Battle Information
Battle Medal:
Thyferran Campaign Medal
This battle is based upon the story laid out in the books X-Wing: The Krytos Trap and X-Wing: The Bacta War by Michael A Stackpole. The events of the books have necessarily changed due to the Emperor's Hammer's involvement during the first two books - see TFTC-TC #1.
https://wiki.emperorshammer.org/TFTC-TC_2:_Anti-Rogue_Squadron:_The_Bacta_War
Battle Reviews
5
MAJ JKast
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2025-09-14
An incredible remaster of a classic set of missions and a classic story. Narratively and technically excellent and fun to complete.
5
CM Reece Torenn
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2025-09-08
Shoutout to LC Jagged Fell III for this one! This is the events of the Bacta War from a really interesting perspective. The missions are great, with some really big battles that make the game feel larger. The characters are fun, I especially enjoy the emails. Ship selection is killer! I've rarely flown the missile boat so that was a treat. Overall great Battle and I highly recommend!
4
LC Matu Vonnegut
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2025-03-11
Fun battle as always, but a couple of issues I ran into. Mission 2, I think, to start shift+d allows you to pick up the bacta container and carry it to the next destination. After dropping it for inspection (shift+r) shift+d no longer picks up the container, but you still get the system message that docking is complete like it does at the start. Shift+p has to be used, but this isn't prompted until the next area, but if you did shift+d there is nothing to drop or pick up. There is also not a nav buoy that leads you back to the inspection station so you can pick it up again. If you hyper to the next area you cannot complete the mission and must restart. Some quirky bits about that same mission. If you come to 0 throttle near the inspection beacons, an inspector will try to dock with you taking them down to 1% hull and possibly destroying you (was using cheats). In the next area with M/CRV and gravity well container, on my second try, they both were destroyed pretty much right after I hypered in. I assume there was a collision. I only experienced this once on my three tries in this mission.
Coruscant mission (don't remember the number) after the [REDACTED] hypers out all remaining y-wings target you if you're silly enough to keep attacking them. They will disable your ship in just a couple hits. With cheats on, you must restart the mission as there is no way to complete it at this point. The only way I managed to continue was to avoid new flights arriving and send my wingmen after them until they were occupied enough for me to engage.
Battle of Thyferra, maybe this is just my lack of practice in TIE games, but I don't know how this mission is possible without cheats, lol. Rogue launches missiles seemingly without end before you can even get in range of the y-wings. If you spend too much time dodging missiles you will fail. It doesn't take long for the unmolested bombers to take out the ISD. Using my wingmen for cover or attack didn't seem to draw any fighters off me. Chaff seemed about 50% effective, but that may have been due to multiple missile launches. I also did not have collision turned off so taking missile hits was really annoying. Took two tries, immediate reinforcements at drop and basically machine gunning concs on dumb fire into y-wing formations to get through those first 2 formations of y-wings.
Overall, fun, engaging and TFTC is still gorgeous.
5
MAJ Anthony Starr
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2025-03-08
Played on easy with cheats, on mission 2 or 3 I must have not grabbed the container and I ended up not being able to finish the mission so I had to restart and do the whole thing again, so I was thinking this was going to be a 4, but then the battle over Coruscant came up and that was about the coolest thing I've ever played in a TIE Fighter game. You can tell Jagged puts a lot of effort into these battles, even the one with the container felt alive with the extra craft going about their business.
5
CM Odin Strongheart
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2024-07-23
Loved the Story, amazing fights, great mission, as always I am looking forward to the next
5
CM Rosh Nyine
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2024-06-20
Everything in this battle is great, period. The story is great, the mission design is great, the briefings and debriefings are great, radio messages are great...
There's basically nothing in this battle that is not superior or on par to anything else I have seen in the Battle Center, a truly great adaptation of the original novels which uses all the power of TFTC and modding to show how great and alive the Star Wars flight simulators are even today.
