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The Campaign for Cybertron has raged over Hydrax Plateau, we've scavenged across Tarn for components and captured teams over Vos to unlock new technologies in the fight for control of our planet.

In each battle so far the Decepticons have had the edge, but their dominance is slowly diminishing. They failed in the fight to break out their captured commanders, beaten back by the might of Jack Hallows' Howling Wreckers, whilst Sustain held the Autobots to a stalemate until something unknown happened and Cybertrons central battle computers were suddenly shut down...

WarPorn Industries News Network; wait... that's not Zombi! Whats going... arrrggghhh!! *chokes*

Citizens of Cybertron.
I am Darth Vader, Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet and Sith Lord, and I bring you a declaration of intent.

The Galactic Empire now controls this sector of the universe, and it is our wish to bring it peace and stability.

Your machine planet is unstable, torn apart by war, so you have been chosen as an example to the rest of your universe of how our governance is beneficial to all other civilisations in this sector. Set aside your war, lay down your arms and accept the rule of the Empire.

You may have noticed that your planet is experiencing mechanical and technological difficulties? We did this to you, as a demonstration of our power.
We have erased your insignificant battle data.
We have made your planet's power supply unstable.
We are moving our battle station within range of your planet, possessing enough firepower to destroy your 'Cybertron' forever and not even your lightsabers can stop us.

We have turned your own technology against you, and my machine army, the 503rd, will soon be heading to your planet. Every time we score a victory, we interrupt your data feed and take a little bit more of your world.

You have 2 of your Cybertronian days to comply before we attack. Our Death Star battlestation is almost in range. I suggest you use them wisely.

Surrender, or feel the true might of the Galactic Empire and the dark side of the force.

*BZZZZT* Please stand by....

Wingz: Senator of HMW

...That's enough of that.

Citizens of Cybertron!

Judging by the presence of Vader’s 503rd, I guess it’s just a little late to pass this invasion off as a prank or static interference... What’s more, it looks as if his Death Star is hovering over Altihex. That is too close to Iacon! Scrap that slag, I’LL KILL A…*clears throat*...

Darth Vader, Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet and Sith Lord, and his 503rd...

...Seriously, could you possibly have a longer name? Nevermind, here’s a new one for you, affectionately written in our own cultural dialect:

Darth Vader, Supreme Pain-in-the-Tailpipe of the Soon-to-be-Slaughtered Peasantfleet and Scrub Lord, and his Taking the Piss! YOU have 2 days to GET OFF OUR LAWN!

Back to you, Zombi!

...and here we go!!

WarPorn Industries News Network; Guess who's back, bitches!!!

Thanks Wingz... No one steals MY show!

Well ya'll, I think we've got a bit of a problem on our hands here.

Vader's 503rd have arrived, and the boss says the senate has an urgent message for us all, but lets be honest... we don't want to read that boring garbage so here's the important details...

• Darth Vader can use the force to seize control of any of our mechs that have an altmode originating in his universe, adding them to his 503 army.
• The Death Star is making its way to Cybertron with the firepower to destroy us all.
• We must shoot down any soldiers that Vader could be controlling.
• These guys are vulnerable to lightsabers. That said, if a kill is made with one then it counts double
• Whichever side does the best job of beating back Vader's 503rd will win the sector.

The boss has also created a list of all the altmodes Vader can control. These are to be considered your taregts.



289 - - Rescue Ship - (Common)

765 - - Alien Feline - (Common)

352 - - Hovercar - (Common)

866 - - Land Dragon - (Common)

267 - - Cargo Vessel - (Core)

646 - - Frigate - (Common)

916 - - Enforcer Craft - (Common)

171 - - Heavy Starfighter - (Common)

48 - - Starfighter - (Common)

836 - - Strike Fighter - (Common)

751 - - Assault Fighter - (Rare)

907 - - Starfighter - (Rare)

279 - - Twin-Pod Fighter - (Rare)

989 - - Seige Tank - (Common)

304 - - Alien Behemoth - (Common)

411 - - Armored Walker - (Common)

644 - - RPG Launcher - (Core)

584 - - Spaceship - (Rare)

590 - - Reptile - (Common)




464 - - Rapid Deployment Craft - (Rare)

680 - - Hover Gunship - (Common)

161 - - Sea Creature - (Common)

