Using armored units built at your secondary base in Illange (preferably Sherman tanks), advance northeast and destroy the Bunkers protecting the Nazi base. With the base defenseless, MG Infantry units (preferably from a Barracks you’ve built in Illange) can capture the Nazi Command Center and other buildings. Use the Command Center to produce German Engineer units and build a Radar Station so you can advance this captured base to Tech Level 2. Now you can use German Engineer units to build a Tank Factory and produce Tiger tanks and Wurfrahmen (the Wurfrahmen has a much greater range than your Calliope Shermans). Alternatively, you can simply destroy this German base, which has the advantages of being both easier and quicker.

It’s time to take out the Ammo Depot Sagnier mentioned. Order the group you assembled at your secondary base (the one with the Pershings and all your heroes which probably contributed in the capture or destruction of the eastern Nazi base mentioned above) to advance west across the bridge and then swing north. As you move toward the Ammo Depot in the northeast corner of the map, you’ll see a Tank Factory: take it out now! You’ll meet some stiff resistance, but you should steamroll them fairly easily as long as you remembered to bring Bedford Repair Trucks and use Lynch’s Quick Repair skill to keep the Pershings intact.

Above: You must destroy this Tan Factory in the northeast to staunch the constant attacks on your primary base—but even after it’s destroyed you will need to build AT Turrets to block reinforcements flowing in from the north

Now move southwest and smash the German base near the bridge roughly in the middle of the map (you might have done this when you crossed the railroad trestle earlier). This force can now cross the bridge and go to the railroad switch to link up with Lynch, Anna and Sagnier and the armored units they brought with them from the base in Illange.

Divide your army into two groups and attack the Nazi base in the southwest in an enveloping maneuver: one group should swing north of the base while the other approaches from the south. It’s likely some of the tanks guarding Hardt’s train will join the battle, so be prepared for them as they rush southward from the depot. With this base cleaned up, advance west to the AA base just south of the railroad depot and crush it before finally sending all three Heroes to the railroad depot. Hardt will leave the train — and you’ll have an “Excellent” rating!