[updated 4 August 2023]
Theater of War Mission Pack: Case Blue
Mission: Convoy
This is a special solo mission. The goal is to destroy all vehicles in three Russian convoys along a frozen river—each convoy better guarded than the last. It is perhaps the easiest of all ToW missions for Germany on General (Hard) difficulty.
The Russian convoys will enter the map at the upper left star symbol and—if you let them—will exit at the lower right star. The area around each star is fortified with bunkers and HMGs, so stay clear of those. The basic strategy is 1) repair the four broken barricades along the river (with pios selected, hover with mouse over each barricade and right click to get the pios to repair it–the ones on the left bank are on roads along the upper/mid portion of the river) so the convoy will be forced to come down the river, 2) scrounge munitions from the four wrecks lying around the map (again, using pios) and also new wrecks you make, 3) lay mines with pios and your 251 on the river, especially at the bottom where the convoys will try to exit, 4) crew the mortar lying in the snow near the bottom-right exit, and use that to shell/sink vehicles coming down the river (though it will tend to shoot behind them if auto-targeting), 5) use your scout car on the rise on the left bank of the river, near the bottom, to spot for the mortar and kill trucks (and as a last resort, to hit Russian tanks from behind), 6) use your panzergren reinforcements (with AT rifles) to spot and weaken vehicles from buildings upstream (but don’t position them so that Russian tank fire aimed at them will destroy barricades), 7) spend your munitions points on AT-related stuff; don’t worry much about Russian infantry, as they will flee once their vehicles are destroyed.
The first convoy of 2 or 3 trucks will be guarded by a T-70. The second will be guarded by a T-34. The third set of trucks will be guarded by a KV-1 plus a KV-8 flamethrower tank. Mines, well spaced, and mortars are always your best bets for killing the tanks. Note that, although you should have enough munitions points, Teller mines are cheaper than Reigel mines and should do the job just as well when placed on the river ice.
This mission should take only 14-15 minutes.
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