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Obejctives
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Primary:
1) Capture a German tank.
- It's the big unoccupied gray one in the lower-right corner of the map,
surrounded by infantry and other vehicles. Capturing the Nebelwerfer in the
town in the upper-left will let you devastate the pile of Tigers north of the
base, and you can also do quite a bit of damage to the outskirts of the base.
2) Deliver the tank to square X.
- Once you've captured it, you'll have to drive it all the way to the upper
left corner of the map. Of course, heavy German reinforcements will also be
showing up on the right side of the map, so you'll have to defend yourself.
Make sure you don't accidentally run over the minefields, and check the
walkthrough section below if you need help fighting them off - there's a way to
get some anti-tank mines that can make this part of the mission a hell of a lot
eaiser.
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Units
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5 Soldiers (Dmitry Shevtsov, Vasily Mikhailov, Ivan Popov, Makar Bogdanov, and
Ivan Scherbarkov)
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Walkthrough
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You start in the middle of a forest surrounded by German soldiers, so you'll
only have a little while to prepare yourself for a big fight. Choose one of
your soldiers to use as your primary unit, then make sure your other four are
spread out and set to Fire at Will to ensure they do some damage without
killing each other. Use your "primary" soldier to slaughter as many guys as
you can, but you'll probably need to constantly pick up rounds and bandages
from fallen Germans, not to mention new helmets. Some of the Germans also have
body armor, so be on the lookout.
Keep an eye on the roads north of your position. Two German cargo trucks will
be moving down them, and both of them have valuable equipment that you'll want
later (a repair kit and some anti-tank mines). Disable the trucks with a few
light machine gun bullets, but make sure you don't completely destroy them.
Continue clearing out German soldiers in the area above the road as well, but
try to avoid drawing the attention of the Panzer IV in the village. You'll
also want to be careful that the nebelwerfer doesn't launch any rockets at you.
If you hear it launch or see it move, immediately move all of your men
somewhere else and wait for the rockets to land.
Down and to the right of the nebelwerfer, you'll see a German soldier with a
rocket launcher on his back. If you can draw this soldier away from the
village without attracting the vehicles or the nebelwerfer, his rocket launcher
will be prove quite useful for taking control of the village. Attract the
Panzer IV, then hit it with a rocket to disable it (or destroy it, it doesn't
really matter that much). Do the same thing to the anti-aircraft vehicle, then
carefully kill the crew of the nebelwerfer without damaging it - you'll want it
intact for the next part of the mission.
Due east of the village, you'll see a cluster of five Tiger tanks, three of
which are crewed and two of which are empty (the ones with the turrets moving
are obviously the crewed ones, the stationary ones are the uncrewed ones). Put
some men in the nebelwerfer, then quickly launch three bursts with it at the
three occupied Tigers, avoiding the empty ones. All three of them will be
completely destroyed, and the other two will probably take some damage. Be
prepared to defend against the surviving infantry.
Once the area around the Tiger cluster is clear, send your soldiers over there
with the repair kit and anti-tank mines from the two trucks you encountered
earlier in the mission. Repair one of the Tigers, then crew it with four men
and leave the fifth man behind (with the anti-tank mines in his inventory) to
man the nebelwerfer.
The nebelwerfer has insane range - you can reach the outskirts of the German
base with it. Launch several sets of rockets at anything you can reach, and
don't stop when you think you've hit all you can - the units out of your reach
will move towards you, and you can destroy a lot of them if you continue firing
after your initial attacks. Use your Tiger to stop anything that makes it past
the nebelwerfer raid, but watch out for land mines.
With the German base severely weakened, it's safe to move your Tiger down there
(again, use the road to avoid land mines). Deal with anything that survived
your previous assaults, then stop for a minute to prepare for the next part of
the mission. As soon as you occupy the Tiger II tank in the lower-right corner
of the base, heavy German reinforcements are going to come on the screen from
the right side. You'll want to be ready for them.
Before you enter the Tiger II, send your soldier that has the land mines to the
end of the road on the east side of the map. Lay the mines on the road, but
spread them out horizontally. If you're lucky, you'll get two or three of the
German tanks with mines before they even get close to the Tiger II. Send this
soldier back towards where the Tiger group was earlier, and leave your Tiger
there for him. Don't leave him in it, though - hide him in the trees nearby.
He'll serve as an emergency back-up plan if your Tiger II gets disabled during
the battle. Just jump in the Tiger and take a shot at the rear of the German
tanks, and if you're lucky, a single shell will disable them.
Anyway, once you've got the land mines placed and your emergency back-up
soldier in place, grab the repair kit from the ground near the Tiger II and put
it in its inventory, then load all four of your men into the Tiger II. German
infantry will immediately move onto the map from your right, so start moving
left. You won't make it very far before the German tanks start arriving, so be
ready to turn your tank to face them when they show up (to get your strongest
armor towards them). If you're lucky, your mine field will take out two or
three of them (or maybe more if you're incredibly lucky). Otherwise, you'll
have to try to disable them one at a time.
As I mentioned earlier, use your back-up soldier with the Tiger to hit the
Germans in the rear if you need some relief or a chance to repair the Tiger II.
Just remember that the Tiger will be slow and limited in its capabilities with
only a single man crewing it.
Once the German attack is thrown back, repair the Tiger II if necessary and
drive it westward along the road. Your goal is the very upper-left part of the
road where it meets the left edge of the map. Get there with the Tiger II, and
the mission is complete.
