boosting the number of active members considerably.

Members who joined with the death of Doz included Manstonrox, Mrhugoboss, King Stu0, Nostraviran, Arno, Catestrophe, Lord Zinglon, Fraggie and Toenie. In addition, another of our allies had recently closed, and from Ltc joined I eimis I and Gokas Lt.

In June 05 the clan community got its first taste of Titans, and we began to realise just how disliked we would become in the next few months. The pivotal event that catapulted us into the spotlight was the official war set up with Dragonwood, in many ways this 1 fight shaped the next 6 months of our existence.

At this point in the clanworld, Dragonwood was a respected clan, often rated in the top 25 and expected by many to go much higher. Thus, when the war was announced, all 120 Titan members began training hard, and our combat average was estimated to have raised 2-3 combat levels total. Despite the virtues of honour and sportsmanship instilled in Titan members, this war was to be the first of many that clans tried to cheat us in an attempt to avert a loss.

Even by the most unworthy clan's standards, what Dw did was scandalous, having chronically underestimated Titans, they called a team of Anarchy to join their side of the war. Despite this shameful act, Titans went on to easily beat both clans combined with pk leaders such as That1dude, Gokussy8, Manstonrox and Xbghost leading with a level of organisation rarely seen in those days. Needless to say, Dragonwood never recovered from this war, and are still hanging around the top 30 mark where we left them to this day.

The war itself, whilst being immensely satisfying and a fine performance, was hardly the most significant occurrence. With Runescape Community only recently surpassing tip.it as the dominant clansite, its morals and practices were vastly underdeveloped, and the moderating staff concentrated in but a few clans. Unfortunately for us, the majority of staff were from Dw's ally (now longdead); Rivendell, and their consequent bannings of the majority of Titan officials and members created a resentment for the fansite that has lingered for years. In addition, such actions created a precedent for rivalries with Corruption, The Dynasty and Echo of Silence, but more about that later.

On the back of the victory over Dragonwood, our reputation as an upcoming clan, and Nhia's status as a high level meant that many people became interested in being a part of the clan, and with the rise in active members came what many considered to be our golden age. With strong leadership from Nhia, and council members such as Jbk and Casius Kai, the new members were molded into the impetus that was necessary to push Titans towards the top 10.

With Titans unbeaten in official wars during its entire existence, the warlords made the risky move of declaring on the top 10 clan Rune Raiders. This time our opposition did not underestimate, and outleveled, outnumbered and was more experienced than us, there were few outside of Titans who believed that we could win, and with an effort comparable to that of the Dw war, our combat average soared. Again fortune smiled upon us, and just a few days before our war, several of Rr's officials left, partly due to the instability of their clan, facilitating the path to victory. Despite pulling similar numbers of people, the pk leaders who did so well against Dw again pulled off another great victory for Titans.

Yet again, the fight was by no means that most important event of the day; with the death of Rivendell, and the fall from grace of Dragonwood, many members joined The Corruption Clan, and now with the defeat of their ally, they took our existence as a personal insult, and dropped their alliance with Rr so that they wouldn't be associated with such a "weak" clan. With the loss of leadership, allies and a huge hit to morale, Rr, similarly to Dw, lost significant power, and did not regain any form of its former strength until several years later.

Video:

http://files.filefront.com/TitansvsRRwmv/;...;/fileinfo.html

As aforementioned, this was the start of the Titans v Corruption rivalry, which was a first for Titans in several aspects. Primarily, this rivalry was fought more on forums than in the wild, in the style that most rivalries now take. In reality, Titans and Corruption fought 5 times, several times at absurd times of night (midnight or 1 pm for our Europeans which were by now the majority of our memberbase), and once in a est/european time zone, where Titans pull 300+ options to Cor's meagre 150. Obviously the fight was over quickly, but far more significantly, this led Cor to see the possible power, thus when in discussions as to a possible official war, made discussions almost impossible as Cor demanded a late time or no war.

Video of Tt v Cor:

http://files.filefront.com/Tt+v+Cor+Summer...;/fileinfo.html

Despite a fierce rivalry with Corruption, we still found time to fight Td and Ds nightly, and on occasion team with Di against Kt and Anarchy, dominating everyone who pked from 2 to 5 est each night of the summer holiday period. Our run ins were characterized by fighting a "top clan" at greaters, beating them, then them regrouping in single or going to edge and flaming us into accepting a miniwar. This often resulted in us loosing, however, in one memorable victory, mass up 80 people for a few hour preparation miniwar, and beat the 3rd ranked clan, Td in a decisive victory. Despite the respectable behavior of the Titans present, Td never got over the losses to a far "inferior" clan, and joined the rapidly growing group of clans that rarely fought us ingame, but joined together to flame and ridicule on forums.

