LT Talko Nedder Transferes to Zeta Squadron
Squadron of the Month - Falcon Squadron/ISD Immortal
Falcon has managed to pull off a tight victory in the Immortal Ace Squadron comp. They were in the end the better side with 100% participation in the first round and a near loss of COM's own and a 9/10 participation in WC's own and a stronger lead winning both titles. Overall members have pulled off a fair run of activity this month and have provided members for MP events getting 2 of our CoLs and having a competiiton with their sister squadron in the IW..Black Squadron. --WC General Badlands
For as long as Darksaber has commanded Falcon, I've seen 100% participation in nearly every competition. Together these pilots work hard in everything they set out to do, and it's unity like this that deserves to be honored with Battlegroups Squadron of the Month. Keep it up Falconers .
COM´s Own
After working through the chaos of emails and pilotfiles I have finally worked out the scores and winners.
COM's Own for September is...... Ranger Squadron !
But that's not all.... Top Gun of this round is LCM Hawk Hunter who will recieve a nice shiny Iron Star with Silver Wings. Runner up is LCM Deimos who will recieve a IS-BW. Both are followed by Gord Darkonian and Gidda.
So a big salute to Ranger Squadron and the two LCMs, who showed what great pilots they are.
So drinks are on me guys and don't drink too much because tomorrow is monday. :P
Black Falcon Ace Pilot
Free XWA 14 Results
Dark Hawk : 4.030
Michael Gutt : 3.544
Darksaber : 10.332
Atican : 90
Kurt Williams : 3.230
Hawk Hunter : 19.671 --> 1º Black Falcon Ace Pilot
Gord Darkonian : 17.840
Hiram Tolwyn : 5.749
Mikkel Filla : 7284
LCM Hawk Hunter is Hereby Awarded another Falcon´s Talons Medal. Any Pilot from Falcon or Black Squadron can challenge him
Squadron orders
Exercise Cantina Run - the BGCOM's fourth
The first round has ended, fiction, and so far I'm enjoying what you all came up with so far.. except some pilots that called me a 'he' :P The overall participation of the Battlegroups was less than what I expected.. 72 entries out of a possible 133 - 54%. But there are quite a few things to take into consideration here, school starting, the recent terrorist attacks in NYC and Washington... so heads won't roll... yet :P The Colossus and Relentless have both shown quite a strong lead, both managing to get more than 3/4 of their ships to submit a fiction. The Immortal is lurking closely behind with a little over a half of the ship participating.. and the Challenge.. well seems to be fictionally challenged and could only muster up a little more than a 1/4 of the ship worth of submissions. It will be interesting to see what happens after the stories are graded ;)
Round II - Mission Design
Mission Design is not everyones strongest point.. it takes experience as a pilot, and practice using the mission editors to make really good quality missions. For this reason, I am not asking that each and every pilot download the appropriate mission editors and whip up a free mission just to get participation points. What I'm looking for in this phase of the competition, is some quality, fun to fly and bug-free FREE missions based on Imperial Storm.
In order to achieve this, I expect each squadron to submit 1 FREE-mission (XWA, TIE or XvT) (no battles will be accepted). Simple enough.. for a squadron to achieve 100%, I expect the commanders of each squadron to organize this as a team project and each pilot assist in the creation somehow, be it writing the plotline, creating the mission, creating a medal for the mission, bug testing, and/or correcting. If pilots have bug tested the mission, I would like to see their pilot files, and in the readme file I would like to see the names of each pilot and how they contributed, and I trust all commanders to be truthful in their reports >:P
Flag Officers, you are considered a squadron of your own, so you must also contribute a FREE-mission, or prove to me that you've assisted a smaller squad on your ship (ie. if you've bug tested the mission, send me your pilot file) . With this phase, I hope to see a lot of communication and co-operation between all members of the squadrons. I expect nothing less than top notch missions here pilots!
Grading for this phase will be based on several factors, 1. creativity (plotline, briefing) 2. difficulty (ie. mission changes on different difficulty settings)
Remember that all ship names and planets must be Imperial Storm related, and just like the fiction phase, you are allowed to make stuff up :P ie. pirates that are present on a planet system that we are attempting to capture, etc.. etc..
