Pilot Archive

For Imperial, in order from easiest to hardest:

1. Imperial Inquisition
2. Black Epsilon
3. Storm Squadron

For Privateer:

1. Smuggler's Alliance (mostly because you can recieve help from either faction on most missions)
2. RSF (because you won't have to deal with turreted NPC fighters)
3. Corsec (because you WILL have to deal with turreted NPC fighters)

For the Alliance I have no clue for obvious reasons.

Storm Squadron is evil. It's quite obvious SS was the FIRST one they programmed.

One T4 mission has you going up against two T4 Novas with a Gunboat escort plus eight escort fighters. I had to assist a multi-Ace friend of mine with that mission - somehow I got out of it alive by adjusting shields to front and making multiple passes at the surviving turreted ships, going for their engines before dealing with the escorts and popping the turreted ships from afar once the gnats were swatted away.

BE's toughest missions were probably Tier 3 Mission 2 and 4. Mission two has you going up against a plethora of T4 Nym's/Hutts after a lengthy capture and escort mission that can be failed simply by going too far away from the escort ship. The final mission is resplendent of the aforementioned SS T4 mission, but the targets are staggered:

Phase 1 involves capturing a Nova (that's nice enough to never roll, meaning you can come up underneath and take out the turrets and engines, then dealing with the paltry escort), then escorting the ship to a jump point while fighting off the timed ambushes.

Phase 2 is a straight destroy mission. Another Nova is involved, only this one has mastered the art of Z-axis navigation, so the turret can eat you alive.

The final phase has you going up against the Gunboat from Hell, armed with super missiles and about seven escorts, and if you engage and then withdraw too far to regenerate shields (this gunboat will actively engage and FOLLOW you, making this mission extra fun), the gunboat will hyper out of the system, failing the mission.

Inquisition had ONE difficult mission, as I remember. And I gauge "difficult" by my multi-Ace friend asking me to come and assist him, seeing as he soloed everything else.

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KaylBreinhar wrote:
Storm Squadron is evil. It's quite obvious SS was the FIRST one they programmed.

One T4 mission has you going up against two T4 Novas with a Gunboat escort plus eight escort fighters. I had to assist a multi-Ace friend of mine with that mission - somehow I got out of it alive by adjusting shields to front and making multiple passes at the surviving turreted ships, going for their engines before dealing with the escorts and popping the turreted ships from afar once the gnats were swatted away.

BE's toughest missions were probably Tier 3 Mission 2 and 4. Mission two has you going up against a plethora of T4 Nym's/Hutts after a lengthy capture and escort mission that can be failed simply by going too far away from the escort ship. The final mission is resplendent of the aforementioned SS T4 mission, but the targets are staggered:

Phase 1 involves capturing a Nova (that's nice enough to never roll, meaning you can come up underneath and take out the turrets and engines, then dealing with the paltry escort), then escorting the ship to a jump point while fighting off the timed ambushes.

Phase 2 is a straight destroy mission. Another Nova is involved, only this one has mastered the art of Z-axis navigation, so the turret can eat you alive.

The final phase has you going up against the Gunboat from Hell, armed with super missiles and about seven escorts, and if you engage and then withdraw too far to regenerate shields (this gunboat will actively engage and FOLLOW you, making this mission extra fun), the gunboat will hyper out of the system, failing the mission.

Inquisition had ONE difficult mission, as I remember. And I gauge "difficult" by my multi-Ace friend asking me to come and assist him, seeing as he soloed everything else.

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You have to admit that was AWSOME too. The gun boat made it Intresting after all those Novas you had to deal with.

I must say that after you master Storm Squadron (Imperial) you will become an anti-AWing specialist

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MasterSad wrote:
I must say that after you master Storm Squadron (Imperial) you will become an anti-AWing specialist

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Yah ROFL no kidding. One thing I noticed I get asked alot more than my friends who Aced on other Squadrons for help. 4 of us could be standing there and i get the tells. ROFL. And Yes I help them.