Cool battle. Can't agree with anyone whining about enemy ships armed with missiles, though. Just take chaff with you! Most of the missiles are just ion pulse missiles anyway, so you just have to either dodge for a while or switch to missiles yourself when you take a hit. No problem.
At first this mission seems like an impossible mess. Then you take some time to fly it a few times to see how it works and you soon realise that it simply requires a lot more tactcal thinking than your average mission. It's actually very well balanced and challenging IF you do things in the right order. Nice work, Inky.
Mission One - 'Oh no! We don't have the firepower to take down that VSD!' Excuse me? All they've got is a single VSD half a klick off your port beam, you've got an ISD, a PLT and a Research ship. I think if you wake up your gunners you'll find you've got a solution to your problem here. Or would that be too easy? Yeah, let's just get all friendly capships to sit there oblivious to their surroundings and try to take out an Ace AI VSD with a TIE Avenger instead. THIS IS NOT TIE FIGHTER! Set up missions like this in XWA and all you have are dead players who get bored and go and do something less frustrating, like sticking their fingers into food blenders. Oh and here's another tip, when the player exhausts his ammo to absolutely no effect and returns to his mothership to rearm, don't crash the game on him. It's frustrating enough already, you don't need to make it any worse.
One of the true greats. Very well done to COL Sauron for writing a battle that holds your interest all the way through. Even if I did get a little confused in the mission where I had to fly a Defender to protect the Escort Shuttle that was carrying me :P
This one was a lot of fun, and very varied. Like all the best missions, the Primary Goals were relatively simple to accomplish, but it's a bitch to get all the Bonus points. Nice work!
Another excellent K-Man battle, only surprisingly - this one isn't as insanely difficult as most of his others. Maybe I'm just getting better at flying at them? Naaahhh.
This battle's funny as hell, but I might have a bone to pick with Mister Demon Yoda. Who's this Fleet Admiral whose role model is 'Old Man Hogan', huh? Can we think of any other people who were Fleet Admirals at the time this battle was written and whose nickname was 'Old Man'? Well, can we? I'm gonna get you, DY :P
Luckily for me, I didn't detect any evidence of instabilty when playing this battle, so I'm giving CM Wlodek 5 out of 5 for a simply stunningly well designed mission. Very inventive!
An absolute gem of a battle! Every mission timed to perfection, planned down to tiniest detail. I haven't enjoyed a battle this much in ages. And you get to fly TIE Fighters too! Shields are for wusses!!