Greeting fellow Praetorians & Illustrious guests, this is report #34 2/11/05

EH Homepage: http://www.emperorshammer.org/
TC Homepage: http://www.ehtiecorps.org/
Intel Homepage: http://intel.minos.net/
Intel Division Manual: http://intelmanual.minos.net/
Intel Division, Academy of Tactics: http://www.minos.net/~rebelkiller/
IWATS: http://www.ehtiecorps.org/iwats.asp
Praetorian Homepage: http://praetorian.rawx.net/
Praetorian Message Board: http://www.ehnet.org/mb/viewforum.php?f=112
EH Battle Compendium: http://www.ehtiecorps.org/battles/
The Science Office: http://www.minos.net/~sco/
EH Messageboard: http://mb.emperorshammer.net/

News:
My former XO, LC Ric Taldrya rejoined Prae this week, welcome back Ric!

FA mBinder awarded the Praetorians (me, Deimos, Drak & Saris) who flew in the Casino Royale comp a Palpatine Crescent (PC) as a reward for us winning the comp. Thanks Bender!

VA Scrier the ExDir of ID and our squadron liason to Praetorian from the Intel Division retired on Sunday. I'm going to miss work Scrier, he helped bring Prae closer to ID over the past nine months and awarded Prae nicely for our victories, missed mse awards, etc.. over that time. Whats more he is a friend to myself and Prae & for that I have awarded him a Praetorian Brotherhood title (sorry if you not a Prae this is classified);p.

During Scriers retirement ceremony he awarded Prae some very nice medals for all we've accomplished recently including a Force of The Emperor's Will for the Prae's who participated in the Casino Royale comp and a Intelligence Vigilance Cross (IVC) for all of Prae! I was honored with Vatrix Mini-Fire Blaster (VM-FB)'s from VA Scrier as well. MAJ Deimos was given a Force of the Emperor's Will [FoEW] as well for beating down the entire TC in XWA as well;p. Last but certianly not least Scrier awarded COL Morgan our communications officer something for his efforts as well.

Our boss AD Aseret awarded VA Scrier his own personal Shuttle (SHU) upon his retirement. Congratz Scrier!
Also, As wants everyone to feel free to ask questions about ID on the EH message board, specifically in the "Reveal your Fears" topic:
http://mb.emperorshammer.net/viewtopic.php?t=809&sid=6950a7a37a207d8f820f074946d6f4e4

Also, our InterOrg Budr friend GN Stirlitz was awarded a Vatrix Mini-Fire Blaster (VM-FB) as well. Congratz!

I'm proud of you guys!

As far as competitions COL Morgan is working on Praetorian trivia, and I think it's time to challenge another squadron to keep our skills sharp. Which squad is up to you guys. Let me know what you want to do, alright?

Flight Deck:
I'm going to post notices of bugged battles/missions here so nobody wastes their time attemting to fly the incompletable/impossible;p.
XWA-FCHG4 (mission 4 is bugged)- I've reported this to GN Master.
BoP-ID1 (mission 4 is incompletable)- I've reported this to VA Styles multiple times...
XvT-TC#11... Mission 7 is completable (barely) but still horribly bugged (this just in from MAJ Dolsar Saris a few weeks ago).

Submitted by MAJ Deimos:
XWA Free 25 -> There are not enough points to
match the current high score. I have tried all
difficulty settings, and the best score is only
about half the HS.

XWA Free 26 -> Not only is this mission rather
demanding, but the problem is in the escape buoy:
it is present for only a fraction of a second,
and it doesn't work, meaning the player is stuck
in region #2 and cannot finnish the mission.
I have tried this one on 'hard' only because it
takes a lot of time to finish. I can try playing
it on other settings, but somehow I (GN Master is working on fixing this one).

XWA Free 97 -> There is nothing to do but inspect
the 'exit buoy.' If that mission was supposed to
be a maze, I found myself flying outside of it.
This means the best (and only) score that I can
make is 250 points. I played that one on 'hard'
only.

XWA-TC 33 I've played mission 1 on all difficulty
settings, and there are not enough points to match
the official score. For mission 2 I only tried 'hard',
and there are also not enough points to match the
current high score. At least that old HS is mine.
:-)
Missions 3 and 4 really gave me a lot of trouble.
I knew Kodiak was good multiplay flyer (we flew
together once), but I never figured I would have
that many problems breaking his high scores.

FTIE93 (submitted by MAJ Drak):
i believe that the current highscore as shown on the Database is a result of cheating and ask that an investigation into it be launched.

I flew this on hard i got 93% accuracy with both lasers & ions , 100% with missiles, i killed all 12 B-wings & A-Wings, 2 space objects, got 2 bonus goals, didnt get the final bonus goal which was to let one rebel survive (figured the mon cal cruiser woulda done that but no, i reflew and let one escape and nope that didnt work, reflew again and disabled last one still no bonus goal:/) however according to the readme it says no points are awarded for that bonus goals and i dont see how having all bonus goals would award you with 69612 points

Further more i flew this again a fourth time, this time i flew on medium, my accuracy was shot to hell (approx 50 - 60%) but i got a higher score, what i did different was to blast all freindly craft to kingdom come.

As i understand it killing freindly craft is a nono


I encourage the rest of Prae to participate in this section- send in info on known bugged battles/missions of all platforms.

Orders:
-Monthly flying requirements are now in place: It's a mandatory requirement to fly at least one battle or four free missions a month, I will allow you to fly MP matches in place of the missions if you wish (I'm easy to work with usually);p.
-Recruit, our numbers are fairly steady: however, if you know of any exemplary pilots who meet our requirements feel free to let me know about them. Remember our requirements for being accepted to take the Prae trials are the rank of LCM with 400 FCHG; however, for a full status Prae it's still CM with at least 500 FCHG.
http://praetorian.rawx.net/join.php (the only exception to this rule I'm allowing is former Prae's who served more than three months; however, they must still have the min required FCHG of 500). We are elite after all.
-work on improving your own personal FCHG levels- remember we do have a few squadron specific rewards related to this! ;p.

For every 10 squadron citations you earn for Prae I will recommend you for a Imperial Security Medal (ISM).

current citations listings:
LC Malik 24 citations
COL Torres 4/10 citations
MAJ Deimos 1/10 citations
MAJ Drak 6/10 citationss
MAJ Chris Cox 0/10 citations (reset back to zero after earning a new ISM).
LC Ric Taldrya 2/10 citations
COL Morgan 1/10 citations
LC Dolsar Saris 5/10 citations
MAJ Evo Sarnok 8/10 citations


current citation assignments: (from now on this is a first come first earned activity)- you can use the link below to maximuze our efforts.
For more information feel free to check out http://www.gysnet.com/index.php?wing=0&squad=4 (this is much better than the citboard program).

Prae Activity:

AD Gelton Torr- "Soulforged" (Prae emeritus)- e-mail, e-group activity, busy being GM of the EHDB;p.

AD Frodo March- "Frothy" (Prae emeritus)- e-mail, e-group & mIrc activity & TAC stuff;p.

GN Andrzej Mezynski- "Iceman' (Prae emeritus)- e-mail & mIrc activity, earned 1st place in Sunday's ID meeting mIrc trivia.

VA Scrier- "S man" (Prae emeritus)- e-mail & mIrc activity, ran ID mIrc trivia after Sunday's ID meeting.

CMDR, LC Malik "Irek"- CMDR stuff, flew TIE-TC5, TIE-TC81, TIE-TC83, TIE-TC84, TIE-TC85, TIE-TC87, TIE-TC90, TIE-TC138, TIE-TC139, TIE-TC149, TIE-TC154, TIE-TC157, TIE-TC158, TIE-TC159, TIE-TC161, TIE-TC162, TIE-TC164, TIE-TC165 earning six squadron citations. Tac stuff: easy test of: [TC] ASF: Beligerance (XWA) & hard test of [TC] ASF: Aggression (XWA). Communications activity- mIrc, e-mail, MB & e-group.

COL Torres "Zen"- flew XvT-CAB1, XvT-CAB2, XvT-CAB3, FTIE214, FTIE215, FTIE216, FTIE217, FTIE249 earning three squadron citations for XvT-CAB1, XvT-CAB2, and XvT-CAB3. Communications activity- e-mail.

MAJ Deimos - flew FXWA45 earning a mission high score. Communications activity- e-mail.

XO/FL, MAJ Drak "Drak" - Communications activity- mIrc, e-mail & e-group.

LC Ric Taldrya "Blade" - flew XvT-TC88, XvT-TC89, XvT-TC90, XvT-TC91, XvT-TC92, XvT-TC93, XvT-TC94, XvT-TC95, XvT-TC97, XvT-TC98, XvT-TC99, XvT-IS1 earnign two squadron citations for XvT-TC89 & XvT-TC95. Communications activity- mIrc & e-mail.

MAJ Chris Cox "Enigmaticone"- CC's currently working on two XvT battles about Prae. Communications activity- e-mail.

FL, LC Dolsar Saris "Black Sheep"- flew XvT-TC59 earning Prae one squadron citation, earned 3rd place in Sunday's ID meeting mIrc trivia, and took the advanced command AoT course. Communications activity- mIrc, e-mail

Communications Officer, COL Morgan "Ballabal"- Communications activity- e-mail, mIrc, MB & e-group.

MAJ Evo Sarnok "Raven"- flew TIE-TC41, TIE-TC58, TIE-TC98, TIE-TC99, TIE-TC100, TIE-TC101, TIE-TC104 earning six squadron citations for TIE-TC41, TIE-TC58, TIE-TC98, TIE-TC99, TIE-TC100, and TIE-TC101. Communications activity- mIrc, e-mail.

Current Missions Flown Tally for February:
LC Malik: 100 missions/6 citations.
COL Torres: 25 missions/3 citations.
MAJ Deimos: 4 missions.
MAJ Drak: N/A
LC Ric Taldrya: 68 missions/2 citations.
MAJ Chris Cox: N/a
LC Dolsar Saris: 14 missions/2 citations.
COL Morgan: N/A
MAJ Evo Sarnok: 51 missions/8 citations

Competitions:
TBA

Transfers:
in LC Ric Taldrya from the reserves

Medals/Awards/promotions: (medal fest this week with the ID ExDir VA Scrier retiring & awarding Prae);p.
MAJ Evo Sarnok earned a Imperial Security Medal (ISM) Praetorian ten new squadron citations towards the goal of achieving two hundred squadron citations.
COL Torres earned a Imperial Security Medal (ISM) for flying twenty-five missions in a single day (XvT-CAB1, XvT-CAB2, XvT-CAB3, FTIE214, FTIE215, FTIE216, FTIE217, and FTIE249) & earning Praetorian three new squadron citations towards the goal of two hundred citations.
MAJ Deimos earned a Iron Star - Platinum Wings (IS-PW) for 1st place in the XWA section of the Casino Imperiale competition with a score of 49,761. Excellent Flying!
COL Malik, LC Dolsar Saris, MAJ Deimos, and MAJ Drak all earned a Palpatine Crescent (PC) for Praetorian Squadron Unit Citation for coming in as first unit (best particiation and consistant quality) in the Casino Imperiale competition.
COL Malik, LC Dolsar Saris, MAJ Deimos, and MAJ Drak all earned a Force of the Empero's Will [FoEW] from ExDir VA Scrier as a ID particiaption award in the SCO's comp.
COL Malik earned a Vratix Mini-Fire Blaster (VM-FB) for my performance as Prae CMDR by ExDir VA Scrier upon his retirement.
all of Prae earned a Intelligence Vigilance Cross (IVC) from ExDir VA Scrier for Prae's performance of late.
MAJ Deimos earned a Golden Medallion of Foresight (GMoF) for beating down the entire TC fleet in the SCO comp from ExDir VA Scrier.
LC Dolsar Saris earned a Pennent of Competition - Bronze level [PoC-bl] for 3rd place in ID mIrc meeting trivia from ExDrir VA Scrier.
COL Morgan earned a Medal of Awareness (MoA) from ExDir VA Scrier for Prae Communication Officer duties moderating the Prae section of the EH message board.
COL Malik earned a Communique Submission Medal (CSM) from the SDIR AD Aseret T.
MAJ Drak earned a Palpatine Crescent (PC) from January's flying activity (mse award).
MAJ Evo Sarnok earned a Praetorian Brotherhood promotion (classified).
VA Scrier earned a Praetorian Brotherhood promotion (classified).
HA Cyric promoted Malik to the rank of full Colonel on Tuesday.


Praetorian Roster:

FLIGHT I - TIE PRAETOR
Nickname: Styx Flight
Motto: "Death comes in many forms and we shall be your guides to that existence" ;p.
1) COL Abel Malik (ezwill@famvid.com)
2) COL Torres (dunnwd@ozemail.com.au)
3) TBA
4) MAJ Deimos (deimos_001@yahoo.com)

FLIGHT II - TIE PRAETOR
Nickname: Charon Flight
Motto: "we'll take you to hell and leave you there."
1) MAJ Drak (drak18_uk@yahoo.com)
2) LC Ric Taldrya (eh_blade@yahoo.com)
3) MAJ Chris Cox (dodgygeeza98@hotmail.com)
4) TBA .

FLIGHT III - TIE PRAETOR
Nickname: Hades Flight
Motto: "And lo I saw a pale horse, its' rider was Death, and hell followed with him."
1) LC Dolsar Saris (darkfinn@hotmail.com)
2) COL Benjamin Jahou Morgan (w.j.aigner@netway.at)
3) MAJ Evo Sarnok (mmilli_esq@hotmail.com)
4) TBA

Squadron Citations: we're currently at 186 citations (our cit level went down from 199 to 180 after Ric joined us; however, LC Ric Taldrya, MAJ Evo Sarnok, and LC Dolsar Saris, and I have been working on improving the citations back to a higher level. Good work guys!

This concludes our report for this week.

In Respect, COL Malik Praetorian CMDR. Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt (Where ever Right and Glory Lead)

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