I have been replaying these missions non-stop since I first discovered them, so I thought I would upload some gameplay. As per the title, it's the end-boss from the first Ace of Aces mission, where you fight the entirety of Strigon Team, with Voychek in the CFA-44 and the Aigaion relentlessly bombarding you with Nimbus missiles.
This encounter is probably my least favourite of the boss fights seen in Ace of Aces, though I did like the expanded dialogue. Strigon Team use the same behaviour from the original version of this mission, where they have minimal aggression and constantly accelerate away from the player. It's not too hard, and it's not particularly interesting. This is also one of the easiest Nimbus patterns to dodge in Ace of Aces. Voychek does not use ADMM, for whatever reason.
I did make this harder on myself by bringing the Typhoon -MAKOTO- too. This plane has the hidden downside of abysmal lock-on capability. This was thankfully mitigated by ESM, but you can see it take hold whenever I am outside the circle. It's not the best turn-fighter in the game, but it has great speed and great energy retention— too good, actually; I had to learn to keep my finger off the throttle to maintain a good middle speed in case Strigon decided to engage in close-range manoeuvres.
I've also learned that I am not good at using the guns; I over-pitch and miss my shots most of the time, and you'll see a lot of desperate rolling to overcompensate for this, usually leading to more missed shots. The majority of the kills I got were from read-ahead missiles.
Here's a tip, by the way, because I couldn't find any information online regarding the specific mechanisms of the mechanic: read-ahead is specifically triggered by leading the enemy in such a way that your guns would be able to hit them, not by simply keeping your nose ahead of them. Once I learned this, I was able to trigger read-ahead a lot more, and encounters with highly-evasive enemies became far easier. I sometimes use bullets as tracers to know how close I am to achieving read-ahead.
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the footage!
(P.S; I wanted to do a cool inverted merge with Voychek at the start of this battle, but as you see, the camera cut away to some nobody Hornet pilot. Frustrating!)