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ACT 1, MISSION 8

Fighter squadron: 242nd Suicide Kings
Description:The 242nd must protect a vital GTVA base of operations.

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Background

In a contested Sirius a vital GTVA installation, Enif Station is under attack by the NTF. The 242nd must defend the installation.

Walkthrough

I suggest you use the GTW Subach HL-7 in both of your primary banks. Do have no need for the GTW Prometheus R in this mission. Also, arm yourself with a bank of GTM Harpoon and a bank of GTM Tempest. The mission is to save the GTI Arcadia-class installation (GTI Enif Station). You begin a few clicks away from the installation. Start approaching on it, and target the GTF Hercules fighters, who mean danger to the escaping civilian freighters. If you fail to take them out quickly, you lose a civilian freighter, and you fail to accomplish the secondary goal.

A GTC Leviathan-class cruiser (NTC Cato) is attacking the station with its beam cannon. You should take that main beam cannon down to prevent the hostile cruiser from attacking the station dangerously. The GTM Tempest missile has a good use here. Fire at will while the beam cannon is in your reticle, and once the beam cannon is down, you should get as far from the cruiser as possible. It is too dangerous for you with 4 anti-fighter beam cannons. Even if you disarm the cruiser from all of its beam cannons, you won't have time to destroy it because enemy bombers jump in and attack the station. You should divert all your power to engines and approach on the bombers.

With the agility of the GTF Perseus, you can easily reach the GTB Zeus-class hostile bombers before they could fire their warheads onto the station. Even if they do so, you can destroy the bomb by hitting it. Press 'B' to target the nearest hostile bomb. Several waves of hostile bombers and fighters jump in, but they do not mean much danger for you. Concentrate on the bombers. While you are fighting the bombers, an additional hostile corvette (NTCv Hawkwood) jumps in, but you do not have to do special efforts against it. A huge GTVA warship (GTVA Colossus) jumps in to assist the station. After the Colossus arrives, you only have to watch as she takes down the hostile corvette with a single shot.

Tips

Don't order any of your wingmen to ignore the corvette, or else the Colossus will ignore it too when she jumps in (making the mission impossible to complete). This is due to a bug in Freespace. If your wingmen keep attacking the corvette, distract them with other orders, such as attacking the Cato or the bombers. (Not an issue in recent CVS builds)

Notable ships present

• GTVA Colossus
• Enif Station
• NTC Cato
• NTCv Hawkwood

New equipment

• GTF Perseus