Today - after a long, much too long time - we did an SG TF.
We had arranged before hand for the new Reichsman TF. Everyone showed up on time or way before time.
Everyone but Sparkish. We had agreed to meet at 3 pm and 15 minutes later he still wasn't there. Which is absolutely unusual for him. I started looking for a replacement and Burns happily agreed to come along. He still needed to finish his mission though so we waited a bit longer and I warned him that if Spark did show up in that time we would take Spark along of course. Well - he did show up at half past 3 so we were able to do the TF in our originally planned team and Burns was quite a bit disappointed. I'm sure we'll get another chance to do it though.
The first fight ended with a team wipe. We were EXTREMELY out of practise. And of course Magma is still a tank in training... No. Actually he's not anymore and doing quite a good job. We just keep joking about it endlessly. He takes it good humoredly though.
After that we did really well. Dark Way died on his defender constantly but that was due to the fact that he insisted on not sking and fighting +5 mobs can be a bit dangerous. He got from 45 to 47 in 2 hours though so I guess it was worth it.
Now for the Task Force itself... It was quite disappointing. The story is bland. They re-used old maps, Reichsman looks like Bison from Streetfighter... the only actually new thing in the TF are three new rooms. Really very, very mediocre. There are a few hundred arcs in the Mission Architect that are much better.
Basically there is no reason to do it again.
No special reward like the costume pieces in the ITF, no grand merit reward (20 merits). The only thing it has going for itself is that it is pretty fast with just 2 hours.
Anyway, we beat up reichsman with zero problems. Which maybe was a due to the fact that we had 3 Vanguard heavies running around with us...
Here we are after everything was said and done (from left to right: Claw Kitty, Moss-Man, Klingensaenger, Ashuroa, Sparkish, Ryna Shar Xym, Magma Stone & Daggoner):

Since the whole thing was so quick and the afternoon still young we decided to do another TF. Sparkish had to go but the rest quickly settled on attempting the manticore TF since it is quite easy and not that long.
Most of us had toons in level range for it so we relogged to those and started the TF with Jaerven joining us on his blaster Hotwire.
We got through the first mission with some defeats (since we were mostly fighting +3 to +5 mobs). But when we entered the second mission we hit a brick wall. Namely 2 level 40 Paragon Protector Elite that happily ground us to dust.
The Manticore TF is capped at level 35. So of course they shouldn't have been there. I sent in a petition but as usual the GM reply was not that fast so by the time one got back to me we had quit. At least the GM informed me that it is a known issue and being worked on. So I guess we'll have to avoid that TF until it is fixed.
After that we quickly did the aura mission with several toons and then called it a day.