Currently, I am working out how to award medals for this phase, but am hoping the TO and OPS will agree to IS-GR to all participating members of the winning squadron FREE-mission, IS-SR to second place, and IS-BR to third place. Points will be awarded according to the details reported with the Training Office (see below)
Details ( as posted with the Training Office ):
Exercise Cantina Run IV - With Imperial Storm coming to a close, this competition will involve making this exercise more of a reality. Pilots are asked to create 1.fiction 2.missions 3.graphics and 4.fly missions which are all related to the events which have (or should have :P ) happened. Each category will last 2 weeks, with the final overall winner being named the Flagship of the Battlegroups - all members of this ship will be rewarded with a custom made medallion. Points will be awarded for both quality of submissions and participation. Submissions not relating to Imperial Storm (ship and planet names etc.) will not be accepted.
For the pilots' submissions in each round, the following bonus points will be awarded to their respective ship:
1st place - 15 points & IS-GR
2nd place - 10 points & IS-SR
3rd place - 5 points & IS-BR
4th place - 3 points
(in the case of the flying round , Ribbons will be replaced with Wings)
Ship bonuses will be awarded by participation:
100% participation - 10 points
90-100 - 9 points
80-90 - 8 points
70-80 - 7 points
60-70 - 6 points
50-60 - 5 points
40-50 - 4 points
etc.. well, anything less than that is unacceptable :P
For each round, submissions will be scored and rated, based on averages, the ships will be ranked 1st - 4th and points awarded like so :
1st - 35 points
2nd - 25 points
3rd - 15 points
4th - 10 points
In the end, the ship with the highest points wins! Good luck pilots :)
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BGCOM/VA Adrenaline/ISD Relentless/Tie Corps Battlegroups
SSX2/BSx3/PCx5/ISMx16/MoI/IS-1PW/LoC-PSx87/DFC/CoLx2/CoB/LoAx2/OV-2E
[EXCR] {IWATS-GFX-ICQ-IIC/2-M/1/2-SM/2-VBS}
SW Adrenaline (Sith)/Galthain of Satal Keto,WR-PM/DC-KC-O-C/(BNAg)/CoL
adrenaline@tiecorps.org {PIN #2174}
~~Miss EH 2001~~
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Bio Comp
Write a Short Fiction Bio about Yourself and send it to XO CM Dark Hawk (p.bobenmoyer@worldnet.att.net) While Ccing me. Best Bio gets a Falcon´s Talon Medal.
Daedalus Banner Competition
Now Daedalus has a Motto, we can now move on with a competition for a new banner. The banner will be used in on the TIECorps.org site to replace the current image, as well as in other areas.
Q. What's needed?
A. A banner. It should contain the winning motto "Shaping Tomorrow's Empire" and should include appropriate images for the training platform.
Q. Is there a specific format?
A. Submitted banners should be in GIF or JPEG format and 400x40 pixels or around those dimensions and ratio. Please note that it'll be a good idea to keep a larger version in a non-lossy format (such as Photoshop's PSD or a BMP) on your local system. This is because the final dimensions of the production usage of the banner may change.
Q. Where do I send it?
A. Submissions should go to daedalusbanner@imperialacademy.org with the subject line of "Daedalus Banner Competition". Also include your full ID line in the email.
Q. What do the winners get?
A. First place gets a new shiny Iron Star-Platinium Ribbon, second gets a Gold Ribbon and third gets a Silver.
Q. Who can enter?
A. Like all Training Office competitions, this one is open to all members of the Emperor's Hammer, including CS, TIE Corps and all subgroups. If a subgroup member places in the competition, he/she can be awarded a subgroup specific award of compariable value if he/she wishes.
Q. When do I have to have my masterpiece in by?
A. The competition will run for a full month and will end on 30th September 2001. Winners will be selected and posted on TIE Corps news, the TO site and in the next TO report.
Activity Reports
MAJ Darksaber ( 439 )
EH Ladder matchs - 1 Win - 1 lose ( 1 win Vs Gord Darkonian ) ( + 2 )
Eh Vs Nrn Match - 1 lose
ECR 4 Fiction ( + 5 )
Flown Free XWA 25 ( + 1 )
Wrote his Bio
LCM Hawk Hunter ( 544 )
Flown TC XWA 1 with Battle HS and 2 Mission HSs ( + 10 )
Flown IW XW 15 with Battle HS and 6 Mission HSs ( + 18 )
Flown FCHG XWA 2 with Battle HS and 4 Mission HS ( + 14 )
Flown FCHG XWA 1 with Mission HS ( + 6 )
ECR 4 Fiction ( + 5 )
Awarded a Iron Star - Silver Wings
Awarded the Falcon Talons Medal
Black Falcon Ace
LT Atican ( 232 )
ECR 4 Did Fiction ( + 5 )
LT Kurt Williams ( 46 )
Took IWATS TT ( + 4 )
Wrote His Bio
Eh Ladder Matchs - 1 lose
Flown TC XWA 16 ( + 5 )
LCM Michael Gutt ( 224 )
On Leave due to Internet Connection probs
CPT Gord Darkonian ( 812 )
Eh Ladder Matchs - 1 lose ( 1 lose Vs Darksaber )
ECR 4 Did Fiction ( + 5 )
LT Talko Nedder
Transfering to Zeta Squadron
CM Dark Hawk ( 218 )
ECR 4 Did Fiction ( + 5 )
CPT Mikkel Filla ( 112 )
Flown Free XWA 14 ( + 7 )
FALCON SQUADRON OF WING XI : Heavy Assault
COMMANDER: MAJ Darksaber (darksaber_mpk@hotmail.com)
NICKNAME: Birds of Prey
BANNER: falcon.jpg
MOTTO: If it absolutely has to be destroyed overnight, call Falcon.
