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.

On mission 5, transport 1-4 crashes into the frigate on its own, failing the mission.

If you are going to require that 100% of a flight group to be destroyed, you cannot set the parameters that they hyperspace out of the area when they are below 50% hull... while also being 15Km away. This essentially makes all wingmates a detriment to completing the mission, requiring that you send them all home should you wish to complete said mission.

0 for another broken battle. Mission 2 fails if you attack any craft. Your invincible wingmates will attack on their own and will not listen to commands.

You literally cannot complete this battle without breaking TC rules for flying battles. You are not permitted to destroy your own craft, however in mission 11, you MUST destroy the cargo haulers for the mission to progress. They come out of hyperspace and then ride off into the sunset, indefinitely, without ever dropping their cargo. You also have to board the ISD BEFORE the cargo is loaded on the ISD. If you do not, the ISD will leave without you.

Because you cannot legitimately complete this battle, it is effectively broken and receives a 0.

This battle uses the assault gunboat, requiring patches that break certain versions of the game(steam) and makes not just the battle unplayable but the game itself, despite being listed as not needing patches.

Mission 6 has you in a shieldless TIE defending a shieldless ISD from 2 waves of 6 Y-Wings with heavy rockets. Overall, the mission has 48 Y-wings and 15 T-Wings. This force threw more fighters to take out this 1 ISD than the Rebel Alliance did to take out the second Death Star over Endor.
There is no easy difficulty, despite the game settings. 0 for bypassing the game's difficulty settings. The story doesn't matter if the battle isn't enjoyable.

After 4 fails of the mission, I tried a couple of different techniques. The Talo Y-Wings come out at 10min. You cannot kill them fast enough to make a trap work. My last try involved me immediately setting my throttle at 0 and calling for reinforcements as soon as the first enemy appeared... and the mission completed... without my involvement. Good luck!

Talk about a slog of a battle. No part of this is enjoyable, unless you prefer 100 primary/secondary objectives, all of which must be completed and all fighters go home when critically injured. It wouldn't be a problem if the objective wasn't to always destroy 100% of every fighter. There is no 'easy' difficulty in this battle.

0 for multiple missions with mission breaking bugs. This should be pulled until it can be fixed.

0 For mission 6 that breaks if you nuke things too fast. You have to fly it in a particular manner so that T-Wing Green shows up properly. Otherwise, the mission cannot be completed.

0 for convoluted ship arrival conditions in mission 3. It requires the rebels to succeed a certain amount before certain ships arrive. If you kill them too fast, the mission breaks.
Edit* Put the time on 4x and the mission completes itself. Literally "don't try" is the way you clear it.

Multiple bugs and a 5th mission with too tight of a window that causes the mission to fail way too easy.

Mission 4 has to be dissected, which is not great. If you attack one of the scout craft, your fighters start attacking you. It's beatable... but nothing about it is fun.

Mission 5 has conflicting orders. Transport Ablar must board the Horus, which you are tasked with destroying.

Downgrading to 0 due to poor mission design.

There is excessive wait time on mission 3, causing the mission to last 30 min. This could be argued to be a bug needing fixing.
Mission 4 has conflicting orders. If you destroy the frigate too fast, you will fail the mission. The shuttle will not arrive until the frigate you are required to destroy is disabled. Downgrading this to a 0 for game breaking mission orders.

Mission 3 earns this battle a 1. The design of the mission makes every difficulty tedious. Kill the fighters first or you will regret it.

Never have I seen so many flights of fighters coming out of hyperspace... and straight into the side of a capital ship. Come on patrol waypoints, leave some kills for the rest of us.

Mission 3 is 55 min long. Mission 4 is 35 min. Thank the Emperor for 4x.

This should not have such a high rating. A combination of mission mechanics and an inconsistent skill requirements make for a wonky experience.
- Mission 1 must be done in a specific order or mission critical craft travel too close to enemy ships and are destroyed, failing the mission.
- Mission 2 has no 'easy' setting, meaning on the easiest mode(shy of unlimited waves) a lower skilled pilot will get wasted quickly. There is also no time limit for disabling the shuttle. The stated goals show the shuttle I'm [supposedly]expected to disable is suppose to complete its mission, making it not intuitive that I should be disabling the ship. Having the capture craft slowly crawling across 22km of space(due to a late disable) is also very unfortunate.
- Mission 6 has 0 time limit to capturing the transport. The patrolling craft also just fly around until you attack the transport. No joke, I completed this 1 mission in 4hrs 20min. I guess I'm happy that it is so forgiving, but it shouldn't be THAT forgiving.
- Mission 8? You're in a defender and there's no craft to kill. Sure there's plenty of things to shoot at, but the AI has that completely covered. Every enemy dies within seconds.
- Mission 9 has you flying a Phantom? That would be 'ok' if the cockpit looked right, but it doesn't. You're staring at cross members of the front window the whole time(no, it's not suppose to be like that even with 2 pilots... and outward display is reversed, as the main pilot sits on the right, not the left) It's also not clear what dictates how you stay "undetected" in stealth mode or how you lose 500 points for breaking "stealth," a mechanic that I don't think is actually in the game?
I'm grateful for the battle to fly... but this really needs some work.

Poor mission design. You are required to protect the gunboats from fighters while they attack the factory. The mission requirements do not state needing to destroy the Frigate, but the frigate is part of "X-wing Red". It is on a collision path with the Star Destroyer, so if you are waiting for that last pack of X-wings to show up, the frigate will collide with the ISD and fail the mission.

I flew this as part of Raise the Flag competition 2021. Overall, the battle seemed straightforward with no major hang-ups. There is not much to say about it. It was fun but the battle did not contain any elements that makes it stand out from nearly every other battle you have ever flown.

I flew this as part of Raise the Flag competition 2021. Overall, the battle seemed straightforward with no major hang-ups. There is not much to say about it. It was fun but the battle did not contain any elements that makes it stand out from nearly every other battle you have ever flown.

I flew this as part of Raise the Flag competition 2021. Overall, the battle seemed straightforward with no major hang-ups. There is not much to say about it. It was fun but the battle did not contain any elements that makes it stand out from nearly every other battle you have ever flown.

I flew this as part of Raise the Flag competition 2021. Overall, the battle seemed straightforward with no major hang-ups. There is not much to say about it. It was fun but the battle did not contain any elements that makes it stand out from nearly every other battle you have ever flown.

I flew this as part of Raise the Flag competition 2021. Overall, the battle seemed straightforward with no major hang-ups. There is not much to say about it. It was fun but the battle did not contain any elements that makes it stand out from nearly every other battle you have ever flown.

I flew this as part of Raise the Flag competition 2021. Overall, the battle seemed straightforward with no major hang-ups. There is not much to say about it. It was fun but the battle did not contain any elements that makes it stand out from nearly every other battle you have ever flown.