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Delta Report # 69 (2014-02-23)

This report was submitted by CMDR/COL Anahorn Dempsey/Delta/Wing I/ISDII Hammer

  Delta Squadron Weekly Report #69 2014.02.23 

This week in the report:

  • Commander's notes
  • In the headlines this week
  • Joke of the week
  • Delta's Wiki Quest
  • Battle of the Flights
  • Squadron activity report
  • Important Competitions
  • Squadron roster
  • Medals and promotions
  • Wrapping up
     
    •   Commander's notes

    Well, this was another crazy week. For starters, welcome to no less than three new pilots to Delta. LT Landon Cruise has accepted the position of Flight III Flight Leader, and Colonel Jacob van Nowak came with him. We were also joined by SL Neo Roswell, which means we are now a full squadron. As such - there's a new squadron competition coming. It starts right after this e-mail and lasts until next week's report. Check out the Battle of the Flights section below!

    The mailing list is even more swamped than last week. Don't ask me how, but my inbox is being flooded!

    The mailing list is buzzing with new games news. Star Conflict seems to be taking off, there's word of a game called Star Wars Attack Squadrons, and recently we've been given word of the musical score for TIE Fighter in several new incarnations.

    Probably the biggest news this week is the prospect of commissioning a second Star Destroyer, which would be something unprecedented in my time in this club. Almost all the spots in the current squadrons are full, and with two ships we could also finally bring back the position of Wing Commander. The TCCOM has sent out a general call to all on - if it comes that far - which of the Star Destroyers on the OoB to recommission. If you haven't given him your two cents worth, best do it!

    Next up: Colonel La'an, commander of Lambda squadron, has issued a general challenge to all other squadrons regarding Star Conflict multi-player activity. I'm currently taking inventory to see if we have people playing SC and see if it's a good idea to accept this challenge. Let's hope so, a real squadron vs. squadron competition has been way too long ago.

    With the arrival of our new Flight Leader, I've been BSF'ing a lot of pilotfiles as he seems to have made it his personal goal to beat LC Elwood the Brave for Pilot of the Month. So far, so good, but there's still a week left. Let's see who's going to win!

    The Wiki Quest competition is entering its last week. See the Wiki Quest section below.

    Grats to all recipients of January's Medal of Communications: CM Fenn, MAJ Clark, CPT Kronar, and COL BubbaX.

    Lastly, MAJ John T. Clark has scored the most points in the weekly trivia for the fourth week in a row now. Because one can only win three times in a row, he's going to miss out on the victory this week though, but it's going to be interesting to see how long his winning streak is going to last! Also - I'd like to extend my congratulations to CM Shado Fenn who has breached the barrier of ONE THOUSAND points earned in trivia. As before, this earns him an extra Iron Star with Silver Ribbon for this majestous accomplishment!
     

      In the headlines this week

  • MoCs awarded for January
  • New pilots in Delta: SL Neo Roswell, COL Jacob van Nowak and LT Landon Cruise
  • Flight III has a new Flight Leader: LT Landon Cruise
  • The commissioning of a second Star Destroyer is getting closer
  • Keep track of the mailing list - I can't :)
     
    •   Joke of the week


     
      Delta's Wiki Quest

    The task ahead is simple, my apprentices: below you will find two articles on (the English version of) wikipedia, and two articles on Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki. The task for both is to get from one to the other in as few clicks as possible. Whoever scores the least amount of clicks wins.

    Medals to be won: an IS-BR for every weekly winner of each quest, and an IS-SR and IS-BR for the overall winner/runner-up at the end of the month.

    Each click used gives you a 1 point penalty from your week's starting total of 10 points, so everyone begins with 40 points. At the end of the month: whoever scores the lowest number of points has won!

  • Last week's results
    Last chance to go for the first prize!

