Andy & Bryan's Militia Corps

Andy & Bryan's Militia Corps
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Status	Ended all Gmod Faction-related activities
Government	Private Military
• General of the Militia	Dr. S0MEB0DY10
• Sergeant Major of the Militia	BlubberyOyster4
History
• Established	August 5th, 2015 (Officially)
• Departed GMod	Sep 8th, 2020

The Andy & Bryan's Militia Corps (ABMC) is a militia in the Sandbox Region of the game. Considered to be among the oldest groups in the game they have seen combat for over four years. Led by BlubberyOyster4 and S0mebody10. The group operated as a private army and standing militia, engaging in dozens of anti-minge operations and military campaigns across Sandbox between 2015 and 2020. The ABMC fought numerous wars against factions they believed were exploiting servers and players for personal gain. ABMC's primary goal was to always defend smaller groups and communities.

History

Early Founding

During the Second Summer War , a pair of brothers on a shared steam account would discover Snyde.net and the RFAI. Inspired by the good a group could do for a community, the brothers would gather individuals deemed unfit for recruitment by the RFAI and create their own faction on July 26, 2015, with the aim of helping defend the server and it's community. The newly formed band of "children" and "misfits" were met with harsh criticism by veteran members of the RFAI, the most notable critique was that the "group" didn't have proper tags or a Steam group page. This prompted an immediate consolidation of the group's identity, formalizing the tag "ABMC" and the name "Andy and Bryan's Manufacturing Company", the ABMC would then go on to make a myriad of crude Wiremod contraptions and weapons for private-use and export to the RFAI and other anti-minge groups. The ABMC would steadily grow in strength and even get some influence while the previous critics in the RFAI would still refer to the new ABMC as "minges with paperwork".

ABMC's first base on Snyde which housed the groups earliest recruits and members

Second Summer War

After a couple of weeks making weapons to export to smaller and lesser-known groups, the ABMC's small band of soldiers exploded in size after successful recruiting efforts and taking in ex-RFAI members who became disillusioned with the strict rules of RFAI, this increase in size and prevalence garnered much attention from the other factions of the time, which prompted a name change to better reflect what the group had become; rebranding as the "Andy and Bryan's Militia Corps. The ABMC would continue to send it's troopers to fight alongside the RFAI and patrol multiple servers, even being invited to large training events and faction gatherings throughout the summer.

The Tri-force Minge Event

During the Second Summer War on an unknown date, ABMC troopers encountered a user on Snyde.net only known as ">>>GREENTEXT" who demanded to know if everyone on the server could "tri-force". When the general populace of the server inquired as to what "tri-forcing" meant, >>>GREENTEXT and his friends loudly declared "BRO YOU CAN'T EVEN TRI-FORCE!!!" and then began to flood the entirety of gm_construct with large plastic cubes, making the map unplayable and with no staff online to stop them, >>>GREENTEXT and his friends were free to spam cubes and flood the map. This prompted the ABMC to quickly respond by sending up hoverball ships to rescue server randoms and bring them back to the ABMC base which served as a safe "air pocket" in the now ruined server. Hoverball ships were quickly prop-pushed in an attempt to bring them out of the sky and the flood of cubes were now higher than the map's buildings which brought an end to the search and rescue operations, ABMC offered the interior of their base as a safe haven while BlubberyOyster4 attempted to contact Snyde's Staff or members of the RFAI with staff privileges. ABMC troopers would hold the line against the flood of cubes until >>>GREENTEXT raided the base and spawned more cubes forcing a full retreat and another emergency evacuation, this time using a Wiremod teleporter to send players to hide in the skybox of gm_construct. Hours after the second relocation, >>>GREENTEXT and his friends made their own player teleporter and pushed into the skybox, deleting their props in order to spam more props in the skybox refuge, ABMC troopers tried to eliminate them as quickly as possible before they spawned too many cubes, but were quickly losing ground. After a few hours of fighting the prop spammers and sheltering the server populace, Snyde's staff team remotely banned all associated users and removed their props from the map which prompted immediate cheering from everyone on the server and this event was a major early victory for the ABMC on the anti-minge front while proving the capabilities of the young group.

