Manchester: Convoy Recovery

Path of Least Resistance

It is chaos on a half-shell at the beginning of this level, as you lend your American brute strength to the British forces as they attempt to reach the convoy that was recently lost to the Chimera. At the start, take a left and walk along the street, then run across to the left side of the Chimera position. From there, you can hide behind the corner and flank the enemy positions as they attempt to reinforce themselves.

War is hell, boys!

Proceed slowly here; it may seem like the enemies have infinite numbers, but they will indeed eventually stop coming if you shoot them enough. One thing that is unlimited is the number of reinforcements that you have on your side; they’ll continually stream from out of nowhere to help you out, just like a Call of Duty game. Let them kill off the Hybrids as they appear; you’ll have to do a fair amount of killing yourself, but every little bit helps. You will also run into Leapers near the end of the first slope. When you run across them, backtrack into a chokepoint of some sort, preferably away from the fire of the Hybrids, and unload on them with your M5A4.

It’s a fairly straight line to follow here. Head down the path until you can’t go any further, take a right onto the street there, then hang another right to further continue down the street. After killing off all of the Leapers that appear, fight your way towards the bridge over the river nearby. Before heading across though, veer off to the left and find the steps that lead underneath the bridge; the Intel: Manchester: Of Howlers document is down there.

Bridgetime

When you cross the bridge, expect most of your followers to bite the dust; there’s a sentry gun across the way that’ll light you up when you near the far side. Dash behind the sandbags if you can and take it out. (If you’re quick, you can just make a mad run for it as you’re crossing the bridge, which will let you get behind it before the Hybrids can run over to it and use it.) As you approach the cathedral nearby, a Howler will attack you. They’re resistant to most of your weapons, so switch over to your shotgun and blast away at it until it goes down. Try to stay in the middle of the group of soldiers that pop up here; they’ll goad the Howler into leaping at them and distract it while you take it on. (On Medium difficulty, attaching a Bullseye tag to the beasts head then unloading a clip into the air will usually solve your troubles.)

The Cathedral

As soon as you enter the cathedral, the biggest Leaper attack you’ve yet seen will commence; they’ll flood the area almost completely, and won’t stop coming for quite a while. If you stay out in the middle of the floor, you’re going to die! Your best bet to survive here is to move off to one side of the cathedral floor and try to get the Leapers off your tail by running around in the church pews while intermittently turning around and shooting a bunch of them out of the crowd. If you can herd them into a chokepoint, you can chuck a grenade or two at the crowd to off a bunch of them.

Remember when we said that Leapers are almost never a real danger to you? We lied.

However, you might want to hold onto your grenades, as a pair of Steelheads will bust out through the wooden barrier when the Leapers finally shuffle off and meet their makers. Steelheads wield Augers, weapons that can punch right through solid objects, so you can’t hide behind anything to take cover from their fire. Besides that, they’re essentially super-upgraded Hybrids, with stronger armor and a lot more health. If you nail them with a grenade as they come through the wall, you can knock both of them over, then finish them off with another grenade after that. Otherwise, two barrels of shotgun will help you out here. Save some shells for the Howler that comes into the area after them, though. It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!

When you’re done with all of these enemies and the Hybrids that follow them, head out through the small connecting corridor and start looking around. You can find the Intel: Manchester: Crawlers document on the base of one of the large shelves here. With that done, start moving through the buildings outside of the cathedral until you reach another checkpoint.
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