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Vanguard is happy to announce that Enlisted will have a Spin Up meeting to commemorate their launch into Vanguard!
Date:
May 15th
Time:
4:00 PM EDT
10:00 PM CEST
Location:
TeamSpeak, under Vanguard, in Pathfinder Corps
You can view the Event here:
Enlisted - Spin-Up Meeting
Feel free to drop in and experience a general overview of what the Division plans, and the staff in charge.
We hope to see you there!
Welcome to another edition of Vanguard Newsletter, our monthly update to bring you any new information about games in Vanguard. If you have any comments, questions or concerns regarding any of the games, or this post, feel free to contact any of the Vanguard staff.
Valorant - Tier 2
SUL - FalconRuby
Valorant Division has been growing, and is now close to 70 members!
The Division also threw a TAW Wide tournament, and one team emerged victorious. Congratulations to Blue Thunder for their win. You can read more about it here: Valorant Winners
If you have any questions, or are interested into transferring to this unit, contact Vanguard or Valorant Staff. You can also join the discussion over at their Discord: TAW - Valorant
Event Times
NA Mandatory: 20:00 EST on Thursdays
NA Mandatory: 20:00 EST on Sundays
NA Optional: TBD
EU Mandatory: 9:00 CEST on Wednesdays
EU Mandatory: 19:00 CEST on Sundays
EU Optional: 20:00 CEST on Tuesdays
Star Wars: Squadrons - Tier 2
SUL - MercenaryHG
Star Wars Squadrons is currently enjoying a 50% discount on Steam and Origin. The offer ends on May 6th, so be sure you grab your copy today!
If you have any questions, or are interested into transferring to this unit, contact Vanguard or Squadrons Staff. You can also join the discussion over at their Discord: TAW - Star Wars Squadrons
Event TimesEU Mandatory: 19:00 PM GMT on Sundays
NA Mandatory: 20:00 PM EST on Tuesdays
EU Optional: 8:00 PM GMT on Tuesday and Thursday
Dota 2 - Tier 3
SUL - TBD
If you have any questions, or are interested into transferring to this unit, contact Vanguard or DOTA2 Staff. You can also join the discussion over at their Discord: TAW - Dota 2
Mandatory: 19:00 PM GMT on Sundays
Optional: 19:00 PM GMT on Tuesdays
City of Heroes - Tier 3
SUL - DestroyerPA
City of Heroes Division are now recruiting in full force, while also planning for events for their Division and the game community!
If you have any questions, or are interested into transferring to this unit, contact Vanguard or CH Staff. You can also join the discussion over at their Discord: TAW - City of Heroes
NA Optional: 18:00 EST on Thursdays
Enlisted - Tier 4
SUL - JakeQuake
Enlisted has joined the ranks of the Horizon Division, and is kicking into gear!
NA Mandatory: TBA
Hood: Outlaws & Legends, developed by Sumo Newcastle and published by Focus Home Interactive, is a Third-Person, Multiplayer stealth action game, set to release May 10th, with early access to per-orders on May 7th.
Players are thrust into a world, where a merciless, unchecked state controls the land and power, oppressing the common folk and starving them. To win influence among the folks, and loosen the grip of the oppressors, players must perform daring heists to hit the wealthy where it hurts, all while deciding whether to be a folk hero who gives, or a gold hungry greedy outlaw.
The player is part of a team of 4, who is competing against another team, in order to execute the perfect heist. This starts off by infiltrating the area, and stealing the key of the vault from the infamous Sheriff of Nottingham, who is a boss character in the game. This can be done via stealth or open combat, though both have to be done while also avoiding the rival team, whose task is the same.
After stealing the key, players must then find the location of the vault, using clues given to them in game. The opposing team is also notified, and will try their best to steal the key from the player, while also locating the vault themselves. This part of the heist requires stealth, as any open action alerts the guards, who call for reinforcements, closing off certain areas and making access to the vault harder.
In comes the final step. ESCAPE! Plundering the vault and taking its riches for yourself will come with difficulties. Has your process so far been quiet and smooth? Escape should be easy for you, if you manage to handle the other team. Have you been a lunatic and stormed your way into the vault? Well, prepare to fight hard for your gold.
With the gold they earn from completing Heists, players are given the choice between keeping the gold or giving it to the poor. Doing the former allows the player to purchase cosmetics and perks they can use to further steal more gold in heists, while doing the latter gains favor with the common folk, who will upgrade the player's hideout, and let them acquire special perks from said upgrades. Both paths will require the player to think hard about their hard earned stolen gold!
The game can be played with 3 other friends, or 7 others in custom lobbies, and there is crossplay matchmaking between platforms. The game will be using Dedicated servers to host its matches, and will feature a Battle Pass post launch feature, allowing players to earn exclusive cosmetics and content.
You can pre-order the game on Steam: Hood: Outlaws & Legends Steam Page
Vanguard is looking for members interested in this game, and encourage anyone to reach out by filling out the Vanguard interest form:
Vanguard Interest Form
or by contacting any of the Vanguard staff directly:
Hemphop@taw.net
Snapshot@taw.net
SouthernCross@taw.net
Bluebear@taw.net
VALORANT HAS GROWN TO 55 MEMBERS!
VALORANT is going to throw a TAW wide tournament in celebration of the growth in members. Keep a look out for notifications about the tournament!
Star Wars Squadron has been busy this past month.
Congratulations on the following promotions:
GliderPilot was assigned the position of CO and promoted to CPT
AzraelDeadStar assigned the position of XO and promoted to 1LT
Nightseye was assigned the position of SO and promoted to 2LT
Precipitator was promoted to LCP
City of Heroes Division are now recruiting in full force, while also planning for events for their Division and the game community! One of these events include Costume Contest, ran by the Division, in which members of the game, in and out of TAW participate in hopes of winning some unique prizes!
WeaponMasterAlric was assigned the position of CO and promoted to CPT
Ganji was assigned the position of SO and promoted to 2LT
Loft was assigned the position of HDI and promoted to MGS
NA Mandatory: 20:00 EST on Saturdays
NA Optional: 20:00 EST on Wednesdays
Age of Empires II: DE - Tier 1
SUL - Stiigletz
AOE II DE: March Newsletter
The Age of Empires Division have been hard at work, going up to Tier 1 in Vanguard, and preparing for their imminent launch into Army. While preparing for that, they continue to run their own in-house tournaments and participate in community ran ones.
The Age of Warfare tournament series continues on the heels of a very exciting Art of Winter 1v1. Congrats again to StratRebel & PlusNomad for winning the Feudal Cup and Castle Cup respectively. In February, we held a 6 Player Regicide Rumble event.
If you have any questions, or are interested into transferring to this unit, contact Vanguard or AOE Staff. You can also chat with them over at their discord: TAW - Age of Empires II DE
NA = 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST Saturdays and Wednesdays
NA Optional = N/A
EU = 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT Saturdays and Wednesdays
EU Optional = N/A
NA = Thursdays 20:00 - 21:00 EST II Sundays 20:00 - 22:00 EST
EU = Wednesdays 19:00 - 21:00 GMT ll Sundays 19:00 - 21:00 CEST
EU Optional = Tuesday 20:00 - 21:00 CEST
Event TimesEU Mandatory: 7:00 PM GMT on Sundays
NA Mandatory: 8:00 PM EST on Tuesdays
EU Optional: Tuesday and Thursday at 8:00 PM GMT
Hunt Showdown - Tier 3
SUL - Subteram
If you have any questions, or are interested into transferring to this unit, contact Vanguard or Hunt Staff. You can also join the discussion over at their Discord: TAW - Hunt Showdown
Joint Optional at 2:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM GMT
If you have any questions, or are interested into transferring to this unit, contact Vanguard or Hunt Staff. You can also join the discussion over at their Discord: TAW - Dota 2
City of Heroes Division has advanced into Tier 3, and are now recruiting in full force, while also planning for events for their Division and the game community! One of these events include Costume Contest, ran by the Division, in which members of the game, in and out of TAW participate in hopes of winning some unique prizes!
As for Promotions, they are as follows:
Loft stepped up as DI
Goodeus stepped up as DI
Eastonfection stepped up as PIA
NA Mandatory: 20:00 - 22:00 EST on Saturdays
NA Optional: 20:00 - 22:00 EST on Wednesdays
Valheim, developed by Iron Gate Studios, and published by Coffee Stain Publishing, is an open world survival sandbox, released on Steam in Early Access on February 2, 2021.
Players are thrust into the roles of Vikings, who were sent into the afterlife in order to combat the creatures besieging Valheim, the tenth Norse realm. Being the newest guardian of the realm, you are tasked with slaying the ancient enemies of Odin and the gods, and bring order to the realm of Valheim.
Players are able to explore a procedurally generated world, of their choosing. Venturing into dark forests, climbing onto snow covered mountains, and looking upon long lush valleys. If that inner viking in them is there, they can take to the seas and try to explore it, with the risk of awakening something....
Ever dreamed of being the lord of your own Norse village? Well, now you can be. Build your own houses, mead halls, and even castles, with a powerful construction interface in game. You can even build legendary vessels to conquer those seas and discover new lands, rich with resources and new dangers to conquer. The limit is your own imagination Viking.
Survive in this harsh and cruel world, as you fend off creatures and find resources to build your towns, and feed yourself. Craft yourself powerful weapons and armor, as well as food and mead to prepare yourself for any encounter ahead of you.
Don't do it alone! Take a friend with you, or 9. Whatever floats your Long-ship! Players are able to play in co-op on self hosted servers, or dedicated servers, and explore the world of Valheim with all its beauty and dangers. It is recommended to play within a party of 3-5, as the game is still in Early Access, and there is still things to be fixed and improved as time goes by.
You can buy the game on Steam: Valheim Steam Page
This game has taken the internet by storm, and is among the top 5 played games on Steam currently, with peak players being around 500,000 a day. It offers something players have been wanting for a long time, a survival game that offers all the fun of one, without the annoying troupes accompanied by it. Due to its popularity and genre, Vanguard is looking for interested members in this game. If you are one, feel free to contact any of the Vanguard Staff by email:
You can also fill out the Vanguard Interest Form:
Interest Form
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Welcome back to another edition of On the Horizon, a monthly update on the games Vanguard is keeping watch on for the near future. Our edition is month is a bit different than usual, and we hope you enjoy it!
On Tuesday February 9th, Valheim became the fourth most played game on Steam, hosting
over 160,000 peak concurrent users, surpassing Grand Theft Auto V, Apex Legends and
Rocket League.
Valheim, a new indie Viking-themed multiplayer survival game has just hit Steam Early Access.
Up to 10 players will be able to work together to explore and survive the harsh environments of
the tenth world of Yggdrasil. It is probably best described as a Minecraft, Terraria, Souls game.
That’s a lot to take in. Valheim combines the 3D base building of Minecraft – although with the
mechanics of Rust – with the material grind and boss-fight mechanics of Terraria. And the combat
has definite Souls-like vibes.
Though it’s not just the art style that has everyone raving about Valheim.
One of the first awesome aspects of the game is the way in which you level up skills.
Cutting down trees with your fists boosts your unarmed skill. It’s like a crossover of Mount and Blade,
Runescape, and Oblivion. Much more intuitive than a complex skill tree.
The scale of the game is also impressive, and you’ll notice it even before you take down the first
of the several bosses in the game.
Valheim is probably best described as a Minecraft, Terraria, Souls game. That’s a lot to take in.
Valheim combines the 3D base building of Minecraft – although with the mechanics of Rust,
with the material grind and boss-fight mechanics of Terraria. And the combat has definite Souls-like vibes.
If you have interest in this game, and want to see it or any other in TAW,
feel free to fill out the interest form:Vanguard Interest Forum
If you got any questions or interested to know more about Vanguard do feel free to
reach out to anyone of us in the VG staff:
Hemphop, Warlohn, SnapShot, Bluebear, Alas
Vanguard is happy to announce that Hunt Showdown will have a Spin Up meeting to commemorate their launch into Vanguard!
February 13
15:00 ET
20:00 GMT
Hunt Showdown - Spin-Up Meeting
Vanguard is happy to announce that City of Heroes will have a Spin Up meeting to commemorate their launch into Vanguard!
February 6
13:00 ET
18:00 GMT
TeamSpeak, under Vanguard Corps
City of Heroes - Spin Up Meeting
The Recruiting Division has been and will continue to host once every month a Recruiting Class. The class is hosted by one of their recruiting masters where they go through their three main recruiting strategies - forum, direct messaging, and in-game. Their main focus is to spur discussion during and after the class by sharing each other's recruiting efforts and hopefully discover other ways to grow our numbers in TAW. Watch your TAW homepage for dates and time for the next class in February. The Recruiting Division is always open, so feel free to pop into their channels up in Vanguard to chat. If you want RD to come to you and meet with your team, just message Zenmire today!
