To kick the year off, the 3v1 war of TRA vs GDI/TEC/OSAR concluded with a TRA victory after each clan of the trio surrendered individually. The war ended with a score of 7-0 for TRA. Later in the month, The Dam Fort returned as an official fort after years of being decommissioned. The group name change feature was finally released, which was used to finally capitalise the E in “Elites” after almost 12 years of being lowercase. Furthermore, murrrmurrmeow (Daisy) was promoted to Colonel, and GiancoolXVI resigned from Captain. Officer Of The Month was awarded to BenyCypher.
February began with the “State of Play” video, premiered on the TRA YouTube channel It detailed several incoming changes to the clan, including the introduction of Lieutenant and Lieutenant Colonel, development updates being made to our forts, the introduction of the ‘Cycle’ system as well as changes to departments. February also saw a joint-crusade with our allies FEAR and UoA, which saw us win a total of 25 raids. We unfortunately saw the resignations of Jezhou and Syndaiko from Major and SpyCypher and Nikolai001 from Captain. However, Rxndy Dev and BenyCypher were both promoted to Major. Officer Of The Month was awarded to BenyCypher for the second month in a row.
To begin March we celebrated the end of our allied joint-crusade with FEAR and UoA with a Ceremony that saw 80+ attendees and awarded medals for people’s efforts. Following that the ranks of Lieutenant and Lieutenant Colonel were officially released. We unfortunately said goodbye to one of our long standing allies, Union of Arcadia, after terminating the alliance. Later on, the Shogunate announced its intention to become an elite division as opposed to its current state of a sword enthusiast division. March also saw some development updates, including an updated ‘Ping’ system, improvements for mobile and a new custom leaderboard. Officer Of The Month was awarded to Gigazic.
At the beginning of April we saw our first Lieutenant ColonelsBenyCypher, Gigazic and zacattak1379. We later saw the Shogunate re-release as an elite division with a new rank and progression system and more. The launch of the new Shogunate coincided with the release of a new sword fairzone, Gensou Sanctuary. April also saw the Community Affairs department unveil their plans for Easter. It was a scavenger hunt event across four of our facilities, with the end prize being a new cosmetic. The Elites also saw reforms in the form of a new rank system, a new accession method, specialised roles (Titan, Elite Trainer etc), robux incentives and more. April also saw the unfortunate resignations of MiloCypher from Colonel and Rxndy Dev from Major. Officer Of The Month was awarded to Gigazic for the second month in a row.
As May rapidly approached, our gun fairzone, Scorched Eden, was in need of fixes/updates, as Peekay, and the development team had conquered their skills, they released new gamemodes into the map of Scorched Eden, having added a domination gamemode, removing stairs, adding new side doors, and opening crucial points such as the lower balconies which are very helpful & crucial for the map, alongside the return of TeamESP which highlights your teammates regardless of their position!
However, before this, the diplomacy department had found a new clan to form an alliance with, this clan being RoR / Revolution of Royales! Officer Of The Month was awarded to BenyCypher.
June saw the full introduction of controller support at all TRA games, meaning wherever you choose to play, TRA tech will always be compatible. To test out the new modes and updates to Scorched Eden back in May, the Warfare department announced a Scorched Eden raid challenge, giving clans the opportunity to experience all of the new modes for a limited time. As well as the raid challenge, the Warfare department also hosted a joint-invasion alongside our ally FEAR against the Republic of Aerius. The Shogunate teased its new training facility created by Hyunji, Kyodo Summit, with a trailer showing off the aesthetically arresting place. As well as all of this, we also saw jakeolplays2, Syndaiko and WilliamGlorious receive promotions to Major! However we sadly said goodbye to General dragonbZb, who resigned to focus on his studies.
July saw TRA's first ceremony, and the launch of a new rally center with many new features, including a sparring arena. The ceremony brought with it many announcements, including promotions, new medalists, upcoming CA events, changes to departments and more! It also saw Scorched Eden gain a new raidable mode, Hardpoint. Later in the month, CA hosted the Summer Festival, with Fort Tropics set up with a stage, campfire, bar and more! To end the month off, Community Affairs announced more details of next month's Retro Weekend. Officer Of The Month was awarded to CerealsWM.
August was an eventful month, with several events and changes. The much anticipated Retro Weekend kicked off, based on one of our most famous forts, Fort Normandy. It was packed with events on both days. It saw a ceremony, several Practice Raids on old forts, old-style trainings and more. It also contained 2 major Normandy defences, one being against several gun clans, and the other against SEA military (with the latter being the largest Normandy defence of all time). It also saw the release of a new, up to date, museum - the Archives of the Ages. Later in the month we began the Castle Beaumont raid challenge, with sword clans of all strengths attacking the fort across all hours over 2 days. Dragonborn was the overall victor, and received thousands of robux in prize money. Finally at the end of the month, TRAD announced two new sword skins, the Celestial and Comic sword skins.
September was a fairly quiet month. BenyCypher was made co-head of Warfare and Elites, and BlipBapBam was promoted to Major. As well as those promotions, Outpost Frostbyte and Castle Beaumont saw several updates to gameplay and performance. Officer Of The Month was awarded to AqiioV2.
October was fairly eventful, it began with the addition of a "Veteran" role that is achievable for being in TRA for 4+ years. The Community Affairs department completed the recruitment guide for the overhaul of the new system. Not even 10 days later, General Daisy increases the payout for OOTM those are, 500, 300, and 200 for 1st. 2nd, and 3rd place. Nearing the end of October and Halloween approaches, CA released a costume contest. The winners were, tescoworker4, KidGetShanked, and lastly jakeolplays2. The "Halloween Paintball 2022" game was also released, this allowed you to win a new and limited time cosmetic, Bonehead, that can be worn at all TRA bases. AqiioV2 was promoted to Major and tescoworker16 and USSF pyro were promoted to Captain. Officer Of The Month was awarded to tescoworker16.
The month of November was quiet but still had some noteworthy events. First of which being pleasemilk’s and luhvoir's promotions to Captain for their hard work and contributions to Warfare. Officer Of The Month was awarded to pleasemilk.
During the month of December we had quite a lot go on. First announced was 12 Days of Christmas hosted by Community Affairs, 12 days of community events. Following that, we announced the winners of the Christmas logo contest, with the winning logo coming from Narell e and dragonbZb! The 12 days of Christmas event was wrapped up with our 5th annual banquet which was a success as always! Following the banquet we re-released a well seasoned and beloved map, Fort Rana, to be coming back into full use. On the same day, 3 Majors were promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, those being: AqiioV2, BlipBlapBlam and jakeolplays2. Over the next few days Fort Rana saw changes and adjustments in base structure and ratio to make it fairer for both raiders and TRA. Finally, City of Anuragrad was decommissioned after over a year in use. Officer Of The Month was awarded to pleasemilk, for the second month in a row, and tescoworker16.
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