BoP-TC 3: Smuggling at Vector 29

Battle Information

Game platform: XvT - Balance of Power
Missions: 4
Release date: 2000-04-09
Last updated: 2009-02-28
Average rating 2.6
Reviews: 17
Bug reports: 3
Times completed: 235
Patches used: None

Battle Reviews

GN Triji Boliv

4

2023-02-25

Overall, a good battle. T/A with Missiles does get a little repetitive, but there were thankfully enough friendlies with heavy rockets to take down the capital ships. Even on easy though, two missiles weren't enough to kill an X-wing, which surprised me a little.


CM Nova Discordia

2

2022-07-23

A bit of an endurance test this one - some fun dogfighting, but mission 3 is bugged (you can still finish it okay though, just takes a little longer) AI is not that polished on some of the craft, who don't really seem to do much. Overall, not a battle I would what to run again for awhile, but okay to practice your basic skills on etc.


CPT Xye

3

2021-10-28

So, just to address this right away, the story makes little to no sense. The mission briefings are at least clear enough as to what you're going to do, and why you're doing it, but that really means nothing still. The mechanics of the battle are mostly dogfighting, and the last two are strictly dogfighting. The last two are, in fact, the same set up as the ones before it, so at least it's easy to remember where you need to go and what spawns where. Can't really recommend this for anything but points, but I can't really give it a low score either, it's not the worst.


AD Silwar Naiilo

3

2021-10-28

A decent battle, short at four missions. I think there was a lot of thought put into the layout, but some crucial details were missed; for example, several missions included a task of not letting the SSD be destroyed... but it was never in any danger as the bombers were busy dogfighting. Worth playing, but maybe not re-playing.


MAJ Jaxx Nassin

2

2021-10-27

I felt underwhelmed with these battles. The first mission was well set up, but then the quality of subsequent missions seemed to take a step backwards. However, the missions fly by fast, and it's always good seeing an SSSD in a mission!


LC Solohan50

2

2021-10-26

I played on Easy. These aren't great missions, honestly. The AI is so braindead on Easy, on both sides, that they almost never kill each other. The last mission is especially bad at this. There's nothing special about these at all.


RA Genie

2

2021-10-26

We somehow ... smuggled this BoP Battle into the compendium. It is an ok storyline, but it is half-baked. As others already pointed out the fighters suffer from incomplete orders and the placement of some craft feels a bit off and irrelevant. So, ok cool factor of seeing the SSD but that's about it really.


COL TheBlackxRanger

4

2021-10-26

pretty good battle, i played this as part of rtf 21. i played on easy with cheats. mission 3 nearly completed it self and mission 4 was a good endless star fighter battle. took a while for me to get 75% of the fighters destroyed


Mostly dogfighting. It wasn't bad at all and it mostly consisted of quick and fast missions. Story? Well I'm not really sure what the story was as I flew it but either way it was entertaining to be backed up by a SSD.


COL Phalk Sturm

3

2021-03-03

This battle was well conceived but could have been so much better, with just a little more work on the details. It gives the feeling that is the initial mission copied 4 times and then tinkered to meet different developments. For example, you always start in the same sequence in almost every mission, making you doubt if you really had selected the right one or some you had already completed. The flying itself is not bad at all, although some flight orders have to be corrected. In some dogfighting mission, the enemies just fly around in total nonchalance, while being slaughtered one by one. And the final mission, although well-planned ends in just some minor skirmishes, when having 3 capital ships put together it could have turned out into a nice space barrage between the cruisers and the SSSD. But, as I said before, it's a good solid mission, worth the points and some careless, fast, easy fun.


LT Mirei Seppen

3

2020-04-12

Mission three and four were nearly identical in my opinion with the exception of the immortal escort shuttle in one of the missions. We had the lemming starfighters that would launch and fly in a straight line while being shot to pieces. Over all it faces the issues of many early missions but it wasn't terrible.


LT Stupidace

2

2003-05-16

Not a real hard battle. Some downsides are that the E/S was invincible for a couple missions, and the fighters flew in straight lines for the longest time exiting the hangars. Sheesh does it take that long to fly out of a hangar bay.


