Alpha Squadron Report # 154


7th HEAVY ASSAULT "ALPHA" SQUADRON WEEKLY REPORT#154
REPORTING OFFICER: Lieutenant Colonel Alejandro Araujo, PIN #11929 DATE SUBMITTED: 2022.07.08.13:22:22 (Week #174-June's Week 1-#5: 2022.06.01.0:00:00 – 2022.06.30.23:59:59)				RELEVANT LINKS: TIE Corps Website TIE Corps Discord TIE Corps Sub-Reddit Previous Alpha Reports
ROSTER
*12 Strong*
FLIGHT I- Spectre Advanced Missile Boat		FLIGHT II- Spectre Advanced Missile Boat				FLIGHT III- TIE Defender
[1: Alpha 1-1] LC Alejandro Araujo (ah.pin11929@gmail.com) [2: Alpha 1-2] LCM Milo Antu (ehtcantu@gmail.com) [3: Alpha 1-3] LT Ilios (labc133@gmail.com) [4: Alpha 1-4] LT Alpharius Omegon (veritas.crawl@gmail.com )		[5: Alpha 2-1] COL Horus Blackheart (rtatum_88@hotmail.com) [6: Alpha 2-2] LT Haro (rr.external2003@gmail.com) [7: Alpha 2-3] LCM Hopfot (thehopfot@gmail.com) [8: Alpha 2-4] CM Aaron Cremel (dolekanov@yandex.ru)				[9: Alpha 3-1] COL Talons Pryde (Talonspryde@gmail.com) [10: Alpha 3-2] LCM WoofWolffe (alexander.awad@students.arborprep.com) [11: Alpha 3-3] MAJ Nebular (Raistlin@fastwebnet.it) [12: Alpha 3-4] LCM Syntroth (BackdireinEis@gmx.de)
INTRO
My penguins. Do you have what it takes? Is your connection below 0.1 kbps? Is your ping over 9000 ms? Your taskbar takes 180% of your screen? Your hard disks are 190% full? You take 40 min to load a SSWS match? Then Alpha is your squadron! You are part of the sea of eternally frozen connections where no one can download a single bit, known as Lagtartida. :D With that said, we have to say goodbye to James379 and welcome Alpharius Omegon , a veteran from the classics. Welcome aboard my dude!
HEADLINES
Emperor's Hammer Latest news can be found here. TIE Corps Latest TCCOM report Latest SOO report Latest COO report Latest COM report Alpha Squadron · As I said, be on comms, be active or say what are you up to if you're on a LoA but let your CMDR know either you're active or you're busy. Getting along is always good for us so don't be afraid to talk and share with the rest of the unit · SL Ilios produced such a fine piece of work on this standalone mod called "Embers of the Empire" for X-Wing Alliance. What we have here is a full campaign featuring technical improvements using XWAU plus some of his own work. I truly recommend it: interesting storyline, voice acting, awesome graphics... here https://mega.nz/file/pIQkhTCB#bCXsHynnzQ2jjU0ODrDm-penLpeNaPSgVSqKpRAcJdM also leave your comments here: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AlsTsaEmjwXbfVz4KB6jbwomGSE?e=0B8CC8. · LT Hopfot completed his profile on the Hammer site here: http://www.isdhammer.org/alpha_roster.html#pilotview2-3 which is truly awesome. I recommend , I invite you to do the same whenever you can (and if you can have a uniform like he does, the better!). Hopfot has also printed Alpha logo on his t-shirt hehe isn't it nice? :D · COL Pryde has been streaming his gameplay. I recommend you follow him on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/PrydeTalons/status/1415378597527920643 TIE Fighter Sequel/ImperialXWAU Project. I leave this as a changelog. I'll try to update the mod with the latest reeleases ASAP. #ChangelogImperialXWA 08-07-2022 Well, TFTC has been accepted as a platform. BSFing the pilot files for its campaign iss a bit different but not that much. The TAC explained it in detail on his report. The latest version of XWAU isn’t compatible with the latest version of TFTC BUT, they’ll update TFTC. It is an improvement and the details are on the XWAU site. I think once TFTC is updated, it can be used for our campaign. I’ll add whatever ships it is missing via object replacement hook. 18-08-2021 Ilios work fulfilled my goal of showing what can be done with XWAU. I still plan on building the campaign tho. 09-08-2021 With TFTC being the basis of the mod, the task ahead is to port previous shipset and try to understand how Babu Friki and Palpatine Total Converter works. 