Delta Report # 61 (2014-01-01)

This report was submitted by CMDR/COL Anahorn Dempsey/Delta/Wing I/ISDII Hammer


  Delta Squadron Weekly Report #61 2014.01.01 

This week in the report:

  • Commander's notes
  • In the headlines this week
  • Joke of the week
  • Squadron activity report
  • Important Competitions
  • Delta's End of Year Bash
  • Squadron roster
  • Medals and promotions
  • Wrapping up
     
  •   Commander's notes

    Last report of the old year or first report of the new year? I shall let you all decide on this one...
    Either way, welcome!

    To start off, congratulations are in order for several people: The End of Year Bash competition has ended and even though participation was far from what I had hoped (*cry*), at least we had some activities. Medals have been recommended!

    As with the end of every year, The Ace of the TIE Corps competition has found a yearly winner, and a very rare Iron Star with Platinum Wings will very soon find its way into my medals box as I have secured first place for a third time! Admittedly, having a 2 week Christmas Holiday and no girlfriend/wife to take time away from the PC helps a lot though... It was fun trying to get over 1,000 missions for December end even better when you manage to grab a few High Scores along the way as well! Grats also to Elwood the Brave for grabbing second place, it's been a while since someone who's not me flew that many missions in a single month!

    As the month of December is now over, I will be submitting the monthly evaluation to the Command Staff, and expect to see a few medals awarded sometime in the near future.

    As you may also have noticed, the banner image at the top of this report has changed. Many thanks to COL BubbaX for putting his gfx skills to good use. I've had the image for awhile now, but thought it nice to wait with it until the new year!

    All Deltonians have received an e-mail earlier this week about some minor changes to the Weekly Trivia. I'm hoping this will encourage you to keep playing until the last day, even if you know you're never going to win the week anymore. Remember as always: you're not only playing for the weekly win!

    I'm thinking ahead to next year (well, this year by the time you're all reading this). The past few months we've seen some competitions on a squadron level and 'haven't always been happy with the participation. It's gonna take some thinking and input from y'all to change that. We'll see what happens.

    Also, the crazy flying I did the last month has shown me one thing: The Mission Compendium and especially the TIE Fighter part of it has some total and utter crap in it (only word I can think of....) How some of this garbage ever made it into the Compendium is beyond me. And note: I'm not talking about the story in the battles. Those are bad as well sometimes, but I am strictly talking from a mission creation point of view. I have shared a huge list of bad bad bad stuff with the TCCOM and some others, and I will be starting a massive TACcy campaign the coming year(s) to start working on that. And that also means getting through all the bug reports still open. I'm still looking for a cool name for this campaign, so if you have any ideas, I'm all ears.

    Just a summary of this list for those interested:

  • having to disable a container
  • starships dancing around the arena because they have starfighter orders
  • starships that have fired all the gunners because they have no orders
  • 5 modified Corvettes entering the hangar of a platform (which in game is roughly the same size...)
  • endless missions where you have to kill 100% of some random starfighter group unrelated to the mission goals,
    which is fun when it escapes because your wingmen's AI doesn't understand finishing the kill and let's them go

    And just for fun: the other week I actually (no joke) made dinner while one mission played itself out, and ate said dinner while the next mission played itself out./ And that's even with time acceleration! Well, there's plenty more on that list....

    In the mean time, I noticed the TACcy queue also has a few new battles still queued, so I'm hoping to get those out as well, seeing they advance the Karana Initiative storyline.

    Well, enough reading material for you, so I'm not gonna add another paragraph here, I'll do that for the weekly joke :)
     

  •   In the headlines this week

  • Dempsey wins the monthly Ace of the TC (again)
  • Dempsey wins annual Ace of the TC (again)
  • grats to all End of Year Bash winners
  • Happy and very Active New Year to all!
     
  •   Joke of the week


     
      Squadron Activity report

    You know the drill - this just shows who did what, assuming I know of it. Usually I will. If you did something that should have been here - send me an e-mail :)

  • COL Anahorn Dempsey
    FCHG rank: Archon (4786 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   IRC activity
        »   running the weekly trivia
        »   running End of Year Bash
        »   flew 589 missions in 113 battles - eat my ion dust! (TIETC41-152,156) with 7 mission HS
        »   TAC stuff

  • GN Gilad Pelleaon
    FCHG rank: Tesserarius (1226 pts)
        »   no contact

  • CM Shado Fenn
    FCHG rank: none (0 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   7 rounds of weekly trivia
        »   winner of Weekly Trivia #162

