The Black Hawks | Still Winning

by **Zacherie** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 5:21 pm

Feuer Ritter II wrote:There's no hightened defender activity, just a very decreased raider activity due to the "suppression" of a highly efficient generation of raiders.

Applebania wrote:The following (Six!) Wardens were involved:
First Warden Benevolent Thomas
Warden Tim Stark
Warden Leafish
Warden Rom
Warden New Dukaine
Warden Applebania

Other involved defenders included
Ravania Ultra
Hodori
Frattastan II
Kanta Hame
Kortexia

Tim-Opolis wrote:Wardens Involved
First Warden Benevolent Thomas
Warden-Constable Applebania
Warden Leafish
Warden Rom
Warden New Dukaine

Sorry, what? Are you actually that out of touch with GP?

by **Ever-Wandering Souls** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 5:29 pm

So, yeah, I mean you can not take my word if you want, but a few months ago a half dozen ops sitting at 8-15 endos apiece would have been fine. Now, those are all at risk.

by **Guy** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 9:11 pm

Quite a few of the Wardens/Recruits are people who otherwise would not have defended, in all likelihood. So TGW must be congratulated for bringing those people in in such a short time frame.

I don't know if it's true to say that we haven't pulled off significant liberations in recent times, but having another active (non-overlapping) military certainly helps a lot.

by **Ever-Wandering Souls** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 10:55 pm

TBH Celebrates Our Forefathers

Everyone's got a daddy, and a good number of folks become one someday. Some papas do silly things, like name their sons "Sue." Others give good advice. Some dads wish they'd spent more time with their own fathers. And of course, some are just plain shitty ... but let's not talk about those today. Raiding has a pa of sorts too, and it's that pawpaw that we set out to celebrate today, with a characteristic Black Hawks spellin' run, featureing some very tight switches, targets drawn from the daily dumps by hand, and execution via the opensource tool 20xx. Wasn't bad for us all being rusty at tagging... AND YES I KNOW A LOT WERE NON-EXEC, I didn't care because it's a damn spelling run

On the Major Update of 20/6/2016, the following Hawks hit or reinforced the following 20 regions:

Major Ever-Wandering Souls, Field Marshal (Frantic Target Finder/Master Speller)
Lieutenant Reventus Koth (Badass Super Tight Trigger/Chief Trainer)
Sergeant Syberis (First Time Tagger)
Private First Class Ozzy
Private First Class Sygian TBH

Hillary Clinton
ACC
Progressive Global Republic
Progressives For America
Yemen

Federation of Humanity
Arab World
Richard
Kent
Eastern Asia
Republic of Yemen
Solarius

Derp
Arcation
Yarnia in Australia

Royal Catholic Alliance
Andromeda
Idunno
District 12 (Reinforcement)
Sneumi

Special shoutout to Aurum for passing me an easier to work with version of the dumps halfway in (and for making 20xx as well xD)!! Also, shout out to the Cavs, for getting a couple of our favorite defenders too drunk and excited to try and stop us

The Black Hawks: NationStates' Dad-iest Raiders

Isn't "Farker's Day" such a dad joke?

by **Ozzy** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:27 pm

Nice report!

I was glad to be a part of that raiding event, Souls! It was very exciting.

by **Altmoras** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:29 pm

Oh so that's what you were doing.

by **Ever-Wandering Souls** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:32 pm

Altmoras wrote:Oh so that's what you were doing.

Never seen a spelling run before? Still coulda tried to intercept a few

and we did tag, IIRC, three of them!

edit: maybe only one so far, but I think there might be a couple being saved for morning...

by **Ever-Wandering Souls** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:35 pm

Ozzy wrote:Nice report!

I was glad to be a part of that raiding event, Souls! It was very exciting.

Glad you enjoyed it, Ozzy! And congrats on the promotion, you CPL you

by **Ozzy** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:41 pm

Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:Glad you enjoyed it, Ozzy! And congrats on the promotion, you CPL you

Sweet! I'm a Corporal now!

That was faster than I thought.

by **Altmoras** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:47 pm

Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:
Altmoras wrote:Oh so that's what you were doing.

