Salazar

Objectives

• Capture Salazar
• Extract Salazar to Tabacal Alpha

LOCATIONS

• Death Road (Variable)

REWARDS

• + 500 XP

Brief

Security for coca shipments along the treacherous Death Road are led by a cartel lieutenant named Salazar. Salazar was recruited personally by Madre Coca and is one of the few men she trusts. Capturing him would be a huge blow to her organization.

Madre Coca’s Bad Boy

It seems that Salazar is leading a three-vehicle convoy currently navigating the infamous Death Road; a mountainous thoroughfare with sheer drops on one side, and tall cliff-face walls on the other. He needs to be separated from his other SUVs, apprehended, and taken to a CIA safe house for interrogation.

Salazar’s Convoy: Recon

TACMAP

This convoy attack occurs somewhere along the route the enemy convoy is driving along, which in this case is Death Road, which skirts the northern extremes of this province.

There are three Landrock SUVs to contend with. Each usually has three occupants. The lead SUV carries Salazar, who is usually in the back seat behind the driver. So be careful with your execution gunfire.

Salazar’s Convoy: Other Tactical Advice

Starting at Rally Point Tabacal Alpha, you can head a few meters to the junction of the road that Salazar will be passing through, and create a small-scale traffic jam using the Alpha safehouse’s vehicle, a second vehicle dropped in using the Vehicle Drop-Off Rebel Support, along with additional cars you take by pointing guns at innocents and commandeering their vehicle.

Salazar is usually riding in the back of the lead vehicle, so don’t be too careless with your shooting when targeting these foes as you don’t want to kill the driver and accidentally hit Salazar too.

Attack the lead vehicle from the side (shoot both foes in the front seats), and order your team to tackle the two rear SUVs. If Salazar takes off in the front SUV, use any nearby vehicle to engage in a pursuit. Drive the SUV off the road, and grab Salazar.

Another option is to choose this, or another location along Death Road, perhaps an area that is much more narrow, and force the lead vehicle down into the ravine on one side of the road. If the SUV overturns or becomes stuck in the steep ground, you can easily have your team concentrate on killing the foes in the other SUVs while you concentrate on the two enemies with Salazar.

Have one Ghost responsible for the removal of one SUV that isn’t carrying Salazar, while two Ghosts concentrate on the lead vehicle. Approach in a vehicle, and use ramming to waylay the SUV, while your Ghost passenger shoots at the driver and other enemy, leaving Salazar alone and unable to drive. Apprehend him when the vehicle comes to a stop.

As long as the lead SUV is approached with a modicum of care, you can do what you like to the rear SUVs; destroy them with primed mines or C4, rake them with minigun fire from a pickup, or shoot them from a chopper.

Extraction: Salazar to Tabacal Alpha

Once the cocky little so-and-so has been grabbed, find the nearest vehicle, stow him in it, and then drive it immediately to Tabacal Alpha, where he unwittingly reveals a little more knowledge about Madre Coca than he intends.