XWA-TC 73: Anti-Rogue Squadron: The Bacta War

Battle Information

Game platform: X-Wing Alliance
Missions: 4
Release date: 2024-03-10
Last updated: 2024-03-10
Average rating 5.0
Reviews: 3
Bug reports: 1
Times completed: 13
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Comments:

This battle is based upon the story laid out in the book X-Wing: The Bacta War by Michael A Stackpole. The events of the book have necessarily changed due to the Emperor’s Hammer's involvement during the previous three books, see XWA-TC 70, XWA-TC 71, and XWA-TC 72.

Battle Reviews

It's a phenomenal conclusion (for now...) to a series that has just been an absolute delight, from start to finish. Suitably epic, with perhaps just a bit more difficulty here than the previous entries (appropriate for a finale), I think this battle is tremendous highlight of what X-Wing Alliance can be at its best.

If you're not using the WAV files though, you're really missing out! There's a moment in Mission #3 that may be one of my all-time favorites of any mission in the compendium, and I don't know that it would hit as hard without the audio accompaniment


At first I wasn't going to post reviews of my own battles, but as Frodo would have said PAR!

I think this is a great battle and well balanced on Easy and Medium, with it being a tad on the hard side on Hard. The intent of the battle is for you to use the reinforcements when they are available, but to each their own. I think it was a good ending to the saga.

Stay tuned for the next major campaign ;-)


This is an incredibly impressive end to the saga and the missions themselves are extremely well designed with unique tricks that make them
simply outstanding. Mission 1 for example is something I have never seen before. You wont be disappointed.


Battle Bug Reports

CPT Vanguard88

2024-05-08

Mission 2: Krayt Dragon misspelled as Kryat Dragon. Message about returning to base plays before the last primary objective of destroying the CRL Valiant is accomplished.


High Scores

Battle Total: 104,984 CPT Vanguard88 2024-09-02
Mission 1: 6,400 CPT Vanguard88 2024-09-02
Mission 2: 14,912 CPT Vanguard88 2024-09-02
Mission 3: 31,960 CPT Vanguard88 2024-09-02
Mission 4: 51,712 CPT Vanguard88 2024-09-02

Top Ten

(of available records)

1 104,984 CPT Vanguard88 2024-09-02
2 69,292 CPT Vanguard88 2024-05-08
3 45,040 VA Locke Setzer 2024-05-13
4 44,061 CPT Jagged Fell III 2024-03-11
5 29,068 MAJ KEBLAOMEGA 2024-04-18
6 21,342 CPT Jagged Fell III 2024-09-01
7 299 MAJ Hermann 2024-03-14
8 247 COL TheBlackxRanger 2024-07-28
9 193 CPT Habu 2024-08-27

Battle Completion Statistics

This battle has been flown by 9 pilots a total of 13 times.

CPT Habu - 2024-08-27

MAJ Hermann - 2024-03-14

CPT Jagged Fell III - 3 times, last on 2024-09-01

MAJ KEBLAOMEGA - 2024-04-18

VA Locke Setzer - 2024-05-13

GN Master - 2024-03-10

FA Pickled Yoda - 2024-03-10

COL TheBlackxRanger - 2024-07-28

CPT Vanguard88 - 3 times, last on 2024-09-02

Title               : Anti-Rogue Squadron: The Bacta War
Author              : FL-TACA/CM Jagged Fell III/Typhoon 3-1/Wing X/ISDII Challenge/Battlegroup III
                      jaggedfelliii@gmail.com
Platform            : X-Wing Alliance (XWA)
Number of missions  : 4
Medal               : N/A


Required patches
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* Custom BG3 Crest Patch


Installation instructions
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--Backup Files--

1] Create a backup of the following original files so that you will be able to restore them after
   uninstall.
\XWingAlliance\fronttext.txt
\XWingAlliance\Missions\email.txt
\XWingAlliance\Frontres\Tour\squad3.cbm
\XWingAlliance\Frontres\Tour\squad5.cbm

--Patch Installation--

2] To use the custom BG3 Crests install the patch from the EH Database.

--Custom Audio Installation--

3] To install custom audio files copy the Wave folder into the \XWingAlliance\ root directory.
   Note: The radio files contained in the \MissionVoice\ folder will work in all versions of 
   XWA. The custom briefing audio in the \Frontend\ folder will only work in a digital copy
   or XWAU.

--Manual Installation--

4] To install custom emails, copy the email file from the zip folder into the \XWingAlliance\Missions folder
5] To install the missions, copy the mission.lst and mission files from the zip folder into the 
   \XWingAlliance\Missions folder
6] Download EH Battle ready pilot file from website or use EH Battle Launcher per step [8]

--EH Battle Launcher Installation--

7] Double click the .EHM file, the EH Battle Launcher will install the battle
8] Create a new pilot via the EHBL, make sure to check the 'prepare for EH battle' box
9] Press the X-wing Alliance button on the EHBL to start the game and fly the mission

--Uninstall Steps--

10] If you installed the briefing audio files, you MUST delete the custom WAVE/Frontend folders, otherwise the
     briefing audio will play during every custom EH Battle.
\XWingAlliance\WAVE\Frontend\B8M1 >>>> delete
\XWingAlliance\WAVE\Frontend\B8M2 >>>> delete
\XWingAlliance\WAVE\Frontend\B8M3 >>>> delete
\XWingAlliance\WAVE\Frontend\B8M4 >>>> delete
11] Restore the email.txt file from your backup

--Notes--

12] NOTE: While the battle has you fly as three different Typhoon pilots, for simplicity and consistency with
     the previous battles, the email in-box of the game is that of GN Triji Boliv.


Introduction
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The Expanded Universe has held a special place in many of our hearts and minds, me especially. One of my
favorite book series was the X-Wing Series by Michael A Stackpole and Aaron Allison. It was these stories
that motivated me to pick up X-Wing Alliance back in the early 2000's. Here I set out to make a series
of 4 battles retelling the battles and story of the initial four books of the X-Wing series.

This battle is based upon the story laid out in the book X-Wing: The Bacta War by Michael A Stackpole. The
events of the book have necessarily changed due to the Emperor’s Hammer's involvement during the previous
three books, see XWA-TC 70, XWA-TC 71, and XWA-TC 72.


From our first Battle with them, Rogue Squadron's attempt to take Borleias to be a staging point for their
attack on Coruscant failed due to the TIE Corps timely intervention. And things were looking like they would
continue with the Emperor's Hammer's, and by extension the Empires, continued dominance over the New Republic.

But the New Republic deceived the Empire's Intelligence Division and our forces were drawn into two feint
attacks, allowing the bulk of the New Republic's forces to attack and capture Coruscant. We were rightly
humbled by this turn of events and searched for ways to support Isard's Empire in its effort to topple
the New Republic and retake Coruscant.

We settled upon interdicting the flow of many large bacta shipments to Coruscant. Both for our use and to deny
them from the desperate New Republic. At the same time, we came into repeated conflicts with the forces of
Warlord Zsinj, culminating with his attack on our staging ground and our quick punitive reprisal. TIE Corps
Command has declared that we are at war with Warlord Zsinj and we are making plans for his destruction. Soon
after Zsinj's attack on us we received calls for aid from Director Ysanne Isard and when we arrived at Coruscant
we found her SSD Lusankya fighting to escape the planet and the New Republic's forces. We came to her aid and
traveled with her to the Polith System and the planet of Thyferra, the source of almost all bacta in the galaxy.
Her allies on the planet had already led a coup and captured the planet's government, installing Isard as the
planet's leader. We are now aiding Isard in the Polith System per our mission to bring about the destruction of
the New Republic.




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