Battlefield 2: Modern Combat - Strategy Guide (Page 02)

Below are the cheat codes, hints and help for Battlefield 2: Modern Combat - Strategy Guide (Page 02).

Boat

2/3/4 boat kills in a row.
50th/100th/200th kill using a boat.
Drive 10km in boats.
100/150/200m Target Hit from boat.
100/300/500m boat journey.


4x4

3/5/10 4x4 kills in a row.
50th/100th/200th kill using a 4x4.
Off road long jump- 10/25/50m.
Drive 10km in 4x4s.


Tank

3/4/5 tank kills in a row.
50th/100th/200th kill using tanks.
Drive 10km in tanks.
No tanks lost in a mission.


Hotswapping

25th/50th/100th hotswap.
1/5/10km hotswap travel.
Swapped through 5 units.


Extra Medals

Kill using every weapon.
Ran over 25/50/100 troops or vehicles to destruction.
5/10/20 vehicles destroyed using Stinger Missles.
Kill 10/20/30 enemies in a row using Grenade Nests.
50/100/250 enemies in total using Grenade Nests.
Kill 10/15/25 enemies in a row using Gun Nests.
Kill 50/100/200 enemies in total using Gun Nests.


Ranks:
In both single player and multiplayer of BF2:MC, there is a system of ranks. 
For completing missions, winning matches, and earning medals, you receive 
stars. With more stars, you rise up in rank. Here is a list of the ranks.
NOTE: You single player and Xbox Live ranks are different from each other.

Private – 0 Stars
Private 1st Class – 6 Stars
Corporal - 12 Stars
Sergeant – 19 Stars
Sergeant 1st Class – 27 Stars
Master Sergeant – 36 Stars
Sergeant Major – 46 Stars
Command Sergeant Major – 57 Stars
Warrant Officer – 69 Stars
Chief Warrant Officer – 82 Stars
2nd Lieutenant – 96 Stars
1st Lieutenant – 112 Stars
Captain – 128 Stars
Major – 145 Stars
Lieutenant Colonel – 163 Stars
Colonel – 182 Stars
Brigadier General – 203 Stars
Major General – 224 Stars
Lieutenant General – 246 Stars
General – 269 Stars




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2.05 Single Player Basics
The single player game of BF2: MC is a very different game on its own. This is 
the first real single player campaign ever implemented in the battlefield 
series. Due to that, there are many things that are new and different in this 
mode. The story is basically a fictitious war between the US-led UN forces and 
the Chinese forces in Kazakhstan. There is a lot of propaganda involved and 
you play on both sides of the conflict in various objective oriented missions. 
You must get familiar with some of the basic implementations of the campaign 
to effectively play it. Here are a few basics and HUD descriptions:

* Hotswapping – Hotswapping is probably the most innovative and fun new 
feature of BF2: MC that makes it different from other shooters. It allows you 
to switch to any other allied soldier on the battlefield at any time on the 
fly. Each allied soldier will be marked by a circle with a symbol in it over 
their head. That symbol will depend on what kit they are. To hotswap, look for 
the soldier you want to swap with and face him. Make sure you can physically 
see the soldier or vehicle he is piloting (ever if he is far away), there 
cannot be any buildings, mountains, etc. (with the exception of foliage) 
blocking your view to him. Then press Y and you will instantly swap to his 
point of view and control him.

* Enhancements – BF2: MC has an enhancement system with the campaign. These 
enhancements include agility, increased health, increased rate of fire and 
more. All of these enhancements are temporary and don’t last forever. There 
is an enhancement dial around the minimap in the upper right hand corner of 
your HUD. To get enhancements, you must continually kill enemy troops and 
hotswap to fill the dial. The dial is separated into five parts. Every time 
you fill a part, you get an enhancement. If you fill all five parts, you 
become invincible for a short period of time. If you don’t make kills or 
hotswap for some time, your enhancement dial drops slowly for each second 
without action on your part. 

* Battlefield Dial – this multipurpose dial is located under the minimap of 
your HUD. The outside circle of this dial tells you battlefield statistics 
in a rough simple way. In other words, it tells you who is in control. Blue 
means allied forces and red means enemy forces. If the top half of the circle
is red and the bottom half is blue then there is an equal amount of allied 
and enemy troops. If the whole circle is blue, then you have an allied 
victory. If it all red, then it is an enemy victory. This portion is also in 
the multiplayer part of BF2: MC. The inner portion of the battlefield dial is
 unique to single-player. It acts as a subobjective marker. It will be 
divided into as many parts as there are subobjectives, and each time you 
finish one, a part will fill in. This is something that can be checked to see
how much more you have to go in an objective. Also when there is a timed 
objective, or any timer at that in the campaign, it is located here. Other 
than that, missions are fairly simple. You will begin with a group of 
soldiers assigned to the mission. You keep fightingenemies and complete 
objectives, and as your numbers grow thin, most of the time new soldiers will 
drop in to aid you. Sometimes though enemy forces work the same way, getting 
dropped in or also spawning behind alleys or on top of buildings. It is also 
essential that you listen to your allies radio chatter during combat, because 
they give valuable information such as enemy positions, objective information, 
and more. Keep in mind that in this guide there are some mild “spoilers” but 
it wont ruin the game too much for that there isn’t too much of a plot going 
on. Now here is the walkthrough of
BF2: MC’s single player campaign:


