How can I win the mission "Big Bang"?

[Fred DM]

the problem with this mission is the fact that one of the snipers is the team leader. consequently, you can't order him to hold fire at all.

now, unless you do that switch weapons thing someone suggested above, you have to remain in control of the team leader for the time being.

this means that you have to provide sniper cover yourself. so simply set up your team on the ridge while holding fire. once ready, order everyone to open fire and target the important enemies yourself (the officer, the drivers, everyone that tries to use the radio).

now to teamswitching. only teamswitch once all enemies in the vicinity are dead. this will probably inculde the reinforcements as you might not be able to prevent their arrival.

when all seems clear, teamswitch to your saboteur, enter the camp carefully as there might still be a few soldiers alive, blow the vehicles and get the hell out.

you'll probably not be able to reach the extraction point with your complete team as you can't give orders as the saboteur, and the team won't respond anymore when you switch back to the team leader (the second sniper probably will, but the saboteur won't).

it doesn't matter, though, just reach the chopper and it's all good. i hope that covered everything.

[horrgakx]

I seem to remember (its been a while) that I just got my team leader and saboteur to swap their weapons

How do you swap weapons please guys?

[Fred DM]

I seem to remember (its been a while) that I just got my team leader and saboteur to swap their weapons

How do you swap weapons please guys?

i don't know how Mike did it, but i think there's only one possible approach (correct me if i'm wrong). you can access your inventory (G) and drop everything you have on you.

you do that with both soldiers (as you can teamswitch at any time), then pick up the other guy's weapons and vice versa.

[Mike@Uk]

Yeah that's how I did it, I just told them to drop their weapons in the action menu then picked theirs up and told them to pick up the one I just dropped.

[Fred DM]

Yeah that's how I did it, I just told them to drop their weapons in the action menu then picked theirs up and told them to pick up the one I just dropped.

that's even more elegant, and probably necessary as teamswitching would result in the AI not responding to your commands anymore.

[Ligur]

I had a blast with this, but before the mission started I changed the explosives (group menu) to me, instead of Mr. Spec-Ops.

I crawled on the top of the hill near the wrecked Blackhawk, ordered my prone AI teamies to good cover arc positions with "hold fire" orders, adjusted my spot so as to see the radio and told my friends to open fire & simultaneously shot everyone on my own scope.

The camp was cleared quick but we missed the URAL drivers so I had to shoot them through the windshields as they were trying to drive off. Props to AI teammates on this, the other one was a great help and shot what I think was a full clip on the other URAL. I rushed into the camp with a pistol, killed two OPFOR guys who were hiding behind a building (invisible from the hill to the north) and rigged the explosives. ran away and blew them up.

Whee AI reinforcements time!

I placed the last charge I had to the road leading west of the camp and ordered the AI guys to "stand up" and run post haste north, into some bushes. and go prone again, into a position I hoped had a clear POV to the western gate of the camp.

I blew up the last charge when the reinforcement Ural came in and got into fullblown bulletspammer mode with the M24 and the M9; had a horrible prolonged firefight with them.

Fun note: my AI mates I re-positioned during the last firefight were already on the extraction point by the time the situation escalated very badly and the sniper took down people on the hill to the north of the compound shooting from the EXTRACTION POINT. You should not even see anyone from there? What? Also, same ol' AI ignores terrain bug? Too much shrubbery and trees to really see to that distance? Dunno, he was standing where the helo lands and I was zooming with binocs as he took down at least three OPFOR targets in the camp. Oh well...

Summa summarum: Fun mission.

[BlitzPig_Spectre]

Thanks for the tips, gents.

I did a variation on this that ended oddly.

Armed myself as the saboteur, as mentioned above, from the briefing
screen. Had the 2 snipers hold fire, and laid 3 satchels in the road intersection
in the ville to the east.

Had them come down and open up from the SE and SW corners. I was at
the main gate picking off any runners. Only had 2, and the snipers did
in the rest quite handily. No truck left, but one did move a bit.

Sent them into the camp, and I drove the trucks out singly, and parked them
over the satchels. Detonated, and got objective to hit the chopper.

The Blackhawk hovered over the spot, but all I got was a re-arm icon.
As I ran around the back to try the other side, it boogied off without me.

Just out of the flat, it stayed low, and augered right into a tree and
burst into flame!


I got objective completed, but what a way to end it!

[Joe_1911]

Ordered my Sabeteur and other sniper to go prone, hold fire, and positioned them on ridge facing the base. I myself flanked right towards the base entrance. I shot several soldiers with M24 before I ordered them to open fire. One ural made a dash for it, and I tagged the front wheel of the truck with my M24. Then I moved in close with my M9 and killed the driver and a handful of other soldiers. Ordered sabeteur to place charges, moved everyone clear, blew the urals to hell, and ran.

[mikupoiss]

Finally I figured out best way to complete the mission for me:

I took the silenced assault rifle and equipped both teammates with sniper rifles. Positioned them above the base so that one overlooked the garage area and the other radio and told both to hold fire. Spotted a bunch of opfors and circled to the front gate.

Spotted some more opfors and then... Killed both gate guards lightning fast and ordered snipers to engage. Took out some opfors behind the houses which snipers couldn't see.

Then entered the base and moped up some 2 opfors hiding behind bushes. Planted explosives and ordered snipers to move to the extraction point. I took off also and detonated the charges.

Voila! Done

And I did all this just to die because of the goddamn stupid pilot. Idiot crashed the chopper into the house while trying to take off.

Luckily the mission finished though.

[sdoc]

after trying for ages to get over that bloody 30 cm high fence behind the trucks, in order to place charges, i changed tactic.

before i already gave my saboteur the Dragunov, took the ak74+gp25 myself. to work around the rambo AI kicking in if i switch team.

positioned both snipers, to cover the radio.
then i took out both urals with the gp 25, while the snipers decimated the infantry.