Vortex - Weekly Squadron Report

March 29th, 2002

Useless thought of the week:

"If you can read this, Yahoo Groups support HTMLs." ;)

1. CPT Deamon returns to Vortex Squadron. Welcome back Captain, your help is greatly appreciated.

2. Vortex Squadron new Executive Officer is...CM TK-6686, Congratulations ! Flight 3 Flight Leader will be announed in a day or two...

3. CPT Achim Schwarick and LT Maltez Buffton AWOLed. I will continue enforcing the inactivity policy of the TIE Corps.

4. I'm sending March MSE on sunday, so you have until then to make up for your lack of activity this month.

5. LT Xanathar and LCM Coremy Jertese, you need to email me right away. It seems your email adress aren't working properly. If you read this, email me.

1. All of you need to check if you're in the Wing XIII EGroup (The email adress for the group is: the_wolf_pack@yahoogroups.com and the URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_wolf_pack/).

2. Recruitment. The Wing Commander wants a balanced Wing for the upcoming ASF:SCIV. I'm doing my part by emailing some cadets...what are you doing ? ;)

3. LC Wes Janson [eh_janson@hotmail.com]: ASF:SC IV begins on the 1st of April! So help me god if we lose to the Aggressor and Avenger Squadron, there WILL be hell to pay! I need everyone we have at full efficiency, and ready to work their tails off. I will NOT be the first WC in Grey Wolf history to lose an SC and lose our Flagship title. Needless to say, I'll be working my tail off right alongside you all to ensure we win. Az, we'll need your help too. Tell your Squadrons, make sure they know. And let's take this thing by storm. :)

4. ASF:SC IV is begining on monday, what does that mean ? It means you really got to fly. The ISD Grey Wolf never lost this competition, this is why we are the ASF Flagship. Now, the other ISDs, and even the VSD Agressor are gonna take a shot at it...we can't seriously let them win...

New Scoring system for ASF:SC IV

EH MP Comp Win=20 Points
Loss/Participate=5 Points
(Ladders Count!)
Top ASF Pilot in WoW(both XVT and XWA)=50 Points
2nd Place ASF WoW=30
3rd Place ASF WoW=25
FCHG/CR Rank = 50 points
Citations Gained = 10 points/citation
SP Missions=5 Points
SP Battle=5x #of missions
Fiction(depends on length/content)=Up to 20
Mission Creation=15
Battle Creation=15x # of missions in battle
Graphics Depends on quality=up to 20
Medals Earned=5
Promotion Earned=10
Named TCCOMs own during comp=100
IWATS = 15/course

As the COM said: "We are the champs........no we shall prove this AGAIN!!".

4. LC Wes Janson [eh_janson@hotmail.com]: Imperial Storm III is coming, so all of you XWA MP pilots (Us XvT pilots will have to stand and watch from the side lines again...) suit up and get ready for it.

AD Cyric is our Task Force Admiral, RA Azazel and LC Janson are Tacticians. Thats the entire ASF crew right now, so if anyone else has XWA and is willing to help out, mail Cyric and ask him for info. The IS page can be found at http://www.emperorshammer.net/wo/is3/index.html . The ASF is at quite a loss in terms of fire power, so we need everyone who can fly out there flying their hardest. We have to be fatser, smarter, and better than the TF's with 4 ISDs, the Sov group, and even the ATF (one SSD + 1 ISD).

5. RA Brucmack [bjmacken@engmail.uwaterloo.ca]: BSC cleaned out all players from club rosters that have been inactive for more than 90 days. This affects a large number of people that were on the EH roster :) So just a note, if you have been inactive on BSC for more than 90 days, you will have to sign up for the EH again. Your BSC profile will still exist, however.

Activity on BSC does not necessarily have to be participating in a game. You can also edit your profile information or post a message on one of the BSC message boards to reset the inactivity counter.

One more thing to note... Your player name on BSC should just be your callsign. Don't use your whole ID line, and don't put in the prefix EH_ yourself (BSC will do that for you). So, if EH_SomeGuy signs up, he'll use the name SomeGuy, not EH_SomeGuy or LT SomeGuy, etc, both of which I have seen :) You can always change that by logging in and editing your BSC profile.

Squadron at 9 Members (-2, +1)

Squadron at 9 Citations

CM Gilad Pellaeon completed SM/2 Course with a score of 97%

CM Ygor Mantis: Flew XvT-TC #26, 27, 28. XvT-DB #4, 5, 6. XvT-FCHG #2

CM TK-6686: Flew 5 engagements in the XvT Week of War. Flew 9 engagements in the XWA Week of War.

Come on folks, wake up...

CM Ygor Mantis:   XvT-TC #18, XvT-IW #10, 12.

LT Aithne Lajwanti Zwibble: XvT- TC #10, 11, 12. First Warning, report.

CM Gilad Pelleaeon: XvT- TC #11, 12, 13.

LT Xanathar: XvT-TC #10, 11, 12. I need to see some serious flying soon Lieutenant. First Warning, report.

CM TK-6686: XvT-DB #4, 5, 6.

LCM Alistair Darksaber: You gotta wake. XvT-TC #10, 11, 12 if you please.

LCM Coremy Jertese: You need to complete XvT-TC # 1-10 ASAP. Don't let me down Lieutenant Commander. First Warning, report.

LT James Benson: Complete XvT-TC #1-10 as soon as possible.

CPT Deamon: XvT-TC #10-28 as soon as possible.

