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I’d like it if you posted again sometime. If you’re struggling for ideas, I could suggest something for you. I always wondered if what campaign levels were beatable/not beatable if you played as black hole instead. Not sure if you know how hacking works in this game, but I’m sure this is doable. Might be a dumb idea though, idk.. I just thought your videos were really chill

The factory actually isn't controlled by the AI, it has a set order which it loops through. It is random which AI the unit is set to, but not what kind and location.

Begond Sun Tzu, MORE NEO TANKS!

rip nell

You can play video game music on your youtube videos, it is completely fine idk who told you otherwise, it's the one type of music basically guranteed not to be flagged by the algorithm

For this particular mission, Kanbei would actually be even more difficult.

I tried to do a similar run with your patch but it won't let me pick the same CO for the other spots. Not sure if I am missing something but I did use the patch you linked! Any help would be appreciated!

An absolute mad lad

The lore: Andy gave a map to max due to his paranoia that flak is tracking his movement due to a radio max was listening to jumbling up “I want a large double pepperoni” into “Main battalion moving into mountains”, but the map was wrong and while adder was waiting for grit to try and turn him, max appeared thinking it was a black hole base and here we are

Good thing Sonja's bad luck (and luck in general) doesn't apply to damage to seams/cannons

Here is the best advice you are going to get. Every map dictates what your army composition should be. You shouldn't play every map with the same army composition. Low income maps rely heavily on infantry. Where heavy income maps allow for a lower infantry focused army. Outside of income the terrain is a simple indicator of what unit types can be more effective. A more practical way to play is to build as much units as possible every turn. This allows you to make mistakes and recover from them. Focusing on more expensive troops will require more precise play and cause you to blunder the game away.

I don't even need to watch the video to know. Yes, but only if you want the hardest missions to be an exercise in tedium as you wait for the RNG to co-operate.

I think it was the most insane challange I've ever seen in AW holy shit

You could have put the tcopter into the cruiser to keep it safe. Assuming you could spare a turn.

For the orange star factory mission, running a max Md Tank up the right side would probably be the easiest. It can destroy the seam in 2 shots.

Interestingly, there actually is room for an alternate strategy in Nature Walk, that Mangs highlighted in his deathless run. That being, keep most of your units back and send a single tank tiptoeing through enemy lines to your HQ.

This helps, but what if you are on the opposing end. How do you recover from a bad start?

Why didnt load an indintry unit in the apc?

Now do this run again, but changed flak to only have bad luck. Super CO power require to used when available

Controversial opinion here, but I like the original graphics better than reboot camp

good vedio

Where’s part 3?

Very nice, all of your videos have been excellent to watch! Great commentary and challenges. There was a challenge I did when the game first came out oh so long ago. However it would be too easy for you based on you winning the Flak challenge lol. But the challenge was to beat the game without activating any CO powers. Maybe on the hard campaign that would be interesting? Poooor Eagle can't move twice in one turn.

