TFTC-F 6: Gilad's Birthday Party

Battle Information

Game platform: TIE Fighter Total Conversion for XWA
Missions: 1
Release date: 2025-05-10
Last updated: 2026-03-30
Average rating 4.0
Reviews: 9
Bug reports: 0
Times completed: 35
Patches used: None

Battle Reviews

That was a birthday party… certainly an interesting one.

Kaboom for everyone!


An entertaining and fun mission. The admiral's situation made me laugh.


A pretty fun mission with a touch of humor and a LOT of missile and torpedo launching involved. Nice one!


Fun little shooting gallery, although I've never been a fan of the missile boat :)
But an excellent introduction to how things look and feel in TFTC!


Fun mission. Always good to blow up things in the missile boat.
Good two region combat using the MIS in both dogfighting and bombing.
Looks good too.


It's a simple, straightforward mission; show up somewhere, kill stuff, go somewhere else, kill that stuff, mission done. The comm messages give it a goofy vibe, which is a bit of a departure from the seriousness usually found in the original missions. Definitely appreciate the extra work involved in providing voice files for the messages.


Great import of the original mission. Fun again to do cool things in a big boat.


With the sheer number of missiles constantly being launched at the player, playing this on easy difficulty is a nightmare. After 4 attempts, I moved on.


PAR!

I think the story is fun in this mission and that is why I remastered it. I like that it allows for a quick end in the first region (using the torps to destroy the A/FRG) or a longer mission if you want to go for a high score.


Battle Bug Reports

There are currently no open bug reports for this battle.

High Scores

Mission: 11,500 COL Brucmack 2026-04-15

Top Ten

(of available records)

1 11,500 COL Brucmack 2026-04-15
2 10,864 COL Jagged Fell III 2026-04-15
3 10,494 COL Jagged Fell III 2025-05-17
4 10,372 COL Westric Davalorn 2025-06-21
5 9,358 AD Locke Setzer 2026-04-15
6 9,220 GN Master 2026-06-01
7 8,820 CPT Mack Udar 2025-09-09
8 8,614 LC Daisuke Airyu 2026-04-15
9 8,501 MAJ KEBLAOMEGA 2026-04-15
10 8,049 MAJ JKast 2026-04-15

Battle Completion Statistics

This battle has been flown by 22 pilots a total of 35 times.

CM An'ya Kuro - 2026-02-24

MAJ Anthony Starr - 2025-06-26

COL Brucmack - 2026-04-15

LT Colten Fyyar - 2026-05-03

LT Corven Varek - 2026-05-07

LC Daisuke Airyu - 2026-04-15

GN Elwood the Brave - 2026-04-15

HA Frodo March - 2025-05-10

GN Gytheran - 2025-06-06

COL Jagged Fell III - 5 times, last on 2026-04-15

MAJ JKast - 2 times, last on 2026-04-15

MAJ KEBLAOMEGA - 2 times, last on 2026-04-15

CM LandoRasputin - 2025-06-26

AD Locke Setzer - 4 times, last on 2026-04-15

CM LPhoenix - 2025-06-27

CPT Mack Udar - 2 times, last on 2026-04-15

GN Mark Schueler - 2026-06-04

GN Master - 4 times, last on 2026-06-01

FA Pickled Yoda - 2025-05-10

COL TheBlackxRanger - 2025-12-30

LT Ulrik Vonreg - 2026-05-03

COL Westric Davalorn - 2025-06-21

Title               : Gilad's Birthday Party
Author              : CA:TAC/RA Jagged Fell III/CA-5/VSDII Sinister
                      jaggedfelliii@gmail.com
	              RSV/HA Frodo March/Reserves/M/FRG Phoenix
	              fcjt914@gmail.com
Platform            : TFTC-F
Number of missions  : 1
Medal               : N/A
Version		    : TFTC-R v1.4


Required patches
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Included


Installation Instructions
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Refer to https://wiki.emperorshammer.org/Installing_TFTC_Missions for guided instructions if needed.

1] Unless battle is being installed on a dedicated TFTC-R install for EH battles, create a backup of
   the following original files so that you will be able to restore them after uninstall.

\TFTC\fronttext.txt
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad1.webm
\TFTC\Missions\Mission.lst


2] Copy the contents of both zip folders into the main TFTC directory, allow it to overwrite any files.

3] Play using the provided pilot file.


Uninstall Instructions
--------------------------

1] Restore the following from your backup:

\TFTC\fronttext.txt 		                   >>>> restore
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad1.webm		           >>>> restore
\TFTC\Missions\Mission.lst		           >>>> restore

2] Optional, but highly recommended to prevent erroneous audio in future custom EH battles:
   Delete the custom WAVE/Frontend folders, otherwise the briefing audio could play during
   other custom EH Battle.

\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M1 >>>> delete



Introduction
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Some of my favorite stories in the EH database were written and made by Frodo. He
graciously has given me permission to remaster his XWA battles into TFTC and I have
chosen to remaster XWA-F 125: Gilad's Birthday Party.

Playing these old battles celebrating past members really makes me wish I had found
this group when I first got XWA back when it came out. It feels like I really missed
out on great memories and friendships having not been a member back in the early days.
But I can still do my best in making missions like this as polished as I know how and
make them available in the latest and greatest graphical mod.


Audio
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All audio in this battle is by Jagged Fell III with sound effects by Pixabay.


Custom Battle Images
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Go to the following link to see the custom mission image for this battle. 

https://wiki.emperorshammer.org/EH_TFTC_Mission_Images#TFTC-F_6:_Gilad.27s_Birthday_Party



Detailed Installation Instructions
----------------------------------


--Backup Files--

1] Create a backup of the following original files so that you will be able to restore
   them after uninstall.

\TFTC\fronttext.txt
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad1.webm
\TFTC\Missions\Mission.lst



--Optional Item Installation--

2] To use the custom crest, install the following files in the indicated
   locations:

\fronttext.txt                 >>>> \TFTC\
\Resdata\Squad1.webm	       >>>> \TFTC\Resdata\

3] To install custom audio files copy the Wave folder into the \TFTC\ root directory.


--Required Item Installation--

4] To install the custom ship, install the following files in the FlightModels folder:

\FlightModels\SOValt.ini        >>>>  \TFTC\FlightModels\
\FlightModels\SOValt.opt        >>>>  \TFTC\FlightModels\

5] Install the missions by copying the mission.lst and mission files with config files
   from the zip folder into the \TFTC\Missions folder

6] Install the Emails by copying the Email.txt file from the Mission folder into the 
   \TFTC\Missions folder


7] Use Included Blank Pilot File by copying the \UserData folder into the \TFTC\ root
   directory.



--Uninstall Steps--

8] If you installed the briefing audio files, you MUST delete and restore the custom
   WAVE/Frontend folders, otherwise the briefing audio will play during every custom
   EH Battle.

\TFTC\WAVE\Frontend\B20M1 >>>> delete


9] Restore the following from your backup:

\TFTC\fronttext.txt 		                   >>>> restore
\TFTC\Resdata\Squad1.webm		           >>>> restore
\TFTC\Missions\Mission.lst		           >>>> restore




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