NATO Tier 1:
NATO is a conglomerate of the US and the EU. Some missions are EU with EU 
weapons and some are vice versa with the US. This tier is rather simple, being 
the first one. It takes place in a Kazakh city, during a snowy night. You will 
be familiar with the settings by the third mission, as you will with every game 
tier’s last mission. This is kind of a training tier, so have fun and get to 
learn the game here. There is no real pattern between missions, except that 
you are defending something. You will be able to drive humvees in this tier, 
and snipe.

2.1
Mission 1: In and Out
Difficulty: Very Easy
Length: Short
Main Objectives: + Rendezvous with Allied Artillery Unit
                 + Get to the Refinery
                 + Secure the Refinery

In this mission, you are to rescue an allied unit trapped in a city oil 
refinery. You start by going to rendezvous with an allied tank unit for use. 
Then you proceed to clear the refinery. The mission is clear. You must move 
in, neutralize all hostiles, and clear the area for extraction. This mission 
is relatively simple because it is the first mission. 

- Objective 1: Rendezvous with the allied artillery unit
You begin as a Spec Ops soldier paradropping from the dark sky. You will land 
at a city square. A Chinese jeep will quickly zoom by and head towards the 
right direction. Go north toward a large opening between two large buildings. 
Make a right at the north opening of the square, and then make your first 
left. Continue down the road. You will be met by several Chinese assault 
soldiers eventually at a monument on your left. Kill all of them using your 
SMG. Then you should make a right onto a long street with a hill at the end 
of it. Watch for enemy positions, and flanking threats. Use a special ops 
soldier to best complete this portion and neutralize all foot soldiers. At the 
end of the street, you will meet a pair of tanks that are battle ready. You 
will receive the sub-objective, Destroy enemy armor before rendezvous. 
Continue forward and look for a pair of engineers standing on rooftops 
adjacent to the armor’s position. Hotswap to one of the engineers on the 
rooftops and pull out their rocket launcher and neutralize the two tanks. 

- Objective 2: Get to the refinery
Once the tanks are gone, you will get this objective. You now get an allied 
tank to use. You can hotswap to it if you wish. You must now head back the way 
you came down this street but keep going straight. Now enemy soldiers will 
spawn on the rooftops and a single helicopter will fly to your position. You 
can avoid the helo for now. You will also get flanked by jeeps and other foot 
soldiers. The key is to have an open eye and keep checking for red diamonds. 
Eliminate the threatsand move forward. Fight down the road, and don’t forget 
to bring the two antitank soldiers along. You will soon get a subobjective; 
Blow the barricade. Just keep traveling down the road. By the time you reach 
the end of this road, you will be at the refinery. There is a single tank 
waiting at the refinery square. Take it outwith the antitank soldiers. Once 
you do this, you will get the objective; Secure the refinery.

- Objective 3: Secure the Refinery
You will have to fight several enemy units, both infantry and vehicles at 
the refinery. They will be in gun nests, jeeps, and on rooftops. Keep killing 
them all. Kill the ones in the nests and then use the nests to your advantage. 
At this point, enemy troops will continue spawning from the rooftops, and will 
be dropped in by air via helo. You have to keep your eyes open and stay alert 
to destroy all of the hostiles. You will have to deal with an attack 
helicopter eventually, but with your engineers and gun nests, you can make 
short work of it. You can hotswap to the new engineer on top of the refinery 
to aid you for easy kills quickly before he dies. By the end, many hostile 
assault soldiers will spawn on the refinery rooftops. Swap to a spec ops 
trooper and mop up these new threats. Then once the area is clear of hostiles, 
you will get the message “Area Secure” and the mission will end.


2.2
Mission 2: Radio Silence
Difficulty: Easy
Length: Short
Main Objectives: + Defend first upload site
                 + Defend second upload site
                 + Defend third upload site
                 + Escape to the evacuation site 

In this mission, you are assigned on an electronics sabotage mission. You have 
to protect a technician who is setting up a virus on the Chinese battle 
network at three upload sites. Ha you would expect the Chinese to be doing 
these kinds of missions with their expert hackers, but whatever. You don’t 
actually see the technician, but you will be defending positions that he is 
“in”.

