One question: WHY????!?!?!?!???!??!??!???

Mission 1: Nice. Promising story start. Missions 2 through 6: Pwamp Pwamp - incoming missile Pwamp Pwamp - incoming missile Pwamp Pwamp - incoming missile Pwamp Pwamp - incoming missile Pwamp Pwamp - incoming missile Pwamp Pwamp - incoming missile Pwamp Pwamp - incoming missile Pwamp Pwamp - incoming missile Pwamp Pwamp - incoming missile Pwamp Pwamp - incoming missile (noticing an annoying pattern here???) Missions 2 through 5 (in addition): Invincible ships. This is ... horrendous. It could have been three missions over all (with considerable improvement of the flight groups and profiles) with the patrol, the scout, and the kill everything. A fourth mission might have been a straggler's fight. This was a 4 hour headache that is poor at best and a complete waste of time. I would only fly it to patch holes in the pilot's completed list.

Update is harder in some respects for mission 4. Try it on all 3 settings!!! Ooooooo. MIS with no shields or missiles. Like being in an interceptor with only one laser... nasty nasty nasty. I love it... Good luck with this one.

Very interesting story line. In the first mission, you just need to stay aware of what is happening to beat it. In the second, it is almost a race against the clock if you are trying to get out fast. Those annoying T-wings...! The third is interesting to say the least. Dog fighting at its best. The final mission is a load of fun. Few fighters to deal with and just a bunch of cap ships. Nice and easy fight. I only had a bit of trouble in mission 2 (wingmen sucked big time).

Nice idea, but BOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNG! Too much repetition. The idea of how a fight should be is taken advantage of and is great. The sequence of events is too predictable and boring. I cannot say this enough. Fly it if you want a quick 4 points.

Not bad but needs major improvement. The idea of flying in a T/F is great, but 7 cap ships and only 1 load of projectiles? Come on, now. And then the constant stream of Mag Pulse? The best we had was basic armament? The ending mission was dissappointing at best and really brought the rating down. Once the fighters are blasted, I sat 8 klicks away waiting for the last of the cap ships to pop from fire from the Grey Wolf... I waited for nearly 5 minutes for it to be completed as there was no way to reload. This could have had much better execution if it stayed logical. It was just one dog-fight after another in an unshielded craft with overwhelming odds. Not the easiest but not really fun due to no logical progression.

Not very good translation into XvT. The TIE version was much better. (TIE TC 077)

This is the worst battle I have ever flown. I could have condensed all 5 missions into 1. The mission would have been lengthy but for all the flying I did seperately, the total would have been about half the battle's total. I flew for around 20 minutes a mission (100 minutes total) and could have done the entire battle as a single mission in about 45 minutes. Why this battle was approved with so much "kill the Liberty and Freedom groups" in each mission, I will never know. I only completed it for the FCHG points and to continue my string unbroken.

This should have been a single free standing mission. 3 Training missions that are a little harder than before then another mission that is the real thing is not the best way to run a battle. Battles are meant to be in the assumption that we already possess the skills necessary to complete the missions. However, under certain circumstances, additional training should be done. And in this case, they should have been done up as simulator missions (they are editable if one hunts for them properly...). From there, the mission/battle should be done. I found this "battle" as a waste of my time except for the FCHG points.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.... TOO EASY DRILL SERGEANT!!!!!!!!!!

Rockets, ions, and XG-1's Oh my... :) Made it easy to use the Gunboats instead. Mission complete in 5.5 minutes

No wonder I have a new high score -- the scores were wiped! I normally get the low score of everything!!!!

See my bug report below

Nicely layed out battles. However, the breifings definitely leave something to be desired. The lack of adequate information is annoying. In 2 of the missions, had I not cycled through and recorded the flight, I never would have known that I was in a complimented flight group. In the fight with the "kill all mines", wingmen just fly with you. if my group is to kill the mines, then I feel the wingmen should do so as the opportunity presents itself. it does have a nice plot though.

If it was possible to give this thing a negative score, I would have done it. It seemed to have been slapped together from the exsisting TRAINING simulations and stripped down to this load of garbage. Summary: Mission 1 - kill everything. Mission 2 - kill everything. Mission 3 - Kill everything. Mission 4 - Kill everything. Mission 5 - Kill everything but the cap ships. Mission 6 - Kill everything after IDing the containers. Get the picture?

This battle was excessively easy for a pilot who likes a good dogfight. I completed the battle in less than an hour and was bored during a majority of it. I only called for re-enforcements once when I was a little out of place when the CRV's arrived. The reinforcements were a bit over-kill and took a majority of the enemy ships out too quickly. I did not like the way this battle was put together at all. Too short, too easy, lack of difficulty settings, and far too routine for a prefered Interceptor pilot.

This is an excellent mission and proved to be a challenge. It was worth the extra time spent.