Call of Duty 2

To unlock this achievement, as it says, beat D-Day mission on Veteran difficulty. For me, besides Hill 400, this was the hardest one (So this is the second hardest mission, in my opinion).

The beach is one sticky spot. Take cover and wait for the part you climb up. I had issue with some of the guys hitting me from above so if you have the same issue, be prepared to take them out.

Another hard part is crossing the field on top of the cliff. Use lots of smoke and proning (getting all the way to the ground). Use cover (or smoke cover) when you can.

The last hard part for me was securing buildings A-F. The enemies will keep on respawning until you finish the tasks and your support comes. If you are having problems try this: Lob a smoke grenade just inside the building entrance, toss 1-2 real grenades in the buildings, run and gun in (use an automatic), kill everything that moves on the ground floor, then quickly take cover. If your quick enough you can hide undercover and your meat shields/comrades will come on in. Then you are going to have to clear the upstairs out. I did the buildings OUT OF ORDER. I am not sure if that helps or not.

Here are some general tips:

- Cover is your friend. Don't be afraid to kill enemies but don't stay out of cover for too long and never stand in the open. Take cover and use it well. Always take cover when reloading. It only takes 2-3 hits to die not to mention getting sniped. If your flashing red TAKE COVER.

- Your team members, or mates, comrades, or meat shields (whatever you want to call them) are GREAT most of the time. They will take out numerous enemies and keep you well protected as long as you take cover and let them do the good deed of dying for country. If they are not advancing then you must do it, there are several times it pays to advance some and once you see them coming drop back. They also raid house pretty well (the bottom floor most of the times).

- In open areas with gun fire use smoke grenades. Also in open areas the best weapon to use is either riffles or snipes.

- In close areas (read raiding houses) use real grenades, they are the best weapon. Also equip yourself with anything that is an automatic.

- Many times if you get stuck try to go a different way or take different types of cover in different positions. There are defiantly different ways to make it through this game, for the most part.

IMO this was the hardest mission on veteran.

The section after climbing up from the beach is very hard because you get your first checkpoint very late if you are going through the bunker.
I made this part by going straight ahead through the trench - not the right way to the bunker. When you reach the end of this trench throw your smoke granades and run like hell to your current mission target.

The main thing of the second part are the houses. First clear house A and then go on to house F. I made it by throwing two smoke grenades right in front of house F. Then run to that house and hide in the bushes between the windows and the entrance. A few mates will follow you. Now throw grenades through the windows and the entrance. Shoot a few times and take cover - you will get a checkpoint when the last enemy in the house is shot. From that point along it should not be as difficult as the first houses. Snipe the enemies at the opposite houses E and D when you are standing at the first floor of house F. Then run to house E and clean it from enemies. Go on to house D, then house C and finally house B. Be careful! Enemies are running at you so use your grenades. In almost every house there are enemies upstairs - go on slow and use grenades. After you cleaned all houses the hardest part starts.

So the order to clear the houses should be: A, F, E, D, C, B

The final thing is a very hard sniping-action on top of the silo. You have to shoot mortargroups. Take your time to learn in wich order they have to be killed. For me that was the hardest part of the whole game. There are a few mortargroups you have to take out with one shot to have enought time to shoot the next. When you have done this level the rest of the game should not be a problem.

A hint from "Sinioth": To make the sniping portion of this level much easier, make sure you get the scoped gewehr from the HQ building before you go up the silo. It hold 10 rounds, and reloads quickly.

Good Luck!

I hope this will help.