XWA-CAB 1: Secrets and Lies: Eagles of Freedom
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Battle Reviews
5
MAJ Jagged Fell III
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2023-12-03
The story, mission design, and variety of the battle are great. I do wish you spent more time in some of the craft but I get what the designer was going for.
4
GN Triji Boliv
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2023-05-11
A pretty good battle with a variety of craft to fly. A little sad the TIE Praetor patch was used but you only got to fly it once or twice. Otherwise, a well constructed battle
4
LC andr3
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2023-03-19
Excellent and quite long battle. Plan in several hours. You'll fly a different craft in every mission. The missions feature epic, big battles and make quite creative use of XWA's engine capabilities that you hardly see everywhere. I'd give it five points. However in some missions it is a bit unclear what you need to do and some missions a quite long. Especially the last mission is extremely grindy.
5
COL Phalk Sturm
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2020-09-26
Awesome battle. You will experience the thrill of riding inside every subgroup of the EH. A variety of different and very original missions, following a well-balanced and impeccably crafting of each mission. The plotline is immersive and adds to the flavour of this great battle. One word of notice is the last assignment where you have to take down a T/D in a shielded yet sluggish T/B. Tiresome business.
5
GN Stryker
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2020-09-14
A solid story encompassing every major portion of the Emperor's Hammer, with a wide variety of craft and missions. I just wish the final mission had been in an ACTUAL Scimitar Assault Bomber rather than just a shielded TIE Bomber, for that added layer of awesomeness.
5
GN Elwood the Brave
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2019-04-14
Nice story, nice fights, good fun. An all around good battle.
5
HA Anahorn Dempsey
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2008-04-10
Solid story, good flying, and very much doable on easy. A shining example of how to create battles!
5
VA Dolza
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2008-03-01
Outstanding battle. Very good story and the Concourse announcement before mission 1 is hystarical.
4
COL Raith Sienar
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2004-07-10
I really liked this battle. Great storyline.
3
AD Daniel Licinius Trajanus
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2003-01-21
The reason i gave this battle 3 was because i loved the plot, the briefings etc. but i hated every single second of flying it. The missions were unbelievably hard, even on easy. Now i dont claim to be the greatest of flyers, but i dont think i am that bad either. These missions, especially the last one, were extremely difficult and i had to fly them far too many times to complete them. I dont mind a challenge but this was a joke. The last mission where you have a squadron of A-Wings trying to kill you while you have to take out 2 capital ships practically on your own is an example of this. Anyway, apart from the playing side the battle was brilliantly constructed an the missions very complex. Well done on that but please make it a little easier next time.
3
COL TK-7764
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2003-01-12
There was a lot of hype for this battle. Now there are rave reviews. There were some neat stuff in it, and it had original plot twists, but I just didn't like it that much. Still, you don't have to take my word for it.
5
LC Archon
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2002-11-20
Oh...my...God...if you only get to fly one battle for your entire TC career, pick this one!! I could write a three page review detailing every single time I gaped in amazement or outright laughed! Superb, excellent, outstanding, wonderful, and astounding mission design coupled with a wide variety of crafts and objectives. This battle takes some elements of cookie-cutter battles (recon comes to mind the most) and makes them actually a blast to fly. Not to mention the innovative and original events, like what happens when you find the SHU in the asteroid field on your recon flight! This battle also features some truly amazing visuals, including huge starports and stations, awe-inspiring fleet formations, and, in the last mission, the mother of all fighter wing hyperspace sequences (fly it and you'll know what I'm talking about). Furthermore, Striker does a fantastic job of combining a serious plot with some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a battle. The stuff that comes up in inspection and "Bot inside!" were just a few things that caused me to laugh out loud during the battle. The briefings were the best I've ever seen as well, providing excellent detail and being way flashier than anything coming out of Totally Games. Everything in this battle surpasses everything I've ever seen before in any TG campaign or EH battle. A toast to Striker, for making the finest battle ever created. SUREFRIED!!
4
CM TK-9780
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2002-09-04
Great story the missions worked well together. It's best played none stop, so you move with the story as the missions process
5
CPT Serge Broskopf
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2002-08-20
Great battle. Well balanced, apart from two things: one mission you fly a X/W with no countermeasures and you get all kinds of missiles shot at your arse, the next mission you fly a B/W wÃth countermeasures and almost none of the enemies carries missiles (or they aren't using them). It made the X/W mission a little too hard this way, I think. But all else, plot, atmosphere was great. (I also noted that for the last mission Striker must have used old FGs from the third last mission for some of the enemy fighter FGs, as their orders are still set to "producing", "sixth sense" and such :-) ...)
5
LCM Pedric Cuf
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2002-07-19
Best battle I've ever flown! Can't wait for part 3.
5
CM Leofric
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2002-06-05
Very excellent battle! A difficult challange on the Hard difficulty and appropriately proportioned on the lower difficulties. Great plot and good job making the story fit the missions. Minor grammer errors though.
