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Announcements
Competitions
Three major competitions to highlight in the competitions section, including an uber-beefy temporary section especially for some competitions. Be sure to read it!
Temporary Hosting
CORE (and some other IWATS) do not work properly with the new subdomain system as PHP is not yet installed properly, as such, a temporary site has been set up for CORE. Other tests that use php (including PHP) will be working properly as soon as PHP is configured on IA.org.
New Subdomains!
All courses may now be access via the following link: http://<course IDLINE abbrv.>.imperialacademy.org ; Links are also still available via the course list on http://www.imperialacademy.org
PROFs chosen (BitchX and Javascript)
Congratz to Ric Taldrya and Dweezil on their appointments to Javascript and BitchX professors.
PROF openings
Please email me ( to@emperorshammer.org ) if you are interested in the positions of MS, XML, and ASP. Experience in applied for field is desired. Be sure to include “ Those who can't do, teach ” as your subject line. (A Flight Member Lieutenant does not have any handicap when competing for a PROF spot with a 6 year Communcations Officer Admiral.)
New Course Ideas
Email me at to@emperorshammer.org if you have a good idea for a new IWATS course, or have the desire to build one. Approved ideas and courses will receive applicable awards.
Awards:
ISM to both Tiger and Brukhar for managing to complete the challenging OPT IWATS course in the month of April!
MoC-boc to both Jarek La'an and Khadgar for winning in Baptism of Fire Competition
IS-GW to Andrijas, Von Predator, and TK-2107
IS-GR to TK-2107
Bronze Stars to Justin and Marcin Szydlowski = retirement gifts for their past IWATS service
Status of ImperialAcademy.org
- All courses now work as http://<course>.imperialacademy.org
- AMP added to ia.org hosting
- Projects, staff, and courses updated
- Training manual under revision
- TAC Revision Project - TACS removed
Official EH Titles List
These titles may be displayed on a Unit’s banner, reports, webpage, IRC topic, messageboard, email list, and anywhere else they can think of displaying it.
Please send any other titles that are not already listed here to to@emperorshammer.org (this includes things all the way down to CMDR’s own).
| Title | Current Holder |
|---|---|
| TO's * staR * Student | MAJ Savageaz |
| TCCOM's OWN | Wing XIII |
| TCCOM's OWN Escort Squadron | Praetorian |
| TCBG Flagship | ISD Challenge |
| ATF BGCOM's Own | Wing XIX |
| ATF Squadron of the Month (April) | Trapper |
| ATF Pilot of the Month (April) | Mouse Droid |
| ASF Flagship | ISD Grey Wolf |
| ASF Escort Squadron | Avenger Squadron |
| COO Escort | Avenger Squadron |
Command Staff Sponsored Competitive Titles
These titles are individually command staff sponsored and are always up for grabs. In order to challenge for them contact the TO (to@emperorshammer.org) with the name of your Unit (flight, squadron, wing, ship, etc) and contact details in order to set up the competition. Rules for competition over the title will be decided by the Command Staff officer who sponsors it. Titles may also be retired, with the last unit retaining the title until it is reactivated. Any CS may contact me if they wish to sponsor a title. They may also specify a starting unit for their sponsored title.
| Title | Current Holder | CS Sponsor |
|---|---|---|
| Training Officer's Own | ISD Challenge | TO/AD Stuart |
Status of Competitions
NOTE: To View competitions:
http://www.ehtiecorps.org/competitions/details.asp?ID=XXXX
Replace XXXX with competition ID #
Current TO Competitions
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TC Monthly Creative Competitions!
The creator of the most creative competition created each month (usually one that has been in the 'competition spotlight' at least once) will be awarded an IS-PR. This award may or may not be awarded on a monthly basis depending on the quality of submitted competitions.
