Call of Duty 2/Rommel's Last Stand

Armored Car Escape
This mission starts rather abruptly. You, Captain Price, and Private MacGregor is in a building holding off Germans, and you are ordered to get your arse on the MG-42 sitting on the window. Do so, and mow down the incoming Germans. Notice that not only are there numerous fuel barrels for you to blow up, but the railing things on the roof right below you can be knocked off by shooting at it. Also, the crates down there can be shredded. After you've had a little fun, an armored car will approach... not good. Get off the gun and immediately hit the floor away from the window. The darn Germans will start blowing holes in the walls with their sweet armored car's cannon.



After a desperate-sounding radio call, a German will kick the door open. Shoot him and everyone else in the building as you go downstairs. Once you get out of the building, immediately take a right into the alley and go into the building in front of you. From here pick off Germans, and most importantly, the guy insidee the armored car. Captain Price will pull the body out. Stand near the car until the game tells you to press the Use key to get inside, and do so.

You're now in control of the big cannon on the car. Press the Use key again to switch back to your normal weapon, but there's really no need to do that unless the gun is overheated.

Now starts perhaps the only funny bit of the game. Price will start scolding MacGregor about his inability to drive the thing, while the latter returns witty remarks. Anyway, once you're in the car enemies will run toward you, but since the car (like a tank) is completely invulnerable to small arms fire, you can ignore them if you want (shooting them is of course more fun).

This starts a wild ride down the streets of Toujane. Some things to remember:
 * 1) You'll come across a halftrack full of Germans three times during the ride. Ignore the soldiers and just fire at the truck itself a few times, and it will explode, taking everyone in it with it.
 * 2) Small arms fire may not hurt you, but Panzerschreck rockets will. One of the two guys in the car will yell out the positions of soldiers wielding these, and if you don't find and kill them quickly, you will die. In most cases, they're on roofs.
 * 3) The hardest part of this mission is when you flank a tank and three or four Panzerschreck soldiers try to fire at you. It may not seem so in the easier modes, but in Veteran you can be stuck here for a while because they'll all run at you at the same time. In this case, shoot the two guys on the roof first, and take out the others on the ground. Shooting the tank comes last.
 * 4) Always try to face the car's direction of travel. This can be a little disorienting at first, but you'll get used to it.



Don't panic when, after a while, the car runs over a mine and you fall on the ground as if dead. Your character will recover. Kill all the Germans that come to this area, then go through the alleyway to regroup with the rest of the division. Now that you're out of the heart of town, you still have to fight your way to the troop carrier to take you out of here. It's a bit linear, as you're going through a street. One thing to note: if you take too long to get through this street, enemy forces chasing you from behind will catch up and you'll be trapped in a bottleneck. Try to go past this area as fast as possible. Once you reach the truck, Captain Price says "We'll be back for this town...". Remember that.