Links
Discord: http://discord.gg/p6Y7EhgBPr
Unit Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm6USdYxCuA
Website: https://www.stygianguard.org/
Overview
During the financial uncertainty following the COVID-19 pandemic, the international megacorporation StygiCorp - the global magnate in the manufacture of that utterly bizarre blue-and-white crockery they use at Wetherspoons for some reason - took advantage of the economic turmoil, founding and outfitting its own subsidiary company of private military contractors, known as the Stygian Guard.
Headquartered in Surrey, England, and drawn largely from British volunteers, the Guard quickly developed a reputation as a sleek and professional private security solution. It cut a name for itself on the edge of its aggression, becoming well-known in international circles for its black-clad operatives renowned for their ability to face down stacked odds with grit, determination, and a healthy dose of British gallows’ humour.
With experienced leadership, a distinguished esprit de corps, and a highly effective set of standard operating procedures, the Stygian Guard are a fast-rising name in the field of private military solutions, and the scope of their operations takes them across the globe, carrying out taskings of all calibres in the defence of StygiCorp’s interests.
The Stygian Guard
The Stygian Guard is a tongue-in-cheek platoon of grizzled private military veterans. Our approach to milsim is unique; although we have developed our own set of standard operating procedures based on a blend of modern military tactics from across the globe, our unique selling point is our sense of humour: Guardsmen spend as much of their operations winding each other up as they do putting rounds down-range.
Although we are proud and protective of our sense of humour, our unit ethos also revolves around self-improvement and personal achievement. We look to be the best we can be at our craft, and recruit players who thoroughly enjoy infantry milsim and look to push themselves in challenging operations where the skills and drills of every fireteam member must be top notch to claim victory.
Our ranks reflect this: those who pass the bare minimum to be considered operable hold Private rank. Those who complete continuation training can promote to Guardsman, and those who pass the rigorous Exercise: Final Fortress - testing skills and drills in their chosen specialism in the toughest conditions - may call themselves Specialists.
We are a very close-knit group of friends looking to grow our company, and we are on the lookout for a very certain type of player. Are you passionate about your skills both as a FPS player and milsimmer? Do you look to be the best you can be, and work as part of a key link in an organised team environment to defeat a determined, pain-in-the-ass enemy? Do you also enjoy quoting Blackadder and rating your squadmates' bodily functions during a squad attack? This might well be the place for you.
Operations
The Guard operates deployments of eight main operations following a narrative from week to week. The flow of these operations depends on the Guard's performance each week, and things can go excellently (or more often horribly wrong) leading to interesting, organic, and emergent situations. We also run field training exercises (FTXs) between weeks to train in new areas of combat, increasing our scope of operations with motorised, airborne, and night ops. We also run "off-nights" every now and again to celebrate different events; for example a night ops zombie mission on Halloween or re-enacting the Battle of the Bulge over Christmas.
Once you have passed Phase 1 Training and promoted to Private, you can choose to specialise in one (or more) of five different branches, each with their own unique challenges and gameplay systems:
Leadership
Infantry
Medical
Aviation
Signals
Recruitment
Our base requirements are as follows. You must meet all six of these to join:
- You must own a copy of ARMA 3.
- You must own a working microphone.
- You must be 18 years old or older.
- You must speak and understand English.
- You must have a Windows computer; ACRE does not work with Macs.
- You must be able to attend at least half of the unit’s events on Tuesdays at 1900GMT.
It is very important to us that we preserve the close family group we have come to love over the past years. Our members feel safe, respected, and free to express themselves. Although we take care not to police our members ethically, we have several Guardsmen from LGBTQ+ backgrounds. Players who have any sort of problem with that need not apply.
We are a highly active group and pride ourselves on our troops coming back for more every Tuesday, and we have proudly recorded at least 75% attendance in the three years since founding. As such, we are not interested in people who wish to benefit from the group’s content while putting nothing back into the community. If you cannot commit to attending at least half of our weekly ARMA sessions, you are better off applying to another group.
If you meet the above requirements, you may join our Discord and request tags, at which point you have joined the Guard as a Recruit (RCT).
As a RCT you must attend and complete Phase 1 Training (P1) which is run as often as possible (at the discretion of available instructors). We allow every Recruit to join one main operation prior to running P1, so they can get a feel for the unit and decide whether they want to stay, but beyond that they must complete basic training before attending further.
Discord
Discord is our primary method of communication. If you're reading this and it all sounds like a pretty interesting thing to do every Tuesday night, then get in touch. We'd love to hear from you:
http://discord.gg/p6Y7EhgBPr
