WO:Warfare Office Manual

The Warfare Office

The Warfare Office is the organization responsible for the management of competitions within the TIE Corps, excluding those handled by the Combat Operations Office. The team is made up of the following:

• The Warfare Officer: The Warfare Officer is the primary officer tasked with managing TIE Corps competitions, ranging from TIE Corps wide events such as Raise the Flag and Imperial Storm through to assisting members with their own competition setup and administration.
  • The current WO is FA Phoenix Berkana.

• Warfare Officer Assistant (WOA): A Warfare Officer Assistant is primarily tasked with assisting the WO in managing the competition approval queue, working with competition runners to schedule and refine events and ensuring that awards are presented. During times of major Corps-wide competitions such as Imperial Storm, Squadron (Re)Mobilization and Raise the Flag they may also be tasked with competition tracking tasks.
  • The current WOA's are LCM GamerRat and LCM Prot Azar.
    • Contact LCM GamerRat for personal competition issues, like recommending medals, etc.

Guide for Competition Creation and Warfare Office

The following 3 sections are for members who need detailed information on creating competitions, and some info on what competitions the WO runs throughout the year.

Fleet Competitions

The Warfare Office runs several major competitions throughout the year.

FLEET COMPETITIONS

• Raise the Flag - a king of the hill competition where pilots compete against each other at an individual, squadron, and battlegroup level. Raise the Flag is usually held in September of each year.

• Imperial Storm - a month-long competition that pits the EH against an NPC enemy. Battlegroups need to earn enough points to defeat enemy fleets, completing the objectives that advance the EH Plotline. Imperial Storm is held in February or March of each year.

• Squadron (Re)Mobilization - a month-long competition that has squadrons completing "tiers" to earn titles, as well as having the ability to switch craft or squadron objectives. Squadron (Re)Mobilization is usually run in June.

INDIVIDUAL COMPETITIONS

• Ace of the TIE Corps - a year-long competition split into three rounds with Single Player (SP), Player vs Player (PvP), and Player vs Environment (PvE) subcategories. Pilots compete to earn the most points every month and year.

• TIE Corps in Battle - an annual competition where squadrons and battlegroups compete against each other, completing 4 assigned battles (TIE, XvT, XWA, and TFTC) every month for 4 months. Awards are given for the top squadron and the top battlegroup. Each year tends to have 1 season, and it starts in the beginning of the year (usually).

• Trivia Grand Tour - Trivia Grand Tour is a currently inactive competition that was run by the WO. If time allows, we hope to bring it back

Duplicate Competitions

Please do not create duplicate competitions, as they are a a way of double dipping medals. For example, we already have Ace of the TIE Corps, where you fly missions for points. Do not make a competition that has the same premise, like a squadron-level version of this. This is an unfair way to get double the medals for half the effort.

Competition Medal Guidelines

Please follow the following medal guidelines when creating competitions:

• Operational Readiness Awards (ORAs) should not be awarded as participation medals. The idea of an ORA is to reward achievements made during a competition without placing in the rankings. For example, if a competition is about playing 50 XWA missions, and you get a high score on 1/2 of them, you can give an ORA for that. But do not give an ORA for completing the 50 missions, or using the ORA as a placement medal below the IS-CW/CR.

• Imperial Achievement Ribbon (IAR) can sometimes be awarded for competitions where users just "participate". An example is Maston's May the Fourth Collectible Cavalcade, where you get an IAR for submitting a photo. However, most competitions do not feature IARs as the main award.

• Iron Star w/ Copper Wings- the IS-CW should never be awarded as the first place award in a competition. The IS-CW should be used as a runner-up to the IS-BW. Same applies for IS-CR.

• Iron Star w/ Bronze Wings- the IS-BW should be a first place award for a squadron-level competitions that lasts LESS THAN A MONTH, or as a runner-up for the IS-SW. Same applies for the IS-BR.

• Iron Star w/ Silver Wings- the IS-SW should be the first place award of a squadron-level competition that lasts ONE MONTH OR MORE. It can also be the runner-up for the IS-GW. Same applies for the IS-SR

• Iron Star w/ Gold Wings- The IS-GW should be the first-place award of a battlegroup level competition, or for Corp-wide competitions that last for a few months. They can also be the runner-ups for the IS-PW. Same applies for the IS-GR. Battlegroup level competitions that last for less than a month should NOT use the IS-GW to keep it rare.

• Iron Star w/ Platinum Wings- The IS-PW may only be awarded for first place in Corp-wide competitions that last at least 4 months, or for complex events like Raise the Flag or Imperial Storm. These are not to be a runner up for any medal. Same applies to the IS-PR.

If you see competitions with medals that are not allowed to be awarded, deny the competition and explain why.

• If you are not sure if your awards are OK or not, please contact the WO or the WOA's.
  • The WO is FA Phoenix Berkana
  • The WOA's are LCM GamerRat and LCM Prot Azar

Guide for WOAs

So, you've been selected for the role of Warfare Office Assistant (WOA). You need to know how to perform the many tasks that occur daily in the Warfare Office, so that you can be a good assistant to our current Warfare Officer FA Phoenix Berkana. You will need to know how to write medal recommendations, process competitions, write news articles, and pull data for Ace of the TIE Corps and TIE Corps in Battle. This guide will contain all of the basic skills needed for daily performance in the eventful like of a WOA.

Section 1: Medal Recommendations

Writing medal recommendations is an integral part of running mass competitions or helping people who can't write them hand out the necessary awards (such as non-leadership roles). The first step to writing a recommendation is navigating to your "Management" page on the EH website.

