Glacier Guns

Gameplay of Glacier Guns

Structure map

> "*We must take this arctic base in order to prepare the way for a crucial landing by our ground troops. Take your best chaps in and leave the enemy in no doubt as to who wears the trousers in this war!!*"
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> -Major I. P. Grimly giving instructions for mission 13
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**Glacier Guns** is the thirteenth mission of Hogs of War. It is located in area in southwestern Trotsville. It is the third mission on this island.

## Terrain

The terrain of this level is arctic. There are two parts - the landmass and a lake. There are six islands on the lake connected by passages made of ice that pigs can walk on. One island is also made solely out of ice and is almost impossible to be reached without elite pigs. On the map edges, the lake is surrounded by a giant glacier. There are four trees on the biggest island, other islands are without any vegetation. Player's pigs are all located on a small icy peninsula very close together, which puts them in disadvantage, as pillbox shooting can hit multiple pigs.

Landmass surrounds the lake from three sides and is quite mountainous. There is a lower area in the top left corner with two pillboxes and a hill where three enemy pillboxes stand on and have advantage of seeing the entire map. Lower part is divided from higher part down by a slope, there is a straight narrow path that leads to a health crate.

## Vehicles

There are totally five vehicles in this mission, all of which are pillboxes. All of them are controlled by enemy pigs start of the level. Destroying them makes crates with rocket launchers drop down as a reward, and the pigs become much more endangered because of their low grades.

## Pick-ups

Mission 13 offers a big amount of pick-ups, but on start of the level, there is only one containing weapons. On the right of leftmost pillbox located at higher base, there is a pick-up containing 10x Anti-P Mine. These could be useful to destroy all the pillboxes, but only in some kind of single pig mod, as it takes long time to get to one pig back via turn because there are five of them.

During the mission time, three more pick-ups fall down from the airship. Two of them contain Airstrikes, which have "proved to be very useful" against pillboxes on top of the hill. Both of them are located on the shore right next to some tree. There is also one pick-up containing three jetpacks, but it is not worth even trying to get it. It lands on an isolated island, swimming to it maked any of the players pig that are not elite drown themselves, with maybe a little possibility of them surviving. Reaching this place with an elite pig is also quite useless, because you only need jetpack to reach promotion point in a legitimate way (without wall-climbing) and you already have one with pigs, three more don't make much of a use rather than reaching enemy base quicklier. Swimming to that point also takes a lot of time.

Each time you destroy a pillbox, undepending on if it's empty or enemy's or player's pig control it, a crate with 1x Rocket Launcher falls down on one of the islands.

## Promotion Points

One PP is available right from the beginning, on a small space on a mountain slope on the upper right corner of the map. In a legitimate way, it requires a jetpack to get there, but it is possible to use a wall-climb to get there. Just go on the higher place down the map and climb the wall to get the medal.

## Enemies

There are total of five enemies in this level, all of them are gunners. The baseness of their class is compensated by using pillboxes, that have way more health, but can deal the same amount of damage (maximally 40, same as gunners shooting bazooka). When their pillbox gets destroyed, they become vurnerable and they are taken 20 health away, sometimes more if they fall into the water.

In the hard mode, there are five bombardiers instead of gunners, but you won't notice a change until pillbox gets destroyed or some of them jump outside.

## Trivia

* This is the only mission in singleplayer to include Anti-P Mines and one of two missions with them, other being multiplayer mission Frost Fight.
* Glacier Guns is first singleplayer mission that contains only snow and ice terrain, without any grass.