UoCII Blitzkrieg Mission Across the Scandes how to reach Narvik (Bonus Objective)?

[Generaloberst Yukari Akiyama]

I would like a few tips. I can't seem to reach it. Also how do you compose your force in the beginning?

[Generaloberst Yukari Akiyama]

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[William H. Harrison]

This one can be made trivially easy by the precision bombing card. If you don't have one and are completely stuck you might consider going back to the last conference to see if you can get one.

You can go into C:\Users\[yourname]\AppData\Local\.uoc2\save
and make a copy of your campaign save so that you can go back to the conference and check if there's actually a precision bombing card available. That way you won't lose your progress if there isn't one.

I had one that I got from some bonus objective at some point earlier in the campaign, I forget when.

What you do with the card is the first turn you are able, you bomb the bridge between Narvik and the enemy HQ. They'll probably repair it their turn, so you then blow it up again. The enemy HQ will now be totally out of supplies so it can't repair the bridge, and it will be completely unable to order divisions to dig in. You'll probably also trap a couple of the British brigades on the out of supply side as well. What you do with the last bomb is as soon as you can destroy the pontoon bridge between narvik and the small island next to it. The AI likes to fortify one unit there and it is very difficult, maybe impossible, to kill normally. This way, they just run out of supplies.

If you don't have precision bombing you should still be able to take Narvik. It might be impossible to kill that one division that hides on the far island though. I equipped my divisions with artillery and engineers. Both the mountain divisions and most of your infantry should have them. Remeber you can move the one mountain division that starts out of range on turn 1 into range and then assign the specialists. The one infantry division at the far back probably doesn't need them, because it'll probably be stuck in the back the whole mission. Above all, make sure your elite divisions have artillery and engineers, they're critical. Don't be afraid to oversupply your mountain divisions and send them over the mountains out of supply to get around the divisions blocking the railway, you can use resupply on them later. You want to always be moving closer to narvik every turn. You should be able to get there by turn 7, which will allow you to set piece on turn 8 and take it on turn 9. The turn 3 objective can be a bit tricky, so pay attention to it, but the turn 6 objective is very easy to take on time, especially since you're rushing to narvik.

If you don't have any elite divisions look around for which ones have the most experience, and make sure they get the easy kills on units that are suppressed or weak so hopefully they can get up to elite during this mission.

If all your divisions are regular, and you have no veteran or elite guys, you're probably screwed. I would restart the conference and pay special attention to the mountain divisions in the earlier missions in scandinavia. Telemark in particular has a lot of opportunities to get easy experience against suppressed and cornered Norwegian divisions. Make sure your divisions that are already elite, probably your panzer divisions, are not attacking weak units, because the experience is wasted on them; they're already elite. Experience is and always has been the single most important factor for units in this game.

[Generaloberst Yukari Akiyama]

Originally posted by William H. Harrison:

This one can be made trivially easy by the precision bombing card. If you don't have one and are completely stuck you might consider going back to the last conference to see if you can get one.

You can go into C:\Users\[yourname]\AppData\Local\.uoc2\save
and make a copy of your campaign save so that you can go back to the conference and check if there's actually a precision bombing card available. That way you won't lose your progress if there isn't one.

I had one that I got from some bonus objective at some point earlier in the campaign, I forget when.

What you do with the card is the first turn you are able, you bomb the bridge between Narvik and the enemy HQ. They'll probably repair it their turn, so you then blow it up again. The enemy HQ will now be totally out of supplies so it can't repair the bridge, and it will be completely unable to order divisions to dig in. You'll probably also trap a couple of the British brigades on the out of supply side as well. What you do with the last bomb is as soon as you can destroy the pontoon bridge between narvik and the small island next to it. The AI likes to fortify one unit there and it is very difficult, maybe impossible, to kill normally. This way, they just run out of supplies.

If you don't have precision bombing you should still be able to take Narvik. It might be impossible to kill that one division that hides on the far island though. I equipped my divisions with artillery and engineers. Both the mountain divisions and most of your infantry should have them. Remeber you can move the one mountain division that starts out of range on turn 1 into range and then assign the specialists. The one infantry division at the far back probably doesn't need them, because it'll probably be stuck in the back the whole mission. Above all, make sure your elite divisions have artillery and engineers, they're critical. Don't be afraid to oversupply your mountain divisions and send them over the mountains out of supply to get around the divisions blocking the railway, you can use resupply on them later. You want to always be moving closer to narvik every turn. You should be able to get there by turn 7, which will allow you to set piece on turn 8 and take it on turn 9. The turn 3 objective can be a bit tricky, so pay attention to it, but the turn 6 objective is very easy to take on time, especially since you're rushing to narvik.

If you don't have any elite divisions look around for which ones have the most experience, and make sure they get the easy kills on units that are suppressed or weak so hopefully they can get up to elite during this mission.

If all your divisions are regular, and you have no veteran or elite guys, you're probably screwed. I would restart the conference and pay special attention to the mountain divisions in the earlier missions in scandinavia. Telemark in particular has a lot of opportunities to get easy experience against suppressed and cornered Norwegian divisions. Make sure your divisions that are already elite, probably your panzer divisions, are not attacking weak units, because the experience is wasted on them; they're already elite. Experience is and always has been the single most important factor for units in this game.

Yes I do have the precision bombing card. Great idea I don't know why I didn't think about it earlier. I always find myself hoarding these cards and only use them sparcely. All my units in this scenario are veterans but I don't have any elite within this army command, at least at the start of the mission; regardless I think I should be able to manage now that I have these bits of information. Thank you for your extensive and useful answer!

[Generaloberst Yukari Akiyama]

Yep I managed to get Narvik. Thanks again!