A Special MP Comp will take place on Feb 2, to celebrate both my Birthday and the End of SC V.
It will take place in #ehcoc of Undernet

Starting 9am EST till 7pm EST (14-00 GMT)

All Are invited

For more details check Combat Calendar

This time small package:

• XvT-DB #8
• XvT-FREE #129
• XWA-TC #33

TAC3K soon :)

From now on, the following must be done on all test submissions:

-The name of the test MUST be included in the subject line (abbreviation is okay; we won't make you type Apprentice Demolitions Technician Certification Course when DT1 will do fine)
-Your full ID line MUST be included on BOTH the test and the e-mail
-There should only be ONE test submitted per e-mail

Failure to meet these guidelines will result in your test submission being deleted.

It seems some people need clarification on this: Squadron, Wing/Ship and Battlegroup websites are mandatory. If you are a CMDR+, then it's your responsibility to make sure these pages are in place and meet the requirements. This doesn't mean you have to make the pages yourself - there are plenty of people in the EH that can do this for you. Whether you make the pages or not, they remain your responsibility.

These requirements have not be brought in to make your life more difficult. They are there so that TIE Corps sites meet a high level of standard. A Cadet is more likely to consider joining your Squadron if the page has all the correct information and is regularly updated.

The TC banner competition is now over and I've decided on the winners:

1st: Captain Tempest, Kappa Squadron, awarded Iron Star - Gold Ribbon
2nd: Lieutenant Colhar Jeth Sudar, Storm Squadron, awarded Iron Star - Silver Ribbon
3rd: Lieutenant Colonel Wysseri Arestar, Omicron Squadron, awarded Iron Star - Bronze Ribbon

Congratulations to these three individuals. The winning entries and all other submissions can be viewed HERE.

Lieutenant Colonel Autoris has been selected as the new Relentless Commodore and promoted to Rear Admiral. Congratulations go out to him.

The Vindictive and Nova Company are seaking for new leaders. This are the minimum requirements to aply:

• EH Command Experience;
• IOTC passed;
• Be able to devote many hours to the HF;
• Check the email and responce once a day;
• Report on time;
• Iniciative;
• Two letters from EH Officers stating previous achivements;
• 101% loyal to the HF;
• An short explaining why you think you can do the job.
• Will to work and lead your troops to victory.

Email this info to fistnet@yahoo.com, with the subject of:
Vindictive Company Commander: App- Vindictive PC
Nova Company Commander: App- Nova PC

I expect to chose the CC in one week.

High Colonel Ironfist,
Phoenix Battalion,
Commanding.

FA Priyum and I have devised new standards for all TIE Corps homepages in an attempt to raise the quality of TC sites. All sites are expected to comply with the standards within 2 weeks (by February 9). Officers whose sites do not comply within the allotted time face removal from their current position.

The new guidelines are located at http://www.ehnet.org/guidelines.php#tcguides.

Thanks to our XO we have new battletypes. So I've released following battles:

• XvT-CAB #1 - Winner of Xunami Wings
• XW-TC #1-3

Soon we should have BoP-ID and BoP-DB battles.

Membership: 95 active, 201 total

1. Another troop type course for the CSMA is around the corner with the Zero-G Trooper course. This rounds out the most popular troop types in the Star Wars universe including:
   Cold Assault (Snowtrooper) Certification =ST=
   Aquatic Assault (Seatrooper) Certification =SEA=
   Desert Assault (Sandtrooper) Certification =SD=
   Stormtrooper Scout (Scouttrooper) Certification =SC=
   Naval Stormtrooper (Spacetrooper) Certification =SZ=
   Special Missions (Storm Commando) Certification (=SM= and =SMC=)

2. Three other new courses have been released for the CSMA! The final two vehicle specialist courses, and a Special Missions course. The Special Missions is a stepping-stone course toward being picked as a Storm Commando.

3. The Platoon League scoring system is a bit wonky. It is far too easy for one or two people to dominate doing only one activity. This has been partially fixed by limiting the number of Jedi Knight matches scorable between any two opponents. The Company Commander is further looking into the PL scoring system.

4. The Company Commander is also trying to get more interaction between the recruits in Orion Platoon (our equivalent to the TC's Daedalus Platform) and the rest of the Hammer's Fist. There is too much apathy among recruits at present not to mention some normal squads.

5. This is my last report for about two weeks. My XO, Mordred, will be writing domain reports in my absence. I am taking the time off to build a new computer, so I will not be online at all. I will also use the time to reflect on my role in the Hammer's Fist and hopefully come back with a new perspective.

Many congratulations go out to the new Squadron Commander of Omega, Colonel Sasquatch!

There is currently a worm doing the rounds at the moment, which is impacting the performance of the internet around the world. The worm is designed to target known flaws in SQL Server, a database application produced by Microsoft. However, the worm scans so aggressively that it can actually affect the performance of your own internet experience. Those of you on broadband will probably be very likely targets and should look at blocking port 1434 on the UDP protocol if you have firewall functionality that supports specific settings. Otherwise, a general firewall such as McAfee Firewall or ZoneAlarm should do the trick. Those who do actually run SQL Server or MSDE (a desktop version of the server) should check they are patched as this is an exploit that has been known since July 2002.

