Soviet Union Campaign

Russian missions

Mission (1) Baptism by fire
Starting. You start off with 4 men. Split them, 2 and 2 and rush them to cover. Because there is a armored car that will dive forward and will kill your guys off. Get 1 guy and throw an AT grenade at it. After it blows, run to the captain up north. You will be briefed by the narrator and then there will be a cut-scene of the captain allowing you to get some of his men to become part of your team. So just put the mouse cursor over soldier and click him.

assaulting. Move ahead to the broken KV-1 tank. But take out the Germans around it. Flank the inital german force near the KV-1 from the right, from there throw grenades over the barn (cook them) to take it out quickly. Start repairing your tank, once repaired crew the tank and take out any gun installation with HE-shells. Take out the german reinforcements with your tank, keep your infantry close to the tank. Once the first german wave is taken out move your force through the village slowly. Make sure your tank will not get blown up by AT-grenades.

Ambush. Once the village is cleared you next objective is to take over the hill and destroy the German collum passing by. Position your troops on the end of the road with the KV-1in the middle, your infantry should lie on the left and ride at the side of the tank in bushes. Once the collum is comming towards you take out armored vehicles first. Pick off the trucks with HE shells if you have time for it. If a group of tanks or infantry is near a fuel truck, blow the fuel truck. It will kill everyone. Your infantry and frontal machinegun of the KV-1 should take care of any infantry. A few Panzer III, F's enter the map. Once you have taken out the majority of the force the enemy will flee and Mission accomplished!

Hints and tips If you are low on HE-shells in the village, look for a Zis-3 Field gun. Take the ammo to replenish HE-shells of the KV-1.

Mission (2) Evacuation
You start off on 34%.
 * 1) Perpetration This mission requires you to defend the factory until it reaches 100%.

Equipment:
 * 2 infantry support tanks
 * Anti-Tank + Anti-Infantry Mines
 * small field guns (47 mm).
 * MG-emplacements, snipers, Anti-tank rifles.
 * T-34.


 * 1) Defend The Germans will come in two directions. The building, and the boiler house.They will come in random directions, so i would not know. After you can't defend any longer, the Germans will come in the same direction. Better if you lose the boiler house to to the Germans, Cause you have the high grounds. Get all the men run and defend and hold the Germans back for about 2% or more. After the Germans move forward with their tanks, retreat to the train. Save the game at 90% (Sorry, that was random) Get a AT guy with a AT rifle and go into a conner where the Germans cannot see you. Shoot their tracks off. No point really trying to blow it up. Eventully, the tanks clog the roads and soon, only men will run through, in which you can take care off.Save the tanks that are at the train. You need to use them wisely, especially the T-34. Its the only well armored tank. Don't face the engine at the roads, the Pazers will shoot for it. After reaching 100%, you will still need to defend the train for at lease a min or less, then, the train will leave, not without a short clip, of Victor getting into the train, but Alexa Gets wounded and falls to the ground...


 * Tips & Hints
 * Use the mines wisely. Things can happen. A mine saved a tank from getting to the train which was beyond my range. And get the mines out. A shell can blow up the crates and u won't get anything.

Mission (3) Pow

 * 1) EscapeYou see the short clip of Alexa escaping the hands of the Germans by luck. A resistance force attacked the camp which held you for less than an hour. After watching the attack, quickly go to the  crates next to you witch have some AT grenades. Then, quickly rush over to the tanks and blow them up. It will cause you to lose a bit of heath but its for the better. Rush over to the resistance forces and recruit some men while you bandage yourself. Get 2 rifle men, 1 mg and 1 smg. Run over to the building with the captured Russians and get the MG and riflemen and suppressive fire on the Germans in the building. Get Alexa into the hallway and unlock the door with the men inside. After getting them out, give them some guns and ammo and shoot the remaining Germans the resistance forces are engaging in and head to the SS building.
 * 2) SS building There are 2 ways to get in. 1, you go by the front door, but you have to go through the MG gunner outside with SS Wallfen guards with cover by the vehicles. Another way in is too use some dynamite. A bomb at the back wall will do the trick. Blow it, and gain easy excess with no dead men.
 * 3) Main entrance Well, i can't tell you really how to do it easily, but i do know how to cheat! You know that oil truck back at the POW building? Get a person, make him drive in front of the MG and he will die. Get another person and throw a AT grenade and toss it at the truck. It will blow up, killing the MG, blowing up other cars and killing more men with fire and chain reactions. Just kill the remaining men and enter the building
 * 4) Back entrance Get the TNT and blow it up. Enter, shot the officer, get 2 men to cover the entrance while Alexa goes to the window to fire down the enemies. Easy as you think it be but its not. You have to exit the building to take down the MG, which recommended that you follow the main entrance tactics by using the oil truck.
 * 5) Finishing off After capturing the SS building, eliminate the remaining retreating guards that ran off. Get more men and head back where your mission started. Because the Germans are going to counter attack and the  remaining resistance forces are going to cover you. Run back down, quickly kill the 4 guards and run to the way point. To escape the Germans.


