Battle Academy
12 Achievements
1,000
40-50h
David and Goliath
Show that even the mightiest tank of the war is no match for a cunning adversary.
100
How to unlock the David and Goliath achievement in Battle Academy - Definitive Guide
Dragoner28
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In the first two campaigns of the game only standard Tiger tanks will appear. The names of the first two campaigns are "Operation Cobra" and "Desert Rats".
In this mission you have to defend two citadels and a bridge. The enemy has a massive force of tanks including two king tigers. You only have one sherman. As the King Tiger is the strongest tank in the game you can´t kill him over distance, even on the most easy setting.
But luckily the AI is using the King Tank as front warrior and is trying to breach the defense with the King Tiger. This means the King Tiger is driving near your defenses like houses or strongholds. So I have killed the King Tigers by hiding my sherman always around corners behind houses or in house canyons. If the AI is doing it´s turn and the King Tiger is moving around corners your sherman will automatically fire first. I have killed one tiger this way with frontal fire (this means the shot was hitting the front of the tiger). The second Tiger I have killed with my sherman by shooting in the back of the tiger. My sherman was hiding behind a hedge and the sherman was directly moving around the hedge on the field nearby.
The first King Tiger will appear with the first enemy wave. The King Tiger is spawning in the north west of the map. He will drive to the north west citadel. But if you can manage that the King Tiger is retreating, he will try to attack the south east citadel. In my game I have hided my sherman behind the large hedge between the north west and south east citadel. The tiger was passing by the hedge and was destroyed with a shot in his back. Keep in mind, that the Tiger will move around the north side of the hedge.
The second King Tiger will spawn around wave 10 with the last enemy attack. He also spawns on the North West side of the map.
I also used a truck to grab the 57MM on the hill after a few turns and put it in the back of the town.
I used LB ability to level the tanks up so the have more defense and damage.
I had it weakend by attacking with bazooka troops hidden in buildings.
Lastly I saved every turn when the King tigers got near the town and had to revert 2 times learning what my moves did.
Merch
The standard Sherman is only capable of penetrating the armor of the Kingtiger at point blank range or from behind at short range. There are three ways to do this: flanking and shoot it in the butt, from within a few squares, ambush, this works best by hiding a sherman beside a road the king tiger is driving, a point blank reaction shot will have a decent chance of a kill, or suppress it will offmaps, artillery and other AT units then go in for a point blank shot. Note that attacking a suppressed enemy point blank will have a chance that the enemy will surrender even if the attack fails, which will count towards the achievement.
Kingtigers will only appear in the Battle of the Bulge and Fortress Metz campaigns. You will likely get this achievement by necessity, as normal Shermans will make up the bulk of your armored forces and Kingtigers are present in generous quantities in most missions.