New stuff for your pleasure:

• XvT-TC #56
• XvT-Free #128
• XWA-CAB #4 - Winner of Xunami Wings
• XWA-Free #88,89

Enjoy.

I've just released another set of missions.

• XWA-FREE #86,87
• XW-FREE #2,3

More coming very soon.

We have a new Training Message board located here. Cadets are free to use this board to post any questions they may have about their training where I'm sure helpful members of the TC will respond.

inally I managed to get time to create a professional EHCOC Website. It can be found here. The Combat Manual is still the old version. There will be a new one with updated stuff soon. The Manual can be found here. Feel free to eMail me your comments. But be aware, not everything is working yet and the site is not fully finished. You also need at least Internet Explorer 6.0 or Netscape Navigator 7.0 to view the XML Scripts of the site. Please do not include this problem in a bug report!

Phase 1:
1. CPT Hunter
2. COL Drake
3. VA Darksaber, LC Gidda, CPT Broskopf


Phase 2:
XvT/BoP:
1. MAJ Tissaya Argat & CPT Frey Gallandro

XWA:
1. RA Roguewing
2. BA Xavier Sienar

The new SSSD Sovereign wargame, Operation Outrageous Fortune, begins Sunday, Jan. 19. It pits Team Blue Falcon (Wings I, IV and V) vs. Team Red Dragon (Wings II, III and Omega Squadron) in a war of space superiority, planetary conquest, continental invasion, and assassination and prisoner rescue missions. Sovereign personnel will wage the war on the TIE, XvT, XWA, Jedi Knight II and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds platforms. The Task Force Leaders are LC Frodo (Blue) and LC Jon Doyle (Red). The gamesmaster is WO/AD Pel.

Membership: 94 active, 200 total

1. Our Commander, Internet has taken on an assistant. Congratulations to 2LT Coolguy!

2. An Operation has been underway since the first of the month and will continue through the first of next month. It's dubbed Operation: Urban Assault and is being run through the Hammer's Fist messageboard.

3. The HF website was down for a short time, but MG Zsinj has brought it back online at a new location. The URL remains the same. Of course, our CI continues to improve upon it. Thanks Zsinj and congratulations on the promotion to Major General.

4. Most interesting news for last: I have been monitoring a first person shooter Star Wars conversion and it is looking very good. Find it at http://www.ut2003troopers.co.uk/. It (Troopers - Rise of the Rebellion )uses the new Unreal Tournament 2003 engine so it has the potential to blow the doors off of Jedi Knight 2. Of course, it also takes a much beefier computer to run the game. In light of this conversion effort, I have permanently shut down my Unreal Tournament: Emperor's Hammer conversion project. Instead, I plan on further modifying UT2003 using TRotR as a base.

[salute]
Prefect of the Legion
Field Marshal Ares

The position of Relentless Commodore in the TIE Corps Battlegroups is still open to applications with the following requirements:

• Absolute familiarity with Fleet Manuals and the Fleet Standing Orders
• No serious AoW convictions, and none within the past 12 months
• Command experience at a Wing Commander level or above, for no less than 4 consecutive months. Squadron Commanders will only be considered with 3 excellent references from superior Officers
• Familiarity with Single and Multiplayer aspects of X-Wing: Alliance
• Email response time of 24-36 hours.
• Everything else detailed in the Training Manual

Applicants must possess the drive and motivation to work towards stabilizing the ship, plan future activities and work with fellow Flag Officers in the Battlegroup. The position of Commodore is not to be underestimated. If you have any doubts as to your suitability for the position, then don't waste our time by applying. Applications should be sent to Vice Admiral Krax and Fleet Admiral Priyum with the subject RelCOM. You may include up to 3 references, two of which must be from current or former superiors. Ensure that you have their permission before listing them.

Remember to use the chain of command first when reporting complaints. Almost 2/3 of the time complaints are better handled by your superior officers. They can get them resolved faster since I have a large number of complaints and each of mine needs thorough investigations as I send people to the High Court of Inquisitors if I find them suspect. Also, do not send an entire log file of the channel. Including some of the log before incidents happened helps, but I do not need to see logs of several months before (or after) a violation.

Recently, I've noticed that many pilots are skipping missions and submit battles to their CMDR. Also, CMDR process BSFs even when plt file shows missions has been skipped. Hear now, loud and clear: This is not allowed.
Skipping missions is not considered cheating however, battles will be removed from your profile.
All battles are playable. If you have problem with patches, contact SCO Ender mBind.

I've received so many XWA applications that I don't have spots anymore. Do not send applications for XWA testers. But you can still join TIE or XvT/BoP team. But remember about few basic rules:

1. Always include your PIN
2. When applying for TIE, cc TCC:TIE, XvT, TCC:XvT. Also ALWAYS cc my Command Attache.
3. You must have current mission design course passed (for TIE it's TM, for XvT it's XTM/1 and for XWA it's XAM). Do not apply if you don't have this course passed.
4. I don't tolerate slacking in my office. It's not squadron. You fail to test, you are out.