Since this is interesting with the initial battle, I am going ahead and doing some calculations based on how things would go here with the balancing in my Game Boy Wars 3 PALBal patch. Here's some important points before I start providing the active calculations: -Fighter has 40 Air DEF and its primary weapon having 1~2 Range and 50 Air ATK, as well as damage taken from direct fire, in addition to any from non-plane units, each reduced by 1 HP multiplied by the Fighter's own HP as a result of defense bonuses for planes (GBW3 uses terrain bonuses and such as subtraction defense) -Gunship (Battle Helicopter) has 20 Air DEF and its primary weapon having 1 Range and 32 Air ATK, as well as defense bonuses for helicopters resulting in damage taken from range fire reduced by 1.5 HP multiplied by the Gunship's own HP, as well as a default terrain flooring also for all intents and purposes here reducing damage taken by 1 HP multiplied by the Gunship's own HP (for context, the standard reduction by Cities is 1.5 and the one by Forests is 2) -Range attacks when moving and/or attacking from more than 2 spaces away incur a penalty; for the purposes of this, since we're always going to be involving the Fighter attacking at 2 Range right after moving, it is going to be assumed to be a 30% reduction additive/subtractive with other ATK changes -Focus is also going to be unpleasant by allowing simultaneous strikes or even ambushes. Thankfully, Flanking bonuses do exist as well. Now that that is covered, let's get to the calculations. The first thing to talk about is the Fighter combat. The standard base matchup would be, before the defense bonuses, be at 6.25 HPs, or basically 62%, with defense bonuses reducing this to 5.25 HP or 52%. For Drake, this is already a losing proposition for handling this head-on without any thought. If you don't get it, attack changes are applied to the damage before defense changes, which would mean that Drake would be dealing 3.375 HP or 33%. If Drake doesn't involve enough luck damage, Hawke will retaliate with 3.8125 HP or 38%, which already would be a tie without involving sub-HP. Drake is able to salvage this with the range attack option. The only problem is that this does involve a further 30% ATK penalty, which with Drake results in a total 60% penalty, resulting in only 40% firepower. However, it would bypass the direct fire defense bonus, so that 2.5 HP or 25% damage is not getting weakened at all, and without the concern of counterattack, this is free damage. Since the direct fire boost gets weakened for a subsequent attack, this will result in a minimum of 6.075 HP or 60%, leaving Hawke with a single 4 HP counterattack (1.75 HP or 17%). Now Hawke could still make use of the range attack on his own phase because his +10% ATK dues attenuate the influence of the penalty (resulting in 2 HP or 20%), but what I point out is without flanking bonuses, which are not unreasonable at all. Even with just 10 points of flanking involvement, with what I have on the current PALBal patch version, this would not only ignore 0.5 HP worth of the defense bonuses but also give the attacker a 10% ATK bonus additive, which combined is enough to reduce the enough Fighters to 3 HPs with them both having done at most only 1 damage each from retaliation. Suffice to say that this would at least be safer, granted that Hawke doesn't have his CO Powers charged up but that could be more feasible. Oh yeah, and we have 6 Bombers here, which right here could be dummy units for flanking bonuses. Just to cement how things can in fact be put under control. 1 Bomber per enemy Fighter, by allowing for the middling flanking bonus of 25 points, can be used to allow reliable 5 damage from the first attack, meaning the 2HKO can actually be be done as long as you don't mind taking a little extra damage yourself. The Gunship clashing is significantly worse off. It might not seem like it with the base damage being 8 HP or 80%. The problem? First, this is reduced to 7 HP or 70% because of the terrain bonus flooring involvement. But okay, this would still be better than the 65% used in the Advance Wars games, even though inevitably Drake is still dealing 46% (only slightly better) where Hawke's base effectively goes from 71% to 78%. What really damns this, is the Focus mechanic. The general purpose of the Focus mechanic is to keep lunge snipes under control, and in the PALBal patch, I do balance the Focus mechanic than GBW3 vanilla ever did, but one thing I did in order to keep Gunships from exploiting damage calculations to eat Anti-Air Tanks or planes alive was to give them enough Focus Loss to sink their ability to first strike from far, and look at that: the Gunship mirror, in order to be a first strike for the attacker, needs the attacking Gunship to not move more than TWO. SPACES. You see where this is going. First strike is already going to be bothersome with decent chance of having to deal with 6-6s. Going through so much as simultaneous strike with an opponent with blatantly superior stats is a death sentence. The enemy Fighters also don't help when they are can shoot from 2 spaces away, further zoning the Gunships a bit, not entirely but every little bit adds up at this point. And because of Famicom Wars/Game Boy Wars series handling of planes' defenses, the Gunships can't be left alone or they get to shoot at the Bombers. The only thing that does decent at trying to save this is the flanking bonuses. I didn't mention it before because it was of marginal influence, but flanking bonuses in GBW3 involve reducing the target's ATK and DEF percents, at least in vanilla where the DEF reduction can actually exceed DEF bonuses before I put the kibosh on that in my PALBal patch to prevent any further silly chip damage scenarios to tanks and boats and I instead have the attacking unit get an ATK boost. At any rate, the point is that they do issue the target an ATK penalty. What will we have if we have a Bomber set up a middling flanking bonus provision of 25 points, which won't be unreasonable? Well, Drake will have 95% ATK not dealing with any defense bonus, while Hawke will end up with 85% ATK going up against the 1 HP defense bonus. The only problem is that Hawke's simultaneous strikes will STILL bite hard, but at least the worst scenario of 4-3 will be restricted to a few of the 8 available Gunships. Of course, there's also the matter of Hawke getting CO Power chargeup from all the Gunship volatility, when the fortress itself is STILL going to be a thing as you bring up. So yeah, that's still fun. At least flanking bonuses would still be something to soften the entire mess, but gosh.

Two other CO and weather related things. Olaf is immune to snow as Drake is to rain, but he treats rain the same as any other CO treats snow. Sturm is immune to rain, but NOT immune to snow.

Great video! Have you considered doing campaign as only Hachi? Not sure it counts as a challenge run as he's pretty broken but it might be fun to see just how broken you can make it, e.g. deploying troops on cities in the pre-deployed maps

I had a hard time as eagle, i can't imagine having to do it as Drake...

Thnx, this was so helpful

I wonder if Sinking Feeling is possible with fully fueled battleships

When is someone making a hack that just makes Flak the hero of a completely rewritten story similar to the GhebFE mod for Fire Emblem 8...

Try to beat AW2 using only Hawke

I miss Yellow Flak. But still, Flakcellent work.

Technically you *could* unlock the other lab missions without giving you income, but you would have to capture the property unlocking the lab on the same turn as routing the enemy, which may not be possible on every mission that unlocks a lab. Just figured I’d share this, because I’m thinking some of the later lab missions would be hell under these rules, and part of me wants to see somebody try to complete them

you haven't updated this video and in Reboot camp the AI ​​no longer cheats (it does but in a different way)

Lezgooo!!

`11:30 Isn't that one of the loading screens from the original Fallout duo?

The mechs for the most part should be the priority. You could also have made this a bit better for Max by switching the locations of the artilleries and recons. A max artillery is basically never going to reposition itself well among the forests so moving them closer to the center lets them cover an extra square as the md tanks wind through the mountains after they pass. Realistically, only the mechs will kill your rockets and if push comes to shove, once the mechs are dead, you'd have the ability to stack stuff on the hq to be gunned down by the rockets. The terrain is just that advantageous.

I still think Sonja is worse outside of fog maps

I usually do comet first and moon later

4:54 Ah, another person who forgot copters can be loaded onto cruisers.

Ah yes Advance Wars 2: Flak Hole Rising

I wince every time people say Kanbei's name wrong. Especially when virtually everyone can say the word sensei right...

Your double Flak jokes throughout remind me of: th-cam.com/video/qSUntITltQ8/w-d-xo.html

As long as you consider mechs infantry, and allow transports, and use eagle, Sami, Sensei, and Collin for each leader, this is possible.

About to do Sensei’s return mission no capture challenge to see how it goes for me 😅

This is exactly how i played against my friends back in highschool as we played on my psp during class XD

Oh hey, this is the one where I get a shoutout! 20:00

Alternate title: Advance Wars 2, but without the war crimes

It's okay, negative yellow comet soldier doesn't exist, he can't hurt you.............

Here it is ! Thanks for re-uploading it