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Burning Luxury Liner
There are many ways to successfully complete this mission. We've described here the easiest variation, rather than the most efficient and highest scoring.
Needed Vehicles:
F101 (1)
F115 (2)
F203 without crew (3)
F201 with 1 Doctor, 2 Orderly units (?)
F110 (1)
F117 with Motor Boat (2)
F105 (4)
F111
Mission Solution:
- Although it's risky to use the fire-fighting plane around civilians, you'll have to take the chance and use it repeatedly here to put out the flames on the ship's deck. If you've held to our instructions, you should have at least 160,000 credits at the start of this mission. This means that financing the expensive F111 shouldn't be any problem.
- You'll need to get the crates out of the way first, since they're blocking the entrance to the harbor area. Use your F110 Transporter for this. Stack the two crates on the left and move them to the side to make room for your other vehicles.
- There are a total of five injured persons on the ship's deck. Bring in your helicopters as quickly as possible and carry them to the road.
- Make sure you have at least 4 F201 Ambulances crewed with doctors and orderlies posted at the roadside at all times, so the injured brought in on the helicopters can be treated right away. The moment an injured person is taken from the scene in an ambulance, another should be sent in.
- Send the F105 Pumpers into the harbor area and spread them across the length of the ship. This will let you douse the largest possible area. Make sure the flames don't spread beyond the crates at the dock's edge, to the oil tanks or the houses in the eastern section of the mission area! As soon as one of the crates catches fire, put it out immediately with an F105.
- Send in the two F115 Pumper Boats. They'll arrive (via water, of course) at the northwest section. One should proceed quickly east behind the ship. The other should go southeast in front of the ship. The Pumper Boats have a much greater range than the standard F105 Pumpers, which makes them ideal for preventing the fire from spreading.
- Meanwhile, send your F110 Transporter to the northwest part of the harbor area. There are two crates there, which you should haul away.
- Now you can bring the F117 to the spot where the red marker is blinking and launch the motor boat. The boat will let you rescue the passengers who jumped into the water to escape the flames. While the first boat is loading its maximum of four swimmers, send the F117 away. Bring in another F117 and launch a second boat.
- Once you've loaded the swimmers into the boat, you'll need to get them on land. To do this, you must park an F117 right on the red blinking marker. "Hit" the motor boat with the F117 and the passengers on board will lie injured on the ground. Now you can take them by helicopter to the waiting doctors at the road.
- Should a shark threaten the swimmers, you can keep it at bay for a while by "hitting" it with the motor boat.
- The mission is successfully completed once you've satisfied these conditions:
- All fires have been put out.
- All passengers are off the ship.
- All "swimmers" have been rescued.
- All injured and/or dead persons have been taken away.
Mission complete
