Mission 4: Objective XYZ

Objective: Defeat the soldiers at the German Barracks

Ah, Hartsock and you; what a pair. You guys are so good, Mac expects you to clear out an entire village of German soldiers all by your lonesome. Luckily for you, you have a couple of new weapons to use: a Browning automatic rifle, and the redoubtable Garand, star of stage and screen. The Garand is going to be decent for ranged work, with the semi-automatic capability that may save you in close quarters, while the Browning will be your weapon of choice for up-close-and-personal wetwork. You also have grenades.

Your first targets here are going to be a pair of soldiers camping out near a truck. Hartsock can suppress them easily enough, but they'll eventually retreat a bit, forcing you to shift positions. There'll also be a German attempting to flank you from behind the house to your east, so be ready for him with your Browning.

If the soldiers near the truck start to shift position, wrap around the eastern house with Hartsock and position him behind the barrels there. After he suppresses them, he can charge their position and finish them off.

When the initial soldiers have been polished off, more will appear on the main path of the village, including one who'll man a machinegun. We found it easiest to just run across the road with Hartsock trailing behind you rather than attempt to pin any of these guys down; you may get hit, but if you're fast you probably won't, and when you're in the first farmyard across the road, Hartsock will have an excellent firing position from which to take out the two Germans behind the overturned cart in the road.

The Garand is perfectly capable of taking down soldiers at this range, once you steady your aim.

You're next mini-objective will come in the form of a confusing trio of German teams. As you head through the yards of the farmhouses here, you'll eventually come to a stone wall with a gateless gap in it. Across the way are a set of stables; inside there's a single German whom you can probably spot if you zoom in with your Garand. You'll want to kill him with the Garand if possible, as it'll make the upcoming fight a lot easier to manage. Alternately, you can have Hartsock charge in and attempt to take him down, but he'll likely get wounded in the process.

When the German in the stables is out, move Hartsock up to the wooden fence outside the stable, so that he can cover the German fireteam and sniper in the window above. You can then walk through the stables and get an angle on the fireteam, at least; the sniper may require a bit more moving around before you have a line of fire on him. You can also enter the same building as the sniper and take him out at close range, if you prefer.

The last task here is to take out the machinegunner, but he won't be a huge threat to you, since you have such good sightlines on his position. If you wish, you can reach the same room as the sniper and use the alternate window in his room to shoot away at the machinegunner. Both he and one of the members of the fireteam will have dropped an MP40, a decent SMG weapon. It has a larger clip than your Browning, and will be easier to find ammo for, so if you wish to exchange weapons, we won't tell.

Assault the Farm

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Across the way from the machinegun is a larger farm that's thoroughly overrun with Germans. We recommend that you set up Hartsock in position to the right of the truck, so that he has line of sight to each of the many German teams along the path to the southwest. Leaving him there will let him fire on those teams while you skirt around the houses to the north and flank them. There are three individual soldiers in your path, as well as a team of two that you'll have to take down to move on. A well-placed grenade will either kill them both or force them to duck, allowing you to peg them with your automatic weapon.