Welcome all to the latest minor SITREP, and indeed the first of many in 2022. The SITREP is the primary communication detailing roadmap progression and changes to SOP - it contains key updates from the senior staff and from across the senior chain of command.
At least in this addition, the minor SITREP will recap on detailed changes since the last Major sitrep (in case you missed them) as well as give some indication of whats on the horizon, wheras the Major sitreps will be where we implement the most change.
During November December, I noted the performance issues, and of well over 700 deployments I recall cancelling only 3 in the last 3 years to server issues, one of those was recently on Operation Polaris. We continue to make adjustments on this front more conservatively to optimise performance but with a focus on stability. All deployments from this SITREP will also take place on the new hardware which has a better CPU and core count than our 2020-2021 hardware.
Below are a number of updates from our ongoing Continual Standard Operating Procedure Improvement Programmes (CSIPs)
concerns the following Core Infantry procedures;
Many thanks to Pvt Minipily and Pvt Johnson working in the LOAC/CPERS CSIP and SFC Skullcollector for Movement.
You'll see a number of trial ORBATs in the schedule with varying Squad sizes, as you'll know our default Squad is 15 men, and you'll see a variance between 9 and 15 man squads as part of the CSIP trials.
You'll see some trial ORBATs without Squad Medics, and the usage of Combat Medical Teams on platoon ORBATs, this is part of CSIP testing.
Updated to version 2201.22 Effective immediately
Trenches dug with the Entrenching tool now return to GRAD trenches. Effective immediately
- Camouflage your trench with small bushes
- New trenches to place
- Short trench to quickly provide cover for 1-2 soldiers
- New digging sound effects and visual effects
If you have not already, please be reminded that the Annual Survey will stop accepting Subissions on 23:59 UTC on Monday January 31st 2022.
If you have not submitted now is the time to do so: https://unitedtaskforce.net/communications/topic/82
I would add a massive thank you to those who have already done so, we have had exceptional uptake from the total force this year, and we'll circle back to talk about the results over the coming months.
As you'll know, we are preparing to open 4 Troop to support our future growth, which will take place within the next month or so. Selections for all roles related to it's formation are ongoing.
As announced in TAFFCAST 10, the Role Certification System (RCS) will be launched in the next SITREP;
What I can tell you is that on launch, the RCS will start with the Radio Operator Certification, and then shortly after all other Communications roles.
Shortly after Communications roles are introduced, Leadership, Aircrew and Marksmanship will follow. More updates on this as they come, but do expect changes as this is in-development.
It's now possible to control schedule conflicts by preventing deployments on overlapping ORBATs or re-runs. On ORBATs that have schedule conflicts, you'll get a warning an link to any conflicting ORBATs - this will open up more creative opportunities for the schedule.
If you are deployed on one of them, you'll be prevented from deploying on the other, and be shown a warning.
The active personnel chart has been updated to include a new section for Support Staff. This is designed to make it easier to know who to contact if you'd like to get involved in some of the support teams, such as mission making or training and SOP.
This lists the key personnel who are active in those areas and sits just under the active force chart.
When SOP change requests are approved, notifications will now be sent to the relevant J6 channel to notify the requestor and other interested personnel about the change and it's detail
We've now extended the SOP viewing statistics to show not only the total number of views, but how many members of the Active Force have verifiably read the SOP.
There is the possibility that they have read the SOP while logged out, so this figure should be perceived as a worst case scenario in any case.
We've also extended viewing statistics to ORBATs, which in the key information section will show the total number of views and how many unqiue active force members have viewed the ORBAT.
Again, similar data for the viewing of Operations Orders (OPORDS) and Campaign Briefings can be found in the toolbar. This is to better help us understand how the are used.
You can now filter by owned games only
Active rallies are shown with Discord Voice links.
While this existed before, it was not working. But it is now fixed and possible to access all media for an entire campaign by going to the Campaign Center, Media tab. This draws screenshots from all Dossiers where the user uploaded the image to an ORBAT from said campaign.
Added the nationality of the Campaigns Factions to the Campaign Center and Operations Schedule, each campaign can now have mutliple flags.
The Campaign Center has been overhauled with new statistics, starting with a full breakdon on the last 6 months of operations by type, and upcoming. As well as for the first time, a full breakdown of Campaign Statistics by Rating, Performance, Slots Deployed and Hours
We have also dded an interactive / live visualization of the all-time combat operations size/rating scatter graph to UNISTATS which shows every combat operation as a single point in time, with trend lines for size and ratings.
You can find a persional version of this chart in your Dossier Account page, or via Dossier management for ORGCOC.
Messages sent automatically by the bot are now logged and viewable in dossier management
The Campaign Center, Roles Center and Comms Center have been added to global search.