X-WING

　Mission 2: Y-Wing Gunnery Practice

　File Name: ywaistem
　Mission Briefing
　When Wedge Antilles discovered an Imperial testing base, we were able to send in a lone Y-wing to destroy the prototype starfighters there.
　Dafid's Training Objective
　"In this mission, you learn to track and destroy enemy starfighters. You won't have any torpedoes on this mission, so you have to learn to be efficient with your cannons. Most importantly, you learn to use the targeting system to quickly locate the nearest enemy fighter. Many of the targets are moving, but none is shooting back. You can take advantage of this to practice transferring shield energy to the cannons to keep them fully charged. Be aware when the Imperial reinforcements arrive, because they will come in shooting!"
　Tactical Summary
　Use the normal mission start sequence with the following exception: Do not transfer any cannon energy to the shields. Query the CMD for the nearest fighter ([R]) (a TIE Bomber from group Eta), and note that it is over three clicks away. Therefore, turn to the right and attack the freighter you find there. As you close on the target, reduce speed to one-third ([[]). Keep an eye on the weapon status bar, and be sure to transfer shield energy to the cannons ([Shift]-[F9] or [;]) to keep them supercharged.
　After the freighter has been destroyed, query the CMD again, and you will find the nearest fighter. Go to full throttle and reduce shield recharge rate to normal in order to redirect power to the engines for more speed. Chase down and eliminate the target, but be careful with your speed as you close in because the fighter will be moving relatively slowly and you risk overshooting or colliding with it. As soon as you've destroyed it, query the CMD again. Now eliminate the moving TIEs that remain from the Zeta, Eta, Theta, and Iota groups. At some point, you should be near the containers, and your query should target one of the stationary TIEs from groups Alpha, Beta, or Gamma. These are easy kills, but don't forget to slow down so that you can get them all in one pass! Finally, you may go back to get the two containers before you hyper home.
　As usual, you can always stick around to engage the Imperial reinforcements when they arrive!
　Win Conditions
　TIE fighter groups Alpha, Gamma, Zeta, and Theta; TIE Bomber groups Beta, Delta, and Eta; and TIE Interceptor group Iota must all be destroyed.