  • Current Standings (wiki)
    Ras Kronar (14p), John T. Clark (19p), Shado Fenn (18p)

  • Current standings (wookiee)
    Ras Kronar (15p), John T. Clark (21p), Shado Fenn (16p)

    This week's quests:

  • Wikipedia Quest: from Ford Motor Company to Dung Beetle
  • Wookieepedia Quest: from Yuuzhan Vong to Geonosis
     
    •   Delta's Battle of the Flights

    To celebrate becoming a full squadron, I offer you a major Flight-against-Flight competition.
  • for this competitions sake, Shado Fenn's efforts will count for Flight II, Quincy Nelson's will count for Flight III.
        Otherwise they wouldn't have a fair chance. If COL Jade participates, his efforts will count towards the Flight
        with the least points...
  • there's a small difference between the competition scoring on the Competitions Center and here, what is below will
        count.

    Medals to be won: an IS-BR for the per competition winner (IS-BW for the flying one). There's also an IS-BR for the Flight Leader of the winning Flight, and an IS-BR for the participants of the winning Flights.

  • part 1
    Flying competition! Each mission counts as 1, each mission highscore gets an bonus point. Each MP engagement is
    2 pts, with 1 extra point for a win. If you fly TIE-F 111 you get a bonus point, and there's an extra 2 bonus points for
    the pilot with the highest score in this mission.

  • part 2
    Nerdness! I'll post 15 images, just let me know via e-mail what they are!

  • part 3
    Don't quote me on that! I'll post 15 quotes via e-mail Just mail me which movies they are from.

    For each subcompetition: 5 points for the winner, 4 points for #2, and so on.
     

    •   Squadron Activity report

    You know the drill - this just shows who did what, assuming I know of it. Usually I will. If you did something that should have been here - send me an e-mail :)

  • COL Anahorn Dempsey
    FCHG rank: Archon (4797 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   mailing list activity
        »   IRC activity
        »   running the weekly trivia
        »   running Delta's Wiki Quest
        »   coming up with a nice squadron competition :)
        »   BSFing a heap of pilotfiles
        »   TAC stuff

  • LC Quincy Nelson
    FCHG rank: Paladin (300 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   mailing list activity

  • COL Aticus Jade
    FCHG rank: Grenadier (13 pts)
        »   no contact - on semi-LoA

  • CM Shado Fenn
    FCHG rank: none (0 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   5 rounds of weekly trivia
        »   participated in Delta's Wiki Quest week 3
        »   winner of Weekly Trivia #170

  • CPT John T. Clark
    FCHG rank: Knight (293 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   mailing list activity
        »   5 rounds of weekly trivia
        »   released FL report
        »   flew 2 mission (TIEF13,14)
        »   participated in Delta's Wiki Quest week 3

  • SL Neo Roswell
    FCHG rank: none (0 pts)
        »   joined Delta

  • COL BubbaX
    FCHG rank: Aquilifer (614 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   mailing list activity
        »   1 rounds of weekly trivia

  • CPT Ras Kronar
    FCHG rank: Paladin (391 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   mailing list activity
        »   2 rounds of weekly trivia

  • LT Landon Cruise
    FCHG rank: Knight (2805 pts)
        »   joined Delta
        »   e-mail contact
        »   mailing list activity
        »   released FL report
        »   flew 57 mission while in Delta and a heap more earlier this week
    (TIETC 8-10,12-14,17,19,20,21 TIEF 50,69,100,125,250)

  • COL Czulvang Lah
    FCHG rank: Legionnaire (416 pts)
        »   no contact

  • COL Jacob van Nowak
    FCHG rank: Knight (287 pts)
        »   joined Delta
        »   e-mail contact
        »   mailing list activity

  • CPT Nutrientman
    FCHG rank: Decurion (751 pts)
        »   IRC contact
     
    •   Important Competitions

    Competitions are the livelihood of this thing we do for fun. I encourage all of you to enter as many competitions as you want to/can. And just let me know about it! Don't forget to check out the website for more information.

  • Delta's Weekly Trivia
    Each day of the week (Mon-Fri) you will receive an email with a trivia
    question, same as before. 3 pts for the first correct answer, 2 pts for
    second and 1 pt for 3rd. At the end of the week, the one with the
    most points wins the shiny. As usual, there's extra shinies available for
    accumulating set amounts of points.

