Vanguard - 21st September 2012 Since the last update on Vanguard we have to closed down Secret World and flipped the switch for Counterstrike Global Offensive and Guild Wars 2 to full spin up teams .At the same time Planetside 2 has been added as a horizon team. For more details please see articles from the teams below:-Dota 2The Dota division within Vanguard continues to experience exciting growth that's unmatched at the moment by any other division. At 122 members, we sit as the fifth largest division within TAW. With the exciting growth, it's given us the ability to offer multiple different inhouse games on our match nights catering to a wide range of skill. Our EU and NA battalions are both incredibly strong at this point, with the EU almost having a complete command stuff like the NA. We're still looking into spinning-up an OC battalion before launching out of Vanguard, but that is of a lower priority compared to ensuring quality in the other two battalions.MAJ MasterOdin [DA SUL]Counter Strike Global OffensiveSit-rep CS:GOThe NA side is doing well and is currently in the lead with 8 active members.The EU side is lagging behind a bit with 4 active members, bringing the unit to a total of12 members. Special mention goes to returning members Toast, Bodybag and Jankls.Welcome back, gents! Having people that knows the ropes while in Vanguard is way OP and their dedication to TAW and CS is already showing.Server wise we had some issues on the EU side during the test phase,that have since been resolved.While EU runs one server of each game mode,The NA side have a kick ass server of awesome that runs custom maps.Special thanks goes to Toast for being instrumental in getting NA a server.Well played, Sir!Here is our server list as it presently stands:NA Server:NA Custom IP: 68.232.177.33:27025EU Servers:EU Classic Casual IP: 91.192.38.52:287215EU Classic Competitive IP: 91.192.38.52:27216EU Arms Race IP: 91.192.38.52:27217EU Demolition IP: 91.192.38.52:287218If you like to know about spinning a game up, talk to some members from way back when,learn what DirtyDozen is best known for or just play some CS:GO. Why not visit our CS channels in Vanguard? We hang around there regularly, just being awesome, but you are most likely to find us during our mandatories.Mandatory Practices For CSEU:Tuesdays 20:00 CET (14:00 EST)Saturdays 20:00 CET (14:00 EST)NA:Wednesdays 21:00 EST (03:00 CET, Wednesdays)Sundays 21:00 EST (03:00 CET, Mondays)LTC Ekis - SULGhost Recon Future SoldierUbi released Tom Clancy’s newest PC gaming platform, Future Soldier, in June 2012. Since its arrival it has been plagued with connection and server issues. With patches and updates coming from the publisher on a regular basis, the game is still a little buggy. With connection losses and friends not being displayed, many players have abandoned the PC platform and have gone to playing on consoles, Xbox or PS3. With the creation of the Ghost Recon Future Soldier Division, TAW has seen many players join its ranks. Weimauler, the Spin-Up Leader, was instrumental in assembling a senior staff leadership that will continue to expand the Division with the TAW Community. The Division has grown and continues to grow, in strength and talent with 43 new TAW/GRFS members and several seasoned veterans.The Division is currently in Vanguard and will soon be released as a full Division. With its release, the senior staff has planned a Division Tournament with the NA and EU Champs playing for a Division Championship. The Tournament will be set-up in a fashion as to have all Fire Teams play each other on both NA and EU Battalions. We anticipate a great deal of teamwork, communication and solidarity between all teams and players and look forward to our launch from Vanguard.Guild Wars 2The Guild Wars 2 division has exploded recently with the EU division recruiting like crazy the NA division has recently transferred servers from northern shiverpeaks to devonas rest. The move was difficult but in the long run the division believes that we will be able to recruit more members and grow the division.LTC TheGame - SULMinecraftMinecraft - The Story So FarIt has been a busy and succesful few months for us. Our core launch team has been in place, working hard behind the scenes, for some time now - and I'm continually impressed by how dedicated they are to making this start-up Division a long term success.As a group, we've planned, designed and built a unique Spawn world from the ground up. We've launched a dynamic economy for players to trade their hard-mined resources. Events are taking shape with PvP arenas, Spleef and Chicken-Riding (yes, really!). We're even developing our own unique game ideas and building those as well.Of course, all of this physical work would be nothing without the admins and plugin developers making all the bells and whistles work! They've set up our servers, fielded hundreds of questions, written custom plugins to help events run more smoothly - and made the things we thought too difficult to achieve, a reality.Finally, to our community; members from transfers and others via friends-of-friends. A thank you to all of you for helping us get off the ground, testing (and breaking!) our early ideas - and having the patience to stay around and help us fix them.We'd like to invite other TAW members who are avid Minecraft fans to help us test our events and practices during these early weeks and months. You can get more information on how to join us or simply access the server - and help out just by playing - here; http://taw.net/forums/t/5232.aspxYou can also check out the Minecraft Forums for more information as we continue to move forward;http://taw.net/forums/199.aspx1LT DajarooCommanding OfficerMinecraft DivisionPlanetside 2Have you ever imagine being in a world with constant large scale battles, being front seat of tactical situations, and having a fun all at the same time? I know of one game that’s like this, and it’s called Planetside 2. What is Planetside 2? Planetside 2 is a Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter (MMOFPS) that combines the massive amount of people onto a single server, with the competitiveness of a first person shooter. To give a taste of what you would expect of Planetside 2, you have your friends are on the front lines holding a battle line against overwhelming odds, all seems lost when you look to the sky’s and see a fighter/bomber squadron in the hundreds coming in to reinforce you and your team, or see a massive armor convoy roll to deal with pesky tanks and infantry. While the game boosters a massive scale, it also offers a highly detail strategic part of the game as well.In Planetside 2, you can form a squad of twelve people, and if you have more than twelve, you can form four squads into a platoon with added depth with their own separate voice communication channel in the game. To also add to the strategic depth, you and your faction fight over territory with their own advantages to your faction, whether it’s to allow Main Battle Tanks (MBT) to be built on the front lines, or supply resources to buy assets to be used for your team. These territories also have several ways to be defended and captured by your team. Some are just as simple as going up to the capture point and its yours, while larger facilities have several steps you need to take before you can capture them, like taking out shield generator to allow accesses into the base, etc. All of this added depth to keep the game going since there is no change in round or new rotation since the game map is a massive 8x8 km large. Currently, the game has one continent which should boost to three by the game is launched.So I bet you are wondering “So how much is this going to cost me?” and the answer I will give is zero. Yes, Planetside 2 is a free to play game. Everything I have described to you will be available to you from day one of playing the game. So how would someone go about to being able to play it now? Right now, the game is in closed beta with only people selected to test the game, or, someone got a key from a friend so they can play. It is uncertain when the game will be open beta, but all I can say is to patiently wait for when it will be announced for open beta.Well, I hope you have enjoyed reading this has sparked interest in you to learn more about the game. You can read more about it at planetside2.com, or you can message me to learn more. See you on the battlefieldLTC GundamMKII - SULVanguardPlanetside 2 World of WarcraftWorld of warcraft becoming a smooth climb now with it's staff in place and we both EU and NA believe we are were we need to be, Our new SO Icedog a returning 8 year member from the original WW division has given great insight on different ways of running things as well, all our old returning, members. Blizzards new Novel "Jade Proudmore Tides of war" launches 1 week with new scenarios and new content for our division. Next Tuesday Launches our new expansion "Mists Of Pandaria"CPT Bamsen - World Of Warcraft - Commanding Officer