Video Tt v Td Miniwar:

http://www.digital-ghosts.com/titans/ttvstdmini.wmv

Despite the almost daily onslaught of the "anti titans", Titans continued to have successes in both the wild and interclan, in part thanks to Nhia's status as a high level, with many new, experienced, members joining. Indeed around this time, those that would go on to make Silent Assassins (Viper1500 and the like), and those who would leave later to form Divine Forces, joined Titans and helped the clan arguably reach the standard of a top 8 clan - complete with 250 members and a 105 combat average.

Soon after the fairly disastrous allied "Dt" fight against Ds, in which 120 Titans were joined by only 10 Deathrow to face upwards of 140 Ds, the peak of Titans was reached, many people have claimed that they were responsible for the subsequent fall in the power of the clan, others tried to conjure a myriad of reasons to explain away why, however, the real reasons are simple. Primarily, Nhia was too good a clan leader, despite having a wide and varied rank structure (by this time Jbk and Casius Kai were effectively co leaders, managing the clan day to day, with Vangsta2, White Marvel, Legendsword and Plzdiequick, as well as host of pk leaders and mods assisting) the sheer demand of leading roughly 250 people, all dependent on 1 person to solve their problems, lead them in the wild, and talk to each of them personally at least once a day was too much. Thus, when hacked (losing what i later heard to be roughly 250million - several billion taking into account inflation) there was little driving Nhia to deal with the aforementioned pressures. One may argue that the reopening (for the 6th time) of Exercitum drawing away potential members, and the lack of opponents in the particular power bracket we were in also contributed, but such issues barely contributed when compared to those effecting the leadership.

The decline of the Titans started right after one of several board switches attempted to remove inactives, with drama created by suniki and others in a similar mold, general disorganization on pk trips due to lack of fights, and the attention of Nhia and the highest ranks slowly dwindling. To find a person to share some of the burden, the clan was given the option of electing 2 co leaders, the voting was disgraced by allegations of coercion by those who lost, and the sudden superiority complexes in those who were selected.

With the leadership at each other's throats, lacking fights and the dominant presence to keep people in line that was so key in clan's of this time, the decline was visible to many - at this point members left to create Sa, and a significant proportion to were enticed by Death240 to leave for Df - however, shocking everyone, Nhia left, quitting rs for several weeks before deciding whether to join Di or Runescape Dinasty. With Nhia leaving, many of those he recruited left, removing the potential of Titans to compete with those in the top 10.

At this point we shall talk a little more about Plzdiequick, and the worst betrayal of Titans by a ranked member in this period of our history, and arguably equal to Spazthegecko in the later years. Anyway, having lost out in the elections to become co-leader, and resenting being told that wearing steel on a pk trip was unacceptable, Plzdiequick decided that the time was nigh to post on RunescapeCommunity a list of the grievances that she felt towards the clan, giving the anti-titan group all the ammunition they could ever need. Needless to say, days after slagging off her previous clan in which she was ranked as webmaster, she was invited to join Corruption, where anti titan sentiment remained strong. This further inflamed the forum rivalry between Titans and Corruption, and they now had "proof" for their claims, and caused deep divisions in Titans between the people who felt that PDQ should be ignored and left to her own personal soap opera, and those who wanted to try and reconcile an ex Titan.

However, Titans was by no means done, although the next few months consisted of a slow progression down the rank hierarchy as new leaders were sought to replace the ones that left. For many months, i, and others, had regarded Jbk as the heart and soul of Titans. Whilst others could be credited for the way in which Titans performed as a Pking and warring power, there is no doubt in my mind that Titans would never have gotten where it did in 05, and in the reformation in 06 without him. As the next most senior official it fell to him to pick up the burden, and with That1dude and Casius Kai aiding him as co leaders, the clan "soldiered on" for a considerable period, with a less, but hardly dismissible degree of success on the clan scene.

However, we were now viewed as a weak clan, filled with inactives (inactives being the main group not to leave with nhia), and consequently we were challenged by one of the up-and-coming clans of the time - The Moriquendi - in all honesty, the leadership at the time of declaration (the leaving of Nhia had bumped everyone up a rank in the leadership, with White Marvel and Vangsta the senior council members, with myself and Cancer88 as junior members, as well as King Stu0, Ja Poptart, Stod and Arno at moderator) felt they stood a decent chance of winning an official war, just as long as they were a little lucky. Deciding to leave nothing to chance, in one of the most shameful acts of our Titan history, we decided to destroy their clan from the inside out.

Gaining access by forum and ingame spies, myself and other officials set about crashing them every time they set foot in the wild, wreaking havoc for their clan internally. After almost 2 weeks of constant crashings and other actions taken to destabilize their clan, the war was fought, with Titans pull 120 people to their 85, and ending the war quickly due to our organizational, numerical and combat superiority. Similarly to Rune Raiders and Dragonwood, the loss to us in an official war ruined their chances of ever establishing themselves as a top clan, and they fell back to regroup into the community clan they are today.

