Order of Battle: World War II
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Elite Destroyer
Gain 5 experience stars on a Destroyer class unit during a campaign game
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How to unlock the Elite Destroyer achievement in Order of Battle: World War II - Definitive Guide
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First you'll need DLC for this, namely the US Pacific DLC, which has a large naval component.
I played on the easiest difficulty but if you played on the one above I think you could get the achievement quicker, the enemy units have more HP so you can inflict more damage before they die.
There is a trick to getting this achievement and the submarine one, which is harder still
The Elite Submarine achievement in Order of Battle: World War II worth 285 pointsGain 5 experience stars on a Submarine class unit during a campaign game
If you got a destroyer up to a star in the boot-camp, import those core units into the new campaign, and continue using that unit. Otherwise as soon as you can get the specialization for newly purchased naval units to start with one star.
Buy a destroyer only after you get this specialisation. You start off with one-star. Four to go...
Experience stars are gained from inflicting damage. This is very important.
Problem is destroyers and subs do next to no damage when used against naval targets and if you used them solely in this way you'd be lucky to get to 1 - 2 stars over 12 scenarios.
The trick is to use your designated sub / destroyer to attack coastal targets as much as possible. It's much easier for a destroyer as it can bombard targets well inland, subs need juicy anti-air batteries on the coast. Your sub/destroyer is immune from shore retaliation!
US Pacific Guide Scenario XP milking
For your destroyer you can maybe get a few shots this way in Coral sea scenario, but until Guadacanal just take any opportunity you can. Supply ships, low health destroyers. It's slim pickings in the early scenarios. Don't worry too much at the slow progress.
The fun starts at Guadacanal, then New Georgia and Okinawa. I basically got 4 stars across these three scenarios alone.
Guadacanal- you start off with a naval allotment so place your destroyer at the furthest south near the coast. There is a coastal battery at the very furthest Northeast. Camp next to it and shoot it every turn. It regenerates health too. Nice. It's a fifty turn game so you're gonna get around 40-45 damage.
After the initial fleet engagement, protecting the escaping transports your navy command points is supposed to be zero, but a glitch means you keep your destroyer (2 command points) to hammer the enemy for the rest of the scenario.
New Georgia
Place destroyer as far west as you can, you want to be making a bee line for an artillery battery on the shore near the island to the west, the southern most port. Once this is gone, hit other units until none left, and then move North to the main coast stopping off to attack any artillery or AA batteries. Have tactical bombers take out the shore battery guarding the entrance and you'll be pouring it on without taking a single return hit. Milk it until a unit it killed then move onto the next.
During this scenario I popped the achievement. If I'd played on a slighty higher difficulty I'd probably have cracked it but my land battles were a cakewalk.
The Leyte scenario, you can't deploy your core unit, there's a ton of targets but frustratingly all for the non-core units.
Okinawa
If you havn't popped it by now, you will on this level. Park your destroyer safe to the East of the main, island, as close to the eastern shore as possible. There is a series of AA batteries down the coast. Make a bee-line and pour it on till it pops.
I never upgrades my destoyer from the Gleaves class, as I think that clas is strongest against ground targets.
Good luck, any questions just message me
I played on the easiest difficulty but if you played on the one above I think you could get the achievement quicker, the enemy units have more HP so you can inflict more damage before they die.
There is a trick to getting this achievement and the submarine one, which is harder still
The Elite Submarine achievement in Order of Battle: World War II worth 285 pointsGain 5 experience stars on a Submarine class unit during a campaign game
If you got a destroyer up to a star in the boot-camp, import those core units into the new campaign, and continue using that unit. Otherwise as soon as you can get the specialization for newly purchased naval units to start with one star.
Buy a destroyer only after you get this specialisation. You start off with one-star. Four to go...
Experience stars are gained from inflicting damage. This is very important.
Problem is destroyers and subs do next to no damage when used against naval targets and if you used them solely in this way you'd be lucky to get to 1 - 2 stars over 12 scenarios.
The trick is to use your designated sub / destroyer to attack coastal targets as much as possible. It's much easier for a destroyer as it can bombard targets well inland, subs need juicy anti-air batteries on the coast. Your sub/destroyer is immune from shore retaliation!
US Pacific Guide Scenario XP milking
For your destroyer you can maybe get a few shots this way in Coral sea scenario, but until Guadacanal just take any opportunity you can. Supply ships, low health destroyers. It's slim pickings in the early scenarios. Don't worry too much at the slow progress.
The fun starts at Guadacanal, then New Georgia and Okinawa. I basically got 4 stars across these three scenarios alone.
Guadacanal- you start off with a naval allotment so place your destroyer at the furthest south near the coast. There is a coastal battery at the very furthest Northeast. Camp next to it and shoot it every turn. It regenerates health too. Nice. It's a fifty turn game so you're gonna get around 40-45 damage.
After the initial fleet engagement, protecting the escaping transports your navy command points is supposed to be zero, but a glitch means you keep your destroyer (2 command points) to hammer the enemy for the rest of the scenario.
New Georgia
Place destroyer as far west as you can, you want to be making a bee line for an artillery battery on the shore near the island to the west, the southern most port. Once this is gone, hit other units until none left, and then move North to the main coast stopping off to attack any artillery or AA batteries. Have tactical bombers take out the shore battery guarding the entrance and you'll be pouring it on without taking a single return hit. Milk it until a unit it killed then move onto the next.
During this scenario I popped the achievement. If I'd played on a slighty higher difficulty I'd probably have cracked it but my land battles were a cakewalk.
The Leyte scenario, you can't deploy your core unit, there's a ton of targets but frustratingly all for the non-core units.
Okinawa
If you havn't popped it by now, you will on this level. Park your destroyer safe to the East of the main, island, as close to the eastern shore as possible. There is a series of AA batteries down the coast. Make a bee-line and pour it on till it pops.
I never upgrades my destoyer from the Gleaves class, as I think that clas is strongest against ground targets.
Good luck, any questions just message me