XW-F 4: Promethian Encounter

Battle Information

Game platform: X-Wing
Missions: 1
Release date: 2003-05-21
Last updated: 2003-10-02
Average rating 2.8
Reviews: 4
Bug reports: 1
Times completed: 20
Patches used: None

Battle Reviews

VA Locke Setzer

2

2023-03-07

Putting aside the briefing being completely from a different mission (which gets a bug report from me), it's pretty lazy. Destroy a Star Destroyer and two corvettes that won't fight back, with only 4 X-wings and 4 Y-Wings (that will helplessly attempt to fight your ship) to stand in your way. Cap ships don't have cap ship orders to shoot back - arguably a bug, but sometimes that's what the designer intended! Even if the choice is bad!

Best thing about it is that it is easy and blowing up Star Destroyers is fun in X-wing, even when flying an A-Wing


LC andr3

2

2022-10-20

alright mission...................................................


CM Nova Discordia

3

2022-08-10

An enjoyable little mission - briefing could be clearer I think as I was unsure that I needed to destroy the ISD, but apart from that, give this one a go!


LCM Marek Ny`Irfa

4

2020-09-16

That one is a pretty fun assault mission. I am unsure why but this feels a lot better than the XW-FREE 3, although similar in design. The only issue I noticed is that enemy corvettes have conveniently dropped shields (why?!) so they should be an easy prey even for your A-Wing. Enemy fighters die easily, so feel free to help your B-Wings by knocking off the ISD's shield towers. Do share some shots with it later too, who knows maybe you get lucky and land the killing blow. Speedy and fun flight.


Battle Bug Reports

VA Locke Setzer

2023-03-07

The briefing has nothing to do with the mission whatsoever. References flying a B-Wing (you fly an A-Wing), is configured to show a B-Wing upon briefing exit, and references other ships and a mission that don't match up with the one you actually fly. Looks like it was grabbed from somewhere else and never replaced or mixed up.


High Scores

Mission: 27,923 AD Impulse

Top Ten

(of available records)

1 25,898 MAJ Hermann 2005-06-03
2 19,833 CPT Great Griffin 2004-10-06
3 18,791 LCM Marek Ny`Irfa 2020-09-16
4 14,872 LC andr3 2022-10-20
5 12,691 VA Locke Setzer 2023-03-07
6 11,889 CM Zeke Freeman 2016-09-11
7 11,418 CM Nova Discordia 2022-08-10
8 11,153 CM Matu Vonnegut 2023-06-18
9 10,209 HA Anahorn Dempsey 2014-11-28

Battle Completion Statistics

This battle has been flown by 20 pilots a total of 20 times.

MISSION: XW-FREE#4: Promethian Encounter
PLATFORM: X-Wing 95 or X-Wing CD
AUTHOR: CMDR/CM Ernest Penfold/Demon/Wing XI/ISD Immortal
DATE: 04/20/2003
VERSION: 1.02
NOTES: This was designed with X-ED and XW95, so I don't know if it will work on all systems

INSTALLATION

1/ Copy the waistem.xwi & waistem.brf files into your "Mission" and (if you have XW95) "Classic" folder.

2/ Create a new pilot for the mission based on your PIN and the mission number. For example my pilot file for this battle was named 9489XWFREE4.plt because 9489 is my pin number.

3/ Fly the mission as the 1st X-Wing historical...


PLOTLINE

Rebel Squadrons have been raiding our borders, and the Flight Officer is annoyed.  He is sending out the battlegroups to teach these rebels a lesson.  The TCBG has found an enemy taskforce, and has systematically destroyed it.  The entire fleet consists of two corvettes, an ISD, and a few squadrons of fighters.  The ISDII Hammer is sitting in the vicinity of the TF's hyper exit point, with fighters at the ready.  You know what to do...

AUTHOR

CMDR/CM Ernest Penfold/Demon/Wing XI/ISD Immortal
eh_penfold@yahoo.com