Company of Heroes: 100% (Expert) Walkthrough Part 12 - Mortain (No Commentary) 

Love these defense missions. Can only imagine how well you'd do defending with the British faction since they're made specifically for defense.

20:06 STRIKE!!! God I love the artillery in this game.

This is in my opinion the easiest mission on Expert mode (besides Omaha Beach). While it seems tough at first to hold off numerous flanks and the HQ at first, having the right setup will go a long way in defending the hill. One very important detail to note is everything that happens on this mission will carry over to the next one so unit preservation and map control is vital. Nothing happens for a few minutes so you need to act fast to ensure you’re prepared for what’s to come. You’ll have several squads of riflemen that need to be replenished, but I advise to send them out to capture the surrounding territory for more resource income. While several squads capture the map, send out a full squad of riflemen and an MG team to the East to acquire the medal as well as a Veteran 3 Ranger squad. You don’t need to buy anything but 2 snipers and 2 mortars. Simply use those riflemen squads with just 2-3 men in them to man the AT guns/.30 cal MGs scattered on the hill. While you setup your defenses a cutscene will play at 25:04 (on the timer). It is at this point you will have to hold off increasingly difficult waves of enemies until the timer runs out. All you have to do is hold the Hill so use MGs to suppress/pin infantry, Anti-tank guns or Rangers to destroy armor, mortars to bombard pinned units, snipers to counter snipe any snipers they send, and the Howitzer the game provides you to break up any blobs of units packed close together. Do not leave any units north or near the enter of the hill. The AI will drop artillery in those areas so defending them after being bombarded will prove to be very futile. They’ll occasionally send a tank or a squad of infantry to harass your base. An AT gun, MG, and Ranger squad will be more than enough to deal with whatever is sent. Just remember to check on your main defenses so nothing breaks through. The ai will try to capture the surrounding points to cut off your resources, but from what I’ve noticed they will only take a point once so recapturing it whenever possible will be safe from future caps. Near the end, a final wave will throw several tanks and several SS squads at you for a last ditch attempt at taking the hill. Drop everything you have on them and you should be just fine so long as you have veteran 3 units. If you want to make the next mission easier you’ll to start moving your units to the East and West to be ready to capture those command points once the mission loads up. I didn’t do it so I could have more of a challenge and show what to do if all your units were still on the Hill at the start of mission 13. Good luck out there. Enjoy!

Sorry for the late comment. Was busy with a lot of work lately. Great episode, Star! I love watching all the cool strategies and tactics you implement.

9:26 the perfect setup only for it to hit your own outpost! Someone is getting demoted for that.

love it! i learn much by seeing your excelent gameplay!

Man, this mission looks so much easier when knowing where that enemy artillery is aimed. I always thought it would zero in on your troops. I'm still keen as hell to watch you run the other campaigns, since when I played CoH last, those are the ones I had the most trouble with.

Excellent defense, you defeated the germans without too much effort.

endure in the mountains to survive one more day

Another solid defense! You're really good at this game. Ever think about doing multiplayer and uploading it?

I thought you can build a triage center at the hill, makes this even easier.

You actually put a triage center next to the barracks

First I wondered if you pick a Tank Range in any fantasy or sci fi games?

I wonder how many times it took you to beat this mission This is a hard one compared to the other ones

This is not on Expert, on Expert the Computer will bomb the Crap out of your entire base, not just the front