RFAI - ABMC War

After serving alongside the RFAI in “Operation Second Sun”, the group would accidentally involve itself in attempted coup of their leader, the RFAI promptly acted and declared war on December 13, 2015, against a scrambling ABMC. After numerous failed attempts to fight back, the ABMC leadership would develop a laughable reputation that would forever scar the group. At this time, the ABMC experienced internal disputes that lead to a temporary split in the group, one sided backed by the RFAI and other that wished to keep fighting, not wanting their first war to be a loss. The splinter faction would carry-on under the name "Blubbery's Navy" and continue weapons development and even stockpile a limited supply of ACF equipment, although this stockpile would be neglected in favor of Wiremod and E2 based weapons as ACF hadn't become mainstream yet. BlubberyOyster4 would engage in a one-man mission to OmegaArena with the goal of attacking the RFAI leader Strayed with a new explosive E2 weapon called the "Spitfire Mk. 1", but the weapon would fail because it required the HL2 Pulse Rifle to work and OmegaArena had all of the HL2 weapons restricted. Realizing he was outnumbered and outgunned, BlubberyOyster4 would make a final stand against the RFAI forces amassing on the server until Strayed no-clipped into the building and offered a cease-fire. This cease-fire would be negotiated into a full peace agreement by the Republic of Manila whose leader ironically was the one who proposed the original RFAI coup that sparked the war, the ABMC and it's splinter faction would be reunited after agreeing to the terms.

UberHannover War

Following the end of RFAI-ABMC war, a faction calling itself UberHannover declared war on the CSUNC for supposed ideological differences. This marked one of the earliest wide scale hostile incursions into Sandbox from DarkRP and UberHannover's fighting strength was unknown. Seeing an opportunity to mend the rift between the ABMC and the faction community at large, BlubberyOyster4 made contact with the leader of UberHannover, supplying fake war plans, defective weaponry, and fully ascertaining their member count and ability so a full report could be made to the CSUNC and RFAI as a sign of good faith. This early attempt at espionage and Intel gathering was a cornerstone of ABMC's military restructuring and provided a much needed renewal of public relations.

UberHannover would be swiftly driven from the Meta after a series of no-show battles where CSUNC awaited their arrival, while according to ABMC intelligence, UberHannover forces would never appear as they were simply a role-playing group. Ironically instead of UberHannover troops, the CSUNC would encounter another outfit of German-themed soldiers belonging to New Germania, an unknown faction lead by Führer Elias Schild who was looking to settle a score with Kaiser Moltke of UberHannover.

First Militia Reform

The ABMC was reunited with its pro-war splinter cell after the RFAI - ABMC War and with the conclusion of the UberHannover War, there was amble time for BlubberyOyster4 to set about adapting the new weapons acquired by "Blubbery's Navy" for proper ABMC service as well with updating them for the next conflict. Around this time, Furher Elias Schild and New Germania had found their way to Snyde and met both BlubberyOyster4 and S0MEB0DY10 where an ACF trade agreement and push for collaborative arms development was agreed upon, this allowed ABMC to acquire ACF based weapons as other groups were first starting to switch over to ACF. The first of these vehicles would be a heavily modified Panzer I which was quickly adopted for both anti-tank and anti-minge roles alongside the heavier but highly flawed "Shemman Mk. 3", a super heavy ACF tank based on ABMC's prior Wiremod tank.

Another noteworthy addition to the ABMC inventory from this reform would be the "Trooper Combat Uniform Mk. 5" PAC3, which would be ABMC's uniform for the next few years until they departed the Meta and remained an iconic symbol of the group identity.

The Trooper Combat Uniform Mk. 5, the first widespread and standardized ABMC pac3 uniform, seen with a pac3 reskin of the M9K AN-94 which was ABMC's service rifle at the time

