Quick Answer
Hold the line until 18:00. Expect first contact around 03:00 and prioritize craft nearing shore because they can release marines there. HE is the mission recommendation for hostile landing elements. Start with 400 requisition and ten powder charges, preserving enough capacity for late pressure. Success depends on surviving to relief, not attacking every scattered survivor. Four medal slots are displayed, but only three unique medal identities and thresholds are listed here; no fourth name is supplied.
Mission Facts
| Field | Checked value |
|---|---|
| Mission number | 11 |
| Location | An unnamed stretch of Spanish coast |
| Initial funds | 400 requisition |
| Charge quota | 10 powder charges |
| Medal slots | 4 |
| Enemy summary | Transport 1; Mechanized 1 5; Mechanized 5; Hospital 3; Supply 3; Comms 2; Police 2; Enemy Marine 1 |
| Recommended ammunition | HE |
Step-by-Step Route
- Write 03:00 and 18:00 as the fixed mission-time anchors: expected contact and relief.
- Record 400 requisition and ten powder charges separately; neither number supplies prices or a required shopping list.
- Preserve every roster label while grouping the Transport and landing movement into the urgent watch.
- Keep HE as the mission recommendation instead of importing specialist rounds from earlier missions.
- Use the opening quiet period to scan approach, shore, defensive pressure, and reserve status.
- When contact develops, prioritize consequence: a craft about to release marines can increase line pressure.
- Fire deliberate groups, then inspect the result before starting another volley.
- After each exchange, reassess the line before chasing damage away from the immediate defense.
- Carry useful capacity toward 18:00 rather than treating the first successful denial as the whole operation.
- When relief arrives, mark primary completion before considering optional attacks on scattered survivors.
- Review Beachhead Denied and Coastal Defence Medal separately after relief.
Detailed Walkthrough
Opening watch: build a tide clock
Objective: Use the two time anchors to pace scans, volleys, and reserve checks.
The opening is preparation time, not permission to assume map knowledge. First contact is expected at 03:00 and relief arrives at 18:00. Keep both times visible, then divide attention among approach, shore, defensive line, and resource reserve. The roster establishes one Transport, two Mechanized-labelled groups, Hospitals, Supply, Comms, Police, and one Enemy Marine, but it does not establish positions. Build a role-based watch rather than a coordinate sheet. Landing craft matter because reaching shore releases marines. The line is the protected mission state, so each contemplated action should answer whether it reduces the chance of enough landing forces arriving to overwhelm the defense. Keep HE ready without spending merely to make the clock feel active. During quiet intervals, refresh the full scan and check that late-operation capacity remains available. Use the pre-contact period to define a fallback when two threats appear together. The fallback should be based on current line pressure, proximity to shore, and confirmed results, not on a memorized left-to-right order. Also decide what signal will make you abandon a planned volley. This keeps the defense responsive when the visible approach changes and prevents a prepared action from becoming an obligation after its target loses urgency.
Watch for
- Treating 03:00 as a universal fixed spawn script.
- Converting an unnamed coast into guessed lanes, bearings, or landmarks.
Landing denial: break pressure before shore release
Objective: Use HE against confirmed soft landing elements while prioritizing shore consequences.
Once contact begins, High Tide becomes pressure management. HE is the mission recommendation, so the difficult decision is timing rather than shell variety. Distinguish a remote approach from a craft close to releasing marines. Direct attention where delay would most increase pressure against the line. A grouped volley may support the Unbroken Volley Medal requirement of a streak of at least six or the Salvo Commendation record of a best three-kill window of at least ten seconds, but medals remain subordinate to survival. Preserve that second comparison operator exactly; do not casually reverse it into a faster-than-ten-seconds claim. After impact, confirm whether pressure actually fell. If the landing continued, update urgency instead of declaring success from a convincing visual moment. Repeat the scan from shore outward so immediate consequences remain visible. Tempo should be measured by meaningful state changes rather than continuous firing. If one impact removes the immediate shore risk, spend the next moment checking the rest of the approach. If it does not, shorten the loop and correct the next HE commitment. This alternation between action and survey preserves awareness while still allowing concentrated fire when several soft targets genuinely form one urgent group. Use a three-pass shore review after every meaningful impact. First check whether a craft still threatens to unload. Second check whether marines already ashore are adding pressure to the defensive line. Third check whether the next visible approach can be handled with the reserve that remains. This order keeps the immediate consequence ahead of distant score opportunities. If the line is stable, widen the scan; if it is bending, shorten the loop and address the nearest confirmed source of pressure. Record one reason for each volley so the 18:00 debrief can distinguish necessary defense from optional damage.
Watch for
- Chasing a remote cluster while a craft is about to release marines.
- Reversing the listed Salvo threshold into an unsupported speed claim.
Long hold: preserve enough gun for late pressure
Objective: Carry defensive capacity through the full eighteen-minute horizon.
An impressive opening is insufficient if useful capacity disappears before relief. Recheck requisition decisions and the ten-charge quota after each major exchange. No price or resupply schedule is supplied, so conservation means preserving flexibility rather than following an assumed budget. Use calmer intervals to widen the watch and prepare another HE response. Marksman’s Cross checks average impact distance to the nearest target at no more than 0.3; that metric rewards close placement but supplies no aiming coordinate. Let the current target picture govern placement. For medal review, track Unbroken Volley Medal, Salvo Commendation, and Marksman’s Cross alongside the four-slot result display. Late in the hold, simplify choices around line safety and reserve rather than score chasing. Resource preservation includes attention as well as ammunition. Hospitals, Supply, Comms, and Police remain listed categories, so retain their labels in the watch instead of mentally reducing the entire scene to landing craft. The mission display does not assign extra penalties or tactical roles to those roster labels. Their presence calls for accurate classification, not guessed behavior, and that restraint reduces careless target substitution during a long defense. Divide the remaining hold into decision windows rather than assumed waves. At the start of a window, note line condition, nearest landing risk, HE readiness, charges left, and time until relief. Reopen that snapshot whenever a craft reaches shore or the defensive line changes visibly. A window ends when the pressure state changes, not after a fixed number of shots. This method gives late threats the same disciplined review as early ones and prevents an exciting first contact from consuming attention needed for the final minutes.
Watch for
- Exhausting the reserve as though the first exchange ended the mission.
- Letting an unnamed result slot distract from the three medal goals recorded for the run.
Relief handover: recognize completion
Objective: Protect the line through 18:00, then separate the clear from optional cleanup.
Near 18:00, the only required outcome is preventing enough landing forces from overwhelming the line before relief. Do not widen the task into total elimination. When relief reaches the beachhead, primary completion is satisfied and attacks on scattered survivors are optional. Beachhead Denied is the completion identity; Coastal Defence Medal is separate recognition for gold across all mission medals. A clear does not prove all gold. Capture the displayed medal outcomes and compare the three named thresholds with the run record. Completion unlocks the APHE Shell. Close the debrief by noting when pressure peaked, which reserve decision mattered, whether shore releases were contained, and whether an optional final engagement occurred after the mission had already crossed its completion boundary. The best replay note identifies a decision point rather than celebrating a score. Record the mission time, the pressure that was visible, the reserve that remained, and why a volley was or was not taken. On another attempt, compare that moment with the reported medal results. This creates a useful route for improving streak or placement performance without pretending the same coastal picture must unfold identically every time.
Watch for
- Treating survivor cleanup as mandatory after relief.
- Presenting completion and all-gold recognition as one automatic result.
Mistakes to Avoid
- Build priorities from current shore pressure rather than a memorized approach lane.
- Do not replace the HE recommendation with an unsupported multi-shell loadout.
- Do not confuse expected first contact with the completion time.
- Do not ignore craft nearing shore and possible marine release.
- Do not spend the early reserve as though no later pressure exists.
- Do not reverse a listed medal comparison.
- Do not let medal bookkeeping distract from holding the line to relief.
- Do not turn a distance metric into a static aim point.
- Do not require survivor cleanup after relief.
- Do not equate completion with all gold.
Achievements
Beachhead Denied
Completion follows holding the beachhead until relief; optional attacks afterward are not required.
Coastal Defence Medal
Coastal Defence Medal marks gold across the High Tide medal set. Review the result display separately from the basic beachhead clear.
Run Checklist
- 01Confirm Mission 11.
- 02Mark 03:00 contact.
- 03Mark 18:00 relief.
- 04Track 400 requisition.
- 05Track ten charges.
- 06Keep HE as the recommendation.
- 07Watch shore arrival.
- 08Reassess after volleys.
- 09Preserve a late reserve.
- 10Record the remaining medal slot exactly as it appears on the result screen.
- 11Record the three named medal results.
- 12Record the APHE unlock.
