-=Avenger News=-

• Two more promotions, Captain ranks go to Chris Cox and Andrijas. Good Job.
• Christmas grows closer and closer, as does my 16th, hurrah. But I expect this will have an adverse effect on activity, never fear I expect you all to eat plenty of turkey and chocolate.
• I will be taking leave for 7 days from 20th December and then another short days leave after New Years Eve, I expect the ship to be empty on that day, empty or full of sick and empty beer bottles.
• A new COO has been appointed, congratulations to Vice Admiral Sarin.

-=Avenger Task Force Competitions=-

BGCOM's Judgement - The famous BJ! Can XIX keep up their winning streak? Or will XVIII regain the title? Or will XX crush XIX? Good Luck to all who participate.

TIE-TC Battle #142 - "New Republic Retaliation"
http://emperorshammer.net/battles/battle.asp?record=336

XvT-TC Battle #52 - "Krayt Squadron: Stranded"
http://emperorshammer.net/battles/battle.asp?record=861

XWA-FCHG Battle #3 - "Ronin's Deception"
http://emperorshammer.net/battles/battle.asp?record=672

The Fiction topic is: "Spycraft"
You notice one day that a strange figure dressed in black has been following you everywhere you go. Write a story about why this spy (New Republic, Emperor's Hammer or otherwise) is tailing you. Is it a misunderstanding, or have you really been up to no good?

The Graphics prompt is: "ATF Banner"
Design a banner for the ATF, possibly to be used as the splash page image for a new ATF site. Size should be around 500x300 or so, but this is a flexible guide.

Starting this month, I have enacted a slight change to the scoring system used in the competition, an amalgam of my own ideas and the suggestions of others on the ATF MB poll. The changes are as follows:

Activity Bonus: to encourage and reward participation in BGCOM's Judgment, while still emphasising the importance of striving for higher scores and quality artistic submissions, the following bonus points will be granted towards wing totals for participation in the various events:

- Multiplayer: 0.1 points per match, regardless of win/loss/tie.
- Single Player: 0.1 points per mission (so 5 pts for a 5-mission battle, and so on. This will of course fluctuate with different BJ battles each month.)
- Fiction/Graphics: 0.5 points per entrant (not per entry, you can submit multiple stories or images to be considered, but you will only get 0.5 points for each event you participate in).

Final Scoring (Ties): if there is a tie for a 1st/2nd/3rd place in any event (this only happens in multiplayer events, it is unlikely in single player or fiction/graphics), the next place down will be eliminated and the two people tied will receive the points for their place and the eliminated place halved.

For example, if there is a tie for 1st place, 2nd place's 2 pts will be added to 1st place's 3 pts (=5 pts), and both pilots will get 2.5 points. Both those players would receive IS-GWs for coming 1st, and 3rd place would receive the regular 1 pt and IS-BW. As 2nd place is eliminated, the IS-SW is not awarded.

Avenger Task Force Trivia (November) - Decembers Trivia is here

-=Avenger Competitions=- I Will list December starting competitions for convenience.

SSD Avenger: COMs Scholar (December) - For the educated among you, IS SR for the most IWATs, IS BR for the second most.

SSD Avenger: COMs Escort (December) - For those cockpit junkies, IS SW most missions, IS BW second most.

-=Wing Competitions=-

• Wing XVIII

Wing XVIII Top Gun December - Its simple really you fly (both Single Player and Multiplayer), do IWATS or write fiction. I know what your thinking, its similiar to the BGCOM's Judgement but its not, this is for Squadron Glory. Each pilot does all of the above activities and send they relevant files to myself. I will count up the points and at the end of every month, announce the XVIII: Top Gun, XVIII: Ace and the XVIII: Squadron of the Month. ---- If you get the most points you are - XVIII: Top Gun - this entitiles you to show off to everyone and can also be used for historical reasons. Aswell as this you recieve a IS SW. If you get the second most points you are - XVIII: Ace - this entitles you to show that your the second best pilot in the wing and make sure everyone knows you'll be Top Gun next month. Aswell as this you recieve a IS BW --- And so we come to XVIII: Squadron of the Month (SoTM) - I will count the collective effort of all pilots and bundle it into a squadron package, and so if your squadron receives XVIII: Squadron of the Month (SoTM) you have ultimate bragging rights over all other squadrons, it will also become part of your squadrons history. (Note to Commanders - If your squadron recieves SoTM 5 times in a row you recieve a ISM for this effort but restarts after the 5 months are over) Points Flying - 1 point per mission IWATS - 5 points per course Multi Player Flying - 1 point per match, win or loose (screenshot needed) Fiction - 1-10 points (must be Star Wars/Tie Corps related). IS-SW: Wing XVIII Top Gun. IS-BW: Wing XVIII Top Ace

The Big Bad Wing XVIII War- All Wing XVIII Squadrons grouped in two teams: Team Butcher's Rage (Butcher and Rage Squadrons) and Team Hunting Wraith (Hunter and Wraith Squadrons) are to fly TIE-TC 1; XvT-FCHG 1; XWA-TC 1. The Competition is divided into 9 separate divisions.

