|AOW|

In 1999 |aow| started out as a server called Team SSX. The server was comprised of a bunch of friends who got together and wanted to have a full time place to play where everyone would want to come. In June of 2001, SSX became the Art of War. We had two factions from the original Team SSX server regulars and friends break off at that point. [Sun --][--Tzu] who mostly lived in the southern California area and |aow| who lived in the Northern California area.

In case you don't get the meaning behind this, Sun Tzu wrote the book called The Art of War. Make no mistake though, even though we both had different tags, we are all good friends and respect each other.

Since that time a little more than three years ago, |aow| blossomed and became a pretty popular server with a lot of dedicated regulars with a much better web site, a lot better content, and a busy forum section.

Unfortunately, as with all things people got tired, real life happened and our players and admin roster became stagnate and, in essence, tired. Our Grand Pooba Special Sauce no longer had the time or the energy to continue putting valuable hours into a server especially with a little Special Sauce running around. Because of this, |aow| was dying.

In a grand coup, a few admins began planning a way to keep the server alive and keep the community that still was loyal and special to us. This plan began with trimming the admin roster, adding more dedicated individuals to admins who were regulars to the server and moving the server to a better host for better ping and where we had to do virtually no service whatsoever.

Thus, in August 2004 the |aow| on NuclearFallout was (re)born. With the release of CS: Source we continued to make improvements in the product and to our dedicated loyal regulars.

The popularity of CS:Source fell and we saw a considerable decline in server and forum traffic. In an attempt to revive aow the admins agreed to leave Counterstrike after 7 years and become a Battlefield 2142 server.

The Art of War BF2142 server first went live on December 23rd 2006. Since then we have switched providers and changed server locations in an attempt to find the best location and server options for maximum server traffic. Since March 2007 we have been using Trinity Gaming Servers located in Dallas, Texas

After having too many issues with BF2142 crashing and out population of the server falling. |aow| shifted once again and moved to a new game . Call of Duty 4 (COD4). This brought us back closer to our roots of CS and CS:S but gave us a new toy to play with as well as a chance to grow our community even further.

We liked COD4 so much that we dropped BF2142 altogether and added a second COD4 server for Team Deathmatch, after opening the initial server as Search & Destroy. With COD4 our population and popularity continues to rise and we hope that our community continues to grow in the process. No doubt, this won't be our last stop among the games that |aow| will have a server playing

We hope that you can become a part of our community and participate in the server and in our forums.