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Oh this mission. I remember struggling with it in the original X-Wing. Mostly because of the misleading briefing - it says "Destroy all other Transports before they can reach the Imperial Frigate". So I tried to inspect all transports, disable the ones with the prisoners and destroy the ones with the troopers. But this step is actually not necessary to acomplish this mission.

One thing you might notice after trying this mission over and over is that the transports with the prisoners are always the same (it's not randomized) - so my strategy was to memorize which ones were carrying prisoners and go straight at them. The first one is on the far right (press T key 4 times after entering the mission to target it), the second one is the far right flying in that middle V formation.

So after you quickly disable both transports and Rescue 1 and 2 jump in it's only a matter of intercepting the TIE Interceptors - they are attacking the Rescue transports, the TIE Fighters only target you. In XWVM a nice QoL feature has been added - you can preass A key to target your target's attacker (this function first appeared in Tie Fighter IIRC). So you can store Rescue transports in the memory and quickly recall them when needed and press A to target their attackers.

Also keep in mind you can pause the game at any time and still switch targets, check your map etc. if things go hectic. In original X-Wing entering the map to study the battlefield paused the game so it's not some kind of added cheat.

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