1. TIE-Fighter SP
2. X-Wing vs. TIE-Fighter SP
3. X-Wing Alliance SP
4. X-Wing vs. TIE-Fighter MP
5. X-Wing Alliance MP
6. Jedi Knight Series MP
7. Galactic Battlegrounds and Force Commander MP.
8. Fiction Event.
9. Graphics Event.

Competition judge is: WC/MAJ D.T. Hammer.

Single Player Events: The Team which will have the highest average per participant in each division, will win that division. Multi Player Events: The Team, which will gain the most points in each division, will win it. Graphics and Fiction events: The team which member will gain the first place inn each event, will win that event. Awards: for divisions 1 to 5, there will be IS-SW awarded for 1st place and IS-BW for 2nd. In total, 10 medals. For divisions 6 to 9, there will be IS-SR awarded for 1st, and IS-BR for 2nd place.

More details can be found here: http://minos.net/~acey/comp/

• Wing XIX

December Flying Competition (XWA) - Fly XWA-TC 35 highest score gets the IS-SW 1st place, IS-BW to 2nd place

December Flying Competition (XvT) - Fly XvT-TC 78 highest score gets the IS-SW 1st place, IS-BW to 2nd place

December Flying Competition (Tie) - Fly TIE-TC 215 highest score gets the IS-SW 1st place, IS-BW to 2nd place

December Recruitment Comp - Standard recruitment comp, most recruits gets the IS-SR, IS-BR for 2nd most

-=Activity=-

37 BSF's +20 from last week

1 IWATS -2 from last week

0 LoC's -+ No change from last week

-=Awards=-

• Promotions

The Captain rank promotion request has been approved for:
CMDR/CPT Andrijas/Wraith/Wing XVIII/SSD Avenger

The Captain rank promotion request has been approved for:
CMDR-TCC:XvT/CPT Chris Cox/Rage/Wing XVIII/SSD Avenger

The Lieutenant Commander rank promotion request has been approved for:
FL/LCM Mouse Droid/Fury 3-1/Wing XIX/SSD Avenger

The Lieutenant Commander rank promotion request has been approved for:
FL/LCM Lone Starr/Trapper 2-1/Wing XIX/SSD Avenger

• Medals

The Iron Star - Bronze Wings has been awarded to:
CMDR/CM Andrijas/Wraith/Wing XVIII/SSD Avenger

The Palpatine Crescent has been awarded to:
CMDR/CM Andrijas/Wraith/Wing XVIII/SSD Avenger

The Imperial Security Medal has been awarded to:
FL/CM Matti Kuokkanen/Wraith 3-1/Wing XVIII/SSD Avenger

The Silver Star of the Empire has been awarded to:
CMDR-TCS/MAJ Ric Taldrya/Hunter/Wing XVIII/SSD Avenger

The Medal of Tactics - Red Hammer has been awarded to:
CMDR-TCS/MAJ Ric Taldrya/Hunter/Wing XVIII/SSD Avenger

The Commendation of Service has been awarded to:
CMDR-TCS/MAJ Ric Taldrya/Hunter/Wing XVIII/SSD Avenger

The Silver Star of the Empire has been awarded to:
WC-TCC:TIE/LC D. T. Hammer/Wing XVIII/SSD Avenger

• Position Promotions

None this week.

• Joins

COL Osan'gar to Rage.

LT Deathcall to Flayer.

-=Report Tracking=-

XIX Report - Recieved

XVIII Report - Recieved

-=Personnel Status=-

SSD Avenger Crew Count stands at - 73members +1 from last week.

Wing XVIII-

1 Wing Commander
4 Squadron CMDRs
8 Flight Leaders
25 Flight Members

Wing XIX-

1 Wing Commander
4 Squadron CMDR's
6 Flight Leaders
23 Flight Members

-=Orders for the Week=-

1. Remember your CMDR duties, MSE's at the end of the month and WSR's every week on Friday
2. Recruit - We have a steady number of officers but i'd like us to hit 80 at least, thats 3 new members for XVIII and 5 new members for XIX.
3. Communicate - I know lots of you go on IRC and other chat programs and are in constant e-mail contact but extended use of the message boards and communications out side of squad level will be great.
4. CMDR's I'd like most of you to challenge another squad in battle. It can be any kind of challenge and to any squad but we need to start getting recognised around the fleet.
5. Wing Commanders I want you to challenge wings in more complex multi platform and multi activity competitions.
6. Again I am fully endorsing Wing vs Wing Comps and Squadron vs Squadron Comps, more news later.

-=Ending Comments=

Good Work guys,

Anthol

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