Ares Union Riots and Scandal

After establishing more trade with New Germania for tanks as well as shared weapons development and improving relations with the RFAI, diplomats from the RFAI and the Ares Combat Command (ACC) would extend an invitation to the ABMC to join their alliance and security pact called the "Ares Union". ABMC would send troopers to the ACC's home server of Bill's Sandbox, but would discover the majority of the server was openly anti-faction despite the reassurances of the server owner who welcomed all factions. The days leading up to the next AU summit meeting was filled with anti-faction sentiments, though ABMC forces were spared most of it as Troopers were ordered to stand down and not reciprocate the hostility, which warranted much respect from server regulars. The situation would take a turn only a couple of days before the summit when the RFAI leader, Strayed approached ABMC with concerns about New Germania's established presence in the Meta and discussed at length war plans against the still unknown adversarial empire. While ABMC would agree to help the RFAI in a military operation to force New Germania off of the mutual RFAI-ABMC home server of Snyde.net, a Steam error would reveal a preemptively made war poster which alerted both New Germania as well as the delegates of the Ares Union. The president of the Ares Union and leader of the ACC, Mark, would charge ABMC for unauthorized used of Article 5 while anti-ABMC elements of the RFAI would deny all involvement and use ABMC as a scapegoat, a private kangaroo court would be held on Jul 20, 2016 in an underground bunker hidden from public knowledge. Despite being the target of the war plans, Elias Schild defended the ABMC against the charges knowing that the RFAI would be more likely to be preparing for war against his empire, but because of a lack of evidence for RFAI's involvement and ABMC's still soured reputation, ABMC was charged for wrongfully invoking Article 5.

BlubberyOyster4 being lead to the underground bunker at the AU Headquarters for ABMC's trial

Representatives of ACC, RFAI, GCAE, ABMC, and New Germania assemble in the bunker's meeting room where RFAI and GCAE would deny all involvement with the breach of Article 5

When the AU summit meeting was finally held, the first matter was a vote for ABMC to be immediately suspended from the Ares Union in which the notion would be immediately passed. BlubberyOyster4 would excuse himself from the summit hall expressing his feelings about the unfortunate outcome, but was allowed to roam the halls of the Ares Union offices in which he leisurely smashed out all the windows, he wouldn't be kicked from the private server until he crashed through the skylight of the summit hall which disrupted the meeting and caused panic amongst all the delegates in attendance. After being expelled from the AU, ABMC and NG would collaborate to investigate the practices of the Ares Union as well as their strict imposed restrictions on their member groups and their forced presence on Bill's Sandbox despite the outcry of the server populace. BlubberyOyster4 would encourage the most vocal personalities of the anti-faction sentiment to focus their protest and hostility directly towards the president of the Ares Union rather than the groups caught up in its red tape, meanwhile Elias Schild talked to the leadership of multiple AU members about the myriad of impossible laws and expectations placed upon them. Within a matter of weeks, after key members left the union and focused protests against the AU president from both the server populace and dedicated resistance groups, the Ares Union was shut down and disbanded.

The Red Union crisis

For undisclosed reasons, an enigmatic and isolationist faction called The Red Union (TRU) declared war on FIDE, an RFAI ally. All attempts at communication and diplomacy failed and no discernible reason for the sudden hostilities could be ascertained, with this knowledge FIDE responded by putting their armed forces on full alert and readiness with the RFAI and other allies on standby should the need arise.

The next morning on Aug 12, 2016, the TRU forces retracted their declaration of war after BlubberyOyster4 forced the ABMC to intervene diplomatically and while unable to figure out their original intent was able to negotiate a cessation of hostilities at no cost to FIDE or the RFAI. The leadership and top commanders of FIDE were left astonished by the sudden peace agreement and ABMC's ability to negotiate it. The potential war ended before either side rallied their forces.

The Federation of New Poland Massacre and resulting skirmishes

The Federation of New Poland was a small fledgling group created by NotGpless and quickly agreed to be a CSUNC satellite state, this act of sudden expansion didn't sit well with Elias Schild of New Germania who sought to claim New Poland as a colony and had previously fought a war against CSUNC and their allies to take New Poland. A vote was made to settle the dispute of the two near-warring powers with the aim being to allow the group members of FNP to decide to stay with CSUNC or join NG as an imperial colony, however this vote would be flooded with fraudulent votes from New Germanian saboteurs and the CSUNC and FNP leadership would purge the FNP steam group.

