Starting now, each time a major update is done to the EHC, a report will be released like this one. Read on.

• The Command Staff History page was updated through NL51 - we're almost done!
• The manuals page was updated to reflect the subgroup manual links the RO has received (please send them in!)
• The FA/HA page was updated to reflect HA Astatine's promotion.

Please keep sending comments and ideas to us at the Recon Office (ro@emperorshammer.org).

Today, Grand Admiral Ronin has promoted Training Officer Astatine to the rank of High Admiral, making him the third of the three High Admirals in the Emperor's Hammer along with High Admiral Kawolski and High Admiral Paladin.

Grand Admiral Ronin, back from his two week leave, has updated the Emperor's Hammer News Page with the latest Fleet information and announcements.

The brand spanking new Battlegroup Command web site has finally been posted at http://redrival.com/bgcommand/ ... please feel free to drop in and look around. Any updates/comments/suggestions should be sent to Vice Admiral Ricaud.

Since Major Ace Pilot has been promoted to WC, the competition he was hosting for XvT-XWA has been passed to me due to his time constraints. Therefore, I would ask that all pilots who are interested in a fleet wide contest for either game platform contact me. My idea for settling this comp is to have a single player elimination on a set time and date for both platforms, perhaps hosting it on the zone. If you didn't previously sign up for this multiplayer melee, feel free to contact me at: shups@bellatlantic.net

Some of you may not be aware that on Wednesday nights at 8:30 pm EST until 10:30 pm EST there is an XvT competition open to anyone in the fleet with less than 10 Legion of Combat medals. You must fly 3 melees and win atleast one,
to earn an LoC. It is held on the IRC Undernet channel #wingxiii. This will be the fourth week of this competition and over 10 LoC's have been awarded so far...!
The purpose of this competition is to help improve your multiplayer skills and to have some fun!

The form seems to be working perfectly except for a small bug with accepting certain Flight Nickname changes. I found the bug today and corrected the problem, so to anyone who attempted to make a Flight Nickname change (particularly with Flights II and III), please resubmit the changes via the form!

The following Imperial pilots scored victories in last night's EH vs RS Melee Night:
EH_Shups vs RS Ace 25-12 TI's EH Wins!
EH Keiran vs AceRS T/F 14-20, EH Wins!
EH Maj_Rich vs RS Gen_Solo 12-8 Y-wings EH Wins
EH Shups vs RS Jack 20-8 EH Wins
EH_Maj_Rich(Y-W)-23 vs RS_CMDR_Nil(A-W)-5 EH Wins!
EH SHups vs RS Ace 18-10 EH Wins!
EH Keiran vs RS Trate T/F 25-13, EH WIns!
EH Shups vs RS Lumin 26-15 T/I's EH Wins
EH Smit vs RS Cris 11-16 T/I's EH Wins!
EH Shups vs RS Trate T/I 12-11, EH Wins!
EH Smit vs RS CMDRNIL T/I 7-3, EH Wins!
EH Keiran vs RS Trate T/I 18-5, EH Wins!

EH-12 | RS- 14| TIE -3

Congratulations to all listed pilots, who will be awarded Legions of Combat or the appropriate add-on.

News submitted by Lieutenant Colonel Havoc/Wing III/SSSD Sovereign

Colonel Kaerner, commanding officer of the Elite Dark Brotherhood's Tau Squadron, was today promoted to the rank of General at the request of CA:XO/Admiral Tron and with the approval and congratulations of the Acting Fleet Comander - Sector Admiral Compton.
General Kaerner's dedication to the Fleet in general and Tau Squadron in particular, and his reputation as an officer is beyond question. His promotion serves as an example to us all.

Promotion to General for Squadron Commanders is limited to CMDRs of offically designated Elite Squadrons only. General Kaerner is only the second officer to ever hold this prestigious rank, the first being the Commander of Omega Squadron - General Devin.

On the Links section, I've added the StarCraft to Star Wars Total Conversion project. They need people to do sounds (or import them from the movies), voices, make graphics, write campaigns, design maps, etc.

If you like StarCraft and want to give these guys a hand, head on over to their homepage (http://www.jedinights.com/scswtc/) for details. If/when the project is completed, we could be seeing this as a new game platform for the Emperor's Hammer to use!

Note: This project is not affiliated in any way with the Emperor's Hammer.

