Der Flakturm

Objectives

• Secure Flak Tower
• Destroy Artillery Guns (3)
• Destroy AA Guns (4)
• Eliminate Enemies on Halftracks (3)
• Disable Ammunition Lift Controls on 4th Floor
• Disable Ammunition Lift Controls on 2nd Floor
• Assemble at Main Control Room on 3rd Floor
• Assemble with Engineers in Ammunition Storage
• Escape Flak Tower
• Destroy Flak Tower

Recommended Weapons

This kind of depends on where you want to land. If you ignore our advice and land on the ground safe zone, then you'll want to have a Springfield, as you'll have to engage in some counter-sniping. If you land on the upper levels of the tower, you'll probably want to have the standard close and long-range weapons, like a G43 and a shotgun or something similar.

Skill Drops

On the southeastern side of the tower, between the uppermost roof level and the lower ring around it, there's a small balcony with a chute on it. Land through the doorway to receive your stripes.

If you head to the fourth floor of the interior of the tower, you should be able to spot a doorway leading to the sniper's scaffolding outside. There's a pretty obvious chute here that you need to land on.

That's not something anyone wants to see, really.

The secret entrance! There's a very tough-to-spot window on the northwestern corner of the tower, above one of the markers for one of the halftrack soldiers. The easiest way to find the window is to land on top of the tower and head downwards completing objectives. After destroying the ammo lift controls on the fourth floor, take the ladder in the room downward to the semi-hidden ammo cache room. The walkways on either side of the room will lead you to the window.

On the western side of the tower, in the middle of all the sniper's scaffoldings, you can spot a row of small windows, including one with a chute in it.

This is on the ground floor. If you look from the tower back towards your ground drop zone, it'll be on the second floor of the house on the left.

The Drop

It's best to try and drop on either the roof of the tower here, or on the drop zone on the anti-aircraft ring that's slightly lower than the roof level. Starting at the bottom is possible, but very difficult due to snipers that will pop away at you, making it harder to take out the soldiers on the ground. It's best to land on the very top of the tower and head down from there, if possible.

The western side of the tower has a couple of drop zones. If you do manage to land on the roof, you'll have to quickly start eliminating the Panzerschrek soldiers up here with your long-distance weaponry. They can be difficult to kill without dying, especially since they'll usually be a bit above you and will thus be firing down at you, making it much more likely that you'll take splash damage. They reload and fire surprisingly quickly, as well. Regardless, you need to take them down, so do so, then focus on the rest of the soldiers on the rooftops.

The Artillery

You can destroy the artillery with Gammon grenades if you like.

There are three artillery cannons atop the tower. They can be destroyed either by dropping down into their holes and planting charges on them or by chucking Gammon grenades down onto them from above. You'll probably want to keep your Gammons for the moment, though, so do things the hard way and take them out with charges after clearing the rooms of enemies.

Anti-Aircraft

Next up are the five anti-aircraft turrets that you'll be finding on the exterior ring that's a bit lower down than the rooftop. You should find the western quadrant of the tower to have been destroyed by bombs; that'll make a decent rubble trail you can follow down to the AA ring, which you can then start following around the tower to find the five AA guns that you need to destroy. The first few are pretty easy to take out, as their only defenders are normal soldiers.

Germany was the center of the dystopia….

However, as you make your way around the ring, you'll start to encounter tougher foes, including a few Nazi Storm Elites that will make mincemeat out of you if you don't take them down quickly with Gammon grenades. If you have the BAR or STG44, you can also try to take them out by firing quick bursts into their chests, but if you have to trade fire with an MG44, then you're bound to lose. Just be sure to destroy the AA guns as you proceed around the ring to get the checkpoints; if you die, you can float back down to the safe landing zone on the ring itself and quickly regain your position.

At the end of the ring, you'll be facing two Storm Elites at the same time. When they spawn, it can help to backtrack a bit and go crazy with the Gammons and other grenades. When they do die, you can head up the stairs near the last AA gun to find another box of explosives, which will let you restore all of the grenades that you used up.

Stuck In The Middle

When all of the AA and artillery has been destroyed, make your way to the center of the tower; there should be an open doorway near the landing zone on the AA ring. You'll need to clear out the Germans here, including another Storm Elite, before you can make your way down the steps and towards a loading lift that runs down to the fourth floor. You'll need to call the lift up at the red light here, then use the lift controls in the corner of it to go down.

You'll come out to the fourth floor, where one of the ammo lift control boxes is located. Head to the right after exiting the lift; you should see one of the target markers on your compass that's changed to an up arrow, indicating that it's above you, as indeed it is. Find the stairs here leading up to the control room and start chuckin' some grenades into it. Keep in mind that the Germans can somewhat improbably jump out of the narrow windows in the room, so keep a short-range weapon in hand for that eventuality.

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