= [2009] =

It’s now finally 2009! As we look back into 2008 we could proudly say that it was an extraordinary year in the clan’s history and we hope that this year will be just as amazing as last year was! The F!A sadly has to start the year by opening the recruitment doors early and by kicking 5 of their clan members for being long-term inactive while several more may have to follow them. The FIA has a target of recruiting 3 new members into the clan who have some of the best Rifle Only: Quality skills in the game before the recruitment doors is closed. We are very capable of Influencing the best players into our clan due the recruitment skills of our clan leader “Crawford” but this year the recruitment will be tested as we have decided to give our clan leader “Undead” the challenge in which we fully expect him to do the clan well and proudly under his recruitment skills. Early 2009 “Crawford” announces to the clan that he plans on take a long-term break away from the clan as he currently has other things going on in his life but he did make it clear to us that he will return to the clan someday. During February gun decides to take part in a tournament among other clans in the moh-community Our team wins 1st place (Undead, Union, sub: Primoz). We always knew that we were capable of winning it and it’s a MAGNIFICENT achievement for the likes of Undead, Union and Primoz! They have represented and done our clan proudly. It is sad that the clan had to announce that our clan leader “Undead” decided to leave the clan and create his own clan along with several of our clan members a few weeks later after winning the tournament. Due to the unacceptable tensions between a number of leaders and clan members that had seemed to form two different parties only one of the parties could have remained within the clan. It is the most disappointing moments that the F!A has ever had to endure with since the creation of the F!A. On the 6/4/2009 Kamikaze was made clan leader by Flamewar which hopefully under him he can turn the clan in the right direction. It’s been only around 2-3 months later the clan seems to have moved on from what is to be known as the “Dreadful Famine” period within our clan while there is still some conflict between several of the members and major problems within the clan management that are there but continue to go unnoticed the future of the clan seems to be hanging by a thread. Half way into 2009 and we have only recruited no more than 2 short-term clan members to help keep the clan in shape. It’s now near the end of year and finally we have some real hope of turning the clan around due to the extraordinary news that “Crawford” has finally returned to the clan after spending a long period away he is now back! and he has promised to put this dark part of the clans history into the past with the help of other leaders and several of the true clan members, they all put in their extra spare time and effort into the clan and due to that there had been many changes made during that short period of time, The biggest change was that the entire chain of command and clan structure was re-organized from top to bottom! As we look on to the other side of the world G|u|N USA is basically a big red dwaft with the majority of their clan leaders & clan members being poorly inactive. We can predict that it’s only a matter of time before G|u|N USA is nothing but a memory to those who were around to see them and what they once used to represent as once to us they were the most extraordinary and most influencing group in the moh-community at a time. Sgt our founder had to shut down the cod4 server and to close the main clan site as it was costing the clan lots of money to keep them both running while some of the USA members seemed to show lack of interest in the clan’s future. Even though it seems highly unlikely changes will be made to help G|u|N USA to reform them to what it once used to be and that anything is still possible it just seems that there isn’t enough in it to achieve that target, at least the G|u|N USA era will be remembered and may this be an example to all the clans out there in the moh-community that even giants can fall. On the 10/11/2009 clan members Shini, Union, Primoz, Catgirl, Zezo and Google were all honoured as to be the true clan members of the clan. Crawford announces to the clan members and to the public that 2010 will be a lot better year for our clan and that we have decided to leave the major recruitment until January next year. Wonderful news! Our clan founder “Flame” and his girlfriend had a baby daughter and called her Linda! Congratulations Flame and Kristy! We would like to thank all the clan members for keeping the clan active and representing our clan by wearing the tags in-game proudly. The F!A would like to openly express and to make it clear to all the members who represent us that it’s very important for the likes of you and future clan members to understand that there will always be disagreements in all gaming clans between the likes of their leaders and their clan members due to the detection the clan might going or due to other things etc but let it be clear everyone has their own views and ideas of how they would like to run the clan which all members should always be heard and open to their options but remember! it isn’t easy for anyone to run a clan even a organized clan run by the likes of 3-5 top professional leaders is extremely hard work as it takes up a lot of your time and your social time which can make those who do so much for the clan become depressed and then they don’t understand if they really want all this which then can lead to the downfall of the clan, even the smallest problems if they are not dealt with can lead to the downfall, things can turn out as the last thing you could ever had expected, We hope you do understand the point of this message and to appreciate the hard work people put into this clan so you can be happy as at the end of the day it’s all about fun.