- Objective 1: Defend the first upload site
You begin as an assault soldier standing at an edge of a hill with a humvee on 
it. First walk up to the humvee and jump inside. Then you will get the 
subobjective; Drive to the first upload site. Drive over the hill to see 
another humvee filled with allied soldiers. Just follow them to and merge onto 
the road and drive someways to reach the first upload site. The site is in the 
middle of a simple street with some alleyways on both sides and high 
buildings. The best thing to do is switch to the 50 cal gun on the humvee. 
You will get the object; Defend the first upload site. Now some enemy infantry 
will come from the alleyways at a slow rate. Just watch all the alleys on 
both sides of the street and mop up guys who come through. Be careful about 
hurting teammates when manning the 50 cal though, because they tend to get in 
your way. Also watch the windows and rooftops for enemies too. Soon enough, an 
enemy jeep will come riding through. You can destroy it fast with your 50 cal. 
After the timer runs out, the objective ends. And you will get the new 
subobjective; drive to the second upload site.

- Objective 2: Defend the second upload site
Now you will have to drive to the second upload site. Get back into the 
drivers seat of the humvee. In case the humvee leaves you, follow the 
objective market on foot, which isn’t a long walk. Back up out of the street 
and follow the objective marker. Use your minimap to maneuver through the 
buildings to find your way to the objective. Finally, you will reach it. It 
is a courtyard. You may remember it as the drop site of the first mission. 
You will set up a position with your allies over the courtyard. You will get 
the objective; Defend the second upload site. You can use the 50 cal, but 
there will be many enemies so you have to keep hotswapping. There is an 
engineer in a window on a building. You can hotswap to him and use his 
shotgun to fight the enemies. They will come from the corners, alleys and 
there will also be some on the rooftops. Keep hotswapping from soldier to 
soldier to take down all of the bad guys. An allied jeep will come as 
reinforcements if you take too many losses here. Soon enough, even an enemy 
jeep will arrive, but you can take him out using the engineer’s rocket 
launcher. You will eventually end up swarmed by enemy infantry. The engineer 
is the best way to go but if you are an assault soldier you must keep on your 
feet and always keep firing. After the timer runs out, you will receive the 
next objective. Clear remaining hostiles and then proceed.

- Objective 3: Defend the third upload site
Now, once you get the objective, you must head back down to the intersection. 
Hotswap to the humvee to get there quicker. This is by far the hardest upload 
site. It is at an intersection with many buildings lining it, including a high 
rise. After you get the subobjective; defend area until upload complete, you 
will get attacked. If you got the humvee from the last upload site here, you 
can try to use its 50 cal but there are engineers in the windows that can 
blast your FAV to smithereens. You can many allied troops from assault 
soldiers on the ground to engineers on the rooftops. Watch the high rise 
building. There will come a soldier on top of it. Also at the dead end of 
the street, enemies will pour from behind the buildings. Jeeps will also 
assault you from the sides. Switch to the engineer on the rooftop to kill 
surrounding enemies with his shotgun and dismantle jeeps with his rocket 
launcher. Soon enough, a helicopter will come to drop off a few soldiers. 
It is best to shoot them out of the sky using an assault soldier or the 50 
cal. Another humvee will arrive for use then. You should switch to its 50 
cal to mop up remaining forces, and watch for engineers (who shouldn’t be as 
common now). Try to wipe out the helo from the sky as well, or else you will 
be bombarded back to the stone age. Once the timer runs out, you get the next 
objective.

- Objective 4: Escape to the evacuation site
Now you will receive the final objective for this mission. Now you may have 
some enemies still on your hands to deal with. Its up to you to decide whether 
you want to fight or not. Two humvees arrive eventually. Get in one and drive 
over the hill to the little outpost outside the town where the objective is 
at. Once you reach there, the objective and the mission will end.


2.3
Mission 3: Headshot
Difficulty: Moderate
Length: Short
Main Objectives: + Defend the school from all enemies

In this mission, you play as snipers that have to defend a school during peace 
negotiations. This mission is cake for any good snipers, but if you aren’t a 
bright one, this could get a little tough. The enemy snipers suck, because 
they stand still and miss frequently, but there can get to be many of them.

