Officer briefing was all fluff. It was wonderful. However there wasn't really any map briefing for this mission. As for the battle, just fight wave after wave of ships, until you are rewarded with a final wave of Y-Wings to slaughter.

Absolutely no map briefing. The officer briefing contained some light information. This is clearly designed around current squadron lore which is no longer passed down in the EHTC. The mission was fairly simple. Start of 20 klicks away from the target, deal with the waves of fighters as you make your way to the target to destroy. Simple, not very challenging. The missile boat just chews through the enemies.

The officer briefing was non-existent while the map briefing was ok. The mission is mostly just a wait and see if you get attacked mission, so I give the map briefing a pass. As for the actual mission, just fly idly for the first 5 minutes (or go 4X like I did since I read the warnings!). Then it's onto the dogfight. If going for a high score, don't ignore the y-wings until the end, as attacking them will trigger more ships, but if you killed the frigate first, like me, then they don't spawn, reducing your score. Oops!

This was a decent, albeit very basic training mission. Some easy work on shooting at moving targets and having a mission deadline ticking away to add some pressure to make up for the enemies not shooting back at you. Being that the briefing set this up as a basic training mission, destroying drones against the clock, it did everything it set out to do. A very adequate basic mission.

I found this mission a little tricky to get all of the bonuses for. If you weren't quick enough at killing a ship, it would hyperspace away, killing your run. The permission content was extremely week for this, unsure if the plot for the funeral was based off another free mission I haven't flown yet. But as a stand alone Free mission, the pre-mission fluff was missing.

The best part of the mission was the plot. A bit of Star Wars vs Star Trek love. As for the content of the mission, it was fine. Poke the platform and then fight the TRNs that pop out. It was nice that they tried to shoot back, including with missiles. Played on hard but the mission was still extremely easy. This mission was leaps and bounds better than the previous Dorja mission, so hopefully their future missions in this series keep getting better as well.

This mission was probably a great introduction to creating a custom mission. And a great introduction to loading and playing a custom mission. However the actual content of the custom mission was extremely lacking. The mission is just destroy three MUTR that are flying around. If you want a good score, do it before your friends get the kill shots. There is no substance and should be retired from the compendium.

This battle was interesting as each mission had a different plot, not just the standard blow everything up. What wrecked me once was when the HUD indicated I had a victory and I quickly hit q then space, but apparently the mission wasn't done. Had it happen in another mission but at least I caught it before I hit space. Still was annoying to have to refly a long mission when it indicated it was done but for some reason I still had to wait a little longer.

Pretty enjoyable mission that utilizes the EH Ship pack and a WAV pack to include new audio. The first two missions have you in a TIE Advanced while the last two have you in an Assault Gunboat. Using the notes in the plotline.txt file I was able to easily beat missions 1-3 on medium. The 4th mission was a challenge as you would get pulled in close to the platform and then it would target you with all its guns. Probably took me a dozen tries to figure out how to best approach all the ships to disable them.

The story for this 14 mission battle was quite enjoyable. Basically a replay of a pilot's life before EH and during their time in EH. I played all the battles on Easy and was able to beat them all on the first try. A couple of downsides, first there are a couple of missions where time is baked in, so you may be sitting for 5-10 minutes waiting for something to happen. Maybe these missions would play better on a harder setting as you would be occupied during the wait. The other downside was even though the mission info was great the pilot briefings could have been a little better executed and proofread.

Extremely simple battle, though the story needs some work as it feels like there should have been plot developed during a mission or it needed one more mission in the middle to make it clear the unknown item was a disease. Though I suppose it's in the name of this mission. Overall the mission was extremely easy to complete as your wingman are on point and do all the shooting.

The story and briefings were nicely thought out and presented. Mission 1 was fairly straight forward, zip in and kill some satellites. Mission 2 was crazy and the reason this is not rated a 5. You have to inspect a ton of capital ships, all alone, and not die. It only took me a couple of tries, but wow, it was crazy.
Mission 3 was a struggle for me, but it was a very enjoyable struggle. One massive battle. Quite entertaining. Mission 4 and 5 were a bit easier than 3 and just helped wrap up the story.

Mission briefing is basically non-existent. Otherwise its basically a you vs the world battle with a couple of platforms that need to be inspected and lasers dodged while its going on. It was easily beatable on medium difficulty.

I struggled with the first mission so much. Dropped it down to easy and it still took a couple more hours and dozens of tries before I could beat it. But then I finally beat it. And boom, you get launched into a story. A chaotic but riveting story. Each mission from that point on was quite unique and while they took me a couple tries each were not frustrating with the slow pace of the first mission. The first mission was trying to just have a pilot doing normal duties for a while before something unexpected occurs, but it gets very boring the more and more you have to repeat that mission.

Played the first 3 missions on Hard. They were a challenge but easily beatable. The story was pretty straight forward and the mission briefings were ok. Everything went off the rails in mission 4. After countless tries I could not tackle the onslaught of ATRs and had to drop it down to medium before I could beat it after a couple more tries. That 4th mission was quite the challenge especially as the crutch of additional waves was missing in this 4th mission.

Played this battle on medium. A couple of the missions were troublesome until I realized I should be switching over to missiles and targeting some warhead launchers and laser turrets to vastly simplify the approach. The last mission was weird as there were many X-Wings flying around in very tight formations but they never shoot. However they do try to ram you which is quite annoying. Overall each mission had an ok map briefing but the tactical officer briefing was either a duplicate of the map briefing or fairly devoid of content.

Shoot most of the things, except for 2 ships needing to be ioned. Pretty straight forward. They tried to add some story line fluff prior to the mission.

This was my first custom mission and it was ok. All the missions were completed in 5-15 minutes. Went by really fast.

The 2nd mission was extremely frustrating. You basically need to drop the Police ships as fast as possible before they wreck everything. The other missions were ok. Basically the mission briefings were nearly worthless, just go in and kill everything. Except for mission 5 where you need to use your ion cannons to disable the platform.