As always, submit your pilot files to CM Mantis. To speed up the process, include in the mail which battle you have flown and if you've got high scores.

Both FLs need to submit one next week...

Executor [EXCR] (750 points)

[943] CPT Deamon

Centurion [CNTR] (400 points)

[449] CM TK-6686

Paladin [PLDN] (300 points)

[315] CM Gilad Pelleaeon

Gallant [GALL] (226 points)

[226] CM Ygor Mantis (+77)

Hussar [HUSS] (50 points)

[65] LCM Coremy Jertese

Lancer [LANC] (25 points)

[32] LCM Alistair Darksaber

Marksman 2nd (20 points)

[23] CPT Deamon

Marksman 4th (10 points)

[14] CM TK-6686

Certified (5 points)

[8] CM Ygor Mantis
[7] CM Gilad Pelleaeon

VORTEX SQUADRON OF WING XIII : Infiltration
COMMANDER: CM Ygor Mantis (mantis@videotron.ca)
NICKNAME: The Winds of Destruction
BANNER: vortex.jpg
MOTTO: "Silent...leges inter arma"
HOMEPAGE: http://www25.brinkster.com/mantis2100/vortex/vortex.html
MESSAGE BOARD: http://www.tiecorps.org/mb/view.asp?b=27

FLIGHT I - TIE ADVANCED
Nickname: Silent Death
Motto: Silent Armed Assassins
1) CM Ygor Mantis (mantis@videotron.ca)
2) LT Aithne Lajwanti Zwibble (zwibble@gmx.net)
3) CM Gilad Pelleaeon (Thrawn@kc.rr.com)
4) LT Xanathar (Victorf.Copebras@angloamerican.com.br)

FLIGHT II - TIE INTERCEPTOR
Nickname: Lucifer's Hammer
Motto: "In Nomine Imperium"
1) CM TK-6686 (trenton13@hotmail.com)
2) TBA
3) LCM Alistair Darksaber (ertai13@hotmail.com)
4) LCM Coremy Jertese (UCLAbruzin@aol.com)

FLIGHT III - TIE ADVANCED
Nickname: Death Watch
Motto: "Live with honour, kill by stealth"
1) TBA
2) TBA
3) LT James Benson (rcande0@pop.uky.edu)
4) CPT Deamon (e3grossusmc@yahoo.com)

Sunday:

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

Saturday:

No, Ottawa ain't the capital of Vermont...

I was watching Street Smarts on Fox last night and a funny thing happened. What is Street Smarts ? It's a TV show in which you have three "ponies", to whom you ask lots of questions. Some they will answer right, some they won't. You've got two contestant who will bet on who of the three "ponies" will get the right answers, and in some case, who will get the wrong answers.

At a point in the show, a question was asked that made me smile: "Ottawa is the capital of what country ?" Too easy I thought, but I was in for a surprise. The second contestant dunced the first contestant (meaning she had to answer the question herself, or else...). I thought this was a pretty silly move since you can only dunce one per round and this question seemed easy enough to me...again, I couldn't measure how wrong I was...

The first contestant answered: "Uh...I don't know...Texas ?"

Then they asked the second contestant if he knew the answer himself.

"Not a clue..."

Okay, that was funny enough, however I was feeling a bit insulted. Thinking Texas is a country ? Hrmm, someone need geography classes. Then they went to ask the matching "poney".

"Humm...I believe its Iowa."

Right. Three out of three. Last time I checked, Iowa was still an american state...unless they declared independance overnight, in which case, forgive MY ignorance. By that time, I was feeling really, really insulted and changed the channel, knowing that one of the two ignorant contestants would win the prize money at the end...

I certainly hope that at least one pilot in this squadron can answer this:

"Ottawa is the capital of what country ?"

Well, this is disappointing. I gave you all a fairly simple assignment; fly ONE battle, each of you. I got none. From now on, I'll apply the EH AWOL policy by the book. If you can't at least report to me, dishonorable discharge and AWOL. I will not tolerate inactivity. I wasn't asking for too much, not even an hour from your time, but most of you didn't bother. This will have to change right here and right now. If you can't carry out your orders, request for a transfer to the Reserve, otherwise I'll be forced to take actions, and neither me, nor the WC or the COM like to do so.

One a much brighter note, I'd like to welcome seasoned veteran, CPT Deamon to our squadron. He's an old timer, but I expect as much from him as I expect from all of you.

I'd like all of you to participate in the current squadron competitions, and fly for the ASF:SC IV. Now, if you submit a fiction for the Vortex Comp, it counts towards the ASF:SC IV, if you participate in the Vortex Flying Comp, it also counts towards the ASF:SC IV. My goal is to have each of you fly at least one battle a week, and fly in one online competition per week. Again, I'm not asking for too much, so let's make sure you meet at least these simple requirements.

I recently designed a squadron patch, for all squadron members to use on their flightsuits (whenever it comes out). Here it is:

If for some reason you can't see this picture...well you won't have any excuses because I attached it to the WSR :P

Pilot of the Week: CM TK-6686. Nice flying on the Zone mate. Keep up the good work !

Respectfully submitted,

CMDR-TCT-TCS/CM Ygor Mantis/Vortex/Wing XIII/ISD Grey Wolf
BS/PC/MoT-1gh/IS-1BW/LoC-CSx8/CoB [GALL] {IWATS-AIM-GFX-ICQ-IIC/1-M/1/2-RT-SM/2-XTM-XTT}