30 May, 2014 01:15
22 ABY

It's my pleasure to announce the promotion of RA Crsepe to the rank of Vice Admiral, for his impressive performance as the Combat Operations Officer!

23 May, 2014 19:28
22 ABY
Congratulations to all recipients!! Once again, sorry for this delay on the awarding; this time it was entirely my fault since I've been totally out of reach for more than 2 weeks this month. Nevertheless, all complaints on this aspect will be responded with officers behind them being reassigned to a very special Lagrangian point between the Warrior and the Hammer where they'll help us on the testing of that last batch of hull guns and turrets from the Science Office.

The Silver Star of The Empire: MAJ Kyle Kroan, COL Anahorn Dempsey, CM Landon Cruise
The Bronze Star of The Empire: CPT Plif, LT Rhace, GN Pickled Yoda
Palpatine Crescent: RA Elwood the Brave, CM Starkillerny, MAJ Jedgar, CPT Flelm
Imperial Security Medal: LC Gyssler, LCM Julon Lommax, COL Jarek La'an, GN Gilad Pelleaon, COL Mark Schueler

Additionally, officers below have been awarded Medals of Communication due to outstanding communication levels through the month of April:

MoC - platinum oak cluster: HA Frodo March, RA Crsepe, COL Torres
MoC - gold oak cluster: LCM Upsidexumop, LC Kenath Zoron, LC Quincy Nelson, CPT Plif
MoC - silver oak cluster: HA Daniel Bonini, MAJ Jedgar, MAJ Kyle Kroan, CM Landon Cruise, COL Anahorn Dempsey, CPT Shado Fenn, MAJ John T. Clark, CPT Nutrientman, LCM Witcher, COL Jarek La'an, CPT Flelm, COL Handril Madon, GN Pickled Yoda
MoC - bronze oak cluster: RA Elwood the Brave, CPT Crix Talra, LCM Julon Lommax, LT Kryysta Calthranus, COL Daniel Stephens, COL Jacob Van Nowak, LC Gyssler, LT Jarion Renalds, CM Starkillerny, LT Rhace, COL Mell Kerrigan, COL Horus Blackheart, COL Mark Schueler, GN Gilad Pelleaon, RA Zósite Kónstyte Styles

Flight Leader position vacant

Colonel Anahorn Dempsey

18 May, 2014 13:14
22 ABY

With the promotion of LCM Cruise to Commander, that leaves a Flight Leader spot open in Delta. Applications are accepted, preferably from the Hammer as the Warrior has enough open spots at the moment. Send applications to myself and the TC CS.

Flight Leaders Wanted

Commander Landon Cruise

15 May, 2014 16:35
22 ABY

All pilots of the mighty ISD II Hammer. Applications are now being accepted for Flight Leaders in Alpha Squadron from any Hammer pilots. Cut off date for submission is this Saturday. Advance your career today and apply!

Alpha and Sin Squadrons Commissioned

High Admiral Daniel Bonini

15 May, 2014 00:23
22 ABY
It is with great pleasure that I now announce the opening of two new squadrons:

Alpha Squadron has been (re)opened aboard the ISD Hammer, while Sin Squadron was opened aboard the ISD Warrior.

Alpha Squadron will be commanded by newly promoted Commander Landon Cruise, and has already been reinforced by two of his newest recruits SL Neuronmoon and SL Asertym!

Sin Squadron will have Captain Plif as its Commander. CPT Plif is one of our oldest veterans, counting with the PIN 346! He has been followed by another of Landon's recruits, SL Turok!

Good luck to both squadrons!!

X-Wing BSFing & 4th MP slot

Rear Admiral Zósite Kónstyte Styles

05 May, 2014 02:56
22 ABY
So you thought you have had enough of database useless features already? Think again!

Today we bring you the new automatic BSF form for X-Wing battles!! You'll find it right there at your usual BSF dutyhouse disguised as "If you are to BSF a X-Wing battle use this form instead". But remember, in case you never took the time to read TAC Manual properly (horreur!): you'll need a ZIP file containing score screenshots of all missions the battle has, one per mission, instead the usual pilotfile since XW pilotfiles don't store historic missions data in an useful (for us) way.

And yes, we KNOW this new feature will be as useful as a 56k modem on MMXIV. But we're The Emperor's Hammer TIE Corps! We don't care about proven facts and learning curves; that smells like democracy and people coming out with ideas that make sense. We kinda ORDER YOU to realize the original X-Wing is as awesome as it can get and miles above anything after 2000 could hope to be.

But wait, you still want an useful feature, don't you? Granted. We've just implemented a 4th player slot for multiplayer match automatic submissions, to be found right below the other 3 so you can't get lost easily! Now you'll be able to report 4v4 matches too. Those above that number still need to be reported as 2 (or more) split matches, ie: 8v8 = 2 x 4v4 (same screenshots, different players), 6v6 = 2 x 3v3 or 4v4 + 2v2 and so on. Moreover! We heavily modified the code so it can eventually admit even more players with no real limits by just changing a single number in 4 different scripts and adding the necessary columns to the SQL data table. In fact, the actual limit is not related to # of players but to the # of e-mails our current server allows to be sent per hour; MP LoC notifications are true hell since they must be e-mailed to ALL winners and their CoCs plus COO, SOO, TCCOM and SuperAdmin (your nuts servant).

Now it's all a matter of seeing how many players can we allow per match in relation to that stupid e-mail quota...

'Nuff said. Happy Imperial Xmas or some bollocks along that line!

May the Fourth be with You all!

Major Kyle Kroan

05 May, 2014 02:31
22 ABY
I just wanted to wish a kind of belated happy Star Wars day! Hope you guys got some fun SW thing to do today (like grabbing your astromech droid pet in SW:TOR), and remember, we will have an even bigger celebration on Tuesday!

Revenge of the Sixth!!!