Special mention to Space Emus and Drop Bears all over the battle. In the middle of all seriousness of the events of the story, some of the mails received and chatter during the missions really made me laugh (...I swear I'm going to start using space emus for Calamari Cruisers from now on...) Also the backdrops are gorgeous, and the view of the Lusankya in any of the missions it shows up really takes your breath away.
The only things I would have wished for are more humane voices with more emotion in them, though they are still great as they are, and being able to distinguish fighters properly against clear backdrops (like in the last battle). Still, that's just wishlisting.
Make yourself a favor a play this battle, it's amonsgt the best the EH has at the time of this writing. And don't play on easy! (I made a mistake and did so, realized too late) The battle on easy is likely to diminish the fun of the experience!
5
FA Locke Setzer
Reviewer's rating profile
2024-06-14
Like TFTC-TC #1 before it, this is essentially a director's cut of two XWA battles (XWA-TC #72 and XWA-TC #73) with a bonus mission added to the mix, using all the bells and whistles available in TFTC to really elevate it to the best possible experience you can have with these missions. I love the concept and the execution and, most importantly, the upgrade to TFTC, which really lets these missions shine. Once again, this is the definitive way to play these missions, and for my money it makes for another wonderful addition to the compendium.
5
GN Master
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2024-06-12
Amazing work, looks fantastic from start to finish with TFTC drastically improving the XWA version. Sullust Station was fantastic and looked almost alive. Eos and the low orbit locations including Aurora and Courscant look particularly amazing.
The skins, voices, video, email and other custom additions make it extra special. Even includes a fun YT2000 and XW mission. Fly it now. PAR!
5
VA Jagged Fell III
Reviewer's rating profile
2024-06-10
As Frodo said, PAR!
I think this battle is great. It is definitely a challenge on some missions but not an insurmountable one, at least on Medium. Be sure to check out the Wraith Squadron battles that follow from this one.
Battle Bug Reports
There are currently no open bug reports for this battle.
High Scores
| Battle Total: | 282,356 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2024-09-04 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission 1: | 74,238 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2024-09-04 |
| Mission 2: | 8,646 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2024-09-04 |
| Mission 3: | 22,160 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2024-09-04 |
| Mission 4: | 26,594 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2024-06-13 |
| Mission 5: | 59,308 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2024-06-13 |
| Mission 6: | 6,400 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2024-06-13 |
| Mission 7: | 14,522 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2025-09-01 |
| Mission 8: | 31,559 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2024-09-04 |
| Mission 9: | 48,246 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2025-09-01 |
Top Ten
(of available records)
| 1 | 282,356 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2024-09-04 |
| 2 | 272,495 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2024-06-13 |
| 3 | 258,671 | MAJ Vanguard88 | 2025-09-01 |
| 4 | 125,608 | CM Leofric | 2025-09-16 |
| 5 | 111,649 | VA Jagged Fell III | 2024-06-10 |
| 6 | 101,565 | VA Jagged Fell III | 2025-09-01 |
| 7 | 93,072 | GN Elwood the Brave | 2026-06-16 |
| 8 | 88,526 | COL Brucmack | 2025-09-22 |
| 9 | 80,255 | COL Westric Davalorn | 2025-09-12 |
| 10 | 79,968 | CPT Marlore Julren | 2026-06-19 |
Battle Completion Statistics
This battle has been flown by 22 pilots a total of 33 times.