Due of catastrophic snow problems in Lower Austria, my Firefighter Unit is going to be reassigned to another Unit for 1 or 2 weeks to help them with their problems. I am able to join the Internet in that time, however I will not be able to do any COO work. For questions, please address my COOA, Autoris Maximus, LoC's are on hold till Sunday 20th! On Saturday, I am able to award LoC's and also to write a report.

As many of you may have noticed, the TIE Corps' current front page banner, found here, shows the wrong page address. To correct this I've decided to hold a small competition to design a new banner, with the correct URL. This competition is open to all TC members, including Reservists. The size of the banner should be similar to the current one, but that's not particularly important. All submissions should be sent to spellfire@btinternet.com zipped and with the email subject "TC Banner".

You have until 26th January to get your submissions in. The designer of the selected banner will receive the Iron Star - Gold Ribbon, with further awards going to other submissions.

The Aggressor Strike Force's major competition, Supremacy V, is currently underway. Scores and details can be found at http://www.minos.net/~autoris/.

Congratulations to Lieutenant Colonel Dax Corrin and his Avenger Squadron pilots who have reached more than 300 Squadron citations, a first for any TIE Corps Squadron!

Wing XI recently faced off with Wing III in an XWA SP comp. After the results had been tallied, Wing XI emerged the victor. They get to choose the nickname and motto for Wing III for the next month. Please send all suggestions to com@wingXI.net and wc@wingXI.net.

Yes. TCC:XWA is looking for new people to join Tactical Staff. All requirements are posted here. Great career oportunity for hard working people.

Xunami Wings Phase 1 has ended.

Winners

1. The End of Peace by CPT Hunter
2. Desperate Measures by COL Drake
3. Darkest Star by VA Darksaber, MAJ Gidda and CPT Broskopf

Full results can be found here
I have received few great submissions, however CPT Hunter declassed all competitors, with his outstanding 30 page plotline.
Right now I expect few great CABs based on those plotlines! Remember. Phase 2 ends January, 12th.

ALWAYS include your PIN and email in your submission. From now on, all submissions without them, will be rejected. Also, whenever you mail me, to fix something or award you missing medal, include your email. If you won't, I will ignore you.

One word: DO NOT include patches in your zip. Just either inform in readme.txt that your battle requieres patch and give link to SCO site or create patches.txt and state what/where there.

Due to low number of submissions, I've decided to move deadline, to next Sunday, January 12th. So you have additional week to submit your CABs to me.
Meantime winners of Phase 1 will be announced on EH Birthday.

I want to congratulate everyone who participiated in this WoW! It was one of the best (if not the best) WoW since I am COO! The overall Winner, LT Mykos, won 27 Games. Congratulations! Check out the WoW Site here.

Overview - The LO primarily acts as the EH archivalist, ensuring that certain materials such as newsletters and the EH codex are up to date and accessable at all times. Technical ability and an eye to detail in maintaining these archives are key attributes for the position. The Logistics Officer is also responsible for content in the newsletter, such as book/game reviews, etc.

Selection Criteria - Essential
1. Good written communication skills
2. An acceptable level of presence in online media such as IRC, message boards, etc.
3. Fast Email response time
4. The ability to work with a wide range of EH personnel, including the Executive Officer
5. The ability to work to extreme deadlines

Selection Criteria - Desirable
1. HTML experience (ASP/PHP is a bonus)
2. Awareness of Star Wars events and happenings outside the EH

Immediate duties for the successful candidate will include the updating of the EH Codex and other historical archives, as well as the acquisition of webspace to host the various files from.

You must address each criteria with supporting evidence. Simply saying "Yes, I can do that" will not be enough. Include specific examples of your experience. You should meet at least the essential criteria to be considered for the position. You will be expected to perform the core duties as listed and if you are unwilling to perform them, don't waste time by applying. You must include at least three (3) references. At least one must be a current or former superior (preferably current). Ensure you have their permission first. If it is found out that you did not gain permission, this will reflect upon your application in a negative light. Applications should be sent to the Fleet Commander (garonin@aol.com) and Executive Officer (jpboyce@indigo.net.au) with the subject "Application for Logistics Officer".

Congratulations to Major Mayk Wolverine who has been appointed as the new Wing IV WC. Congratulations are also due to Colonel Khadgar who returns to the ISD Grey Wolf's Flag staff as Wing Commander, following MAJ Randrowan's removal.

There are two Tac competitions at them moment. You can find details here and here. Also, remember about Xunami Wings. I would like to see some nice CABs on my desk very soon.

I am looking for people to become Tactical Office testers. Requirements can be found on Mission Creation Message Board. Send applications to TCC:TIE/CPT Mark Schueler, cc me and my CA. If you need more info, ask Mark.

It's a new year and here is a new Operation, this is the first real op in a while so get to the MBs and participate. It's Called Operation Urban Assault. It will run from January 1 12:01 am till february 1st at the same time. Have fun.