ACTive Gaming Forum - *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*

ACTive Gaming Forum
« *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER* »

Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register.
Dec 15, 2009, 6:22pm

ACTive Gaming Forum :: Mission: Kursk :: Game Tactics :: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*

Author

Topic: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER* (Read 5,193 times)

BBFred
Administrator

member is offline

Joined: May 2004
Posts: 686

*SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Thread Started on Oct 26, 2005, 9:37am »

Here’s a tutorial on how to perform the minefields reconnaissance tasks at the beginning of the first missions both of North and South campaigns:

*WARNING* - THIS IS A SPOILER. Do not read unless you get stuck!

As stated in the briefing, you must use your engineers and reconnaissance squads, or the engineer truck and half-tracks in order to successfully recon the minefield belt. The goal of those objectives is to spot all possible gaps in the minefield belt, and in order to do so you need to push a recon or engineer squad (which can be either on foot or mounted in a half-track), or an engineer vehicle, on those spots. These are the half-tracks mounted troops on which the camera is centered at the beginning of the mission. Note that snipers aren’t eligible to perform this task, neither are armored cars.

Concerning gaps situated in wheat or ploughed fields, the easiest way to carry out your spotting is to skim the outer edge of the minefield, using the minefield warning posts as a guideline. When your troops discover a gap, it will become marked by an objective arrow to remind you of its location.

Some of the gaps are located on the roads leading to the enemy lines. Here again in order to discover whether those roads are mined or not (these minefields are randomly generated) you need to crawl a squad down each road, or drive the half-track they’re loaded in, until the road is checked as clear of mine, or you receive a message (in the upper left corner of your screen) stating the road is mined.

Here are maps of the missions with the general location of all the gaps you can discover. Gaps marked by a red square are located in wheat or ploughed fields, while possible gaps on roadways are marked by red circles:

North Campaign mission 1:

[image]

South Campaign Mission 1:

[image]

You do not have to remove any mine at this stage in order to succeed in your reconnaissance. But once you have a clear picture of where all gaps are and through which you’d like to drive your assault forces to attack the main Russian defensive line, it is advisable to widen that gap by using your engineer half-tracks. Laying down a smoke screen with your mortars in front them, or waiting for patches of rain that’ll decrease considerably the range of enemy weapons, will greatly help your engineers in performing their mine-clearing task. Eventually, once the defensive line is breached, it’s also a good idea to remove all remaining mines so that later on your supply trucks don’t blow up on one while driving back to the rear in order to resupply.

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

jgedemann
Guest

Re: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Reply #1 on Nov 30, 2005, 3:44pm »

Thanks for your support.
But this does not really fit my problem:

I have already sufficient cleared the mines on a field in the north campaign and I have found and well cleared the mines in the south campaign on two roads.
I have done this more than one time.
The objctive arrow does NOT disappear so that I do not get new troops to attac the russian lines. Althoug I cleared the spotted and by the objektive arrow marked corridors the arrows will not disappear after clearing the mines!
And there are no more mines left in the corridor.

What can I do?

With best regards,
Jürgen
jge3demann@aol.com

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

ilija
Guest

Re: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Reply #2 on Nov 30, 2005, 5:40pm »

You will need to find all minefield gaps 5 in the northern campaign and 7 in southern campaign.
Just look on the pictures above in this topic .

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

Ryo
Guest

Re: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Reply #3 on Dec 11, 2005, 11:30am »

Hi,
I've found all minefield and cleared the estern point of first mission (South campaign),in western point I've destroy all russian cannon,HMG....but the objective don't disappear....

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

(GD) Silvio
New Member

member is offline

eight, nein, ten banana

Joined: Mar 2004
Gender: Male

Posts: 22
Location: hmmm

Re: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Reply #4 on Jan 30, 2006, 5:59pm »

Quote:

i have the same problem. i find the mines and clear a corridor end have even broken past the defensive line behind the mine field in the North mission, but cannot continue because the objective arrows won't disappear and i cannot get any reinforcements

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

BBFred
Administrator

member is offline

Joined: May 2004
Posts: 686

Re: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Reply #5 on Jan 30, 2006, 6:19pm »

It means there's another open corridor you haven't identified with your reconnaissance and engineer troops, look for it again using the above map as a guide and you should be able to find it.

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

(GD) Silvio
New Member

member is offline

eight, nein, ten banana

Joined: Mar 2004
Gender: Male

Posts: 22
Location: hmmm

Re: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Reply #6 on Feb 1, 2006, 12:44am »

thanks BBFred. it worked. now if i could capture the prisoners.... :-X

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

Olmsted
Full Member

member is offline

Joined: Sept 2004
Gender: Male

Posts: 118
Location: Virginia, USA

Re: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Reply #7 on Jun 7, 2006, 3:39pm »

Just a bit of advice for future players - when triggering the minefield objectives, I find that you have to use the halftracks with infantry inside of them. Sending recon vehicles or snipers into the gaps will not do the job.

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

foxy
God

member is offline

Blitz em

[msn]

Joined: Mar 2004
Gender: Male

Posts: 1,237
Location: England

Re: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Reply #8 on Jun 9, 2006, 3:06pm »

You just need to use the Inf out from the Halftracks to trigger the mine gap, the halftrack can be back a tad, then get your Inf back in and spur away.

You might lose the lot if you just run in with the HT.

Remember Its the Inf that spot the mines. 8-)

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

Olmsted
Full Member

member is offline

Joined: Sept 2004
Gender: Male

Posts: 118
Location: Virginia, USA

Re: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Reply #9 on Jun 9, 2006, 3:48pm »

I find it a lot easier to avoid casualties just keeping the halftrack moving. I've never lost a halftrack while doing recon on one of the minefields in NM1 or NM2 - and I've replayed those scenarios dozens of times. Infantry are so precious in BK that I do whatever I can to keep them alive.

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

(GD) Silvio
New Member

member is offline

eight, nein, ten banana

Joined: Mar 2004
Gender: Male

Posts: 22
Location: hmmm

Re: *SPOILER* Minefield Recon Tutorial *SPOILER*
« Reply #10 on Jun 9, 2006, 6:45pm »

Quote:

word.

Link to Post - Back to Top IP:

Logged

Click Here To Make This Board Ad-Free

This Board Hosted For FREE By ProBoards
Get Your Own Free Message Boards & Free Forums!