5
COL Carl Lost
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2002-06-04
Amazing effort has been put into this CAB !! Maybe not easy but achieveable and a great storyline ! :) I wish to see more XWA CAB's :)
4
CPT Alexi Stukov
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2002-05-14
Good sequel, but all the patches are annoying. Lots of shooting, very difficult. Although, I think the author should rewrite the comm. messages, they were all pretty poorly written with a lot a grammatical errors.
5
CPT CTXclr
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2002-05-05
Incredible. Simply incredible. Great plot, great missions. Fly it now!
4
GN Mark Schueler
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2002-04-26
All good, minus having to kill a T/D in a T/B, which is why I only gave it a 4
5
CPT Matu Vonnegut
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2002-04-25
I loved it -- all night! And I got high scores - FANTASTIC!!
5
HA Striker
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2002-04-23
wooow it was a great battle...I'm eager to learn how to make so cooool missions, and I'm going to pass the XWA Mission Design Course ASAP !....
5
LCM Ace
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2002-04-22
best! best! best!
5
GN Abel Malik
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2002-04-21
I really liked this battle being a member of the IW, DB, and TC. The only small detial which was incorrect was the DB mission featuring the fighters from Clan Naga Sadow House Ludo Kresh- Emerald squadron uses T/D's & assault gunships. If you fly one EH battle this week i highly reccomend XWA-CAB.
Battle Bug Reports
2009-08-22
M2: after swapping crew the ATRs just sit there instead of flying home - SHU Perlo2 keeps getting destroyed near the detention center
High Scores
| Battle Total: | 1,023,354 | COL Deimos | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission 1: | 4,544 | COL Deimos | |
| Mission 2: | 429,733 | COL Deimos | |
| Mission 3: | 19,271 | COL Deimos | |
| Mission 4: | 24,416 | COL Deimos | |
| Mission 5: | 18,410 | CM Dakar Romson | |
| Mission 6: | 397,461 | COL Deimos | |
| Mission 7: | 15,490 | COL Deimos | |
| Mission 8: | 24,058 | COL Deimos | |
| Mission 9: | 94,623 | COL Deimos |
Top Ten
(of available records)
| 1 | 1,023,354 | COL Deimos | 2004-08-19 |
| 2 | 222,830 | CPT Von Predator | 2005-05-20 |
| 3 | 205,278 | CPT Xander Drax | 2003-01-24 |
| 4 | 171,938 | MAJ Neko Nuwen | 2003-03-12 |
| 5 | 135,307 | MAJ Frankie | 2005-02-02 |
| 6 | 134,200 | CM Dakar Romson | 2003-04-09 |
| 7 | 128,207 | FA Gelton Torr | 2004-06-18 |
| 8 | 122,662 | Keller | 2003-04-28 |
| 9 | 114,893 | GN Stryker | 2020-09-14 |
| 10 | 112,338 | COL Archangel | 2003-10-23 |
Battle Completion Statistics
This battle has been flown by 181 pilots a total of 185 times.
HA Anahorn Dempsey - 2 times, last on 2009-08-25
LC andr3 - 2023-03-19
CM Andrelious J. Inahj - 2004-08-22
COL Archangel - 2003-10-23
Autoris Maximus - 2002-12-20
LCM Big Daddy - 2002-12-09
MAJ Brat Stone - 2002-08-31
CM Brenn Tantor - 2003-03-13
COL BubbaX - 2002-12-24
LT Cauldron Hawke - 2004-06-18
LT Chris Pape - 2009-09-30
VA Colo Delste - 2021-06-05
COL CrimsonFury - 2003-04-15
CM Dakar Romson - 2003-04-09
AD Daniel Licinius Trajanus - 2003-03-25
CM Daniel Russell - 2004-10-17
Darth Vader - 2003-03-20
COL Deimos - 2004-08-19
CPT Derek Dan - 2003-02-24
COL Drak - 2003-01-11
LCM Drax Remlinger - 2003-09-14
GN Dunta Polo - 2 times, last on 2010-05-09
LT Egzekutor - 2003-08-28
GN Elwood the Brave - 2019-04-14
CPT Eriond Kath'Razzit - 2003-05-25
MAJ Frankie - 2005-02-02
FA Gelton Torr - 2004-06-18
FA Giovanni Palermo - 2004-06-02
LC Girth Snail - 2002-09-17
LCM Halk Knight - 2009-11-21
MAJ Hermann - 2 times, last on 2020-09-30
FA Howlader - 2009-10-28
MAJ Hunter - 2003-02-08
CPT Ibram Gaunt - 2002-09-09
LCM Iylan Kano - 2002-12-27
MAJ Jagged Fell III - 2023-12-03
CPT Kael Malahk - 2003-03-02
LT Kate Flyer - 2005-05-14
LC Kayle Bayron - 2005-02-08
MAJ KEBLAOMEGA - 2024-02-13
MAJ Keiran Laserlight - 2003-11-10
Keller - 2003-04-28
LC Kenath Zoron - 2005-01-23
SL Ketan-Shej - 2003-01-13
CPT Kyral Retsam - 2003-01-01
COL Lenvik - 2003-08-09
COL Loor - 2002-11-21
CPT Marc Kendoran - 2003-05-18
MAJ Neko Nuwen - 2003-03-12
CPT Optimus - 2002-09-16
Per-Aa Damar N`Eshathi - 2002-12-10
HA Pete Mitchell - 2003-01-17
COL Phalk Sturm - 2020-09-26
FA Pickled Yoda - 2002-11-29
LT Rabbit - 2004-09-25
COL Raith Sienar - 2004-09-17
VA Rejili Holthaus - 2004-09-24
GN Ric Hunter - 2 times, last on 2009-02-08
LT Saatrah Thorgrim - 2003-08-28
LC Savageaz - 2004-07-26
CPT Serge Broskopf - 2002-08-20
COL Shae Kitane - 2003-02-05
GN Stryker - 2020-09-14
LCM Thomas O'deevs - 2004-07-10
COL TK-7764 - 2003-01-27
LCM TK-8148 - 2002-08-13
CM TK-9780 - 2002-09-04
COL Todbringer - 2003-04-13
GN Triji Boliv - 2023-05-11
MAJ Tuba - 2011-04-02
LC Turr Phennir - 2002-11-24
LC Tygra Shadowclaw - 2003-11-01
CPT Viper - 2002-09-03
LCM Vissan - 2003-03-14
COL Vladet Xavier - 2003-03-01
CPT Von Predator - 2005-05-20
MAJ Wolve Excelsior Berkana - 2023-09-24
CM Xanatos Screed - 2003-03-01
CPT Xander Drax - 2003-01-24
LT Zacarias - 2003-04-13
XWA-CAB Battle 1 - Secrets and Lies: Eagles of Freedom Secrets and Lies Trilogy, Episode Two ------------------------------ Title: Secrets and Lies: Eagles of Freedom Game Platform: X-Wing Alliance (XWA) Missions: 9 Medal: Silver Crest of Truth Author: TAC-PROF/FA Striker/CS-3/SSSD Sovereign (striker@tiecorps.org)(TC PIN #420) 'Eagles and Freedom' is the sequel to 'the Exile', XWA-TC Battle 17 'the Exile' available at http://www.emperorshammer.net/battles/battle.asp?record=555 Installation Instructions ------------------------- 1] Double click the .EHM file, the EH Battle Launcher will install the battle. 2] Check the Misc folder in your XWA for additional material like patches, emails or sounds. - First, you need to have the S-Foils upgrade installed, and your version of XWA upgraded to v2.02 (http://www.emperorshammer.net/tac/tac-man) - Install the TIE Praetor Patch (http://sco.emperorshammer.net) - Install the MC-90 Patch (http://sco.emperorshammer.net) - Install the DGN Patch (http://sco.emperorshammer.net) - Copy the fronttxt.txt file into your XWA directory. - Optional: copy the squad*.cbm files into your XWA/Frontres/Tour directory - This battle is easier on low difficulty levels. If you have problems with a mission, there is no shame using the easy or medium difficulty level... - Check your mail... 3] In EHBL, create a new "EH Pilot" in the Game Menu (Check "Prepare for EH Battle"). 4] Press the X-Wing Alliance button to start XWA and fly the battle. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | WARNING | | ------- | | Many missions of this battle involve a great number of crafts. If | | If you don't have a powerful computer, it may be wise to lower the | | graphic details for these missions, and/or reduce the screen resolution. | | | | | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Prologue -------- (The action takes place in December 2000, Earth Time) Grand Admiral Ronin was sitting at his desk, thoughtful. This news was most disturbing. Quite unbelievable. Here, in our territory. Thanks to one of our own Commodores. The situation was critical enough to worry. "Call me Sector Admiral Kawolski at once, will you" asked the Fleet Commander to his Command Attaché. "At once, Sir !" Some minutes later, Sector Admiral Kawolski, newly appointed Executive Officer of the Emperor's Hammer, entered the office along with Ronin's Attaché. "I leave you alone, my Lords." he said while leaving the office and closing the door. "Any good news for me, Alan ?" "I'm afraid not. We sent recon patrols anywhere, but they seem to have managed to flee. With their hostage." "Hmmm. We must rescue him. If we lose him, it will lessen our positions and affect the whole fleet. Who would trust a fleet which can lose this way his Third in Command ?" "Indeed, Sir." "I give you full powers to raise a task force to rescue him, wherever he is now. This is our highest priority for the moment, take who ever you want for this mission. Of course, it MUST remain a secret. Take our best, our more reliable pilots and officers. Nobody except them must be aware of the situation. We don't have a lot of time before people begin to wonder where he has gone. Who's taking care of his day-to-day business ?" "StarLion, his Command Attaché. He knows what to do." "Fine. Don't fail me, Alan. Or it could be the beginning of our fall." "Don't worry, I'm not the kind of man to fail. I will find him, it is only a matter of time." "Yes... a matter of time... a matter of time." +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Emperor's Hammer Domain - http://www.emperorshammer.org/ | | Tie Corps Domain - http://www.emperorshammer.net/ | | Tactical Office - http://tac.emperorshammer.net/ | | Science Office - http://sco.emperorshammer.net/ | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ THIS LEVEL IS NOT MADE, DISTRIBUTED, OR SUPPORTED BY LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY. ELEMENTS TM & © LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY.