2025 checkin' in

sup group

Hello all-

Just got into this funny Vintage Collection communety. Happy Collection time (",)

I'm the 70th member apparently. Awesome! :D

#71. So glad I could join.

it says I'm #72, even though a few people have joined before me...*shrugs*

add this fellow : http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/profiles/76561198044153220/

I am proud to call myself #74. I am the original crafter of 3/4 of my Shogun items, and just bought the clean V. Fan O'War tonight.

72th Member c:

71th then.

70th Member :D

have a dirty set, working the clean one now only need the FaN and the concheror

Here's someone with the set: http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/id/Damien_Fish/

Not to be rude or anything but there are actually 215+ potential full sets;

The Half-Zatoichi: 2327 of these are of the Vintage quality.
Conniver's Kunai: 2289 of these are of the Vintage quality.
The Concheror: 215 of these are of the Vintage quality.
The Fan O'War: 239 of these are of the Vintage quality.

Oh god, i love your backpack terabyte >.<

Thanks for the invite, it's great to be part of yet another exclusive group with strict requirements!

Thanks for invite :)

yay! thanks for the invite!

FINALY! I'm among awesome people such as my self XD

My buddy Hal just got the set, please send this Samurai an invite: http://www.tf2b.com/profiles/76561197975995056

Hi, I would love to join. Personally, I wouldn't trade my set for anything other than a Howar. 8-)

Here is my backpack.
http://www.tf2items.com/profiles/76561197960824401

Sent this person an add too:

http://tf2b.com/?id=76561198001113253

I added 3 people and these 2 also have the full set:

http://tf2b.com/?id=spessmarine
http://tf2b.com/?id=bboyjung

Good to see there's a group for this :)

I have obtained Crab Nicolson's backpack, including his Vintage Shogun Weapon Set. He has invited me into the group and removed him self. Cheers!

I feel special.

Crafted mine the day they came out, with tokens and luck :) thanks for the invite, pleasure to join. Also, if any of you happen to have vintages of the Crusader's Crossbow, Amputator, or Loch'n'load for trade, or know someone who does, drop me a line <3

I did the same thing as "NotJim" when the update came out.

I have now completed my Google search and sent invites to every owner of full sets that I could find with public pack info on tf2items.com . After searching 19 pages of results I have sent only 41 invitations to this group, so my original idea of naming us 'The 47 Ronin' may have a number closer to reality than I suspected.

I got insanely lucky with my set - traded buds for conch + fan + zatochi + larrikin robin + v whoopee cap the day the update rolled.

Also, hi.

La Muli-Muli I wouldn't bet on that... you can run a google search on all of tf2items and the v conch is very rare indeed.... combined with the fact that many of the listings show owners who do not possess full sets, so... 83 *is* a somewhat arbitrary number based on partial sample data from tf2stats, however I would be GREATLY surprised if we find that many people eligible for membership

I'm proud to be in this exclusive group, but that about V. sets being rarer than golden wrenches is far away from true :\

i crafted mine the day they came out :D

I possess about 10% of all the vintage conchs and fan o wars. BWAHAHAHAAHA!!!1

rebmcr I originally toyed with the idea of the name "The 47 Ronin" after the legendary Samurai group, as I suspect the real number of full sets may be that low, but was afraid more people know 'Samurai' than 'Ronin'. Each of you was found and contacted via a Google search of tf2items for the rarest of the weapons, the vintage concheror. However, unlike each of you, many owners of v. conch or v. fan have not acqured full sets yet. Obviously there could be more located in private packs, but the odds are fairly small, and given the amount of hoarding among some collectors the odds diminish further.

moo

The "83 complete sets" is from tf2stats, AFAIK. They list only around 250 HOUWARs, when there are about 510 in existence.
Assuming the distribution of viewed backpacks is roughly similar, I would expect there to be around 175 V.Shogun sets.

HOWEVER... not having 88 members didn't stop the Crazy 88 from keeping their cool name :¬)

Oh hai!

i herd you like vintage japan?