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I am a SixOp. My name is Jester's Dead. I've been meaning to write this post for a long time now. I guess I owe this to all the new folks that have joined the clan. They deserve to know their history. I'll do my best. I had been traveling back and forth from Dallas to Omaha for many years. I had/have many life-long friends that live(d) in Nebraska. On one particular trip, my friend [SixOp] JoeGUN had recently bought this new game called "Battlefield 1942". They had been playing it for a couple of weeks and he invited me over to check it out. It didn't take long for me to realize that this game was awesome! The first time I sat down behind the "sniper's eyes" I was immediately hooked. I stopped at the store and bought the game on the way home from the return trip. I found myself playing the game every spare moment I had. I long miss the days of lying on Omaha Beach with a sniper rifle in my hand. Not long after, I contacted some of the guys in Omaha and told them we should start a clan. They didn't have any idea what that was, so I started doing some research because I was new to the "clan" thing myself. I started SixOp with 6 people (SixOp JoeGUN, SixOp Rags, SixOp Timmie, SixOp Artdaddy, SixOp Jester's Dead (ME), and last but not least, SixOp Evil Dr. V). Those were the original members of the SixOp Clan. During those days, we didn't have a server to play on, so we just hopped on somebody else's server and played. We even used Roger Wilco to talk to each other....UGH!!! I knew there was something better than that out there so with some research, I discovered TeamSpeak. I built a server and it wasn't long after that TS became the meeting place. Not just for games, but a general meeting place for us to chat while doing other things. During this time we added more and more new people to the clan. SixOp Ski (who never played with us), SixOp Alpha 8 (who's the chattiest guy out there, but an excellent friend - everybody knows when Alpha8 is on TS!), SixOp JokersWild (referred to us by Alpha 8, whom I will consider to be one of my best friends), SixOp JC_Shooter, SixOp MONSTER OF MIDWAY ("Mr. Mom"), SixOp Allah Tapain, SixOp MK_Klone (who later changed his name to SixOp Klone), and SixOp TJWolf. I worked with most of those guys. It was during this timeframe that SixOp TJWolf (and SixOp Klone) would make it a daily habit of stopping by my desk every morning to discuss the previous nights events, with MUCH ENTHUSIASM! During this time, we were riding the fence as someone had discovered Desert Combat. We decided that Saturday nights would be called "Clan Night" where everone that was available would get on TS at 8pm CST and we'd start. I remember that on some nights I couldn't play because my TS server was overloaded and would hog up too much of my Cable modem's bandwidth and I'd get too much lag. It was not long after that when TJWolf introduced me to SixOp VZaitsev. I'm thinking, wow, is this guy a breath of fresh air or what! Just what the clan needed. For those of you that don't know, Vasily Zaitsev was a Russian sniper in WWII who took 243 shots in the Battle of Stalingrad and killed 242 men. His friends effectionately called him Vasha. There's a bit of history for you. Vasha build a SixOp game server and a web server. You should see some of the old SixOp web pages. I still have them all on CD. Shortly thereafter, we started www.sixop.com. The forum and web mail followed right after that. At this time, we wanted to get more dedicated people in the clan (more regulars on Saturday nights). SixOp Bigbot joined. Vasha brought in SixOp Mordos, who in my opinion has the most skill on the Battlefield than any other SixOp (or he did), not to give Mordos a big head or anything. I've always found it VERY frustrating to find Mordos on the other side of the battlefield. Simply put, the guy's better than good! By this time we had exclusively switched over to Desert Combat. I can't tell you how many long nights I spent with a stinger in my hands shooting down enemy aircraft. Since I could only fly a chopper into the side of a mountain, I mainly stuck to the ground and used stingers as our defense. We started actively recruiting again and I vividly remember posting on the Desert Combat forum for anyone that would like to join SixOp. I posted as an alias and got a response from a guy called SixOp Laser Cobra. During this time, we had developed a strategy to pair up with another SixOp on the battlefied. Laser Cobra was my partner. I don't think I could have picked a better counterpart. At the time, if we fielded a 10-12 man squad of our best, it would be very difficult to find another clan out there that could beat us two out of three. SixOps ruled the battlefield! During the next wave of recruiting, we landed SixOp Nitro, SixOp Arkanjul, SixOp Hamburger, SixOp Vann, SixOp Spellchecker, SixOp Criptech, SixOp Shogun, SixOp Gun Magician, SixOp Kimmee, SixOp Razor, SixOp Gator, and last but not least, "The terror of every demolition dirt track in the midwest", SixOp Painless. Our numbers had grown over 40! It wasn't long when Battlefield Vietnam came out and most of us took a stab at that, but it didn't stick. Then Battlefield 2 came out and we pretty much switched over. BF2 has it's strong points, but there's just something about Desert Combat (to me at least) and the core group of guys that we had playing (just about every night of the week at this point) that made the clan very special to me. It wasn't long after that Jester's Dead disappeared. What ever happened to that guy? He retired once, moved to Colorado, then moved back to Texas. All the same time, dragging his same old computer with him wherever he went. This old nerd box is nothing more than something I can send e-mails on and browse web pages anymore. But I'll always remember the days where MONSTER OF MIDWAY and I would sit until the wee hours of the morning and take a jeep and run it off the side of mountains and take screen shots! Funny that Laser mentions it, but I do remember yelling, "Come on, you've got ONE MORE in you, at 2am in the morning! I remember on one occasion when Vasha, Mordos, Klone, Laser, Joker, Painless, and Jester were driving down the beach with every tank in the game and we crossed over this hill and you could just see the other team shake as we drove right through them to win the match. I'm proud to have once been an integral part of the SixOp Clan. I'll always consider myself a SixOp. I've met some very close friends along the way, some for life. I know this is sad, but the SixOp Clan got me through some very bad times in my life, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank them for it. My very heartfeld thanks goes out to (in no particular order) SixOp Vasha, SixOp LaserCobra, SixOp JokersWild, SixOp Razor, SixOp Painless, SixOp MONSTER OF MIDWAY, SixOp TJWolf, SixOp Klone, SixOp Alpha 8, SixOp Mordos, SixOp Evil Dr. V, and last but not least, SixOp JoeGUN. I'd like to thank you guys for always being my friends. I used to be the leader of this clan, but not since I've pulled my disappearing act. Although I'm proud to see the clan flourish and continue to press on, I do know this....the clan would NOT be where it is today without the help of SixOp Vasha. He put us on the web....he put us on the map. Dave, I'd like to personally thank you for all your help. People like Mordos, Razor, LaserCobra, and Painless....you'll be hard pressed to find better players in any clan. Maybe one day when this old computer finally decides to die and I'll be forced to replace it, I'll show up in one lone area of the map as a noob with a M249 in my hands and start mowing folks down! Please keep a spot open on TeamSpeak for me. I'll leave with this. There's nothing like finding a sniping Joker out in the wild, and then slowly sliding a knife across his thoat for the ultimate kill. His laugh is worth a million kills.... SixOp Jester's Dead "SixOp Commander, ret." Mordos