Description
Attack and destroy the HOL PVD Microsoft

Storyline:
Story? Bah! No story here. (Couldn't you tell from the name of the HoL ship?) Just a bunch of poor grammatical and spelling errors galore. The Debreifing consists of 3 sentences. The breifing is almost as bad with at least one misspelled word per page. <P> This mission also has the Shivans assisting the Vasudans for no reason what so ever. So you'll be facing both Shivan and Vasudan craft.

Balance:
Your default ship is the Ulysses, which is fine with me, although I would have preferred the Hercules. Luckily, you don't need the extra fire power of larger ships as the mission is pretty much a walk in the park. Every Terran ship has at least one bay full of Hornets. <P> The reinforcement Capital ships to help take out the Microsoft are GTSC Faustus class Science Vessels. These things are about as helpful in a strike as a Terran Navbouy. But, once again, it doesn't matter.

Design:
This mission gets one star for actually having events. Other than that, the design is mediocre at best. There are no directives or messages to tell you that a whole plethora of Shivans have arrived. <P> The secondary objective is scan the Vasudan cargo containers. (Which are protected by Shivan Sentry Guns) There are about 15-20 containers that you THINK you have to scan, but, thanks to the bad design, you only have to scan the first one.

Gameplay:
I wouldn't play this one over. Ever. If you want a strike mission on a Typhon class Destroyer, just play the Main Campaign.

Other Thoughts:
Umm, Happy New Year and this is the first mission I've reviewed on my new Celeron. (OC'd at 374 mhz. Case gets too hot for 450.) <P> Oh yea, this is also the first mission review of the year.