Despite the efforts of the leadership, the stresses of leading soon became too much for the leader and co leaders, and within weeks of the victory over Mori (after which many in Titans felt that we may rise again) Jbk, T1d and Ck had all decided to either quit runescape or join Rsd with Nhia. By this time, many of the other leading figures in Titans, such as Fusion41, Manstonrox and White Marvel quit or became inactive, leaving the next most senior official, the new webmaster (and previous co leader) Lord Mythis, to be the next leader.

This was, perhaps, the most disastrous period of leadership in Titan history. The very appointment of Mythis to leader resulted in a mass leave as he was hardly the most loyal of figures, and he did nothing to arrest the flow of actives out of the clan. Despite the problems, during this period many of the new generation of Titans were given the chance of gaining experience in leading, myself as co leader, vangsta still in the position of high council, King Stu0, Arno and others as council, and Yoeni Yoe, Stod and Wedgefreak, among others, as a moderators.

Within a month Lord Mythis had decided that the struggle of trying to keep a dieing clan alive was not for him, and the position of leader opened up once again, we now enter the second most unsuccessful period of leadership the Titans has been under. With myself as Leader (at 14 and unprepared due to never having led a clan before), and Vangsta at coleader (unfortunately plagued by inactivity), the clan was destined to fail, with less than 20 actives remaining, and many of those deciding to leave for greener pastures.

Nevertheless, it was decided that we would make the best go of it we could. However, after barely a month, it was clear that the clan was going nowhere but down. It had been months since we had achieved a notable victory, and the officials had to spend more time fixing members' problems than on tackling the fundamental problems involved with the clan itself. Thus in late November, it was decided that there would be a final pk trip, in which there must be 100 options present, or the clan would be closed. As one would expect with so few actives, the 100 option mark was barely broken even with the help of 10 friends of the clan, and so it was decided we would close.

Nhia's Second Attempt

With the closure of the clan, many who were left decided to follow me to Divine Forces (and some remain to this day), others who were high leveled enough went to Rsd. This stage in Titans, whilst we were officially dead, was one of the key contributing factors to the success we enjoyed in the following years. Many of the ex-members came together to pk with Nhia late at night, keeping the Titan spirit alive and eventually encouraging him to reopen, but also, being in clans that were not truely as close to our hearts as Titans, we could all learn the newer tactics and experience different kinds of leadership and clan life. This period was one of great change in the history of the clan community, where the emphasis moved away from wars to pk run ins, and clan sizes changed from large, mostly inactive, bases from which 100 people could easily be called upon to war at a 2 week notice, to a smaller, closely knit community that was prepared to return for hours and a significant proportion would be able to fight on any given night at a short preparation.

On January 12th 06, Nhia officially reopened Titans clan after our 2 month break, instead of trying to appeal to the greater clan community, for the next 2 years, Titans kept to itself, initially drawing back old members to create the memberbase, then building off of word of mouth. Consequently, over those next 2 years, the number of members rarely went over 80, and as such the entire clan community underestimated us as a clan, that is, until they fought us.

When Titans was first reformed, the 45 members we had could not have forseen how far we would become, we started off with 60 option pk trips, fighting clans of similar strength and situation, such as Rr and Td, both of which were slowly recovering after restarting or major slumps. Such encounters we could handle, however 2 clans decided that our existence was a threat, and once again Titans found itself double teamed by clans that by rights should have been able to kill us with ease.

Corruption sought to "kill us again" as a continuation of our old rivalry, and a new threat emerged in Df. A combination of reasons meant that they wished to crash our pk trips with a view to kill us, primarily, Death240 saw the rebirth of Titans as a threat to his memberbase, fearing many ex Titans would rejoin, also, one of Df's main attributes was their ability to "lure" members from other clans to Df. In this case, their main target was Generalshad - ex Titan pk leader but then member of Rsd, who hated nhia due to him leaving Rsd to create Titans without speaking to him - and in any case it took little effort for him to persuade Df that crashing Tt was a good idea.

Despite the possibly fatal nature of these threats, and the brief alliance between Df and Cor, they soon became bitter rivals, and directed more of their attention at each other rather than at Titans. In addition, this was the first time that we would see how threatening to kill Titans made all our members take it up a gear, and start contributing to the clan in ways never before seen. Thus for the first few months of 06, Titans was one of the "up-and-coming" clans, along with Army of Honour (a remake of Exer) and Runescape Forsaken, as well as still on a par with The Dynasty, however, not wishing to follow the path of the previous incarnation of Titans, we did not actively seek to recruit, the right decision as was shown by the next few weeks in which our competitors achieved more high profile victories, but eventually all closed and died.