Select the area circled in red

Step 1:Select the "Recommend an Award" option

This section is more advanced. There are multiple fields to fill out

Step 2: Firstly, in the area circled in red, enter the username of the person who you wish to award the medal to. You will only be able to enter TC accounts, not SO ones. Then, in the area circled yellow, enter the competition ID. Every competition has one, and it is listed at the very top of every competition page. For example, Ace of the TIE Corps 2025- Season One has the ID #7902. Next, select the medal. As a WOA, you will only be able to award ORAs, all of the Iron Star types, and TUA/MUAs. This area is highlighted in green. Then, in the area circled in blue, enter the quantity. Sometimes, competitions can have multiples of the same medal in the rewards. Lastly, in the area circled in brown, type in the recommendation. This usually includes the achievement that the recipient had, such as "For achieving first place in Ace of the TIE Corps 2025- Season 1, LCM GamerRat is awarded the IS-GW. Great Job!" You will not need to enter in the Combat ID #, as those are for COO run events and (usually) do not apply to the WOA. But if necessary, fill it out.

Section 2: Processing Competitions

Another major role of a WOA and the WO is to process competitions that are created by TC members. This process is relatively simple, but requires some basic knowledge about ongoing competitions and awards.

Select the area cirlced in red

To begin the competition approve/deny process, select the area called "Process pending competitions"

Here you have multiple areas to look at.

Here, there are 3 sections to look at. First, look at the areas circled in green. Check to see if the medals correspond with the competition task (no IS-xR for flying missions or no IS-xW for non-flying missions), the dates (some medals cant be awarded if the competition doesn't last long enough), and the competition details, as the competition could be a repeat of, for example, TCIB. If you feel like everything is good, select "Approve" in the area circled in red, then click "Process Competitions" (area circled in yellow). If you approve it, a notification will be sent to the competition creator.

Do this to deny a competition

Should the competition not be valid for whatever reason (here it is a near-repeat of TCIB), you will deny that competition. Do everything like above, but for the area circled in red, select "Deny". This will cause a textbox to pop up at the bottom of the screen (circled blue). Here you will enter the reason you denied the competition. For example: "This competition is a near-repeat of TCIB. Please do not submit repeats of existing competitions." or "You can't have IS-GW's for competitions that are not Corp-level. Change the award and resubmit for approval." After this, click the area highlighted yellow (Process Competitions). This will send a message to the creator that is was denied.

Section 3:News Articles

For those who do not know, news articles are those announcements that appear on the EH site when you click the "Club News" button. These usually display promotions, changes of command, or the achievements of pilots. There are a few basic steps to writing one.

Click "Post News Article" on the management tab

Here, you choose the option to write a news post. 

Here are multiple fields to pick out.

On this page, you write everything you want in the news post. First, enter the headline/title (area circled red). This is the title of your post. Secondly, pick a Headline Graphic (area circled yellow). This is a small image of the "origin" of the news. As a WOA or WO, pick the one that is called "WO- Warfare Officer". This will display the insignia of the WO. However, in news related to competitions like RtF or Imperial Storm, you may choose those options. Next, enter a subgroup (circled in green). By default, it is (without displaying it) set to Emperor's Hammer. Choosing Emperor's Hammer will send the news to both the TC and SO discord servers and it will display it on both websites. Choosing TIE Corps will only send to TC Discord and TC website, and similarly with the SO option. Since you are a WOA or WO, you should pick TIE Corps or Emperor's Hammer. Before moving on, enter the text. This will be the news that you are sharing. This area is circled in blue. Now, prepare to scroll down.

This is the bottom of the previous page.

Now that you have scrolled down, you will have a few more things to choose. Circled red is the news from the previous section. In yellow is the option to post to Discord or not. This determines if the message will be posted on Discord. By default, it is turned on. Now, press the "Preview" button (circled blue). This will show a preview of the message as it will appear on the EH website(s). If you are satisfied, you may press the "Post News" button, sending it to the EH Discords and websites.

Here is an example of a News Article

This is an example of a News Article. You can see that the Warfare Office logo was selected, and it is visible on the top left, as well as other info that was put into there.

Section 4: BSF Submission Data

How do you think the WO office figures out who flew a certain battle for TCIB? Obviously we do not go through EVERY active pilot's activity section to see if they submitted that BSF! We have a special search tool. You will now learn how to pull BSF data from the database.

Here we use XWA-TC 4

Here we choose the battle to find all of it's BSF submissions. In TCIB, you would be pulling up BSfs for 16 different battles, and putting them into a spreadsheet (if necessary).                                                                                                
                                                                                          

Click on the "BSF Search" button in Advanced Stats of your management page to take you to the BSF Search page (circled red).

The BSF Search Page

You have finally arrived to the BSF search page. There are 3 sections to enter data into. Firstly, into the "Start Date", place the date when that TCIB round began. For this one, it  began on March 1st, 2024. This area is circled red. Then, into the "End Date", enter the date that is 2 days AFTER the end date of that TCIB round. As TCIB does not have repeating battles in a season, repeated results are not a problem. Entering 2 days after also makes sure that the system didn't miss any BSFs, as that can occasionally, though rarely, happen. This section is circled yellow. Next, into the "Battle" section, type in the battle who's BSFs you would like to view. For this example, we will use XWA-TC 4 "Privateer". This area is circled in green. Lastly, click "Search". This will take you to the results of the BSF search, showing all BSFs submitted for XWA-TC 4 in that time period. This button is blue and is circled blue as well.

The results of a search for XWA-TC 4. Nice job Vanguard88.

You can now see the results of the search. It lists by score amount, with the highest at the top. You can now see who participated, their score, their high scores, and their .plt file. If you are required to input this data into a Spreadsheet, scroll to the bottom of the page and copy it as a CSV. You can now input it into spreadsheet programs like Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel for easy to view info.