09-07-2021 TFTC folks are enabling coop for TIE campaign so I no longer need to do that. 03-07 TFTC released. I'll be using this as the basis for our CP 02-06-2021 I believe we can wait on the release of the RebelCP and see if we can combine it with the Imperial Concourse files. I need to talk this with the XWAU team. The rest of the custom craft can be added on demand via hooks. No need to make things complicated. 31-03-2021 1) Installed GoG XWA 2) From XWAU site (https://www.xwaupgrade.com/index.php) installed the following: 2.1) 2020 Mega Patch https://www.xwaupgrade.com/download/installers/XWAU2020.exe 2.2) Update 2.0 https://www.xwaupgrade.com/download/installers/XWAU2020update_v2.0.exe 3) Applied XwaExePatcher 1.0.25 3.1) Craft count per region from 96 to 192. 3.2) Sound format from 22050 Hz to 96000 Hz 3.3) Fix gun convergence to AI 3.4) Remove warhead count of 9 3.5) Replace laser count from 64 to 256 As for modding, if all works, on XvT we'd be playing the following flight plan: 1) TIE Campaign part I - Battles 1-7 - coop enabled 2) Default XvT/BoP missions - coop enabled 3) BoP campaign - coop enabled 4) TIE Campaign II: battles 8-13 - coop enabled 5) TC PvE - coop enabled missions and battles. Note: this would do a fine addition to the EHSP. I mean, enable the use of some of the custom craft the EHSP brings in. Plus, the 60 FPS patch and maybe the laser and bloom effects for XvT, not sure. But, I want to include the TIE campaign into it.This guy, Waylon , created a set of conversions from XW, TIE and XvT into XWA. I could adapt those into this version of XWA meanwhile ...until the TFTC is done. The XvT to XWA is a keeper tho. We could use those campaigns there. I mean, should be interesting to test them on DSUCP. So there will be a lot of PvE for us to do on XvT/BoP. For XWA I plan for us the following: 1) Converted TIE Campaign - Actually, I could just wait for TFTC, right? Then set them up as coop. 2) Converted XvT/BoP missions - coop enabled 3) Converted BoP campaign - coop enabled 4) (Possibly, need to talk to Yoda) converted XvT/BoP PvE enabled missions/battles - coop enabled 5) Storyline about us, the new canon and some events based on RL I wanted to propose on my fiction - coop enabled as well. Either way we'd have a lot of PvE activity and I'd like us to try PvP not just with the default craft but also with the custom ones. Also, whenver you have the time update not just your INPR but consider an article for your character on the wikia. I'd like very much for us to do this on a weekly basis once it is ready. Possibly friday or saturday, I'd locally record it and post the gameplay to keep a flight record of our deeds as a squadron.
COMPETITIONS
A full list of active competitions is available on http://tc.emperorshammer.org/competitions.php?id=current.
WEEKLY EVALUATION #154
Pilot	SP	LoSs	LoCs		Other Activity/Awards/Comments
[1: Alpha 1-1] LC Alejandro Araujo (ah.pin11929@gmail.com)	3	0	0		Communications: Discord, email. Flight Operations: @30-06 flew XWA-F 1—3 . Non-flight Operations: @30-06 Review XWA F-1—3. Administrative Tasks: [Wed Jun 08 2022] Submitted a new Alpha Squadron report. Awards & Achievements: none. Observation: Ah, using just a vanilla XWA for basic activity here but found a new motivation to try TFTC and build missions.
[2: Alpha 1-2] LCM Milo Antu (ehtcantu@gmail.com)	1	0	0		Communications: Discord. Flight Operations: @25-06 flew BoP-F 1. Participated on TFTC, reaching the top 5 on highest scores (#3). Non-flight Operations: Managed to fix XWA and run TFTC. Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: * [Sat Jun 25 2022] New Fleet Commander's Honor Guard rank: Cavalier [CAVL] · OV x 1 Observation: Milo solved his technical issues and is actively participating on the classics and TFTC as well. Investing time in assisting him on his tech issues actually paid well and we can expect more from him. .