CM TK-9780

2

2003-04-15

Not very expiring Battle, which did Contain a lot of technical errors - Maybe if bugs were removed and Rebel forces were improved, the Battle would then become a nice challenge.


LC Kenath Zoron

3

2002-06-17

Not a terrible battle. I just disliked the fact that the Escort Shuttle is invulnerable for the first missions along with the fact that in mission 2 I beleive, the enemy fighters are locked into "Exiting Hanger" and fly straight until you shoot at them. Un fortuneatly, they start a few klicks out and you gotta chase them. Not a half-bad storyline at least.


AD Adren Silvori

4

2002-04-24

Good battle nice practice if your into dogfighting all in all not diverse But very fun


LT Black Smith

1

2001-12-10

In some of the missions the enemy fighters don't do anything but fly real straight, not a big challenge.


CPT Rexal Qel

2

2001-01-30

Nothing special. In mission 1 you have to be fast.


Battle Bug Reports

CM Nova Discordia

2022-07-23

Mission three is buggy as hell - enemy xwings are lining up to be shot and seem to be on really long waypoints as well.


LT Mirei Seppen

2020-04-12

I think the AI on some of these was off, for two missions most of the enemies launched and flew in a straight line while I killed them.


HA Anahorn Dempsey

2017-01-04

overall: player startpoint needs to be adjusted so the SSD doesn't smash the player craft.
M1: PLT has starfighter orders, T/A attack PLT, GUN kill container before it can be boarded and cannot be stopped, so targets of T/A and GUN must be changed


High Scores

Battle Total: 372,600 COL Wes Janson
Mission 1: 79,000 COL Wes Janson
Mission 2: 79,900 COL Wes Janson
Mission 3: 86,300 COL Wes Janson
Mission 4: 28,305 GN Dunta Polo 2009-02-15

Top Ten

(of available records)

1 136,773 CM Cabbel 2003-11-05
2 123,885 CM Yukito 2003-07-19
3 97,655 MAJ Aft Skylek 2005-01-18
4 91,015 CPT Angel Love Saris 2003-06-21
5 91,013 MAJ Zhaim Jifarr 2002-08-20
6 90,870 FA Giovanni Palermo 2012-09-23
7 90,159 LCM Lah 2004-07-14
8 89,735 COL CrimsonFury 2003-05-21
9 89,090 COL Phantom 2003-05-01
10 88,337 CPT Frenchie6 2020-07-14

Battle Completion Statistics

This battle has been flown by 225 pilots a total of 233 times.

