I hate having to post in this thread, but.. I've spend too many hours after midnight trying to get past a mission in FH 2260.
It's the mission where you first start as a merc, defending the Brakiri station from the Drazi. So far I got through on medium settings, but on this mission I fail incredibly, each time. Anything I try with commanding alpha and beta wings fails as well, the AI just seems to refuse to do anything here. Even when ordering alpha wing to guard the jumpgate, they stuck around at the Brakiri station, looping around Firehawks without many kills.
My best tactic so far has been flying a Badger and ordering my wings to swarm a single target to quickly kill them. I've given up making a bomber squad because they just don't hit their targets enough. After taking out the first Sunhawk, I clear the resident fighters after which I turn to destroy the beamweapons on every Sunhawk, saving the station this way. Generally it takes me 4 minutes to clear all the fighters, after which I send my wings to engage Crazy Wing. Getting rid of the beam turrets takes about a minute.
So five minutes in, I rush towards the Harvester which takes a while. The new Sunhawk already enters through the gate. I've found that using wings to attack is is pointless, so I have to race towards it while Crazy wing still hasn't been taken care off. In that time Crazy Wing usually shreds the Harvester or if I tackle Crazy Wing, the Sunhawk destroys the Harvestor. In 7-7.5 minutes the Harvestor ends up destroyed.
I've found that the only difference between Medium and Very Easy is that I can fire continuously and of course the AI. But time wise there's little difference because those annoying Firehawks are so durable.
Using my wing effectively is the hardest part of it, because the hostiles are so closely packed. So.. any tips on how to tackle this mission? I can't use my wing to deal with Crazy wing and I can't use them to disarm the Sunhawks in front of the station and I can't use them to deal with the Sunhawk coming from the jumpgate.
If I set them to protect the station, I still can't focus on the Sunhawks because I'll get attacked from behind by a Firehawk, dragging me right back in a dogfight.
Alright, I finally beat it. Here's how:
The main trick was to not attack Ugly wing until all of the other wings were destroyed. Since there is one wing (Bug) that never spawns until a certain amount of Ugly ships are destroyed, this has a huge impact on the number of Shadow fighters you need to face at once. Once Badguy, Idiot, and Crazy wings are down, I then took out Ugly and Bug. Took a long time and I lost most of the convoy... but it worked. :D