BATTLEGROUP III REPORT #13February 3, 2024
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Welcome Battlegroup III! February brings with it the anniversary of the Challenge's original commissioning, as well as a new Battlegroup competition to help us prepare for next month's first major fleet competition for the year - Imperial Storm! To find out more, read on! |
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Battlegroup News and Competitions |
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Happy 29th Birthday to the ISD Challenge!On February 7th, 1996, the ISD-II Challenge was officially commissioned within the Emperor's Hammer, making this year its 29th anniversary as part of the fleet! While it may have lost a decade between 2010 and 2020 on a Chalquila run gone wrong, that's still 19 years of active service, making it both the longest-running ship with active pilots onboard, as well as the oldest ship in the fleet still operating with active pilots today! We'll pay honor to the Challenge this month in our training maneuvers competition, preparing for Imperial Storm. For more details, read on! |
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New Competition Alert - Battlegroup III Training Maneuvers: Imperial StormIn preparation for Imperial Storm, Battlegroup III will be running a short, two-week competition, intended to serve as a preparation and as a refresher for the battles to come in the fleet-wide Imperial Storm competition (expected to start in March). As opposed to the usual 48 hour/72 hour conflicts in Imperial Storm, each BG3 pilot will have two weeks to accumulate points across PvP/PvE matches and/or specified single-player missions. Pilots who complete PvE and PvP matches during this time will earn points, based on the current multiplayer game points for the TIE Corps. For reference, please view the game points chart. For single player, instead of Imperial Storm's usual single mission, this competition will use six single player missions (one for each supported SP platform). Points will be awarded based on percentage of high score (at time of competition start) by the pilot, with a maximum of 25 points per each mission. Any score 95% or above will earn the full 25 points, with a minimum of 5 points granted to any score 20% or below. In honor of the Challenge's birthday, all SP missions will be about a squadron that has served on the Challenge, and will have been created by a Challenge veteran. Awards will be given to the top four pilots with the most points by the end of the competition. I will post a leaderboard at least once during the competition on the Discord to give everyone an idea of where they stand! This competition will start on February 7th and last through February 20th. Keep an eye on the Discord for further announcements, including the reveal of the six SP free missions we'll use for this training exercise. For more information, please see the competition listing. Good luck, and please reach out if you have any questions! |
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Competition Reminder - 2025 Trivia for the Challenged - Season 1!We are one month into a new season of Trivia for the Challenged! Every Monday, a new set of four trivia questions will be posted on the #bg3-competitions-announcements channel on the Discord server, with topics ranging from anything from Star Wars proper to people and places in the Emperor's Hammer! Questions remain open for one week. Every week's top two finishers get a medal, but additional awards are handed out monthly and seasonally for total score overall. Standings after the first month for this season are...
This week's trivia can be found here and will run through end of day (EH/UTC time), February 9th, 2025. For more information, please view the competition listing for this season here. |
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Command Updates - New Flight Leaders!We have a few new flight leaders this month! Congrats to LCM JKast, who takes over as Flight Leader of Typhoon Flight III, and CM Therj'en'nuruodo, who has transferred over to our battlegroup and taken on the job of Flight leader for Tempest Flight III! Additionally, kudos to LCM Hector Von Ricmore, who took over as Flight Leader for Firebird Flight III last month and has been doing a great job since! Congrats to all of our new Flight Leaders here in Battlegroup III! |
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Battlegroup III Monthly Awards for January 2025For the Battlegroup III monthly awards in January, congrats to the following:
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TIE Corps News and Competitions |
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Competition Reminder - TIE Corps in Battle Season 8 Continues!TIE Corps in Battle continues on! From now until the end of April, each month the Warfare Office will select one battle for TIE, XvT, XWA and TFTC. Each member of the TIE Corps is challenged to fly those battles and earn the best score possible for your squadron! As a quick overview on the rules - the pilot with the highest score each month in each platform will earn 9 points. The next highest score will earn 8, then 7, and so on. All submissions will earn at least 2 points (participation matters!!). Any mission high scores will earn 1 bonus point and any battle high scores will earn 2 bonus points. The points earned by each pilot will add to their squadron's total and their battlegroup's total. At the end of the season, the participants from top three squadrons and the top battlegroup earn awards. Additionally the top overall pilot will receive the title TIE Corps Battlemaster. For the month of February, the battles selected are...