8 - - Missile Buggy - (Common)

248 - - Attack Skimmer - (Core)

349 - - Defensive Tank - (Common)

965 - - Cargo Ship - (Common)

923 - - Starship - (Core)

3 - - Starfighter - (Common)

136 - - Starfighter - (Common)

530 - - Starfighter - (Common)

431 - - Assault Shuttle - (Rare)

919 - - Starfighter - (Rare)

139 - - Hovering Weapons Platform - (Rare)

989 - - Seige Tank - (Rare)

542 - - Assault Walker - (Rare)

77 - - Walking Transport - (Common)

103 - - Hovercopter - (Common)

310 - - Monster - (Common)

844 - - Starfighter - (Common)

So there ya go! All you need to do is blow away the 503rd and we can send ol' bucket head back to his galaxy far far away![/quote]


The Alt Hunt begins on Friday May 4th at 12:00 PM (GMT-4) and will run for 7 days.
The opening mission will be posted by the amazing Sustain and Wingz who will be running this tourney as I'm off on holiday until Monday and will have very little internet access.


The Hunt Rules

• Make an entry post in the 'signups' thread, following the instructions in 'the boring stuff' below.
• Kill as many Star Wars alts as you can in 1 week. The list of legal alts is listed above.
• To be able to enter you must format either a STAR WARS based or approved alt onto at least one member of your team.
• This is the character that will be used to determine your level bracket for the game.
• Players may enter more than one level bracket, but may only enter once at each level.
• ALL of your teams kills on target alts count.
• LIGHTSABER KILLS RULE: Lightsaber kills count double. These must be labeled to claim the extra point.

In addition, a fair play directive has been added, which will be referred to as 'Rule: Zero'.
All characters named in sign-up posts MUST be activated into a mission with opposition at once least every 12 hours.
This rule is likely to be ongoing for the rest of the campaign rounds.

The Hunt Instructions!

When you get a kill on a target alt, edit the mission link into your original sign-up post, making sure to list the victims name and time of kill (timestamp).
Whoever has the most kills at the end of 1 week in each level bracket wins. In the event of a tie the number of higher level kills will be examined (e.g. number of level 11's killed, then 10s, then 9s etc.).

As usual, hunt tactics and game discussions can be added below, or started in the faction-specific forums.

Level 0 special rules!

New to HMW?
Stuck down at level 0 still?
Want to be able to affect the game with the rest of the guzzlers?

The have we got the rules twist for you!!

If you have a level 0 character on your team that has less than the level cap of 40,000XP then you can still sign up and enjoy the hunt!!

Whilst the Transformers battle against Vaders 503rd forces, you will need to keep them supplied and restocked.

To do this:
Post in the sign-up thread with a link to your character.
It can be any one character, with any alt, as long as it has below the 40k XP level cap.
Post every kill your named character gets for the duration of the game. It does not have to be on a target alt, but it must be a kill, not a victory by retreat.
Hope you post more than the opposition.

The faction with the most combined wins(subject to player numbers and balancing) will score an extra point fr their side in the war against Darth Vader’s 503rd!

Boring Stuff:
- Sign ups are required, found here, listing the Name, Chosen altmode and Level of the lead character from your team
- Player numbers will be assessed before the game starts and weighting may be put into place to even the sides. This will be announced as the game begins.
- Players can have as many game-relevant alts as they want in their team, but only one can count per level, and this must be listed in advance.
- 'Lightsaber Kills' definition: The killing blow must be by a lightsaber to qualify for the double bonus. Any lightsaber in the game qualifies.
- Lightsaber Kills must be labeled to be counted.
- Target alts are determined by image alone, the alt class is irrelevant.
- Cheaters penalty: removal (without notification/permission) of a hunted alt from a listed (qualifying) team member is grounds for instant disqualification.
- The organisers decisions (made by discussions between Myself, Wingz and Sustain) are final.

And the final scores are in!!

For those of you who didn’t play the Sharkticonnado tourney, the scoring method may appear complicated, but it isn’t.
All the entrants are collected into their level brackets and the top score is taken as the victor.
Each commander can only win 1 bracket so they are crossed out in any lower bracket that also entered in, leaving the next highest eligible score as the victor.
This does not always work though, as in level 7, all three entrants had previously won a bracket, so there is no winner there, meaning the Empire actually scored a victory, even if they were driven back by the Cybertronian forces.