 * Tips & Hints
 * If you don't kill the 4 guards, the Germans will come in all directions which will make you fight for the exit. So toss a grenade of shot them accurately.

Mission (4) Moscow is behind us*
After the introduction prepare your first defensive line. Bear in mind that every flank (left, right and middle) needs an AT-rifle. You can use the trees to give snipers a high vantage position. It would be wise to send a few men from the left flank all the way up towards the back of a steep hill.
 * 1) Preparation This is a difficult mission of going from defensive, to offensive.

Not long after the first wave infantry and a mortar will appear. If you ordered soldiers of the left flank to secure the small hill on the left you could capture the mortar and walk away with it unscaffed. Later some Flak AA guns will appearer with more infantry. AT rifles should be aimed at the turrets of the AA guns. Panzer E tanks can be taken out by either a grenade/molotov or a sideshot with the AT-rifle (then again the tank will be empty and can be captured by the player. If the game is set on easy/normal a flak 41 will be deployed in the middle. This can be stolen by using the previously captured mortar to decrew it and steal the gun by using a captured half-track. This piece of equipment will prove to be very valuable in the 2nd defensive situation.  After noticing that the men have finished mining, start to draw back. The right flank will be quite clear so you can start moving back to the other side of the river bank. After falling back, there are more things to do. First more tanks will appear on the battlefield make sure the left flank has plenty of AT-guns/rifles. During the battle enemy artillery pieces like the SiG 33 will be introduced. It is vital to take them out. And last, the bridge on the right is a backdoor for the enemy's forces.
 * 1) Defend After the 3mins is up, the Germans will come in half-tracks with men. With the M-37 you could take out the half-tracks. A 2nd option is to use the AT-rifle to take out the machinegunner. This method will provide an empty half-track what can be used for own purposes.
 * 1) Defend part 2
 * 1) Offensive The main forces arrived! 'Lets give the Germans some Russian hospitality!' You are now abled to call in T-34s and KV-1 and KV-2. After calling them in, get the forces to charge back to the other side where you once fought for and push them back. Panzer E's are no match against the KV-1, 2s. The enemy might have reinforced their side with PAK-40's and on hard difficulty Flak 41's.


 * Tips & hints
 * Have you notice that when you call for reinforcement (men) they will run to the place you will ask them to run but they will leave behind the AT riflemen? Take them and move them to the left flank to defend.
 * At the first defensive line use a couple of men of the left flank to ambush a mortar, wich can be used for own purposes.
 * Aim for the gunner of the half-tracks with the AT-rifle soldier. It's like handeling a .50 call sniper without scope.

In this way the halftrack will be spared and can be used for own purposes like reinforceing the line or even steal the flak 41.

Mission (5) The Penal Unit

 * 1) Charge After the short clip of the suicide mission given by the guy that looks like Hilter, Get both squads to charge forward to the MG in the middle. After the other men rush forward and notice there are mines, 7 men will rush back to the starting point, where the commander say they are traitors and shoots them.Now, to take on the MG, you need 1 guy to charge forward and melee him, where another solder will shoot him. Or you can just take a grenade and toss it forward-You can find them in the German's equipment. After taking down the other MG in the right trench, by doing the same way, the commander will say: "Hold on there comrades, help is at hand". There will be back up at there you will charge for hill 262.
 * 2) The left flank/church/middle Not long after the words, 2 M-72 Tanklettes and a few men will rush to your aid. Get them to cross the small pond and blow up the MG on the sandbags and on the hill. After blowing up the MGs, get your men to cross the pond. Attacked the left trench and eliminate the cannon up ahead. Now, you notice that there is a blown up T-34? It might looked wrong, but its only the turret thats broken. Get it to the pond area and get it fix. There is a repair box in the T-72s to you can use it. Quickly get it fix and get a crew on it and head west towards the middle. There is a PAK-40 covered by a fence and a-bit high up trench so it is quite difficult to get a accurate fire on it. Just keep moving the tank until it is faced with death. The men should have reach the Church by now. The T-34 should also have been destroyed. So, take a Grenade and toss it at the MG gunner. And do the same with the Cannon. The Cannon will be also guarded so it is difficult. Either toss a Grenade and shoot the Guards or the other way is too do the same thing but shoot the guards first.
 * 3) Almost there... After Killing the Germans and moving forward, you are at the bottom of the Hill.I think you would be at the side so it would be easier to push back the Germans. Just get the men to rush forward to an area with no Germans. Try to stock up on as much ammo as possible before attempting this. After getting nearer to the Hill, 3 T-34 tanks will come and assist you. You can use the tanks ONLY if you have taken out the PAK-40 on the hill. After reaching the hill, Massacre all the Jerries on the Hill with the Tanks. After taking the hill, there would be a great number on tanks, infantry and cannons move along the road, if only you could use them. Get your remaining men to get into the AA-gun and position the PAK-40s on the road you can from and on the road where the Forces are moving. A StuKa will come and try to destroy the moving column by bombing it and shooting it. You have your AA-gun. So shoot it down! It will cause less life to lost. Get everything finish in 3mins, its going to get difficult.
 * 4) Defend The Germans will come from where you can from that road and the road opposite of the moving column. So get all the cannon and tanks on the roads and just defend the area. There are lots of Germans Will be attacking in groups, mostly in the 15s. Keep defending until the timers stop counting. You will be up against heavy infantry, AA tanks, Pazer IIs and IVs and of course, StuKas. The final clip shows Alexa Survives the mission and the commander has check your report of the pervious missions you have ran away from.