- Objective 1: Defend the school from all enemies
You begin as a sniper or a building with a billboard on it. If you see your 
surroundings, there are 2 other snipers situated on nearby buildings. Begin 
by neutralizing all hostiles on the building across the street. Immediately 
hotswap to the other snipers and take out other foes with them. The AI sniping 
sucks, as I stated above. This is good for you when you get in sniping duels,
but it sucks when your allies fight the same crappy way so you have to 
continually hotswap. The enemy snipers keep popping out from nowhere, mostly 
on rooftops. The trick is to listen for sniping shots. They are probably 
either enemies missing shots, or allies missing shots. Also check the windows 
of the buildings too. The sniper on the far left will be the best for 
fighting enemies on the ground. The middle sniper will be best for fighting 
foes in the groves at the back. The far right sniper is best to fight the 
higher up enemies, for he is at the highest elevation. Use this tip to your 
advantage. Eventually, many troops will come from the ground, and shoot up 
at you with assault rifles; you want to deal with them quickly, for that they 
can be significantly more dangerous than the enemy snipers. Also, watch for 
the jeeps that patrol the streets. If you are skilled enough, you can kill the 
driver and gunner of the jeeps with some precision shots. Also a helicopter 
will come to drop off some enemy units. There isn’t anything you can do 
against it at this point so just avoid it whenever possible. Also there can 
be a problem of not being able to find your enemies. The trick is again to 
listen, and use your forward observer and watch for red diamonds. This mission 
is not about fighting overwhelming odds of enemies, but to quickly spot and 
kill enemies, one by one. New enemies don’t pop up until the existing ones get 
dropped. Keep this in mind when fighting. Also as the left sniper you must 
watch for enemies spawning on the building next to you. If you fall while 
sniping as any of the snipers (try not to, but sometimes it just happens but 
you’ll have to take some damage for it), just find an entrance to the building 
you fell from and take the stairs up. There is a set of stairs in all three 
buildings. If you do fall, you will get an objective to get back to your post, 
so do just that and there will be no problems. Only near the end of the 
mission you get attacked by many, many foes. When they all die, and the sector 
is clear, the objective, and the mission, will end, and you will be treated 
to a nice cinematic.


China Tier 1:
This tier introduces you to the People’s Republic of China. They are not much 
different from the NATO armies, except for the different accepts (ugh). The 
missions here all take place in a rainy jungle setting at night, including a 
beach, island, and offshore oil rig. You will have a chance to use helicopters 
and patrol boats here. There are a lot of demolitions involved as well. Still 
a bit simple, but the missions here are a bit long compared to the first tier 
of NATO.

2.4
Mission 4: Submerged
Difficulty: Moderate
Length: Long
Main Objectives: + Destroy first defensive bunker
                 + Destroy second defensive bunker
                 + Destroy first submarine
                 + Destroy second submarine
                 + Destroy third submarine

In this mission, you are on a sabotage mission, to demolish some NATO 
submarines. Before you can do that, you must destroy a couple of 
defensive bunkers that the enemy has. This mission is rather long and has 
several parts to it. It can also be tricky. You get the first two objectives
at the same time, and the last three at the same time.

- Objective 1: Destroy first defensive bunker
You begin the mission paradropping from high in the sky. From your elevation, 
you can see the whole first island. Take advantage of this and snipe out as 
many enemy soldiers on the ground as you can. If you work fast enough, you 
can clear out most of the enemies before even landing. You will touch down at 
a grove of trees a little ways from a camp. You will have many assault 
soldiers and some engineers as well. You will find many enemy soldiers in the 
camp and there is a sniper posted in the tower in the middle of the map. The 
objective bunker is on your left. It is situated around a large rock. Watch 
out when you try to enter for there are two manned 50 cals guarding the 
entrance (unless you killed them while paradropping). Just drop them with an 
assault rifle and proceed to use your demolitions. To use, go into the 
designated spot and hold A when it tells you to. Hold until the timer runs 
out. Then it will tell you to clear the area. Move as far away from the bunker 
as possible and make sure all allies are far away as well. It will blow up 
after 5 seconds. Once the bunker is gone, you will receive your next 
objective.

