Operation Market Garden

Objectives

• Sabotage Bridge Demolitions Equipment
  • Disable Explosives Plunger
  • Disable Radio Equipment
• Secure Town of Nijmegan
  • Collect Gammon Grenades
  • Knock out Roving Tiger Tank
  • Clear MG Nests (3)
• Clear Resistance and Assemble with Airborne
• Knockout Tiger Tank
• Assemble With Airborne at Bridge Surface
• Clear and Secure Bridge
  • Knockout Tiger Tank

Recommended Weapons

There'll be a fair amount of sniping to be done here, so bring along the Springfield and a close-range weapon. You can select the STG .44 here, which is a fun weapon to use, even if it does have a lot of recoil. You'll be able to trade it in for the BAR that some of your teammates drop in the mission; they're both considered automatic rifles and thus share ammunition.

Skill Drops

There's one near the church steeple, on a platform just outside.

In between the buildings to the south that house two of the MG nests, there's a small plank connecting two of them. Land on the plank.

In the same buildings as above, head to the easternmost building and go upstairs. There's a parachute in the northwestern corner of the building, near a large hole in the wall. Land inside the hole.

On the northern side of the city, near the demolitions equipment, there's a large alleyway leading north. Spot the chute hanging down to the street, and land in the balcony above it.

In a building near the radio equipment, there's one last parachute.

The Drop

Landing on the church steeple will let you snipe away from relative safety.

If you look down below you, you'll see a couple of landing zones: one near the church, and one on the other side of a few destroyed houses. The church landing zone is arguably the easier one to use; if you brought along a Springfield, though, you can try landing near one of the ladders leading up to the church tower, or simply floating through the window, if you're really good, and sniping away from there after killing off the German sniper. You can also just go ahead and land on top of one of the buildings here and snipe from there; should be good to get your skill level with the rifle up a bit.

Eventually, though, you'll have to head down to the ground level here and engage the enemy. It's probably best to start by taking out the enemy tank that roams the streets. In order to do so, though, you'll need Gammon Grenades, which are high-explosive grenades that are the only thing you have that'll be capable of knocking the tank out. In order to find them, though, you'll need to head into the southern buildings here. There are a couple of MG nests that need to be taken out. A few feet from one of them, you'll find a box of explosives; open it to load yourself out with the Gammons. You'll need to litter the tank with around five of them to destroy it, assuming you manage to get them to blow up right nearby it. It can be tough to do, but it moves slowly enough that you should be able to take it out just by chucking the grenades in front of its path.

It's around this point that you might want to start looking around for more ammo for your sniper rifle. You can find a box of it near the church drop zone, if we recall correctly, and some enemies will drop boxes of rifle ammo. You'll need plenty of rounds for the end of the mission.

Completing the Sweep

When the two southern MGs are destroyed, start heading to the northern side of the city. There's another MG set up there, as well as the explosives plunger and radio. Kill the enemies in the area, find the plunger and radio, and shoot them to destroy them.

With that done, return to the center of town and assemble with the airborne. Soon enough, a new Tiger will pop out of a wall nearby. Ruh-roh! Luckily for you, a new box of Gammon grenades will have appeared in between the two ruined houses here. Find them and use them to destroy the tank.

Charge The Bridge

You'll have to use Gammons to take out the tanks here.

The Tiger's appearance has opened up a new passage behind it, leading to a building from which you can access the bridge. The trick is reaching the building; there's an MG set up inside of it, and a lot of Germans in the courtyard below it. You'll need to fight your way through them in order to hit the building.

If you want to play risky, try sprinting straight forward across the gap between the tank and the right side of the building. That'll set you up below the MG and will let you fire on the Germans here from the opposite side of the cover that they're hiding behind. Finish them off, then chuck a cooked grenade through the MG window from below it, then charge up through the building to reach the bridge.

Clearing The Bridge

The bridge is overrun with panzerschrek soldiers, who'll start pounding your convoy as it approaches. If you head to the uppermost level of the building you're in, though, you should be able to get a little elevation on the bridge. Use your Springfield here and start sniping away! Your squadmates will probably advance along the bridge, and that's fine; let them flush out your opponents and act as targets. At maximum zoom, you should be able to see the panzerschrek soldiers in the walkways scattered around the inside structure of the bridge.

Sniping at these panzerschrek soldiers from a long ways away is the best way to approach the bridge.

When you've cleared out everyone you can (including the MG gunner on the left side of the bridge), head down the ramp and keep to the left side. If you move around the MG pillbox, you should find some boxes of rockets, and probably a panzerschrek as well. As you might expect from your objective list, there's a third Tiger Tank at the end of the bridge, and you'll probably need the rockets to destroy it if you've run through most of your Gammon grenades.

Anyway, proceed very slowly down the bridge, sniping anyone that pops up. When you reach the destroyed buses, get an idea on the Tiger's location, chuck your remaining Gammon grenades at it, then finish it off with the panzerschrek. You can lean around the corner of the bus to fire it, if you must, but that'll open you up to fire from the tank itself. You can also climb up to one of the walkways here and fire from behind one of the steel pillars, as well.

When the tank is destroyed, the mission ends.

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