In 1943, Spartacus' band of guerrillas had travelled as far east as Vienna. While camping outside of the town, Nick Cantarella happened to read in a Confederate newspaper of Canadian guerrillas using machineguns mounted in the back of pick-up trucks to harass U.S. forces. It gave him the idea for the black guerrillas to do the same. He and Jonathan Moss approached Spartacus about it and he agreed, thus launching a rein of terror in the backroads and hamlets around Vienna.