Unlock this mission with 20 points. It appears above the Death Star Attack mission on the select screen.

Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia have successfully made it out of the Death Star, but the Millennium Falcon is coming up on the station's sentry forces. You'll have to take control of the gun turrets and fight them off. To fire the gun turrets, use the L and R buttons.

Available Starting Craft: Millennium Falcon

Enemies: TIE Fighter

Survival Walkthrough and Gold Medal Strategies:

Time: 1:20
Enemies: 35
Accuracy: 16%
Friendlies Lost: 0
Lives Lost: 0
Computer Efficiency: 100%

Really, there's no point in splitting them up for this mission, given its simplicity. Just shoot all the TIEs and you're done. Be accurate and learn the swooping patterns (because the TIEs swoop exactly the same every single time) and you can clean them up. Good luck.

Secret Mission 2 - The Asteroid Field

Unlock this mission with 30 points. It appears above the Battle of Hoth mission on the select screen.

The Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive is damaged (again...). You need to lose the pursuing TIE Fighters into an asteroid field. After you shake the TIE Fighters, park yourself on the Star Destroyer Avenger so that the Imperials lose you from their sensors, then float away with the rest of the garbage.

Available Starting Craft: Millennium Falcon

Enemies: TIE Fighter, Imperial Star Destroyer

Survival Walkthrough: Aim yourself for the radar spot and the TIEs will start lining up behind you. Simply wait for them to come up behind and waste them with your lasers (your lower quad gun tracks them, so it can shoot enemies behind you). Make sure you watch where you're going, too, because those floating asteroids aren't just there for show.

Once you finish all the TIEs on your tail, you'll eventually reach the big asteroid, and we all know what happens there... You'll be flying back now, with more TIEs on your rear. Waste them all, and look down below the main asteroid field "line" to see your destination: the Star Destroyer Avenger. A red Rebel insignia will pop up behind the bridge. Fly into it and you'll land to finish this cute mission.

Gold Medal Strategies:

Time: 4:34
Enemies: 50
Accuracy: 10%
Friendlies Lost: 0
Lives Lost: 1
Computer Efficiency: 75%

Don't lay off the top speed for an instant, because time is your biggest problem. Taking out the TIEs is a simple matter of not firing until they're climbing up your tailpipe. It's really quite simple. You'll have to be a bit lucky, and, of course, don't hit any asteroids. Fly towards the Star Destroyer as soon as you see it and head towards the back and you'll be all set.

Secret Mission 3 - Triumph of the Empire

Unlock this mission with 30 points. It appears above the Strike at the Core mission on the select screen.

YOU ARE DARTH VADER. Destroy the Rebels attacking the Death Star for the greater glory of the Empire.

Available Starting Craft: TIE Advanced, TIE Fighter (after completion), Imperial Shuttle (after Gold Medals in the the ten normal missions and in the two Vader missions)

Enemies: X-Wing, Y-Wing

Survival Walkthrough: This is really quite simple, but it's not all that easy until you get the Homing Cluster Missiles upgrade. All you have to do is destroy all the Rebel craft in the area in the first part. The big problem is that they take a lot of hits. Make sure you use your wingmen.

The second part has you flying over the trench. Fly in the direction the radar indicates. You'll either be coming up on Rebels from behind, or they'll be coming towards you and you'll have to turn around to engage. You can leave the trench all you want, too, but there are a few fighters above the trench that will offer their buddies support.

Destroy three Y-Wings in the first run (Gold Leader), three X-Wings in the next run (Red Leader), and three more X-Wings in the last run (Luke, Biggs, and Wedge), and you're all set. Let them get too far and they'll take out the Death Star. We wouldn’t want that to happen, right?

Naturally, this would never happen in the movies, but it's nice to play the bad guy every once in a while.

Gold Medal Strategies:

Time: 4:00
Enemies: 32
Accuracy: 35%
Friendlies Lost: 3
Lives Lost: 0
Computer Efficiency: 100%

Naturally, you'll need Advanced Homing Cluster Missiles for this mission. Try to keep yourself slow and make sure you come up behind groups of Rebel fighters to take them down with clusters. Try not to fire clusters at the Rebels unless there are at least three in your sights. Try to have at least ten clusters for the second part, so work on your accuracy with lasers, since you might not get them all just with the clusters.

At the trench, pop a cluster into the Y-Wings, then finish them off with lasers. You'll get the call about the first group of X-Wings. At this point, jump out of the trench and start firing clusters at the Rebel fighters above the trench. You'll need to take down a good number of them, so do so in between taking out trench runners. Don't let the trench runners get too far ahead of you, of course, or you'll mess up the time requirement.

Don't fire your lasers unless you're sure you're going to hit something, because the T/A's lasers fire really fast. Friendlies include guns along the trench, so be sure not to shoot any of those.

Secret Mission 4 - Revenge on Yavin

You need to have earned at least a Bronze Medal in Triumph of the Empire to make this mission appear to the right of that mission on the select screen, and you need 40 points to unlock the mission.

The Death Star has been destroyed, and the Emperor is ordering swift retribution. Take command of the TIE Advanced and lay waste to the Rebels on Yavin.

Available Starting Craft: TIE Advanced, TIE Fighter (after completion), Imperial Shuttle (after Gold Medals in the the ten normal missions)

Enemies: X-Wing, Y-Wing, Speeder, Laser Turret

Survival Walkthrough: As you enter the area, go for the Transports already in the air. According to your objectives, you can let no more than two escape, so make sure you get right on top of any Transports that take off. They take a lot of hits, but don't waste your cluster missiles on them. Save those for the fighters. Once you take down all Transports in one area, they'll start lifting off from another clearing. There are eleven Rebel Transports, total. In the nearest clearing, your fighters and support walkers may clear out some of the Transports for you, but don't rely on them.

For the final portion of this mission, you must fly inside the Great Temple and take out the five Transports inside. Once they're gone, your mission will be complete.

Gold Medal Strategies:

Time: 4:19
Enemies: 36
Accuracy: 65%
Friendlies Lost: 15
Lives Lost: 0
Computer Efficiency: 100%

Advanced Homing Clusters are necessary, of course.

You're going to want to concentrate mostly on the Transports with your lasers, and the fighters with your clusters. First, tell your wingmen to flee, so they don't steal kills, and set upon the nearest Transport that's in the air. Fill it with laser fire, then hit the next one, then go for the grounded ones. Also, you may want to launch some clusters at nearby open patches of jungle that have parked fighters in them for some extra targets. Keep up this business of downing only Transports with lasers, breaking off for a couple of seconds at a time to launch a cluster at tailing fighters.

Once you get all the Transports on the ground, wait around outside the temple entrance for the main hangar to open up. While you wait, use your remaining clusters on the fighters in the area. Once the hangar opens, swoop in and head for the back of the hangar quickly while strafing the Transports. As soon as you get to the back, loop around and start making slow strafing runs on the Transports. The reason you went to the back so quick is because some fighters follow you in, and they can't compensate for the turn you made, so they'll just hit the wall. Looks like Rebel training's a bit lax...

Destroy all the Transports as quickly as possible and you should have little problem getting a Gold on this mission.

Secret Mission 5 - Endurance

You need to have earned Gold Medals on all missions before this, as you'll use the last of your points (20) on this mission. It will appear to the right of Revenge on Yavin.

You are a lone X-Wing above the second Death Star. Destroy wave after life-sucking wave of TIEs as they come after you.
No story. No introduction. No mission critical craft. No wingmen. No superlaser. No Rebel Alliance fleet about to be destroyed. No Millennium Falcon. No Obi-Wan telling you to use the Force. NO MERCY!

Available Starting Craft: X-Wing, Y-Wing/A-Wing/B-Wing, etc. (after completion)

Enemies: TIE Fighter, TIE Interceptor, Imperial Shuttle, TIE Advanced

Survival Walkthrough and Gold Medal Strategies:

Time: 400:00
Enemies: 1300
Accuracy: 8%
Waves: 99
Lives Lost: 12M
Computer Efficiency: 0%

How do you earn a Gold Medal? Simple. Kill them all. Every last one of them- all 99 waves. Good luck.

It's pretty simple, though. Just don't shoot willy-nilly and the accuracy requirement will be met. Everything else is simple enough.

It's worth it to note that every tenth wave is a group of Imperial Shuttles. Once you gun down all of them, you'll earn an extra life, which you'll most definitely need...

The first wave is easy. They won't fire at you directly. Right after that, though, they get up in difficulty, especially around waves 31 and 51...

There's some strategy involved for this, especially when the waves get up in the high numbers and they start crashing into you and such. Fly past the entire wave, fly far off, turn around, and make head on passes. X-Wings always win over TIEs, and the chance to crash is less when you can see them coming.

Since Computer Efficiency is 0%, put up the Computer and leave it up (if you have Advanced Targeting Computer).

The final wave (after the 99th) is the Dark Lord of the Sith himself in his TIE Advanced. Good luck…heh, you’ll need it.

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