Never seen a spelling run before? Still coulda tried to intercept a few and we did tag, IIRC, three of them!

edit: maybe only one so far, but I think there might be a couple being saved for morning...

Well I arrived to the update late so it just seemed like Jibberish to me.

by **Tim-Opolis** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 12:14 am

4/10 for no Dad Jokes, but +1 for Farkers and +1 for the best goddamn team in the NBA.

Final Score: 6/10. Next time make a steak instead of a mistake.

Remember, Souls, a steak pun is a rare medium well done.

by **Zacherie** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 12:16 am

Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:Special shoutout to Aurum for passing me an easier to work with version of the dumps halfway in (and for making 20xx as well xD)

You have no idea how much trouble I went through to make that sheet for you ;-;

by **Luxdonia** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 12:21 am

Just wondering, where those targets preselected before they raid or did they just manage to spell out Happy Father's Day?

by **Zacherie** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 12:25 am

Luxdonia wrote:Just wondering, where those targets preselected before they raid or did they just manage to spell out Happy Father's Day?

Preselected, it was a spelling run

by **Sygian II** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 6:17 am

Congrats!

by **Ever-Wandering Souls** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 6:37 am

Tim-Opolis wrote:4/10 for no Dad Jokes, but +1 for Farkers and +1 for the best goddamn team in the NBA.

Final Score: 6/10. Next time make a steak instead of a mistake.

Remember, Souls, a steak pun is a rare medium well done.

Ah, you see Tim, that's where you messed up- the whole thing is a dad pun! Happy Farker's day?

by **Kshrlmnt** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:45 am

Well done, TBH. XD

by **Ever-Wandering Souls** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 9:30 am

Luxdonia wrote:Just wondering, where those targets preselected before they raid or did they just manage to spell out Happy Father's Day?

TBH spelling runs are hand-selected with a lot of scrolling an manual time estimation (for spacing) from the Daily Dumps (or modified versions thereof). In this case I started selection about an hour before update, finished initial selection about fifteen minutes into the update (raid ongoing), added a word, and found two replacement letters for missed hits mid-update. We wrapped up with a good 20-35 mins of unused update time. While I was finishing target selection, Koth led the raid, triggering actual precision times using 20xx.

by **Ever-Wandering Souls** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 9:30 am

Kshrlmnt wrote:Well done, TBH. XD

Thanks Ellie!

by **Numero Capitan** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 10:07 am

Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:edit: maybe only one so far, but I think there might be a couple being saved for morning...

No sir

by **Ever-Wandering Souls** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 10:15 am

Numero Capitan wrote:
Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:edit: maybe only one so far, but I think there might be a couple being saved for morning...

No sir

Looks like we had two more exec hits, but they didn't appoint RO before switching. Tsk tsk - something to improve on!

by **Numero Capitan** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 10:18 am

Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:
Numero Capitan wrote:
No sir

Looks like we had two more exec hits, but they didn't appoint RO before switching. Tsk tsk - something to improve on!

Well they did but we've been out removing them before they tagged. Hydra have been pretty sloppy at that too, incredibly upsetting for me

by **Bhang Bhang Duc** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 10:22 am

Nice run and nice report Hawks.

by **Siniarus XVII** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 11:42 am

Figures that we do this on the one night I have work at 6:45 AM after.

by **The Will of Kane** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 10:45 pm

Cast of Hawks,
Sgt. Syberis
Cpl. Siniarus
Pfc. Yuno
Lt. wetwork

And lo there were upon the winds
A clutch of Hawks so sleek
Ariding 'pon the update draft
A target they did seek
Upon the ground with eye so keen
The heavy armoured tread
Of warden boots, the armour gleam
The update phalanx dread
Our Hawks had not grim battles urge
Instead they capered high
Alighting on the Circus dirge
Exterminating lice
Again the skies did fill with calls
Of humour and good cheer
And so with hefty avian balls
To Africa they steer'd
Alas, they failed to find so sweet
A morsel as they sought
But though they bloodied not their beaks
The fendas still were brought
And here we end our fledgling tale
Of fun though t'was a tease
We go back to a task not stale
Exterminating Fleas.

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