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Hmmm. I found this straightforward. I ran to the middle of the bridge, placed two charges on the opposing sides, ran back where I was left and placed the remaining three charges under the bridge. Then ran south along the shore and up some stairs to the AT weapon cache (while listening to the scout UAZ whipping bullets past my ears). Took the AT gun, full payload of rockets and two mags for the assault rifle to deal with ejecting crew members and at this point the game autosaves and I hear the "FLASH FLASH FLASH!" so I blow the bridge (which took down two BMP's. The other blew into small bits, the other went under when the bridge collapsed). At that point the commander told me to harass the enemy with AT fire until out of ammo and/or targets and then get the hell out of dodge, "good luck kid". I blew up a BMP that got over the bridge, watched in glee as one T72 drove into the river on the other side and got stuck in the water; shot the crew as they climbed out and put three rockets on it. Bang. The T72 that gets over the bridge was driving around in a confused manner: I popped an AT round up it's tailpipe, killed the crew as they jumped out and finished the thing. I also shot up some enemy soldiers running around, probably crew from abandoned BMP's and the UAZ, who knows. Yeah no boat waiting for me either. I think the boat might be destroyed when they blow the bridge and concrete and stell fall on it. Or not if you luck out. Like in OFP, not _everything_ goes nor should go according to plan or what your commander says so what's the fuss? You don't NEED the boat it's just a neat add-on if it's there. Since I took my time at the bridge the objective of linking up with Platoon III timed out and I was told to simply extract. I went to see Platoon III anyhow, saw they were on a lazy shooting match with a BMP and two T72's and left them to that. Not my problem, what can I do? Reload 20 times while I try to destroy them alone? Nah. I hopped into a hummer and drove SW towards the road, slightly before reaching it I got the "Mission Complete" message. Honestly you don't have to destroy ALL the armor roaming around to accomplish the mission and nowhere does it say so: your mission is to blow the bridge, do what extra damage you can inflict and escape that hellhole alive. Just blow up the bridge, take down what you can, link up with Platoon III and help them if you have the time and if not, just pay them a short visit so you can extract your arse with a hummer.

I tried... and I tried... and I tried, about 10 times. I actually sneaked the best I could the last 5 but then gave up a day before the patch came out. Got it right the first time after patch, playing very, very drunk and going Rambo mode, like so: Run to hill where the three bushes (north of the camp) are overlooking the enemy armour, go to SW ledge of the hill to avoid exposure, wait for patrols to get near the Shilka in the West and destroy it (killing up to three enemy riflemen while doing it), pull back, reload, go to center of hill, RPG BMP near campfire, pull back, reload, move 20 to 40 meters east, pop up over the crest once more and RPG the last BMP. Ignore the bullets whipping past you by now, run back to the extraction boat, gear up with a few more rockets (enemy patrols will lose you in the hill and remain there, milling around), avoid the hill when returning (enemy patrols are still looking for you around the spots you fired from) and instead take the pass into the camp from the north, the single guard placed there in the beginning of the scenario will not be there anymore since he is running around looking for you. Destroy the remaining Shilka from 250 meters with the rockets you got from the boat. Run back to boat, extract. It was very easy or I got very lucky, and when I set timer to run 4 x while running to the boat and back took all of 5 minutes.