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MISSION 06: Cherbourg
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Primary Objective: (1) Secure the Town Center.
		   (2) Destroy the Coastal Guns.
		   (3) Destroy the Axis HQ.

Secondary Objective: (1) Upgrade a Building into a Barracks.
		     (2) Eliminate Axis Artillery Lookout (Officer)

Medal Objective: Destroy the Demolition Station (2:00)

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Walkthrough
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01. In case the opening sequence was not obvious enough for you, there is a
    sniper at the end of the street, garrisoned in a building. Immediately
    enter the building one the left, and upgrade it to a barracks. Have your
    other squad grab the bazooka, and go around the corner to the sniper's
    blind side. Toss a grenade into the building and it should flush him out.
    
02. Once you take care of the sniper threat, reinforce your squads and grab
    the bazookas lying on the ground. Rifle squads with bazookas are almost
    as deadly as the rangers, if not deadlier (since they can use sticky bombs
    on top of the bazookas).
    
03. Assault the town center. This can be done using grenades against the MG42
    crews. Once the MG42 is down, the rest of the german troops will fall back
    and the area will be secured. Bring in all your units to the center of the
    town hall. Use your tanks to run down the barb wires so you can build
    there. There is a big open area behind the town hall, so build your
    support buildings there, while your barracks, motor pool, triage and
    tank depot should be up front (if they fit the front, that is).
    
04. Slowly build and inch upwards until you reach the coastal gun. Ignore
    the fuel point on the corner for now, because that area is guarded by
    a panzer from across the channel - it can shoot you, but you cannot shoot
    him back. In addition, there is also an axis artillery lookout officer
    hiding by the sandbags slightly to the north from the fuel point, right
    before the bridge. Easiest way to take him out is to snipe the bastard,
    one shot and one kill.
    
05. Try to focus on getting the rangers early. Once you have access to the
    rangers, build 4 squads of rangers and pack them together. You should
    have tons of munitions available in this mission, so upgrade them with
    Thompson SMGs to increase their effectiveness. 4 squads of rangers can
    rip panzers into pieces in less than 15 seconds if you position them
    carefully. Bring a halftrack and engineer as backup/support for your
    front line troops as you push on forward.
    
06. Once you reach the coastal guns, breach the door with an engineer, and
    wreck the gun inside using your creativity (I used a grenade to get the
    job done). Once the coastal gun is destroyed, you will have artillery
    support from the warships off the coast. Use it wisely.
    
07. Move all your units to the one side of the bridge, and hold the bridge
    from any axis attempts to counterattack. They will attempt to cross and
    assault your position, but they will be sitting ducks in the bridge
    because there is no room to escape. In the meanwhile, have your sniper
    run across the bridge and scout for the area.
    
08. From the sniper's view, launch artillery attacks on the german defenses
    across the bridge. Snipe their AT crews while maintaining distance and
    steatlh. After the area by the bridge is clear, send in the rangers and
    shermans across with engineers and halftrack nearby. Let the rangers
    capture the points, and have the rifle squads/engineers build OPs.
    
09. There's a german outpost on the southern end of the map. Pound it good
    with artillery, then rush it with rangers and shermans to mop up the
    survivors. To the north of the bridge is a German forward motor pool which
    if you capture it, you can build tanks from that building. Up further
    northwest is a demolition station. The demolition station is the medal
    objective, and you only have 2 minutes to destroy the structure. The
    fastest way to drop this building is to rush it with two shermans while
    raining it down artillery fire on the building. The barrage should take
    out most of the defenses, if not the building itself. Rush with the 
    shermans, and have the rangers come in for support. After destroying the
    building, clean up the rest of the area with your rangers and shermans.
    
10. To the northeast is the axis HQ. Slowly make your way there, and using
    the sniper as your scout, rain down more artillery barrage to the area,
    and the HQ will be down in no time at all. Mission accomplished.


Medal Earned: Soldier's Medal