Elias unveiling the FNP Massacre monument

On August 15, 2016, Elias Schild now enraged by this action declared this act as a massacre and pleaded with the ABMC, RFAI, FIDE and the member states of the distant Genesis Force pact (GFOR) who made a monument of the massacre featuring the usernames of every user purged from the FNP steam group. The combined coalition planned a widespread assault on Dirtbox Warzone and a password protected CSUNC Training Server. The leaders of NG, ABMC and RFAI met on the NG private server "Neu Berlin" to coordinate their forces through steam messages while planning around a war table used in a vain attempt to dictate the coalition forces across the multiple server fronts. Once IZK forces joined in the defense of CSUNC, BlubberyOyster4 and [RFAI] Strayed abandoned their positions at the table to lead their forces on the frontlines despite the Elias' protests to stay. IZK up to this point was believed to be a small CSUNC proxy group but the battle proved otherwise as it became apparent that IZK had increased their number tenfold and beat back the combined forces of RFAI, NG, UTF, UMU and ABMC all while a CSUNC soldier was never seen in combat, reportedly it was a solid wave of Izakian soldiers. The second battle was a New Germanian led operation to invade the CSUNC training server and it was compromised of a small team of Elias Schild, BlubberyOyster4, and True Slav and MicroSchemov of GFOR however no CSUNC counterattack or defense ever came and instead the infiltration team was met with console messages from the server host asking why we'd even bother. The ABMC became disillusioned with this effort as the war was a constant stalemate between NG and CSUNC and ABMC's continued involvement wasn't sustainable.

Small infiltration team sent to assault the CSUNC Training server

Operation: Open Hope Frontier

A lesser known operation conducted by the ABMC to piggyback on RFAI's attempt to explore previously uncontacted servers, Operation: Open Hope Frontier was one of ABMC's first endeavors in server exploration and sending expeditionary forces to make contact with new player bases and communities. One of the challenges the ABMC faced was a previously uncontacted group called "C.I.B.W.P" declaring an open Kill on Sight (KOS) rule against any RFAI forces that continued to re-explore Bill's Sandbox, BlubberyOyster4 met with their supposed leader, Timelord Sheep and talked them out of their hostile actions against the RFAI expeditionary forces. This operation and experimentation with expeditionary forces would be short lived with only 2 servers being explored, Born2Run Build RP and Lenny Face Gaming. The overly ambitious operation would be cancelled with only one map of the explored servers made on Aug 27, 2016, but would lay the groundwork for future ABMC first contact policy with new groups and communities.

Becoming the sole presence on Snyde

With the rapid changes in the faction community rapidly shifting to fighting wars and having the player numbers to overpower other groups, the RFAI ran into an issue with claiming that Snyde.net was their home server. Snyde.net had been the biggest and most centralized hub for faction activity and the genesis of many factions but the player counts dwindled to the point where the RFAI could no longer sustain the recruitment quota they needed to rival emerging superpowers, and anchoring themselves to Snyde left them open to attack from rival groups that would also disrupt the normal activity of the server. On Sep 10, 2016, the RFAI command made the decision fully relinquish their claim of Snyde.net to the charge of the ABMC, making ABMC the sole faction operating on the server. The members of the ABMC would rise through the server staff ranks and become operators, moderators and admins.

RFAI threat to retake Snyde

On October 25, 2016, the RFAI and FIDE leadership contacted the ABMC with a threat that they would take back their claim on Snyde due to a perceived recklessness and immaturity on ABMC's part. The sudden change of heart is still unknown to this day, but according to initial threats, their proposed full-force military operation would be called "Operation: Southwind" (this name would be recycled for another operation).

Through hours of negotiating with [FIDE] Plat and contacting the former member states of the long defunct Ares Union to launch a formal protest against the RFAI, the RFAI and FIDE leadership would change their stance once again and allow ABMC to keep Snyde on the condition that the ABMC will never contact RFAI ever again or play on the same servers alongside them.

UMU Hostilities and the Battle of Snyde

Relations between ABMC and their GFOR ally, UMU, began to break down. After serving alongside each other in the invasion of Dirtbox and the failed infiltration of the CSUNC training server, BlubberyOyster4 and True Slav made strides to form great relations between ABMC and UMU, but ABMC found a series of strange propaganda posters from UMU written in the Urtanesian language. Efforts were made to partially translate them into English which proved difficult as their language was a mix of different Slavic ones, but the best translation of one of the posters simply said "Snyde is Urtanesian" while depicting a UMU soldier standing triumphantly. The translations created an immediate rift between UMU and ABMC as all requests to clarify the meaning of the posters were met with cryptic responses which in turn lead to a flashpoint.