MAJ Anthony Starr - 2025-03-08
COL Brucmack - 2025-09-22
GN Elwood the Brave - 2026-06-16
VA Jagged Fell III - 5 times, last on 2026-09-07
MAJ JKast - 2025-09-14
MAJ KEBLAOMEGA - 2 times, last on 2024-09-06
CM Leofric - 2025-09-16
FA Locke Setzer - 2024-06-14
MAJ Mack Udar - 2025-09-16
GN Mark Schueler - 2026-03-16
CPT Marlore Julren - 2026-06-19
GN Master - 2024-06-10
LC Matu Vonnegut - 2025-03-11
CM Odin Strongheart - 2024-07-23
HA Pickled Yoda - 2024-06-10
CM Reece Torenn - 2025-09-08
CM Rosh Nyine - 2 times, last on 2024-09-02
GN Stryker - 2024-09-13
COL TheBlackxRanger - 2 times, last on 2025-09-06
MAJ Vanguard88 - 4 times, last on 2025-09-01
COL Westric Davalorn - 2 times, last on 2025-09-12
LC Witchblade - 2025-09-19
Title : Anti-Rogue Squadron: The Bacta War
Author : CA:TAC/RA Jagged Fell III/CA-5/VSDII Sinister
jaggedfelliii@gmail.com
Platform : TFTC-TC
Number of missions : 9
Medal : Thyferran Campaign Medal
Version : TFTC-R v1.4
Required patches
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Included
Installation Instructions
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Refer to https://wiki.emperorshammer.org/Installing_TFTC_Missions for guided instructions if needed.
1] Unless battle is being installed on a dedicated TFTC-R install for EH battles, create a backup of
the following original files so that you will be able to restore them after uninstall.
\TFTC\fronttext.txt
\TFTC\MedalsDescriptions.txt
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\Battle0_HD.dat
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\LBattle0_HD.dat
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\LBattle0.cbm
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\MEDALS.txt
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad5.webm
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad6.webm
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad7.webm
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad8.webm
\TFTC\Missions\email.txt
\TFTC\Missions\Mission.lst
\TFTC\FlightModels\TieAvenger.ini
\TFTC\FlightModels\ImperialStarDestroyer2TFTC.ini
2] Copy the contents of both zip folders into the main TFTC directory, allow it to overwrite any files.
3] Play using the provided pilot file.
Uninstall Instructions
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1] Restore the following from your backup:
\TFTC\fronttext.txt >>>> restore
\TFTC\MedalsDescriptions.txt >>>> restore
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\Battle0_HD.dat >>>> restore
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\LBattle0_HD.dat >>>> restore
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\LBattle0.cbm >>>> restore
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\MEDALS.txt >>>> restore
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad5.webm >>>> restore
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad6.webm >>>> restore
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad7.webm >>>> restore
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad8.webm >>>> restore
\TFTC\Missions\email.txt >>>> restore
\TFTC\Missions\Mission.lst >>>> restore
\TFTC\FlightModels\TieAvenger.ini >>>> restore
\TFTC\FlightModels\ImperialStarDestroyer2TFTC.ini >>>> restore
2] Optional, but highly recommended to prevent erroneous audio in future custom EH battles:
Delete the custom WAVE/Frontend folders, otherwise the briefing audio could play during
other custom EH Battle.
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M1 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M2 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M3 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M4 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M5 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M6 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M7 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M8 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M9 >>>> delete
Introduction
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The Expanded Universe has held a special place in many of our hearts and minds, me especially. One of my favorite
book series was the X-Wing Series by Michael A Stackpole and Aaron Allston. It was these stories that motivated me
to pick up X-Wing Alliance back in the early 2000's. I previously released versions of this battle as two separate
XWA battles XWA-TC 72 and XWA-TC 73. Here I am setting out to make an upgraded version of this campaign using the
assets of the TFTC/XWAU mod. The baseline missions are the same between this battle and the previous two but this
battle makes use of the better visuals of TFTC/XWAU and the ability to have larger fleet battles and adds a mission.
This battle is based upon the story laid out in the books X-Wing: The Krytos Trap and X-Wing: The Bacta War by
Michael A Stackpole. The events of the books have necessarily changed due to the Emperor's Hammer's involvement
during the first two books, see my previous Battle.
From our first Battle with them, Rogue Squadron's attempt to take Borleias to be a staging point for their
attack on Coruscant failed due to the TIE Corps timely intervention. And things were looking like they would
continue with the Emperor's Hammer's, and by extension the Empire's, continued dominance over the New Republic.
But the New Republic deceived the Empire's Intelligence Division and our forces were drawn into two feint
attacks, allowing the bulk of the New Republic's forces to attack and capture Coruscant. We have rightly been
humbled by this turn of events and are now searching for a way to support Isard's Empire in its effort to topple
the New Republic and retake Coruscant.
