Guadalicano Choo Choo

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Guadalicano Choo Choo
Story Mission
Previous	I've Got the Power
Next	Some Enchanted Evening
Faction	Agency
Location	Along the southern railroad
Rewards
Destabilized Provinces	Provincia de Cordoba, Provincia de Osvaldo Guzman

Guadalicano Choo Choo is the fourteenth storyline mission in Just Cause (1).

Introduction

Mission information from the PDA: Your mission is to stop Dr Otto Kleiner, head of the Mendoza WMD program, from making long distance missiles. The rocket parts are being transported by train just now. Destroy the rocket parts and kill Kleiner before they reach the tunnel that leads to the assembly line.

The mission trigger is a red flare in the middle of nowhere. It is located a little to the south-east of Mendoza International Airport. For this mission, there is no need to bring anything special.

Use the gallery below for reference with the action.

Walkthrough

Kane will show up in a unique Agency HH-22 Savior helicopter. Get in.

Tom Sheldon, also on the helicopter, will explain that Salvador Mendoza has a German rocket scientist named Otto Kleiner working for him. Tom wants him killed to disrupt Mendoza's schemes.

Tom and Maria will parachute out and land in the sea, just east of the airport. At this point you'll gain control of the helicopter. Fly straight ahead and reach the train.

Otto and his equipment will be on a train, which will start moving before you'll get there. You'll have to destroy 25 rocket parts before he could show up. You'll have the only HH-22 Savior in the game that's armed with missiles, so this shouldn't be too difficult. You'll even have time to fly next to the train, if you want to see it closer. The only thing to worry about at this point are the two Automatic surface to air missile launchers on the train one at either end.

Don't take too long to destroy the rocket parts, because the mission will fail if the train gets too close to the other end of the track. Don't bother waiting to see if any individual missiles hit or missed. Just keep firing as many missiles as quickly as possible. The auto-aim will do the rest.

When most of the rocket parts are destroyed, several government Jackson Z-19 Skreemer helicopters will show up. If any of them should spawn in front of you, destroy them, but otherwise, don't waste your time unless you can still catch up after dealing with them.

When all rocket parts are destroyed, Otto Kleiner will take off in a unique grey government Whiptail Gyrocopter and taunt Rico by saying "You'll never catch me you ugly troll!" Catch up to Otto and start unloading missiles on him quickly as his Gyrocopter is unusually durable.

There seems to be an increase in damage dealt by enemy helicopters at this point, so it may be preferable to destroy them quickly particularly once Otto hits the end of the valley and is forced to spend time ascending; at other times, he may move out of range too quickly and escape.

Once Otto is killed, Rico will spawn at the latest Agency safehouse and the Whiptail Gyrocopter will be unlocked for Heavy drop from your PDA.

Trivia

• Notice how the train is pulled by the same locomotive number 57, which was first seen in River of Blood. The locomotive did escape into a tunnel in that mission, but there are no visible tunnels connecting to the southern railroad in this mission, so this may just be due to a convenient asset reuse.
• According to the clock in Tom's laptop, the mission briefing takes place at 10:32 a.m., even if you activate the beacon at night.
• This is the first (and only) time a Whiptail Gyrocopter is featured in a different color than the Agency version. As a matter of fact it is the only one that has an insignia, with the agency version lacking it completely.
• The Gaceta Nacional del San Esperito (newspaper) at the end of the mission is dated "Tuesday, August 13th, 2005". This means that the mission took place on Monday the 12th.
  • This is weird, because the real August 13th in 2005 was a Saturday. Link to Wikipedia
  • Despite claiming the train was destroyed, in reality Rico only blows up rocket components and Otto, rather than the locomotive whose destruction could still take the whole train.
• This is the only time you can find an Agency HH-22 Savior until the beginning segment of a certain mission. As a matter of fact, this is the only time you can find a version with missiles.
• There are many reforms following this mission.
  • The Black Hand replace the San Esperito Military in village liberations, and in general replace the military, police, and other law enforcement at heat levels 4 and 5.
  • The Montano Cartel employ their rocket-armed Delta 5H4 Boxheads in liberations instead of just the Huerta PA51 Aztek that has just a machine gun.
  • At higher heat levels, the chance of you dying increases dramatically as the Black Hand use Delta MAH-15 Chimaeras and Ulysses-McCoy Redclouds, which can generally destroy everything in one hit.
  • The San Esperito Military, in addition to its commonplace Wallys GP and Battaille GPT-6, will also employ previously San Esperito Police Department-exclusive vehicles in their livery, such as Huerta Mesas, Vaultier Sedan Patrol Compacts and Vaultier ALEV Patrol Specials. These vehicles are notably uncommon due to lacking spawn points, appearing exclusively in high heat levels.
  • The Guerrillas will now give more difficult side missions, such as finding and destroying some Black Hand Ballards or even dueling a very powerful Black Hand helicopter.
  • In other words, the country becomes destabilized to the very brink of chaos. This is probably because Salvador Mendoza now knows the threat to his missile program and needs the professionals to watch over it.
• Possibly for balancing reasons, enemy Jackson Z-19 Skreemers in this mission use only their machine guns instead of missiles
• About halfway through with killing Kleiner, he will say "Untermensch! Untermensch!" That is German for "sub-human", referring to the Nazi persecution of Jews in the 1930s and 40s.
• This mission features some rare vehicles:
  • This is one of the few appearances of an Agency HH-22 Savior, and the only time it spawns with missiles. It cannot be kept after the mission.
  • This is the last time you will find the #57 locomotive.
  • This is the only time you will find a Whiptail Gyrocopter that is not Agency property.
• Originally, Otto was to use the Fukuda MH Ronin until it was scrapped. See cut game content from Just Cause.

Gallery

Dr. Otto Kleiner

Dr. Otto Kleiner on the left and on the right.

The Train

The armed train.

More details of the train.

Otto escaping.

The Gaceta Nacional del San Esperito at the end of the mission.