NEPTUNE – Audouville, France

The next stop on your tour of duty is Audouville, Normandy where, not surprisingly, you’re expected to assist the D-Day landings. Specifically you’re told there is a coastal battery assisted by a radar tower that is preventing the navy from closing in to give the landings artillery support. You’re dropped in a small village at the base of the hill upon which a spotting tower and the radar facility are perched. The added bonus is there is a Tiger tank skulking around the village, lucky for you an M18 Recoiless Rifle was dropped from the plane as well, just in 4 different packages. It’s up to you to run like buggery, find the 4 packages, shoulder the M18 and take out the Tiger. I will say this, I quite liked taking out the tank as I discovered the hard way that you can take out the tank’s tracks so it can’t move but the gun still fires. When you do completely destroy it, you might here an odd sound, that’s the sound of muffled screams and banging on the walls of the flaming wreckage, sort of cool but a tad off-putting.

Once that tank is out of action it’s up to you to charge onwards to take out the radar assembly and clear the spotting tower. Make sure to conserve your grenades for this one, there’s a lot of fighting indoors and the most effective way of surviving is to cook a grenade long enough so it explodes just as you lob it through the door, keep an eye out for enemy grenades though. As you clear the spotting tower and destroy the radar assembly, you then move to clear the central casemate and head out to the beach. The Germans you meet here are all toting STG44 Assault Rifles, pretty scary things. Of course, your job is never done and you’re expected to plough through these enemies and go on to clear two MG Pillboxes firing on the landing beach.