- Prerequisites: Resistance Rating Level 2+ (Henbane River)
- Rewards: $800
- Details: Faith sent armed gunboats to hunt the Cougars.
MISSION Commencement
As soon as the Resistance Rating for Henbane River increases to Level 2 (2,500+/10,000), Faith Seed realizes you aren’t quite as enthralled by her presence as she’d hoped and sends out a three-gunboat convoy to punish your little uprising. Dutch radios in to let you know about them.
DESTROY Faith’s Gunboats
The convoy consists of three gunboat dinghies, each with a pilot and a gunner using a mounted machine gun. They patrol the areas of Henbane River shown on your world map. Find them on your world map, intercept, and destroy all boats and foes.
RECOMMENDED Paths
There’s no one plan that’s optimal here due to the random location you encounter each convoy in, but there are recommendations you can use to your advantage:
Assault the convoy in a remote area, rather than close to a cult outpost, so no further reinforcements arrive.
Set up a trap at long distance, well in front of the first boat. Locate a bridge farther along the gunboats’ route, and set up an ambush: Snipe the front boat’s pilot from extreme range, and snipe other boats so the convoy becomes immobile. Lob in grenades if you can reach the boats to destroy the gunner and sink each craft.
Have allies attack simultaneously from disparate directions so the mounted gunners can’t focus all their attack firepower on you.
Other explosives are excellent. Drop an explosive off a bridge as the convoy passes under you (as long as you remain unseen), so it lands in one of the boats. Or launch RPGs at the boats.
Attacking from your own boat is another option, but by far the safest plan is to rake the convoy from the air using weapons mounted to a chopper or aircraft; flying makes finding the convoy quicker and easier too.