[3: Alpha 1-3] LT Ilios (labc133@gmail.com)	0	0	0		Communications: Discord. Flight Operations: none. Non-flight Operations: Working on Embers of the Empire. Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: none Observation: As last month, Ilios keeps improving his mod. I’m considering running a competition about it.
[4: Alpha 1-4] LT Alpharius Omegon (veritas.crawl@gmail.com )	0	0	0		Communications: Discord. Flight Operations: none. Non-flight Operations: none. Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: * OV x 1. Observation: An enthusiast of the classics. I look forward to work with him in the future!
[5: Alpha 2-1] COL Horus Blackheart (rtatum_88@hotmail.com)	0	0	0		Communications: Discord. Flight Operations: none Non-flight Operations: trying to fix his PC. Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: none. Observation: Horus needs more time to finally be able to fix his PC.
[6: Alpha 2-2] LT Haro (rr.external2003@gmail.com)	0	0	0		Communications: Discord. Flight Operations: none. Non-flight Operations: none. Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: none. Observation: Well, last comms on 25-06. Waiting on activity here.
[7: Alpha 2-3] LCM Hopfot (thehopfot@gmail.com)	1	1	0		Communications: Discord. Flight Operations: @27-06 flew TIE-F 5 + LoS x 1 Non-flight Operations: * [Mon Jun 27 2022] Submitted review for TIE-F 5: Dorja #1. Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: * [Wed Jun 22 2022] Flight Certification Wings awarded: 4th Echelon * OV x 1. Observation: Good comms , SP and MP activity. A bit of everything.
[8: Alpha 2-4] CM Aaron Cremel (dolekanov@yandex.ru)	0	10	0		Communications: Discord. Flight Operations: 10xLoS. Non-flight Operations: * [Sat Jun 18 2022] Submitted answers for timed test: June 2022 - Challenge with Words · [Sat Jun 18 2022] Submitted answers for timed test: June 2022 - Hammer Crossword 1 * [Thu Jun 02 2022] Submitted answers for timed test: Trivia for the Hammered - Season Five - W1Q4 Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: * IS-SR x 1. * [Wed Jun 22 2022] New Combat Rating (MP PvE) rank achieved: Gunner's Mate 1st. Observation: 10 LoS, see? My pilot is here, fighting the good fight!
[9: Alpha 3-1] COL Talons Pryde (Talonspryde@gmail.com)	0	0	0		Communications: Discord. Flight Operations: none. Non-flight Operations: * [Wed Jun 01 2022] Submitted answers for timed test: Trivia for the Hammered - Season Five - W1Q4 Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: none. Observation: I’m thankful he is still around.
[10: Alpha 3-2] LCM WoofWolffe (alexander.awad@students.arborprep.com)	0	0	0		Communications: e-mail (a lot). Flight Operations: none. Non-flight Operations: Some RPG related to SW. SW Miniatures iirc. Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: none. Observation: He’s stll around.
[11: Alpha 3-3] MAJ Nebular (Raistlin@fastwebnet.it)	0	0	0		Communications: Discord. Flight Operations: none. Non-flight Operations: none. Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: none. Observation: Last contact on June 01st.
[12: Alpha 3-4] LCM Syntroth (BackdireinEis@gmx.de)	0	0	0		Communications: Discord. Flight Operations: none. Non-flight Operations: none. Administrative Tasks: none. Awards & Achievements: * Medal of Communication - Bronze Oak Cluster x 1 Observation: Currently away from his PC. Made contact via Discord to report his situation.
PROMOTIONS/TRANSFERS.
· James 379 from Alpha 1-4 to RSV. · Alpharius Omegon from RSV to Alpha 1-4. · ·
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hit me up on Discord or email. I’m usually able to respond 24/7.
COMMANDER’S ANALYSIS
Well, not much to say yet. Dismissed!
SIGNOFF
Respectfully submitted: Lieutenant Colonel Alejandro Araujo CMDR-ROA/LC Alejandro Araujo/Alpha/Wing I/ISDII Hammer email: ah.pin11929@gmail.com , Discord: Haakan#5400, Message Boards Telegram: @AA_11929

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