Russian Campaign Two: Not One Step Backwards

Repairing The Wire

Stalingrad: December 8, 1942

Shortly after your adventure with the German HQ, you're going to be sent through the ruined homes of Stalingrad in an attempt to rewire the telephone wires that have been strung between yourself and another unit. They've been cut in multiple places thanks to all the fighting in the area, so you'll have to follow the wire and fix it in six different spots. Luckily for you, the wire itself acts as a kind of automatic walkthrough, as all you need to do to find your next heading is follow the wire.

Immediately after you start the level, you're going to find yourself crossing a street that's covered by MG42s. Cover yourself with a smoke grenade to cross over, then start killing Germans. Be sure to pick up a Gewehr 43 when you spot one lying about; these are semi-automatic rifles with large clips and good stopping power, so they're well-suited to the kind of short and mid-range combat you're going to be facing here.

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Taking out these tanks will require some quick moves on your part.

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Anyway, the name of the game here is urban combat. You'll have to fight your way through a few platoons of Germans before you can get to and repair all six cuts in the cable, and even when you manage that, you're just told to get your butt in gear and go tank hunting, a fitting reward for your hard service. Be sure to pick up the sticky bombs nearby before heading out, as they'll be the only way you have to deal with the tanks.

There are three Panzer II's roaming the streets now, each of which possesses a powerful machinegun and the usually high-damage shell attack. The first will appear just below a set of windows, and fire on your little squad. To approach it safely, you'll have to walk to your left, drop down into the street, then either run across to the other building here, or simply drop a smoke grenade in the street and use it to get close and lay your sticky bombs. One sticky bomb probably won't destroy it, but it will disable it, and allow your teammates to crawl aboard and finish off the inhabitants with grenades.

You should find a set of smoke grenades in the building near this first tank, and they'll be instrumental in allowing you to approach and destroy the final two tanks. Doing so is difficult, since they move around and at least one of them is surrounded by Germans, but if you chuck down smoke grenades all around your target, you should be able to get close enough to do your job.

Railroad Station No. 1

Stalingrad: December 8, 1942

You don't have to kill any of these soldiers...but it's fun.

Well, there's an interesting beginning to this map, as you're chucked into a decrepit pipe and forced to crawl your way to the nearby train station. As you're passing through, you'll have the opportunity to snipe away at the soldiers beneath you, so take any of them out that you wish.

When you reach the train station, you'll be able to refit yourself with ammo, and will then be expected to dive into a nearby trench and lead the charge on another nearby building. There is an MG42 in the upper levels of the building here, so be sure to shoot it out before advancing across open space. When you do, you can cross over to the left side of the building, underneath the MG nest, and start flanking your way up to the other MG and into the building itself. Your goal is to enter the small tower here and clear it out; pave your way with grenades.

After you've taken control of the building, you'll trigger another counterattack by the Germans. As per usual, you don't actually have to take part in this fight if you don't want to. Your best bet for survival is to remain up on the second floor of the building and just run whenever you see a grenade land near you. Germans will try to come up the stairs to get you, but so long as you keep an eye on the stairwell, you should be able to PPsh anyone that comes after you.

Just wait up here while you're being attacked, and you should be able to repel your attacker fairly easily.

After the counterattack is countercounterattacked, it's time to take down another tank! You know the drill by now; get as close as you can with the cover that's available to you (in this case, exit the building as far from the tank as you can get, cross over to the other large building, then run down the wall), chuck a smoke grenade at the tank, then run up with a sticky bomb to take it out for good.

Now for another semi-new feature of Call of Duty 2: after the tank has been destroyed, you'll be given three separate objectives, which you can complete in any order. These three objectives are: clear out the enemy supply dumps, eliminate the enemy forward position, and destroy the MG nest nearby. We preferred to do these in reverse order, i.e. go from C to B to A. After clearing out the supply dumps at B, you should find a sniper rifle on the second floor of the building, overlooking objective A, allowing you to snipe out the soldiers there and finish the level off.