 * Tips & hints
 * Try to stock up as much ammo as possible, cause you will run out faster than you think they do.

Mission (6) The last stand*

 * 1) Preparation You was given the mission to defend Sevastopol. There are 16 men, 1 officer and 1 truck. Recommend that should bring the truck to the first line of the defenses. Split 8 and 8 on the both side of the trenches and get some ammo from the boxes and trucks. Get the at most times, the AP miners first, drop them off at the bridge where they came from. Split them 2 and 2, then mine the road bridge, in case the Germans push you back to far.
 * 2) Defend The Germans, Probably the SS, comes in the first wave on the left. It comes with Dozens of Infantry and Panzer IVs.Don't mind the infantry, it will be easily taken care of by the AI. Get a Ziz 3 and go into DM and fire at the oncoming Panzers that approach from the left and middle. The infantry will take out most of the SS that come along the way, so don't worry too much. 5 mins into the battle, the SS will stop advancing, witch gives you are small break to get some ammo from crates, trucks and corpses. After a minute or 2, they will start attacking from the right. Strengthen the right with the 4 miners, and some Heavy infantry. It is quite difficult to defend for a long time, so use the other Ziz 3 wisely. Fire at the tanks at its track/bottom/sides/front (see the vehicle section) and its other weaknesses. And by the time this happens, the "Evacuation of the wounded, women and children has begun", and this will be a very long mission...
 * 3) Retreat By the time the 3/4th ship has left the docks, you can retreat across the mine field where if possible, leave about 7 men and 1 AT rifle men on the mine field, to delay the SS from attacking. It could hold off the SS for another Ship or at lease have everyone of the men run to the 2nd line of defense. Now you can use the 305mm Coastal gun to fire at the SS. The gun has a 3min reloading time, its very powerful, but it is useless after that. Defend that gun like it is your life, cause if the SS fires their rounds at the barrels of the gun, its useless. Fire the 305mm at Large areas with tanks and SS, most of the time, the SS will walk in a straight line, witch is very easy to take care off. You will lose the right flank(1st defense), so strengthen the area with mines. By now, it is possible to call in T-34/85, but only 5 of them are available. Use 1 on each side, and also call in the AA gun, so you can take out the bombers that comes in.
 * 4) Karl Thor After the 7/8 ship left the dock, 2 Karl Thor will role in from the sides and fire at the 305mm. The only thing possible in taking out the Thors are, you guessed it, the 305mm. so it will take about 7mins to destroy the Thors. The easier one is the one next to the rocks above the Thor, shoot one of the rounds there, it will fall on the Thor, crushing it (Crushing the tank is only if you install the 1.16.4 patch! If you don't have the patch, just shoot it). The longer way of doing it is to get a man and run to the Thor with a AT grenade, and be lucky enough the surrounding troops will not shoot you, witch makes it a 1 in a million chance of actually getting there, and another 1 in a million chance of the grenade hitting it and blowing it up.
 * 5) Ending Upon reaching 12/12 ships out of the dock, shoot at the reminding SS and watch the short clip of Smirnoff getting shot after throwing a AT grenade at a Panzer IV. If you want, you can still play after the mission, but the SS will still come and attack the troops, they will come and come... Don't waste your time!


