Valkyrie's Call

*This article is about an in-game mission. For the in-universe event, see Operation Free Agent.*

## Mission Details

### Unlocks (Achievements/Aircraft/Files Archive/etc.)

Mercenary Infamy
3,000 bonus credits**Faction Entries**:

* Icarus Armories
* Mercenary Cabal
* Sawaiiki
* The Federation II

**World Entries**:

* The Periphery
* Federalization of Sawaiiki
* Sawaiiki Harbor

**Pilot Entries**:

* Task Force 1
* Destroyer *Owl*
* Destroyer *Fishmonger*
* Destroyer *Silverwing*
* Destroyer *Robert Astley*
* Patrol Ship *Vermillion*
* Patrol Ship *Kagonish*
* Cruiser *Albatross*
* Cruiser *Epsilonic*
* Cruiser *Mosulola*
* Aegis Ship *Serule Blue*
* Aegis Ship *Hellbender*
* Battlecruiser *Naga*
* Battlecruiser *Salvation*
* Battleship *Kongo*
* Flagship *Zetec*

Mission in Free Mission/Flight
Open Season

### Maximum achievable score

33850 (55950 w/ optional targets)
 35300 (Mercenary; 57400 w/ optional targets)

### Soundtrack(s)

"Active Contract" (Briefing)
"Selections" (Hangar)
"Valkyrie's Call" (Mission Start to Complete)
"Results" (Debriefing)

* Initial
* Update

### Objectives

Eliminate Task Force 1 moored in Sawaiiki Harbor

## Reconnaissance Data

### Hostile Ground Target Count

0.899999976158142

*"Shout out to that poor bastard out yachting right now."*
― Diplomat
**"Valkyrie's Call"** is the thirteenth mission of *Project Wingman*. The player joins a long-range raid to sink the the Pacific Federation Task Force 1 in port.

It is notably the mission with the highest amount of points in the game.

## Objectives

The player is presented with a massive number of surface targets, primarily landed airships and docked naval ships. Two of the airships will takeoff at the start and some of the grounded (air)ships will be mobile and operational, but most will be immobile and have no weapons that need to be destroyed before targeting the hull. Other PRIORITY targets include containers and refineries. The port is protected by numerous ground defenses, including AA guns, SAMs, and railguns, as well as F/C-15s. Recommend bringing in heavy anti-ground weaponry such as rockets and bombs, or a gunpod for strafing runs.

Once all non-airborne targets are destroyed, four more airships arrive along with fighter escorts as secondaries. F/C-16s will accompany an *Arcion*-class in one formation and Sk.37s will do so with the other.

The mission ends when all targets are destroyed.

### Mercenary difficulty

An extra *Littoria* is added to the returning airships.

## Trivia

* Diplomat's message to the Sawaiiki port authority is taken almost word-for-word from one given in the Rhodesian Bush War's Operation Gatling by Rhodesian squadron leader Chris Dixon ("Green Leader") to the Lusaka Airport tower.
* This mission has been compared by fans to the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
	+ Both take place in the Hawaiian region.
	+ Both are a morning surprise attack against a military superpower with the goal of taking out a major fleet. The difference is that the Japanese only targeted the ships while the mercenaries also targeted industrial facilities.
	+ Ironically, the attack is orchestrated by a US analog (Cascadia) against a more powerful Asian adversary (the Federation), a reversal of the World War II attack.
* Despite Assassin Team and Gunsel and Master Goose Squadron being implied to be present during the raid, they are not visually identified at any time during the mission.

* When the mission starts, a group of MG-29s with Stardust's livery can be seen, but with mercenary roundels. This skin is unattainable in-game.
* The yacht is a possible reference to the time travel film *The Final Countdown*, where a yacht is sunk by Japanese Zeroes right before the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
* The sun oddly rises in the west rather than the east despite Sawaiiki's location and the mission time. Matthew Nguyen acknowledged this geographical error when a fan pointed it out on Reddit.
* The FSN *Masso* is named after SoyaMasso, one of the Kickstarter backers.
* This is one of the five missions in the campaign with a prominent background air raid siren, the others being Missions 5, 6, 15, and 20.

## References

1. ↑ Nguyen, M. [FlyAwayNoVV]. (2020, 16 Dec). *SHIT* [Comment on the online forum post *Sawaiiki - Land of the Backwards Rising Sun*]. Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Project\_Wingman/comments/kdvr7l/comment/gg1o7y3
2. ↑ Sector D2 Limited. (2020). *Project Wingman* [Video game]. San Francisco, CA: Humble Games. Credits: Kickstarter Backers - Division 1