With the deaths of our close competitors and the unwillingness of those close to us to attempt to fight us, our pk trips once again involved aimless wanderings in the wilderness (as they had in summer05), and more often than not Nhia logging us right on top of Damage Inc, who were the most powerful Gmt based clan of the time.

For our first war of 2006, the leadership had to search high and low. As a relatively unknown clan, yet with a high level memberbase, many clans were unwilling to accept any offer - even if we deviated significantly from our comfort zone - having declared on 53 clans (yes we kept track) we decided to really challenge ourselves, and declare on one of the huge clans left - Tdm. This became one of the better examples of how a small, organized clan could beat an old fashioned clan with many members and less organization. This victory was all the more sweet because we had to agree to their rule of no hugging, in a move which they hoped would negate our advantage of higher levels.

Titans v Tdm video:

http://files.filefront.com/tt+vs+tdmwmv/;9...;/fileinfo.html

With his clan now dead, Hommel soon joined Titans, and with the second death of Doz, members such as Lord Zinglon, Grey Samurai and I m Darkness joined the ranks of Titan members, once again bolstering our numbers at a significant point in the clan's development. In addition, other members who became prominent in Titans who joined at this time, include Lorenzo Fury, Bishinmo, Hickmat333 and Mr Thonk, with Pirko rejoining from his adventures with P2p no honour clans.

Over the next few months Titans grew at a steady rate, with much of the old leadership in place - Nhia once again leading, with Jbk, Ck, Mythis, Vangy and John advising and supporting - and as such these months were rather uneventful, with several pk trips and fun events a week and everyone just enjoying being a Titan once again, however, as one should have suspected by now, the future was not so rosy.

In a fashion that would become established as a pattern, with the coming of the summer months, the main leadership figures (Jbk, Ck, Bhandra and so on) would go inactive, and the majority of the memberbase would make the most of the good weather and free time to go on holiday, work or just enjoy life, leading to Nhia attempting to close the clan several times a month. Whilst a quick removal of the post averted most of the drama, the underlying problem remained; Nhia no longer had the time to divert into leading the clan. In addition, it was at this time that Lord Mythis (who had joined the restart as webmaster again) decided that it was a good time to attempt to create his own p2p no honour clan, drawing away many of the more active Titan members, worsening the effects of the summer slump.

Despite the entirety of the experienced leadership being inactive, the lower ranked members decided that Titans was worth the time and effort to keep alive, and when Jbk returned from holiday, the ranks were shaken up - lower officials such as King Stu0 and Spazthegecko were promoted to join Vangsta and Jbk as advisors, and Jbk made the slightly questionable move of promoting me to Co leader.

After discussion between the officials, it was decided that Nhia would remain on as leader, and the Co leader and Advisors would run the clan, asking Nhia only for guidance in areas in which his vast experience may count.

During the next week, the following year was planned out. It was decided that the highest ranks would no longer go to those who had been in the clan the longest, rather those who were predicted to carry out their duties with the greatest dedication and ability, older inactive officials would be given the highest regard but no longer put in a position where they were expected to lead the clan, and in accordance with one of the key maxim's of Jbk: "Nothing brings a clan together like a war" - that in the next 6 months we would have as many wars and events as was possible.

The first order of business was to fill the vacant spots in the leadership, as the restructuring of inactives into advisory roles had left the clan with no pk leaders, and very few active forum officials. In what i regard as my best moment of genius to date, a member who had never spoken to anyone but Nhia ingame, and had 14 posts on forums was promoted to pk leader - it could only be Bishinmo - who was to lead Titans to many victories, create tactics now used as commonplace in the clanworld and eventually leave the pk leadership and take up a spot in the administrative side of the clan. Secondly, in a slightly more obvious, but no less important promotion, Lorenzo Fury was promoted to relations mod, and would continue to serve the clan with efficiency and stamina in whatever capacity he could for the next year, until real life circumstances demanded he become inactive. As well as the promotion of Battleneo to advisor (later changed to pk leader, where he went on to become probably the greatest ts caller and overall wilderness official of his time).

Members who joined at this time include Lordamar69, and from our old allies Deathrow Un 4given, the lightnings, Nighthawk and Poiuytrewq26, as well as from Russian Forces, Fdooch, Medliner and the dearly missed Sanjaxx, as well as Mass kill43 upon the death of Sacred Templars.

For the next month we planned to have as many wars as possible, and ended up fighting both Masters of Dragons and Followers of Malkav. The first - against Mod - was heavily weighted against us, with it being a shorter preparation (1 week being not enough to get many of our inactives) and with range allowed at red dragon gate - and thus it was an easy win for Mod. However, unperturbed (as we almost expected to lose), we continued on, already 1 week into our 3 week preparation fight with FoM, we made a concerted effort to maximize our chances of winning.

