I was doing okay till i hit the first gunboat mission but i'm getting tagged by alot of missiles, modern games are way easier and it's dulled my once razor sharp gaming skills, i might after drop it down to normal...

But it makes me want a gunboat in X-wing all the more.

Wait till XvT releases. That could be brutally hard. TF was probably the easiest of the 4 (with some outlying nasty missions. Battle 5 mission 1 comes to mind, and anything which gets you ACMspammed). X-W was probably the next hardest (in the PCCD version they had to make alternate missions that were easier). XWA was mainly hard because it was different - you had to dumbfire missiles to be effective, but other than tnat nothing special.

XVT on hard had updated AI that was a real pain to fight.

I replayed that same mission in a gunboat yesterday like 6 times until I beat it. So many missiles!

I think if we had a gunboat in xwing it would be similar to a bwing performance wise all around really. Maybe manovour more poorly however. The thing flies like a tank in tie Fighter

I replayed that same mission in a gunboat yesterday like 6 times until I beat it. So many missiles!

I think if we had a gunboat in xwing it would be similar to a bwing performance wise all around really. Maybe manovour more poorly however. The thing flies like a tank in tie Fighter

B1M5? Don't shoot the CRL - then the X-wings with ACMS won't come.

OR shoot them all with ion cannons, recharge, finish off, rinse, repeat.