MrPing1000

To get arround this I went into command mode (default space x2) that allowed me to give the gunner targets and orders to fire. I actually found this mission straight forward. At the initial attack do not send your TOWvees in they will be useless against the troops. Let the other forces do the work for u, maybe fire off a TOW at their vehicles if you're feeling giddy. The next part was easy as well. Race down the road until just before it starts to wind down the hill. Position your TOW's against the hill beside the road. You get out and pick off the troops that come up the road from the hill top. You should also see the tanks before your TOW's do so you can feed them the target before they see it. They will then fire it as soon as they see it. The Big tank takes 2 shots the small ones 1. Next part again let the AI machine gun humvees and squad do most of the work, fire off a few tows at the vehicles in the camp but don't go down the hill. The main thing is to avoid infantry and keep your distance. Troops will kill your mates in your humvees very very easily.

I'm now stuck on this mission

well you actually have to be swimming to be able to plant a charge in the water, it doesn't work if you're standing (even if just your head is above water). Thats a bit odd

just the UAZ but it's a close call before it arrives.

yeah placing ontop works fine, more chance of getting shot but it does work. But the commander does tell you to place them UNDER the bridge :P

Did the mission today but it really is broken. The commander in the hummer says specifically to put the charges under the bridge. (I'm UK 1.4 version btw) However if you try and swim to the far bridge support (I'm not 100% sure but this seems like the only part of the bridge that will collapse) you'll drop everything you have. To get around this drop everything except 2 or if you went to be sure the bridge will blow 3 charges. Then following the left hand shadow of the bridge swim in a straight line. You'll end up on a raised bit of the riverbed and you'll stop swimming. From here swim inbetween the pilon and plonk down your satchel charges. Go get your stuff that you left on the shore and head to the hiding spot. Next part was an exercise in frustration let me describe all the different ways it broke. The most common bug would be for the big tanks to go across and perhaps 1 of the smaller ones then the last 2 would refuse to cross the bridge. It would take 5 mins but they'd sometimes decide to travel across the river itself. This led to some interesting things as well. One time the tank went down the bank too quickly and did a front flip resulting in the crew ejecting. Have to restart as the tank never makes it across. A few times the tank would make it across but get stuck on a tree at the top of the bank. Another problem seemed to be with them spotting your friends from miles away. Often the last few tanks would start firing at the ambush force to the North West. Oh and a few times they'd spot what I presume was the car you were originally in to the south east and start firing at it. (On one occassion this caused a tank on the land side to travel down to the coastline then cross the river at it's mouth to try and get to the vehicle) Then there was the truck carrying troops. It seemed to like unloading them all over the place. A few occassions it unloaded them just as it came over the hill towards the bridge. It would then carry on to the bridge sans troops. The troops wouldn't cross the bridge but when run along the bank towards the ambush forces. Then after a while they'd come back towards the bridge before swimming halfway across the bridge then going back to what they were doing to begin with. The truck usually would unload them at the far side of the bridge but everytime it was guaranteed to kill at least one of them as it tried to turn to go along the road. Oh and I also saw one of the big tanks try to go up the hill near the hiding spot but not have the horsepower to do it but continue trying for 5mins before falling back down turning left and getting stuck again. It finally got free only for me to find it later jammed into the corner of a wall. Because of stuff getting stuck and doing odd things very often the commander would end up dead before he could blow the bridges. And other occassions he would survive but forget to blow one. That was actually how i finished it. After he told me to blow the bridge I headed to bridge 3. I did this as he said there was a hidden boat here that I could use. There was no boat, it must be realllly well hidden because I looked everywhere. Anyway I headed around to bridge 2 and it wasn't destroyed. As i got to the bridge my orders changed to retreating (I'm like 700metres away from the forces to the NW lets not forget). So I went across the bridge stole a car and drove along the road until I got mission complete. Very very broken mission. I think if they sorted out the pathing issues and the AI wanting to attack things that they shouldn't even be considering yet it would be ok. Planting the charges at the far support was difficult as well.

yes it's that mission and I'm using the UK 505 edition. So placing satchels on the road itself works? Is there even enough time to do it before the first vehicle comes? I have managed to blow the bridge by placing satchels at the supports underwater on the far side (your commander does say to do this) but usually on my way back the rest of my satchels and my gun drop in the water and I can't pick them up again.