RoH Power struggle? Will RoH last? - 28th August, 2016
RoH in the last couple of days have dropped in activity drastically due to members leaving for other clans such as BA and KO. Daan is putting all the blame on everyone else except himself which is causing a power struggle. Due to spies infiltrating RoH, Dark has been kicking out a lot of members blindly in an attempt to target the spy, but as you can see the spies are still in the chat and sharing the chat logs with everyone. A source has stated that the spies are actually ''loyal'' members really close to Dark thus why they are still in the chat. These members are also planning on ''joining KO'' once they have finished messing with RoH.
Many members have left and many have also been blindly kicked out of the clan. With this kind of leadership, will RoH last much longer? Most of Sherwood are currently hating on RoH calling them ''pussies'' which is hurting their reputation.
Swarm of BA return vs RoH - 21st August, 2016
Apollo and his BA horde returned unexpectedly, breathing life back into the game like it was 2014. RoH, the mightiest clan still alive in 2016, were ready and waiting in great numbers. RoH having around 14 people and BA with slightly less, clashed shields with both sides evenly matched in skill. There were some complaints about hacking but that's to be expected when Daan and Apollo are both in the same room. RoH were winning by a score of ''4 - 3'' when suddenly RoH vanished. BA confused by this, occupied RoH base and claimed it as their own while RoH were still MIA. After 5 minutes, BA claimed a victory due to ''clearing'' the base, although the score still stood at ''4 - 3'' to RoH so the winner of this battle is subjective. There was also speculation that RoH did not count a kill BA got which would have made the score 4 - 4, however I was unable to verify that. Do you feel BA won because RoH vanished and left their base undefended? Or do you feel RoH won because of the apparent score? Either way great fight.
AoP & EoC last-stand merge - 31st July, 2016
With every clan in Sherwood on the rapid decline, AoP and EoC in a last-stand effort to survive, have united together as one. The dwindling forces of both clans joined together is still far from being a threat to RoH, the only real clan left. The Sherwood population is still on the decline and clans are becoming obsolete; making way for the return of elite fighting groups such as KO, which is doing much better than most of the remaining clans. Rolo and Punisher will be leading the new formed clan, renamed AoC - Angels of Chaos.
SC vs RoH - 17th June, 2016
SC prepared it's troops and marched on to 59 where the well prepared RoH members were waiting. Braveheart ordered his clan into battle without organizing first, handing RoH some early kills on a golden plate. As the battle raged on in RoH's favor, the untrained forces of SC started to gain in numbers. The number advantage quickly turned into a kill feast for RoH, swelling their kill count. More RoH started coming on from skype and began to outnumber SC on top of out-skilling them, which led to an easy victory of 16 - 1. Unlike RoH, SC had zero raid tactics and were lacking in individual skills and leadership. However, both sides respected the score and each other, with very little trashing.
SH vs TQA - 12th June, 2016
The newly advancing SH clan, descends upon the undisciplined forces of TQA, led by the evil dictator LaNani. SH, sticking to the rules, dominated the field, dropping the enemy one after another, while TQA were struggling to comprehend the rules. LaNani refuses to train her members due to having a large tree lodged up her anus. SH seeking to gain advantage over this, prey on TQA and embarrassingly annihilate them in a 29 - 4 victory. As SH were returning back to base, members of TQA were shamelessly trying to add +1, calling them 'runners'. TQA, despite the heavy losses still claimed 'victory'.
Sherwood Realms Beta - 10th June, 2016
A new Sherwood, fan made, is now in its beta stage http://play.sherwoodrealms.com Create an account and test it for yourself. All pets and clan rooms are free with many more changes to improve the current Sherwood. It's more raid friendly, with a 30% decrease in back-stepping; making it harder for people to abuse it. Everyone has a unique ID number next to their name; preventing people from cloning you. Join rooms have been limited to 30 rooms in an attempt to keep the community closer together rather than spread out across 300 rooms. Room caps have been removed meaning more than 25 people can be in a single room; allowing for much bigger raids. All this plus many other fun features so check it out. Note, it's only in its beta stages so expect some minor bugs, give the game time to grow and advance.
