Mission 2 "Battle over Cauquigny" | Campaign "Causeway" CoH: ToV Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

 

Main missions:

• Go to Cauquigny;
• Defend Cauquigny;
• Hold off the second counterattack;
• Hold Chef du Pont;
• Able and Baker teams must survive.

Medal missions:

• Destroy the armour picket.

Wait for your AI-controlled men to cross the bridge and get to Cauquigny on the north. Once they get there, you will receive your first task: defend Cauquigny. You have the two parachute teams from the last mission under your command, additionally a machinegun unit, sappers and a 57mm anti-tank gun.

Perhaps you have some experience points left from the previous mission. You should divide them now to improve your men. I'd suggest investing them in the right side of the tree, improving the recoilless cannon's range, which one of your teams should have.

The Germans will conduct the first strike from the north. In order to get ready for it, you can place the machinegun unit in the building right next to the crossroad and the sappers in the house a little bit further to the south, behind the intersection. As for the parachute teams, place them on both sides of the road - the one on the left (they should be equipped with bazookas or recoilless cannons) should hide behind the wrecked car and the one on the right behind the wall. Don't place the anti-tank cannon in the first line - choose some place in the back, maybe a little to the left. All that's left now is to welcome the incoming Germans - infantry and some armoured vehicles. Your machinegun has the ability to shoot anti-tank bullet for a short period of time - it will pierce through the German armoured guns. Throw grenades at the enemy vehicles (the team on the left should have them) once they recklessly drive closer or you have the chance to approach them with your men. If one of the vehicles manages to break through the first line of defence, it should be destroyed by your hidden anti-tank cannon. The medal mission is not hard to complete, it just requires you to destroy the enemy armoured picket, so get rid of every German vehicle in the area.

After fighting off the first wave there will be a moment of silence which you should use to get ready for the next attack. Push your anti-tank cannon to the centre of the crossroad, your machinegun to the building where the sappers were and as for them - place them in the house on the left side of the road. Those are of course just my ideas - you don't have to follow them if I think you know better. Send the first parachute team to the right wing and hide behind some wrecked car. The second one can stay on their old position. This time the Germans will strike from three directions - from north (as before) and from right and left. Your task is to hold off this second counterattack. Only some German infantry should appear on the right side, so they won't be a problem for the American soldiers. As for the left side, there will be a mortar section and a sniper - use your parachute team (the second one) nearby to dispose of them, use the sappers (if necessary) and shoot the enemy from the cannon. Use the cannon to destroy the German vehicles coming from the north as well. My main advice is to take full advantage of your two parachute units - they should move around the battlefield, going where the enemy is appearing at the moment. Don't move the cannon though; let it stay at the crossroad (behind a wrecked car, if there is one around).

After the second wave ends, you will receive another task - yes, you have to repel another counterattack. I can tell you right now that you won't be able to fight all of them off, as the enemy attack will full force this time, shelling the American positions. However you should defend here until receiving new orders.

Apart from enemy vehicles, deal also with the infantry - it will probably try and take positions in the nearby buildings. Treat them with a shot from the cannon or with an explosive material.

On the right wing the Germans will enter a building - one of the American teams can surprise them by planting an explosive underneath the building and detonating it by pressing the big red button that will appear in the place where the material has been planted. Eventually there will be an order to retreat to the southern part of the dike. A cutscene will play, in which a brave American soldier will try to slow down the incoming Germans and sacrifice himself. It's a pity, but remember that the Able and Baker teams must survive - they're the most important here. The other Americans will retreat south, to Chef du Pont. Don't worry if your anti-tank cannon won't make it - there's another one waiting for you in the south.

As soon as you regain control over your units, begin to organize defence in Chef du Pont - you have to hold it! The new cannon, which you will find before the bridge in the left should be moved backwards again, so it won't be in the first line. Place one machinegun in the building on the right and the second one (if you still have it) behind the wall or the sand bags near the bridge. The parachute teams should also be near the bridge - the first one should hide behind the wrecked car on the road and the second one behind the wall on the right. As for the mortar, place it behind the sand bags, a little bit in the back. You should also have a sapper team - if you have enough time, they can place mines on the bridge, at least the first one Afterwards get them behind a wall. The Germans shouldn't stand a chance against such defence.