IRON NEST Iron Road Walkthrough: Train Timing and AP

Phase 1 — Intercept the train before Main Station

1. Read both orders. The main order gives Iron Nest, Main Station, the expected arrival time, and the intercept instruction. The secondary order gives the railway bearing, the waypoint distances and the train's movement schedule.
2. Mark Iron Nest and Main Station. The rest of the plan is built from those two points.
3. Draw the railway from Main Station at 90°. The train approaches the station along this line.
4. Mark the 6 km, 4 km and 2 km waypoints, and write each scheduled arrival beside its marker: 10:06:50, 10:10:10 and 10:13:30.
5. Choose a waypoint that still leaves preparation time — measuring, loading, rotating and accounting for shell flight. The 2 km marker is the last planned interception point before the station.
6. Measure the firing solution from Iron Nest to the chosen waypoint. The waypoint distance is measured from Main Station and is not the artillery range.
7. Set the launch time: waypoint arrival time − shell flight time. The waypoint time tells you when the train will be there, not when to fire.
8. Fire when the clock reaches the launch time, then wait for the hit confirmation.
9. If the launch time passes, move to the next waypoint and recalculate every value; do not keep adjusting one marker.

After a hit, the mission continues: a direct hit calls for destroying remaining cars and disembarked reinforcements, and a derail does the same. If the train reaches the station instead, the priority becomes clearing the station area.

Phase 2 — Destroy the two armored emplacements

1. Read the post-train order. Two armored emplacements block the allied assault route, and allied infantry cannot advance until both are destroyed.
2. Plot both emplacements from the spotter reports, keeping the blue allied route clear of any firing line.
3. Load AP. The order states explicitly that the armored emplacements require armor-piercing shells.
4. Fire one emplacement at a time and wait for each destruction confirmation before finalizing the next marker.
5. Do not treat two explosions or two spent AP shells as confirmation that both required positions are gone. The teleprinter or reconnaissance report is the signal.

Phase 3 — Sound the War Horn and complete the mission

1. Confirm before the horn: the train is destroyed, Emplacement 1 is destroyed, Emplacement 2 is destroyed, and both AP reports have arrived.
2. Sound the War Horn — it hangs to the left of the trigger console or at the back right of the map table.
3. Wait for the completion report: the approach is clear, allied infantry advance, the primary objective is complete, and Iron Nest may stand down.
4. Treat remaining town targets as optional after the horn. Continued fire support is authorized at your discretion, but allied infantry are already moving through the area.

The War Horn is the commitment that the route is safe. Sounding it early causes mass casualties, and ordering assaults without confirmations fails the mission outright.