I'll be sharing tricks and tips for each battle this season over in #bg3-tcib-season-8 channel on the Discord server. Feel free to jump in and join the discussion! For more information, please review the competition listing. Good luck! |
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Competition Announcement - Shoot to Kill (Helldivers 2)Our own Eagle Squadron has concocted a Helldivers 2 competition for the next two weeks, with CPT Xylo Pethtel taking point on managing it! Pilots playing Helldivers 2 are encouraged to aim for the best accuracy they can in matches! While pilots are not required to win their matches for this competition, they are required to kill at least 60 enemies throughout the course of the mission. The pilot with the highest recorded accuracy will win! In order to participate, you'll need to send in a screenshot of your match stats. To obtain this, after the end of a mission (once Pelican returns to the Super Destroyer and Victory poses are complete) navigate to the "Show stats" option listed at the bottom of your Helldiver's portrait, then take a screenshot of your Accuracy Statistic (as well as Kills and Shots fired during the mission). Screenshots of the stat screen can then be submitted to CPT Xylo Pethtel via Discord DM (xpglimmer) or Email (xavier.pethtel@outlook.com). Competition runs through February 16th. For more information, please view the competition listing. Happy Hunting! |
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Competition Reminder - Where It All Began: TIE FighterIn honor of the TIE Corps's 30th anniversary, the TCCOM has been running a competition to promote the earliest days of the club and its first TIE Fighter custom missions creations! Specifically, ORAs will be given out for flying TIE-TC #1 through #28 and TIE-FREE #1 through #21. For every four battles within that range completed by a pilot, they will be awared five ORAs. Completing all 21 frees will also net any pilot five ORAs. This competition is about at an end, but there's still a few days left if you'd like to squeeze some TIE Fighter in and earn a few ORAs! Competition ends this Friday, on February 7th. Feel free to review the competition listing if you have any questions. Good luck! |
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Competition Results - Battlegroup III HighlightsWe've had a number of fleet competitions come to a close, and I want to take a second to highlight a few members of Battlegroup III that placed in them!
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Command Staff Awards and Promotions - Battlegroup III HighlightsThe Fleet Commander distributed a number of awards and promotions this month to members of the Emperor's Hammer command staff, TIE Corps command staff, and Secret Order Dark Council. Since we have a number of those folks masquerading as pilots within Battlegroup III, I'd like to give them a special shoutout!
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Competition Reminder - SWTOR Conquest 2: The Search for More Conquest, Season 6A new season of SWTOR Conquest 2: The Search for More Conquest has begun! As a quick reminder, this competition is all about SWTOR players earning conquest points while being a member of one of the Emperor's Hammers guilds! The official guilds are on the Star Forge server ("Emperor's Hammer" for the Sith Empire and "Infiltrator Wing" for the Republic). Each week, the top three pilots in each faction that earn the most conquest points are awarded Iron Stars and "placement points", with placement points being used to determine monthly awards, as well as final standings for season awards and the title of Legacy Conquest Champion! Additionally, an ORA is given (up to two, one for each guild) for every pilot that earns over 100,000 conquest points. This season runs from now through April 29, 2025. If you're a SWTOR player, I recommend reviewing the competition details for more information! Please reach out if you have any questions! |
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Competition Reminder - Ace of the TIE Corps 2025: Season 1This year's Ace of the TIE Corps event has begun! As a quick reminder, for Ace of the TIE Corps, Iron Stars are awarded to the top fifteen pilots who earn the most points in each category (SP, PvP, and PvE). Points are determined by platform used for completing missions (SP) or winning matches (PvE,PvP). For more information on points per platform and awards, please view the following competition listings:
Season 1 will last from now through April 30th, 2025. Best of luck to all our pilots this season! |
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Battlegroup III Awards and Stats for January 2025 |
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Battlegroup III Monthly Stats for January 2025Stats of the Month:
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Battlegroup III Promotions in January 2025Congrats to the following officers!
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Battlegroup III Awards in January 2025
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That's all for now! Keep an eye out for the official announcement kicking off Imperial Storm training maneuvers competition this week! Until then, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about things going on in Battlegroup III, the TIE Corps, or anything else. My email is locke.f.setzer@gmail.com and my Discord name is LockeSetzer. My door is always open! In Service, ![]()
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