  • CPT John T. Clark
    FCHG rank: Knight (285 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   7 rounds of weekly trivia
        »   released FL report
        »   flew 1 missions (TIEF 285)

  • LCM Jaorrus Morraus
    FCHG rank: Gallant (237 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   3 rounds of weekly trivia

  • COL BubbaX
    FCHG rank: Aquilifer (614 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   5 rounds of weekly trivia

  • CPT Ras Kronar
    FCHG rank: Paladin (391 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   4 rounds of weekly trivia

  • COL Aticus Jade
    FCHG rank: Grenadier (13 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   on semi-LoA

  • CPT Nutrientman
    FCHG rank: Aquilifer (709 pts)
        »   e-mail contact
        »   IRC activity
        »   1 round of weekly trivia
     
  •   Important Competitions

    Competitions are the livelihood of this thing we do for fun. I encourage all of you to enter as many competitions as you want to/can. And just let me know about it! Don't forget to check out the website for more information.

  • Delta's Weekly Trivia
    Each day of the week (Mon-Fri) you will receive an email with a trivia
    question, same as before. 3 pts for the first correct answer, 2 pts for
    second and 1 pt for 3rd. At the end of the week, the one with the
    most points wins the shiny. As usual, there's extra shinies available for
    accumulating set amounts of points.

  • Ace of the TIE Corps
    Each mission flown during a month will count towards your score, with shinies for the top 3 pilots.
    At the end of the year, the TC's Top Gun will win a rare IS-PW!

  • MP Ace of the TIE Corps
    Each multiplayer victory flown during a month will count towards your score, with shinies for the top 3 pilots.
    At the end of the year, the TC's Top Gun will win a rare IS-PW!
     
  •   Delta's End of Year Bash

    I hope this is something for everyone....

  • part 1: IWATS
    Final standings: Ras Kronar: 2pts

  • part 2: mini runon
    Final standings: John T Clark : 1pt

  • part 3: That's my kill
    Final standings: John T Clark: 8pts; Nutrientman: 7 pts
     
  •   Squadron roster

    Delta Squadron
    Squadron mission: Reconnaissance
    Message Board: http://www.emperorshammer.org/messageboard/viewforum.php?f=128
    Motto: Celerant mortalis
    Base: ISD-II Hammer
    Website: http://deltasquad.emperorshammer.org
    Nickname: Razor of Retribution
    Squadron reports: http://www.emperorshammer.org/unitreports.php?id=145

    FLIGHT I: The Razor's Edge - Novaculum mortalis

    CMDR COL Anahorn Dempsey
    TBA
    FM GN Gilad Pelleaon
    FM CM Shado Fenn

    FLIGHT II: The Razor's Touch - Strike first - strike once

    FL CPT John T. Clark
    FM LCM Jaorrus Morraus
    FM COL BubbaX
    FM CPT Ras Kronar

    FLIGHT III: The Razor's Gleam - And in a flash it ended...

    FL COL Aticus Jade
    TBA
    TBA
    FM CPT Nutrientman
     
      Medals and promotions

    Shado Fenn: IS-BR
     
      Wrapping up

    CMDR/COL Anahorn Dempsey/Delta/Wing I/ISDII Hammer
    MoH/ICx2/GOEx2/GSx4/SSx5/BSx12/PCx6/ISMx3/IS-3PW-34GW-20SW-31BW-3PR-12GR-9SR-33BR/MoI/MoT-40rh-48gh-9bh/LoC-CSx8-Rx4/DFC-Rx2/MoC-3doc-2poc-5goc-4soc-32boc/CoLx6/CoEx3/CoB/OV-6E
    {IWATS:MCBS-XAM-XMD-TM/1/2/TM/3-XTM/1-MP/2-AMP-XWAI-BFM-TT-XTT-SFT-CTW-AT-SU-CM2-MD1-DT3-ARTY1-VS4-ST-SC-SEA-SD-SZ-SR-AIR-CC-SFW-WPN-XWAC-ESET-ISET-TIE-SMA-AWAK-BWAK-XWAK-YWAK-SN4}
    {IU:C/TC, C/DB, C/DIR, S, UL, CRD, EJE, TD, REP, WM, FT, IO, INST, MI, BTL, LDR, WD, AIM, ICQ, MS1, TLN, ASP, BX, CSS, CBX, DW, FLA, LIN, GFX, IBX, JS, WIKI, PHP, VBS, XML, MAN1, MAN2, WKS, INO, HIST, INO, INTEL, PRER, GR, SPW, HAD, GHA, THR, OSS, M/1/2, SM/3/4, IIC/1/2/3, IA, ARG/1, STM}
     


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