Ok, so this is the base of a mission from AHTW... I got to the point it is now, in about 5 hours. So i ran through a test on easy. Not bad, a tad on the easy side. So i tried Medium. Not bad either. So far, it was seeming pretty balanced. Just for the hell of it, i tried it on hard, and then insane, without getting involved in the combat, just to see how the AI could do on its own... To my amazement, they did better on Insane without my help, then we did on medium, WITH my help... So i grabbed a video...
You'll need the newest Winzip to extract it, since it had the smallest filesize i could find...
I am clueless on how to balance it...
A little plot rundown; you're going to take out 9 freighters on their way to a node. A wing of Ulysses draws the escorting 2 wings into a dogfight... You and 5 other bombers start bombing the convoy. Half way to the node, a wing of Vackeries armed with D-missiles arrives, to help you pin the freighters in down, to be bombed. (as it is, they outrun you, and your bombs too)... Three quarters of the way to the node, a cruiser arrives to help you finish them off. By that time, the escort should have eiher been destroyed, or be attacking the bombers... But thats not exactly how this worked...
http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/swfs2/temp/FS-Insane.zip ...