Objectives
- Locate Nidia Flores
- Capture Nidia Flores
- Extract Nidia and Valeria Flores to Barvechos Charlie
LOCATIONS (Barvechos)
- Outpost (Hacienda)
- Nidia Flores’ Hacienda
- Barvechos Charlie
REWARDS
- + 350 XP
- +10 Skill Points
- +15,000 Gasoline
Difficulty
Brief
We’ve caused so much damage to Nidia Flores’ smuggling operation that El Sueño has decided to cut his losses; he’s sent a hit team to kill Nidia and her daughter Valeria. We need to get to Flores first and extract her and her daughter.
Bagging the Beauty Queen
From Barvechos Alpha, it’s under a mile heading southwest across to the sprawling hacienda, where Nidia Flores is under siege. Soldiers already in the hacienda are Mexican traitors and are loyal to Nidia, but of course they are still hostile to Ghosts! The attackers are regular Santa Blanca troops and will fight the traitors, along with Ghosts.The plan is to get into the main hacienda compound, find Flores, and extract her before it’s too late. Time is of the essence, as the cartel sends a half dozen vehicles and a chopper no matter what you try to do.
Outpost and Nidia Flores’ Hacienda: Recon
TACMAP
Though the grounds of the entire compound are vast, you need only concentrate on the main hacienda structure and immediate area around it. The place has an interior pool, some side chambers, and a grand hallway with a staircase;. Use the latter, or the side staircases on the northwest or southeast sides of the structure to gain access to the upper skylight and steps to the roof garden, or directly to the garden. Nidia and child are waiting at a helicopter on the west side of the garden. Use the helicopter, or chaperone them both to a waiting vehicle.
Southeast: Compound Security
A cluster of five foes, including a possible captain, are at this location, which is the normal entrance into the compound. If you’re using main thoroughfares to reach the hacienda, expect to start a fight here. This is unnecessary and slows you down, so avoid this area entirely. Or, attack from the upper rocks, before heading down and planting the road with mines, so the incoming enemy vehicles are stalled. Optionally have a teammate or two stay behind to see off the reinforcements, or at least cause havoc and delays to the enemies’ progress.
Northeast: Compound Rocks
This direction, visible from the main road, is the least viable method of entering the compound. The rocks are too steep to climb, and heading into the main driveway gives you many more enemies to face, little cover, and additional foes arriving from the road to the northeast. This is only worth heading into if you’re trying to distract enemies.
North: Vehicle Parking and Side Entrance
This is a recommended infiltration point. First, check the location of all the vehicles, pinpointing a truck you can bundle Nidia into, if you intend on leaving via road. Then enter the hacienda via the doorways to the side corridor with the large, paved tile floor (not the checkered floor of the main hall). Find the side steps that lead directly to the roof, and head to your target. Do this without delay, and you can reach Nidia before the enemy vehicles arrive.
West: Vehicle Parking, Side Door, and Escape Road
This is a preferable road to escape on compared to the one the enemies approach from (to the east) for obvious reasons. Before the extraction, however, find the open side door near the parked trucks, making a note to head there with Nidia if the helicopter on the roof is compromised. Then enter the side corridor with the large paved tile floor, and find the stairs up to the roof garden.
Southwest: Building Exterior
If you’re running around here, you’re not helping. There are faster ways between D and F (through the interior), and there are no ways into the building, or up onto the roof from here.
Southeast: Belltower And Side Stairs
This is another recommended location if you’ve snuck in from B or F, or you’re assaulting heading south to north. Pass the alarm pole, the trucks, and find the side staircase. Bound up to the balcony, double-back (turn 180 degrees to face southwest), run around the corner to the right (northwest), and sprint across the open upper skylight area to the roof garden steps. This is another good, alternate route to Nidia.
Center: Main Entrance
If you’re simply attempting a raucous ride into the compound, and you’ve parked up near B, sprint southwest into the main interior of the hacienda. You’re looking for the main hall with the checkered floor, rather than the sunken pool on your left. Head into the main hall, up the grand stairs, and move north to the arch doorway, then up the steps to the roof.
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Outpost and Nidia Flores’ Hacienda: Other Tactical Advice
This mission becomes reasonably simple if you approach the hacienda by helicopter. Land it on the roof garden, adjacent to the large cartel chopper, and you’ll discover Nidia and her daughter. Get out of the helicopter, talk to Nidia, and stow her in one of the two aircraft. Then take off, and fly all the way to the rally point. This can be done without any of your team firing a shot, and is by far the safest and most competent plan.
Stealth tactics? You’re having a laugh, aren’t you? You can’t lurk around corners, patiently waiting for a foe to appear when there’s around a dozen enemies already in the hacienda, and five truck-loads of foes incoming, along with a chopper. This means you need to be a quick study, learning the staircases you need to reach (and booby-trap) so that your team reaches the roof garden, and the enemy does not. So, approach via C, D, or F, rush the stairs to the upper floors there, and up onto the garden roof. Then quickly speak to Nidia, and stow her in the helicopter, before leaving. Have your team head to G to defend against the majority of the incoming enemies, giving you some time.
Has the helicopter been destroyed for some inexplicable reason? Or are you afraid to fly? Then you have the highly dangerous task of getting Nidia and her child down the nearest stairs (use the steps in the north corner, then down to the side passage near the generator, out of the door at D, and bundle her into one of the cartel trucks to escape.
The tactics are a little different, but the plan is the same; you have the luxury of trying two different methods simultaneously. For example, you can approach by helicopter, and on foot, and the duo who gets to Nidia first can extract her, while the others defend the area.
Or, you can station teammates on the road between A and B, where the enemy vehicles head in from, and mine the road, ambush the vehicles, and create a whole load of havoc. Two Ghosts should handle that, while two others storm the hacienda from C, D, or F. The Ghost on point should reach Nidia and extract her via helicopter, while the other takes care of pursuing foes, and booby-traps stairwells with mines.
The award for “most ludicrous plan” goes to whomever thought it was a good idea to steal one of the thin vans parked near F, drive them up the stairs by the generator (in via the entrance at C or D), and up onto the roof. Bundle Nidia into the van, then leave the way you came, as the glass balcony fencing is particularly sturdy. Is it possible to extract Nidia in this fashion? Yes, but it’s a terrible idea.
Extraction to Barvechos Charlie
Assuming you’ve reached a vehicle and bundled both Nidia and her daughter inside, simply plot a course to the rally point. When you arrive, knock on the shack door, and Bowman introduces Nidia to the possibility of never seeing her daughter again. The beauty queen agrees to talk, and the mission concludes.