After the Real Time Strategy game, Halo Wars,was announced,a chapter (group) was immediately created on Bungie.net for fans of Halo and RTS's alike. The group was the first, and is currently the only, Halo Wars chapter on Bungie.net. It was named Halo Wars RTS. The chapter was founded by WyattFNEarp in September 27th of 2006. With help from SS_Zag1 and Ciaran the chapter was able to grow relatively quickly and as of 7/9/07 has 131 members. To promote activity Halo Wars RTS does these things: