ISDII Hammer Report # 44 (2016-01-03)

This report was submitted by COM-TACA/HA Anahorn Dempsey/ISDII Hammer


 
ISD-II Hammer
Commodore HA Dempsey reporting
Report ID: H.AD.044
Report date: January 3, 2016

 
Commodore's speech

Hello there pilots!

Happy New Year to all!

It's the 3rd of the year, and finally I can relax. I've been flying my ass off to make sure LCM Silvius wasn't going to beat me for my second place on the killboard, which he didn't, which means I now have a locked up 2nd place on all three of the killboards, with 1000+ on all three. Yay me :)

Good news also befell us this week, as we saw another new recruit joinging the ISD Hammer: SL Syntroth, who quickly earned his promotion to full lieutenant. Finally - a new pilot who flies TIE Fighter!

There's also some bad news: only one command position on the Hammer stayed in the same hands this year, as we saw the whole TCCS replaced, a new Hammer COM, and new Commanders for Alpha, Beta and Delta. Not for Epsilon, as GN Polo has chosen to resign his position as Commander. As such, we're in the market for a new Squadron Commander. Those who wish can apply by sending an email to me, FA Woody and AD Pellaeon. A few wise words on your plans are nice, and as always, the Squadron Management 3 or 4 IWATS course is required, or to be taken (and passed) within the next few days. I would like to thank GN Polo for his extensive work for Epsilon Squadron, of which he was the Commander for almost 6 years!

I've also made some organisational changes to the database last week, and that broke a few things and links left and right, but that should all be fixed now, thanks to VA Plif who was paying attention to such things :)

There's also a change in the regulations when it comes to Reservists. It won't affect too many, but as of the new year, Reservists can't really do much anymore, whereas before they could still earn medals for activity. Which is weird in my book - if you can do that, you can join a squadron. To me, that's what it should be anyway. In an attempt to do so, those who use the website to report their MP matches will notice the list of names to choose from when reporting is a lot shorter than it used to be - as of last Friday, it only displays the TC personnel who are assigned to a unit.

Another database glitch (and I'll be damned if I know what happened) is that with the arrival of a new recruit somewhere early in December, the database decided that sequential PIN numbers was boring - the last decent PIN is 13088, and the next one the database gave out was 55556. This is fun :)

With the year over, it's also time to wrap up The GoG Games: TIE Fighter. It's been fun, although the last battle was ugly. For the first time, I had to lower the difficulty because I ran out of patience to complete the mission on hard. As such, my hopes of one last monthly win were squashed by VA Plif who didn't have to resort to such tactics.

BATTLE 13 RESULTS

#PINnamescore (ll)killsrankelevation
1 346VA Plif 520,673/3,750,594182/1,517General The Emperor's Reach
212945HA Dempsey 493,064/3,874,886174/1,589General The Emperor's Reach
3 2485GN Dax Corrin 443,246/2,731,356195/1,370General The Emperor's Reach
4 345COL Gyssler 331,901/3,219,032150/1,294General The Emperor's Reach
5 3342LC Michael Emrys 32,698/ 763,054178/ 879General The Inner Circle

OVERALL RESULTS OVER 13 BATTLES

#PINnamescore (ll)kills/caps/lostlaser hitswarhead hits
112945HA Dempsey 3,874,8861,589/60/11 9,860/13,954 (71%)2,497/2,619 (95%)
2 346VA Plif 3,750,5941,517/58/ 415,517/21,858 (71%)1,545/1,668 (93%)
3 345COL Gyssler 3,219,0321,294/54/ 612,974/20,112 (65%)1,443/1,652 (87%)
4 2485GN Dax Corrin 2,731,3561,370/48/1212,090/18,554 (65%)2,228/2,496 (89%)
5 3342LC Michael Emrys 763,054 879/40/ 0 3,121/ 4,914 (64%)1,852/2,121 (87%)

WINNERS PER BATTLE

battlewinner2nd place3rd place
1: The Aftermath of Hoth GN Pickled Yoda HA Dempsey LC Repulsor
2: The Sepan Civil War HA Dempsey COL Gyssler VA Plif
3: Battle on the Frontier HA Dempsey COL Gyssler VA Plif
4: Conflict at Mylok IV GN Master VA Plif LC Repulsor
5: Battle for Honor VA Plif COL Gyssler HA Dempsey
6: Arms Race HA Dempsey VA Plif GN Master
7: Treachery at Ottega HA Dempsey VA Plif GN Master
8: Strategic Warfare HA Dempsey GN Master VA Plif
9: T/D Tehcnology HA Dempsey VA Plif COL Gyssler
10: New Threats VA Plif HA Dempsey COL Gyssler
11: Hunt for Zaarin VA Plif HA Dempsey GN Dax Corrin
12: Prelude to Endor VA Plif HA Dempsey COL Gyssler
13: The Emperor's Will VA Plif HA Dempsey GN Dax Corrin

It's been fun playing, thanx for the participation, and all medals are underway. That makes 39 medals in total for this competitoin. Which is good...
HA Dempsey: IS-PW, IS-SW (x3); VA Plif: IS-GW (x2), IS-SW (x2); GN Dax Corrin: IS-SW, IS-BW (x2); COL Gyssler: IS-SW (x3); GN Master: IS-BW; GN Pickled Yoda: IS-BW; LC Mickk Emrys: IS-SW

And onto other news: with the end of the year, so comes to an end the Weekly Riddles competition. And a good thing, since it was getting harder and harder to find decent ones. But fear not - I have a rreplacement. I chickened out of something complex and kept it simple: we're doing random movie screenshots. Well, not completely random as I did try to get a screenshot of a scene which makes it guessable what the movie is. Nevertheless, some are very easy, and some will be very hard.... Regular hints will be going out . The medal structure is the same as last year: an IS-BR per win with regular upgrades for multiple winners.

More good news: COL Clark isn't the only one who's recently started getting onto the Combat ratings Leaderboard, as this week CM Trideo Arkson also earned his first Legions in MP combat. Good job to you as well!

And it's not the only yearly competition that ended, so did all three of the killboards. While the TCCOM took victory on both MP killboards, our very own COL Golbez Harvey took the title after I had it two years in a row. Good work Harvey! I still managed to get 2nd on all three killboards though, so I'm happy. I wonder what would have happened if LCM Silvius had been with us all year, I guess we will find out next year! Or this year. Or... well, you know what I mean.

Let's make this a great year, pilots of the ISDII Hammer, and let's take the RtF victoiry home this time!
 

 
News headlines this week

  • new pilot: SL Syntroth
  • SL Syntroth promoted
  • GN Polo resigns as Epsilon CMDR
  • MSEs due
     
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    Transfers, promotions and medals this week

    RANK PROMOTIONS

  • SL Syntroth: rank promotion to LT

    FLEET COMMANDER'S HONOR GUARD ADVANCEMENTS

  • LCM Silvius:

    COMBAT RATINGS ADVANCEMENTS

  • LT Syntroth: none -> Trainee
  • LCM Silvius: Elite 1st -> Ace 4th
  • CM Tride Arkson: none -> Trainee -> Certified
  • HA Dempsey: Ace 1st -> Top Ace 4th

    MEDALS

  • LT Syntroth: IS-BW, LoC
  • LT Zagro Fenn:
  • LCM Silvius: IS-GW (x4), IS-SW (x7), IS-BW (x2), IS-BR (x3), LoC (x79), LoS (x16)
  • CM Ibram Gaunt: LoC (x4), LoS, OV
  • CM Trideo Arkson: IS-BR, LoC (x14)
  • CM Witcher: IS-GR
  • CPT Doc: IS-SW, LoS (x2)
  • MAJ Shado Fenn: IS-BR
  • LC Iceman: LoC (x11), OV
  • COL Golbez Harvey: IS-GW (x2), IS-SW (x2), IS-BW
  • COL Gyssler: IS-SW (x3)
  • COL John T. Clark: IS-SW, IS-BR, LoC, LoS (x14), OV
  • COL Rau Aznable: IS-BW, LoS (x3)
  • GN Coranel Both: IS-SW, IS-BW (x3)
  • GN Dax Corrin: IS-SW, IS-BW (x2)
  • HA Dempsey: IS-PW, IS-GW (x3), IS-SW (x4), IS-BW (x4), DFC, LoC (x145), LoS (x68)
     
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    Command positions not filled

    If you wish to take on any of the following positions, send an application to the Squadron Commander (if applicable) and Commodore:

  • Epsilon squadron: Commander
  • Alpha squadron: Flight II,III Flight Leader
  • Beta squadron: Flight II Flight Leader
     
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    Commodore activity report

  • communications: e-mail, IRC, Telegram
  • MP flying: some open space sorties, 213 SC victories
  • other: BSFing pilotfiles, website/database stuff, submitted 2 new battles to the TAC

  • FCHG status: Imperator (5,909 pts = +41)
  • Combat rating: Ace 2nd (2,520 pts = +218)
     
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    Competitions currently running

    TIE Corps wide competitions:

  • TIE Corps on Patrol (2016) (SP flying)
  • TIE Corps on Recon (2016) (MP flying)
  • Expanding the Cartel - First Quarter (other)
  • Dempsey's Weekly Screenshots (other)
  • Star Conflict: PvP Average Kills (MP Flying)

     
    Hammer wide competitions:

  • Hammer SP Pilot of the Month (SP flying)
  • Hammer MP Pilot of the Month (MP flying)

     
    Hammer squadron competitions:

  • Delta Weekly Trivia (2016) (trivia)
     
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    Commodore's Competitions

    Dempsey's Weekly Screenshots

    Every week, the report will have a screenshot. First pilot to send the correct answer to the mailing list wins. Each victory earns you an IS-BR. Unless it's a 5th victory, you then get a IS-SR. Unless it's a 10th victory, which gives you an IS-GR. A 25th victory will give you an IS-PR!

    This week's screenshot:

    Last week's winner: RA Hawkins (he won the last riddle)

    Final standings: RA Hawkins: 14; FA Woody: 7; LC Clark: 6; AD Pellaeon: 4, CM Archenksov: 4; LCM Hav Antiel, CM Doc CM Jast, GN Both, GN Pickled Yoda: 2; HA Bonini, COL La'an, LC Tempest, MAJ Fenn,: 1

     
    Hammer Pilot of the Month

    One point per mission flown for the SP part of this competition, and 1 point per LoC/LoS for the MP part of this competition. Stats will be taken from the killboards.

    Final December SP standings:

  • HA Dempsey: 101 pts (not competing)
  • COL Golbez Harvey: 45 pts
  • GN Coranel Both: 6 pts
  • LT Syntroth: 1 pts

    Final December MP standings:

  • HA Dempsey: 582 pts (not competing)
  • LCM Silvius: 530 pts
  • COL John T. Clark: 81 pts
  • COL Rau Aznable: 80 pts
  • LT Zagro Fenn: 28 pts
  • CM Ibram Gaunt: 19 pts
  • CM Trideo Arkson: 14 pts
  • CM Archenksov: 12 pts
  • LC Iceman: 12 pts
  • GN Dunta Polo: 4 pts
  • CM Doc: 3 pt
  • LT Benjo: 2 pts
  • CM Drake Starfire: 1 pt
     
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    Wrapping up

    It's been a good year. It's also been a year with many changes. The aforementioned almost 100% changeover of the Command Staff and the Hammer's Chain of Command, but also my resignation as TAC and appointment of RA Sienar as new TAC. We saw HA Dan Bonini and HA Frodo March depart for the reserves, and the creation of the TC Newsletter. Let's see what next year brings...

    Before we do that though, it's once again time to decide on some achievable goals for the coming year. I did so last year, and achieved them all. Maybe I should set my standards higher:

  • SP: 1000+ missions flown, with at least 4 wins on the killboard (0/1000 done - 0%)
  • SP: create at least 2 new battles for TIE, XvT and XWA (0/6 done - 0%)
  • MP: reach Tan in the CR standings (0/2539 pts done - 0%)
  • earn 150 IS-*W medals (12/150 done - 8%)

    I wonder if I can hit them all without going completely berserk.

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