Mission 5: Happy Tet Day - p. 1 MoW: Vietnam Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

New objective: Mine the howitzers. [1/3]

You will perform most of this mission with a knife, killing enemies silently. Therefore, after each knife throw, remember to pick it up (holding the Tab key to find it might be helpful). The alarm can be raised by the enemies when their hear some shots, or if one of them shouts near another (for example, after discovering the body of a companion or one of your people). Keep this in mind when planning the next moves. You start in [1]. Immediately after the mission has started, slow down the game and use the sniper to shoot the soldier standing in [2]. The patrol in [3] will hear you, but its leader will only shoot the flare at you and then turn and go away with two other soldiers. Then, crawl quickly to [4] and save the game (you can of course already speed it).

Select one of your men and place him in a short entrance to the trench [4] - in a way shown in the picture below. Your task is to quietly kill two guards patrolling that part of the trenches. You can speed up the game, so they will come there quicker, but you must save it and slow it down before the first gets close to you. When he turns, start to crawl behind him and throw the knife at him - but only when he's just by the right bend of the trench (you can see his body in the picture below). Instantly, go back to [4], and this time, throw a knife at the second guard as soon as you can. With a bit of luck you will eliminate both enemies without making any noise.

Another silent murders are waiting in [5]. Order two soldiers to sneak up there and get their knives ready (as a default weapon). Place your men just like it's shown in the picture below, slow down the game and save it. Choose the first soldier, issue the command of throwing a knife in one of the two hostile guards and quickly select the second soldier, then throw a knife at another guard. You should be able to do this the first time round. After you've killed both guards, sneak up to [6]. There is a first howitzer here. Hold down the X key and click LMB on the howitzer. When one of your men reaches it, an "inventory" of the howitzer will open. Put a red explosive charge inside it.

New objective: Eliminate radio operators, so they can't call in helicopter support.

This time, place both of your men in the entrance to the trench in [7]. They must wait for two guards, who will come from inside the base. Again, the second guard will be following the first at some distance. In addition, you will have to directly (holding down the Ctrl key and using arrow keys) position your men, because the trenches are too small to issue appropriate and exact orders (i.e. orders of a simple move, and not orders of hiding behind cover). When the first guard goes past your men by, order one of them to start crawling behind the enemy and throw a knife at him exactly the moment he approaches a fork in the trench. Select another soldier and wait for the next guard. Don't kill him at once (his death will be noticed by the opponent standing in [8]), do it right in the middle of the oblique passage in the trench. The beginning of the operation is shown in the first image below, and the second one shows how it ends. Remember to collect knives!

You will have no problem with sneaking past the guard in [8] (preferably from the outside of the base) and killing him silently with a knife. Next, go to [9] and crawl under the tent with radio operators (use the rear entrance). They are so busy working that they won't even notice you enter between them. Slow down the game and start throwing knives at both operators, as well as at a soldier standing in front of the tent, if he turns around. You can kill him first, if you like. After eliminating the operators pick up the knives. Your first objective is out of the way.

New objective: Mine the howitzers. [2/3]

Do you remember how you simultaneously killed two soldiers with knives? In [10] it will happen once more. There are two guards having a rest here. Try to make them rest in peace by sneaking from the side. After eliminating the guards, put the second explosive charge in the howitzer nearby.