Approved this week: (15)
Requiring more information this week: (0)
- none
Competition Spotlight
Inferno's Spot the Thief Competition - by Dirty Vader
WC LC Coranel Both has just gotten his recently earned Silver Star stolen. I will include a short fiction in my next weekly squadron report, detailing the interrogations of different people on the Chal. The aim is to name the thief *while* giving the reason for the blame. First person in Inferno to name correctly the thief and the reason for his suspicions earns the IS-BR. Same to the first person in the Chal entirely, COM included (excluding inferno people). The piece of fiction has already been written.
IS-BR to the first Inferno Pilot who names the thief corectly IS-BR to the first person on the Chal who names the thief correctly
http://www.ehtiecorps.org/competitions/details.asp?ID=1931
*Remember, monthly IS-PRs are up for grabs for excellent RP-based competitions especially those that are very creative, such as this... a prelude to Condor, perhaps? ;)
Secondary Competition Spotlight
Andrijas' Four Year Anniversary Competition (competition ID #1928)
1) XvT Ladder, best placed ATFer gets IS-GW, 2nd place IS-SW, 3rd place IS-BW
2) XWA Ladder, best placed ATFer gets IS-GW, 2nd place IS-SW, 3rd place IS-BW
3) FW Ladder, best placed ATFer gets IS-GW, 2nd place IS-SW, 3rd place IS-BW
4) IWATS Run: ATFer with most completed IWATS courses wins IS-GR, 2nd place IS-SR, 3rd place IS-BR
5) FCHG Run: ATFer with most completed missions (both FW and standard) recieves IS-GW, second placed IS-SW and third placed IS-BW.
All FW pilots that wish to participate have to send screenshot of number of missions their character completed before and after the competition.
All submissions to firstshade@gmail.com (as agreed upon from both Andrijas and Shadowblade, this includes BSFs, screenshots and copies of mails of completed IWATS).
Information for all pilots can be found at
http://www.freewebs.com/andpred/index.htm
http://coo.emperorshammer.net/ladder/ <-- index of ladders (all named 4th year...)
http://coo.emperorshammer.net/ehls/ <-- EHLS registration. every pilot willing to participate needs this.
http://www.ehtiecorps.org/competitions/details.asp?ID=1928
Special mention of this competition due to it's TC-wide nature.
Competition Spotlight: IMPERIAL STORM
Keep tuned to this section for updates and information on and about Imperial Storm V: Empire Ablaze
Imperial Storm V: Empire Ablaze (From War Officer HA Priyum)
Background
Imperial Storm is based on a war-game model first designed by the then Captain IQ Pierce (ret.) – his war-game was named Project: Faithful and ran during a few hazy months in late '99. It featured around half a dozen pilots on each side (myself included) and was to my mind, a resounding success. It set up the future Imperial Storms, and the short-lived Naval Corps.
Fleet Admiral Kessler then used the system tried and tested via PF to implement a war-game for the entire TIE Corps in 2000; Exercise Imperial Storm . While not directly involved with this, I remember it received a warm welcome and was generally a success.
When I took over as Flight Officer, after the Naval Corps was shut down, I also ran another Imperial Storm in June 2001, entitled “Dark Horizon”. I'd like think that this was also a success, but those who took part can judge better than I. It was after this, the position of War Officer was created with the mandate to promote war-gaming throughout the club in the absence of the NavCorps. The first Officer pointed to the position was Vice Admiral (and later Admiral) Pel. The TIE Corps saw two Imperial Storms during his tenure. I don't think it would be unfair to suggest they received a mixed reception. Pel had the vision of war-gaming being a complex and exciting device for the club, but this did not translate well to something the size of the TIE Corps where attention spans were fickle – it quickly became evident that complex rules meant for complex orders and calculations. This led to Imperial Storm quickly becoming a battle of emails between the Fleet Commanders and the Pilots were left out. Suffice to say, interest quickly dwindled.
