Welcome to my 51st Tactical Report... I apologize for the lateness of this one, I'm quite busy IRL with a move 400km away from my old flat. Bye bye Paris...
1. Tactical Officer promoted to High Admiral
I haven't yet had the opportunity to thank publicly Grand Admiral Ronin and Sector Admiral Astatine for their trust in my abilities and my promotion to High Admiral. This is a great honor to reach such a rank, and I have been even more pleased as I wasn't expecting it in a near future. Now I can burn my 20-month old FA rank insignia ;)
2. Jedi Knight Compendium
I haven't received yet a single submission, though I'm pretty sure there must be at least SOME levels which have been developped by EH members, for the EH. Medals of Tactics will be awarded for any level which is approved. You can submit SP levels and MP Maps for Dark Forces (DF), Jedi Knight (JK), Mysteries of the Sith (MotS), Jedi Outcast (JK2). SP levels must be of course EH-oriented, involving the DB or the HF for example...
My TACA Wes Janson is currently working on *original* submission procedures for these levels, but if you have already some, just send them to me, you can follow the kind of procedures available on http://www.massassi.net as ours will be similar. Use "Custom (DF/JK/MotS/JK2) (Level/Map) Submission" for title in your email, levels to be sent to me at striker@tiecorps.org.
On a side note, I have spent some times to complete JK at last, and eventually get JK2... Maybe I'll find time some day to finish XWA !!!!
3. Note to CMDR and people filling BSFs
A reminder: skipping a mission is NOT allowed. Bug or not. Any BSF submitted with a mission skipped will be denied or later cancelled if the database autoaccepts it. Another thing, do not check the "No high score" button if nothing is wrong with the file, the database will check itself if there is a high score or not. check this only if something irregular has been done making the file improper for high scores.
4. Battle Compendium
Still growing, we are above the 2,400 missions mark...there is a nice stat available at http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac/compendium.gif I compiled while going through all the NLs. For my ego more than a third of the compendium has been released under my tenure which is more than any other former TAC... all due to the "new" structure of the Tactical Staff for nearly a year now and the hard work of its members !
5. FCHG Contest #3: Enemies of the Hammer
Deadline is August 10th. Your battle must involve an identified threat to the EH (a character, a fleet, a new menace etc) and involve the eH as a whole. As usual the best submissions in each category (TIE/XvT/XWA) will be rewarded with an IS-PR and will become FCHG Battles.... use the standard submission procedures, with as email title: "FCHG Competiton Submission".
6. Hammer's Pride Competition: results
Congratulations to Drake, Ender mBind and RogueWing for their first place in their respective category. I'll have the submission go through the standard review process as I haven't had time to make the correction myself.
7. Golden Tug Awards
The full results have been released on the several message boards. As nobody was interested in designing the awards, I did it myself....
- Golden Tug:
- General Award:
- Golden Spoon:
- Pinky Lollipop: still need a google search :P
The images and awards will be soon added to the battle profiles.
8. Summer Leave
My CA is currently on leave for the EH Poland Meeting II, and should be back soon. I will be on leave from July 18th to August 8th, for a trip between Boston, NYC and Washington. I haven't planned to get any Internet access, so my CA will be in full charge of the office, and will be even able to process the BSFs, something I have always kept for myself...
That's it for today... need to try JK2 !
TAC-PROF/HA Striker/CS-3/SSSD Sovereign