- Objective 2: Destroy second defensive bunker
Now you must head down to the far end of the island. Try to keep away from the 
riverbank because of patrolling boats. You can hotswap to an engineer though 
and blow them up if you want to. You must now head straight and drop down to 
the road. You will get attacked by several enemies both infantry and in jeeps. 
This part is can be tough. Your best bet is to flank with an engineer, or use 
a 50 cal at the drop. You must quickly deal with all of the enemies and keep 
watching the river. Once the area is secure, you have two options. You can 
either assault the bunker by land or you can assault it by sea. I personally 
think that the sea route can be a bit easier, but it’s your pick. Keep in 
mind that you have to be good with a grenade launcher to go by river. If you 
decide to go by boat, hop in one at the docks to your left. Make sure the 
river is clear of hostile boats before you do this. Drive the boat downriver 
till you get close to the objective marker (the bunker). Then switch to the 
grenade launcher on the boat and begin to fire. There are LOTS of enemies 
there. So try to rack up many kills so you can get some enhancements. Also 
there will be an enemy boat that will assault you. Take that out as well. 
Once it is clear, switch back to driving and land ashore. Then go into the 
bunker and repeat the same the same process as before. If you want to attack 
by land, continue down the road. If you spared a humvee from your last 
firefight, you can use that to travel, but you don’t have to. One you reach 
the forest right outside the bunker, you will get attacked by the same LOTS 
of foes. This will be a very intense firefight. It will be very difficult to 
kill them all with one soldier’s gun. Keep hotswapping and try to flank if 
possible. You might take lots of losses but you will get reinforced. You can 
try to get to the 50 cal and use it if you want. Nevertheless, once it is 
clear, enter the bunker and repeat the aforesaid process to blow it up. Once 
the bunker is gone, you will get the next objective.

- Objective 3: Destroy first submarine
Continue down the path once you get the objectives. You will see a harbor 
gate. This is the entrance to the docks compound. Approach with caution. 
The gate is guarded by a few infantry soldiers, two snipers in towers, and 
two patrolling humvees. Don’t get too close with any soldier or you will
be torn apart by enemy fire. This part can get very tricky, and if you took 
too much losses from the past parts of this level, you could fail the mission 
here itself. My suggestion is to work from right to left. Approach the 
compound wall from the river bank. Use the scattered cargo boxes as cover 
and slowly work your way to the harbor gate. Be careful for there are 50 cal 
emplacements by the gate. Use an assault soldier to kill ground troops 
and the dual snipers in the towers. Use an engineer to destroy the humvees. 
Once the area is clear, enter the gate. You will now be in a large courtyard 
at a docks area. Take a right, even though your objectives point you to go 
left. You must scour the area for enemies hiding behind boxes. Follow your 
teammates for the best results. You must work your way around the large 
warehouse through a maze of cargo boxes. Around the first curve, you will 
find 3 infantry soldiers and a 50 cal. Dispose of them quickly. Keep 
continuing until you see the sea (lol). Now hotswap to the engineer who is 
standing on the offshore docks bridge.Use his shotgun to try and kill all 
enemy soldiers on the docks bridge network,or he might get killed while 
trying to place the bomb. When it seems clear, make your way toward one of 
the large submarines (and one of your objectives). Get on top of it using the 
ramp and go to the fin. Plant the bomb like you did before in the marked 
area. Then quickly run off of the submarine back onto the bridge network. 
After the sub is gone, you can go to the next objective.

- Objective 4: Destroy second submarine
This one is easy. The sub is located in the same docks bridge network (The one 
that you did not destroy before). Just make your way there with a soldier, or
hotswap to the patrol boat and use it to board the sub, demo it, and then get 
off. Either way, when the second sub is destroyed, you will receive the next 
objective.

- Objective 5: destroy third submarine
Now get all of your men back ashore. Continue towards the objective marker 
towards the large building on the right. As you approach the small entrance, 
a bunch of enemy soldiers will pop out and attack. Kill them all and then 
proceed into the submarine pen. This pen is crawling with hostiles. It is a 
series of catwalks over two levels. Use anassault soldier to kill all of the 
enemies in the area. Make sure you even clear the upper catwalks as well. This 
part is pretty simple providing you have enough men. Watch for soldiers coming 
down the stairs at every point. Once it is clear, use the cross catwalk on
the first level to get to the submarine. Once you are on it, plant the bomb in 
the designated area. Once planted, clear the sub. When it blows, the objective 
and the mission ends (phew!).

2.5
Mission 5: Metal Island
Difficulty: Moderate
Length: Short
Main Objectives: + Defend the oil rig
                 + Defend the Island
                 + Second Defense of oil rig
                 + Defend oil rig and island
                 + Defeat the counter-attack

This mission is a simple, defend areas mission. There is a fortified island 
and an offshore oil rig. Both are roughly the same size and get attacked by 
many enemies. There are no vehicles (except a boat) to pilot in this mission.

- Objective 1: Defend the oil rig
You begin this mission standing on the oil rig. The radio chatter states 
that there are no sightings of enemies. Right now, start to prepare. The 
enemies aregoing to come from the sky. Hotswap to an assault soldier and 
look up at the sky.When the guy says, “Look it’s a vertical assault!” a 
crap load of hostiles will paradrop from the sky. Try to kill as many of 
them as you can while they are coming down. Now you will be in an intense 
firefight for a long time. This partcan get tricky but it can be quite 
simple. Just eliminate all enemies on the rig. Eventually a second wave 
of troops will paradrop, so you have to kill them too. Hopefully when 
they arrive you would have killed the entire first wave. Luckily a wave 
of reinforcements will drop soon after that, so you can relieve yourself.
Once the rig is secure, you will get the message “rig secure” and the next
objective.

