February 2002

HABA Winners Announced - Wednesday, February 27, 2002
The results for the Honour and Battle Awards have been processed and the final awards can now be granted. Please go to the HABA site to see the winners for each nomination. All those nominated should be honoured and thanked for their great work for our community.

Please get over to the HABA site to see the winners.
All the winners will be given a special symbol on their Sword Dojo account and any winning clans/players can post the following badge on their site:



Finally I would like to thank RageMonsta for his fine work in processing and taking care of the results. We hope you appreciate our work and may the winners & nominees continue their great work in improving our great community. Thanks!

Terazawa


New Maps and Scenario - Wednesday, February 20, 2002



Two new maps made by Pajamawind are posted: Pyokjeyek
and Yolsan
.


Ikki is a fictional scenario for offline play, unlike in a Historical Campaign, a battle doesn't have to be won to proceed to the following. Just hit continue when a battle is finished. When the campaign is succesfully finished (the final battle must be won) the other battles will be unlocked, it might happen that battles will become invisible again. If you want to play the individual battles just copy all folders (including their contents) from stw/battle/batinit/Historical Campaigns/Ikki to stw/battle/batinit/Historical Battles.


The scenario contains 33 battles, but only some have to be played to complete this branched campaign.



 






TosaInu


Final HABA Vote - Sunday, February 17, 2002
The first part of the Honour and Batte Awards is over and hence the second part is commenced! This consists in the final voting process where the public will asked to vote for the last time, and the ones with most votes will be granted the award! Please take the time to vote here! The winners will be announced next week.
Only vote once please!


Terazawa


M: TW Update - Friday, February 15, 2002
Richie Skinner, the Web Marketing Manager of Creative-Assembly, the developers of the Total War series, has kindly updated us with exclusive screens of the Almohad faction from Medieval: Total War. You can view these awe-inspiring shots below.

Activision, the publisher of M: TW, seems very determined to utterly support C-A and this means that finally the Total War community will get what we dreamed but lacked in these past 2 years!








Terazawa


Staff Changes - Friday, February 15, 2002
The Sword Dojo staff is currently passing through a re-structuring and because of other commitments TheRonin, Banzai_Zap, Koga No Goshi and Satake have been down-graded to patron status. We are grateful to them for their prior excellent service and they will have our eternal gratitude.

To replace them, new staff members have been hired :-

Rath - Clans/Tournaments Forum
1master1Boromir - Off-Topic Forum
Jaguara - Off-Topic Forum

We welcome them in our staff and may their services be as superb as their predecessors'! The full staff page will soon be updated.

Terazawa


Another preview at actiontrip - Wednesday, February 13, 2002
Another preview at actiontrip. Really no new info but maybe 2 or 3 new pics. Worth a look. Thanks to Catiline for the link.

Kuma


The Honour and Battle Awards - Tuesday, February 12, 2002
Remember last year's Hall of Fame? This year RageMonsta and myself are organising The Honour and Battle Awards which is essentially like an Oscars ceremony and is being set-up to award those whose deeds are exceptional in serving the Total War community during the year 2001. This event is being sponsored and hosted by TotalWar.Org. Part 1 of these accolades consists in collecting nominees from the public for the various nominations. Once the first part is over, the director in charge of the Awards will process the entries and afterwards the final process will commence: the voting by the public. The winners would be announced shortly after the last part and if any of them have a Sword Dojo account, they will be granted a special symbol commemorating their award.

This is a very noble initiative and we all hope that it will have success like the past Hall of Fame had. Please go to the The Honour and Battle Awards site and begin filling in the form so that we can collect as much nominees as possible!

Terazawa


Monsta Tournament - Tuesday, February 5, 2002
The honourable RageMonsta is organising a quite big 2v2 tournament which happens in an excellent time as the Shogun community really needs a good push. Enlistment will be closed in a few days, so hurry up, find a partner and sign up for the competition at the tourney site here! Go to the forums to enroll. More information about this event can be found in our Clans/Tournaments forum.

Good luck to the participants and thanks to RageMonsta for organising it!

Terazawa