AB returns, AoP dead? 6th June, 2016
AB has returned under the leadership of BE and AoP's new ''better members'' are leaving to join AB. In this crisis, AoP's newly elected council members had just held a vote to kick Punisher out of his own clan! The vote was in favor of kicking Punisher out however, in a rage, Punisher kicked out his whole council from AoP, he then went even further, removing all regular members from the clan. Due to recent events, Punisher had lost all his ''real'' AoP members in a foolish gamble to ''better'' his clan with the most unloyal members. Now, he is literally left with nothing. Is this the end of AoP? Or can Punisher convince his old members to return? Image below of Punisher rage kicking all his members.
Original AoP's replaced by ''Better members''?! - 5th June, 2016
Over the last few weeks, members from the now dead OF clan have been joining AoP... but at a cost. The OF members have been demanding big changes in AoP, to help ''improve it'' and have been given the best ranks including a newly established rank 'Co-Founder' for one of them. However, these ranks were already taken by the original AoP members and thus were all demoted to ranks as low as Novice (lower than private) to make way for the ''better members''. Logically this makes sense since you're replacing soldiers with apparently better ones. But doesn't this promote Punisher as a douche bag? His ex-members think so. Members who have literally fought side by side with Punisher since day 1, who have remained in AoP through two revolts which lead to the creation of RA and LNG. These members were so loyal they would have probably killed their parents if ordered to. Now, they are leaving. They have been thrown out with the trash and replaced with superior soldiers.
Jauz, the new Co-Founder, one of the members who replaced Collector, has called out the ex-members as 'only caring about ranks'. While harryisharry and Collector talk about the events taking place. It's also noted that harryisharry, by far one of AoP's stronger members, has also been replaced and was demoted to a Novice.
OF replacements
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Originals demoted to Novice
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RoH Attack TIW - 2nd June, 2016
RoH in small numbers, launched an attack on the TIW hordes. Brave or stupid? At first, it resulted in no kills for both sides. However, as usual many people were claiming runs and without video evidence we are unable to add penalty points this time around. Due to RoH being outpowered by the sheer number of TIW, they had to depend on backstepping as much as possible until reinforcements arrived. Then out of no where that's exactly what happened. More RoH arrived in greater numbers and were now able to switch from defending to full on warfare and got two solid kills. This resulted in a 2 - 0 victory score wise for RoH. However, TIW claimed 'victory' saying RoH were running from pvp locks and thus TIW said they won '6-2'.
Battle Royale - 31st May, 2016
A Free For All (FFA) Battle Royale event was held today in room 1 with 7 contestants each a different color. For those who don't know what a BR is then click 'Battle Royale' in the navigation. The contestants were: Koza, Pro, Trap, Fang, Trouble, Immortus and Joker. Once we were down to 3 remaining contestants, the Annihilation Triangle was formed, Fang, Pro and Koza. Fang tried cheating and was trying to take out Pro and not Koza, so Fang was DQ'd for this, however he died at the sometime as the DQ, karma? This left us with Koza and Pro. Watch the video below to see who won.
Battle Royale Champion
RoH/OTF Raids AoP/AP - 31st May, 2016
We are glad we managed to get a recording of this raid as there were a few runs caught on video to be shamed in front of everyone. Watch the video for the full details. Summary: RoH/OTF won the raid with the most legit kills, whereas AOP/AP only managed to get one kill at the start by harryisharry against Dark. There were a few concerns with RoH/OTF trying to claim kills against neutrals which we do not tolerate and is clearly stated in the rules not to do this. AoP did pretty well in the raid and was let down by AP who were giving away the kills. Towards the end, AP abandoned AoP to fend for itself. Overall RoH/OTF used superior tactics to win the raid, and was a clear victory.
Top 5 list updated and RoH returns - 31st May, 2016
Lots of clans have died this month and lots are back! Fighters of Past (FP), Order of Fate (OF), Anti OF (AOF) have died and CTK is back. RoH has returned and in strong numbers already winning in raids and have been placed on the top 5. EoC have been lacking in skill recently and have been dropped down the list. CTK have demonstrated that they are #1 for now, however RoH could take the crown soon. AP has been dropped down the list for heavy losses in recent raids and AOP remains in 4th place.
