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Level 2: Defending The Pointe
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D E T A I L S
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"Retreat? We're Advancing In Another Direction"
Normandy, France
June 7, 1944
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S T A R T I N G W E A P O N S
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• M1 Garand
• Thompson
• 4 Fragmentation Grenades
• 4 Smoke Grenades
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O B J E C T I V E S
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• Defend the south roadblock.
• Defend the west roadblock.
• Fall back and defend the orchard.
• Fall back to the machine gun on the second floor and provide covering fire.
• Fall back and defend the Pointe.
• Defend the Pointe until support arrives.
• Deploy green smoke to mark friendly location.
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M I S S I O N W A L K T H R O U G H
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Immediately head to the South and commandeer the fixed machine gun position.
Use it to mow down the waves of Germans who will be making their way towards
you. Keep up the fire for a good minute or two, killing all Germans who get
near, then you'll be told to help defend the west roadblock. Take cover behind
the crates and fire at the Germans with your M1 Garand. You could use a few
grenades to help take out a big selection of them, however they'll keep coming
anyway, so my best advice is to just conserve your ammo and keep yourself in
cover, firing at any Germans who give you a clear shot.
Keep fighting them and pretty soon a halftrack will move in. Keep in cover and
dispose of the Germans who come out of it, then keep shooting at what seems
like hundreds of Germans swarming around the corner. Eventually a tank will
move in from the other end of the street, and as it starts to get closer your
squad will decide it's not safe to stay, so move into the orchard and take
cover behind the wall marked with the star on the compass.
Pop up and fire at the Germans rushing through the bushes into your position.
Use grenades to keep them back, and make sure they don't flank you. Your squad
will do a decent job of picking them off too, so take cover a lot if you get
hit. After about two minutes you'll be told to fall back into the building and
use the machine gun for covering fire as the guys retreat. Run into the
building and head to the top floor, right window where you'll find the 30 Cal.
Pour on the ammo at the Germans who will be marked with a red crosshair on your
screen. Take out as many as you can see, then when the tank starts shooting at
you, get off the machine gun and head downstairs.
Shoot the crazy German who busts open the door, then the few to the right of
the roadblock, then immediately rush towards the second building down and move
through it. Kill four Germans who'll come from the right, then three to five
who will be stationed to the left, then jump over the broken wall and make your
way down the main path towards the bunkers.
Head straight into the trench, then get on the MG42 at the end and use it to
take down the tens of Germans rushing from the left road, and the right arch
way. When the tank gets a bit too close for comfort, run down the trench
towards the bunker, ignoring your orders to provide suppressing fire. A few
seconds later you'll be told to fall back and help out at the next bunker, so
make your way down the trenches and regroup with the other soldiers. You'll be
informed that reinforcements are on their way from Omaha Beach, as well as some
air cover, but they're a good five minutes away, and you've got to defend the
Pointe on foot until then.
Stay in the concrete circle thing and use the walls for cover for about another
two minutes. Kill the many Germans who'll come through the trenches from the
right, and throw almost a constant supply of grenades to the Germans coming
from straight ahead. You'll be told to fall back to the final bunker, and
usually you'd think getting inside the bunker would give you the best chance of
survival, which I suppose it does, for now, however my advice is to go on top
of the bunker where you'll have a nice supply of ammo and grenades.
Stay prone, then pop up firing off rifle shots and throwing grenades at the
Germans coming from all over. With about a minute left of the reinforcement
countdown you'll be told to deploy green smoke on the top of the bunker, and if
you're inside, you'll have a pretty hard job getting up here, which is why I
said to just defend the whole bunker from this position. Trigger the smoke
which will be right next to you, then keep pouring on the ammo as you await the
air strike on the enemy units.
After the tanks have been blown up and the remaining enemy soldiers have been
picked off watch the reinforcements arrive, and listen to the emotional music
with a speech from Reagan. You've successfully captured and held Pointe du Hoc
and in doing so, have completed arguably the most well made single player
mission in any war game ever.
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