TIE Corps Command Report
Weekly Report #86 – Submission date: November 2nd 2014
Introduction

Welcome to a new TCCOM report!

This week we saw the re-release of X-Wing and TIE Fighter, two of our most important platforms, and the ones who actually were the reason for the very creation of the Emperor’s Hammer, especially TIE! I, for one, would very much like to see a Mac version of them, as it would even allow me not to open Windows to play, but I guess we can’t really ask for much more at this point. Kudos to gog.com for bringing our favorite games to the 21st century. I’m really considering flying their campaigns all over again, it’s been ages!

With the turn of the month, a few Orders of the Vanguard were updated, including yours truly, reaching 15th Echelon!

As it has been the tendency of the past weeks, we saw several officers arriving, while others leaving, mainly due to inactivity, which is sad. But on to the good news first!

The first one to arrive was COL Alexander Almasy, who joined Sin Squadron. He was followed by LC Miles Prower, who returned from the Reserves to join the same Sin Squadron! Also, former Fleet Admiral Den Darkhill took a COL rank to join Theta Squadron. Welcome back to all, I hope you will have a great time in this new tour of duty!

Coming from the Daedalus, SL Cormir joined Kappa Squadron, and he didn’t lose any time in getting his promotion to Lieutenant! Welcome to the fleet, LT Cormir!

SL Skek also managed to get his promotion to Lieutenant this week, so congratulations to you as well, LT Skek!

The aforementioned sad news was the AWOL of Lieutenants Asertym and Berkeley Hunt, both from Alpha Squadron. Too bad.

News

* XW and TIE re-released.

* OVs updated!

* New member: LT Cormir!

* Oldies returning: COL Almasy, LC Prower and COL Darkhill!

* Promotions: SL Cormir to LT and SL Skek to LT!

* LT Asertym and LT Berkeley Hunt AWOL’ed.

T/D Astra Fighter’s Flight Status

- None this week

TCCOM’s Other Activities

- Achieved OV-15E
- Processed BSFs
- Recommended medals
- Approved medals
- Processed transfers
- Approved Uniforms
- Assessed competitions
- Approved promotions
- Performed TC database updates
- Usual TCCOM activities

Fleet Wide Competitions

* TIE Golf 2014 – The ISD Warrior Invitational Tournament
Competition ID#: 2634
Competition status: Approved
Submitted by: COM/HA Frodo March/ISDII Warrior
Competition runtime: 10/11/2014 - 11/22/2014 (1 month, 4 days left)
Units involved: TIE Corps
Competition medals: IS-BW to each pair winner for each hole, IS-SW to winner of each hole, IS-GW to Overall Winner after 5 holes (IS-SW to second place). IS-PW to the winner if he beats the grand champion of TIE Golf 09 afterwards!
Description: The competition will be played over 5 rounds. Each player who signs up will be paired with another player, and they will play the 5 rounds against each other. Because of this structure, you sign up for the whole 5 rounds. No dropping out! Players who do drop out forfeit all claims to any prizes they may have already claimed.

Failure to complete one hole will result in a penalty of 3 times your opponent's score on the hole.

Failure to complete two holes will result in disqualification and forfeiture of any medals already claimed.

Each round the players will be assigned a TIE Free Mission to fly. The objective is score as few points as possible. The lowest score wins!

The scoring for missions will be as follows:

Mission Score + Lasers Fired x 2 + Warheads Fired x 50 - Laser Hits x 3 - Warhead Hits x 50

Each pair of competitors will be assigned one mission a week, for 5 weeks starting on October 11th 2014.

Each week, the one who scored lowest in his pair will win an IS-BW.

The lowest overall score for each mission (hole) will be awarded an IS-SW. The lowest overall score, which will be all 5 mission scores added together will win the IS-GW. Runner up will get the IS-SW.

Once the five rounds are done, the overall winner will be given the chance to fly an additional hole against the Grand Champion. If the winner defeats the Grand Champion, he will be awarded the coveted IS-PW.

The current Grand Champion is HA Frodo March.

More details: http://tac.emperorshammer.org/tiegolf/rules.php


* Recruiter of the TIE Corps 2014
Competition ID#: 2632
Competition status: approved
Submitted by: CMDR/CPT Landon Cruise/Alpha/Wing I/ISDII Hammer
Competition runtime: 10/01/2014 - 12/31/2014
Units involved: All TIE Corps Units
Competition medals: IS-GR, IS-SR, IS-BR
Description: This competition will require members to bring out their selling skills and socially abilities. It is time to recruit some new members. The awards will be given on a monthly basis. If 3 people recruit in a month the max award will be a IS-GR, if 2 recruiters IS-SR, and if only one pilot recruits an IS-BR will be the highest medal awarded.