ABMC anti-tank barriers

Between Oct 29, 2016 - Nov 5, 2016, multiple skirmishes broke out between ABMC and UMU forces on Snyde, ABMC was outnumbered and outgunned but still managed an equal K:D Ratio over the invading UMU forces and the stalemate wouldn't be broken until New Germania sent reinforcements to back ABMC. The final battle broke out when UMU attempted to attack Snyde with ACF tanks, however due to Snyde's broken multiparent physics and ABMC anti-tank barriers, they were rendered in-effective. The battle continued for hours with ABMC supported by New Germania while UMU used high-yield ACF explosives to "nuke" large portions of the map, at one point even causing a server crash. The fighting would stop when a UMU soldier offered to surrender and then strangely enough began to negotiate a ceasefire without [UMU] True Slav's permission, highly confused by the incredibly unlikely turn of events and True Slav's silence, Blubbery would offer a small walled off section of Snyde's gm_construst map for when ever UMU came to play on the server. True Slav would take this gracious offer and ABMC and UMU relations resumed as normal.

UMU's walled off corner of Snyde, territory allotted by ABMC as a peace compromise for whenever UMU joined Snyde

ABMC Dirtbox Expedition and IZK's Three Days War

After ABMC re-affirmed their foothold on Snyde.net, attempts were made to send expeditionary forces back to Dirtbox for the first time since the Federation of New Poland Massacre to ascertain the status of the server, community and the factions on it, this resulted in ABMC unofficially getting involved with a border skirmish between IZK and Parcicia, choosing to ultimately side with IZK. BlubberyOyster4 was the sole ABMC member who fought alongside the Izakian forces in the brutal trench battle, to avoid friendly-fire from the IZK soldiers he was assisting, Blubbery wore a Soviet uniform under his TrCU Mk. 5 PAC3. The fighting ended on Nov 19, 2016 and ABMC resumed it's intended exploration of the server.

Fighting Parcicia in Izakian Trenches

BlubberyOyster4 posing in his modified uniform at the conclusion of the trench battle

The November Dirtbox Uprising

ABMC continued to monitor IZK's surprisingly rapid growth and expansion on Dirtbox and noted that it caused a tumultuous relationship between Izakian forces and the wider Dirtbox community. Server regulars felt that IZK members operated like a sort of "Russian Mafia", able to intimidate people to get their way, the small nation of Parcicia was also beaten and harassed by Izakia who held major influence over Dirtbox. Tensions would escalate on Nov 23, 2016 when the denizens of Dirtbox would rally together and make a militia simply called "USA" with the aim of liberating Dirtbox from the "dirty commie hands" of the Izakians, aided by Parcicia's small band volunteer soldiers, they launched a large armed protest against IZK and were ready to fight any Izakian troops sent to break up the USA militia and end the protest.

BlubberyOyster4 of the ABMC was present for the initial demonstrations and offered to use his contacts to get in touch with the RFAI who would be willing to send additional forces to fight IZK, a quick server vote was held and the USA militia and Parcicia formally requested military aid from RFAI with ABMC acting as a liaison.

IZK would send their own forces as RFAI answered the plea for assistance, the first Izakian soldier who connected to the server was the former UMU conscript who negotiated the ABMC-UMU cease fire on Snyde, he was captured by Parcician and ABMC troops and chose to defect. As more IZK forces began to mobilize, more outside forces began to rally to the call for military aid, including New Germania, FIDE, and many other groups. When the fighting broke out, BlubberyOyster4 was only able to muster a couple ABMC Troopers, who served as frontline shock troops and specialized sharpshooters for the coalition forces.

The fighting lasted between Nov 23, 2016 to Nov 25, 2016, the leadership of all participant groups gave speeches at the end of the first day of fighting when Izakian forces were initially pushed back, and a large group photo in a Parcician assembly hall, but eventually IZK eventually brought the full force of their garrisons and the coalition was shattered despite the hopeful outlook of liberating Dirtbox.

ABMC - OHI Dispute

The ABMC maintained an unofficial presence on Bill's Sandbox after the Ares Union Scandal, while there were previous encounters with anti-faction sentiment, the ABMC were still allowed to play on the server. During the AU Scandal, the top PVP players of Bill's Sandbox led by a player named Kurumi Hellscythe created a faction to ironically fight factions they considered "invaders", this group borrowed the name "Outer Haven Initiative" and would make baseless claims that they were the ones that dismantled the Ares Union with their special forces unit, "The Forsaken Ones".

Despite their anti-faction disposition and boastful claims about defeating the AU and being an elite military unit that takes orders directly from Bill himself, there was very little conflict between OHI and the ABMC until Kurumi would personally address General S0MEB0DY10 with a declaration of war against the ABMC on Dec 24, 2016.