  • Delta's Wiki Quest
    Each report in February: 2/2, 9/2, 16/2, 23/2) will hold a wiki challenge for you: one on Wikipedia and one
    on Wookieepedia. I will give you two random articles, and the object of the game is to get from one to the
    other in as few clicks as possible. Each week there will be a winner on each wiki.
    Each week you will score points: 10 minus the number of clicks you submitted. At the end of the month, the
    one with the highest score overall wins. Submissions are accepted until the next report is released.

  • Delta's Battle of the Flights
    To celebrate being once again a full sized squadron, I offer you the Battle of the Flights where Flight is
    pitted against Flight in 3 fiendish competitions. All entries will earn points for you and for your Flight!

  • Ace of the TIE Corps
    Each mission flown during a month will count towards your score, with shinies for the top 3 pilots.
    At the end of the year, the TC's Top Gun will win a rare IS-PW!

  • MP Ace of the TIE Corps
    Each multiplayer victory flown during a month will count towards your score, with shinies for the top 3 pilots.
    At the end of the year, the TC's Top Gun will win a rare IS-PW!

  • Star Conflict's Beacon Hunt
    This will be a test of your skill to capture as many beacons as you can in one round with a victory.
    In layman's terms, in a Beacon Hunt mode game, capture the beacon as many times as you can in one round.
     
    •   Squadron roster

    Delta Squadron
    Squadron mission: Reconnaissance
    Message Board: http://www.emperorshammer.org/messageboard/viewforum.php?f=128
    Motto: Celerant mortalis
    Base: ISD-II Hammer
    Website: http://deltasquad.emperorshammer.org
    Nickname: Razor of Retribution
    Squadron reports: http://www.emperorshammer.org/unitreports.php?id=145

    FLIGHT I: The Razor's Edge - Novaculum mortalis

    CMDR COL Anahorn Dempsey
    FM LC Quincy Nelson
    FM COL Aticus Jade
    FM CM Shado Fenn

    FLIGHT II: The Razor's Touch - Strike first - strike once

    FL CPT John T. Clark
    FM SL Neo Roswell
    FM COL BubbaX
    FM CPT Ras Kronar

    FLIGHT III: The Razor's Gleam - And in a flash it ended...

    FL LT Landon Cruise
    FM COL Czulvang Lah
    FM COL Jacob van Nowak
    FM CPT Nutrientman
     
      Medals and promotions

  • Shado Fenn: IS-BR, MoC-doc
  • Anahorn Dempsey: MoC-doc
  • John T. Clark: MoC-doc
  • Ras Kronar: MoC-soc
  • BubbaX: ISM, MoC-soc
     
    •   Wrapping up

    We have an interesting week ahead of us, pilots. Fight as you can for the glory of your flight!

    CMDR/COL Anahorn Dempsey/Delta/Wing I/ISDII Hammer
    MoH/ICx2/GOEx2/GSx5/SSx5/BSx13/PCx7/ISMx3/IS-4PW-35GW-20SW-31BW-3PR-12GR-9SR-33BR/MoI/MoT-40rh-48gh-9bh/LoC-CSx8-Rx4/DFC-Rx2/MoC-4doc-3poc-5goc-4soc-34boc/CoLx7/CoEx3/CoB/OV-6E
    {IWATS:MCBS-XAM-XMD-TM/1/2/TM/3-XTM/1-MP/2-AMP-XWAI-BFM-TT-XTT-SFT-CTW-AT-SU-CM2-MD1-DT3-ARTY1-VS4-ST-SC-SEA-SD-SZ-SR-AIR-CC-SFW-WPN-XWAC-ESET-ISET-TIE-SMA-AWAK-BWAK-XWAK-YWAK-SN4}
    {IU:C/TC, C/DB, C/DIR, S, UL, CRD, EJE, TD, REP, WM, FT, IO, INST, MI, BTL, LDR, WD, AIM, ICQ, MS1, TLN, ASP, BX, CSS, CBX, DW, FLA, LIN, GFX, IBX, JS, WIKI, PHP, VBS, XML, MAN1, MAN2, WKS, INO, HIST, INO, INTEL, PRER, GR, SPW, HAD, GHA, THR, OSS, M/1/2, SM/3/4, IIC/1/2/3, IA, ARG/1, STM}
     

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