Originally posted by Mongoose
The mission "Proving Grounds," where you get the Order of Galatea, has to be the single most annoying mission in the whole campaign
. The only reliable way I found of getting that medal would be to focus on disarming the Tiamat's beam cannons as soon as it jumps in. As soon as you're done, high-tail it back to the Aquitaine and fend off the bombers. As far as I can tell, there's absolutely no way to destroy the Tiamat without having the Aquitaine's hull fall below 50%, the threshold for getting the medal. (Actually, I don't think there's any way to destroy it, period
.)
Weird, on medium I got it on first try, kept the Aquitaine above 50% and got some nice kills.
Personally, got to Admiral(Isn't it rear admiral) in FS1 after 4 years of replaying the campaign, and FS2, well, just now FS2 reguler, the added campaign, the FSport and ST allmost have me there, with all the medals achived long ago.