= [2010] =

Yups! That’s right; it’s finally Two Thousand and Ten!!! Our clan leaders along with our clan members would like to wish the entire spearhead gaming community a happy new year! It really wasn’t the best start for us this year (yet again) as we had lost a lot of our clan “War records” which was stored data info of at least 80+ clan matches on our website. It’s really sad that we didn’t have all those matches backed up as they really were part of the clans history but it’s safe to say that we will learn from our mistakes and we will make sure that we are not capable of making that same type of mistake twice. We did our first recruit already for this year and we are expecting to bring in a few more before January ends. In between the end of January and early February G|u|N-Crawford had decided to make a “MOH-SH” rifle only league which our clan along with 9 other clans would represent in it, all 9 clans were fully-organized clans that all agreed to take part in it as to them and to us it did all seem to be really good, something new and fun as there really wasn’t anything else going on in Spearhead during the start of the year. After putting in a lot of effort and time into organizing it and setting it up the league was ready to go! The league had started on the 6thof February and G|u|N had set their selves a target of finishing in the top 3! The league was set to last for a total of 18 weeks if all had went to plan but by the 7th week into the league it sadly had to be cancelled due to some problems with 2-3 of the clans as they were losing too much and no longer wanted to take part in it, which meant that it was ruined for everyone else, there will always be winners and losers, it’s all down to being able to accept were you stand and I guess what we learned the most about this is that, it’s really impossible to keep everyone happy and there will always be those who just cannot accept things so their only option is to ruin it for everyone else who’s enjoying the experience. We are now into March and we still haven’t recruited anyone else since the start of 2010, somehow it feels as if things might just stay this way for awhile... but at least the family members are still flashing the clan tag around in the public servers, showing that we are still here! Our clan’s future seems to be an unknown future but as long as the family is around then we don’t have much too much to worry about. We would like to thank our clan founder “Flame” for keeping the server floating around even though it's not being used as often by our members or even by any of the public players lately, we would also like to Thank “Kami” for spending time keeping the website active and updating it from time to time with new videos! Finally we would like to thank the rest of the family members who been supporting the clan from the very start. Today most of the clan members seem to be into cod4/MW2 but some of the clan members still do play spearhead from time to time. On the 15/4/2010 "Catgirl" had made her very first recruit into the clan! Which it is nice as the clan really does need a new fresh face around. From May to around July not much really happened in the clan, it really does feel like it’s near the end of us as a clan, we seen it happen before to lots of clans in the moh-community just coming and going even to clans just as big as us but we have always been strong and stuck together, though we have to admit we have never felt things being this bad before, time would tell us though I’m sure where our future is. On the 07/08/2010 - “G|u|N-{£ÐR}-|ƒ!A|Crawford” decided to resign from the clan due to the direction that the clan seemed to going in. He was only 16 when he was recruited by our clan founder “Flame” on the 17/3/2007. As a clan member he had arranged many clan wars and clan trainings along with helping out with recruiting other new members into the clan, the clan leaders noticed this and were impressed with his management skills and decided to make him a clan leader as he really did earn the rank and shown us that he is capable of carrying out the job. He was an extraordinary leader and very influencing to with new recruits and to our clan members, we will miss him and remember our times that we had spent chatting with him and playing alongside him in battle, we would also like to point out that he did really try to make the clan active again but as he failed to do so and he knew it, he then felt that it was only right for him to resign as clan leader and which lead him to make his decision to then leave the clan. We wish him all the best. For the rest of the year and onwards the members all had mostly just stuck to their selves, all had played different games and remained loyal to the clan, we all did the odd random chats on xfire and the very odd times of playing together in the servers but not much really has changed and to be honest we wouldn’t really expect much change or any type of turn around, it feels as if most of the members will just move on to other games and maybe some will move on to other clans and stick to spearhead, in time we will see.

= [2011] =

lol yeah, shocking isn’t it? It’s surprising to us too that we are actually still here! Happy New Year everyone! We hope that everyone was enjoying their selves while they we're celebrating the start of 2011! Well, for this year our clan’s history 2011 section will most likely be very small, most of the family members are still in contact with each other and are still here. We do still play online together sometimes in a lot of different games, mostly newer ones. The likes of Flame and Kami seem to play "Tanks" often together, while Primoz plays different types of games mainly call of duty. Catgirl is still regularly active on Spearhead while the likes of Shini and Zezo are still in contact with everyone over “facebook” as for Union, he has pretty much moved on from gaming as he’s always busy with work/studies but he does try to remain in contact with the rest of us over “Facebook” too. Our ex clan leader/member Crawford still remains in contact with us and still plays on spearhead with his G|u|N tags on even though he had resigned from our clan late last year. We can’t really say much from what had happened from the start of 2011, half way into 2011 or near the end of 2011 as not much really went on, everyone seemed to mostly stick to their selves and it stayed very much the same right up until the end of the year when “Crawford” wanted to rejoin the clan as he felt that there really isn’t any other clan out there for him, he wanted everyone to know that he has the most respect for the clan and he really wants to bring back the old times when G|u|N was BIG and successful, he was then accepted back into the clan and announces that he would be seriously looking into rebuilding the clan for the start of 2012!

