Alliance Fights Back

Alliance Fights Back is a short, eight mission campaign for Descent: Freespace.

Overview

Author: Travis Brainard, restored by macfie

Originally posted: 07/13/99

Mods: none

Missions: 8

Description

With the destruction of the first Lucifer the Terran-Vasudan Alliance manages to push the Shivans back to Vasuda Prime and take it after a major military engagement take it. But the Alliance runs into a immovable wall of Shivan resistance, and its advance is stopped short. With neither side willing to give ground, the two fleets are gridlocked, but the Alliance losses are tremendous and it is only a matter of time before attrition loses the war for them. This is the story of General Albert Ulysses and his bold but risky plan to fight back and take the war into ( and behind) Shivan-held territory, to gain back what was once theirs; their planets and their homes. Ulysses' plan carries with it not only great opportunity, but great risk as well. There is more at risk than just billions of lives but the fate of three races and with it the fate of the galaxy.

Comments

The campaign consists of mostly standard type missions. Not bad, but not really good either. At times the abundant typos and ambiguous wordings make the de/briefings and messages simply impossible to understand. The missions are fairly well balanced all around, though.

The download is not VP packed, only zipped, which means you will have to copy the contents to the appropriate folder.

A few fairly good Battle of Endor type battles. One of the better FS1 campaigns, by that standard.

Rating: 65/100%

Availability

• Freespacemods.net Download

Restored FSP/FSO version by macfie : Download

The campaign is still available from the Volitionwatch Archives. However, the Volitionwatch Archives are not being maintained anymore, so it is just a matter of time before the below link stops functioning.

• Direct link to the Volitionwatch Archives (may not work).