- Objective 2: Defend the island
Now quickly hotswap over to the island, for it is under attack as well. There 
arealso soldiers paradropping there. This attack will be more spread out than 
before so itwill be easier. Again, try to take as many enemies out as 
possible while they are still airborne. The island is divided into two parts. 
The fortified area and the natural area. The natural area will have slightly 
more troops in it. You will get a wave of reinforcements paradropped to the 
island soon, so switch to an assault soldier that is dropping and try to 
neutralize as many as possible. At the end, it is just a search and destroy 
mission to go and seek out all remaining enemies on the island. Once it is 
clear, you will get the message “island safe” and the next objective.

- Objective 3: Second defense of oil rig
Once again, the oil rig is under attack. Hotswap back to it. Another crap load 
of enemies will paradrop from the sky. This part is considerably more tough 
than the first. Be careful and watch your back, sides and above and below you 
in addition to your front. Just keep hotswapping and killing or clearing out 
men with your own gun. Use the 50 cals on the upper decks for some extra 
firepower. Eventually, a helicopter will come and drop some more enemies and 
attack. You can use the stinger site on the upper deck to destroy the helo. 
Also a hostile patrol boat will attack near the end. Use your allied patrol 
boat now in the water to take it out. Once you eliminate all enemies, you 
will get the next objective.

- Objective 4: Defend oil rig and island
This next part takes a mix of hotswapping, and skill to finish. You will have 
to defend both the oil rig and the island at the same time, so you have to 
constantly hotswap between them. A helicopter each will come to the rig and 
the island. Use the stingers on both areas to take out the helicopters. Also 
you will be attacked by many paradroppers too. Use your own reinforcement wave 
to your advantage, and snipe out ground soldiers from the air. There will also 
be patrol boats, but they can be wiped out easily by an assault rifle (yes, an 
assault rifle!). Scour both areas for last minute enemies to kill. Once all
hostiles are killed, you will get the message “all areas secure” and the
final objective.

- Objective 5: Defeat the counter attack
Now you will receive the message “aerial attack incoming”. Now you will get
attacked by 4 helicopters, 2 at a time. This part is really easy. Just use the 
stinger sites to destroy the helicopters. Remember, to use a stinger missile, 
aim at the helo with the crosshairs. Then press and hold the right thumbstick. 
Hold until the lock on is complete. Remember to keep your crosshairs on the 
heloat all times during lock on. The stinger on the rig is located on the 
upper deck by the oil cylinder. The stinger on the island is on a deck on the 
fortified part. The helicopters will drop a few enemy soldiers to kill. Once 
the area is secure, the mission will end.

2.5
Mission 6: Heavy Tonnage
Difficulty: Moderate
Length: Short
Main Objectives: + Investigate the container vessel
                 + Destroy the patrol boats
                 + Destroy first cargo door
                 + Destroy second cargo door
                 + Destroy the cargo

This mission is half aerial, half ground. You are to investigate an 
unidentified ship that is heading towards the oil platform. You get to use the 
helicopter for the first time in this mission.

- Objective 1: Investigate the container vessel
You will start off with a subobjective; Fly to the ship. Pull the right 
thumbstick up to go up into the air. Use the left thumbstick to point the nose
forward or backward, and thus to go forward or backward. When you are in the
skies, fly forward. There is another helo there too (allied). Keep flying over 
the island from the last mission, and you will see two enemy patrol boats.
You will receive the next objective, but this one will not be fulfilled yet.

- Objective 2: Destroy the patrol boats
This will test your helicopter abilities. Now it is very hard to hit these
fast moving boats in the water. The best way to take them out is to constantly
bombard them with your helo’s rockets. You should hit them. There are four 
patrol boats in total, so remove them from the sea and then finish the
objective.

- Objective 3: Destroy first cargo door
Now fly over the large ship. It will first appear like there aren’t any 
enemies inside. Then, all of a sudden, several enemy forces will appear. You 
will get the message; Seven minutes to blast open cargo doors. Objective 1 
then will be cleared. First things first, quickly bombard the ship with 
rockets. Try to kill as many as possible. Be careful for enemy stingers that 
will try and shoot you down. Try to kill them, they are located at the ends 
of the cargo area. After you have bombarded a lot or lost your helo, hotswap 
to an assault soldier that is dropping onto the ship. Drop as many hostiles
as you can from the sky. Once you land, immediately head to one of the ends
of the cargo area. Look for the marked area and plant a demo there. There 
be a 50 cal guarding the area though so be careful. Also watch for enemy 
soldiers that are about. once the demo charge has blown, you will get the 
next objective.