Today
http://www.btinternet.com/~spellfire/wo1.html
The Imperial Storm currently in production, I hope is more akin to the war-games of several years back such as the original ImpStorm and Operation: Dark Hammer. I've modified the rules to keep them simple and obvious – a small map, smaller list of ships to pick from, a “radar” system for detecting enemy fleets etc. All of this I hope will be to keep the game play fluid and moving and ultimately to focus on the Pilots themselves and get them more involved in battles.
I've also change ImpStorm in two significant ways from the previous incarnations. Firstly, ImpStorm is not limited to just the TIE Corps. Members of the Infiltrator Wing and the Dark Brotherhood's Sith Order have been invited to participate – and they've formed their own joint team for this. Secondly, I've tried to expand the platforms used. Traditionally, ImpStorm was for MP XWA Pilots which left out a significant portion of the Fleet. For this war-game, we'll be using XWA MP as normal, but also TIE and XvT SP. This makes for some complex rules involving this, something I didn't particularly want. However, if you look at the rules closely, you may realise that for Pilots, it's not really necessary to know them since I'll be the one dealing with it all. So hopefully this won't slow down the game play.
Something else I'll be doing is running small competitions alongside the war-game itself to hopefully involve those Pilots that don't fly – these will take the form of writing fictional reports on the action that's taken place so far, as well as creating graphical scenes of the battles. At the end of the war-game, I'm hoping to run a short competition for mission designers to take the most exciting conflicts that occurred and create an EH Battle from them (something like what Ender did for Op: DH back in the days of yore).
Status of Courses
| Course | Professor | Graduates this Week | Total Graduates | Number of Unmarked Tests | Graduates under PROF | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Multiplayer (AMP) | Tek Selkirk | 1 | 27+1=28 | 1 | 27+1=28 | ||
| AIM | Shimir Sheerelk | 4 | ?+6+4 | 4+4=8 | |||
| ASP | ? | 0 | |||||
| BitchX (BX) | Dweezil | ?+2 | 0 | ||||
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | Torrance Darkcrest | 1 | ?+5+1 | 5+1=6 | |||
| Computer Basics (CBX) | Vladet Xavier | 1 | 77+1=78 | 77+1=78 | |||
| Core (IWATS) | Stuart | 9 | ?+62+9 | 62+9=71 | |||
| Dreamweaver (DW) | Jedi Eclipse | 17 | 2 | ||||
| Flash (FLA) | Nightmare | 1 | ?+9+1 | 9+1=10 | |||
| Freeworlds (FW) | Priyum Patel | 149 | 2 | 149 | |||
| Freeworlds Tactics (FWT) | BubbaX | 17 | 17 | ||||
| Graphics (GFX) | Archangel | 2 | ?+5+2 | 4+2=6 | |||
| History (HIST) | Fahrer | Aurelius Erasmus | 2 | 41+2=43 | 12+1=13 | 29+1=30 | |
| HTML (IIC/1) | Pickled Yoda | 1 | ?+5+1 | ?+5+1 | |||
| HTML (IIC/2) | Pickled Yoda | ?+4 | 1 | ?+4 | |||
| HTML (IIC/3) | Pickled Yoda | ?+2 | ?+2 | ||||
