



(This doesn’t always happen with recon flights, particularly if the flight path doesn’t go over an IRHT, so you can start to use recon more as you eliminate IRHTs.) The UI provides a useful meter of this alert level, and when it reaches its maximum level, the command trucks will flee the map and you’ll lose the mission. If you do, the German “alert level” will go up. The catch is that you’re not supposed to use indirect fire on the IRHTs, or get into their beams, or fly over them with (recon or paratroop) planes. If you kill all eight of the IRHTs before you kill the last of the command trucks, you win gold. The trucks are guarded not only by German infantry and armor, but also by eight infrared searchlight halftracks (IRHTs), which supposedly use scanning IR beams to see through obstacles and detect approaching enemy units (i.e. The main goal is to destroy three well guarded command trucks. The Espeler mission is a lengthy one requiring a specific sequence of movements around a large map, with more than a dozen firefights.