= [2012] =

Firstly, we would like to wish everyone yet another happy new year! We hope that you all had great craic! And no not the crack which is a drug but the CRAIC! It’s slang for “FUN!” if you didn't know! Anyways! It’s just too bad that it may be our last year being a clan as it’s believed by some brainwashed people from a few thousand years ago that in December of 2012 it’s going to be the end of the world! Yes, which also means the end of us!! 🙁 and might as well mean that it’s pointless for me to even be typing this out if no one will be reading it by the end of this year?? Alright, let’s just stop right here otherwise we will all go insane! Now, before we look right into 2012, let’s take a look back into last year. Now, it’s pretty obvious that 2011 was the most quiet / nothing going on year that we had ever experienced since the birth of our clan, I don’t think we will ever want to experience that again which is why this year we are going to completely rebuild, reorganize, restructure the entire clan! We will start from the very bottom and we will work our way up, we will get rid of any deadwood along the way in order to make this clan successful again as it once used to be.

We didn’t want to rush things, if we were going to work our way up we had to make sure that we took it one step at a time, we started off by creating a new clan website which was very basic and very easy to use, it only lasted us for a month though due to the lack of features it had but I still like to remember it and give it some credit as it was very simple / basic which is the best way for anyone to start if they are looking into creating or rebuilding a clan. We then created our official / current clan website www.gun-clan.com which offers us a lot of advanced features; we hope that this will be our home for a very long time. While we were getting rid of some inactive deadwood, we had to sadly announce the retirement of several long-term clan members, the likes of Zezo, Shini and Google had retired respectfully. It was not long after when we got our new 32 slot Stalingrad all day server that we had rented from victus clan for several months. We would like to thank the likes of “Appelpitje” and “Catch this” from Victus for also helping us out with moding the server as well as putting in their time to keep it protected. The server seemed to becoming very popular within the spearhead community. We were now open to recruiting! We were in search of new active long-term clan members that had not only the requirements but that showed a lot of desire and promise to be member of our clan. The clan did seem to be on the right track, the only problem that we had was finding the right players to join our clan as the majority of them were already representing other clans, we only gained 1 or 2 new recruits at that period of time but not long later something unexpected had happened, our valued friend “victus” clan was sadly dealing with some issues and had somewhat broke a part, their clan was doing really well but only to later fall just like a lot of clans do within this game after sometime, it is a sad thing to see when another clan dies but it was only thanks to this that it would later help us gain more recruits into our clan. Several of the ex victus clan members would later decide to join GuN, not only recruits who were good players in-game but ones with experience and who had a lot of knowledge with moding servers and helping out with making the clan website look more professional, I guess you could say that we were very lucky to have had recruited players such as Appelpitje, Vaccie, Sniper, Bulent and 1manArmy.

It wasn’t hard to notice the immediate affect it had on the clan, it was brilliant to see the clan going in this direction! It just seemed like a flair, we had many more players making applications to join the clan while 1man army sponsored gun a 32 slot fun server and at the very same time Appel sponsored us a gun steal the beers server as well as a moh:aa Zombie mod fun server! It was an extraordinary moment and well remembered! The clan’s structure seemed to be improving as the clan was becoming even more organized with members earning their new respected ranks. Thanks to the hard work and effort put into the clan we decided to make “Appelpitije” a well deserved clan leader! As well as making “Sniper” the new clan war arranger as we seek to play a lot of future matches against other clans within the spearhead community. Our first few arranged matches that we had played were against AGB clan in which we had gained a valued friend, we later signed up to their 3 vs 3 tournament, it was random teams mixed with gun and agb clan members and it was heaps of fun! Around late March we had decided to change to a server hosting company “Fragnet” which provides the absolute best hardware in the industry, the most powerful gaming networks in the world today! We didn’t have much trouble with trying to make our new server popular again, this year a 4-5 year old record was broken by clan admin “bully” who got 1,000 kills with a lot less deaths compare to the older record which was held by Flame but it was then yet again broken by “Crawford” who got over 2,700 kills with 17 hours of game-play! A very respectful record, he later decided it was time to sleep and had left himself “afk” in the server hoping to continue getting a higher score the next day but somehow he unfortunately got disconnected from the server! The year continued to get even brighter with us getting in a TS3 server as well along with a few new additions to our clan, the likes of “Matador” and ex clan member “Gign” even rejoined! We also organized a in-clan competition thanks to the idea of Bully with team UK vs team rest of the world in which the event went fairly well until several clan members took it a bit too serious instead of “fun wise” at the same time we were looking into organizing and setting up the moh:league, looking into creating a clan youtube video while making a new clan banner for our site so we were pretty active and busy with so many things going on at once in a short period of time. During the summer time the clan got pretty distracted with the Euro 2012 just like most clans did around that time, no one was really interested in playing matches as they were too busy watching them! Before the summer came to an end we sadly had to announce the retirements of long-term clan members Kamikaze, Union & Catgirl who will surely be missed.

