Welcome to the Mission Creation and Beta Testing Standards IWATS course. I am Professor Dempsey, your Tactical Officer and course professor. This course will explain to you the basics of mission creation, and the standards to which all Emperor's Hammer missions must be held.

However, this course will not be going into the actual creation of missions, that is what the individual mission creation courses are for. This course instead will focus on what you need to keep in mind when creating your own custom content.

Should you want to learn how to create missions, you should check the Academic Nexus and look up the following courses:

  • X-wing vs. TIE Fighter Mission Design (XTM)
  • X-wing Alliance Mission Design (XAM)
  • TIE Fighter Mission Creation (TM)
  • X-wing Mission Creation (XMD)

    Together with this course, you must have completed the course for your game platform in order to submit custom battles to the Emperor's Hammer Tactical Office.

    This course was created in order to avoid two things. The first, to prevent Mission Creation IWATS courses from having questions and notes concerning things that weren't essential to building a mission (like plotline help, submission standards, and TAC procedures). This way, the Mission Creation courses can focus on the editors used.
    The second use is to make sure IWATS only had one course that was an actual reference for Tactical procedures.
    In addition, this course is replacing the former "TACS" course, that talked about Beta Testing reports and standards as well as the Tactical Office as a whole. This course will make a 'fly-by' on that knowledge.