The Emperor's Hammer is finally getting involved with the Zone. In an effort to make us more well known Commander Weasel and I would like to invite everyone to Week of War for XWA. On the 26th of November, WoW War starts on the Zone at 2:00 PM EST. It is a 7 day fight on the Zone, The team with the most points wins. It will be fought in the XWA "Melee Skirmishes" room on the Zone. The WoW is run by Battlestats that provides a great resource for keeping track of the battle fought. For the next 7 days WoW will be going on. To join the fun go to www.battlestats.com and under Player Services click add. There you will be able to add yourself to the Emperor's Hammer's team.

Flight Office Report #1 has been posted to the fleet. The current TIE Corps membership is 931.

This will be the last call for voice actors/actresses and testers. If you're interested, email Fleet Admiral Astatine with either your audition file (for voice acting) or your request to be a tester. These openings will close on Saturday, 27th November 1999, Midday EST. Exact details are available at here. Also, don't forget that TO Comp 4 finishes this Tuesday (30th).

Vice Admiral Ricaud has chosen the new Commodore of the ISD Colossus. Rear Admiral Nighthawk, formerly of Typhoon Squadron - the Battlegroup Commander's Escort, assumes the duties and responsibilities of the newest Commodore in the TIE Fighter Corps. Congratulations, Rear Admiral!

The deadline to sign-up for the TIE League is on Friday night, 10:00 PM EST. There are currently 36 pilots participating! The only requirement is that you fly one mission a week. Your score will determine whether you win or lose for that week and the top 16 pilots will go on to the playoffs to see who is the best TIE pilot!

If you're interested, sign up by E-mailing Captain Ace Pilot.

Guess what time it is? That's right, it's that time of month again for Newsletter Submissions, and you only have ONE week to get them in before the deadline, November 30th. We will not accept any submissions for this Newsletter (#59) after November 30th. Any received after that will be put in #60.

Once again, send all NL Submissions, with "NL 59 Submission" being the Subject header of your e-mail, to Sector Admiral Compton and Admiral Tron. If you have any questions feel free to ask, but put "NL question" as your e-mail's Subject header.

The Internet Office Site has mirrored exactly what information is being posted on this homepage (www.tiecorps.org/news.asp) for the last four days. We just want to make it perfectly clear that it is the Internet Office site that's taking our work word-for-word and not the other way around.

The purpose of this message is to get them to do some work to find news outside of scanning just our homepage for all their information all the time and it worked.

Thank you! Happy Thanksgiving!

Rear Admiral Jarak Maldon is currently taking applications for Wing IX Commander. The Commodore requests that applicants at least have some command experience as a Squadron Commander or higher. All applications should be sent to Rear Admiral Jarak Maldon.

Rear Admiral Jarak Maldon, former Wing Commander of Wing IX, has been selected by Vice Admiral Ricaud to assume the position of the new Commodore of the ISD Relentless. Congratulations, Rear Admiral. Serve your ship well.

Troy Dangerfield released AlliED v1.06 today for registered users. Included is an X-Wing to X-Wing Alliance mission converter along with a couple bug fixes, improvements, and extra mission settings. More details can be found at the AlliED homepage at http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/troyd/.

Attention Squadron Commanders!

There's a new feature on the database that's currently in testing, but feel free to give a try! When you log into administration, you now have the option to send roster revision requests (i.e. new mottos, homepages, flight nicknames, etc.) by clicking "Edit Squad. Roster" on the Administration menu. The system might have a few bugs in it, so if you spot any, send an e-mail about it to High Admiral Kawolski.

When the bugs are worked out and the squadron roster editing system is working properly, this feature will be active and available for Wing Commanders, Commodores, and Battlegroup Commanders to edit their respective sections of the roster.

High Admiral Kawolski is going to be on leave until the 29th of November. E-mail contact with him along with BSF processing will be minimal in the meantime.

High Admiral Kawolski has posted Tactical Briefing #5 to the fleet.

Colonel StarLion has been named the new Tactical Assistant for the Tactical Office. His primary duty will be to award merit medals and battle medals to the Beta Testers.

Following the promotion of Admiral Kessler to Flight Officer and TIE Corps Commander, the position of BGCOM has been filled by Rear Admiral Val Ricaud. The position comes with a promotion to Vice Admiral for the former Commodore of the ISD Relentless. All applications for the Relentless Commodore position should be sent to Vice Admiral Val Ricaud.

The tiecorps.org domain has been updated to reflect Admiral Kessler as the new Flight Officer.