- Objective 4: Destroy second cargo door
Now head to the other end of the cargo area, and repeat the same process as
said before. Beware of enemy soldiers and a 50 cal. This part is really 
simple and quick. Just make sure that you do it before the time expires. 
Try to leave 3-4 minutes left on the timer for the next objective.
When both cargo doors are blown, you will receive the final objective.

- Objective 5: Destroy the cargo
This part is also quite simple. Now that the cargo doors are open, you have 
a clear shot at the cargo. There are two bundles of cargo. You have to hit 
them both with attacks. You can place demolitions on them. There are three
ways of doing this. This first is by using your own grenade launchers as
an assault trooper and keep firing down at the cargo. This will take 
several grenades. but will finish the job. You have to watch yourself 
though from enemy infantry while you do this. the second way is by using the 
grenade launcher emplacement. To get to it, you must got to the left side of
the ship. Then take the complex network of stairs up to the top. At the
right fork up there, there will be a grenade launcher emplacement. Use it to
fire at the cargo. Sometimes it just can’t hit the cargo bundle closest to it.
If that happens, then you have to resort to one of the other tactics. The 
final way is to use a helicopter (provided that you still have one) to 
bombard the cargo. Make sure that this is all done before 7 minutes, or you 
will fail. Either way, once both cargo bundles are gone, the objective and 
the mission will end, leaving you with a cinematic of the ship exploding.


NATO Tier 2:
Ahh, back again as the NATO forces. This tier is actually rather difficult. 
It all takes place on a snowy morning map, which you get to completely see
in one mission. Anyway there are four missions in this tier. You will get
to use the helicopter and tank in this tier. The missions have no pattern.

2.7
Mission 7: Air Traffic Control
Difficulty: Moderate
Length: Medium
Main Objectives: + Clear all enemies from the heliport
                 + Defend against the counter attack

In this mission, you are to retake a heliport that was stolen by Chinese 
forces some time ago. You will be able to pilot many vehicles in this
mission, and it can become quite tough.

- Objective 1: Clear all enemies from the heliport
You begin as a sniper standing on a hill by the north road. Begin by 
sniping all of the infantry at the entrance. There are a few moving 
soldiers so watch out. Make sure to take out the hostiles in the 50 cals.
Soon, when you see the full humvee driving down through the entrance,
hotswap to it. Now you don’t have to do this, but it will be beneficial
later on; drive the humvee down straight into the center of the heliport
drive right up next to the empty helicopter and stop. Get out and jump in 
to the helo and take off. When you are in the sky, you can hotswap back to
an allied soldier on the ground. Now you have a full, fresh helicopter to
use! But remember to do this fast or else the enemy would have already 
gotten into the helos and you will have helos to deal with! There are
two that are landed, so you can try to get both helos if you want, but
that is more difficult and you only need one. As anyone, go ahead and mop 
up the forces in the area. This includes some jeeps and foot soldiers.
If you didn’t get the helos, you might want to take them out first. Use the
tanks to do that. During this battle, loaded humvees will keep driving up
the north road to support you as reinforcements. You will also get support
soldiers to help you. You can use their machine guns to wreak havoc. Make
sure you also clear the warehouse that has the showcased Chinook in it. 
You will also eventually get some allied snipers too on the towers and the
hill overlooking the heliport. When the area is clear, you will get the 
message “heliport captured” and the objective will end.

- Objective 2: Defend against the counter attack
Now this is the hard part. You have to defend against a brutal Chinese 
assault. Set up your two tanks and helo/s (if you have any). First you
will be attacked by THREE helicopters. That is a lot! Start by using your 
own helo/s. Try to at least destroy one or do as much damage as you can.
You probably will lose it, but don’t give it up without a fight. Once
it is gone, or if you never had any, you are forced to use your two tanks.
This can become a very difficult task because the tanks cannot aim up
past a certain point. Just try to stay alive. You can try to use the 50 cals
if you want. Once the helos are gone, you will be assaulted by tanks! Many
tanks! They come from both entrances. Sometimes though the tanks come early
(before the helos are destroyed). So try to destroy the helos fast. The 
difficulty of this part depends on how you did on the first part. If you
did well then, you will have enough firepower now to win, if not, only sheer
luck and skill can save you. If you have the tanks left, immediately unload
on the enemy tanks as they come. they travel in a line so you can take them 
out one by one. If you have helos (which you probably wont), use them to 
bombard the tanks. watch for the flanking tanks as well. If you don’t have
tanks, then wait for them. Some reinforcement tanks will arrive soon so you
can use them. Too bad there aren’t any engineers here… Make sure to use
the snipers to snipe the engineers off of the tops of the tanks, and 
provide distraction. This part is very difficult. Also ground troops will also
attack. Be ready for them. When it is clear, the mission ends.