EU = Thursdays 20:00 - 21:00 CEST ll Sundays 20:00 - 22:00 CEST
Age of Empires II: DE - Tier 2
AOE II DE: February Newsletter
The AOE Division is hard at working recruiting and creating events for its members, and a name for TAW in the Age of Empires community. The Team, Wololo Warrios, comprised of MrMonty and ECOWarfare, won The Prentos LECOC AOE 2 DE Tournament, and are aiming to repeat their success again down the road. They both have been awarded the Bronze Star for their efforts and dedication to the team. Congratulations to them and the AOE Division.
The following members have also been promoted:
BlankSpot - Promoted to XO over NA Battalion
CDODragon - Promoted to CO over NA Battalion
HeraklesDerThird - Promoted to HDI over the newly reopened OC Battalion
MrMonty - Promoted to DI over NA Battalion
BioEngineer - Promoted to DI over NA Battalion
The Division also hosted a 1v1 tournament, and extends congratulations to PlusNomad and Stratrebel! After a month-long series of 1v1 matches, were first in the Group Stages and then in the playoffs, Stratrebel has arisen as the Feudal Cup Champion, and PlusNomad is the undisputed victor of the Castle Cup.
Weekly coaching Classes are hosted on Wendesday Nights, to teach build orders and strategies with the game, and Scenario nights are hosted on Sundays, where RPG scenarios or Diplomacy type games are played out.
EU = 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT Saturday's and Wednesday's
NA = 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST Saturday's and Wednesday's
OC = TBD
Calrissian Cup Results
Squadrons Division has been busy with setting up events and recruiting. Members have also taken up positions to help the Division more. They have also been participating in community run tournaments, and are making a name for themselves there. You can see more and talk with the division over at their discord server: TAW - Star Wars Squadrons
The Division have also been streaming their events, every Tuesday and Thursday. You can tune in at TAWTV
Event TimesEU Mandatory: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT on Sundays
NA Mandatory: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST on Tuesdays
NA Optional: Thursday at 9:00 PM EST // Sunday at 2:00 PM EST
Halo - Tier 3
SUL - Zunkey
If you have any questions, or are interested into transferring to this unit, contact Vanguard or Halo Staff. You can also join the discussion over at their Discord: TAW - Halo
NA = Sundays 8:00 - 10:00 PM EST
EU = Sundays 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Dual Universe - Tier 4
SUL - sclossin
Dual Universe has joined TAW as a Horizon Division and are underway into fulfilling the requirements to advance into Tier 3, all whilst recruiting!
If you have any questions, or are interested into transferring to this unit, contact Vanguard or DU Staff. You can also join the discussion over at their Discord: TAW - Dual Universe
TBD
City of Heroes - Tier 4
City of Heroes has finally joined TAW as a Horizon Division and are underway into fulfilling the requirements to advance into Tier 3, all whilst recruiting!
Dota 2, developed and published by Valve, is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA). Considered a sequel to the Warcraft 3 mod, Defense of the Ancients, the game is both a commercial and spiritual success, with a player base among the top 3 in steam, thanks to its free-to-play model, and an esports scene like none other.
The game pits players in teams of 5 against one another, whose objective is to destroy a large structure defended by the other team, known as the Ancient, while defending theirs in the same time. Players can choose from a pool of 120 heroes, each boasting their own design, strengths, and weaknesses. Those heroes are split into two roles, core and support.
Core heroes are generally weak at the start of the match, but grow stronger as they gain experience, thus carrying their team to victory. Support heroes are generally weak damage dealers, but provide their teammates with abilities such as healing and other buffs. Heroes are picked during a pre-game draft, and locked once selected for the rest of the match.
Players use a magic system, to activate their abilities and skills, and regenerate the points they use from this system slowly over time. Skills will also enter a cool-down once used, creating scenarios where players must wisely choose when to use their precious abilities, which could mean the difference between winning or losing a fight.
We understand the hurdles and difficulties that arise with recruiting and maintaining a division for a game such as this, and as such, we hope to talk with members who think they can rise to the challenge against it all. If you believe you are one, please feel free to contact Vanguard staff via email:
warlohn@taw.net
You can also submit an Interest Forum here: Vanguard Interest Forum