In what was probably the greatest win in Titan history, 45 Titans faced up to 75 FoM members, a clan with higher levels, and a warring experience the stretched back years. With swift pile transitions, excellent bind hybrids (a rare tactic at this time), as well as the legendary salmon tanking from Nhia we took home the win with a little over 20 people left. Over the next few months we often competed with Fom (but never on such a scale), on occasion Trwf, Ni and Heroes of the Future, but little other clans as very few participated in the Gmt pking scene, the clan remained at roughly 70 members, with old ones leaving and new ones such as Hydrofire, lilucky and Gwenivere joining.

Titans v Fom video:

http://files.filefront.com/TTVsFom+2+Remak...;/fileinfo.html

Having won the official war with Fom in such a decisive fashion, we set about achieving our next target; beating Exer. However first we went about creating an alliance with a relatively newly formed clan - Collision - who happened to be one of a few clans who would accept our fights and acted with respect and dignity. Having worked well with and against them in fun wars and events, we set about holding the "A team" v The clan. 4 clans - Moriquendi, Deathrow, Collision and Titans - against the #1 warring clan at the time. Despite very few of the clans there pulling great options, the "A team" managed to win with significant options remaining. Our clans worked so well together that we made the alliance official, and it stands strong to this day.

In the autumn months we continued to grow in strength and experience in pkri, fighting against hostile, anarchy and others in the 10-20 rank bracket. However, by far the most close matched of our competitors at this time were Rune Raiders. Despite fighting twice or more a week for over a month, we never reached the end of a fight, mostly due Violent Resolution crashing every wilderness event we had for several months. This, in conjunction with racist flaming and hacking of our forum accounts, contributed to the strong dislike of Vr that exists to this day.

We chose Exer as our return-to-strength test as they were a clan so alike us, yet so critically different. Despite being a mainly Euro based, yellow caped clan that had a period of success in 05 but ultimately failed, with a leader whose posts required a cryptographer to read, Exer and Titans could not be more different, and thus often disagreed vehemently. Whilst Titans was a clan that was based on respect and sportsmanship, Exer favoured a approach based on cheating, lying and flaming.

Thus when the fight was arranged we left several loopholes in the rules that we could exploit if Exer attempted any underhanded actions. Sure enough, within a few days, members started appearing on their memberlist, which they blamed on various things (including members not having been updated onto their 5 month old forums from their old ones). Despite allowing them to add a few more people when Supa Vegeta said "allow us or no war", more and more kept appearing, motivating Titan members to break our option record since the restart and bring over 60 people.

The war itself was an easy victory with all but 1 of the Exer members getting easily koed, and the one who didn't left Exer to join Titans soon after anyway. Far more important was the emphatic manner in which we achieved the victory, marking Titans place back amongst the competing top clans.

Titans v Exercitum video:

http://files.filefront.com/Titans+vs+Exerc...;/fileinfo.html

During the holiday period Titans remained quiet, with new members such as D0nts, Athena and Brad joining in the January, as well as Queenmunkie rejoining.

Once the holiday season was over, Titans commenced on a period of frequent warring, often against Blacknights, Gladiatorz, and Runescape Dinasty, by no means winning all, but certainly a majority.

Titans vs Gladz Video:

http://files.filefront.com/The+Titans+Vs+G...;/fileinfo.html

Titans vs Bk Video:

http://files.filefront.com/TT+Vs+BKwmv/;93...;/fileinfo.html

Titans vs Bk Video:

http://files.filefront.com/Titans+vs+BlacK...;/fileinfo.html

Titans vs Rsd Video:

http://files.filefront.com/tt+v+rsd+miniwm...;/fileinfo.html

We continued such fights until march, and terms of the development of our memberbase, others followed from Russian Forces including Gogeta, Stas, Jatsenko and Mogii, several also came from The British Elites (Tbe); King Cheung, K0rbeh, Benthereaper, Aaron, Doddseyone, Alexotec and Whitenightc.

Whilst it was never our intention, in the middle of spring 06 a junior pk leader arranged an official war with Runescape Elites - a dutch based clan - agreeing to all their rules and times on a day that was dismal for many of the leadership. Despite fighting a half strength version of Titans, in a melee only war (which we have still to win a full out in since 05), they still felt compelled to cheat, in many eyes invalidating their win (as it was by a small amount - 9 people).

Despite the Re loss, moral in the clan remained high (though the pk leader who set it up soon left to join Eh, and Sagameister was promoted in his place), and getting bored of wars, we soon began to focus on pk run ins as it had become the accepted form of competition between clans. Due to a heavily European orientated active memberbase, most pk trips happened in the gmt timezone, so our main competitors were The Runescape Warhungers Federation, Lithuanian Forces, The British Elites and on occasion, Rune Raiders and Wilderland.