Now, although we were only barely halfway into 2012, we could easily look back and think of all the moments that we had experienced and knowing that we were part of something that was quite exciting! Well, only for most as there was a very small minority of clan members that had caused / created some serious issues within the clan. We really wouldn’t want to go too deep into it as it was kind of depressing moment in the clans history but as it’s part of our history it has to sadly be added. During this time things were actually going pretty well in the clan up until a few weeks into Atticus and Tilly being rewarded with leadership, the decision that our clan leader “Crawford” had made, to make them both clan leaders will always be known him as a decision that he will forever regret. It’s fair to say that “Crawford” was blinded and didn’t take his time to think and pause for a minute while he rushed into making the decision thinking that it was the right one and only best for the clan, but it was only later to backfire on him which had put the clan in a really bad situation. He had put a lot of trust in both of them he even listened to their views some that he may not had fully agreed with but went a long with them believing maybe it could help benefit the clan, the likes of listening and agreeing to reward "Dragan" with the rank as the clan’s admin without the need of it having to be earned. For a pretty long period of time the rcon power was being abused in our public servers under the commands of Dragon and Atticus behind Crawford’s back, during those few weeks while they were being abusing their powers as they wished while clan members were not in the servers and on the other hand pretending to be mature and respectful as leaders / admins would be while members were in the server. Thankfully, it was only a matter of time before we found out the truth, This would only later lead to "talks" between certain members about “leaving the clan” which ended up being thee case. Atticus, Tilly, Dragon and Bully all left together to make their own gaming community. We now can look to building ourselves again so respect will be maintained between us and them with the possibility of having some kind of  friendship in the future as we once shared and valued at a time before. As expected it wasn't long later that our ex members had formed their own new clan known as [f] we continued to show respect but due to several of [f] clan members causing arguments with some of our members and  including public players within our community server we had no choice but to cut all ties with their community we no longer want to interact with their member but they will still fully be allowed to play freely on our public servers as long as they respect the rules of server which no one is above not even ourselves. For around a week or two gun had decided to keep a low profile to re-organize the clan again, we had recruited a few new additions to the clan in order to replace those who had left and get a clear sense of things in order to put us in the right direction again. We decided not to reward anyone as clan leader until next month but we did make the decision on rewarding “Matador” as the new clan War arranger! “Appel” did for a period of time decide to leave / retire the clan only to focus on his real life studies but he later re-joined when he felt that he had a bit more time to offer, he started to work on the server stats which will record players kill / death rates in our server. The following month we decided to make “Vaccie” our new clan leader to help maintain leadership and structure. As we approach the winter months of 2012 we've racked up plenty of official matches with other gaming clans a total of 61 matches in the past 4 months with a 60% win rate, 11% draw rate and a 29% loss rate which is fairly impressive! The biggest enjoyment of 2012 that we as a community has got to experience is our connection with AGB clan and TIP clan. Our 3 communities keep in regular contact with each other and try to help each other out with server fixes or website design. We are very pleased to have both of these communities as our friends we hope to continue to be alongside them for as many years to come. As we approach the end of the year Vaccie decided to step down as clan leader which we've respected as he quoted he only wants to enjoy the game and not everyone is a LDR he just wants to wear the tags to represent and enjoy and we completely honour that. We decided to make Bulent our first ever Egyptian clan leader. He's taking up a big role and he's already looking to get busy and has high aims for 2013. To end 2012, in November our clan LDR Crawford moved over to England to begin a new life for himself and will be inactive in-game for sometime but will keep in touch and will still help maintain the clan website and advisory. That being said, we're in great hands as clan LDR Appelpitje will take over his duties and embrace his idea's on future projects for the clan! As always we wish you all a happy new year we'll see you guys in 2013!