GN Abel Malik

CPT Achim Schwarick

CPT Adam Szydlowski

AD Adren Silvori

MAJ Aft Skylek - 2005-01-18

LCM Alan

SL Alejandro Araujo

HA Anahorn Dempsey - 2 times, last on 2017-01-04

LT Andrew

CM Andrew

CM Andrew

COL Andrijas

COL Angel

CPT Angel Love Saris - 2003-06-21

AD Apophis Kuma

CM Arcadius Calidus

CM Arcanix - 2003-10-26

LC Archon

MAJ Arid Foxtrot - 2003-11-11

MAJ Aven Kronn

LC Azazel

VA Azazel Djo'Tarr

CPT Azrael

CM Banger

LC Big Poppa K - 2003-12-29

LCM Bizkit - 2005-01-01

MAJ Black Revenge

LT Black Smith

VA Brakka

COL Brucmack

CM Cabbel - 2003-11-05

MAJ Calvin Senzin

LC Choosh - 2002-11-18

LCM Chris

CPT Cmr Brown

LT Cody BlackStar

MAJ Cray Mikalen

COL CrimsonFury - 2003-05-21

CPT CTXclr

GA Cyric

LCM D. Rizen

CPT Damon Kast

LC Daniel Kamprath

LCM Dargor - 2004-07-22

COL Dark Angel

CPT DarkAlpha

RA Darklord

CPT Darkstar

Darth Vader

LT Dau Solari

CM Daviriv Rracall

CM Dawurm

GN Dax Corrin - 2 times, last on 2017-04-04

CPT Deamon

MAJ Deleted Member - 2003-01-29

LCM Demitri Zanquan

LC Dengar March

CM Derek

MAJ Devin Taralis

LC Diaboli

LC Dolsar Saris

COL Drak - 2005-02-20

COL Drako

DrDiablo

CM Duken - 2003-12-05

COL Duncan Idaho

GN Dunta Polo - 2009-02-15

CM Dvader

COL E. Tarkin

CM Edwan Lipit

CPT Egg'Foo

Ekim Yellek

CM El Guapo

GN Exar Kit - 2005-04-17

CM Fallen Angel

COL Fenn Logan

CPT Frenchie6 - 2020-07-14

LC Frey Gallandro

HA Frodo March

COL Gallows

FA Gelton Torr

RA Genie - 2021-10-26

AD Gidda

FA Giovanni Palermo - 2012-09-23

LC Girth Snail

LCM Gruckn Rahn

COL Gyssler

MAJ Hermann - 3 times, last on 2021-10-24

MAJ Hev Randrowan

MAJ Hunter

CPT Hunterwolf

LC Iceman

LCM Jace

LC Jason Hunter

MAJ Jaxx Nassin - 2021-10-27

CPT Jayden Halcorr - 2022-12-14

LC Jdf1984

AD Jeff 'Tiger' Loruss

MAJ Johann Glorick

CPT John Clark

LCM Jonny Sawicki

CPT Jourdain

GN Kaisin Mirtez

SA Kawolski

MAJ KEBLAOMEGA - 2024-02-25

LCM Keiran Bastra

LT Keirian Halacyon

LC Kenath Zoron

COL Kermee

SL Ketan-Shej

LCM Kevin Pryde

FA Khadgar

Khameir Sarin

COL Klick Sabre

LCM Lah - 2004-07-14

CPT Leslaw

LC Linkan

VA Locke Setzer

COL Loor - 2002-12-04

CPT Mace

CPT Mad Max

LCM MadDog

CPT Marcin Kaczynski

FA Marcin Szydlowski

CPT Mark Stephenson

GN Master - 2013-03-19

MAJ Mawy

MAJ Michael

CPT Michael Gutt

CM Michael LeRoy - 2016-11-05

COL Mini Minkus

LT Mirei Seppen - 2 times, last on 2020-04-12

COL Moagim Daar - 2005-02-21

CM Nicolas

COL Nightmare

LC Nile Rosenau

CM Nova Discordia - 2022-07-23

COL Nurel Turr

RA Nutrientman - 2005-01-16

CM Odin Strongheart - 2022-09-10

CPT Paul

LCM Peh

FA Pellaeon

HA Pete Mitchell - 2020-07-05

COL Phalk Sturm - 2 times, last on 2021-10-28

COL Phantom - 2003-05-01

CPT Phoenix

CM Phoenix

MAJ Picard

FA Pickled Yoda - 2005-01-27

LT Plague

MAJ Praetorian - 2002-11-22

MAJ Prinz von Hoffman

CPT Quicksilver

MAJ RacerX710

COL Raith Sienar

Ramirez

GN Rancorous

AD Ranthier Khaen

MAJ Raxis Krieger

Rekio Corsair

CPT Rexal Qel

CM Reza

LCM Rhys von Pohl

GN Ric Hunter

LT Rizen

CPT S 4patas - 2003-11-08

CPT Saadam

CM Sabbath

CM Sancho

COL Sauron

LC Savageaz - 2003-01-21

LC Sequoh Marden

LC Seth Crimson

COL Shups

AD Silwar Naiilo - 2021-10-28

GN Smitrock

LCM Solaris

LC Solohan50 - 2021-10-26

CPT Soontir Fel

CPT Soontir Fel

LT Starithm - 2018-12-25

LC Strahd

HA Striker

LT Stupidace - 2003-05-16

SL Stvg

CPT Syntroth - 2022-10-15

LC Ted

CM The_Z

COL TheBlackxRanger - 2021-10-26

CM Thomas Solo

LC Tissaya Argat

COL TK-7764 - 2002-08-30

CM TK-9780 - 2003-04-16

Tomaas Banys

FA Tomaas Montte

COL Torres

GN Triji Boliv - 2023-02-25

AD Troutrooper

CPT Tvan'Oris

CM Ultima

LCM Urza

LCM Valjean - 2003-10-30

LT Valkyrie

CPT Von Predator

CPT Wedge

COL Wes Janson

