Fighting the Skulls at the airport in Africa

[lentracey]

I think this is mission 29, the one where you have to defend Code-talker from a hord of skulls and zombies at the airport in Africa.
I've had five goes at this so far and not even come close, just get my arse handed to me in no time. Quiet is there with her sniper rifle, apparently giving me covering fire, but this doesn't seem to have any effect. I've tried using shotguns, 7.62mm MG, rocket launchers and semi-auto sniper rifles - nothing seems to affect the skulls at all. The minute I stop to aim, I get hit with a rock then machete skull kills me. They also seem to dodge out of the way exactly when I fire.
Can anyone please give some hints as to how to achieve this mission.
Thanks for any help you can provide.

[indirectTendencies]

Don't use quiet on that mission! There's a bug with it where you can't get mission 43 if you use quiet on 29 or 42.

[ZEKESNAKE]

There are two way to deal their armor either use CGM 25 rocket or BRENNAN LRS-46/SERVAL AMR-7 sniper rifle(If you don't want soldiers that turn into zombie type getting killed, this is your best weapon to deal against Skull)

Make sure you wear Battle suit for damage reduce by them and run alot, if they spawn rock go cover quicking inside building or near the tank.

Quiet also useful if she have BRENNAN LRS-46 as well, but you need to increse her bond level to 80 or 100 in order for her to use that weapon.

If one of them get close with machete, jump to avoid it or press the CQC button when QTE icon show up at right time.

Lastly make sure you battle with them far away so Code Talker won't get killed from firefight~

[peper757]

I'd recommend D-Walker for the increased speed if you find it difficult to run and escape from them. The AA guns scattered around can probably kill one Skull before they attack and destroy it. Rocket launchers are good for doing huge damage in the time when their armour goes down.

From the strategy guide (abridged):
Mark the Skulls
Armour and Penetration: Use weapons with high armour penetration.
Vantage points: Climb onto the rooftop of the hangar; they won't follow you and they can only shoot at you, leaving you free to do loads of damage safely.

Best way to avoid the boulders is to dodge to the side, IIRC. Good luck!

[ZEKESNAKE]

Originally posted by •Kekol•:

Don't use quiet on that mission! There's a bug with it where you can't get mission 43 if you use quiet on 29 or 42.

Did you use the butterfly logo for your motherbase?...I never had that problem, mission 43 was fine.

[indirectTendencies]

Originally posted by ZEKESNAKE:

Originally posted by •Kekol•:

Don't use quiet on that mission! There's a bug with it where you can't get mission 43 if you use quiet on 29 or 42.

Did you use the butterfly logo for your motherbase?...I never had that problem, mission 43 was fine.

Never used that emblem part, a lot of users reported the same problem.

[lazy skunk]

give 'em some decoys and use a minigun. fast, cheap and efficient.

[ZEKESNAKE]

Originally posted by •Kekol•:

Originally posted by ZEKESNAKE:

Did you use the butterfly logo for your motherbase?...I never had that problem, mission 43 was fine.

Never used that emblem part, a lot of users reported the same problem.

Somehow in my playthrough everything was doing fine on 29 having Quiet in. Maybe they already fix it.

[lazy skunk]

Originally posted by ZEKESNAKE:

Somehow in my playthrough everything was doing fine on 29 having Quiet in. Maybe they already fix it.

they did. a looong time ago.. http://www.konami.jp/mgs_portal/jp/info/?d=201509&id=675

[ZEKESNAKE]

Originally posted by •Kekol•:

Originally posted by ZEKESNAKE:

Did you use the butterfly logo for your motherbase?...I never had that problem, mission 43 was fine.

Never used that emblem part, a lot of users reported the same problem.

Originally posted by lazy skunk:

Originally posted by ZEKESNAKE:

Somehow in my playthrough everything was doing fine on 29 having Quiet in. Maybe they already fix it.

they did. a looong time ago.. http://www.konami.jp/mgs_portal/jp/info/?d=201509&id=675

Well there your solution~

[ZEKESNAKE]

Originally posted by ZEKESNAKE:

There are two way to deal their armor either use CGM 25 rocket or BRENNAN LRS-46/SERVAL AMR-7 sniper rifle(If you don't want soldiers that turn into zombie type getting killed, this is your best weapon to deal against Skull)

Make sure you wear Battle suit for damage reduce by them and run alot, if they spawn rock go cover quicking inside building or near the tank.

Quiet also useful if she have BRENNAN LRS-46 as well, but you need to increse her bond level to 80 or 100 in order for her to use that weapon.

If one of them get close with machete, jump to avoid it or press the CQC button when QTE icon show up at right time.

Lastly make sure you battle with them far away so Code Talker won't get killed from firefight~

Almost forgot, make sure Quiet stay higher position to make easier for her to shoot Skull.

[Jedesis]

There's a ladder on the side of the hangar you can climb up and shoot them from up top if that'd make it easier for you.

[Operator Doge]

Once the fight starts, run away from Code Walker so he won't die from crossfire. Skulls won't target him anyway

You can try put some decoys a few metres in front of AA gun. Once they get close with the decoy, open fire with the AA gun

If you can counter those machetes, you can blast them with sawed-off double barrel shotgun

CGM (or honeybee, if you don't have it) is quite decent, don't forget to grab along supply flare grenade so you can just pop one when you start running low instead of trying to use idroid for supplies

[!RJ_Truth]

Originally posted by •Kekol•:

Don't use quiet on that mission! There's a bug with it where you can't get mission 43 if you use quiet on 29 or 42.

This is what happens when people listen to 2 year old posts and just take it's word for it rather than asking if there was ever an update to fix it. That was fixed a long time ago.

[WhitePadi]

I use D-Walker here, when the skulls spready the Mist, they will stop for several second. Don't get to close and fire the gatling gun at them.

You need to Develop Gatling gun first.

[dragony]

Battle Suit, Serval and D-Walker with minigun = easy victory.