X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter Battle

Title:		 Wing XV: Mantis Squadron
Missions:	 5
Medal:		 The Lasitter Crescent
Author:		 FL/LT Ender mBind/Echo 2-1/Wing XV/ISD Vanguard
		 (endermbind@gmail.com)
Game Platform:	 X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter (+EHSP)

Release Date:    17/feb/2002
re-Release Date: 
Ships:           Assault Gunboat (replacement for the actual Supa Fighter), Toscan Fighter, 
		 Skipray Blastboat
Difficulty:      Playable.

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Required patches
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* EH Ship Patch for XvT
* Toscan Fighter
* Skipray Blastboat
* modified Strike Cruiser


Installation instructions
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1] Make sure you have the EH Ship Patch for XvT installed
2] Download the patches from the EH Patch archive (http://tc.emperorshammer.org/patcharchive.php)
3] Install the patches by double clicking them in the EHSP installer
4] Double click the .EHM file, the EH Battle Launcher will install the battle
5] Check the Misc folder in your XvT one for additional material like patches, sounds etc.
6] Press the X-wing vs TIE Fighter button on the EHBL to start the game
7] Create a new pilot and fly the Imperial training missions
8] Uninstall the patches by double clicking them in the EHSP installer


Description
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This battle is part of a series of free missions and now battles about each of the squadrons in 
the ASF doing missions following their squadron objective in their assigned craft. Each mission 
tries to give a feel and a bit of history of each of the Squadrons. All the storylines of the 
missions are interconnected and have the ASF Squadron join together against a common foe. In 
timeline this battle takes place just before the free missions.

Story Line
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1. Mantis Squadron, 90th TIE Corps Squadron, of Wing XV is based upon the ISDII Vanguard and its 
objective is Deep Strike. Deep Strike Squadrons launch surprise attacks DEEP in enemy held territory, 
and assault locales where either (A) The Strike Fleet cannot go, (B) The Strike Fleet can go but would 
be in extreme risk of destruction/capture; OR (1) Assist other Imperial Forces when the fleet is 
otherwise engaged, (2) Once particular individuals/ship targets have been identified by Fleet Command 
but cannot be reached through normal means, LAUNCH AND STRIKE!, and (3) Assist Recon by providing 
reinforcements, if available...
Mantis Squadron is currently under the newly assigned command of CM Zoron, after CM Erryc Lasitter 
resigned recently. Other earlier CMDRs were the current Wing Commander, COL Garik Hizad, and the 
current Commodore, RA Bevel Leeson. It has won WC's Own twice in the last year while Mantis pilots 
earned VanCOM's Protector 3 times.
On this mission you'll perform Mantis' objective.

2. Back on the ISD Vanguard Mantis Squadron was immediately sent on a Deep Space mission, but this time 
it was not to be Deep Strike: An Emperor's Hammer Platform in the Pyrath System has been the location 
of several strikes by Rebel fighter squadrons. The VSD Shield has been taken of its inspection run and 
is under way to provide the Platform cover - but until that time it will be unprotected.
Mantis will hyper to the platform immediately and provide that protection until the VSD shield arrives. 
Be prepared for all kinds of fighter attacks, but don't expect too much capital ship activity. Safe the 
platform above all  other costs - these things harbor a small city in crew and it would be a 
considerable loss to the Emperor's Hammer - if not a great tragedy.

3. Back on the ISDII Vanguard, it seems that Mantis Squadron left the platform alone too early: An 
elite rebel squadron hypered in just as Mantis hypered out. The last attack left the Platform 
defenseless and the VSD Shield was having difficulty hitting the swift A-Wings without pulverizing 
the platform in the process.
Mantis was sent back to the scene they just left to clean up after themselves. Stop the Rebel Deep 
Strike and safe the platform from destruction. Many are depending on your skills.

4. The VSD Shield was able to trace the hyper jump paths of those elite A/Wings that attacked the 
platform and we sent out Scorpion Squadron to the spot where the Rebels came from, only to find a lone 
nav buoy in the Minos Cluster. 
Still, some Rebels must been using that hyper jump point to launch attacks on the EH Territories from, 
and that had to stop. Mantis Squadron was sent in to hang around there for a while and destroy any 
Rebel Forces that might've show up again.
Perhaps it was a dud and Mantis could return without any engagements. But if they did do find anything 
of interest, we had part of the Vanguard Taskforce standing by for whatever need they might have had 
for them.

5. Mantis Squadron wasn't able to get the Calamari Cruiser that showed up in the Minos Cluster, but it 
wasn't too hard for the CRV Caterpillar 3 to trace the huge vessel's hyper jump path. Most Likely it has
moved to another hyper buoy in the Minos Cluster.
Mantis Squadron and the VSD Shield join up once again to do a regular old Deep Strike: Take out that 
Calamari Cruiser and make sure these Rebels will stay out of Emperor's Hammer space once and for all.

NOTES
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GENERAL: You need XvT (or at least all the ships involved there) with EHSP and the two patches. 

Other Information
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This is the Second release of a very quickly made battle. Bugs could arrise - please
mail me if they do - also if you have hints, death threats, questions or apraisals.


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