Just asking...since these are all campaigns within the freespace universe, Should I play them know any particular order? I'm almost finished my first playthrough of the freespace port ( descent: freespace) . I expect to start silent threat within the next few days
I have a certain timeline suggestion, but it requires that you have basic gameplay skills that you have learned from official tutorials. I have played almost all of these so most of them should work with modern builds.
ANCIENT ERA
1) Ancient-Shivan War Act 1
2) Ancient-Shivan War Act 2
3) Ancient-Shivan War Act 3 (only a couple of single missions available)
PRE FS1 ERA
4) The Unification war
5) Cardinal Spear
6) Frontlines 2334
FS 1 ERA
7) FS1 Official campaign
((8) Bem Cavalgar around the time of Vasuda Prime in FS1. Problems with modern builds however!))
9) Silent Threat: Reborn
10) Shrouding the light
11) Operation Templar (inside FSport, converted from multiplayer campaign)
MID ERA
12) Between the Ashes (A full release in a few days!!!)
13) Operation Savior
14) Pandora's Box
FS 2 ERA
15) FS2 official campaign
16) Fall of Epsilon Pegasi
17) Vassago's Dirge
POST FS 2 ERA
18) Transcend (play on very easy just for the sake of story!)
19) Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius
20) Blue Planet: War in Heaven 1 (acts 1&2)
21) Blue Planet: War in Heaven 2 (act 3)
FS 3 ERA
22) Freespace 3: The Search for Bosch (nah, I'm just kidding... Or am I?? >=D)
This continuity is somewhat coherent and faithful to the original material.
There are, of course other great POST FS2 ERA campaigns that are mutually exclusive. Here are a couple of suggestions:
23) Shadow Genesis (A very good alternative to BP. A long campaign with a satisfying ending)
24) Derelict (Old but gold. Also very long)
There are couple of high quality POST FS2 ERA campaigns just waiting to be released. Follow these:
25) Inferno: Nostos
26) Exile
Now that you have gone through quite a many campaigns, you may enjoy referential humor in:
27) Just another day: series (very high quality, still getting new content)
28) Deus ex Machina: interlude
29) Ridiculous: Director's cut
A few high quality mods independent of Freespace storyline
30) The Antagonist
31) Wings of Dawn (old mod and new standalone)
32) Dimensional Eclipse
33) Windmills (might have problems with newer builds)
Then of course the standalones:
34) The Babylon Project
35) Diaspora
36) Wing Commander Saga
37) Star Fox: Event Horizon