Gene has quit Maid Marian - 27th May, 2016
Been wondering what Gene has been up to in the last 5 months? Why he is no longer posting or updating the mobile version of Sherwood? Why the game hasn't been advertised in the last few years? Well we have the answer. Below is Gene's profile on what he is currently doing from Linkedin here is the link https://ca.linkedin.com/in/gene-endrody-7bba551
As you can see, Gene quit as the CEO of Maid Marian Entertainment Inc. back in January, where he fell off the radar. He is now working for a different company 'Hot Head Games' as an Arts Director, giving it his full attention. So, what does this mean for Sherwood? Nothing good at all. He quit 5 months ago and we haven't seen or heard anything in last 5 months. It's safe to say Sherwood is officially dead, so don't expect it to be anything like it used to be. Gene might surprise us by releasing the mobile version, however he hasn't been working on it since he quit, according to the archives that were uncovered. Here at Sherwood Network we will continue to provide news through most of the summer and then consider completely quitting the game along with Gene. Farewell.
Image of Gene working at Hothead Games. The Sherwood community has hunted you down Gene, we are out for blood! As you can see, Gene is working hard as usual.
CTK Rise from the dead - 25 May, 2016
CTK have returned, under the leadership of Fang once again, which means ''AoF'' is no more. CTK's first day back was not a good start. They were training in room 291, and only had 4-5 players online at the time, when OF located their position and launched a full scale attack. CTK, confused and caught off guard, were picked apart, with Fang being sent to the spawn point of shame twice, having to walk the lonely cobbled path of humiliation. However, CTK had a valiant effort defending while out numbered by the massive OF Army. It was like the Persian forces descending upon the 300 Spartans, except the Spartans here had no arms or legs. But hey, that didn't stop CTK getting some kills! ILLUS and RAINE died for OF as they went AFK mid-battle. Woah, CTK getting kills against such an army was actually pretty impressive. OF were not pleased by this, and were able to recover killing HELIOS. The final score was 4-2 to OF. Will this CTK remake last? What if CTK start growing in numbers? Will they be the new number 1 clan? Only time will tell.
OF v RA - 23rd May, 2016
Royal Alliance (RA) were spotted scouting the OF base of 83 and began gathering a significant amount of people in room 64, RA and their Turkish allies lined up in 64 and waited to be raided by OF. After much deliberation OF finally attacked the RA camped in base 64, it was a complete disaster for RA with one member dying almost instantly. The raid was very much one sided in terms of skill but numbers were relatively equal, there were notable runs by RA and the Turks but OF decided not to count runs. After around 20 minutes of raiding OF left the room with a final score of 15-1.
Anti-OF Clan Emerges - 22nd May, 2016
Anti-OF (AoF) who?! Out of no where a force even bigger than OF's appeared with the sole purpose of ''destroying'' OF. AoF from quick glance appeared to be made up of name hiders and EoC members. Image: Initial raid preparations.
The impatient AoF force were gathered in room 74 with numbers far too great to fit into OF's base. This lead to the AoF force splitting apart, half remaining in 74 while the rest attacked 83. The initial assault was not going so well for AoF, struggling to get the kills they intended, and only managing to get one kill, shown here.
AoF with their force cut in two, tactically retreated back to 74 and were taunting OF to attack them. However, OF did not budge, and remained in 83 where they had the number advantage. Now, what comes next is not something CNN likes or condones. AoF resorted to hacking. With a hacker on their side, an OF account was hacked. Every member of OF who were on the accounts friends list were booted from the game. Every OF member was booted from the room. We believe this kind of tactic ruins the game and WE do not encourage it. With OF out of the room, AoF began to fill up the room, blocking all OF members from entering. There are a few rumors going around about who organized this and who the members of AoF were. EoC were the only identifiable members of the raid, the rest were clearly name hiding and it is rumored to be organized by Reptile. However, Reptile would not condone the use of hacking as he is the creator of CNN and many rules of this game. Other rumors suggest the name hiders were all TK/VP members which makes perfect sense since EoC are allies. Apart from the hacking, the initial start of the attack was very evenly matched, both sides showing good raiding skills. The overall score was 1 - 0 to AoF giving them the win. We were planning to deduct this win due to the hacking, however it happened after the raid and thus we must reward AoF with the win.
GK running, OF on a winning streak - 21st May, 2016
After fighting GK recently, ØF wanted to give GK another chance to redeem themselves. GK had more members than before thus making for a slightly more challenging fight. The raid started out fairly, however runs were noted from Sacra and Herø of GK as the raid progressed. GK are clearly new to the rules, so OF didn't penalize them too much. At this point, ØF were clearly winning with a score of 18-2. Surprisingly however, a few minutes later, GK managed to get a third kill on Bovarism)ØF, the raid commander. In the end, the raid ended with SoulxOfxHell (GK's Founder) surrendering to OF, a wise decision. The raid was won with a final score of 28-3 (Illus, Nausicaa and Bovarism). Good fight!