2.8
Mission 8: Catching Flak
Difficulty: Hard
Length: Long
Main Objectives: + Recon the mid ground
                 + Recon the village
                 + Recon the ravine
                 + Recon the pumping station
                 + Get back to base

This mission is a complete aerial reconnaissance mission. You are pretty much 
always in a helicopter except for a few parts which are optional. This 
mission can take forever to complete. There are many helicopters in the sky in 
this mission. Just make sure you don’t fly any helicopter too close to another, 
especially with the recon copter. There is no set order between objectives. 
You can do it in any order. I am just going to go clockwise from
where you start. It is in this order: mid ground, pumping station, ravine,
village, and then back.

- Objective 1: Recon the mid-ground
First of all, when you begin, go outside the little building you are in and 
jump inside the helicopter. This helicopter is a recon helicopter, which
means it has no weapons (ugh). It must be protected at all costs. If it gets
destroyed, you fail the mission. Go ahead and take off. Fly over the hill and 
to the closest objective on your left. Before getting too close, hotswap to
an attack helicopter that is flying about. Using that, fly over the mid ground
objective area. It should be like ruins. Bombard it with as much rockets as
possible. There are many enemy units there. Execute bombing runs, which are
flybys over a spot where you constantly bombard. Do as many of these as 
possible. There are some tanks inside and engineers. Take them all out with
bombing runs. Make sure to fly decently high and fast or else you might get
shot down. Make sure that the recon copter is also safely away. When the zone 
is clear (make sure it is clear!), hotswap back to the recon copter and recon 
the zone. To do this, fly right on top of the zone and lower you copter’s 
altitude. Then you just wait for 15 seconds when the “recon underway” message
appears. After the recon is finished, proceed to the nest point.

- Objective 2: Recon the pumping station
Now head straight forward to the closest objective in front of you in an 
attack helicopter. The pumping station is a small building enshrouded in
a bunch of trees. There is a group of tanks and ground infantry there
at the beginning. Perform some bombing runs going down to the ravine’s edge 
and back. There are also some SAM sites set up that you have to destroy
you may end up losing a helicopter or two in this part, but don’t give up.
Eventually a group of allied assault soldiers will paradrop in. Hotswap to
them to kill all of the ground infantry that you may have missed in your
bombing runs or that are out of reach. Make sure that the tanks and SAM sites
are disabled before you do this. Once it is mopped up, hotswap back to an
attack helo. A couple of enemy helicopters will attack. Swiftly deal with 
them and then hotswap to the recon helicopter. Now complete the same 
process as above for reconing the site. When the recon is complete, proceed
to the next objective.

- Objective 3: Recon the ravine
Next up is the ravine. It is right next to the pumping station on your right.
You don’t need to use bombing runs much here. Start by flying high to avoid
enemy 50 cals on the ground. They are situated on opposite sides of the 
ravine. There are many of them. Keep the recon helicopter away. When you reach 
the bridge, hotswap to one of the snipers that appear on the bridge. With them,
snipe all of the enemies that are manning the 50 cals and the other scattered 
infantry soldiers. When your sniping is complete, go ahead and do a few bombing 
runs with an attack helo to clear it completely. When it is clear, hotswap to
the recon helo and lower yourself into the ravine. You have to lower yourself
deep in order for the recon to take place. When it is reconed, proceed to the
village.

- Objective 4: Recon the village
The village is directly on your right after you cross the bridge. It appears
empty at first, but as you fly over it a few times, it will swarm with enemy
infantry. This part is rather simple because these guys cannot really kill you
with their weapons unless you are low flying. Just keep executing bombing runs.
Eventually the village will be clear. Watch for enemy helos as well and take 
them out. When it is clear, go ahead and recon it. When it is done, proceed.

- Objective 5: Get back to base
Now you must return to where you started. Move your helos back towards your
objective marker. Forget the city, for there are unnecessary enemies there.
At the helipad, clear all hostiles that have taken up spots there. Watch for 
some enemy helos there as well. When it is clear, you will have to land. To
land, you just do what you do during a recon, except you have to go all the
way to the ground. By the time you land, the mission will end.

2.9
Mission 9: Rolling Thunder
Difficulty: Moderate
Length: Medium
Main Objectives: + Destroy the forces at the farm
                 + Repair allied tanks
                 + Destroy force en route to the heliport
                 + Prevent enemy entering the hangar
                 + Take out forces at the ruins
                 + Destroy the heavy Chinese tanks