Forced entry ?
Again ?
Look
http://www.xfire.com/video/1b545d/ and tell me how it's even possible to fail this mission. I think it's not a problem with the way missions were designed (were it Forced Entry, this Aftermath mission or whatever), nor a problem with you guys, nor with your flying skills or whatever, but that it comes from two things :
- First : missions may not be balanced for Very Easy. Remember your wingmates are much weaker in lower difficulties. As I read somewhere, in Easy, you do all the job for them (this is where the "über Alpha One" jokes come) and in Hard, the wingmen do the job for you. So contrary to what people use to think,
lowering the difficulty can be a cause for mission breaking. Playing in Medium is usually the jake-of-all-trade for first playthroughs of a campaign.
- Second : don't always try a mission the same way. If something goes wrong, that may be because you didn't played the mission as it was supposed to be made. It may come from a fredder careless mistake, or on the contrary from a well-made mission were you didn't listened to your wingmen's or Command's advices (who said STR ?
).
So here, the problem is most likely coming from the first reason. Try and play in medium, use your wingmen cleverly, and everything should go smoothly.
And I'm absolutely no FS veteran. I play this game for something like 3 or 4 months, and never ever played a space shooter before. So I would surely be the newbie one here. That's why I don't understand how come people fail missions I run smoothly.
And personally I never cheated. Mainly because I don't know how to
EDIT : If you still have problems with this mission, tell here. I can play through it again and post a playthrough video such as the one above.