I really enjoyed this one. Great story where you exclusively fly the missile boat. I rarely fly the missile boat so it was a nice change

There wasn't much variety in the missions and especially mission 4 was a bit of a bummer. Having to constantly spam unlimited rockets at a cruiser to win didn't feel very balanced, at least. Losing a command ship all of a sudden and failing the mission was also something that happened on a few occasions.

I enjoyed playing this. Using the Missile Boat to its maximum potential and as the good Emperor intended! :chef's kiss:

As always, your storytelling at the briefings and debriefings are top tier and the hint put out by GN Silwar before mission 4 launch was definitely caught on to. The debriefing of mission 3 definitely revved me up to do absolute carnage in mission 4. The imagery used certainly got to me. Having the individual flights and fighters named after your wingmen and squadmates was a nice personal touch. The backdrops and planets and starfields were lovely and intense, I felt like it was like watching a movie.

This was a tough one - I had a lot of trouble with it and had to re-attempt each of the missions several times. Particular pain points were the Challenge seeming pretty squishy on Mission 3 and heavy rockets doing very little damage to the target flagship's shields in mission 4. Additionally, I had several situations where I somehow killed a friendly craft (assuming by explosion of a missile or enemy craft) that I'm not sure I could have prevented. The narrative and visuals were terrific - I just had a rough time.

It's a Missile Boat battle that uses the ship the way it's intended to, with a couple clever twists that keep it from feeling too same-y. It's also very well implemented with gorgeous backdrops and fun audio. But what I really appreciate the most is the documentation of EH history in battle form, which in my heart of hearts is what I love to see added to the Compendium the most. So all around, a terrific battle that was a blast to play!

I did not enjoy this battle at all. You are in a Missile Boat the entire time, with a locked loadout. For the first three missions all enemy craft are given chaff, which means you have to dumb fire all of your missiles if you want to hit enemies reliably. There is no point in using the tractor unless you are going to laser every starfighter down with the Missile Boat, which defeats the purpose of having a missile boat to begin with. You cannot simply skip destroying the fighters, because you can fail the missions instantly if a bomber gets through, due to issues with the weapon hook bug and the chosen enemy starfighters.

Two of the missions are possible to fail without even firing a single shot. There is no variety in the missions, they are all go here and kill X thing, which may be a result of the RtF prompt, but there is definitely the possibility to work in a capture or scouting side operation in there somewhere. There are no secondary and no bonus goals at all. Mission four is particularly painful, where you have to destroy an enemy heavy capital ship by yourself while being attacked from all angles by potentially dozens of the only type of enemy fighter in the battle. If a single enemy starship is destroyed, the enemy capital ship heads to hyperspace, and you don't have the time to destroy it. For some reason enemy bombers will also fire advanced Proton Torpedoes at you, I do not know why. Some craft/mission variety, not being locked in the Missile Boat the entire time, and some bugfixes will definitely make me change my rating, but at present I found it to be a slog.

PAR!

This is the battle form of my RtF2024 fiction pieces to show how we finally finished off the Kilji. I think it is a fun bomber battle. It isn't too hard and has some great scenery. Have fun!

Warning: the content of the Commander's briefing for M3 is rather dark...