With armies gearing up for yet another year in Club Penguin Armies, the Administration is proud to introduce the best server map ever seen in the community. Thus, we invite our loved community members and armies to a week-long open beta test. This is Operation: Winter Storm.

Designed by Master DS

Operation: Winter Storm is a strategic community event modeled after Project: Conquest. Thus, Operation: Winter Storm encourages constant activity and conflict, rewarding teams that plan well and stay active week after week. Wait, what are these teams? 

The new server map, developed by Df44 and Dino, will be trialed as a community-wide event, functioning like an open beta test, inviting both armies that formally opt in and individual community members to participate. Participants will be organized into four distinct teams, each operating as an independent army. These teams will compete strategically against one another for control of their territories. Each army will be assigned to a team by the Administrators, while community members are free to choose their preferred team.

Behold the Big, Beautiful Server Map

The following armies are invited to participate. Army leaders of the armies mentioned below should direct message an Administrator to confirm their participation in this community beta test. The sign-ups will conclude on Sunday, January 18, at 12 PM EST. Community sign-ups will open next week.

• Aliens
• Army of Club Penguin
• Dark Warriors 
• Fire Vikings
• Help Force
• Kanye West Army of CP
• Penguins of Agartha
• Rebel Penguin Federation
• Romans
• Scarlet Republic
• Shadow Legionnaries
• Special Weapons and Tactics
• Star Force
• Templars
• Teutons
• Tsunamis of Club Penguin
• Void Troops
• Water Vikings
• wii phone

How Will It Work?

Operation: Winter Storm will start after a draft phase, where each team will be assigned to their pre-defined lands. Moreover, members of each team will select their leaders, who will be mainly responsible for scheduling invasions on their behalf. Once the draft concludes, the event will begin. 

This community event will take place similarly to how armies invade and go to war on the map. Teams can only schedule one invasion at a time on pieces of land connected to theirs. However, there will be no capital servers, no treaties, no land transfers/trades. Additionally, no war declarations are needed. This means that anyone can invade anyone, and teams will remain playing until they have no land left. As soon as the event begins, the current server map will be removed. Servers cannot be renamed. There will be no grace period, as teams will already start with assigned pieces of land. Only one continent will remain open for this community event.

Preview of the server map wealth leaderboard. Each army has its own custom currency.

economy system

As voted by the Army Board last year, the new server map will feature a dedicated economy system and mobility units. Club Penguin Armies is proud to introduce its new friend: GaryBOT! Developed by Df44, it will allow army leaders – for this community event, team leaders – to buy their items in the shop, schedule invasions with their units, and check their wealth balance in real time. Each server occupied produces 100 coins per week. 

For the duration of Operation: Winter Storm, these are the items in the map shop:

a) Ships: You can invade any land that is touching water. Can only be stored in coast lands. After invading, whether it is a freeland or battle, successful or not, your ship cannot be used again.

b) Planes: You can invade any land on the map. After invading, whether it is a freeland or battle, successful or not, your plane cannot be used again.

c) Bombs: Destroys production of 1 server for 1 week and makes it impractical to use for movement such as Planes and Ships for that period. Needs a plane to be usable.

d) Nukes: Destroys production of 1 server for 4 weeks. If there are any ships or planes in the server they are destroyed as well. Needs a plane to be usable.

GaryBOT showcasing the interactive server map shop

For Operation: Winter Storm, each server occupied by teams will generate 100 coins per DAY.

OPERATION: WINTER STORM Gameplay

• The Administration took the liberty to adjust the prices of items, aiming to make them affordable for the community event. This change is exclusive to Operation: Winter Storm, and the original prices voted by the Army Board will remain in effect for the server map. All armies will start with an initial balance. Team leaders will be responsible for buying items in the map shop on behalf of their teams.
• Nuke Adjustment: When a server gets nuked, it will no longer generate income for the rest of the tournament. Additionally, ships and planes won’t be able to be stored/ used in it. 
• Fog of War: Each team will have a dedicated channel to buy their items in the server shop and for discussion. All transactions will be confidential. When a team army gets bombed/nuked, they will be notified about it. 
• Upon occupying the last server of a team, the invader receives 50% of the team’s money. Upon occupying a server that contains items, the invader claims them until they reach the units per team limit per unit.
• Desperate Measures: Armies are able to use bombs and nukes on their own territory if they deem it necessary. 
• The Administration will announce up to 3 free land Hot Spot servers. A hot spot server will generate 2x, 3x, or 5x more coins than regular servers. Armies are encouraged to fight for these servers!
• Size requirements:

1. All teams are required to max at least 10 troops in invasions/defenses to make them valid.
2. Teams must be consistently active throughout free land invasions to make them valid. This is up to the judges’ discretion.

• Invasions scheduling:

1. Teams can ONLY invade land that is adjacent to the land they already own. This will remain as a rule afterwards, too.
2. Invasions must be scheduled 24-48 hours before.
3. Invasions should be announced both in CPAJ and in CPA within that time limit. If it is a battle, the enemy army leaders should be pinged in both.
4. Teams can schedule up to 1 freeland invasion at a time and up to 1 invasion against another army at a time. 
5. Unlike the main map, upon scheduling on a free land, it does not get locked. Meaning other teams can schedule invasions on the same server, too. If an army successfully invades a free land for which there have been scheduled invasions by other armies, at a later time, the later invasions will be invalidated. (e.g.: Team A scheduled to invade server 67 at 8am EST and Team B at 10am EST. If Team A successfully invades 57, then Team B’s invasion will get cancelled.)
6. All invasions must be scheduled using the EST (EDT formally) or GMT/UTC time zones. 
7. Invasions scheduled for after the end date and time of the community event will be invalidated. 
8. The team with the most land by the end of the event wins. If there is a tie, the wealth of each team will be the tiebreaker.

All general battle terms will apply to this community event. More rules will be announced in a future post.

Start Date: Saturday, January 24th, 9 AM EST

End Date: Sunday, February 1st, 9 AM EST

This Administration would like to express its immense gratitude to both Df44 and Dino. Without them, CPA would never deliver a server map of such caliber and quality for our loved armies. We are confident this will encourage a warfare environment in the community. As always, we would like to thank our partners, the Club Penguin Army Judges, for their continuous support. We would also like to thank the Club Penguin Army Battleground and its staff, who have helped provide a safe, stable space to host events and battles. Last but not least, we thank Master DS, who came up with the Operation: Winter Storm branding.

Of course, we thank YOU, the community, for supporting this very organization, and for your patience while the map was being developed. We wish to see you all in this beta test! The best is yet to come.

Edu14463 & Jojo Teri
Golden Age of CPA

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Edu14463

Army Legend. Former Water Ninjas leader. Founder and Former Leader of the Elite Guardians of Club Penguin. Currently serving as Chief Executive Producer in Club Penguin Armies.