I also played through this scenario yesterday, and I also noticed heavy slowdowns at faster time compression which didn't resolve itself by just reducing back to normal speed, I had to end up restarting my game. Probably something to investigate.

<t> I just played through this mission last night, and noticed a few things:<br/>
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1. The Backfires launched their strike as planned (although one pair decided to move 50nm past their plotted launch point and ended up running out of fuel on the way home)<br/>
2. The fitters did not auto ...