Sharpshooter
Rear Admiral
Okay, so we've had "Hardest Missions" threads and "Favorite Ships" threads, but we haven't had many "Favorite Missions" threads yet. Here are mine :
WC1 - Port Hedland 1. A great mission where you have to fight against overwhelming odds. This is also the first mission where you get to shoot down a fleeing capships, if memory serves.
WC1 - Hell's Kitchen 4. The suicide mission is a lot of fun, especially if you don't hate the Scimitar. Fighting every single class of Kilrathi fighter and the aces in one mission is really something.
Rise to Honor - Gimle 1. Who would have thought that 3 Rapiers would put up such a tough fight?
Rise to Honor - Dakota 1. One of the hardest escort missions out there. A very nice challenge that takes some careful planning and quite a bit of flying skill.
Rise to Honor - Dakota 3. Because fighting Rapier ace Iceman with a Gratha is very sweet.
Rise to Honor - Hell's Kitchen 4. For the same reasons as the original version.
SM1 - Jotunheim 3. Bwahaha.
SM1 - BiFrost 2. The evil, climatic battle against the supply depot (and you should probably just blow it up and get away as soon as possible unless you want to fight 5 Grathas in a Scimitar).
SM2 - The Dralthi missions.
SM3 - Mission 9. Another nice challenging defence mission.
SM3 - Mission 10. I love the fact that you lose if you try to destroy the fighters instead of staying close to the Exeter.
SM3 - Mission 12. 4 Dralthis and 3 Jalthis at once... One of the largest WC1 battles.
SM3 - Mission 14. A true capship-fest.
SM3 - Mission 16. Invisible fighters, yay!
WC2 - Enigma 2. Fighting while the depot is firing at you is just so ridiculously hard that I tend to destroy the depot first (with Angel's help).
WC2 - K'tithrak Mang 4. Despite the fact that the Prince kind of sucks, it's still a pretty good mission.
SO1 - The losing missions.
SO1 - Rigel 1. Despite the fact that it can be quite annoying.
SO1 - Ghorah Khar B-3 (or 2-C, whatever). Urg. Now that's what I call a dogfight. Surviving is hard enough as it is, but taking down Khasra is very difficult.
SO2 - The losing missions.
SO2 - Most Morningstar missions, because I like the Mace.
WC3 - The losing missions.
WC3 - Kilrah 3, mostly due to the T-Bomb run.
WC4 - Most missions . Okay, so I especially liked Masa 2 (there are two ways to to get the BW forces to surrender), the Peleus missions, Circe 1 (Tanks), Circe 3 (that battle with the Destroyer is insane if you don't take out the Destroyer as soon as possible), Speradon 3 (you get to defang a Carrier), and Outrun Ella (which is nearly impossible if you don't have a good strategy. Once you do have one, it can actually be pretty easy, but it's an epic battle no matter what).
UE - Treacherous Nebula. You should be able to guess why if you've played it.
UE - That "Defang the Fralthi" mission, as well as the one that comes next.
UE - The final battle.
Standoff - Ep.1 Pirate Base mission.
Standoff - Ep.3 Snakeir mission.
Standoff - Ep.3 losing path (Back Route to Sirius). Yep, all of it.
Standoff - Clearing the Path. Painful, but very fun nonetheless.
Standoff - Hakaga mission.
Standoff - Skinning Cats (both versions).
Standoff - Backlash in Sirius (again, all of it).
WC1 - Port Hedland 1. A great mission where you have to fight against overwhelming odds. This is also the first mission where you get to shoot down a fleeing capships, if memory serves.
WC1 - Hell's Kitchen 4. The suicide mission is a lot of fun, especially if you don't hate the Scimitar. Fighting every single class of Kilrathi fighter and the aces in one mission is really something.
Rise to Honor - Gimle 1. Who would have thought that 3 Rapiers would put up such a tough fight?
Rise to Honor - Dakota 1. One of the hardest escort missions out there. A very nice challenge that takes some careful planning and quite a bit of flying skill.
Rise to Honor - Dakota 3. Because fighting Rapier ace Iceman with a Gratha is very sweet.
Rise to Honor - Hell's Kitchen 4. For the same reasons as the original version.
SM1 - Jotunheim 3. Bwahaha.
SM1 - BiFrost 2. The evil, climatic battle against the supply depot (and you should probably just blow it up and get away as soon as possible unless you want to fight 5 Grathas in a Scimitar).
SM2 - The Dralthi missions.
SM3 - Mission 9. Another nice challenging defence mission.
SM3 - Mission 10. I love the fact that you lose if you try to destroy the fighters instead of staying close to the Exeter.
SM3 - Mission 12. 4 Dralthis and 3 Jalthis at once... One of the largest WC1 battles.
SM3 - Mission 14. A true capship-fest.
SM3 - Mission 16. Invisible fighters, yay!
WC2 - Enigma 2. Fighting while the depot is firing at you is just so ridiculously hard that I tend to destroy the depot first (with Angel's help).
WC2 - K'tithrak Mang 4. Despite the fact that the Prince kind of sucks, it's still a pretty good mission.
SO1 - The losing missions.
SO1 - Rigel 1. Despite the fact that it can be quite annoying.
SO1 - Ghorah Khar B-3 (or 2-C, whatever). Urg. Now that's what I call a dogfight. Surviving is hard enough as it is, but taking down Khasra is very difficult.
SO2 - The losing missions.
SO2 - Most Morningstar missions, because I like the Mace.
WC3 - The losing missions.
WC3 - Kilrah 3, mostly due to the T-Bomb run.
WC4 - Most missions . Okay, so I especially liked Masa 2 (there are two ways to to get the BW forces to surrender), the Peleus missions, Circe 1 (Tanks), Circe 3 (that battle with the Destroyer is insane if you don't take out the Destroyer as soon as possible), Speradon 3 (you get to defang a Carrier), and Outrun Ella (which is nearly impossible if you don't have a good strategy. Once you do have one, it can actually be pretty easy, but it's an epic battle no matter what).
UE - Treacherous Nebula. You should be able to guess why if you've played it.
UE - That "Defang the Fralthi" mission, as well as the one that comes next.
UE - The final battle.
Standoff - Ep.1 Pirate Base mission.
Standoff - Ep.3 Snakeir mission.
Standoff - Ep.3 losing path (Back Route to Sirius). Yep, all of it.
Standoff - Clearing the Path. Painful, but very fun nonetheless.
Standoff - Hakaga mission.
Standoff - Skinning Cats (both versions).
Standoff - Backlash in Sirius (again, all of it).