The awards will look like this if a minimum of 3 members recruit during a month. Remember the award is downgraded if the minimum of 3 recruiters isn't met in a month.

1st- IS-GR
2nd- IS-SR
3rd- IS-BR

If this goes well, we could see the competition upgraded in 2015 to award a IS-PR to the number one recruiter during 2015! That is all pilots. Time to get those recruits and grow the TIE Corps!

* TIE Corps FFL
Competition ID#: 2612
Competition status: approved
Submitted by: COM/HA Frodo March/ISDII Warrior
Competition runtime: 09/01/2014 - 12/30/2014
Units involved: TC, admirals and EHCS
Competition medals: IS-GR, SR, BR for 1st, 2nd 3rd
Description: League set up will be 2 divisions with a total of a Min 8 teams with the possibility of expanding to a 10 or 12 team league. All teams must be registered by August 1st, 2014.

League draft will be determined by player vote.

All league rules and scoring are listed on the League site which will be hosted on the Yahoo Fantasy sports website. (Must create a Yahoo Account to play)

Three winners at the end of the regular season gets the medals.

follow this link to join and set up your team - http://y.ahoo.it/ifd8PBrU

* MP Ace of the TIE Corps
Competition ID#: 2501
Competition status: Approved
Submitted by: COO-LOA/RA Crsepe/TC-4/VSDII Aggressor
Competition runtime: 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014
Units involved: Entire TC
Competition medals: IS-PW/GW/SW/BW for the year, IS-GW/SW/BW monthly for the top 3 pilots
Description: The MP Kill Board will used to keep track of points. Each LoC earns you a point for the competition, and a DFC counts for 5 points. Whoever scores most points win. The numbers on the MP Kill Board at the end of the month are the numbers that are tallied. If there are three participants then IS-GW/SW/BW, if only two IS-SW/BW, etc. At the end of the year the top 3 pilots with the most points will receive IS-PW/GW/SW/BW. XWA, XvT, Star Conflict, and Freelancer-Freeworlds are the authorized platforms for this competition.

* Ace of the TIE Corps
Competition ID#: 2492
Competition status: Approved
Submitted by: TAC-PROF/HA Anahorn Dempsey/CS-6/VSDII Sinister
CMDR/COL Anahorn Dempsey/Delta/Wing I/ISDII Hammer
Competition runtime: 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014
Units involved: Entire TC
Competition medals: IS-GW/SW/BW monthly.
IS-PW/GW/SW/BW at the end of the year.
Description: As always: every SP mission flown wins a point, whoever has most points at the end of the month wins. IS-GW/SW/BW for top 3 monthly, at the end of the year the top 4 pilots win IS-PW/GW/SW/BW. Each mission only counts once towards this competition, missions flown in previous years can be reflown.
The Kill Board statistics on the TC website are final.


Quotes of the Week

1 – LC Kyle Kroan: “Trying them out now. Downloading TIE (1998). You basically get four games on your shelf by buying ?the two games, the original ones and the re-releases. They are separately downloadable and installable.”

Music to my ears!

Promotions

- Sub-Lieutenant Skek to Lieutenant Skek!
- Cadet Cormir to Sub-Lieutenant Cormir to Lieutenant Cormir!

Transfers

- COL Alexander Almasy – Inactive to Sin Squadron
- LT Asertym – Alpha Squadron to Inactive
- LT Berkeley Hunt – Alpha Squadron to Inactive
- LC Miles Prower – MFRG Phoenix to Sin Squadron
- SL Cormir – M/PLT Daedalus to Kappa Squadron
- COL Den Darkhill – M/FRG Phoenix to Theta Squadron

Open Command Positions

- Beta Squadron Commander (CPT Nutrientman is interim CMDR)
- Beta Squadron Flight 2 Leader
- Beta Squadron Flight 3 Leader

Conclusion

And there goes another month, which means that the Monthly Ship Evaluations are due very soon, and active pilots should get their deserved rewards in the near future!

Have a good week!

Respectfully submitted,

TCCOM-PROF/HA Daniel Bonini/TC-1/ISDII Challenge
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