GN Wil Striker

MAJ Wolve Excelsior Berkana - 3 times, last on 2023-09-05

COL Woobee

CM Xanatos Screed

AD Xanos Goatham Zorrixor

CPT Xanthos Deia

FA Xavier Sienar

CPT Xye - 2021-10-28

LCM Yar

CM Ygor Mantis

CM Yukito - 2003-07-19

CM Yun

COL Zeth Durron

MAJ Zhaim Jifarr - 2002-08-20

LCM Zhil - 2002-08-25

VA Zósite Kónstyte Styles

HA Zsinj

COL Zystem Fryar - 2003-08-08

Title: Smuggling at Vector 29
Missions: 4
Game Platform: X-wing vs TIE Fighter - Balance of Power (XvT-BoP)
Author: 
FL/LCM Goatham/Rage 2-1/Avenger Wing I/SSD Avenger [TIE-BOP-XWA]
BS/ISMx5/MoI/MoT-gh/LoCx2/MoC-1SoC/CoB [FUSL]
DJK Goatham (Sith) / Clan Naga Sadow, WR/DC-KC/LSB
{IWATS-M-M/2-XTM-SM/2}
(rgoatham@aol.com)

Installation Instructions:

1] Double click the .EHM file, the EH Battle Launcher will install the battle.
2] Check the Misc folder in your BoP one for additional material like patches, sounds etc.
3] Press the Balance of Power button to start BoP and fly the battle.

Description:

Mission 1:
The Avenger has been dispatched to Platform 'Vector 29'. We beleive that there is a smuggling operation going on at the platform.
Your job "Rage Squadron" is to inspect the conatiners at the platform to check for any kind of weapon or warhead. If illegal arms
are discovered at the platform then ATR Omega will cature the container and information inside. Butcher squadron will also take out the platform
if any illegal arms are found. We believe that if this platform is in league with the Rebels then it may have Rebel reinforcements waiting so be
prepared for anything.

Craft used:
T/A - Rage Squadron
accompanied by
GUN Butcher Squadron
ATR Omega
SSD Avenger

Mission 2:
We have gone to the location where the container was going to be sent, however the area is empty. IT is too quite here there must be something
in the sector so be prepared for anything. If any ships do appear they need to be destroyed, this mission cannot be compromised we need to keep
as well covered as possible. If the mission does become to much for you alone Stalker squadron is standing by for launch.

Craft Used:
T/A Rage Squadron
accompanied by
GUN Butcher Squadron
SSD Avenger
T/A Stalker

Mission 3:
After that trick last mission we can tell that the smuggling was all false and a trick to lure the Avenger into trouble. For thia outrage we have
tracked the escaping Shuttle. in this sector we have found a large Rebel Fleet, be prepared to take otu everything!
The Avenger has also got a new little surprise, it has been equiped with a high power beam to fry the enemy fighter circuits, so don't be surprised
i you see an X-W flying in a straight line!

Craft used
T/A Rage Squadron
accompanied by
GUN Butcher
SSD Avenger

Mission 4:
We have pursued the Shuttle once more, this time it has stopped but a strong fighter force is waiting to take us down. Be prepared to destroy vast numbers of the Rebels
we are strongly out numbered but we are the better pilots! This will be the last time those Rebels double-cross us!

Craft used:
T/A Rage Squadron
accompanied by
GUN Butcher
SSD Avenger

Debriefing:
Note: Do not read this unless you want to spoil the ending of the battle.

Well we did well this week. We stopped a Rebel smuggling operation and destroyed a vast number of Rebel Cruisers. THey may have tricked us in out second engagement
but we got them in the end, there will be no more smuggling in this sector for a while.

THIS LEVEL IS NOT MADE, DISTRIBUTED, OR SUPPORTED BY LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY. ELEMENTS TM & © LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY.

FL/LCM Goatham/Rage 2-1/Avenger Wing I/SSD Avenger [TIE-BOP-XWA]
BS/ISMx5/MoI/MoT-gh/LoCx2/MoC-1SoC/CoB [FUSL]
DJK Goatham (Sith) / Clan Naga Sadow, WR/DC-KC/LSB
{IWATS-M-M/2-XTM-SM/2}