Please report any errors to High Admiral Kawolski.

The coding for the TC Command Staff page is being worked on at the moment and it may display an error message or inaccurate data. Please don't report this as a bug.

Acting Fleet Commander Sector Admiral Compton has announced that the new Flight Officer and TIE Corps Commander for the Emperor's Hammer is Admiral Kessler, former Battlegroup Commander of the TC Battlegroups!

The tiecorps.org domain will be updated today to reflect the change in command.

The database will be offline in about one hour for upgrades.

A new TIE Fighter competition is being organized called TIE League. The only requirement is that you fly one mission a week. Your score will determine whether you win or lose for that week. The top 16 pilots will go on to the playoffs to see who is the best TIE pilot! We currently have 21 members so sign up by E-mailing Captain Ace Pilot.

Admiral Eric O'Flynn has resigned from his position as Flight Officer due to real life obligations and because he believes he was recently abducted by aliens. In the meantime, please send all roster corrections to Vice Admiral Chandler, including all previous roster corrections sent that went unanswered over the last week.

Daedalus Cadets, please send your pilot files to Vice Admiral Chandler as well.

Various areas of the TIE Corps homepage will be updated once an official replacement or temporary replacement is found.

Just to let everyone know, Former Flight Officer Fleet Admiral Horn is no longer a member of the Emperor's Hammer. The High Court has found him guilty of Gross Insubordination, Conduct Unbecoming an Officer, Sabotage, Espionage, Piracy, Defection, Treason, and Gross Abuse of Power. In light of this, his tiecorps.org news posting access has been revoked today to prevent future "problems" with the domain.

Battle #11 and Battle #102 have been updated and corrected for bugs.

Pulp Phantom: The Animated Parody - http://www.pulpphantom.com - The site finally posted the sixth segment of the Pulp Phantom movie.

Warning: The site contains language, adult subject matter, and nude blue aliens. For mature audiences only.

This message to inform everyone that the Project Faithful website has been updated to include a Campaign News feature; everything that happens in the wargame from now on, excluding only "classified information", will be available for viewing in the News pop-up window. An excellent resource for those who wish to keep up with how the war is proceeding. Thanks to Captain Ace Pilot for acting as Field Reporter in this respect.

Project Phoenix still need more people to correct briefings and lfd files of old TIE battles. The more people we have, the faster we will have the work done! Mission designers able to correct briefings (including animated briefings) are needed, but also playtesters to check corrected battles....rewards, etc.

If you are interested, either for the correction work or the playtesting, just contact Vice Admiral Striker. You can also find additional informations on the Project Phoenix Site at http://perso.club-internet.fr/jmcx97/tac/phoenix.

The EH Ethnology Survey continues. Also, EH Poll #39, EH Poll #42, and EH Poll #43 are open. Also, while it's not as big as a problem as it was a week ago, I'm looking for EH Poll ideas. So if you have them, you can email them to me. The EH Polling Center can be found at http://ehpoll.tsx.org.

The following new battles have been released to the fleet:

• TC-TIE Battle #121: Battle of Principles
• TC-TIE Battle #122: Rebels and Pirates
• TC-TIE Battle #123: Strengthen the Emperor's Hammer
• TC-XWA Battle #2: First Contact
• TC-XWA Battle #3: The Darkon Mystery
• FREE-TIE: Hack Lab
• FREE-TIE: Mu 2-2
• FREE-TIE: Mugarri Cargo Operation
• FREE-TIE: The Belhassa Marches
• FREE-TIE: The Manhunt
• FREE-XvT: Grey Wolf 1
• FREE-XvT: Grey Wolf 2
• FREE-XvT: Kill Republic Infiltrators
• FREE-XvT: Medical Supplies
• FREE-XvT: TIE Advanced Workout
• FREE-XvT: Undercover Assault
• FREE-XvT: VSD Victory
• FREE-XWA: Battle of Midway
• FREE-XWA: Destroy Ackbar

All battles are available to download at the Emperor's Hammer Battle Center.

The Training Office has gone through several updates and entered some new projects. Firstly a new site is up at http://www.impstar.net/to/. This is also the new IWATS URL, so update your bookmarks accordingly. In addition, mission designers, testers and voice actors are needed for TO Comp 5. Details are available at the TO site, under Projects. Lastly, the Training Officer will be taking submissions for pilot record updating to reflect completed IWATS courses.