Congratulation for all of you who persevered with the game. Lets just hope that it’s all sorted for the big event next month!!

Level 11:
The Potentate - 98
Steve 9

Level 10:
Absolute Zero - 106
Wrath - 59
Steve - 9

Level 9:
Red - 134
Absolute Zero - 106
Steve - 9


Level 8:
Absolute Zero- 106
Sustain - 14

Level 7:
Red - 134
Absolute Zero - 106
Sustain - 14

Level 6:
Red - 134
Absolute Zero - 106
Discharge - 101
Wrath - 59


Level 5:
Red - 134
Turbo - 19

Level 4:
Discharge - 101
Bun-Bun - 71
Wrath - 59
Bad Wolf - 46
Servant - 28
Wingz - 26
Turbo - 19


Level 3:
Bun-Bun - 71
Xenos - 64
Bad Wolf - 46
Phasewing - 29
Servant - 28
Wingz - 26



Level 2:
Bun-Bun - 71
Xenos - 64
Phasewing - 29
Servant - 28
High Command - 27

Level 1:
Servant- 28
Sumowrestler - 7
ZeroWolf - 2
Kick Axe - 2


And in the separate game at level 0:

Servant - 12
Zero Wolf - 5
Kick Axe - 1


Final score:

(With the Empire taking level 7!)


Transformers Darth Vader Image Credit: mmatere of Deviantart.

Query; Does the exact form of Lightsaber - standard, colored, Double-Bladed - matter or merely that the elimination was made using a Lightsaber?

No, just the fact that it's by a lightsaber. That's all that matters.

Psychout wrote:The Alt Hunt begins on Friday May 4th at 12:00 PM (GMT-4) and will run for 7 days.

So 4 plus seven is eleven, so we've got about what, twenty-four hours or so left, right?

Yep. I'll post the exact ending time later tonight, but it'll be roughly 24 hours after this post.

Psychout wrote:Yep. I'll post the exact ending time later tonight, but it'll be roughly 24 hours after this post.

will we still have time to update logs? i'm not able to update my kill list until after work (roughly now)

Bad Wolf wrote:

Psychout wrote:Yep. I'll post the exact ending time later tonight, but it'll be roughly 24 hours after this post.

will we still have time to update logs? i'm not able to update my kill list until after work (roughly now)

Yep. I'll post the ending mission shortly and then you'll have a day or update.

Hunt Ends Mission 10500

You then have until midday Saturday UK time (GMT+1) to update your claim posts. The Winners will be announced soon afterwards.

And the final scores are in!!

For those of you who didn’t play the Sharkticonnado tourney, the scoring method may appear complicated, but it isn’t.
All the entrants are collected into their level brackets and the top score is taken as the victor.
Each commander can only win 1 bracket so they are crossed out in any lower bracket that also entered in, leaving the next highest eligible score as the victor.
This does not always work though, as in level 7, all three entrants had previously won a bracket, so there is no winner there, meaning the Empire actually scored a victory, even if they were driven back by the Cybertronian forces.

Congratulation for all of you who persevered with the game. Lets just hope that it’s all sorted for the big event next month!!

Level 11:
The Potentate - 98
Steve 9

Level 10:
Absolute Zero - 106
Wrath - 59
Steve - 9

Level 9:
Red - 134
Absolute Zero - 106
Steve - 9


Level 8:
Absolute Zero- 106
Sustain - 14

Level 7:
Red - 134
Absolute Zero - 106
Sustain - 14

Level 6:
Red - 134
Absolute Zero - 106
Discharge - 101
Wrath - 59


Level 5:
Red - 134
Turbo - 19

Level 4:
Discharge - 101
Bun-Bun - 71
Wrath - 59
Bad Wolf - 46
Servant - 28
Wingz - 26
Turbo - 19


Level 3:
Bun-Bun - 71
Xenos - 64
Bad Wolf - 46
Phasewing - 29
Servant - 28
Wingz - 26



Level 2:
Bun-Bun - 71
Xenos - 64
Phasewing - 29
Servant - 28
High Command - 27

Level 1:
Servant- 28
Sumowrestler - 7
ZeroWolf - 2
Kick Axe - 2


And in the separate game at level 0:

Servant - 12
Zero Wolf - 5
Kick Axe - 1


Final score:

(With the Empire taking level 7!)

