Not the best of Dempsey's long string of excellent battles. This one was a bit monotonous, except for the mission with 3 different stories to choose, it gets a bit unnerving. The ubiquitous and fun-killing presence of endless loads of advanced missiles, is here again. There will be sometimes the red indicator of missile pointing at you will literally burn the screen and the charming voice warning of a warhead incoming, will become like radio chatter. One thing I noticed much to my appalling surprise is that enemies have a myriad of advanced fireworks to toast you, but your capital ships have none to spare. What is this? Budget cuts?. In the last mission, an empty belly T/D has to take on a CRS with, of course, a full complement of advanced missiles. This battle is not for those who cannot handle frustration very well. Overall an arduous and unforgiving. Oh well, at least the minesweeping part was not packed with missiles. And the shuttle capture in that mission on hard never seemed to end and sometimes did not even start. I don't know whether it was a bug or something I was doing wrong, but my patience was on an empty tank, so I tried at a lower level. Thank you for not packing the mines with missiles, for once, then.

Excellent battle, Anahorn!! The plot is nice despite using the old "Kidnapp that CSer!" way, and each mission is clearly different from the others, all them following and enhancing the plot. And it also has some fun on it (not the lovely nutness I would put on it but...). A must-fly indeed. But... Gunman is right over there; your crazy abusing of adv. concussion hellthings rips if not the fun definitely the patience out of anybody daring to fly here, at least on HARD (I didn't fly other difficulties). Oh, just a last thing: in the last mission you could have used at least some more enemy starfighters there; it was pretty desolated.

Each mission of this battle has something new and there's a surprise at every corner. However, it's another battle where the originality is ruined by a crazy obsession for advanced missiles that makes the battle too difficult. You'll always be highly outnumbered and dodging advanced missiles. Don't worry about changing the difficulty level, because that will just determine how long your wingmen will last. While what you have to do is always different, you'll always have to do it by trying not to get hit by advanced missiles, which will be plenty in all missions. All missions are a close shave, where you have to do everything fast and in a clockwork way or else. The worst part is mission 4, where you have an interdictor that has a system malfunction, so you need to take out a bunch of enemy ships in a hurry and the only way to do it is to find the right order to take them out. And you also have friendly fighters bugging out instead of helping the player. After 5 nightmarish missions, you have the super-easy last mission, where friendly fighters are quickly disposed of by, you guessed it, a cruiser with two advanced missile launchers (they don't stop launching, baby!). And in the end, your main obstacle is trying to destroy as many enemy ships as possible, because, wow, all of a sudden, the EH has A LOT of gunboats with bombs to spare!