Welcome to this light and airy corner of Hell. Here lurk the weary soldiers of Hades, the European online-gaming tribe. It was in the late 1990’s the tribe was forged in a ritualistic ceremony involving bearded men, KY-Jelly and climaxing in an alcohol-induced coma. The first pioneers of beer-centric gaming were simply known to this world as Chemist, Jeb and DeeExpus. Each became a distant memory in the current legions as a myth, a legend or just another crock 'o' shit from Spigz. So here begins the tale of Hades, a story of sex, lies and mind-altering drugs.

The ranks of Hades began to swell when combat commenced in the Starsiege Universe of Tribes 2. During this time Spigz took the horns of Hades and raised our standards to men of slight mental retardation due to excessive use of beer and Spinfusors. Despite the attempts to convert the unruly army of Hades into astute warriors, the depths of our humour and excessive use of spam-packs delved ever deeper into the chasms of Hell! A series of losses to Tribes of inferior intoxication led to a new beginning for Hades.

We sobered up and fought on utilising skill-based tactics such as offensive sniping, long range artillery spam, satchel charging vehicle pads and auto-taunt scripts. We had our critics but we finally took the top of the European ladder where we continued to battle with beer in one hand, and a Spinfusor in the other.

Our beloved world of Tribes began to crumble over time as players left and others grew tired of seeing Spigz's 'Touching Cloth' party trick. Eventually the European ladder collapsed and there ended the competition of Tribes 2. At our weakest moment came news of a game so vast and so different from Tribes it was to cost us many of our members. Hades took part in World of Warcraft beta and it was decided that we will form a guild on the release day. We fought our way to level 60 and realised that our small Tribe of members was not able to raid the 40 man dungeons. After several guild merges and a massive recruitment drive the ranks of Hades swelled into an unrecognisable group of misfits. Over time we converted these minions to the way of Hades and soon they began to love the guild. Hades is a system. That system is our Tribe. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to WTFPWN. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. However, there were dark days ahead...

Life in World of Warcraft is focussed around greed, addiction and the size of your e-penis. Our guild was now sizing over 120 members and soon there was conflict. Beer was spilt, spam was exchanged and in the darkest hour of Hell, Spigz, the nature loving druid, left Hades. We did the only thing Hades could do, we hit the bottle. Flasho took the reins of Hades but fled with his empty tankard as the sinking ship went down. Hades was no longer the small Tribe, it was a giant pulsing mass of players, many of whom expecting DKP for taking a shit. It was decided that Motaajo (StarFox) would temporarily take Guild Leader simply to fill the gap, and soon with the combined help of the Hades core including Five, Anti (Antipop) and Winnturs we were back on the path to progression.

After several months we began to tackle a major raid boss and the cracks of Hades began to show once again. Finally after several members decided to change servers to 'cyber' with Alliance we agreed to end Hades in the World of Warcraft. There was much love for Hades despite the hard times and on the day of disband there was an alcohol fuelled party in the City of Orgrimmar to mark the occasion. The sound of fireworks and the smell of puke and beer did not hide the losses Hades suffered in Warcraft. It was time to reunite under the old banner of Hades the Tribe. Many of us quit World of Warcraft and continue to cringe at the time we spent playing the game of addiction. But so far, this story has a happy ending...

After his brief dictatorship of Hades, the reformed and renamed StarFox began work on a new Hades home on the Internet. Once completed the core of Hades from World of Warcraft joined, the lure of chogs brought back Spigz from his time spent wondering the earth firing RPG's in Cambodia. Chano was summoned by sacrificing 1000 snails, Flasho was recaptured using a weed trap, Broesmeli was boxing Kangaroo's and cow tipping in Australia and soon found the reunited members, Viper was spring cleaning his 'next level of hell' and soon Hades, the next generation, was complete. There was only one thing missing, something to play. We spend our time waiting for the game. We are currently a small community of gamers waiting to team up and go to battle in competition. The Hades Portal is ready, the players are ready, the beer is chilled and the chogs are eaten. We just need a game...

To be continued.

See the Hades Movie during our Tribes years:

HADES THE MOVIE - Part 1
HADES THE MOVIE - Part 2

Hades Tribe has appeared in EVE. The war horn of Hades shall blow once again upon the release of ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKEWARS… unless it’s shit! (2008 Update: The Horn didn't blow loud enough, we continue to wait)