XvT-F 46: Capture the DREAD Sun

Battle Information

Game platform: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
Missions: 1
Release date: 2001-08-31
Last updated: 2009-02-22
Creator:

LC Death

Average rating 2.6
Reviews: 7
Bug reports: 1
Times completed: 71
Patches used

EH Ship Patch for XvT

Battle Reviews

What starts out well suddenly degenerates into a ridiculous tramsmash as the Dreadnought drops out over an Star Destroyers worth of fighters by itself to keep you occupied till the mission complete.

Frantic and chaotic


Mission is not doable on hard, there are too many enemy fighters. Each type of enemy fighter has at least 3 waves and there are 6 types of them at least, meaning you are heavily outnumbered. The gunboats can't even disable the dreadnaught before they die, and you only get one wave of them. The capture transport is also 5 minutes away from docking with the dreadnaught, and it launches more Tie advanced to destroy the ISD when it arrives.


The dreadnaught should be renamed Sports Billy Bag. The amount of fighters coming out of it are indeed a bit over the top. Also the transport attempting to dock with it could have been timed a bit better.


Poorly planned ission. It takes quite a while to mop up all those fighters coming out of a single DREAD. And what's more, your GUNs won't show up unless the Dreadnaught goes shields down. Illogical, tedious. Plain boring. Skip it if you can.


This mission was a pleasant surprise! The mission was perfect for the TIE Advanced, and the horde of starfighters buzzing around was a decent challenge. All good fun.


Nice mission, plenty to kill with very little to think about. An ideal mission to play late at night.


Interesting....never a shortage of things to shoot.


Battle Bug Reports

GN Dunta Polo

2010-07-03

Arrival conditions for T/F Spike need fixing.


High Scores

Mission: 168,760 CM Vanguard88 2023-12-02

Top Ten

(of available records)

1 168,760 CM Vanguard88 2023-12-02
2 57,546 COL TK-7764 2003-05-20
3 53,498 MAJ Artyis 2002-10-31
4 53,258 AD Gidda 2002-11-29
5 53,108 Darth Vader 2003-03-13
6 52,824 CM Aragorn 2002-11-27
7 52,148 CM Xanatos Screed 2003-04-07
8 43,440 LCM Rob Patton 2002-08-19
9 41,248 LC Savageaz 2003-02-27
10 40,346 LCM Von Goosington 2024-05-28

Battle Completion Statistics

This battle has been flown by 68 pilots a total of 69 times.

Title: "Capture the DREAD Sun" or "Rescue Admiral Priyum Patel"
Missions: None
Game Plattform: X-Wing versus TIE-Fighter
Author: CPT Death (Death-Privat@gmx.net)

Description: 	Admiral Priyum Patel has been captured by the 
	     	Black Sun Syndicate. They are keeping him on the DREAD 
		Sun, where he is tortured
		to give them the information they need to infiltrate the TC.
		This is inacceptable. A joint operation of Avenger-Squadron,
		Vortex-Squadron and Krayt-Squadron will capture together
		with help of the ISD Vanguard the DREAD Sun and rescue Pri.


Installation Instructions: 

1] Double click the .EHM file, the EH Battle Launcher will install the battle.
2] Check the Misc folder in your XvT one for additional material like patches, sounds etc.
3] Press the X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter button to start XvT and fly the battle.

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Corrected by MAJ Locke 7-30-01

Changes made:

-Fixed grammar problems, mispelled sentances
-Fixed briefing tags and boxes
-Removed one useless goal