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Obejctives
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Primary:
1) Commit an act of sabotage: blow up the ammunition depot.
- The depot is surrounded by vehicles and men, so the easiest way to destroy
it is by capturing a German tank and firing shells at it from a distance. If
you'd prefer to be a little more discrete about it, you can use heavy grenades
or the dynamite you're given to blow up the piles. Only the piles along the
top of the depot need to be destroyed, not the vehicles or the building.
2) Masha Borovitskaya must survive the mission.
- If she dies, you fail.
3) Dmitry Shevtsov (the commander) must survive the mission.
- If he dies, you fail.
4) Vasily Mikhailov must survive the mission.
- If he dies, you fail.
Secondary:
1) Liberate the village.
- While this isn't necessary to win the mission, it's still fun to do if you'd
like a little extra challenge. You don't need to kill every German unit on the
map to accomplish it, either - if you destroy the gun emplacements and retreat,
the remaining soldiers will run after you. Once there aren't any more Germans
within the actual village, this objective will be complete.
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Units
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3 Soldiers (Dmitry Shevtsov, Vasily Mikhailov, and Masha Borovitskaya)
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Walkthrough
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Assuming you have no objections to shooting at your own men, you can abuse a
little trick right at the start of the mission to get some body armor. As soon
as you have control of your men, use one of them to shoot the tires on the car
with your soldiers in it before the car can leave the screen. Inspect the
soldier near the steering wheel and take his body armor (and anything else you
might feel like taking).
Three clusters of Germans are patrolling the outside edges of the forest. The
first group will reach your soldiers a few seconds after the mission starts, so
be prepared to have your men armed and ready to defend themselves. Either sit
and wait patiently for the other two groups to reach you or head out and catch
them off guard in the trees.
Either way, your next objective after the patrols are dealt with should be
clearing out the field on the way to the village. Once you start picking off
Germans, other Germans nearby will start attacking you, including the nearby
Tiger tank (or both of them, depending on where/how much you attacked). Lead
the Tiger as far away from the village as you can, then hit it with an
anti-tank grenade to disable it (you'll need to hit it in the rear - grab some
AT grenades from the truck near your starting position).
Make sure the swarm of German soldiers that came with the Tiger are dealt with,
then repair it using the repair kit in its inventory. Right now is when you
need to decide if you'd like to complete the primary and secondary objectives
or if you'd just like to finish the mission right away. If you'd like to
finish the mission, drive the Tiger through the forest to your left, avoiding
the village entirely.
Attack the ammo depot from the west, where it's mostly clear. A few quick high
explosive shells to the ammo piles will end the mission, but be aware that you
won't have very long before a swarm of German soldiers and vehicles responds to
the attack.
If you'd like to take a more careful approach and complete the secondary
objective, I suggest you attack the depot from the south, making the second
Tiger your first priority (assuming you haven't already disabled it). Once the
Germans know you're there, though, you'll want to abandon your Tiger and fight
off the wave of German soldiers on foot. Why? Because the Tiger's turret is
so painfully slow that there's no way you can move it fast enough to hose the
stream of soldiers they're going to send at you.
Instead, let your two machine gunners hide in the trees (set to Fire at Will)
and take direct control of Masha with her rifle. Your men will take care of
most of the soldiers, but you'll probably need Masha to pick off some of the
long-range targets. Be very alert for grenades - if any of your three soldiers
get killed, the mission's over.
Once the initial wave of Germans is taken care of, get back in the Tiger and
take care of the gun emplacements in the village as well as any vehicles that
might remain. Just watch out for bazooka soldiers - they can stop your Tiger
dead in its tracks. Avoid damaging the depot if you'd like to complete the
secondary objective first.
To complete the secondary objective, all you need to do is eliminate the
stationary Germans in the village. The rest of them will move out of the
village to attack you, and once they're all out, the secondary objective will
be complete. Simply lob a few high explosive shells at the ammo piles along
the top of the depot to end the mission.