Spanish Invaders vs OF - 20th May 2016
The Spanish from ruby were out seeking blood and came upon OF. The Spanish had a combined force of a variety of clans but were still outnumbered. The brave members of the Spanish force did not care about the overwhelming numbers of OF and continued it's assault. A huge mistake. The Spanish were annihilated! For every 20 seconds that passed a Spaniard fell, they sure weren't the Spanish Conquistadors. Now, I could see why they were losing so badly due to the fact ruby's rules are slightly stricter than our own, giving OF the advantage. We recorded the battle but cut it short since it was just OF dropping them like hot potatoes. Overall score 20 - 1, well at least they got one kill right?
OF destroys GK - 20th May, 2016
OF were on the hunt, searching the lands for any victim they could find. During the search they found an unknown force called GK at room 200. Bovarism, OF's Supervisor decided to march his army to room 200. The raid started out with 14 OF fighting 8 GK. A few minutes later, OF decided to fight fair and made a few members step back and the raid continued for a short period of time. A few runs were noted from GK, but both the clans fought fairly. After the score hit 13-0, Bovarism decided to not count the scores and called his clan b2b. GK's founder respected OF by saying "OF win! Good job!" and OF honored them back. Overall, it was a fair raid and we ought to see more activity from GK's side! Final score was 13-0 for OF!
Coming soon! Sherwood Dungeon 06 & 07 - 19th May 2016
The old versions of Sherwood Dungeon will be playable soon. That's right, you will be able to time travel back to the old style avatars, where powermoves were non-existent, and tallies depending on what version you want to play. So, is this Gene's doing? Nope, it was some good old polish hackers who managed to get all the codes. It hasn't quite been perfected yet so they do not want to release it to the public just yet. I was able to test it myself and so far it's good, an nostalgic rush for those who miss it and great for those who are curious.
Here is a sneak preview of what is to come:
Here is a sneak preview of what is to come:
Update
You can now try it out for yourself, but it's single player for now. It's under the Archive page.
You can now try it out for yourself, but it's single player for now. It's under the Archive page.
OF, AOP and EOC Combine to Attack SC? - 17th May 2016
OF one of the biggest clans currently on Sherwood decided to team up with AoP and EoC to attack SC. Symmetric Chaos (SC) were completely outnumbered and quickly destroyed by the three larger clans. SC stood no chance in a completely one sided raid, they were quickly cleared within a couple of minutes and then refused to leave spawn naturally. Its unclear what the motives were for such a large and aggressive attack on such a small clan. The pictures below depict how one sided and unfair this raid was.
OF/EOC/AoP claim a score of 6-0.
OF/EOC/AoP claim a score of 6-0.
OF obliterate Templar Knights - 17th May 2016
TK were hiding in room 12 when OF appeared out of nowhere, it was a slaughter from the start with OF quickly getting kills. OF were able to put their excellent PvP skills to good use and stacked kills, with TK member "HBO" notably dying SIX times. Despite even numbers OF were able to get a 10-0 score quickly and decided to back to base, in an attempt to salvage the raid, TK countered but only added further to their humiliation, dying a further three times. OF then "crowned" the raid by killing the TK founder. The final score was an impressive 13-0 to Order of Fate
OF Wants to be ''cool'' with EoC?! - 16th May 2016
OF and EoC are greatest of enemies. Shockingly, BlackEagle (OF Leader) stated that they are ''cool with eoc''. As you can imagine this didn't go down so well with the other members. People might see this as an act of cowardice after EoC claimed a ''victory'' over OF over the weekend.
We mentioned this to EoC and this was their reply from the leader:
If you didn't already know, EoC have been trash talking OF every chance they get, they're more than just enemies. Is OF really ''scared'' of EoC? Or could there be another reason for this shocking development?
KO takes back 83? - 15th May 2016
Newly formed clan OF (Order of Fate) was given its first test of raiding when it was abruptly attacked by a group of "KO fighters", The KO members were using names such as "Sovereign KO" – they were later discovered to be VP members. OF members were initially caught off guard but managed to organize and put up a decent fight. Nevertheless, it wasn't enough as "KO" claimed first blood when Wizzy killed Volt at the pillars. "KO" also claimed another kill which we couldn't verify while OF claimed that the KOs were dodging and soon after these claims they left the room. OF do not consider this a real raid and threatened to ignore them if they were to show again.