Thanks for doing all the paper work

and congratz to all the *ahem* winners
(lousy freaking Turbo fraknnfrikmfngfrakingfrikkingmfkr winning with a lousy 19 :p j/k you were a great target )

Should have entered at more levels Nem

Psychout wrote:Should have entered at more levels Nem

lots of things i should do but eh

A weeks worth of sending 6 level 1s and I only ever took down one bot ah well, what can you do? Got a full team of lvl 1s to whip into shape now before the next event.

Hopefully the write up will be coming in a few days. Maybe you can put the Empire on some small area of Cybertron licking their wounds trying to figure out there next move.

sumowrestler wrote:Maybe you can put the Empire on some small area of Cybertron licking their wounds trying to figure out there next move.

Good grief! No! Not after that train wreck of Transformers vs Visionaries. We don't need a repeat of some squishies setting up camp in some part of Cybertron.

Can't we just pretend the empire are all cybertronians? No squishies needed.

I'm sure we can come up with something

Congratulations Israel Decepticons!

Bad Wolf wrote:(lousy freaking Turbo winning with a lousy 19 :p j/k you were a great target )

Mainly 'cause during the tourney I fielded ONLY SW alts, so I was pretty much pure target...

Welp, there's sure to be a victory celebration in Darkmount this weekend, folks, but don't forget Mothers' Day is Sunday. Meanwhile, I'm going to go to the eye doctor since I must be seeing things; if I read that right, then I won Level 5 by default since Red had already won at a higher level. I never win anything, it's like one of the unwritten bylaws of HMW...

(Seriously; I think Burn has a 'wildfire protocol' or something where if I ever actually win anything - up to and especially including actually SL'ing Gore - the game is erased from the Seibertron servers or worse, HMW 2.0 finally comes out but all current data is wiped...)

turbomagnus wrote:

Bad Wolf wrote:(lousy freaking Turbo winning with a lousy 19 :p j/k you were a great target )

Mainly 'cause during the tourney I fielded ONLY SW alts, so I was pretty much pure target...

Welp, there's sure to be a victory celebration in Darkmount this weekend, folks, but don't forget Mothers' Day is Sunday. Meanwhile, I'm going to go to the eye doctor since I must be seeing things; if I read that right, then I won Level 5 by default since Red had already won at a higher level. I never win anything, it's like one of the unwritten bylaws of HMW...

for your brilliant strategy to take the Lev 5 win by default i here by award thee 2 robot points

Burn wrote:Congratulations Israel Decepticons!

The drunk vote team wins again!

Bad Wolf wrote:

turbomagnus wrote:

Bad Wolf wrote:(lousy freaking Turbo winning with a lousy 19 :p j/k you were a great target )

Mainly 'cause during the tourney I fielded ONLY SW alts, so I was pretty much pure target...

Welp, there's sure to be a victory celebration in Darkmount this weekend, folks, but don't forget Mothers' Day is Sunday. Meanwhile, I'm going to go to the eye doctor since I must be seeing things; if I read that right, then I won Level 5 by default since Red had already won at a higher level. I never win anything, it's like one of the unwritten bylaws of HMW...

for your brilliant strategy to take the Lev 5 win by default i here by award thee 2 robot points

Those should totally be a reward so people can 'purchase' **** like altmodes and the like once they've saved up enough of them.

When I'm sober again, I'll see if that idea still makes sense.

Scary part; it actually makes sense.

Sad part; I don't see any way it could be implemented without one of... you know, those 'programmer' guys... (which I strongly suspect are simply a myth perpetuated by old HMWers to play with the minds of newcomers...)

Congratulations, winners!

turbomagnus wrote:Scary part; it actually makes sense.

Sad part; I don't see any way it could be implemented without one of... you know, those 'programmer' guys... (which I strongly suspect are simply a myth perpetuated by old HMWers to play with the minds of newcomers...)

It's actually a phenomenal idea, in my opinion

I imagine it'd be implemented the same way Burn gave away the sharkticon alt modes So I doubt a mythical numberlord would be needed for that part. The list of rewards wouldn't be very large without a programmer, but it'd be doable.