I agree, Set your CoD on the HARDEST skill level. Without health packs, it takes about 2-3 hits & your gone. No more of that reckless running like mad through indoor missions (such as the russian tractor/tank factory, which you'll encounter partway through the russian part)... Another mission that was a TOTAL BITCH for me was the russian mission where you've just taken out 6 snipers, you've rushed across the mortar field, and you're stuck behind a brick wall!
How TF did you guys get through that on the HARDEST skill level? On the lower ones, I can practically walk up to the building with a pistol & pick them all off taking fire like the terminator; But with the hardest skill level, I went to the far left part of the wall, picked a few off with my mosin nagant, my captured MP44, tossed a few grenades, and made a break for a crater to seek some cover until I cleared the left side of the building. Snuck around back, and entered in through the basement. But there MUST be another way to do it, what did you guys do to get into that hi-rise? Once in there, holding them off was easy enough. Swap out your Mosin for a MP40 full of ammo. Stand on the second floor (to cover both boards/entrances to the 2nd floor), and mow them down with your MP40, and do a new-york reload to your MP44 (I set as semi-auto, making it similar to an SAR-1 [but in nazi 8mm short]). At that point, I'd duck behind cover, reload the MP40, & MP44. If Nazis got up the stairs & to me before the reloads, I could grab my luger NY style, and 'bus a cap in doze mo fos' Bird-Man Ghetto style!!! Then finish the reloads, toss more grenades, repeat as necessary... Occaisionally stopping to take out tanks. Those two planks up to the 2nd floor create some GREAT murder holes or funnels for you to concentrate your fire.
Out of THE WHOLE GAME, what was your favorite weapon(s)???
I'd have to say that mine was either the Lee Enfield, and the 1911A1 (in the V2 mission).
You're not GIVEN an enfield, but after blasting the two trucks with grenades & mines, I pick off one of my own soldiers to get my hands on his enfield (as a secondary weapon, but keep the mauser scoped for primary). I LOVE clearing bunkers with the 1911A1. While rushing through a bunker, POP POP *melee-whack*, POP POP *melee-whack*, POP POP *melee-whack*, POP, reload. The garand was great & all, but I'm a sucker for bolt-action rifles (they're what I knew first since childhood).
Another cool effect is the "Shell Shock" you sometimes get... The game simply ROCKS. I wish I had a high-speed connection (not my 56K) or I'd be doing the online-thing a WHOLE lot more. They'd better come out with some more single player add-ons SOON (like a pacific theater version)... The game kicks butt! It'd be great with a pacific version, popping 'japs' with your 45 while they're bearing down on you with a samurai in the pacific islands...Pot shooting at you with Arisaka type 99s or something...