I loved this mission for all the reasons that you have stated. The first time I played it, I got to 9 hours and basically broke the game! It kept crashing back to desktop. It was annoying as I'd almost completed the mission.
I posted on TTLG about the crashing and Nicked suggested it may be something to do with memory leakage as I was taking so long. As I have no idea about dromed and the creation of missions, I took his word for it. Someone else posted that they'd played for a simil...
I started this mission a while back but gave up fairly quickly as I'm not a big fan of undead.
After reading your review, I decided to give it another go and I'm very pleased that I did!
Firstly, I found that the mummies were reasonably easy to evade and secondly, without having to resort to getting hints off TTLG / YouTube I managed to complete the mission on expert (bar 200 ish loot and two of the "secrets").
I really like missions that have puzzles which are difficult but not i...