Mission 1 - The First Victory | Singleplayer campaign mode Enemy Front Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
You start the single player campaign with an cinematic intro, where you get to meet the protagonist - an American war correspondent Robert Hawkins - and you are introduced to the plot.
At the moment, at which you take control of your character, you are in the part of the barricade complex, which is meant for the wounded. One of the brothers in arms, who is still standing (Kozera) tells you to follow him to continue the battle on the frontline.
After you take several steps, you will reach the covers with the allied soldiers defending behind. Your mission is to lend a hand to them. In order to help them, you need to kill the approaching German soldiers and, at the same time, avoid taking a bullet to the head.
After several moments, you will receive an order to escape. Once that happens, you need to follow your buddy, climb over the wall, by pressing the default jump key, and use the manhole to descend to the sewers and evacuate from the danger zone.
Once you climb down the ladder, you will have to follow your pal who, apart from the knowledge of the city plan, also has the lamp with him. It is best to stick close to him and not go astray, because there is nothing of interest in the side corridors. The only exception is the 1st of the 3 collectibles available in this mission, which is a figurine that you find at the first fork.
After the short walk is over, you will get to the underground encampment of the resistance and start the conversation with your superior officer. You will receive a mission to perform but, before you are on your way, you will still need to approach one of the older soldiers and select the equipment (you will have to choose one of the two primary weapons).
Take the main tunnel here and take several steps ahead to emerge right next to one of tenements. You head towards the gate to reach the German weapon depot, where you collect explosives. Right past the depot, there is an enemy patrol but, at first, they will not notice you. A good idea is to wait until you see planes flying above, which will drown out the noise of the gunfire (a characteristic symbol will appear on the screen), which will allow you to remain unspotted for several seconds more, and eliminate another enemy.
After you have killed all of the Germans on the yard, it is time to walk into the building, adorned with swastikas on all sides, and continue doing your job. At first, you will encounter no enemies in the initial rooms.
Someone must have really been bent on escaping
After you walk past the room full of shelves and cardboard boxes (you can find the 2nd collectible of the 3) you will approach a wall with the hole, which you can hear Germans talking behind. At this point, it is a good idea to throw a stone and distract the enemies above. Then, kill them unawares.
Once you dispose of all the enemies on the upper floor, you need to head towards the end of the corridor and climb down the stairs, to the ground floor. Then, after you exit, you will walk into a square full of Germans.
Fighting all of the soldiers may have grave consequences so, it is recommended that you watch out here and make an extensive use of covers. After you have killed the last Nazi, walk into the next building, where there are several soldiers more (right next to the entrance).
In the room on the upper floor, you will find explosives, which you need to take back to your command. Before you continue along your path, however, you can complete a side mission, i.e. blow up the entire ammo depot.
To cause the explosion, you need to plant explosives inside the building, somewhere on the floor and escape to the yard. The effect can be clearly seen.
This part of the mission can be considered done. It is high time to return to the headquarters. The sewers manhole is out in the yard, in front of the ammo depot, i.e. what's left of it.
After the you return to the officer, you receive more objectives. This time , take the tunnel at the end of the room and, this way, after a while, you will walk out of the sewers, into the ground floor of an unknown building. There are two paths that you can choose from. After you take the stairs, you reach the higher floor.
This place is swarming with the German soldiers. They are both in the corridor and in front of the building entrance. The quick extermination should not be any problem for you, because the soldiers there are turned with their backs at you and, the ones outside cannot enter in any way so, the only thing they can do is shoot through the windows.
After you take the hole in the wall, you will walk into the tunnel with holes that appear in the walls, here and there. Across these holes, you can get into the square, in front of the building. Crossing a hole is your decision and depends only on the adopted tactic.
Follow the marker on the minimap and cross the entire yard to reach a small building. Walk inside, there is nobody inside (at the very beginning, at least). In one of the rooms, on the table, there is the 3rd of the 3 collectibles in this mission.
After you exit, at the other side of the building, you will reach the training yard for the Germans. The circumstances are on your side, because you can eliminate all of them with, literally, one salvo, if you position yourself well.
However, this is not enough. After you kill all of the exercising soldiers, a new wave arrives who dash out of the building, after being alarmed by the gunfire. Also, this will activate the heavy machine gun. As much as the fight with the regular privates is nothing demanding, the encounter with the HMG may result in your death. To kill the operator, you need to put a bullet between his eyes, quickly, or walk around him and shoot him in the back. Either way, after you have eliminated this threat, walk into the neighboring building.
Once inside, you can only cross the door on the right. After you force it open, time will slow down and, as a result, you will gain several additional seconds to kill all of the enemy soldiers within sight.
As you follow the corridor, kill all of the enemy soldiers and, after a while, you will reach a bigger group of them, at the beginning of the prison block. After you win this fight, push ahead, without even peaking into the holding cells, because corpses is all you find there.
At the end of the path, there is a door with an enemy officer behind, and the priest that you are looking for. After you force the door open, just like earlier, time slows down. Your task is to kill the enemy (shooting him on the head would be best) and not to shoot the priest, who is standing next to him.
After you have a conversation with the old man, you receive instructions to return to the HQ. To do that, you need to cross the nearby door and take the nearby manhole. Mission 1 has been completed.