In November 2019, the "words" and "actions" of a group referred to as Elsa's Army had provoked war against multiple clans, including Secret Clan. The clans formed a Coalition, which attacked Elsa's base on an iceberg.

The iceberg base:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3354493609

A Rust News article noted a summary of the battle:

[The 60 Coalition members] gathered into scrap helicopters and set up raid bases on the nearest landmasses. Each group took its own position and its own angle of attack. The number of rockets they had at their disposal seemed to be infinite; each team had put all of their sulfur gathering efforts toward this raid, and there was enough boom to level the iceberg several times over. Four hours later, it was all over. The iceberg was completely undamaged.

Four years after the battle, a member of Secret Clan recalled:

[The Coalition included] 3 crews of attackers totaling 30 attackers. Not sure how many defenders there were but I feel like 10. The defenders had many layers of defense.

The attacking raid party was 10 people. The other 20 attackers were roofcamping the iceberg from raid towers built on the shore facing the iceberg.

The raid party was 10 people to ensure clear comms. At that time raiding with 30 people was more-or-less unheard of in competitive Vanilla play so we planned out how to ensure the comms would not be jammed. We split into 3 crews of 10. I was responsible for the 2 crews on the shore. We went hours early and built 2 small raid towers with the TCs bunkered in. Further inland we had built the "raid base" to use as a rear-area logistics hub to ensure that all 3 attacking "crews" could remain supplied even if the supply lines directly between them were denied us. We had never done anything like this before so we were making our Plan A, B, and C to gain any chance of winning the raid.

When the decisive moment came, the raid party hit hard. Out of nowhere, they [destroyed the little stone base at sea level]. Ladders were then placed onto the iceberg to climb up. The outer wall on the rim of the iceberg went bye-bye. The greatest heroes to ever play Rust climbed those ladders and secured a foothold inside the walls, outside of the metal main base on top of the iceberg.

Next up was they blew a big hole into the metal main base on top of the iceberg. My memory is foggy exactly how far they got into the main base. My perspective was roofcamping and covering the ladders to keep the breach open. You see why we allocated fully 20 of the 30 attackers to roofcamping from the raid towers across the water. The crux of this raid was the climbing of the vertical iceberg. Our operations worked very well. We did keep covering the ladders and prevented the breach from closing for what seemed like over an hour. The raid party encountered a tough time trying to finish and grief the metal main base, with some dying and successfully getting back in through the breach and up the ladders. I really wouldn't say we lost this raid but that's just my interpretation. Eventually we expended all our boom and it ended with a big crater in the metal main base but we couldn't grief it.

I call it a success but not an outright victory. Nobody wants that to happen to their base. Even though we did not succeed in totally griefing and evicting the icebergers, the Secret Clan gained a lot of power from that raid. It was an immense show of force. Even just the fact that we held the breach open longer than an hour. There were constant counters from 3rd party groups not involved in the raid and we held them back too. Fail-raiding so competently still meant that we could back up bigger threats and get taken seriously by the other groups in the scene. That raid put Secret Clan on the map.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014004128/https://rustne.ws/2020/09/09/elsa-roleplayer-or-tyrant/

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