Not a very well put together battle. If you don't destroy both the Zero G troopers and the freighter within 3 minutes you fail the mission. You are given 12 fighters for the entire mission, as you face 3 squadrons of gunboats + a squadron of ties, all with 200% shields. You have no warheads, no beam system, no countermeasures and four of your craft don't obey your advanced wingman panel commands. You then have to try to bounce between waves of enemy fighters to ensure that you are not the focus of four craft at once, while your ATR's go and disable an already disabled dreadnaught, and then go kill the VSD (if they don't crash into it.) Due to the gunboats not picking up targets since they are so far away, many of them are on follow flight leader orders, meaning if you attack any of them there is a chance you get insta-gibbed by a random gunboat.

Good story and good combat in an unshielded T/I, was fun

Nothing ground-breaking, but everything works and it's reasonably challenging depending on how you want to play it.

It does work :P Read the hints like i did and you'll get it. Other than that its a fun mission.

Very confussing mission,goal are not very clear and can be bad interpreted for completed; "DREAD RETRIBUTION CAPTURE",I have try five times and always at 3.15 minutes come the annonce: "loss,Cant' be Seized",normal,we are only a flight of T/Is,there are nothing allround with ion cannons apart the enemies GUNs.Inspect also had not influence and call reinforcement change only to have 500 points minus in the bonus.The formule for my 6th mission:The repair ship docked with the DREAD must be destroyed before the 3.15 min;after you can seat confortable, the mission go perfect without your intervention and victory come.