The reasoning for the sudden push for open conflict is entirely unknown nor was it ever made apparent, but with the Christmas break, the ABMC was able to mobilize a large fireteam of Troopers to engage OHI forces on Bill's Sandbox.

However, despite the declaration of war, OHI would never send their forces and instead continued to mock the mere existence of factions as a concept. BlubberyOyster4 would order a stand-down and ABMC would return to DEFCON 3 after the DEFCON system was adopted later on.

First Izakian Snyde Raid

After the failed coalition attempt to liberate Dirtbox from IZK, relations between ABMC and Izakia settled to a state of near-neutrality with no on-going hostilities or an agreed upon non-aggression pact. Izakian Major Ilya would make it a point to "visit" Snyde.net on January 12, 2017, to see the historic server, accompanied by a small handful of IZK members while donning colorful Shrek player models. They raided Snyde and were able to overrun ABMC's defenses while outnumbering BlubberyOyster4 3 to 1.

Ilya joining Snyde and using a Purple Shrek playermodel

IZK chasing BlubberyOyster4 with Shrek playermodels and CS:GO knives, making for a very memorable first visit to Snyde

There was no real act of war intended by this raid as it was seen by all parties involved as humorous fun, this encounter was the first of many Izakian raids on Snyde, many of which would be deliberate attacks on the ABMC's capitol server. ABMC would review and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Snyde's server defenses, which included large fortified walls with battlements, and develop better defensive countermeasures to server raids and frontal assaults.

Revival and attempted revenge of UberHannover

A minor but strange incident would occur on Jan 27, 2017 when Kaiser Moltke of Kaiserreich Von Hannover declared a spontaneous revival of his group after it was defeated by CSUNC and New Germania in early 2016. Along with the announcement about the return of UberHannover, Moltke made a decree that declared all members of the ABMC as "Public Enemies" and that any members of the ABMC caught on the same server as UberHannover would be captured and "executed" for crimes against the Kaiserreich.

Although the ABMC leadership initially decided there was no possible threat from such an unusually vengeful decree and choose to ignore it at first, on Feb 3,2017, BlubberyOyster4 would release a standing order to the ABMC that any and all UberHannover soldiers would be "hunted as sport", an announcement aimed at hamulating and dehumanizing UberHannover as a "pack of wild animals" in sharp contrast to Kaiser Moltke's claims that ABMC Troopers would be formally charged with espionage in a military court with painstakingly strict adherence to the Hague Conventions.

Kaiserreich Von Hannover would capitulate 3 days later and disappear into obscurity forever, thus ending the incident.

Second Militia Reform

With rising tensions in the Meta and the rapidly changing ACF landscape, the ABMC undertook another reevaluation and reformation of its militia. On Feb 26, 2017; ABMC officially adopted and fully implemented the DEFCON system, adding a public display on their steam group front page, incorporating into steam announcements and briefing it's Troopers about the meaning and use of the DEFCON statuses. On Mar 9, 2017; the ABMC would heavily engage in new infantry drills with the adoption of high-caliber .338 battle rifles and a joint-arms doctrine that focused on Troopers engaging infantry at range from behind tanks and cover. With both the adoption of a better readiness status and proper infantry drills, the ABMC combat doctrine began to align more with real world militaries.

Original MS paint infographic about the BR-338, spelling errors were a product of the time as no time was spared to quickly educate ABMC Troopers about the use of the new rifle

The Order Conspiracy

On April 22, 2017, the ABMC leadership was approached by an individual named "ﮎ℘ℯÅƬ Ƭℌℇ Σ℣ℇ" claiming to represent a shadowy organization called "The Order", a supposedly massive clan from EVE Online that wanted to invade Garry's Mod and was inducting group leaders and prominent ACF builders into an organized cult to achieve this goal. ﮎ℘ℯÅƬ made multiple comments aimed at flattering ABMC and expressed his interest in acquiring it's Militia Corps to use as the frontline shock troops of the Order, BlubberyOyster4 noticed prior advancements of an unknown group offering ACF export tanks to RFAI and FIDE back in October 2016, and declared that the ABMC was not "for sale".

The following interaction between BlubberyOyster4 and ﮎ℘ℯÅƬ Ƭℌℇ Σ℣ℇ was less cordial as ﮎ℘ℯÅƬ began to make numerous threats against the wellbeing of the ABMC and even claimed to have the ability to hack BlubberyOyster4's computer with a YouTube link. After issuing multiple threats to BlubberyOyster4 and insulting his intelligence and leadership, claiming Blubbery had condemned ABMC to "Total damnation and suffering", ﮎ℘ℯÅƬ Ƭℌℇ Σ℣ℇ would disappear back into obscurity.

The Defense of New Lemon Oaks

The New Arizona Republic (NAR) was a small democratic group allied to ABMC made up of younger members from FIDE, ABMC offered NAR export tanks and assistance in defense. NAR would operate on a build server called Saul Sluggman's PAC Haven (SSPH) and built a small city and player community in the industrial park of gm_bigcity they called New Lemon Oaks and would periodically ask ABMC to send small Trooper fireteams to help patrol the city walls.

Tensions would increase between the New Arizona Republic and the other factions that claimed neighboring sectors of SSPH's gm_bigcity map, notably the Cryzec led by Cryzoz who wanted to conquer New Lemon Oaks. Cryzec would launch a ground assault on May 27, 2017, with the goal of pushing into New Lemon Oaks and forcing NAR out of the server, ABMC responded quickly by walling off the main bridge leading into the town center.

ABMC Panzer I tank used in the battle positioned in front of the wall used to defend New Lemon Oaks, NAR flag seen hanging on the wall

The battle lasted several hours as Cryzoz insisted on blasting through the barrier with tanks supplied by Bubs The Kekistani, a resident ACF builder who resented factions because they followed the official ACF guidelines, ABMC would destroy the Cryzec tanks with an anti-tank Panzer I armed with a 50mm Cannon. The battle would later intensify as more ACF builders began to blast heavy artillery at the ABMC defensive wall and Bubs The Kekistani began to blow up ACF ammo crates in an attempt to destroy the wall, but ABMC and NAR defenses held firm. Eventually Cryzoz would announce his surrender and request his allies to stand down.

Elias Schild's Two Betrayals

After Elias Schild suffered a massive dupe leak that made all of NG's ACF dupes public as well as leaking some ABMC joint projects, Elias would join IZK despite his prior history of invading and attacking them. A notable incident occurred when Elias began to openly share the previous ABMC-NG joint projects in an effort to mock and undermine the ABMC, even going as far as using leftover prop permissions to steal a prototype airplane that was actively being developed and claiming that he would finish the airplane himself with superior IZK technology and use it to bomb ABMC. After numerous attempts to urge IZK to completely eradicate ABMC from the Meta, Elias took it upon himself to attack the ABMC garrison on Saul Sluggman's PAC Haven on June 16, 2017. The leaked and outmatched ABMC KT-72, a modified UMU T-72 with a New Germanian turret and weapons, was able to outmaneuver Elias' Izakian Zhukov tank in gm_bigcity's urban setting and after a few 1v1 victories, the server regulars mocked Elias until he fled the server.

Elias working on stolen ABMC prototype plane and using IZK tech to finish it

KT-72 fighting Elias' Zhukov tank on SSPH

Elias getting bullied and harassed by SSPH regulars after they watched him get beaten by ABMC a few times

Efforts were made to monitor Elias' activity as he was rapidly rising through the ranks in the Izakian armed forces, becoming the commander of the "Red Guard" while making efforts to propose war plans against ABMC to Izakian Major Ilya. The situation would develop further when a newly created group called the "New York Empire" would mysteriously change their official tag to "[NGR]" and Elias was spotted helping their leader build ACF tanks with IZK tech, but staging battles on June 20, 2017, to re-affirm his loyalty to IZK. In order to prove Elias' corruption in the Izakian military, BlubberyOyster4 became involved in a scheme to acquire Elias' recent ACF dupes to locate and expose the newly developed IZK tech equipped Germanian Panzers, but would be caught by the Izakian Red Guard, this incident forced Elias to accelerate his plans to double-cross IZK. In the following week, Elias alongside the leader of NYE, now calling themselves the "New Germanian Reich" openly declared hostilities against both IZK and ABMC.

Elias staging a mock battle to maintain his cover as a loyal member of IZK

ABMC - NGR War

After Elias' declaration of war under the NGR banner alongside the former NYE leader he usurped the group from, it was discovered that Elias was able to takeover the New York Empire because he was romantically involved with the group's founder and manipulated him into allowing Elias full control of NYE to rebrand into a new revival of New Germania. BlubberyOyster4 of ABMC and members of the Izakian leadership appealed to Bragda, the former leader of NYE, and argued a case against Elias' toxic manipulation but was met with much emotional distress from Bragda.

The next day, Bragda would completely abandon Elias to take time to emotionally process what had happen to him, with NGR now weakened, Elias focused all of his remaining efforts into assaulting the ABMC troops on Dirtbox. The final battle took place on June 27, 2017, with Elias leading NGR's remaining infantry forces against a small ABMC bunker, laying siege with minge tactics, breaking server rules, and even threatening violence against his last willing soldier if he couldn't continue to fight. The battle concluded with Elias' full retreat and the desertion of NGR's remaining members, Bragda would go on to align himself with ABMC and donating most of NYE and NGR's assets to the ABMC.

Elias using no-collide to phase an ACF cannon through the trap door on the ABMC base during the final battle between NGR and ABMC (Confusingly Elias is still wearing IZK tags despite leading NGR)

Elias threatening the last remaining NYE/NGR soldier with spawn camping for his excessive use of M9K explosives that accidentally killed NGR troops rather than the ABMC defenders

The FMC Infiltration Attempt and the Vanguard Heavy Tank

Shortly after the New Germanian dupe leak that made many ABMC ACF tank developments public, BlubberyOyster4 would be approached by an ACF builder named "Twisted Tail" who expressed interest in joining the ABMC and that he was already working on a new 60 ton heavy MBT, when Blubbery inquired as to how Twisted Tail heard about the group and why he wanted to join, Twisted gave a suspicious and short reply.

"My friend told me about it and said it was a cool group to join" -Twisted Tail

Upon receiving that entirely unlikely message, BlubberyOyster4 began to immediately search Twisted Tail's profile and quickly found that he was friends with the leader of FMC and several prominent ACF builders who were engaged in hostilities with IZK. Despite the obvious infiltration attempt and the overtly friendly demeanor, ABMC desperately needed a new tank as several insurgent groups were using the KT-72 tank against ABMC, so BlubberyOyster4 allowed Twisted Tail to join ABMC and produce his heavy MBT which was pressed into service as the "Vanguard 60 Ton" which was finished on June 17, 2017.

The Vanguard 60 Ton was a heavy MBT armed with a 120mm short cannon with the ability to load both APHE for anti-tank and HE rounds for infantry support, powered by twin V-12 engines and was the first ABMC tank to use E2 Holograms for decoration The tank originally designed to be worse than previous tanks ABMC had but FMC overestimated the quality of the prior tanks and instead the Vanguard was a massive upgrade from the KT-72. There was a dedicated anti-tank version with a more powerful main gun in a "Jagdtiger" style casemate which had the ability to destroy early IZK Zhukov tanks, which was also used in the opening engagements of then on-going ABMC - NGR war as well as knocking out Parcician Tanks in an unspecified skirmish with Parcicia.

The MBT and Tank Destroyer variants of the Vanguard Heavy Tank

While letting Twisted Tail into the ABMC was a highly calculated move that paid off, BlubberyOyster4 knew he still had to deal with the obvious issue that Twisted was a FMC spy, he kept Twisted in the dark about a lot of the day-to-day operations of the ABMC and set him to work on increasingly weird and bizarre projects until Twisted wanted to extract himself and return to FMC. The last project Twisted Tail would finish for ABMC was a new Vanguard Mk. 2 which featured a new elongated hull, new armor profile, and a chassis stable enough to support a full-length 120mm cannon.

The Vanguard Mk.2, an attempt to "un-sabotage" the original Vanguard Heavy Tank by rebuilding the tank from scratch

The initial purpose of FMC's attempted espionage was to ascertain whether ABMC would assist IZK in FMC's planned renewal of hostilities, and if so, to sabotage ABMC with a tank cobbled together from a E-100 historical build and a bootlegged T-72 hull intentionally designed to be off-balanced and easy to ammo rack. FMC also believed the number count of the ABMC's steam group page of 50 members was directly indicative of ABMC's actual active members, which is why they were concerned about ABMC's possible involvement and was also a detail they shared with The Order which is why ﮎ℘ℯÅƬ Ƭℌℇ Σ℣ℇ wanted the ABMC to be his elite shock troops during the previous encounter with The Order.