P10A: On the way to the Steel Mill

On the way to the Steel Mill

It's serendipity that the Hostage Rescue is right next door to the Steel Mill, right?  Right!  Now before we head inside to say hello to The Big J and Harley, let's do a final sweep of the zone and take out the rest o the thugs - hey we are really doing them a favor considering how cold it is out here and all.  I am sure that they would consider unconscious to be better than freezing... Or maybe not.  But hey, we are not giving them a choice in the matter!

I don't need to remind you to pick up any Riddler Secrets you come across, or to be sure and interrogate any Greenies, right?

Clearing out the Industrial District Patrols

As you work your way through the district taking out the patrolling thugs bear in mind that there are snipers assigned to cover some of these groups, so prior to attacking each group check the overhead areas for snipers and remove them first! 

You can make excellent use of the Disruptor here since you will encounter several groups where there are two armed thugs in them -- disable the gun on one and then KO the other while the thug whose weapon you disabled stands there swearing at it for not working!  You can then take him out leisurely.

The last group of thugs just outside of the (blockaded) main entrance to the Mill are all armed which ordinarily might be a problem...  The best way that I found to deal with this (and that I include in the video for this section) is to ninja up to the thug on the catwalk in the southwest corner of the area and take him out while making lots of noise -- on other words do NOT do a silent kill.  After you pound his head in RB to the roof above as the other thugs come running in groups of one and two... Err... Um, alone and in groups of two?  Whatever!

Once they have gathered around the incap'd thug and are trying to wake him, drop a smoke pellet in the middle of the group then drop down onto the catwalk that they are on.  Do a silent take-down of the one that was trying to wake the incap'd thug up, then a double takedown of the nearest pair, and finally take out the last two however you can, as the smoke is now clearing!  I did end up taking a few bullets in my armor on the second from last one, but it all ended well.

Once you have taken all of the bad guys out on the outside it is safe to approach the entrance to the Steel Mill -- ah but what is this?!  There are flames shooting out of the smoke stack!  Obviously The Joker has the furnaces fired up so we can no longer safely enter via that route!

A quick call to Oracle not only brings her up to date on the situation but obtains an alternate route into the facility for us, as she has access to better research material than we do -- Google right? -- and so she marks the new entrance on our map.  It seems that we can only get in via the Heat Exchangers this time around!  So head there now...