| ICQ (ICQ) | Tomax Drachen | 1 | ?+2+1 | 8+1=9 | |||
| Internet Basics (IBX) | Trido | 3 | 220+3=223 | 220+3=223 | |||
| Javascript (JS) | Ric Taldrya | ?+1 | 0 | ||||
| Linux (LIN) | Tomaas Banys | 1 | 205+1=206 | 1 | 205+1=206 | ||
| mIRC (M/1) | Plif | 1 | ?+12+1 | 12+1=13 | |||
| mIRC (M/2) | Plif | 3 | ?+8+3 | 8+3=11 | |||
| mIRC Scripting (MS) | ?+1 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Multiplayer (MP) | Khameir Sarin | 2 | 221+2=223 | 1 | 221+2=223 | ||
| OPTing Course (OPT) | Ender mBind | ?+2 | ?+2 | ||||
| PHP (PHP) | Muskrat | 99 | 7 | ||||
| Rebellion Tactics (RT) | Jaques Landeux | ?+2 | 2 | ||||
| Squadron Management (SM/3) | Khameir Sarin | 3 | ?+5+3 | 27+3=30 | |||
| Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds (SWGB) | Brukhar | 2 | ?+6+2 | 3+2=5 | |||
| Tactical Staff Course (TACS) | 1 | 55+1=56 | 55+1=56 | ||||
| TIE Fighter Tactics (TT) | 204 | 0 | |||||
| TIE Mission Creation (TM/1) | Apophis Kuma | 1 | ?+4+1 | ?+4+1 | |||
| Trillian (TLN) | Khadgar | 98 | 98 | ||||
| VB Script (VBS) | Conjre | ?+1 | 1 | ||||
| Weaponry (WPN) | Keller | 4 | 207+4=211 | 1 | 207+4=211 | ||
| Wing Management (WM) | Gilad Pelleaon | 67 | 1 | 32 | |||
| XML (XML) | ? | 1 | 0 | ||||
| XvT Mission Creation (XTM/1) | Frodo March | 341 | 0 | ||||
| XvT Mission Creation (XTM/2) | Frodo March | 117 | 0 | ||||
| XvT Tactics (XTT) | Frodo March | 1 | ?+3+1 | 15+1=16 | |||
| X-Wing Alliance Mission Design (XAM) | Master | 1 | ?+4+1 | 4+1=5 | |||
| Totals: | 47 | 11 | |||||
| Total under the Carrot: 285+47=332 | |||||||
TO Roster
* = currently AWOL
** = currently MIA
- TO: AD Stuart (to@emperorshammer.org)
- AMP-PROF: Tek Selkirk (outaline6@gmail.com)
- CBX-PROF: Vladet Xavier (so@emperorshammer.org)
- DW-PROF: Jedi Eclipse (eh_jedieclipse@fastmail.fm)
- FW-PROF: Priyum Patel (spellfire@btinternet.com)
- FWT-PROF: BubbaX (AnimeJWC@earthlink.net)
- IIC-PROF: Pickled Yoda (yoda@minos.net)
- ICQ-PROF: Tomax Drachen (sithzabrak@gmail.com)
- IBX-PROF: Trido (ehtrido@iinet.net.au)
- LIN-PROF: Tomaas Banys (incomtech@wp.pl)
- MP/SM-PROF: Khameir Sarin (khameir_sarin@yahoo.com)
- OPT-PROF: Ender mBind (endermbind@gmail.com)
- PHP-PROF: Muskrat (slowbacca@gmail.com)
- TM-PROF: Apophis Kuma (apophis@orionsnexus.net)
- TLN-PROF: Khadgar (khadgar1@shaw.ca)
- WPN-PROF: Keller (ehkeller@op.pl)
- WM-PROF: Gilad Pelleaeon (gpj2331@sbcglobal.net)
- XTT/XTM-PROF: Frodo March (fcjt914@yahoo.ca)
- XAM-PROF: Master (slavelet@iinet.net.au)
- AIM-PROF: Shimir Sheerelk (pantherjumper@yahoo.com)
- FLA-PROF: Nightmare (STNight@gmail.com)
- RT-PROF: Jaques Landeux (landovian@aol.com)
- CSS-PROF: Torrance Darkcrest (Idledaylight@hotmail.com)
- VBS-PROF: Conjre (Conjre@hotmail.com)
- M-PROF: Plif (plif@plif.net)
- GFX-PROF: Archangel (brenttainer@yahoo.com)
- SWGB-PROF: Brukhar (shafer@mail.com)
- BX-PROF: Dweezil (dweezil@pandora.be)
- JS-PROF Ric Taldrya (rictaldrya@yahoo.com)