By far the most violent of the rivalries was Trwf, who had a memberlist of at least twice the size of ours, despite many not as enthusiastic about pking as Titans were. For several weeks, every friday the 2 clans met, often the fight was crashed, but when it wasn't it was always a close run affair. On the one time we happened to meet on a Saturday (back then the preferred day of both clans), both clans being in yellow capes stormed the greater hut unaware that the other was doing so, and a dirty fight ensued with Trwf flaming Titans for a myriad of things, and Titans retaliating by using the "Trwf on" spamtag to completely disorganize the larger less close knit memberbase. The ensuing flamewar lasted a few days on both Titan's and Trwf's public forums, several weeks later it was decided that we would fight each other in a planned run in on a Sunday for 2 hours, then a miniwar with those who were still fighting at the end of time.

Tt v Trwf video (some of the Trwf comments are still almost as funny as the video itself):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ow2JTw6VI&feature;=user

The pkri was as expected - Trwf pulling the greater options but as time went on and deathcounts mounted, Titans getting back into it - At the end of the timecap, the options were 180 Trwf, 150 to Titans, despite a messy charge the fight soon took shape, with Trwf's numbers being slowly worn down, before they walked out (Titans had 66 opts remaining) due to me supposedly returning. The flamewar after lasted for almost 2 weeks, and was only diffused in the end by both sets of leaders agreeing that our clans would minimise the contact for several months.

With our Trwf rivalry over, and Bk, Rsd and Gladz losing power as the older clans became overtaken by the more popular returning ones, our list of opponents was growing shorter and shorter, and the leadership knew that we had to get an official war in before our summer slump. Being the only clan in our particular power gap, we had the option of trying for lower ranked clan, but instead decided that we would challenge ourselves by declaring on the newly created clan (in the wake of Sacred Templars' death) Eternal Honour.

Despite pulling decent options, and prepping hard, we threw away the fight by not bringing nearly enough binders, and almost everyone getting stupidly ko'ed. This loss marked the entry into our now annual summer slump, and the start of the end of Nhia's period as leader.

All was not yet over, as summer approached several old rivals gained activity and new members and wanted to reignite the old differences. Both Echo of Silence and Rune Raiders reached a similar level of power and all 3 of us began to have fights several times a week. In one week, after many days of flaming from Rr, it was decided that we would fight in a week prep pkri, however, after incessant comments as to the 05 closure of Titans being their achievement, and declaring it their intention to repeat it, Eos grew to be equally as irritating as Rr. Consequently, in the run up to our run in with Rr, we would fight Eos in their timezone on the Wednesday (and officially "lose" despite them breaking several rules), then pk on Friday meeting Rr.

This first confrontation of the week with Rr should have opened our eyes to the way that they wished to take their clan. For hours our superior organization beat down their mass recruited numbers, but fortunately for them, our ac - Divine Forces - was unable (or unwilling) to keep Noobs Inc from crashing the fight 3 or 4 times, and with our fight unprotected, Rr were given the time they needed to regroup, and with our European members logging off, they managed to claim victory with 15 more options than we had. Making this fight one of the least convincing wins that we had ever seen.

Even having already fought for 6 hours this week, we set out on our weekly Saturday pk trip as usual. Thanks to their hacking of a forum account, Eos also knew the time and place and set a mandatory trip to fight us. The two clans met, and despite Eos outnumbering us significantly, over the course of the next 4 hours, Eos would experienced (for the first time) the effectiveness of sniping, and thus were being badly beaten. Resorting to returning in any equipment left in their banks, and having regrouped multiple times, began to get a foothold in the fight as the Europeans logged off to sleep, and after 6 hours we decided that returning for the sake of winning was not worth it and called it off, giving Eos the "win".

The next day, we fought Rr in the planned run in, both clans pulling in excess of 200 options, and as such the fight was very even with neither clan getting a significant advantage over the other, as the fight reached its 4th hour (our 16th hour of fights that week) we decided that it was time to stop returning, as it was getting boring. Unfortunately, Rr took this as a sign that their propensity to believe themselves Gods was in fact justified, and went on to mass recruit Ex-Rdc members, gain an amount of power before turning into a feeder clan for Df.

Whilst all loses, these pkri demonstrated to both the members and the leadership that the times when superior organisation and tactics could win a pkri were over, and now they were determined by the amount of time available to spend at the computer - a direction that we were unwilling to take - and still do not commit ourselves to drawn out returning competitions.

