Avalanche

Objectives

• Secure Paestum Ruins
  • Sabotage Fuel Containers (2)
  • Destroy Ammo Cache
• Sabotage Enemy Communications
  • Disable Communications Antenna
  • Disable Communications Radio
• Assemble with 5th Army Demo Team
• Defeat Enemy Ambush
• Assemble with Corporal Kish
• Destroy Hilltop Artillery
  • Ascend to Hilltop Temple

Recommended Weapons

Nothing too crazy going on here. A standard rifle/SMG combo should be fine.

Skill Drops

In the ampitheatre, land on top of the cargo loader.

Near the western drop flare, there's a large column. Land on top of it.

Near the eastern drop flare, look along the aqueduct that lines the road to spot a parachute and land through the opening there.

In the fuel depot where you destroy the fuel reservers, there's a water tower. Land on it.

To the west of the ammo depot that you destroy, there's an easy-to-miss set of stonework excavations. If you stick to the top of it, you can find a parachute. Land through the opening in the ceiling.

Landing

Try to hit one of the two green zones here when landing; you should have enough room to flare or grease the landing to get you up and running. You have two beginning objectives here, with one being some destruction objectives against the fuel and ammo depots to the east and the other being to take out the communications arrays to the west.

As per usual, you can attempt these in any order, but it's probably a bit easier to proceed by heading to the east and taking out the fuel containers first. There's actually a rear entrance to the motor depot where the fuel is being stored; if you head to the green smoke signal nearest the fuel, then head through the small grove with the low stone walls, you can find a hole in the wall and sneak around to the back entrance to the fuel. Kill the enemies and then fire your weapons into the large red fuel canisters to destroy them.

Run out of the ammo dump before you get toasty!

When the two fuel containers are done, you can move on to the ammo cache nearby. Fighting your way into it will be difficult, but if you have a few grenades, you can lighten up the defenses by cooking them and throwing them into the midst of the defenders. This is close quarters combat, so don't bother with ironsights if you're coming around a corner towards an enemy. When you find the explosives marker, attach your bombs to it, then quickly run out of the ammo depot before the whole thing comes down around your head.

Sabotaging the Communications

To the west, you can find the communications arrays. To reach them, you'll need to clear out a nest, then head down into the trenches beneath the building. You can pick up the shotgun on your way, but it might not be the best choice here; you'll probably find it more helpful to stick with a rapid-fire weapon like the MP40 or grenades to clean out the trenches. To each his own, but you will definitely want to keep a distance weapon, like the Springfield, Garand, or G43.

When you clear the trenches, you'll come to the bottom of the large temple here. You'll need to get up into the scaffolding in order to clear out the Germans, but this can be difficult, since they'll be firing on you from above. Hang back behind your teammates here and try to get headshots from a distance on the enemies above you.

You can shoot from the upper level of the scaffolding to get some skill with your sniper rifle.

When you reach the top level of the scaffolding, jump across the gap in the northwestern corner of the building to reach the outside scaffolding, which you can follow around to reach a balcony overlooking the German communications tents below. Snipe away at your foes from up here; this is a great opportunity to get some headshots and earn some experience with the Springfield or your other long-distance weapons. When the coast is clear, turn around and shoot down the communications antenna attached to the top of the building here, then make your way down and find the tent with the radios in it and shoot them as well.

Assemble With Demo Team

After all of the previous objectives are destroyed, you can reassemble with your demolitions team in the ampitheatre nearby. Unfortunately for you, you'll be ambushed as you enter the ampitheatre, with numerous Germans appearing on the upper levels here. If you're interested in surviving, run to the side of the theater here and find one of the small rooms there; you can hide inside and lean out to snipe at your foes.

When the ambush is defeated, move to Kish's position and start the ascent to the temple. The main stairs are covered by an MG; head to your left to find the small ramp that will let you bypass the most dangerous part of the approach. When you reach the last set of stairs, start mowing down your enemies by leaning out from around the corner, flush out the MG gunner, then start making your way to the temple itself.

After you reach the temple, turn to your left to find the 88 millimeter artillery guns that are firing on the beaches. You can't destroy them; instead, you need to shoot the red barrels nearby to set a target light for your planes when they make their bombing run. Unfortunately there's also an AA gun nearby. Find it and destroy it to end the mission.

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