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MISSION 14: Autry
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Primary Objective: Destroy the Tiger Ace.

Secondary Objective: None

Medal Objective: Destroy 20 Axis Vehicles.

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Walkthrough
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01. For this mission, I choose the vehicle command so that I can build
    the Pershing heavy tanks. These guys can practically go toe to toe with
    a tiger, but definitely not with the ace.
    
02. Build up your base, and send your rifle squads across the field to the
    right and capture the fuel point here. Bring along your pershing for
    heavy fire support. Leave your sherman back at the base, and build an
    AT gun to help out the sherman in case the Ace decides to rear its ugly
    fact on your base.
    
03. Capture the fuel point, and build a forward barracks here. Send one
    AT tank to this point, and have your engineer build an MG emplacement in
    this area.
    
04. Build a halftrack, and further complete your base. Also train a sniper
    for scouting purposes. The next point we need to capture is the munition
    point right next to your base. This area is heavily defended, and the
    tiger ace will start moving on to your position once you assault this
    point. In other words, get ready for some serious firefight. Your rifle
    squads should take care the infantry carrying panzershrecks, and in
    return they should grab those bazookas ASAP. 3 rifle squads equipped with
    the bazooka, as I mentioned in the previous missions, kick a whole lot
    of panzer ass in this game.
    
05. In order to get the medal, you need to destroy 20 axis vehicles. With two
    pershings roaming around, it is not even that hard. What is hard is to
    keep the ace alive long enough while you go around and hunt for axis
    vehicles to wreck. To do this, have a pershing go bait the ace's heavy
    fire, while having two or three engineer squads nearby to fix and keep
    it alive. And by the way, you don't want to lose your only pershing until
    you can replace it. Otherwise there is no other unit that can take that
    kind of punishment from the tiger ace. The ace usually retreats after
    a certain amount of time, or if it damaged bad enough (10-15% is usually
    enough to make it retreat). 
    
06. The points in this mission are usually heavily defended by the Germans.
    So the tactics to take out the points are somewhat straightforward and
    the same for most of them: Pershing lead the way, supported by rifle
    squads and sherman towing in the back, with engineers keeping the
    Pershing alive. Rotate the pershing to the back if it's halfway damaged.
    
07. Keep in mind that the AI is extremely sloppy with friendly units in front
    of them. So if you have panzers lining on each other, manuever your tank
    so that one of the panzers is between the attacking panzer and your tank.
    That way you only take one shot, while the other panzer with the blocked
    path will end up hurting his own friend's tank.
    
08. Once you have two pershings at hand, you can get away with rushing them
    both forward, wreck havoc, and pull them back to your safe area so your
    engineers can work on them. Have them wreak havoc on the infantries and
    the light armored vehicles. Pull them back when they're getting pounded
    by AT guns and once the ace approaches your position.
    
    
09. Take out 20 vehicles, and take out the tiger ace. You will earn the medal
    if your 20th kill is the ace, but there will be more than 20 vehicles to
    drop in this mission. If you recall the retreat path from the briefing,
    there will be trucks and german halftracks moving down that path which
    are easy pickings for the pershings.


Medal Earned: Legion of Merit