The next month saw the mass exodus of most of those who had joined from Tbe and Exer as well as many others leaving or retiring, as well as several officials following the now established trend of disappearing for several weeks at a time. On top of everything else, the most irritating thing on Rs soon began to propagate across the clan, infecting normally sane people and taking up all the time of the officials left - it could only be E-love (in a few cases even reaching the E-sex stage). Every day a new drama was created by people who couldn't keep it in their pants or those who wanted to create their own soap opera, needless to say there were times when the leaders seriously considered closing the clan.

Vangsta's Titan's

On June 16th, a new challenge presented itself, Nhia announced that he would not be returning to any semblance of activity again, and that he felt it would be right to either close the clan, or find a new leader. After much discussion it was decided that the most stable leader imaginable would be Vangsta, a steady and dedicated member of the leadership. Despite the change of leadership, the problems plaguing the clan continued for weeks to come. Eventually the normal people in the clan learnt to ignore those attention seeking, and get on with enjoying Rs, despite returning to the low memberlist size of 60, we still managed to pull the same options to short preps on a weekday as on a long prep weekend fight and consistently outorganised all clans in 20v20's and 10v10's, often going several months at a time of daily victories punctuated by the occasional loss to End of Tradition and Rsd. The ranks had not changed much at this point for months, however D0nts r4ng3r was promoted to pk leader, Athena, Lydell and Im Darkness to relations moderators as well as Prince Bit (although he would later leave on account of his involvement in the E-drama) to advisor and A 12, Lordamar, Mass kill and Fabian to moderator.

With summer drawing to an end, activity and membercount once again increasing as well as all unwanted members being forced out, the time was once again right for Titans to rise again. As always, our summer break had been productive, with the Titans of the autumn being better and more stable than before summer.

We opened our autumn with a convincing victory over the combined forces of Tbe + Tdm, beating them in under 2 hours despite starting outnumbered by 390 options to 150, and continued in the vein for several months, beating upcoming clans such as The Rising and Shadow Elves, as well as continuing to compete evenly with clans such as Trwf and Eos on a daily basis, sharing wins and more often than not failing to reach a conclusive winner by the end of the time caps. With a return to form, it was natural that we wished to conclude our most bitter unresolved conflict of the summer; Runeraiders. After massing each week on the day of their scheduled pk's only to find that they had scheduled other events instead, or decided to hold "fun" pk trips in welfare gear, we were forced to accept a planned pkri on their terms - uncapped and with large boundaries. After a week of preparation, we pulled a 6 month high of over 200 options, to Rr's dismal showing of 150 (including several friends). Even after them delaying turning up for 15 minutes, and taking half an hour to "regroup" when Ni crashed, the fight was over within minutes and Rr receded back into nothingness, with further members leaving for the "glory" of Df.

By the end of the first months of autumn, the clan world had begun to divide into 2 distinct teams (as well as various clans who chose to have no part in the feud). The teams created in the first weeks would remain for months to come, and despite the fights themselves being full of hypocrisy, and little to do with ability - more so the determination to return in cheap gear for hours on end - shaped the path of the clan world until just weeks before pking was removed.

Having been one of only a handful of clans to spend hours protecting the fights of the top clans from crashers, it came as not much of a surprise, but a great disappointment when clans such as Df and Eh decided to help Runeraiders and Violent Resolution against Titans and Col whenever they decided to crash any of our latenight allied pk trips and get wrecked. Several times during the summer, we would pk with our allies - thanks to Rr hacking a forum account they had forewarning we would be out there together - regardless, the arrogance of Rr meant that they would still attack us, and when their 250 opts failed to beat 230 Ct they would return 1 item or 4 item non skulls till they could call Df (who rushed to the defence of their feeder clan).

For this reason, and the fact that Df's team outnumbered Corruption, Damage Inc and Ni/Rot by almost 2:1 without Collision and Titans on their team, we decided that we would oppose all those on Df's team (mainly our rivals Rr, and those who consistently crashed us; Vr).

Whilst being a decision that was entirely based on reasoned deductions and devoid of emotional attachment, this was viewed as a declaration of war by Df, who vowed to kill us, irrevocably reducing relations between Df and Titans to, at best, a strong dislike of each other, and at worst a vindictive hatred.

With Df threatening us, and cluster fights continuing to increase the hate between the 2 sides, clans began to take liberties with the concepts of "honour", crashing our fights both openly and on accounts that could not be proven, damaging further relations between Df and Titans, and making Vr and Rr more despised than before.

Into this environment came the Cj & Yoeni tournament. Whilst spanning many months, and both end of the wilderness and start of clan war arena, for us, the tournament was a success, with our alliance of Collision and Titans triumphing over Di and Cor in the final, and Df and Eh in the heats. As well as proving our dominance with emphatic wins over all in the 30 v 30, even though we had a terrible performance against Trwf in the 20v20's and lost in what most believed was an almost certain victory. In the full out category, our memberlist (tiny compared to other clans) was tested in each step of competition; We pulled 60/80 members at an absurd time of night to match Cl's numbers, and despite their arrogance before the fight, and the dislike between the clans that stemmed from them constantly flaming Collision, they failed to stand up to competition from a real clan and hardly managed to kill anyone.