 * Tips & hints
 * The AA gun is also good in shooting infantry, and it also can split upon impact, and can hit multiple solders all at once.

Part (1)

 * 1) Stealth mission Smirnoff gets reunited with Alexy, and they need Alexy's help. Go to the truck when you start the mission. There should be a timer-TNT, witch goes off later in the second part of the mission. Get all of that, and the mine detector. Get all the men up the hill, run to the mill up north, non of the flares will light up the area. Pick Alexy and run to the right of it where there is the Mortar and MG in the concrete box. Keep snipping at the men and run back as soon they shoot you. Use a grenade to throw at the Cannon and mortar that are there. Once you have taken out the MG gunners and infantry, move your MG gunner to the PB and shoot them down. All the men that heard you shoot, shoot them too. Put the Timer-TNT in the cannon and Mortar, then move to the hill. Be careful, there is a 4MG half-track that patrols the area, so move with cation. If it comes by, get a AT grenade and Be very accurate. Once it rolls by, Throw it a bit to the front of the road, just when it comes by, it goes boom. You only need one shot at this, or it will kill your men. It will probably tip over and only two guys will survive that. Shoot them down and carry on. From here you can now go to two places, one, up the hill, or two, go to the trench next to the mill and kill it.
 * 2) Hill Its just right above the left trench. Move to that wooden PB thing and if you notice, there is a guard there, but there is another MG guard sleeping in there. So cook a grenade and throw him it in there. Move up north and you will fine two Germans sleeping, so just move quietly up the Hummel. Get to the Hummel, if you notice, its an open top. So, oh wait, there is a petrolling group walking around. So trow the grenade in and run all the way to the sleeping guards. The Hummel will expoload and kill the crew, and officer. Shoot any of the patrolling guards on the way down, and don't forget to put a Timer TNT in or next to a cannon/vehicle and go to the minefield.
 * 3) "Mill" trench Just move through slowly, use a grenade to take out the crew of the PAK-40. Shoot off the MG-42 gunners. Move around the Puma that is just sitting there doing nothing.Move and kill off all the men with the silenced pistol and fight off all the other men that tries to come. Move closer to Puma, and drop a Timer-TNT near it. And then run away! Go either do more, or go to the minefield.
 * 4) Minefield Take out the mine detector and start walking till the end off the road. If you find any mines, walk left, then walk right to find all the mines. I don't even know why they had this minefield, your allies did not even use this path. Anyways just walk to the end of the road and your done.

Mission (8) Chasing Shadows
This stealth based mission requires you to save a wounded soldier, infiltrate a base, and get savely to the rendevous point. One of your soldiers is hurt badly and you have to find some medical supplies for him.

Starting Equipment:
 * 2 rifle men
 * 1 machinegunner

The problem is that they have the wrong weapons except 1 of them. First let the German patrol pass you and then crawl your way up from bush to bush to the little “cave”. From there move through the mountain path undetected towards the river. Now here let a 2 men patrol pass your troops. They will look out over the river. Here you can pass in several ways:
 * Wait a very long time until they walk back
 * cook a nice grenade for them and throw it between them.

Make your way to the little hut/ wooden house. From here set the fire mode of your soldiers on return fire and cook a grenade for the men near the fire. Take out the lone soldier near the house and plunder the big green box near the house. There you find your medical supplies for the soldier and a machinegun ^^. Now I mention earlier that some soldiers have the wrong guns. Now one of your soldiers is an experienced machine gunner. I don’t need to explain what gun a machine gunner needs. Head back with your package and just stand near the wounded soldier with you med kit.

Now here a time shift will take place. It is now dark and you have acquired a 4 soldier. Notice you now have 3 rifle men and 1 machine gunner. Move your way towards the wooden house. Instead of crossing the river towards the house move up to the little valley/gap. Where there is a fence. (Before you forget set fire mode on NO FIRE). Now a little shortcut will come about who wants to volunteer and infiltrate the base. Of course your machine gunner is your perfect guy. Now the fence is cut down (in the shortcut). Let your machine gunner crawl. Under no circumstances begin a fire fight. Don’t come to close to the engineer repairing the truck. And pass the 2 talking Germans on the left side. Follow the officer to the grey building where he will do his stuff. There let your machine gunner crawl towards that building (more specific: in the building).

Here another scene will begin and our comrade begins his interrogation. Now let your 3 men squad (lets call it team 1). Move up to the other side of the road towards the campfire. Take out the 2 talking men at the campfire + the patrol towards it (1 guy) as silently (1 grenade) if possible. Let your men take there positions in the bushes near the marker of your objective.