HOMEPAGE: http://falcon.isdimmortal.net/
MESSAGE BOARD: http://www.tiecorps.org/mb/view.asp?b=31&v=1&s=0
FLIGHT I - SKIPRAY BLASTBOAT
Nickname: The Quartet of Deliverance
Motto: Now is the death of doers of wrong.
1) MAJ Darksaber (darksaber_mpk@hotmail.com)
2) LCM Hawk Hunter (nicknich17@hotmail.com)
3) LT Atican (claudius_caesar@hotmail.com)
4) LT Kurt Williams (kurt_12@hotmail.com)
FLIGHT II - SKIPRAY BLASTBOAT
Nickname: Havoc's Reign
Motto: Feel the Power!
Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/eh_warrior/index.htm
1) LCM Michael Gutt (cguthridge@home.com)
2) CPT Gord Darkonian (darkwingvader@hotmail.com)
3) TBA
4) TBA
FLIGHT III - PREYBIRD FIGHTER
Nickname: Hand of Darkness
Motto: History will be kind to us; for we intend to write it.
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/paully33/home.html?994342179615
1) CM Dark Hawk (p.bobenmoyer@worldnet.att.net)
2) CPT Mikkel Filla (filla@gmx.net)
3) TBA
4) TBA
This is the Falcon Squadron listing for the Fleet Commander's Honor Guard.
Legionnaire [LGNR] (500 points)
[581] LCM Hawk Hunter
Centurion [CNTR] (400 points)
[444] CPT Gord Darkonian
Knight [KNGT] (250 points)
[264] MAJ Darksaber
Cavalier [CAVL] (150 points)
[191] LCM Michael Gutt
Fusilier [FUSL] (75 points)
[89] CM Dark Hawk
Hussar [HUSS] (50 points)
[53] CPT Mikkel Filla
Lancer [LANC] (25 points)
[40] LT Atican
Grenadier [GREN] (10 points)
[11] LT Kurt Williams
This is the Falcon Squadron listing of Combat Ratings.
Certified (5 points)
[6] LCM Michael Gutt
Trainee (1 point)
[3] CM Dark Hawk
[2] CPT Gord Darkonian
[1] MAJ Darksaber
Squadron Citations (17):
TIE-TC Battle 10 - Battle for the DeathStar
XWA-TC Battle 1 - Avenger Encounter
XWA-TC Battle 2 - First Contact
XWA-TC Battle 3 - The Darkon Mystery
XWA-TC Battle 4 - Privateer
XWA-TC Battle 5 - Show of Force
XWA-TC Battle 6 - Enemy Defector
XWA-TC Battle 7 - Assault on Chimera
XWA-TC Battle 8 - Hammer to Anvil
XWA-TC Battle 9 - Defection of Kusanagi
XWA-TC Battle 10 - The Phare Encounter
XWA-TC Battle 11 - Heroes of the Immortal
XWA-TC Battle 13 - Hammer to Anvil Part II
XWA-TC Battle 14 - The History of the ISD Immortal
XWA-IW Battle 22 - Abyssi Ianua - Gates to Hell
XWA-IW Battle 24 - Rion's Shadow Campaign: Seeds of Corruption
XWA-IW Battle 25 - Rion's Shadow Campaign: Eliminate Friendship
CMDR/MAJ Darksaber/Falcon/Wing XI/ISD Immortal
SS/BSx5/PCx5/ISMx6/MoI/IS-2BR-1SR/LoC/MoC-1BoC-1SoC/CoL/CoB/LoAx13/OV [KNGT] {IWATS-AIM-CBX-ICQ-M/1/2-SM/2-TT}