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Defender achievement in Call of Duty: WWII

Defender

Protect the convoy by shooting down all the planes in The Rhine.

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How to unlock the Defender achievement

  • xTGExTGE
    04 Nov 2017 04 Nov 2017
    Defender Achievement/Trophy Guide

    During Mission 11 'The Rhine' you must destroy all 25 enemy planes while you are on the AA gun. This achievement is similar to the Ack Ack achievement from Mission 2, however there are more planes and they are much faster making them harder to hit. If you should fail to hit one you Must restart the checkpoint immediately otherwise if it checkpoints you'll have to start the entire mission over again.

    The planes have a flight pattern which you can use to try kill them;
    3 MIDDLE - 5 LEFT - 4 RIGHT - 4 MIDDLE - 4 MIDDLE - 3 MIDDLE - 2 LEFT

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    Dr MartyThe first few before the checkpoint are much harder than the second batch.
    Took me a while to reliably get the very first plane and then the four just before the checkpoint.
    After the checkpoint it was a cakewalk, cuz they're all coming at you.
    Posted by Dr Marty on 15 May 22 at 01:45
    MasterCheeks117The hardest part is making sure you get the 4 from the right, before the checkpoint. Something that was helpful to me was realizing that I needed to kill the first 8 fast enough that I can then swing all the way right and see those 4 as they come in on the horizon, and hopefully get the first 2 right away and the other 2 as they are flying by. Its just too difficult/fast to try to lead your shots into the distance and hope you get all 4 before the checkpoint. toast
    Posted by MasterCheeks117 on 01 Jul 22 at 04:57
    CarbonitexI struggled so much on this achievement. Finally got it. If you miss a plane and it checkpoints its a pain in the ass.
    Posted by Carbonitex on 06 Jan at 19:51
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  • Trip0dT0mTrip0dT0m
    12 Apr 2018 15 Apr 2018
    heya guys ... this achievement sucks so bad , its quite a bit harder than the ack ack achievement but still very do-able ... i made a video guide so if you are stuck just watch that and you will see they always come in certain groups ... if you miss one you must use the last checkpoint and re do it :) enjoy

  • HUNTING WARRI0RHUNTING WARRI0R
    Locked 09 Sep 2018
    A real easy way to get this is to get in the turret and shoot down all the planes and once you get the checkpoint save and quit then hit resume mission and it will take you back to that checkpoint and if you miss the planes and you get a checkpoint then close out the game and DO NOT SAVE AND QUIT once you are loaded back into the game hit resume mission and you just keep closing out the game if you miss a plane and get a checkpoint
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    DiplodomcusThis makes no sense... please use grammar
    Posted by Diplodomcus on 26 May 19 at 20:01
    klobeastThis is a pretty good trick. Thanks for adding it
    Posted by klobeast on 10 Jul 19 at 23:33
    CidelionI managed to decode what he suggests. Reach the point of climbing the turret and press pause and quit to menu. This way it saves and when you press resume it will get you to this point. Then try shooting the planes like the other solutions tell you. If you don't succeed, press the glowing button on the controller go down to the game and press menu button, it will open the menu. Press quit the game. Now start the game and go to the menu that chooses the stage to play. Press resume and it will get you to where you saved. You can do this trick infite times until you get the achievement.
    Posted by Cidelion on 08 Jul 21 at 22:21
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