Wow--the Call of Duty 2 firefights are hard! I'm on the intermediate

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

difficulty level, and I find myself crying for my beloved quicksave, LOL!

I'm in the Stalingrad battle, first (Russian) campaign. Still learning my way around the weapons, and trying to figure out the best spot for each type of rifle.

I'm also still figuring out the game's AI... often times I need to advance just a little further, to the next wall or corner so my homeys will come up and help a brother out.

[jayfish]

1. With COD 2...

the best course of action if your are is to push on. In many of the areas, enemies will spawn continuously until you reach the next portion of the script.

Jay

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Yes and no... eventually you do have to push on because of the respawn.

But it seems like some of the tough spots require you to be a little patient and spend some time thinning the Nazi herd before moving on... Some spots, it seems quiet, and the time to move on, but there are still too many enemies hidden who kill you when you do press on. Sometimes it seems like if you wait a bit, a lot of those enemies will come to you, and then it's safer to move on.

I'm currently stuck where I have to "sticky bomb" what I believe is the last tank just before the Stalingrad battle. I just finished defending the train station, now I have to get this tank. I'm on the top floor of the rail station. I've tried leaving the building and approaching the numerous Germans around the tank from behind rail cars and buildings, from ditches, etc. but it's very hard. But my current strategy involves sniping as many Germans as possible from my starting spot in the second story of the station, and then when it's thinned a lot, leave the building towards the tank (before respawn arrivals). Seems a lot better, I'm able to snipe down almost all the soldiers, and then on my first try I smoke grenaded and grenaded around the tank, and was able to reach and sticky bomb the tank (except I got killed right after so I didn't make the next savepoint, arrghh...)

So this seems like an example where the strategy is, stay put and fight like a maniac from cover first, THEN push on before respawns.

Other times, though, it does seem more important to aggressively push on even though there's still Nazis where you're going to, because you get to better cover, or it emboldens your squad mates to come with you, or whatever.

The hard part is, it's not always obvious right away which is the right course of action, until you've been killed at the same spot about 3 dozen times and tried a few different things.

[Steven_S]

2. Sure is easy to get killed....

I seem to get grenaded a lot. A LOT. Most of the time I can get out of the way, but still.

I got a bad save at the top of the silo, with the sniper rifle. Just when I scoped the mortar team to take out, the mortar was already on it's way to the silo - and no way to escape kaboom. Had to do the whole damned level over again.

It's a great game, though - enjoy.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Man, I just got through the middle battle in the Russian campaign, fixed

all the phone lines and blew up those Panzers with the sticky bombs. That was some hard shite!

Now I'm starting to creep around in the pipes to the train station to fight the last big battle of the Russian campaign.

I don't like so much that the game is so linear, but it is very cool.

The scoped Kar98K is sweet! Of course I always must use the German weapons to waste them with, hahaha! I pack the MP40 and the sniper Kar98k. Fine German craftsmanship, I must say!

[DS1]

5. No doubt. I'm going through on Veteran mode

because I'm stubborn like that. After the Rail yard map of Stalingrad you couldn't even see the floor anymore because there was nothing but dead Germans.