Titans vs Chivalry Legions video:

http://files.filefront.com/tt+v+cl+81207wm...;/fileinfo.html

The next round was just as big a challenge, but far less heated as we came up against the behemoth of the warring clans - Tbe - with the ability to pull numbers that dwarfed even the top clans, we believed that we were in for a very tough match and prepared as such. However, we once again surpassed expectations, and outpulled them (although I feel obliged to point out that they were going through troubles and not at their full potential), needless to say without a number advantage and outdone in levels, organisation and experience, Tbe could not compete and we proceeded into the next round. Here we would be drawn against the top clan of the time, Df, and despite an amazing turnout, our inexperience at numbers greater than 60 gave them an easy win, but people began to stop underestimating us as a clan and we began to grow in power daily.

Days after our war with Cl, Jagex decided that the real life trading occurring in the wilderness was too great a hazard to their game, and removed the pking element that was so vital to the existence of the clanworld, replacing it with 2 minigames/arenas; Bounty hunter and Clan war arena. Whilst this was a great loss purely in nostalgic terms, Bh replaced pking quite nicely once clans had adapted (it proved to increase the strength of Titans relative to other as we adapted easier than our competitors although we gained nothing tangible from the update), and clan wars was a far safer way to conduct wars without cheating or crashes.

Many old members returned, and activity grew with new members being recruited by their friends. Over the next few months we would grow to beat clans such as Cor and Eos in pkri, as well as Rsd and Eh in wars, although victories over Df and Rsd (the top 2) in pkri eluded us, we managed to achieve several easy victories over Vr, in most cases dominating them and causing them to call off returning before the timecap or cheat in an effort to regain some options.

Although we didn't know it, our last few fights in Bounty Hunter would be amongst the best remembered; including a fight in which we started equal options against Eh, and proceeded to reduce them to 30 option piles within minutes, and repeated the feat after each of several restarts due to crashing (Df conveniently was unable to keep Ni at bay when Eh needed a regroup) it was yet more proof that we could overcome great disadvantages and still come out victorious.

Throughout the years of our alliance, several members from Titans and Collision would pk throughout the day, meeting teams and in the case of Bh real world traders, generally making a nice profit, on one such trip (although slightly larger with several Collision pking with 150 opts of Titans on a weekend afternoon pk) causing both Vr and Df to mass up and attempt to crash us. After Df and Vr fought as to who would get to fight us (including Df threatening Vr unless they backed down), Df finally got the pkri with us they had wanted since we were recreated.

However it was nowhere near the whitewash they expected and hoped for, and over the course of the next 6 hours both clans would force the other to regroup numerous times, with no clear victor when we decided that we had stayed at the computer long enough, and called off the fight ending with almost 190 options to Df's 240.

With the removal of the wilderness followed by the removal of multiway combat from Bounty Hunter arena, the clan community received a massive blow, and it was no different for Titans, we were a clan that always had a balance of events both warring and pking as well as community based, and removing one of 3 key pillars of the clans structure took a lot of getting used to. Regardless of the shock, once again we were amongst the first to adapt, and consequently rose in relative power once again, a rise that was only outstripped by that of Trwf, who, as one of our closest competitors in Bh became our main target to beat in their forte - wars. With reduced turnouts for all (mainly due to the disappointment of the removal of pking) our experience at matched option fights at lower numbers stood us in good stead of this era of warring, and despite losing against clans such as Df and Trwf in full outs with quite a frequency (accepting that we must lose to gain experience) managed to maintain an unbeaten record in matched options from the start of clan wars until late June.

With wars being boring in nature, i wont go into huge detail, but in the months since clan wars became the only form of competition, we have beaten every clan in matched and full outs at some time or other, including memorable victories over Trwf and Df in full outs by 16 and 17 people respectively. Needless to say, we are looking forward to a return of multi pking (whatever form it may take) and enjoying our first summer without serious drama.

[2008]

-- Founder:


 * HarveyTian (Current RSN: Tian)

Notable Members:
 * Bishinmo, Battleneo, Cravez, D0nts R4ng3r, Brad Xavier, xIcee, Gwenivere9, Jayzy, Jimbo13, Jbk3965, Kezzab Reds, Pirko, Pedro War, Vannaka07, That1dude, Xbghost, B Ball42, Rastamangool, Sanjaxxx, Sagameister, Steamer80, Queenmunkie, I M Darkness, Lentiano, The Man O, Stevenwoo, Hommel, Palpatine0, Lordamar69, Benthereaper, A  12

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https://www.youtube.com/user/howiftw/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/MilkExpired/videos