how to finish Village Sweep- 1.05 patch mission

[CptHarris.aus 10]

I have killed all the enemy, including the APC and the car with the recoilless rifle- and of course including the enemy up in and around the farm stables, the crewmen hiding near it and then rv'd at the selected 'seize and defend? hold?' point prior to 0830, and yet I still do not complete the mission.

I have topped all enemy and held seize point by 0830 a number of times now,,, and still have not completed the mission- most frustrating.

has anyone else had this problem or can advise me on how to complete said mission?

any help is appreciated, thanks. < banana dude has nothing to do with anything- I just like him lol.

[HyperU2 11]

Honestly I don't think I've been able to complete that since patching either. I just don't try anymore.

[Alex72 1]

Did you play it with all assets? As in High Commander mode. CTRL+SPACE to see all assets and then move them around to take the village.

If you did do that well, sometimes it does not end. But is that so bad? If you have taken everyone out then.... you did it. Congrats! You have much more to look forward to then getting stuck in 1 single mission. :)

[trickster1982 10]

Last time I played that one it didnt finish, but early on in the mission when we started firing on the village a couple of insurgents went running off towards the forest on the other side & never came back so I think that may have been why the end didnt trigger after we cleared the village. They were too far away to shoot so i just let them go, although sending that LAV up that hill would probably have stopped anyone escaping...

[CptHarris.aus 10]

Thanks all for replies- I guessed as much re: doesn't kinda finish for everyone else too lol- and in particular cheers to Alex72- I never tried command mode lol- bit of an assault pioneer here so I just headed on in on foot, halted my guys at edge of town and then went in alone lol- lasered the APC, shot the recoiless operator and driver in car, jumped in and threw some of those shells around the town, ran around and tapped everyone up at farm stable and the snipers in the nth? wood, called my guys back in and sat down for a brew lol :D

ctrl + space- playing on 3rd difficulty and still have never used that yet lol.

LONG LIVE ARMA__ BEST GAME YET AND BEST COMMUNITY.

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ps- I'm a bit of a stickler for ticking things off the list- das why I really want to tick this mission off on the patched games list.

thanks arma guys- this game and this patch is great- I'm trying to spread the word- but there's so many 'oh i'm so impatient and attention deprived that I can only handle pac man run and jump shoot dive jump run while still able to shoot ( anyone who actually grew up shooting/hunting-I did- or has been in army- I haven't, will tell you that stuff is just ridiculous ), crowd are just too addicted to the simple life games *sigh* this game offers so much mor satisfaction/challenge/experience/excitement/reality/all round awesomeness lol

[ladlon 10]

Same issue here too. Wish I had answers for you (and myself!).

My only guess would be that I lost some of my men, so I fail the 'heavy casualties' criteria?

Still, it's odd that it doesn't tell you you failed... Just kind of keeps going and going, and you have no clue what to do.

Ya, probably some enemy guy hiding in the woods, running up against a tree or something too...

[ScareCroweb 10]

I just finished this mission yet again LOL in about 5 minutes I won, how I did it will be a tactical secret but basicly I used standard assault tactics, clearing the town of AA with infantry and then sending in the chopper to finish the job and then it cleared it for me, Victory Dont forget to put the LAV's to overwatch the town from different angles ;) that usually does the trick when my infantry assaults :p

[froggyluv 2136]

Haven't played this mission in ages but I remember it not ending properly as well. So I went in and changed the the End trigger to 'Opfor Not Present" and made a wide circle around the village -voila! Mission completed and little box checked :p

[ScareCroweb 10]

Haven't played this mission in ages but I remember it not ending properly as well. So I went in and changed the the End trigger to 'Opfor Not Present" and made a wide circle around the village -voila! Mission completed and little box checked :p

If all you want is those little checkboxed filled, then why not just run the cheat Endmission??

But I dont think ending the mission is fun, I like to fight untill every one of those stinking enemies are dead I dont even care if the missions ends or not for me its about being out there in the field sometimes for many hours. i dont play this game for getting an endmission trigger thats just boring :bounce3:

I'd like to ask those who didnt end this mission how long time did you use to assault the town?

[ladlon 10]

Within the 8:30 deadline, I think... I didn't check the time until a bit after wandering around, wondering why it wasn't ending... but even then, it was only 8:37 or something.

I'm playing it now, trying to see what I can do.

Why does it seem like other people are talking about 'their' armour and helicopters and stuff? Is there the ability to call in these? All I know of is the airstrike... and the two groups of friendly soldiers that just stand there on the borders. Am I missing something here? All I have is my fireteam, and the airstrike.

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Okay, this is wacky....

I just grabbed a truck with my one remaining teammate, and drove around... hoping to maybe catch some fire from a hiding enemy so at least I could find him. I drove all over the place, then ended up taking the road south from the 'Seize and Hold' waypoint. Drove down there a bit, then turned around and started heading back to the town. Suddenly, the victory window appears!

Duration of play (according to the window) 1 hour 4 minutes.

Take from that what you will....

Moving on to the next mission.... ;)

[santafee 10]

haha. try the Strg+Space Combination. All these Units are under your High Command. It will take you 10 minutes to finish. I realized that also after the 10 time playing it^.