NOTE: While the battle has you fly as seven different BG3 pilots, for simplicity, the email in-box of the game is
that of GN Triji Boliv.
Custom Battle Images
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Go to the following link to see the custom mission images for this battle.
https://wiki.emperorshammer.org/EH_TFTC_Mission_Images#TFTC-TC_2:_Anti-Rogue_Squadron:_The_Bacta_War
Credits
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Images in 0805.dat and 0900.dat by ilios
Detailed Installation Instructions
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--Backup Files--
1] Create a backup of the following original files so that you will be able to restore
them after uninstall.
\TFTC\fronttext.txt
\TFTC\MedalsDescriptions.txt
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\Battle0_HD.dat
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\LBattle0_HD.dat
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\LBattle0.cbm
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\MEDALS.txt
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad5.webm
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad6.webm
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad7.webm
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad8.webm
\TFTC\Missions\email.txt
\TFTC\Missions\Mission.lst
\TFTC\FlightModels\TieAvenger.ini
\TFTC\FlightModels\ImperialStarDestroyer2TFTC.ini
--Optional Item Installation--
2] To use the custom crest, install the following files in the indicated
locations:
\fronttext.txt >>>> \TFTC\
\Resdata\Squad5.webm >>>> \TFTC\Resdata\
\Resdata\Squad6.webm >>>> \TFTC\Resdata\
\Resdata\Squad7.webm >>>> \TFTC\Resdata\
\Resdata\Squad8.webm >>>> \TFTC\Resdata\
3] To use the custom battle medal, install the following files in the indicated
locations:
\MedalsDescriptions.txt >>>> \TFTC\
\Frontres\Medals\Battle0_HD.dat >>>> \TFTC\Frontres\Medals\
\Frontres\Medals\LBattle0_HD.dat >>>> \TFTC\Frontres\Medals\
\Frontres\Medals\LBattle0.cbm >>>> \TFTC\Frontres\Medals\
\Frontres\Medals\MEDALS.txt >>>> \TFTC\Frontres\Medals\
4] To install custom audio files copy the Wave folder into the \TFTC\ root directory.
5] To install custom ship skins with unit patches copy the \FlightModels\Skins folder
into the \TFTC\FlightModels directory.
--Required Item Installation--
6] Install the custom backdrops by copying the .dat files in \Resdata into the
\TFTC\Resdata folder.
7] Install the custom ships and craft profiles by copying \FlightModels folder into
the \TFTC\ root directory.
8] Install the missions by copying the mission.lst and mission files with config files
from the zip folder into the \TFTC\Missions folder
9] Install the Emails by copying the Email.txt file from the Mission folder into the
\TFTC\Missions folder
10] Use Included Blank Pilot File by copying the \UserData folder into the \TFTC\ root
directory.
--Uninstall Steps--
11] If you installed the briefing audio files, you MUST delete and restore the custom
WAVE/Frontend folders, otherwise the briefing audio will play during every custom
EH Battle.
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M1 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M2 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M3 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M4 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M5 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M6 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M7 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M8 >>>> delete
\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M9 >>>> delete
12] Restore the following from your backup:
\TFTC\fronttext.txt >>>> restore
\TFTC\MedalsDescriptions.txt >>>> restore
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\Battle0_HD.dat >>>> restore
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\LBattle0_HD.dat >>>> restore
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\LBattle0.cbm >>>> restore
\TFTC\Frontres\Medals\MEDALS.txt >>>> restore
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad5.webm >>>> restore
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad6.webm >>>> restore
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad7.webm >>>> restore
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad8.webm >>>> restore
\TFTC\Missions\email.txt >>>> restore
\TFTC\Missions\Mission.lst >>>> restore
\TFTC\FlightModels\TieAvenger.ini >>>> restore
\TFTC\FlightModels\ImperialStarDestroyer2TFTC.ini >>>> restore
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