Company Of Heroes - Mission 5. Montebourg - Invasion of Normandy Campaign

Our objective is to clear and secure the road so that the Red Ball Express can safely pass through. Our very first objective is to assist Dog Company on the near center of the very long, thin map. This means pushing up really quick to clear the courtyard. We have a decent force of armour to start so we ideally want to keep as much of that armour alive through the mission as wek can. Using engineers to repair as well as the Field Repairs promotion will help to keep your tanks at good health. Usually, I go for a quick attack on the Axis base straight away, as we have a strong enough force and are very close anyway. It helps that I already know where the base it. It seems that I didn't clear it out completely as you'll see later on that it gets rebuilt. Maybe it's worth keeping a few units there to stop any rebuilds. At this point, you kind of have control of the center of the map, so I like to work backwards and clear any axis units behind me, and secure all the strategic points. There are a lot of mixed units around like MGs and anti-tank guns, but if you work your way round the edge of the map a bit, you can flank almost all of them and secure your half of the map quite easily. Once the Panzergruppen spawn, the medal objective shows itself - destroy the 10 Panzers across the map. This one actually almost offers itself to us quite easily as the panzers will continuously attack us anyway. Usually you can hit a few together at the start, when they go towards your base. Then they seem to just show themselves one at a time, which makes it quite easy assuming you have a strong line of tanks and anti-tanks. I use riflemen squads to go out and capture a good few anti-tanks as the germans leave behind quite a lot around our half of the map. This is where it gets a little slower now, as you start to push up the map and secure the road. I secured the second road point too early, which made the Red Ball Express show up. In heinsight, I wouldn't capture any road points until the very end. As you can see, axis soldiers start spawning on my half of the map to attack the Red Ball Express which was quite frustrating. Make sure to use your minesweeping tank or engineers to clear the mines on one side of the road. You can capture the entire map, which was my original plan, but as time went on I thought it mihgt get a bit boring so just went ahead with pushing the Red Ball Express up the road.