British Campaign

After the events of June and July, 1940, in which the French signed an armistice with the Germans, and the Luftwaffe instigated the Battle of Britain, it would be a long five years until the British people finally helped conquer their German foes. Under the leadership of Churchill, the British armed forces fought valiantly on the air, in the skies, and at sea. Call of Duty casts you as a British commando fighting in the months after D-Day, undertaking highly dangerous missions deep within enemy territory.

Mission 1--Operation Pegasus - Night

The cutscene within the glider is rather lengthy, so make a new quicksave as soon as your plane hits the ground, after which you'll find yourself and your teammates overlooking the pillbox which guards the bridge you'll need to capture. Your initial goal is to use your Bren gun to continually strafe the pillbox so that the gunners there duck, which prevents them from firing on your teammates. There isn't a set position for you to do this from, so you'll need to find a good spot from which to fire.

On the harder difficulties, there's a delicate balance between being too far away from the pillbox, and thus being unable to aim accurately, and being too close, which will cause the gunners to chop you in two as soon as they get a lock on you. Keeping in mind that most enemies will fire on the nearest targetable soldier, you'll want to be in a position where you can spot the gunners, while remaining close to your friendlies so that they'll run past you and be the first ones to take fire after you start shooting. A fine location can be found by crawling through the bushes along the eastern side of the road until you run out of shrubbery for cover. From here, fire on the two German soldiers first, then start strafing the pillbox soldiers so that your teammates can get behind the emplacement and kill them.

This is a good spot for opening fire on the pillbox guards.

After the pillbox is taken, the rest of your squadmates will proceed across the bridge to the west and begin eliminating the garrison there. Follow them, but not too closely; let them do the heavy lifting, since they'll all be dying in a few moments anyway. After crossing the bridge, stick close to Captain Price, who'll be crouched near a building to the south of the intersection.

When all of the Germans are dead, a tank begins approaching the bridge from the west. You don't have any way to dispatch it currently, so Price will instruct you to track down Private Mills, who will be able to unlock the flak turret on the eastern side of the bridge so that you can destroy the tank. Mills is off to the north of Captain Price's position, so you'll have to dash across the tank-controlled roadway to reach him.

Mills will immediately cross the bridge after you speak to him, but you shouldn't follow him immediately. Instead, lay prone behind the fence where he was positioned, facing the lantern. A group of almost a dozen Germans will soon be rounding the corner of the fence, firing at you all the while, but if you set up an ambush here, you should be able to eliminate them all without any trouble. If you attempted to follow Mills directly, they would've been firing at your back the whole way, which, combined with the tank's machine gun fire, would've made for a rather sudden increase in your body's lead content.

With the Germans dead, you can finally make your way across the bridge and regroup with Mills near the flak cannon. There is the aforementioned matter of the tank's machine gun to deal with, however. As long as you're moving perpendicular to the tank's front side, it won't be able to hit you very easily, so run as fast as you can towards the bridge, then crouch-move alongside the bridge's north side. The metallic divider here should shield you from the machine gun's fire.

Now, when you reach Mills at the flak cannon, he'll let you access it, so hop aboard with your Use key and immediately begin rotating it around to face the tank. Before firing on the tank, though, you may want to bombard any Germans that have popped up on the southern side of the far bank; you may spot a few muzzle flashes in the darkness. Don't worry about getting shot while shelling the other side of the river; the tank's machine gun will bounce harmlessly off of the flak cannon, as long as you keep it between you and the tank. When you're ready to pop the Panzer, line up your crosshairs with the tank's muzzle flash and blast away. If you miss, rotate the cannon to the left so that you're shielded while the weapon reloads.

One final task awaits you before you can call it a night. Your greatly reduced forces are now required to eliminate the vestiges of the village's German garrison, all of which are situated on the western side of the river. Don't be too hasty to get over there, however; let your teammates take down the first half-dozen targets or so, then make your way carefully across the bridge and kill off the rest. Occasionally the game may get stuck with one enemy remaining; if this occurs, your only option seems to be to reload a previous savegame.

Keep in mind that the next mission will begin loading as soon as all of the Germans are dead, so if you wish to switch out weapons, or pick up extra ammo, you might want to do it before killing the last soldier, or in between the completion of the last objective and the subsequent fade to black.