I have found no notice that indicate that the Mashers are a retired army (but it may hide somewhere in the old comment system and was not found by a DuckDuckGo search on this site).
If anything, Betza retired his pre-1980 armies because he lacked a theory of piece values back than. The Jovian army is a relic from that time (I must admit, I like it pretty much with its weird and creative pieces). But the Mashers were created in 1997 with the newly developed theory of piece values.
I have found no notice that indicate that the Mashers are a retired army (but it may hide somewhere in the old comment system and was not found by a DuckDuckGo search on this site).
If anything, Betza retired his pre-1980 armies because he lacked a theory of piece values back than. The Jovian army is a relic from that time (I must admit, I like it pretty much with its weird and creative pieces). But the Mashers were created in 1997 with the newly developed theory of piece values.