Now after the interrogation you want your machine gunner out of there as save as possible. And you want your whole squad in the plane. Let your machine gunner grenade the 2 guys at the right sandbag (for him). And gun down the left lone soldier. Meanwhile let your team 1 squad blow with grenades the guards near the airplane. Once most of them are dead (near the plane) target the truck (target the barrels) and then let them take cover there at the wreckage. While your machine gunner rushes out of the base towards the wrecked truck. It might still be guarded by infantry you couldn’t target with grenades. Let your machine gunner crawl inch by inch towards the plane. And if he has someone in his iron sight, take him out. Once your squad is near the plane a cinematic scene will start and it is mission accomplished!

Mission (9) Flying Dutchman
Ok here your guys are a bit upgraded. Your objective is to infiltrate the base and capture the submarine. Your side objective is to use the radio to call for reinforcements.

Somehow those 3 riflemen and 1 machine gunner have trained

so dramatically that they are now : - 2 armored SMG - 1 unarmored SMG - 1 sniper

Each of them has a silent gun as side arm. Now the first objective is to knockout the defensive position with the flak 20 mm. Let the sniper take out the searchlight (or the crew). And everybody will focuse on the sniper. So let him take cover. From here let 1 soldier dive in the water and swim to the side of the outpost here he can crawl itself towards the little beach. From there grenade everything with your swimmer. And you have a nice defensive position to retreat to if things get very hot.

Here let your sniper take out the 2nd search light. Now this time a group of angry germans will come toward you to teach you some manners. Its best to let each SMG’er take a rock and defend it with his life. While the sniper will move towards the left side, out of the rockformation towards the little hill. There let him snipe the Germans that are standing still, while you’re SMG’ers will take out the ones running for cover. Ones this massacre is done, loot the bodies. And let the unarmored smg’er take a bazooka. Knockout the machinegun nest. Then move up towards the mobile flak 20 mm (the empty one). And drive this little monster. Now since you have a relative good vehicle that can wreck here every vehicle (except the 50 mm tank), its time to practice your shooting skills. Now knock out the half track first and a swarm of infantry will come towards you. Then another 20 mm flak and an armored car will also pay a visit. Mostly once these vehicles are down the 50 mm will comes toward you. It is better to hide the car now since the 50 mm gun is very painful for your armored vehicle. Try to lay an ambush for this tank and knock the tank out with or a grenade or with the bazooka/panzershreck. If it is repairable (turret) then you have another vehicle at your disposal. But the flak is fine for now. Kill of the remaining Germans that doenst want to come towards you. Now at the corner of the base you see someone welding something on a puma. Try to gently knock the turret out with the flak (if possible). So this vehicle can later server for your own purposes. Knockout the rest of the base and once it is cleared and the vehicles repaired, prepare your men and call for reinforcements. You get some couple of soldiers extra. A convoy will come towards the base. Time for you to set up the ambush. Let the pak 40 (it is stationed right next to the armored car). Take the middle of the road. While the puma will hide itself in the bushes at the road. The armored car (20 mm flak) should guard the other road for incoming half tracks. Now if you have some men left let him take the welder machine and let him carry it towards the submarine. Before you let him carry the welding machine on the submarine save before you do anything with him. I had a couple of times that the welding machine fell in the water, and that was an unpleasant surprise when you just hold of the convoy.

NOTE:Here is a little instruction about how to unlock the door of the submarine.
 * 1 Drag the welding machine all the way until it is standing on the submarine.
 * 2 let the soldier “unman” the welding machine.
 * 3 now press with that soldier on the door (you should see the unlocking icon)

A script will start and he will start welding. While he is welding you are in charge of holding off angry Germans. Once the door is open its time to open the gate. Meanwhile an armored fortress boat is blocking the entrance of the submarine. Lets say this: It is nothing special. Don’t spend lots of ammo/attention to it. Just unlock the gate by pressing a switch at the electrical station (you should also see there the unlocking icon). And move your men towards the sub.

Now the final scene will begin. Enjoy the fireworks! And you have beaten the entire Russian campaign!

Ending
The Russian campaign is the only campaign to have an ending. It is a cutsecene showing 2 guards and 1 officer smashing into the door of a room in Moscow. They came to arrest the commander that was in charge of the taking of Hill 262 (Mission 5) for having a death mission or something. Then, it shows the Reichstang after Berlin's downfall, with much celebration. T-34/85 are at the sides with a huge circle and men watch 2 soldiers dance to the music, while watching flash backs of Victor Smirnoff and Alexey Kuznetsov of their days in WWII. In the end, Victory is written on a piece of metal.

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