Originally posted by Goober5000
I have one complaint so far. In the first mission, it's effectively impossible to complete the secondary objective. The Veritas always nukes the Nile as soon as it arrives, preventing you from capturing the cargo. And it's impossible to take out the Veritas's main beam without getting slaughtered by all the fighter beams. The wingmen, of course, are of no help. I replayed the mission over and over again for more than two hours before I got so ticked off that I turned off the Veritas's beam-free-all sexp. 
This needs to be fixed. Beam-protect the Nile or something.
I experimented a bit with this when I made the mission, but I thought it was more realistic to have the nile die, so I made the goal a secondary one and left it at that. Looking at it again, a more dramatic exit for the nile (Multiple hull breaches, we're losing atmosphere, We're going down! or whatever) might have been a little better, but as Alikchi said, yet another version is bad for business
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As a general rulke, when I play this mission, I rarely even get up to that point, as my wingmen tend to kill the Freigfht while they're attacking the first freighter...
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