The linking problems relating to NL 58 have been fixed. You can get the NL at http://www.emperorshammer.org/nl58.exe. The NL is just under 2.5MB

Sector Admiral Compton has finished putting Newsletter #58 together. The link on the emperorshammer.org domain, however, is currently broken, but should be operational in the near future.

For his exceptional work as BGCOM, increasing activity and pilot quality and competitiveness, as well as assistance in the next fleet-wide comp, Vice Admiral Kessler has been promoted to full Admiral.

Grand Admiral Ronin has updated the Emperor's Hammer News Page with the latest Fleet information and announcements. Future updates will be handled by Acting Fleet Commander Sector Admiral Compton until the Grand Admiral returns from his leave on the 28th (at the soonest).

A handful of high score notification/BSF approval confirmation e-mails were accidently "lost" by tiecorps.org's mail server and never mailed out. All BSF as submitted before November 11th have been approved and the records are updated on the database. No audit requests or BSF rejections were lost by the server.

In order to make the Mission Creation Board (http://www.sitepowerup.com/mb/view.asp?BoardID=110407) more attractive, a small contest has been set up to get a banner for this message board, something to put at the top of it; you are free to use whatever you want, even some (nice and small) anim gifs, and use of extra coding like image map for links to the EH Battle Center or/and Project Phoenix would be a plus. Let your imagination choose for you, but try to stay on a 400x150 basis...a Palpatine Crescent will be awarded for the best work.

Submission are to be sent to Lieutenant Commander Darkfire before November 21st.

It is with great pleasure and a certain amount of relief that I can finally declare the Battlegroup Flagship Contest over. Over a period of two months the ISDs Colossus, Relentless, Challenge and Immortal have fought it out over the skills of piloting, mission design, fiction writing and graphics creation. Over 1000 submissions were received, including 193 new missions for TIE, XVT and XWA, the best of which are now in the hands of the Tactical Office. The results are as follows:

1st: ISD Challenge
2nd: ISD Relentless
3rd: ISD Immortal
4th: ISD Colossus

The direct result of this, is that my Flagship is now the ISD Challenge. I leave the ISD Colossus today to take my new post on the Command Ship of Wing X. Thank you to all onboard the ISD Colossus for making me so welcome during my time on board.

Finally, by approval of the Fleet Commander, the top scoring Squadron in the contest is officially declared Battlegroup Commander's Escort Squadron. My congratulations to Typhoon Squadron/Wing X/ISD Challenge on earning this honor. Until the second Battlegroup Flagship Contest, my congratulations to all who took part.

The standard for plotlines have been posted at: http://www.tiecorps.org/battles/plotline.asp

All future battle submissions should follow this format. Any current pending submissions being reviewed do not have to submit new plotlines.

EH Poll #39, EH Poll #40, and EH Poll #41 are open right now. Also, an EH Ethnology Survey. More information, and the place to vote, can be found at the EH Polling Center, http://ehpoll.tsx.org.

On the Operations Officer Report on the Emperor's Hammer News Page, there's a misprint about the Commendation of Bravery. The CoB can still be recommended by Wing Commanders, Commodores, and Battlegroup Commanders.

Grand Admiral Ronin has updated the Emperor's Hammer News Page with the latest Fleet information and announcements.

High Admiral Kawolski has posted Tactical Briefing #4 to the fleet.

From now on, people designing battles that span over more than two battles do not have their battle declared as a CAB. However, if you submit a campaign of this sort, you MUST submit ALL of the battles that go with it at one time.

For example, you cannot just complete Part 1 of a battle campaign one month, do Part 2 the next month, and then finish with Part 3 four months later. You must submit all three parts at once.

This gives an advantage to campaign-style battles (i.e. those currently on the EH Battle Center with "Part 1" and "Part 2" on them) because you can earn more battle medals playing them and sections can be used in competitions where it's easier to play a six-mission chunk as opposed to a twenty-mission CAB.

Combined Arms Battles are merely TIE Fighter based battles that involve TC-subgroup hybrid plotlines that don't have the maximum size restriction of eight missions normal TC-TIE battles have.

The following new battles have been released to the fleet:

• TC-TIE Battle #119: The Razinki Operation
• TC-TIE Battle #120: Thunderer the Victory Star Destroyer
• TC-XWA Battle #1: Avenger Encounter
• FREE-TIE: Scoser 1

All battles are available to download at the Emperor's Hammer Battle Center.